skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally like this aesthetic and think it looks great. I also don't think the performance questions raised in this thread are material given modern user device capabilities.

However, the contrast between the glass background and foreground is dependent on background content by design, which is a serious issue for complying with various accessibility guidelines. For enterprise apps if you want to pass the various accessibility reviews it needs to be a user preference to disable this at least, or just don't use this technique to guarantee pass for contrast related questions.
> a person uses a tool

If you simplify and trivialize everything to an extreme degree, then yes, you might have a point…

> Wikipedia is a bad source and we can't use it because it can't be trusted

No, but you still shouldn’t use it for anything besides research (i.e. you should be citing the sources the Wikipedia article is based on directly).

> just be honest - this assignment is supposed to test your writing skills,

Isn’t that more than perfectly obvious already?
Other than colorization, what are people getting out of ls replacements like this? I've recently started using ranger which might replace my ls usage for the most part since it not only shows everything in the directory but has vim like shortcuts for filtering, sorting, and searching the directory as well as previewing files and entering other directories
I’ve tried a few of these, but most of them seem to be following the trend of folding other shell functionality into one tool. Searching for contents (find + grep -H, or ripgrep), filtering (grep), sorting (ls does it natively, or you can use sort, sort -h for sorting human readable sizes), the list goes on and on.

I guess this is a mini lament that many of these tools are moving away from the Unix philosophy of do one thing well, and make it easy to chain.

And a last very small lament that BeOS didn’t succeed, and their filesystem-as-a-database approach didn’t become more standard.
Are you confusing me with someone else, or have you gone deranged?

I was the one who implied the status quo, i.e. countries putting things into orbit way above 500km and nobody stopping them, is likely to prevail… with even the next best alternative very unlikely to happen.
No, it isn't 64 bit at all. It claims to have 64 bit vector extensions, but that's worlds different from being a 64 bit processor.

It's mostly marketing fluff. The people who made Apollo claimed for ages that FPUs necessary, then finally provided an FPU. They want people to target their proprietary extensions, but they don't even offer an MMU and emphatically claim, just like with the FPU, that it's not necessary. They spin way too much.

I can't take them seriously. There are plenty of other projects that are much more interesting, like:

https://www.buffee.ca/back-to-fulltime/

https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm

They allow for much more flexibility, the option to run on actual m68k motherboards and compatible extensions, such as an '060 emulation that includes support for instructions the '060 would otherwise need to emulate.
I interpreted it had perfect enough for their goals rather than breaking any thermodynamic laws or something.
Also, if you can get people to connect intensely with just one or two of your statements, you can then make other false statements and they won’t care, because that might invalidate the one they really want to believe. The threshold is so low that the shotgun approach of just telling lies continually actually works quite well. Your statements don’t even have to be consistent, so you can A/B test the lies.

The normal backpressure to this is that you lose face with your peers because you become known as a liar. But if your peers don’t influence your success, or you just have no peers, it works.
You could do 15 mph in 2nd gear, that would solve the issue for all and you’d be less likely to maim or kill a pedestrian, which is nice
An employee not knowing what's happening at the company above them is a fault of the manager.
There are some things that need to be kept secret, but if it's not one of those things, secrets are not a good thing.
Eza is great. I was pleasantly surprised at how nice the mime type icons meshed with the terminal.
You'll more likely get a refurb that fills up to 70% of rated capacity. I own a Tesla and that is Tesla policy.
I assumed that by them saying "installing desktop Safari" they are using an OS other than macOS since Safari comes preinstalled on macOS and can't even be uninstalled at least not without disabling System Integrity Protection.
that's a really long winded way of saying "SoC with FPGA".
>you don't have to wait until your 60s to live the life you want

But, at least at some point in your life, doing work within a company may provide that life. At some point, you're done. And that point may vary. But many people wouldn't really love (or at least benefit from) a bunch of money dropped in their lap when they graduated from college.
do you mean more specifically than the generally similar approach that worked for https://pypy.org ?
Is roll your own cyber security maybe a good thing as the bad guys like to work on skeleton keys?
Languages where men and women speak differently?
Here's what they say they do [1].

[1] https://support-my.plaid.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410324401047...
It's not a matter of easier, it's that I'm against adding dependencies when they're not meaningfully adding value. It's not that hard to use urllib.request if you just need to pull down some file in a script, or fire a web hook, etc.

If you need connection pooling, keep-alive, or any of the other features that requests adds, then sure, add it.
geothermal power would make good base load.
> Feature-request: bring back clickable ls results!

Doesn't your desktop (or distro) have a graphical file manager? On KDE it's Dolphin, which ex-Windows users absolutely love. I don't know what it would be on Gnome or other desktops.
Additionally, there are a few more process accounting things, rusage, that zombie processes hold until reaped. See wait3(2), wait4(2) and getrusage(2).
What a useful, well written article. Thanks for sharing.
I have had the rare privilege to see up close examples of how at several US universities, when professors are presented with irrefutable proof that a student has cheated (well beyond any reasonable doubt) the professor will most often do nothing. In the best case they will meet with the student and give them a stern talking to.

The whole system is set up to disincentivize any effort to actually hold students accountable for cheating in a significant way (fail assignment, fail course, expulsion, etc.)

When we read about cases of students being held accountable it's generally the exception not the rule.
Unless she forced the infant to run themselves, taking them on a run sounds like good parenting.

My line for this topic depends on familiarity. If you see the baby once a week or more, kiss the stinker if you want to. Otherwise, don't.

That line exists somewhere for everyone, no one would suggest that a mother shouldn't kiss her child.
Are you confusing my comments in this chain with some other comments?

Because this sounds totally incoherent in relation to what I’ve written.
Microsoft SQL Server 2025: Enterprise AI-ready database from ground to cloud
I assume this is tongue-in-cheek, but I don't think the comparison works at all.

I spend maybe 1% of my working hours (being generous) using `ls` and something like 50% (likely more) using my editor.

If there is some alternative to `ls` that makes my `ls` workflows 2x faster, my productivity increases by 0.5%. If I use a sub-optimal editor that makes my workflow 2x slower, I lose 25% of my productivity.

When I need to login to a remote box, I am also very likely to need to use `ls` since I am less familiar than on my own machine, whereas I am unlikely to do any sort of heavy development work (typically I just need to edit a couple configuration files, or do some git operations).
This is how it works at most universities it seems.
They have some chips they insert into your spine to read your thoughts and other similar stuff.

But personally the “dystopia” to me feels very much like something we could end up with -it’s much more a warning. Meanwhile the fantastic nature of the utopia doesn’t really matter in contrast, because the idea of sharing society’s abundance with everyone is clearly possible.
Pretending to be PostgreSQL: Part two – responding to queries
> What about Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where are they in all of this?

The CISA does this type of thing all the time. Here is an example just from their recent news releases in the past week: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/11/21/cisa-rele...

The CISA offers to assist infrastructure providers in a number of ways: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/services/assist-visits Presumably the NRWA could have asked the CISA for help with this initiative.

The CISA has 3,000 employees and a budget of $3B, which is a lot, but not enough where they can be involved in everything. For reference there are 12,500 utility scale power plants and 148,000 public water systems in the United States. The scale of the problem means they must be mostly an advisory organization, where most of the work gets done by people at the infrastructure organizations or, sure, volunteers.

Now, I’m not saying that the CISA is doing a good job, I genuinely have no idea. Determining that would take a lot of knowledge, probably insider knowledge, and weighing what they’re doing against what resources they have available. But them not being involved in some random project that showed up in your newsfeed doesn’t mean they have severely failed.
The hairless apes that are in charge have a very long and consistent history of power abuse.

[spoiler alert]

Everyone has a remote kill switch in their spinal cord. Once the goverment decides to be evil, any rebel will get their legs instructed to walk to a pea facility for "reeducation".

Compared to this scenario, 1984 is almost as optimistic as Equilibrium.
Thanks for sharing this project. It looks very cool and I also love the longevity aspect how to make conversations immortal through abstraction of LLMs.
A factor of 2 is within the noise, but I cannot really comprehend the concept of buying a product because their company stock is cheaper than their competitor. The only ones benefitting from that here are Intel investors who have held on despite the serious publicly visible company problems for at least the past 5 years, and then are surprised that their dividends have disappeared. Why do they deserve a gift?

If the goal is to encourage a competitive chip market, Intel stock price is healthy enough that it could be used to raise cash for the company if needed, so there is no significant imbalance there -- as opposed to 10+ years ago when AMD stock was much lower when they looked to be at risk at bankruptcy
Healthy companies may have CEO with domain specific knowledge of the field. Airbus, for example. Unhealthy companies may have capital-L Leaders living off in capital-L Lalastocklandia who have not done so well by various measurements, such as their planes falling from the sky, or stranded lowearthorbitnauts. Boeing, for example.
> This reminds me of the court case where they asked the court to define child pornography and they said “I can can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.”

If you’re referring to the famous statement from Justice Potter Stewart’s concurrence in Jacobellis v. Ohio, that comment was in reference to defining “hardcore pornography,” not child pornography.
It stands for Individual Contributor, not Independent Contributor.
The compiler one read to me like a reminder to not ignore the lessons of compiler design. The premise being that even though you have small scope project compared to a "real" compiler, you will evolve towards analogues of those design ideas. The databases and k8s pieces are more like don't even try a small scope project because you'll want the same features eventually.
I encourage you to get diagnosed. I got it via the IVA-2 test, remotely. It cost me around $300 out of pocket and two hours of my time to finally get confirmation that I’m neurodivergent and access medication that has changed my life. Obviously I’m not perfect anymore but meds are easy coping tools. I personally take half the minimum dose (5mg pills of Adderall or Ritalin cut in half) whenever it feels like a hard day.
You could work 15 hours a week if you are okay with early 20th-century living standards.
> In this study, a qudit was implemented by the orbital angular momentum state of a single-photon, and dimensional expansion was possible by adjusting the phase of a photon through holographic images

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40281756 .. from "Physicists use a 350-year-old theorem to reveal new properties of light waves" (2023)
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-physicists-year-old-theorem-re... :

> This means that hard-to-measure optical properties such as amplitudes, phases and correlations—perhaps even these of quantum wave systems—can be deduced from something a lot easier to measure: light intensity.

> [..] Qian's team interpreted the intensity of a light as the equivalent of a physical object's mass, then mapped those measurements onto a coordinate system that could be interpreted using Huygens' mechanical theorem. "Essentially, we found a way to translate an optical system so we could visualize it as a mechanical system, then describe it using well-established physical equations," explained Qian.

> Once the team visualized a light wave as part of a mechanical system, new connections between the wave's properties immediately became apparent—including the fact that entanglement and polarization stood in a clear relationship with one another.

Shouldn't that make holography and photonic phase sensors and light field cameras possible with existing photographic intensity sensors?

"Bridging coherence optics and classical mechanics: A generic light polarization-entanglement complementary relation" (2023)
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev...
It's been in use in engineering for decades now. My father was familiar with the term in his career, and he's pre-boomer.
wont they just leave...
Well, that's the question isn't it? Is it just a frozen accident, or is there some nonarbitrary reason for the left-handed molecules to be favoured?
You can still chain ripgrep. I specifically designed it so that you can chain it just like you would a normal grep.

It does indeed also include other functionality that might traditionally be left to other tools (like filtering files). But this is nothing that GNU grep wasn't already doing itself anyway.

IMO, it's better to view the Unix philosophy as a means to an end and not an end to itself. And IMO, it's important to weigh the benefits of coupling to the user experience.
It sounds like this boils down to: "Usurious exploitation of the most vulnerable should be permitted in order to offer the average customer a higher credit limit."
Loved that website. Its intro to C programming was how I got into programming.
Fail to meaningfully discipline students due to fear of litigious moron parents, get sued by litigious moron parents anyway.
Thank you for providing the reference.

That was my exact complaint on reading the article. "Seriously, you went through that entire article, and never gave people the ability to personally explore the cable connections themselves? Shame."

Also, bonus content from recent news. The two cables cut are:

[1] (C-Lion1, Finland-Germany, this got referenced a bunch) https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/c-lion1

[2] (BCS East-West Interlink, Lithuania-Sweden, kinda difficult to find) https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/bcs-east-w...
I had the same experience, as I’m sure many others did. It’s easy to forget now how much rarer it was to find high quality and engaging educational content on the internet back then. Howstuffworks got me interested in so many different things, and exploring the articles was a lovely way to spend the time as a kid.
Does someone know how to find good IC coaches that can mentor a mid-level(ish) engineer 8+ YoE? I have issues with rejection and I am working on them.

I am a generalist, and I have been struggling with how to find opportunities myself by connecting to people 1:1 and discussing first hand the nature of the problem and whether I can help them with it. I imagine a coach help me typically with forming a coherent career statement and pointers on how to have these conversation.
> This lead to decades of low quality cars being made.

Really, it was only a bit over one decade. Taking GM as an example, their last great cars were produced for the 1973 model year, after which point the economy, emissions, and efficiency requirements resulted in drastic (bad) changes. It only took until the late 1980s for them to make some genuinely good vehicles though. For instance, the Buick Regal/Oldsmobile Cutlass/Pontiac Grand Prix from 1988 were well built, comfortable, handled (relatively) well, and were very reliable - especially from 1990 with the introduction of the 3.8L V6, what is likely GM’s most reliable engine ever built (second possibly only to the small block V8). The same was tru for their sports cars (while not making much power out of the displacement, the TPI V8 firebird and corvette were similarly efficient to European sports cars at the time). Many GM cars from that era (late 1980s until early 2000s) are some of the most reliable American cars ever built.

The same is true for Ford; for example, the 1988 Probe, while not the most popular vehicle, was very reliable, comfortable, efficient, and well-built, likely in part due to their partnership with Mazda. It could reasonably be argued that as early as 1980, Ford was making pretty good vehicles, with the Mercury Grand Marquis/LTD Crown Victoria being well-built and reliable, if very down on power with questionable efficiency.

Not worth talking about Chrysler because they didn’t know how to make good/reliable cars before the fuel crisis and they certainly didn’t figure out how to afterwards.

I know this isn’t your main point but it’s worth considering that the US did actually figure out how to build really good cars again, and it didn’t take them that long. Mid-90s to early-00s American cars were, in my opinion, at the perfect point of technological advancement: CAD and high-precision/low-tolerance manufacturing resulting in engines that last well over 300k miles without major servicing; enough computer advancement to have high precision per-cylinder fuel and spark control with accurate air metering leading to better power, efficiency, and reliability; and enough material advancement to have interior and exterior build quality that makes the car look like it wasn’t built in a shed. But most importantly, they hadn’t figured out how or where to cheap out on components, so you end up with the “unreliable” components (like the 4L60e and 4T60e transmissions) “only” lasting 200k miles before requiring a rebuild - which in today’s money is still less than $1000, let alone 20-30 years ago.

From the birth of the US auto industry until about 2010, the only period where there wasn’t a single American car worth buying brand new was probably 1974-1981. The “malaise era” itself was by the loosest definitions only about 13 years, from 1974-1987.
Have a look at - https://www.hyperar.com/

I am not affiliated in any way. Just found it a couple years ago.
Ask HN: Best place to promote my developer tool
Hi HN!
I’ve just finished building my first developer tool, which simplifies remote configuration (and feature flags) for developers, especially those less familiar with complex platforms like AWS or Firebase. It’s designed to be simple and easy to use.

I’ll be launching it on ProductHunt this Tuesday, but I’m wondering if anyone here has experience with other platforms or communities where developer tools can gain traction. Where would you recommend promoting a tool like this for maximum exposure?

Would love to hear your suggestions or strategies that worked for you!

Thanks in advance!
Show HN: Cassie.fm – Web and API monitoring service
Yes. It seems to be almost incapable of communicating in anything but terse (up to 5 word or so) bullet points.

And even when you force it write in coherent sentences the output still seems markedly worse than it used to.
Hi HN,

I built Cassie.fm (https://cassie.fm) website and API monitoring service.

Why?

I run a tiny software shop, and bulk of our work consists of integrating our products (field service management app) on top of various ERPs (local and ancient for the most part). These ERPs often have APIs tacked on as a afterthought. These go down very often . If the API we integrate with goes down, it looks bad for us since our product does not work, so in order to drive accountability and transparency I hacked together an API monitoring solution. I wanted something that:

- Scales as we add more monitors: Pay only for what you use. No subscriptions. (We're actually paying for our own credits, its a bit weird with accounting but it forced me to do a proper Stripe integration)

- Real-time alerts, sms, email and webhooks, so that we can keep everyone in the loop including our user facing apps.

- Simple, transparent pricing, maybe we decide to invest more heavily in marketing this to our existing clients, and most pricing these days is garbage

What’s Next?

I'm building this to solve a specific business problem for my shop. I like to be driven by actual users, so as adoption grows so will the feature set. Some things I'm considering are
analytics, and customisable alerts, response structure checks and schema validation.

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Register - https://cassie.fm/account/register. You get free 1600 daily credits, no strings attached. Accounts that have no monitors are automatically purged after 30 days, and I promise I won't send you any emails unless you send some first :).
I like this authors frame of reference. Independence is definitely my goal.

I want to get to a point where I can start an independent EE consultancy, then slowly get more and more selective about my clientele, until I choose to stop working.
Your and the Llama's explanations would make good comments for the source and/or the docs if true.
I want to be able to work as a generalist who can learn most coding stacks and a wide range of experience in backend(ranking/recommendation) systems, data engineering and some early career full stack experience.
The answer is you don’t. It’s not negotiable. Either apply for remote or on site.
Yes, I do agree with you - live image programming has to be composable/comprehensible/reproducible, and crucial state shouldn't be in anonymous objects. (I've even thinking of replacing mutable objects with with pure functions modifying a a tree of data). Types is another direction and the work on Strongtalk has proved influential for popular VMs.

But, we dont need to go back from objects to files, except for the purpose of interacting with the OS. Richer structures actually help comprehensibility. For instance, revision control operating at a structural level. UNIX would have much nicer, if something like nushell had been adopted from the beginning, and the 'little pieces' used to build the system worked on structured data.
While all right-handed amino acids would presumably be fine, do we have any idea whether mixed chirality would work? I suspect no, since they presumably have different folding behavior but might be tricky to distinguish chemically during the protein synthesis process, making e.g. different codons for left and right-handed amino acids infeasible to implement. I'd love to hear from a biologist whether any of that is correct.
>Why else did they practice internet shut down

just like US at 9/11.

> if there's a hole in junos or Cisco ios

there are. A lot.