skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> smooth is fast

Such reasoning is based on a flawed assumption: that the value of time is constant in time.

While smooth is indeed fast in the long run, it is slower in the short run, and time before the release date is much, much, much more worthy than time after the deadline.

Shipping functionalities now and bugfixes later is what pays your salary. Waiting for the perfect code makes your customer seek comfort at your competition.
I’m awake and older than 8 so it would make sense to me that good products need less advertising, but I’d still be only guessing.
Withdrawing from Afganistan had no impact on Putins decision to invade Ukraine. It was planned years in advance but Pompeo's decision to invite them into Nato was the trigger that made it inevitable.
> The delivery slot is kinda long ("in the afternoon")

At least they tell you the day, not like in Germany. Gets put on the post today, then usually it either gets sorted overnight and delivered the next day, or there's another working day in between. The tracker used to say which it's gonna be after that overnight sorting (so if you check at 2am), but in the last year or so they've switched to telling you it's e.g. after the weekend some day and then surprise show up on Friday for example when you hadn't planned for anyone to be home, wasting the deliverer's time if you didn't decide to work from home that day spontaneously
Biden agreed to this?!

The US provides Taiwan with security. The only reason Taiwan exists is the US shield that we spend so much of our gdp funding instead of things like universal healthcare. The US then gives TSMC 6.6B of taxpayer money. To get a fab that's a generation behind?

That's ridiculous. That's not foreign policy, that's letting yourself be pushed around while funding someone else's life.

I hate Trump. But these sorts of things make me despise Biden. While childcare is now more expensive than people's mortgages he cut all funding to it in order to give some of the biggest and most well capitalized companies in the world hundreds of billions of dollars. And we get an interior product.

When people see news like this I see why Trump won. I would never vote for him. But our foreign policy is a disaster.
This is also security theatre at some companies. One famously will take a photo of your parcel in a bush in a garden 3 streets over (Hermes)

Though at the more scrupulous companies they take photos slightly more seriously. Just slightly
Week 45 – Hotwire Live Reload, Alpine.js as an alternative, and more
I have worked as dev since age of 18, I am now 42. Never had any health problems. I do some irregular sports but not very much. I don’t pay much attention to ergonomics, I just simply change my sitting position often and also take short walks. I do use standing desk sometimes but not for whole day, just for short periods.
Ukraine was a show of power from the US. Economically, it's irrelevant.

Taiwan has the entire semiconductor industry by the neck. Big difference.

If TSMC wasn't essential, the definitely would not intervene in an official capacity. TSMC is the only thing stopping a PRC China invasion.

There are no ifs and buts here. It's clear as day.
Buckle Up, America
Java-Based No-Code and Low-Code Application Bootstrapping Tools Review
Find me Linux machine that perfectly integrates into Apple ecosystem. I’ll wait.
Taking it off the books takes work, either political or by testing the law in court. That does not mean the law is valid, but in practice it can sometimes require serious litigation and lost years and money to prove that it's invalid.
I was not in the same industry, but I once had a remote job that kept me tethered to my desk because I was constantly responding to phone calls. After about two months of that, I ended up purchasing a cheap walking pad (think slow treadmill with no side rails that only goes at walking pace) from Amazon for about $120USD. This was not a perfect solution, any stretch, it provided movement instead of just standing in place.

What I mean by "rethink the way we work" is that jobs like yours (and you may not agree with this) need to be broken up into smaller chunks through the day. So, you work for 2 hours, do something else for 2 hours, work a little more for 2 hours, and so on.

I work beside a lot of programmers and CAD designers in my industry and, in fact, am trying to move over to their side of the team (currently I am the guy who builds, tests and repairs the machines they create). One thing I feel is universally true is that, while you may be sitting at your desk for 8 hours, you are really only doing any actual work for about half the time, possibly less.

Here me out; sitting in front of a computer is tough on both the brain and body. When you are tethered to the desk and 90% of your job is cerebral, to an outsider that looks like a pretty easy day, but we know it's not. Those stress hormones build up fast and because you can't get up to work them off or give them some physical purpose, you sit tensed, bouncing a leg, shoulders up to the ears, etc etc. Your body suffers and really, the output for the day could have probably been done with only 4 hours of actual computer time, instead of 8. So, open up the opportunity for our programmers to move around by doing some other stuff. If no work tasks can be assigned, the programmer should just get those 2 on/2 off times to do what they think is best, because, as far as the employer is concerned, if the output each day remains the same, who cares? Nothing changes for them and you get to stop being a pressure cooker of cortisol.

Understandably, my idea needs some massaging, so don't take any of this as 'this is the way it must be to work.' Consider it a work in progress and your suggestions are welcome.
Appreciate your thoughts.

> I am not sure if it will work in 10 years.

This was a big concern of mine too. That's why as much of Jamcorder as possible is open standards.

There is also a local web interface, http://jamcorder.local, that is fully extensible by the user. And the BLE and Wifi APIs are not locked down. You can implement your own app.

The biggest limiting factor IMO, are Wifi and BLE still going to be in common use in 30 years? That's hard to predict. But the SD card will still be there. Its a tough problem.

I think that's about as good as you can do, short of putting a screen on it.

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There's even a feature identical UART interface for the device. Surely that will still work in 30 years.
Now I see why I love 256 colors
This is some seriously-technical Chindōgu.
One could argue that size_t should be 64 bits on wasm32 since it's a hybrid 64/32 bit platform (and there's the ptrdiff types too which then would depend on the pointer size), but I guess sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(void*) breaks too much existing code.
Do you really expect Taiwan to give their primary importance as a partner, as a country , for money which less than wework ? A some random startup? lol
The TCP unit is called segment
> Their 'STM32Cube' software gets mixed reviews

Thankfully there's more than one CMake projects on github as an alternative.
Original: https://www.seevua.com/invention/s-0023 (in Japanese, browser translation does a good job)
That may result in is icloud account being locked out, apparently.

I'm sure he can take them to court over that, but losing access to your files and services for an indeterminite amount of time is a big deal for most people.
That’s how words work. They are them in that context. That’s the problem, people think pronouns are woke and forget how they are used.

And just because a rapist is elected president doesn’t mean it was the right thing to do.
In the UK the law is clear (IANAL). The seller is responsible for delivering the goods to you (or otherwise as per your instructions). I stress, to /you/. If they don't, they have failed in their contract. You can take them to the small claims court. I believe it's the same in most of the EU. Make them call you a liar in court.

Remedy is not dependent on the good graces of the credit card companies but of course if that's open to you can start there.

A lot have people have been brainwashed in to believing the customer is required to deal with the delivery company or that the seller has no responsibility once the item has been collected by the courier.

Also, I find it wild that Apple use Uber. Apple exclusively use UPS in the UK I believe (including service collections and deliveries), who I've never had a problem with, and if they stopped that I would only ever purchase from a store
Why should you care about .NET GC? – TooSlowException
I have a 'high end' digital piano from Yamaha, and how I think about it is very similar - the digital instrument is so 'feature poor' compared to what is possible!

With that said, I'm grateful for the mechanical stability of it, and also the reliability of the interface.. Should not be taken for granted. It has buttons, not a touchscreen for example (Kawai digitals were sadly out because of this.)
EU and USA are Nato partners and also part of entire western. China and others are not.
Ask HN: How to properly secure a server?
Hi,

I started playing around with a small VPS. To learn about security I followed a tutorial on Github [1] in which they talk about a lot of tools. I understand that ssh, ufw and fail2ban are the most important but for example should I use PSAD or CrowdSec?

Basically I want to self host services and run web apps, so how can I know how much security do I need?

Thanks for your help

[1]: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server
Aye. Laptops need hydraulic-powered outriggers, I swear.
The WHO [0] reports 60 thousand Covid deaths this year so far, and around 250 thousand deaths in 2023.

[0] https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/deaths
If they didn't have trouble getting a card at all in the first place. Credit scores aren't always accurate (I didn't even know Europe had such a thing before moving to Germany and starting with a blank slate that defaulted to "and so we can't guarantee anything so: no") and you need one of these numbers to do normal things in life like getting a hotel room on occasion. "Just get another one" isn't a choice one can necessarily make. Generating another number isn't an option my bank has either (eventually got a card after finding some else to be co-guarantor which this bank accepted — I don't even want to buy on credit, I just want to be able to fairly pay for things up front, and that's how this card seems to function in the first place)
It was never a "law", it was what companies selling models made their investors believe but the limits were obvious from the start.
> If, on the other hand, the US has the capability to make these chips on their own, that fundamentally changes the situation.

The US can fab 2nm if they buy the machines from ASML.
OK, I think I see what you meant: Not that the "misnomer" arose in the Victorian era, but that the Victorian era was the last era in which you would expect to encounter this "misnomer".

As a counterpoint, I recommend reading Everlasting Man, by G. K. Chesterton. If humans are just animals, they're the most bizarre animal we've ever seen.
To be fair to the author, I actually think desktop icons is a problem that no desktop manager has ever solved, and I think the reason is because it's not solvable in a user friendly way. The problem is that desktop icon arrangement can mean different things to different users: some people are just arranging their icons in a one dimensional list that's wrapped, while others are arranging theirs in clusters (top left is for system, top right is for documents, bottom left is for personal/games etc), while yet others are arranging theirs in columns and so on - how these are supposed to change on resolution change is different per each use case. When I switched to dwm on desktop I felt freed from a problem I had literally just always had.
I get that but the US already lost most of its credibility in Ukraine. Factories might be poison pilled but that's not human physiology and the analogy doesn't stand when China can simply buy new ASML machines in the near future as the EU being threatened by Trump already.
EasyAnimate: Long Video Generation Based on Transformer Architecture
I’ve been using a standing desk for the last decade, or so. I seldom sit down, to work. I no longer keep an office chair around (I’m retired, but actually spend more time coding, than I ever did, when working).

Standing is still not as comfortable as sitting, but I got used to it.

As I work, I move around a lot. Just happens naturally.

If I am on a video call, I don’t move around much, and I really feel the difference. I have friends that work remote, and are basically on video calls, all day. I couldn’t stand that.

I have an adjustable desk (hand-cranked), but never adjust it.

I have heard that’s the pattern with these $5,000 “smart” electric desks. People go up and down for a month, then settle on a constant height (not always standing), and there it stays; forever.
SST: Container Support
Thank you and everyone else who works on XFCE for your sanity-preserving work.
I wrote a bash script [1] with similar functions for my piano, which produces ogg recording and raw midi recording, as well as splitting realtime rendered midi stream (via fluidsynth) into two audiostreams (I've mostly used it for Zoom calls with a piano teacher).

[1] https://github.com/seletskiy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/piano
I suspect it’s more the end of an avenue than the end of the road, but it sure seems like throwing more data and compute is hitting diminishing returns on existing methods.
US has budget deficit now. It's far more important to fix the budget. Spending few trillions in Afganistan so few friends get extra rich is not being superpower :) It's literally opposite.
Adaptive Metallic Texture for the Web
It's all about the toaster floating in the pool.
yep, its similar! however, here you do not copy trade a person, here you trade as per the algorithm designed by the quant algorithm developer.
You can run 100m in nine seconds if you buy the shoes from Nike.
See, the new president-elect doesn't like Nato and already considered leaving it in his previous turn. US also demonstrated reluctance to fulfill its commitment. The established world order is a bust, ships are going around Africa because NATO is unable to secure passage through the Suez canal.
Love the idea. As the device is recording all MIDI events, you can use it for any device with MIDI output (synth, drums, etc.). Are you envisioning expanding the app usage for other instruments than piano? (Would be great for drumming for instance)
Maybe it's old person yelling at cloud vibes, but I'm already annoyed enough at the majority of SPAs for breaking so many useful default browser features, such as stable links, navigation, multi-tab functionality, open in new tab etc. This is only gonna make them even more cancer my gut feeling tells me.
Just because you can buy the tools doesn't mean you know how to use them.
Isn’t the beggar in this context the person who wants to benefit from someone else's labour for free?
I wonder which city can claim the title nowadays. At some point many would say San-Francisco but IMO it was a different kind of center, and that seems to be gone too anyhow.
Just sit up if you want to use your phone in bed?
> It's funny, what I see is he will put tariff exemptions on his corps given just how much they rely on global supplies to make a Tesla and lots of stuff from SpaceX like optics are supplied by foreign companies.

I mean, the US's courts are somewhat compromised from Trump's previous run, but probably not compromised enough to let _that_ fly.
I have a bad tailbone/lower back and the ability to rotate between sitting, reclining, and standing is important or I can't work.
Ok, HAProxy is a potential solution, but according to the description I posted, the idea behind this project is to reduce the writing of configuration files. Instead of writing an elaborate conf, just provide two JSONs to achieve the same thing. And yes I am aware of the fact that solutions like Apache, HaProxy and NginX are more popular and preferred for large solutions. I do not want to create yet another miracle product in well researched matter.
But I am grateful for the feedback :)
> Would you have the same reaction if a state had outlawed heterosexual sex?

Yes, I would equally question the logic of a population who thought that was a good idea.

> Most constitutional democracies recognise, one way or another, that there are limits to what can be legislated circumscribed by people's fundamental rights.

Sure, it is not unusual for a population to instil safeguards to protect themselves should they become too focused on a particular issue without considering the bigger picture. Of course, the very same population can throw it all away at will.

But we're still talking about a population who, even if they have forgotten the bigger picture, have enacted and maintain desire to retain laws around sodomy. What is going on there?
if u order a gram of heroin and the drop man doesnt show up, what are u gonna do about it
I remember many many years ago, learning about networking, I got very fixated towards constructing and sending my own packet over the wire. Good times.

I'll never forget Packetfu (https://rubygems.org/gems/packetfu)
There's an interesting article by David Graeber on how we characterize play and fun among animals: https://davidgraeber.org/articles/whats-the-point-if-we-cant....

I can't say that I've understood it all, but he appears to criticize scientists for not thinking about play seriously, and instead reducing most aspects of animal behavior to things like survival, fitness, and evolutionary pressure.
The mouse acceleration is insane, makes it unusable.
Interesting that they don't define MDN anywhere... I guess everyone is a web developer these days.

> MDN stands for Mozilla Developer Network, which is a documentation repository and learning resource for web developers. It provides information on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and was started by Mozilla in 2005
My settings on macOS (and partly iOS):

Accessibility -> Display:

- Reduce Motion
- Increase contrast
- Differentiate without color
- Show window title icons
- Show toolbar button shapes

Appearance:

- Show scrollbars: always

Keyboard:

- Keyboard Navigation (use space, tab, enter)
Why do you think it is solely religion behind this value? If anything, religion is only a pretext.
Yup! They're on the books, just not enforced.
What I’m hearing, in a very rural area, is Trump supporters are hesitant to connect Elon on stage with Elon as treasury sec. They thought he was some Internet guy happy to just be on stage, rather than the richest man in the world presaging economic hardship (Nov 1). Musk doesn’t seem close enough to the movement for his rhetoric to be taken casually.
Smart move from Taiwan.
Why not just lay on your side, so you dont have to old your phone up in the first place? :D
We have a current gov whose main idea seems to be promising very little, so I'm not optimistic for change either.
mobile is an UX / accessibility abyss though xD
>>No one is going to buy this narrative that Democrats were the anti-vaxxers all along and Trump and the Republicans were always pro-vaccine. All of this is recent history. It wasn't that long ago. We were all there. We remember how it was.

No-one is saying that. It's just as false as it is to say the Republicans (and Trump) were never pro-vaccine. They were, but once a) the lack of severity of COVID was better understood, and b) the lack of effectiveness and the side effects of the vaccine became known, they became more sceptical.

And masks still don't work, and are a waste of time. The science tells us that.
Tell HN: I'm Giving Up on the News
No reading news, no watching news.

No taking a passing interest in news.

No X, no Facebook (I gave these up already actually).

I’m going cold turkey.

It’s all so depressing, such bad news, it was deeply impacting my state of mind.

I already feel happier.
Inside M4 chips: P cores
On the tariff thing, I think it's more a Brexit-esque "people have had enough of experts" sort of situation; complete magical thinking on the economic side.
The US (intel) does buy ASML machines. And they probably will eventually get to 2nm chips, but they're currently a yesrs behind TSMC.
https://www.privacyprotect.dev/ uses the webbrowsers' encryption libraries
Show HN: Openkoda 2.0, an open-source insurance application platform
It doesn't get really good until the third rewite, in my experience.

That said I think it's worth noting the advice is to junior engineers. These days I feel most of my code is good enough most the time to not warrant a rewrite, as I can usually catch my self before doing something too stupid.
Evolution of Shells in Linux (2011)
How difficult would it be to poach TSMC employees ? (just asking)
Show HN: The Tasks – Minimalist Task Management App
No he is not. Simon has been blogging extensively regarding the dev of quick tools using a few LLMs like the ones from OpenAI and Anthropic. This new tool is no exception.

(Of course there is more to it, using LLM to be productive requires some skill on their own)
They're not missing anything. Read the article instead of just the comments and you'll realize that all of this has been taken into account in the final results.
This does give Taiwan more leverage to negotiate support and nudge the US into a firmer position but ultimately, should an invasion occur the US wouldn't send troops either way. The US can't have a direct war against China.

China can't have a direct war against the US, either. So, like with Russia it's a calibrated game and proxy conflicts (which is what Taiwan would be)
Well, historically, what's the median lifespan of a senior Trump appointee? They _mostly_ flared out.
Currently have such a case open with Amazon. Support has said I will be reimbursed, but it has been a few weeks already. I will give them a few days until I will cancel the transaction, which might get my account locked.

In my case I got a wooden toy instead of a GPU. Reordered the same thing from the same shop and got the right product. But the other case was probably a logistic member stealing the contents. Perhaps an honest mistake, but big tech has the tendency to hire low quality third party services to save a few dollars.

I would immediately fire the managers responsible, because this way you do significant damage to the brand that is way beyond paying delivery services a fair amount.

It already is established that Amazon deliveries have a statistically significant amount of fraud.
RTEMS: Open-source real time operating system
The marketing hype around ever increasing improvements meeting the reality of an apparent ceiling looks like it might spell mass disillusionment. Dialing back the AI enthusiasm seems like a good bet at this point.

Products are still going to increasingly capitalize on existing capabilities, like you say, but I wonder if the "AI everywhere" phenomenon might end up being a turn-off for a significant number of customers.
> fun [...] survival, fitness, and evolutionary pressure.

This has to be both right? Animals (and humans) evolved play because it has evolutionary benefits, but the immediate reward for play must be fun.
RFC 791 which defines IP talks about both packets and datagrams. IP sends datagrams. Each IP datagram is fragmented into one or more packets depending on the underlying L2 network.

But RFC 791 dates from when the underlying L2 network was most likely ARPAnet, which had 128 byte packets. Today the distinction is (or should be) moot - if you're relying on IP fragmentation to send your large IP datagram over multiple L2 packets, you're doing something wrong. IPv6 doesn't even support in-network fragmentation.

In practice, the distinction has largely disappeared over time. Everyone I know talks about packets and very rarely bothers to distinguish between frames, datagrams and packets, because in practice one Ethernet frame generally carries one IP datagram, and everyone calls it a packet.