skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these are all great
I love that I can now just refer to the razors by name
This little keyword makes the compiler generates calls to the system threading libs (libpthread), or even worse, declare a TLS slot in the ELF format, which is a limited resource (you cannot reasonably resize the TLS segment on the fly).

Yes, that amount of complexity is obviously toxic... and saying otherwise is what will make you hard to be taken seriously, come on dude...
>and there's no known antidote.

Isn't NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine) used for that?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537183/
How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
Ultrasensitive microphones are easy and have existed for decades. From a shotgun mic at a rock concert to a laser interferometer detecting gravity waves, the problem is the same. The issue is not detecting vibration but shedding off those sounds you dont want to hear. This new device will certainly be able to detect vibrations, but is likely useless outside of ultraquiet environments.
Solo – A Laravel package to run multiple commands at once
> tabs and autosave are pretty essential features

Not for me. Tabs and autosave are features I absolutely don't want in Notepad. The entire value of Notepad to me is that it's simple and basic. The tabs are irritating, but at least I can pretend the tab bar doesn't exist (although I wish I could hide it), and autosave as well as restoring the last document can be disabled.

But even having to start configuring Notepad to restore some of what makes it valuable to me reduces its utility. There is great value in having a bare-bones text editor. In those cases where more features are desired, using a more featureful editor is possible. That's what I do.

All that said, there are plenty of simple editors out there that I can use instead, so it's not really an earth-shaking deal. It's just a little sad to me. Notepad had managed to maintain its value proposition and avoid feature creep for a very long time. I guess all good things come to an end eventually.
Dbus is a (not very good) userland message bus. QNX is a realtime kernel. I don't really understand what you mean by:

> Really interested to see if DBus really does underpin much of QNX, or whether this was just a time & place.
I love the aesthetic.

Couple nits:

I have no idea how I expected the browser back button to work, but whatever it did do surprised me a bit. During gameplay, it might be nice to have an "are you sure you want to go back?" before it exits.

I'd recommend running spell check on your in-game messages. I already saw "Weilding X" instead of "Wielding X"

I'll give it a further go.
The github page says > pip install beehive-ai

The docs say > pip install beehive
Great game! I like to experiment with different game frameworks myself (currently on pico8). What "web tech" did you use to build it?
Introducing Polirizer: A Free Chrome Extension to Simplify Privacy Policies
Hi everyone,

I hope you're doing well!

I'm Sahaib Singh, an AI-driven developer focused on making the digital world safer and more transparent. I’ve recently developed a free Chrome extension called Polirizer, which simplifies complex privacy policies into easy-to-read summaries. The idea behind Polirizer is to help users make informed choices about how their data is being used, without getting overwhelmed by the legal jargon typically found in privacy policies.

I’m reaching out because I believe digital privacy is a crucial topic, and spreading awareness is key. I’m not looking for anything in return from this project, and I’m simply trying to get the word out so more people can benefit from a clearer understanding of privacy policies.

If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to give Polirizer a try and, if it helps, share it with others who might find it useful. It’s completely free and available for download on the Chrome Web Store.

Thank you for considering it, and I’d be happy to answer any questions or provide more details if needed!

Best regards,
Sahaib Singh
>I’m talking of the typical left/right split. Where leftist policies tend toward redistribution of wealth to the benefit of broader swathes

Broader swathes which they're part of. This is just the millennia old has and has-nots, don't fall for wishful thinking this base.
Huh, I did not realize I was settling for something so incomprehensible compared to this. Really nice to see. Maybe there are other nice tools like this?
In Q3 2024 Google spent $7.2B on "Sales & Marketing Expenses". The data is not broken down more granularly. If 50% of that is pure "Marketing Expense" then you'll see that the scale of the market these players are competing for is worth $3.5B PER QUARTER in operating expenses to attract customers.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204424...

If you add a $15M one time capital expense to this then it doesn't even appear as a rounding error on this cash flow statement.

Acquiring a long term asset acting as a pillar of your marketing strategy then it begins to look like a very good deal.
>Also all concealed carry holders regularly train, much of it is for fun, and their skills rival or surpass law enforcement.

I generally disagree with your other bullets points, but this statement is so absurdly inaccurate I feel the need to call it out explicitly. It is absolutely not true that all concealed carry holder fit this description. Not even a majority of the concealed carry holders that I know do. It is, quite honestly, a fantasy.

(I am generally pro-gun rights combined with smart gun restrictions laws)
guns don't really seem to be much of a deterrent in the US, instead gun crime is way up.

and what's worse is it becomes an "arms race" at the individual level. many people end up buying guns because everyone else already have guns (especially criminals), so they feel obligated to acquire guns to defend themselves from other people with guns. it's a vicious cycle.

the ideal solution is to keep the gun supply low all together, meaning your average criminal are much less likely to have guns, which is what most countries do.

not only that, having a massive amount of guns around & having a culture of guns probably directly leads to school shootings.
>So it's tragically possible that Ukraine could end up worse than Tokyo by the time hostilities finally cease.

I seriously doubt that.

>Although Russian strategy already seems to target any part of Kiev that can be hit, civilian or not.

Not really, but one can get that impression from reading the NY Times and the likes.

Here is a good example of the Western atrocity propaganda: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/world/europe/russia-ukrai...

See the big picture at the top? Clearly it's some kind of mall damaged by senseless and cruel Russian strike that cannot have any other purpose but to terrorize population of Kharkiv into submission.

Next look at the first video here: https://t.me/ASupersharij/28133

The place should look familiar, only now you can see destroyed MLRS vehicle (there were two, but the second one got evaporated: https://t.me/aleksandr_skif/3150)

>Isn't there some possibility that this tendency has been retained evolutionarily or culturally to some extent today

Sure, but there is an opposite tendency too and it's not going anywhere barring catastrophic changes like famine due to global warming.
> This paragraph is essentially saying this - if we had magic computer

Not at all. A halting algorithm very specifically wouldn't need magic computers.

Heck, if you had a magic infinite computer then you wouldn't need a halting algorithm. It's the opposite of a prerequisite.

A halting algorithm requires the concept of an infinite computer. No more, no less.

It's like a calculus program solving some category of infinite sum. It uses the concept of infinite math, it doesn't need or want a computer that's actually capable of infinite additions. And detecting divergence is a lot like detecting halting.
I didn't even know Google had this feature until people complained about it tracking you by default. I've always used OsmAnd for navigation and had automatic trip recording turned on as a gimmick, on rare occasions it would be interesting to look back where I went wrong and got rerouted or where the new road runs exactly to put it on OpenStreetMap. Now, with also some ten years of history, it actually makes for an exceedingly interesting plot of where I've been (around town as well as globally). I'm surprised OsmAnd manages to render millions upon millions of line segments from all the gpx files in a single map view

Anyway, roundabout way of saying: self-"hosting" years of location history works for me directly on my phone, no first- or third-party service needed. If you don't need a big tech product that uploads everyone's location to generate traffic info, it's going to be a learning curve (it's chock full of features, so getting around the UI can be tricky) but I can recommend OsmAnd. Also hearing good stories of OrganicMaps but don't know if they do gpx tracking or displaying

Importing should be a matter of figuring out how to convert whatever format Google uses into GPX files, which are just XML files with coordinates and timestamps in them. I'm confident someone will have made a converter given how ubiquitous as well as simple gpx is, if this is the route you want to go or try
How is the SSD installed – M4 Mac Mini (2024)
Chris is also the developer behind rogule[0], a daily roguelike dungeon in a similar style as wordle or tradle type games.

Absolutely been enjoying it the past year.

[0]: https://rogule.com/game.html
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If anyone else wants to ride the angband-family-of-games train, join us at angband.live :) A bunch of angband variants are available to play in-browser!
The robot can rotate the upper torso independently of the lower torso and the head, as seen in the video.
"Sustainability" is the opposite of efficiency. To be sustainable we have to consume less and stop growing. "Efficiency" just empowers us to eat the planet faster.

Internalize the costs of energy as a first step. If you manage to make web fonts cost $2 per load, people will find their own ways to use less of them. If you make web fonts CHEAPER to load by making them "more efficient," then people will use MORE of them!
It gives you a list of the tech in the About section when you first start the game.
nice feature for low bandwidth 4G cell systems.

Reminds me of the video chat in Metal Gear Solid 1
https://youtu.be/59ialBNj4lE?t=21
Dan DA Dan Opening on Terminal with ASCII [video]
Ah, so sad, it seems I was deceived by some "experts".
So every language have to implement every features released in the last 50 years?
Interesting! I wasn't really thinking it was linear, but your example does highlight the fact there's probably a few steady states that the body prefers to operate at.
Does ChatGPT Help Novices Write Better Code? Results from Static Code Analysis
The server side efficiency problem is running advertising.
Blank spaces are color coded so for easier detection, I can edit the file if I need to, and there are diffupdate commands for piecemeal merging of sections of the files.
Staying in contact with someone for hours on metered mobile internet connection comes to mind. Low bandwidth translates to low total data volume over time. If I could be video chatting on one of those free internet SIM cards that's a breakthrough.
Go is definitely used a lot more outside of google as of late.

Anecdotally I would say where a lot of companies would have used Java in the past they are now turning to go for their server-side/backend service implementations.
Why would new users 'love' your new product, but never return?
One huge success that doesn’t seem to have been mentioned in this discussion is the Let’s Encrypt project which was started by Mozilla staff and has had remarkable success in setting up a public key infrastructure that makes it free – and easy – for server admins to configure TLS on their web servers. 20 years ago HTTP was the default protocol for web traffic; now HTTPS is the default.
All it takes is speaking the language fluently. Hard but this mystery behind integration isn't complex. So much of the culture is expressed through language. Sound native and you will be treated as native (for better and worse)
My definition appears in the dictionary, so I don't think it can be that weird:

> 3. (in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.

Thanks for the feedback though. I'll try to define my terms more carefully in the future.
Discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15766249
Sorry, yes, was referring specifically to the Sunil Tagare version.
IF typically starts at 16/8 but 20/4 or 23/1 (One meal a day) variations seem pretty common too. A 5 hour window is not bad because that still gives room to get in 2 meals.
That is not mass media. Mass media is what your parents listen to

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_media_endorsements_in_t...
Imo would be nicer if algorithmic feed & targeted ads would be banned for them. So basically a social network with chronological feed and no targeted ads should be ok-ish. This would allow them to use the tech without the addiction mechanisms and influencing
Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure (2018)
With some patience and practice, I think reasoning about borrows becomes second nature. And what it buys you with lexing/parsing is the ability to do zero-copy parsing.
The issue isn't that the Fortran code is too slow. The issue is that the problem description is super complicated, hard to measure and very hard to control is ways that noone really understands. However, you can just plug the measurement outputs and system inputs to some controller. This machine learning helps control by jointly modeling imperfections in the physical model, imperfections in the hardware that controls things, and imperfections in the measurements. That's something you just really don't want to even attempt writing by hand (in whatever programming language).
Sound settings should not wrap back around to max when you hit the "volume down" button a lot.
We vote them in for what they promise, and vote them out for what they deliver. To the extent a candidate has specific policies and plans, you could have a comparison.
If your team has high alignment on what needs to be done and how to do it, then yeah, no processes are needed.

But if you ever want to hire more than a handful of engineers, you need to processes to train them up and build alignment.
Yeah, the returning liberals are kind of OK, not great. Still, people seem to forget how bad the alternative is. It's not an excuse for the liberals, they need to try harder, but frankly I'll vote for them even if they don't get their act together, because lazy liberals are still better than busy illiberals.
For most of my adult life, I was "addicted" to sudafed (pseudoephedrine, not phenylephrine). I had absolutely horrific sinus problems. Could never breathe, tons of sinus infections, etc etc. Things like sinus rinses (not a netipot which is gravity driven, but a positive pressure squeeze bottle) helped, but it was still a major inhibitor in life.

I got a new ENT, and I started getting a quarterly "chemical nasal cautery". It has ABSOLUTELY changed my life. I can breathe sooo much easier, and I couldn't recommend it enough to anyone with persistent sinus issues. It is super easy. It doesn't even kind of hurt, the most mild of stings if anything at all. Doc will spray a lot of afrin up your nose, then lidocaine, then carbolic acid which kills a bunch of your immune cells (so they can't overreact to tree pollen and make you miserable). You get it done once a month for three months, then once every 3 months thereafter.
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I would guess that they did it using a blood pressure meter. That's how I do mine. They are cheap and reasonably accurate. Mine is from Omron, very similar to the one my doctor uses.
The "left" (whatever this means today) sold out the working class. It is plain and simple
I relied heavily on extended water fasting (3-7 day fasts). It's both easy and hard, easy in the sense it doesn't take any extra work to lose weight, but hard in terms of dealing with cravings/discomfort.
See also https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/11050883717334359...
This reminds me of Lukasa memory boards, analogous to written language as this is to traditional programming (or as a table is to a chart). It's amazing how the way information is encoded and presented can affect its interpretation.
By that I mean is that in order to use Apple's software, you have to join Apple's entire ecosystem. That means it's not really an alternative if you otherwise find Apple's products unacceptable.
A better traceroute is mtr - was mentioned a few days ago on here.
Random.kiwi
Is this the real-time discussion all over again?
So it just prints "get the target path of link foo" instead of "readlink(foo)" and so on?

When I read the description I hoped it would match broad strokes like "load library foo.so" but the screenshot shows that it just rewords each syscall name into English.
Highly recommend giving The Bit Player[0] a watch for those interested in learning more about Claude Shannon and their pursuits in both their academic and personal life.

[0] https://thebitplayer.com/
> All that's needed to drastically decrease energy use is to just take late-90s/early 2000s web technology and push it to its limits.

Yes, it doesn't have to be that time frame, but it would be a good reference point. Early 2000s allowed us to do most of what we can now, there are certainly exceptions, but the average website would be no worse. The savings in processing and memory consumption can then either be used to run other things, or extend the usable lifetime of a device. There's no reason why we could not use the same device for 10 or more years, again with some specialised exceptions.

Give that this is specifically a w3.org SIG, I'd suggest doing a LTS web standard, something like 10 - 15 years. Make it have a reduced feature set in terms of Javascript and CSS. For some businesses it would be attractive to know that a solution developed to a specific standard which would mean compatibility across devices and software for 10 years (ideally more, 10 years isn't that long). Newer devices would consume less power and older devices would require less frequent replacement.

The problem is that this would need to find it's way into a browser, which would also need a long term supported and stable operating system, to gain all the benefits.
These are always fun

https://abx.digitalfeed.net/

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...
I expect it to implement features that have become ubiquitous in every other mainstream language from the last 30 years, yes.
I helped build and operate a medium sized art car at Burning Man. We had a guy on a bike ride directly into the rear of our extremely well lit, loud, and (relative to the bike) large art car. We were parked.

He got up and rode away with no explanation.
I think politicians only learn this when in opposition, and for long enough. Only once they see that what worked for them N years ago is falling flat and flatter again on its face, do they change.

By the way, I think that's a clear benefit of a multi-party system. When there's only two, you don't really compete for most of your voters, because they will vote for you no matter what. It is only the marginal voters that need your attention, so there's plenty of opportunity to slack off.

But when you can't take your own electorate for granted, you suddenly become much more attune to how you need to reach them.
> It's a language invented in 2009 by some C-people who are apparently oblivious to everything that excited PL design folks for the last 20 years (as of 2009).

Is there a term equivalent to "armchair quarterback" in programming? Most programmers are already in armchairs.

It's the equivalent of yelling at the TV that the ultra-successful mega-athlete sucks. I can't imagine the thought process that goes into thinking Ken Thompson, Rob Pike and Robert Griesemers are complete idiots that have no clue of what they were doing.
The need to show an ID to purchase real pseudoephedrine (feels like an oxymoron to write that) can be a legitimate PITA. I am American who lives abroad but is frequently back in the U.S. for family reasons. I suffer from sinus problems, so I periodically need to purchase pseudoephedrine-based products. Because I have no state ID, the show-ID-based workflow essentially fails. For whatever reason, the pharmacies won't take a U.S. passport (or foreign ID card), so they end up spending 15 minutes futzing with the data entry software, only to resign to entering garbage into the system.

And as OP points out: Phenylephrine is 100% useless.
> The proper fix, imho, is to have the UI display the "createdAt" timestamp but warn (perhaps with some kind of alert icon) when there's a significant mismatch between createdAt and indexedAt.

If the goal is to build something that normal people will understand, this is a failure.
Voidtools’s Everything is indispensable. Alas with no more admin rights on a corporate machine I’ve had to let it go.
Everybody uses methodology and processes, being it explicit or implicit, cool or not, written or tribal-transmited.

We tend to go to the other side of the pendulum when something disgusts us but there's no single company without it's own methodology. Even the most "we're code punks" expect their team to work in some specific way.

"Extremes are bullshit". And some articles nonsense.
Nice ideas. I like the notebook where can I get it ?
Already possible: https://www.localcdn.org/
“Don’t call me a homo sapien! I’m not gay!”
Our 3.5 friend was named after him.
I think there's some truth that process slows down development. (Full disclosure, I work for a company in the same space as these folks.)

I love a provocative essay as much as the next person.

But the authors are in a relatively new, smaller company focusing on devtools[0]. This has a couple of ramifications related to process need:

- they are the customer to a great extent, so they don't need to involve external customers to discover what is needed.

- they are fast followers (an OSS WorkOS competitor[1]), so can rely on product need discovery from other competitors. That's not a bad thing (I've done the same!), but it isn't sustainable forever.

- they have a small team, which means everyone has autonomy and knowledge.

- at the size of 2, they don't have other departments with schedules and deadlines and goals. Process is critical to getting input and coordinating across departments to achieve company goals.

All of these factors mean process is an impediment without any benefit.

Not every company is like this company. Not every dev team is like this dev team. My opinion is that this company in three years won't be like this company is now.

I'd wager that in 3 years, if ssoready is successful, there'll be process. It'll be an impediment but a necessary one, as the attributes they currently have won't be enough to keep delivering.

Happy to bet on that if either Ned or Ulysse is reading :)

0: According to https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ssoready they were founded in 2023 and have 2 employees.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41111136
Facebook. Its estimated at 22 million sqft.
A major upgraded was landed recently: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/linux-6-12-real-time/
All those well informed state legislators really have it out for community broadband, I wonder what could have influenced them.
It would also get rid of a lot of terrible websites with shitty content (AI or human generated) which can only exist because of the ad revenue, saving even more resources.
Lossless means "is identical".

The other two are variations of lossy.

Calling one of them "perceptually lossless" is cheating, to the disadvantage of algorithms that honestly advertise themselves as lossy while still achieving "looks identical" compression.