skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no valid, rational basis in fact for the medical device classification or the rationalizations used to justify it.

I wouldn't be that certain. The situation with stuff like fakes and knock-offs is already bad enough as it is - at least for anything classified as "medical devices", be it condoms or hearing aids, the threat of the law is keeping bad actors reasonably at bay. You go and buy a hearing aid, you can at least rely on the thing and its delivery chain having been through multiple very experienced hands checking everything on it.

Additionally, it's about stability. People's lives can matter with hearing aids - of course, users are responsible for keeping their batteries charged, but at least a hearing aid should be reasonably well enough made to not randomly lock up and leave someone without adequate hearing in a situation where they're operating some machinery.

I agree that the price margins on medical products are ridiculous and even the additional certification and paperwork doesn't warrant even a tenth of the price tag. But dismantling the regulatory framework around medical stuff comes with serious side issues.
I would be happy if getenv() called strdup() on the value and returned that. It would cause loads of minor memory leaks and maybe a handful of serious ones, but they should be reasonably easy to clean up and would avoid returning pointers to mutable private data.
> When in recalling the “first world war” with Karp Osipovich the geologists engaged him in conversation about the last one, he shook his head: “What is this, a second time, and always the Germans. A curse on Peter. He flirted with them. That is so.”

It's almost the "which one, first or second?" joke but IRL
Please use Google street view in any small town around the world and notice the prevalence of foot traffic. Even on roads with no shoulder, bike lane, sidewalk or similar. I've walked to school since I was 6 on roads not too dissimilar.
My first Thunderbolt 5 experience has been a bust
Those work because there's more people. It's hard to coordinate, say, 20 people to rob you (one guy).

If you ride the subway at night, with almost nobody on it, you get the same effect.
I highly doubt that it's just 4 years of republicans. I think they'll win the 2 terms after trump as well, so we're potentially looking at 12 years of republicans in the white house.
I have the same thing, the PT is right. Activating your big toe kicks off a chain of biomechanics up to your hip muscles (glutes) and will correct your gait and muscles that are not firing if you work on it consciously. I still deal with it when I forget the problem went away and sit in my computer chair all day leaning on one side not using my other calf.

Awareness is key and conscious work will activate it over time.
The Embodied Mind by Thomas Verny is another great read on this theme. It's about cellular memory/cognition.
Several more items along these lines. Two books and one recent blog post...

> "Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects", by Jared Richardson, Will Gwaltney, Jr

> "The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, your journey to mastery", by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

> "The Libertarian Coder", by Adam Ard, at https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/the-libertarian-co...

Me myself, I joined a project that shipped on time. The lead developer, a contractor, begged for just three more months to make it all actually work properly.

Nope.

We shipped, and then it took two more years to finally get it functional.

And the contractor was banned from ever working there again (a WA state agency).

Yippee!
It is painfully slow. If you have to ride Muni on at grade sections it is a complete joke. I lived for more than 10 years with my front door opening to the T and a job at Embarcadero. Straight shot on the T (this was prior to central subway opening, an event I was waiting for the entire time I lived there). It was so bananas slow and unreliable that I exclusively biked, even when raining, since it was so much faster and I actually could rely on even getting there. I gave up on it entirely pretty quickly. I felt terrible for anyone who couldn't bike who actually had to rely on that garbage system.

God forbid you have to switch lines on your surface street burdened route, good luck.

The last time I risked it and tried to T home from an event (very against my better judgement), some sort of "security incident" happened, causing them to stop and unload the entire train and keep it stopped it there blocking the tracks entirely in that direction for investigation. I walked 30 minutes home. Very fitting final ride capping my decade+ of disappointment with that pathetic excuse for a train.

Muni access was one of the selling points to move where I did, I still get depressed/pissed thinking about how terrible it actually was! There is a tiny corridor served by underground Muni which is functional, but it's such a small fraction of the whole system.
Using Mastodon you can follow people from Bluesky and Threads if they only turn on sharing or use Bridgy Fed option as well. Mastodon is the most versatile piece of software.
It would be interesting to know why a Bitcoin application requires 400 TB of disk space.
This could be interesting, though it became less so after they dropped Vista in my experience. Currently, people can upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 for free. The main issue for many, however, is that Windows 11 only supports certain CPUs. As a result, many users with systems powerful enough for the games they play on their system that are already beyond the required specs will see themselves forced into an upgrade they would not otherwise need, want, and perhaps afford.
She shows up int the "Fannin County Sheriff’s Office Arrest Report 10/28 – 11/3/2024," as Inmate 2512, charged with "Reckless Codnict," the charge in het article. (https://fannin.fetchyournews.com/2024/11/05/fannin-county-sh...)
Very cool, glad it sticks.
Fortunately for the rest of the Western world, I don't think most of it has to deal with the artificial community concern about children walking on their own that the US experiences.
You don't have to match Google's technical prowess if that capability is being superceded by MBAs doing aggressive enshittification.
I like to ask LLMs to critique my code, they often point out a good number of legitimate improvements and oversights.
I believe if you want a Google Group Collaborative Inbox for an email address at a domain you own, then you need to be paying for a Google Workspace, which is currently something like $6/user/month.

Beyond that, Jelly has better design (IMHO!), can be used without needing a Google account, lets you discuss conversations inline, gives you an activity view for quickly seeing everything that's happened... basically, GGCI is fine, but we are laser-focussed on making Jelly a _great_ shared inbox for teams.

We'd love to chat more about your ideas though -- send us an email! You can find the contact details on https://letsjelly.com ;-)
That was a fun read, thanks!

Made me reconsider a few habits I picked up from MySQL land
The easy option is to create a common email account and share that and create a rule to forward all emails to that common email to both your emails. This way any email is forwarded to both the parents.
They tried it before [1]. It looks like it's more than just coincidence - even Torvalds tries to push Rust into the Kernel, and make the Kernel adapt to Rust[2], which is putting the whole thing on its head.

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1. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3713203/white-house-urges-...

2. "Torvalds pointed out that there are kernel features that are currently incompatible with Rust; that is impeding Rust support overall."

https://lwn.net/Articles/991062/
Also hashtags. Though I think some of this stuff came from other social networks.
Nobody important or relevant enough is moving to Mastodon.
All the kids died of pneumonia caught from the visiting geologist. What a cute story.
Several of the broken are SQL standard.
I don't think you understood what I was saying. Why would there be a market for poaching an animal that is mass-bred in captivity?
I'm not sure... several parts of this story seem unbelievable to be honest.
The for-profit Mozilla Corporation is wholly controlled by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
It's jointly owned by Naver and Softbank. A few months ago, there was a public outcry in Korea when the Japanese government threatened to twist Naver's arm to give up its share of Line, and South Korea's inexplicably pro-Japanese government stayed mum. With both governments enjoying abysmal public support, I have no idea how it will eventually be settled.
Suburban paranoia and it it bleeds it leads.
All the nuance is hidden at the end! And not signposted earlier.
The example confusion, too thinly justified by common sense and analogy to C++, points to benefit of understanding intermediate compilation stages & how the language understand itself descriptively.

The slippery slope, descriptive, from example confusion to general concerns shows more about the value of learning about design of the language locally relevant to your current problem, than a more indirect solution.

It would serve the case and conversation better, to collect lists of people posting about these issues. Instead of picking a bait title & speaking to it the issue not being relevant.

Despite the title, I agree with the author

> There's no need to change that...[not having a specification] yet. But in ten years, I might feel differently.

I hope he's gotten the engagement & attention he wants.

I'm curious what caused the C++ standard to evolve, what caused there to be so many competing compilers -- their cost, and lack of adequately free, open, and bleeding edge development?
Show HN: New service to rent and trade-in your beloved AI and FPGA boards
We have all been there. Spending hundreds and even thousands of dollars on development boards to finish a project or two and learn new tricks for a few months and then they end up in the hardware pile.

But a few months later, the next cool thing arrives, and you feel that regret and wish to yourself you have an extra $500 here and there to try this cool board -and add it to the pile- and so forth.. You end up with $10k or $15k of useless hardware collecting dust in your drawer!

It doesn't have to be like this! With circular economy, we can all enjoy the latest tech without breaking the bank or hurting the environment. Please let me know what do you think and share it with your friends!
Rather I think Twitter-style hashtags take inspiration from IRC channels in the format of #topic

Because channel names are not hashtags. The syntax is purely because IRC is a text-based protocol, so you need a special way to distinguish channel names from regular text.
He's known as the Mad Titan, not the Smart Titan.
23andMe cuts 40% of its workforce and discontinues therapeutics division
It's precisely that lack of awareness on their part that makes Cartman's "respect my authority" funny or any other trope as well like Tackelberry from Police Academy work (for the old farts) or Farva from Super Troopers (for those slightly less old).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_jelly
"Always the Germans". My Dutch friends will laugh pretty hard at this. It fits in with yelling "Hey, where's my bike?" at German tourists (the Nazis confiscated Dutch bicycles in WW2 to limit movement) and referring to people from the eastern part of the country as "spare Germans".
Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life
You can just leave a note to your spouse in a draft reply of your shared mailbox, like „going to take care of this, XO“ and avoid yet another tool in your setup, I think
On Telegram It's just very fast to create a bot and getting started.
I've tried WhatsApp before but too complicated and Signal was also complex.
I'd say that Telegram was the easiest to get a poc working.
When I hear about police getting involved simply because a person is out walking, the story almost always turns out to be about somewhere in the south.
Encouraging suicide is a terrible, no good, expletive move.
Bro its a movie.
It's also the best non-fiction book I've ever read. And won the Pulitzer, I think.
We're back to keiretsu. They're called Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Netflix. Each has its own closed world, moat, and small vendors subservient to it.
> dominated by software type (HN crowd)

i find this very surprising. i don't see a lot of technical people out there, except for the bsky devs or devs who are building apps on top of atproto.

i've visited bluesky enough over the months, and to me, there's 3 types of users you will always see on the Discover or What's Hot timeline - journalists, furries, and people who post nudity.

tech people are still on twitter. i feel like the "exodus" of tech people following the election are just them making an account, and then returning to X after some time. it happened then during the private beta, and i feel like the same is happening now
Twitter and Bluesky are also full of furries. Frankly, if your social network lacks furries, it is probably in trouble; they seem to be a viability indicator.

(Not that it’s a guarantee of anything; notably, SecondLife is essentially _only_ furries.)
I know it as a bee keeping term. Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae and adult queens.
Sorry.

Hope the other posts here help you.
Within the first 15 recommended posts or so there was

- a post about how Canada is overrun by Indians

- a post about how Melbourne is overrun by n-worders (they replaced the Gs with £s)

- a post about how a trans person is ugly

- 2 "nudes in bio" bot posts. This was not hate speech, and arguably the most positive posts I got.

This is not counting the Elon posts and the Trump posts, which were the first and second thing that got recommended. Nor the posts from Elon Musk imitators, who I assume are trying to take advantage of the fact that Elon Musk gets special treatment from the algorithm.

When you create a new account, X asks you to follow an account to determine what your interests are. I picked NASA. I did not get recommended a single space photo.
I can’t imagine sticking a frail but mobile and healthy parent in assisted living. I would give them a room to spend their last days or I would forever regret it. Anyone else?
Hearing aids should not be qualified as medical devices. There are devices that should be. You are capable of following sensible instruction and operating an audio equalizer. Audiologists are capable of existing in a world where interaction with them is voluntary and it's not going to lead to terrible mishaps. Hearing Aids can be dangerous, especially at the severe to profound levels of amplification, but that can be trivially handled in software and manuals.
Super interesting!
Out of curiosities: would you be interested by a web version of this project?
What happens to Twitter when Musk has to step down from his roles with Twitter/SpaceX/Tesla? Will sanity be allowed to fill the void? I really doubt anything at SpaceX/Tesla changes, but Twitter has the most wiggle room under someone else's leadership
Mastodon seems to be the most versatile app of all of them.
With Mastodon account you can follow people from BlueSky (if they use BridgyFed) and people from Threads (if they turn on fediverse sharing).
The tough thing is that for the vast majority of end users, the interface that they see is the software or service. So if their instance has a bunch of disgusting pornography, as far as they’re concerned, mastodon has a bunch of disgusting pornography. For a lot of folks, the browser/server abstraction for regular websites and how that differs from native apps is about as far as they’re willing to go in their understanding of Internet architecture and for many, it’s too far. Requiring people understand that not all mastodon is mastodon despite it being kind of the same, in order to avoid explicit hentai, is a non-starter. My grandparents are dead, but they would probably take their computer out back and set it on fire if that shit flashed up on their screen. They sure wouldn’t have used it as an opportunity to get all of the base knowledge they needed to even realize they had to instance shop. Facebook is just riiiiight over there.
What if AI doesn't just keep getting better forever?
Interesting. Windows 7 is a number of years old, but doesn't feel that old in the grand scheme of things.

It feels sort of crappy that those users are no longer able access the titles they paid to access.
Trade the entire wallet, that isn’t registered to anyone’s name? Seems easy enough to move money illicitly with crypto
File explorer and date created/modified change when copying
The word "tweet" itself came from a 3rd party developer:

> The Iconfactory was developing a Twitter application in 2006 called "Twitterrific" and developer Craig Hockenberry began a search for a shorter way to refer to "Post a Twitter Update."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweet_(social_media)#History
I guess I question why anyone would live somewhere, unless that really had no economic choice, where they felt so unsafe. I sure wouldn't and don't.

ADDED: Probably unfair. Some are willing to tradeoff safety for culture etc. so long as they can essentially buy their way out of some of the potentially uncomfortable urban aspects (which is presumably what's being discussed here). This is a perfectly understandable attitude--as it probably was in NYC in the 80s or so.
Well. I wonder if the new gift of salt in their diet contributed to kidney failure.
I disagree. Seem very reasonable for a key tool to help the team run the business.
Mainly just wanted to say, this is an absolutely fantastic hack and I loved reading about it - thank you for sharing!

I guess if I have one question, it would be... what else are you planning to do with your new Faraday cage?
if you don't follow anyone, like me, the timeline is dominated by journalists, furries, and people who post nudity. i'm not saying these are bad, just an observation.
But that… doesn’t behave the same…?
Ask HN: Do co-op programs cause top students to pursue PhDs to avoid working?
Maybe an unrewarding co-op job will cause them to avoid employment altogether for as long as they can?
voyager2?

Isnt that the new upgraded version of Startroopers Voyager Prostate Massager.

Startroopers Voyager Prostate Massager, £47.55

It would be a worrisome freak event to have that near my uranus too
Problem with Mastodon is you’re forced to associate with the identity of the sever or run your own instance, both of which are very awkward.

I’m @bradgessler@ruby.social, but I’m more than a Ruby dev.

I could run a Mastadon instance for bradgessler.com, but I have no desire to spend even 3 minutes figuring out how to set all that up. Maintaining my own instance sounds even worse.

Bluesky gets the ergonomics of this right: the usernames feel like they occupy a global namespace and I can point the aliases at my domains in a few minutes without having to worry about a bunch of standards that I don’t really care about.

For some reason I can’t explain, it also really bothers me that I have to @ people on Mastadon via @brad@bradgessler.com. I don’t want to say “@“ twice if I’m verbally telling somebody where to find me when presenting and “@me@bradgessler” is weird too. Much easier to say “Follow me @bradgessler.com”

Am I lazy? Yes, but most people are. Bluesky strikes a nice balance of control and identity that I’m comfortable with for the amount of time and effort I’m willing to put into it.
> That would definitely invite lawsuits. Do you think competitors who sell hearing aids for $2500 today would allow Apple to sell their $200 device without medical device certification?
I'm more looking to not have to jailbreak to get this functionality. Also not a big fan of having to write / update my own scripts to get the data out.
There has to be a personality test to see if someone is short-sighted enough to take 20 million euros in cash without any plan for how to launder it. Right?!

Seems like every single IT job is littered with personality tests these days but what about government?
I tried it, the tech seems cool but I'd like more diversity. Now that Twitter mostly is crypto scams and American far-right political nonsense, I'd like something a little more interesting than American far-left political nonsense.

The world is much larger than American or Western internet drama, and there seems to be no way to escape it. As a European reading any mainstream social media, BlueSky included, makes me roll my eyes out of their orbit.

I do not care about politics or gender identity or keyboard activism. Can we please have something else on the menu? Literally anything else. I wonder if I should learn Russian or Chinese to be exposed to something new which isn't US politics or which gender people are most attracted to in their private lives. Who gives a damn. /rant

(I enjoyed Nostr tech-wise, but it never broke past the cryptobro phase and that saddens me)
Reddit on Overcoming Internet Addiction
Be there for her after and don’t live with any regrets
If it always remains so, I'm never leaving.
Literally the only things stopping you from doing this are money (to buy a rural lot somewhere, tools, a truck and so forth) and time. You can learn most of your skills with YouTube and practise, not kidding. Thanks to YouTube, we renovated a borderline crappy house, built outbuildings, landscaped, etc. with essentially no construction experience. I am still kind of amazed by this.
He then writes a C compiler in Lisp. Checkmate.
Nothing is ever unlimited. We used to offer unlimited things because, like, how many could each customer really use? Turns out, enough to break the system. Every. Single. Time.

Start with sane limits. You can always increase them later. Rolling back after the cat is out of the bag is much more difficult.

Put a cap at 1k or 10k.
And a metric shit-ton more than that thrown around in 2020.
Thank you! Months ago when we were working on naming this product, some sports-speak was on the table, like Pop-fly and metaphors like what you mentioned XD
not if its behind a login wall.
Show HN: Beautiful UI sections in seconds, no design skills needed
What parts seem unbelievable?
Oh cool -- It'd be so easy to think someone else had solved this problem but I assure you, it hasn't yet ben solved. Eager to give this a try!
Not using modern technology has its own tradeoffs too. We don't use chalk tablets or kerosene lamps anymore.

That said, I'm a fan of forcing kids to check any phones at the door.
Judge to Zuckerman: Release Your App First, Then We'll Talk Section 230
But that's more like a developmental situation in the individual having to do with their education.

I would expect, say, individuals not going to school past grade two showing a declined ability to multiply 12 by 11.

People's handling of long form text may be off from several decades ago, but it's still better than their illiterate ancestors 500 years ago.
Florida threatened by another major late-season tropical storm
Easiest is to leave/mark message unread if you are not taking action. Not a 100% solution, but often good enough.
Only a small number of publishers completly lost my trust.
fox news and the whole murdoch empire, axel Springer AG are the most prominent.
Where is “over there”?
Primarily i'm looking for the ability to open various pdfs in a pane, and then have a nice section to write notes, reference those PDFs etc.

It's probably doable with some process changes, I just didn't have the time for them. Post Christmas I may give it another shot.
why did they lose your trust?