skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, not that I agree with them, but Trump's victory shows that people don't really seem to care about these things, otherwise, they would have voted.
Absorbing many time of my life … but at least they were text not video.
This type of rampant censorship is obnoxious and anti democratic, because it prevents many viewpoints, many of which are commonly held, from being shared or discussed.
doesn't work for me, the rendering is full of artifacts. (Mac+Arc)
Webster's Dictionary can clear that up for you.
Some people like to build and tinker as a hobby. It is how they like to spend their free time.

All hobbies cost money. Videogames, reading, sports, music, or even eating at fancy places ("foodie"). Hell, it's a big reason to get work for more money, because you can have more expensive hobbies.

So I don't get these arguments. Let people have their hobbies, even if it is different from yours. This is *hacker* news after all, and the "hacker" part isn't about breaking into computers and installing randsomeware...
Bluesky. It's fantastic.
It looks like the Mac and Linux ports are now gone
PostgreSQL extension ABI issue in the latest patch release
Lawsuit alleging Elon Musk rigged Dogecoin is dropped
I will buy the next few games by Larian Stuidios after BG3 no matter what they are
What or who is the source for this?

Also, since when did Ars syndicate the Financial Times?

https://www.ft.com/content/62f361eb-ce52-47c1-9857-878cfe298...
Try Chrome. Are you on ARM or Intel?
Idk deleting a comment is kinda the definition of censorship. It’s not governmental censorship, but that’s not the only kind, just the worst one. Censorship is justified sometimes of course, tho I’m both sad and surprised that our two kings have decided any discussion of authoritarianism deserves this treatment. What is HackerNews? What does it mean to stimulate intellectual curiosity when legal freedom of speech is at risk for the large majority of the user base?

I guess technically Thiel is into Trump so maybe influencing Graham, but I never got the impression he dictated moderation decisions here. The more likely explanation, IMO, is that they’re just trying not to rock the boat, and “ban all serious political discussion on sight” is still their way to do that
https://archive.is/Oltyw
It was an echo chamber, the Tumblr Exodus made society much more leftwing overall when they moved into Reddit and Twitter, despite still using 4chan memes to this day.
It should work in Wine, although I haven't tested this update yet.

(disclaimer: I work for CodeWeavers, we sell CrossOver which should be a great and easy way to play)

edit: tested out the 20th anniversary update on M2 Pro, it works great!
Is there any way to make it flash less? I'm not epileptic, and I appreciate that you put a warning first, but it's still highly unpleasant after around 2 seconds. If I could look at it for a bit long it would be a cool experiment.
Speaking as someone who self-identifies as far left, the conversation here can go either way. I know it's a common trope that HN is dominated by "Silicon Valley libertarians", but in my experience that isn't really the case when you look at up- and downvotes.
As a hiring manager, I’d say rule #1 is “apply for the job” regardless of what else you do. If someone reaches out to me on LinkedIn for an informational interview or whatever and they’re not in my ATS, I don’t take the call. I cannot apply for you or move you through the process without an application.
Stripe's Increment had an entire issue devoted to remote work: https://increment.com/remote/
Only two outcomes: either everyone can access it or only few big companies can. While not ideal, the former is much better.
Haven't most of the old writers left Valve by now?
Or more like... Ruby has lost!
The preview works best on Chrome.
say more? I thought the protocol was designed to be able to handle decentralization
In my circles no one voted for Trump but well here we are.
Another name to throw out there when discussing time in the limelight versus numbers going up: Larry Ellison.
Someone in China drew an interesting picture of a slow rotating skyscraper shaped like a vertical axle wind turbine. Tall but the proportions of a bucket. Say such a thing has half a million ton in mass and 500 m diameter. The fun part is that losses are less than zero if there is some wind.
It makes me really happy to see old games getting remastered.

I was a Mac kid. There were a whole bunch of games that I wanted to play but didn't have access to. (At least we had Marathon!) American McGee's Alice was at the top of that list, with the Arkham Trilogy close behind.

The Steam Deck is giving me a chance to catch up on all the computer games that I didn't have the hardware for when they were popular. I've now caught up on Arkham, but I just can't get into Alice. The graphics and the controls are so bad from a modern perspective that it distracts from any desire I have to explore that world. I had to download a mod to even unlock the original Alice, because they don't sell the complete collection on Steam any longer.

Seeing that the Half Life games have been recently remastered, maybe it's time for me to give them a play through. I'm going to be spending lots of time on airplanes over the holidays!
One of the ways China is killing coal is of course with coal, aaaand the worlds largest ultra high voltage transmission power lines~30000 km's, which is so extensive that moving power from supply to demand works over several time zones. Enabling maximisation of solar and wind production by sending noon solar in one place to power the end of day surge somewhere else and coal is
playing a role by bieng run at full efficiency, with no need for load dumping.
Currently more than half of the load on the ultra high voltage transmissiin network is bieng provided for by renewables, and a mad mix of anything and
everything to fill in the gaps.
kind of like finding anything to put in empty shipping cans going back to china
driving American production of Hay, watered from aquifiers,ending up in China
or possibly mountains of wierd suspect corn,bieng shipped and then burned as fuel
in a coal plant.Thermal plant here in Nova Scotia, burns wood to make electricity.
And then back to hay, which is pelletised and used as fuel.World wide the use of bio fuels is going to be in the millions of tons, so it is too soon to close the book on carbon.
I can never understand why they haven't made a HL3. Given that they could literally make approximately 3.88 bajillion dollars from it in 24 hours.

I suppose this is the very definition of developer integrity.
The one thing where dictatorship is very efficient.
One man says that let's reduce the pollution and others will do it.

Let's see if democracy is ever able to do the same.
Are they varied, or mostly the same model?
Microsoft’s bundling of different distinct products across azure, office, and many other brands needs to be investigated and shut down. And all the dark patterns like nudging users to import all their tabs into edge or whatever.
Ask HN: Web Analytics for 2024
I'm reviving an old site and I'm looking to revamp analytics. My primary concern is that many browsers today are already blocking them as tracker scripts.

For context, it's a meditation app where people log in, meditate for a few minutes, then tell us how they feel. It's meant to be used daily. If it's not simple enough, they'll drop off, so analytics are used mostly for engagement tracking.

GA is optimised around advertising rather than engagement. It's also being blocked by browsers and it's getting quite complicated.

Heatmaps are a little useful too. Hotjar has been fine for this, but I wonder if it's a little intrusive or if there's better tools out there.
I feel like an example would just restate the sentence. “Company name tried to move but the migration was manual and there were fees of $X”.

What details do you want? Im not shocked to hear Microsoft acting a little poorly.
Hello!

I'm not a pipx expert (I'm a "I got it to work for my use case and then stopped" person :) ) but I was able to get my project working after installing a local wheel file (so i don't think you need access to the Internet to install things).

I thought the wheel file has all the dependencies since (my understanding of) pipx uses a venv for each individual wheel file/app. Certainly I'm using a bunch of packages that I needed to pip install into my development environment, but it's entirely possible that my pipx-managed wheels are using those installs, too.

I think the last two points are accurate, and I've never tried to use APIs like wsgi with it.
I reported that to them and at least based on the interaction they have no idea for last few months. I just have to restart them or the whole MacBook Air from time to time. I suspect it is not their issue lately as I saw others have this issues. Well … now I know. Or may be I just guess.
Really? Most of the people I know that are huge Souls fans weren't big on Armored Core. Then I've never heard anyone mention 2018's Déraciné and if you go a couple more years back their track record becomes fairly poor.
> I gave up.

That is the idea, yes.
That doesn't explain why it was the hybrid CR-V with the high fatality rate, unless inexperiences drivers prefer the hybrid to the non-hybrid.
Have AI Coding Tools Killed the Joy of Programming?
I think researchers want vintage data thats not contaminated with llm vomit
Honest truth? I didn't Google it first lol. I just checked if there was a crate with the same name and carried on. I only found out about the Ruby ones after I posted on Reddit for the first time. By then it was too late since I had already reserved the crate name and it was being downloaded
The FDA didn't order the recall. Costco's supplier did.
I've played through HL2 and its expansions so many times as a kind of meditative relaxation thing I couldn't tell you how many times.

I could never get used to Ravenholm though. Thinking about it even now years later stresses me out a tad.
Oh come on. That's not anything.

I'll be here waiting for actual links, please.
July 2023. Like I said, don't think that's the case anymore. It's not in the process of handle changing. They simply suggest buying your own domain from any registrar now.
Excitedly checks to see whether it has been updated yet to support 64 bit Macs.

Sadly slinks away
Solar and wind definitely make the most sense wherever feasible, but it's important to keep in mind you can't just build solar and wind farms anywhere. China has moderately good solar capacity in the north, but generation there will be seasonal due to how far north it is. The north of China is also not close to the majority of the population, so transmission will be an issue.

China's high to moderate quality solar capacity will be built out very quickly, and it won't provide enough to close the gap from fossil-based generation. From there, the cost of solar generation will rise as low quality capacity is developed.

China will need a way to import some of their energy generation, possibly through by importing goods like iron and steel that have a high energy production cost, from countries like Australia that can produce them using renewable energy (green iron / green steel) using Australia's almost limitless solar resources.

Since much of Australia's coal is also used in places like China to smelt their local and imported iron and steel, this could further drive down production of coal.
Yup, the seller is (at least should be) made aware of the financing structure, as it’s part of the offer.

Every time I’ve sold a house it’s been a factor in deciding which offer(s) to pick or counter.
Valve can't count to 3!
So far, the answer anecdotally is no, at least not in situations where lit pixels are moved quickly into black areas. In practice, my obnoxious green text black background terminal was kind of gross to scroll, but haven't experimented much with others yet. Playing games has thus far been fine, scrolling in other contexts is fine for practical purposes. Happy to update this if you want after I ruin my new MacBook by experimenting more
I disagree.

Pollution in China was terrible. Pretty much everybody hated it, and it was not possible to hide or whitewash it.

The US was in the same position during 60-s and 70-s, and it fixed the worst of the pollution rapidly. The EPA was established during the freaking Nixon administration.
The installed capacity of solar has been doubling every 3 years for the past 15 years. And if it keeps going on this pace for another 15 years, solar will exceed the energy production of all other energy sources (coal, oil and gas’s).

It is my opinion that this should be a global roadmap. Double solar installed capacity every three years. It’s doable. We should do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics
I loved Twitter so much but now I find it literally unbearable. It's not the politics, everyone is aggressively mean and it's just too much.

Bluesky is a breath of fresh air.
T-Mobile Hacked in Chinese Breach of Telecom Networks
You left out my leading phrase: if they are operating within their orders and military regulation. And civilians are quite entitled to question those. If the captain is within both of them and still commits a war crime somehow, you don't hang the captain, you hang the admiral.
> FDA is recommending throwing out the butter

It's a recall. You want to avoid any further confusion. You go with the simplest instructions possible. Just because they recommend you throw it away doesn't mean you actually _have_ to.

> "return it because it was not clear this was a dairy based butter"

What value does returned butter have? It's not something we can refurbish. It would be ultimately be thrown away anyways.
It also comes up at least once in John Varley sci fi books. People can get themselves turned into space-floating plants and just sort of hang around saturn. I can't remember if they get genetically modified to photosynthesize or they wear a suit that does it.
This is an impressive commitment to information organization.
Which is all stuff they could fix, if they'd be willing to, with a major version bump. They'd need a killer feature to encourage that migration though.
Heh I like the 'pascifist' angle.
If someone is trying to build this to save a few bucks and has no passion for building or tinkering, yeah, it is HIGHLY advised to not take on a project like this. But I'm pretty sure that group is quite small. Seriously, who dislikes building and tinkering and is looking at this going "Well... I can save $100 if I do it myself..."? Do they even have the skillset?!

For everyone else, I would be very surprised if they didn't have most of those things on hand or would gladly use this type of project as an excuse to buy more tools. That's how DIYers build up their tool chests, a series of excuses. But guess what, these are not one time things. I bought by 3d printer with an excuse and print tons of stuff. It's just how the hobby goes. Hell, I've torn apart a bunch of old electronics from Goodwill when I was teaching myself how to solder (highly recommend this btw), including how to microsolder. Why? For fun? I definitely don't get paid for it (though at one point I sometimes did).

And yes, people like to build and tinker as a hobby.
I encourage people to give Mastodon a fair go. Don't be scared off by the negative stories. It can definitely be a positive experience.
The thing is, I don't see a relatively prosperous society without too much suffering when I am visiting the west or north of Europe... At least not more than the east, and definitely not enough to justify the tax hike.

Generally, the east of EU is much safer and while it's poorer and that is its own kind of suffering, there's nothing like the bombings, muggings, general dirtiness everywhere, etc. I feel perfectly safe any time during day and night in Warsaw, Poznan, Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Ljubljana... Definitely not in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and so on.
The Bacalhau/Expanso Football: 4 Raspberry PIs in a Suitcase and Ready to Roll
People (both practitioners & researchers) have been using the terms "temporal" and "spatial" to refer to different classes of C++ vulnerabilities for at least 12+ years, back when I was actually writing exploits for a job. It is not new at all, and anyone in the field within the past 6-7 years and worth their salt will instantly recognize them.
The thing with the system design script is that it seems so Rube Goldberg. Why not just ask the important bits?
Pretending that “politics” exists as something separate or invasive is not only ignorant, it’s dangerous.

If this were a thread about IBM machines of the 1930s, would it be playing “politics” to note that those machines were sold to Nazis and supported by IBM through sub-contractors even while we were at war with them? Is it crossing a line to mention they were used to facilitate the Holocaust?
ive always thought their offering was basically "three rich guys in a trenchcoat." customers include MS Office, XBox, and every corporation strong-armed into accepting cloud credits in order to continue receiving discounted licenses on desktops.
The issue, allegedly, is that any such evidence is classified. So presently it only could be disclosed to those with sufficient clearance. And while I'd love for us all to see it, I don't think this topic can be written off just because we're not seeing close-up 4K footage yet.

These are reputable ex-govt officials (except Schellenberger) that are testifying under oath to Congress. If they're caught lying, they can go to prison. I understand that human testimony is not very good scientific evidence, but considering the circumstances, I see enough reason for Congress to at least take their claims seriously and investigate them to the fullest extent possible.

And if the government is openly investigating UFOs, I'm certainly interested in that. Either it's true, and it's the biggest story in the history of mankind, or it's a psy-op, and also a huge story of intentional misdirection and lies. But tbh if you follow the lore, there's a solid chance that what they're saying is true.
Politicians bend the truth or promise what they are later unable to deliver (and often had no chance of delivering). But I think Trump usually tries to deliver on whatever he said in the campaign (like in 2016), like you can expect wide reaching tariffs in January or February (especially since half-way competent advisors, congress, and the courts are probably not going to moderate him as much this time).

Maybe make any computer purchases in December just to be safe.
> Or having a small shovel in the car.

A sharp enough fold-up shovel becomes necessary kit when dealing with compacted dry soil.

> I think it should be taught in schools.

If a solution involves 'If everyone would just X', it's very unlikely that actually 'everyone would just X', at least not without significant incentive. Education definitely has a role to play in making 'more people just X' by changing peoples' value judgements.
What language are you using for the backend server? 256MB is pretty tight unless you are using something like Go.
They already make 7.76 bajillion dollars every hour from Steam, they don’t need to make anything for money.
How can you get scammed on a mortgage? They're typically standard products from nationwide banks.
Which things did you decide to move to duckdb?
Are you from the US?

It is not at all difficult to imagine a situation where a restaurant worker is trained to do something like the following when an allergen is raised as an issue by a customer:

1. Check the labels of any items used in the dish
2. substitute or leave out anything listing the allergen

This may seem...basic. However, if the restaurant has an incident with an allergen affecting a customer that notified them, and they show they followed these instructions, they can shift liability to whichever food producer left the allergen off the label.

Regulations and liability don't care about common sense. In fact, they supersede common sense.
Half life 3 ffs
Grafana doesn't take up gigabytes unless you're doing something crazy; it's about 100mb in my small business deployments. Which still might be too much for your $6 VPS! I would still highly recommend Prometheus, as it's native dashboard has gotten a lot better with 3.0
You are not doing any of the fancy table extractor stuff?
I am taking a crack (again) at creating vim bindings in Javascript for HTML textarea inputs.
For a while their stated reason was that they felt they couldn’t live up to the hype and the gaming community was too toxic and would have crucified them for it. True or not, I can see why they’d think that.

However it’s also worth noting that they were spending that time on other projects making them likely even more money. HL3 isn’t going to have live service or esports applications that make money like their other games do. It probably won’t be a big earner compared to those other games.

Valve are also a privately held company and the rumour is the top people there are crazy rich, and even those further down the ladder earn a lot more than they would elsewhere. They don’t need HL3.
plants only use part of the spectrum. Likely they have hit some local or maybe even global maximum that would be hard to evolve past. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
You mean uncurated 100 character blurbs of plausible sounding words isn't quick diddle making sense to the time of the hour?
I am also an unknown with a startup and a pitch, so take it with a grain of salt.

I don't think you're gonna get useful answers here. I would imagine it really depends on who you're pitching to, and how you're pitching. Lets say in aggregate 1% of people get an investment from cold calling. That doesn't imply you have 1% chance. Your pitch could suck so your chances are 0%, or you could be Elon Musk and you have a 100% chance. But the fact of the matter is that you don't know what your chances are. So the only way to find out is to try and see how it goes.

(I don't remember where this idea came from, but it was either from a PG essay or something put out by YC.)

Another thing is that one founder's route to success looks very different based on the strengths and weaknesses of that founder. You can't follow the lead of another founder. You have to play to your own strengths. If you think its a good idea, do it.

Point is, just do it. Start calling people. You'll learn way more than asking other people about it.
> I can’t be bothered to validate your secondary links.

That’s a shame. They’re more challenging for you to refute.
Is there more to the thread or just this one tweet/X thing? Response times notoriously suck on MacBooks, it would be nice to see that remedied, anecdotally it doesn't seem like that's happened yet.

Edit: Nevermind, same tweet seems to have been quoted across a bunch of different other news sites. Apparently Blur Busters claims an improvement, I'll try it out and see how it is in some other contexts.
Stephen Miller the H1B Hater
So you're saying I can save a few hundred bucks *AND* get a lot of fun time tinkering and building? I don't see the problem here. I mean how many hours of fun am I going to get out of that $200? There's the time building, the time using, AND the time debugging! Sounds like a good value!
But what does Donald want?

It doesn't matter at all what Matt Gaetz wants.
By looking.

- Which accounts get the most followers

- Which posts get to the top of their front page

- What is the predominant sentiment in the comments
Why does it take time to build though? Is it a technical reason, or economic and regulatory reasons? If the latter, we could probably go faster if as a society we prioritized it.
Your statement quietly assumes that being able to accurately call it a "commons" is desirable. Who cares, it might be good even if it's not a commons.
In my decade+ of using steam, this has never been an issue.
Wait, I just noticed the double negative. I choose to believe that means you support my life quest explicitly.
Related:

Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42145247