skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. I think at the base, everyone just wants their software to run. The challenge is, people don't want to have to learn anything new to do that. What are most people comfortable with? Windows. Why? It was on their school computers, probably on their parents' computers and most likely on their work computers.

I think if schools had their computer labs (if that's still a thing), running Ubuntu 24.04 and taught computer basics on Libreoffice, that is what people would want on their home computers, if they could go to Best Buy and buy a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed.

Maybe over the next 5-10 years we see this change as some schools issue Chromebooks?
> People would rather go to Best Buy and get a new laptop than try something different.

Some people simply don't have that option. Other people may have that option, but would end up with something worse simply because their budget only allows for a hobbled machine. In the past they may have been able to resort to the second-hand market or cast off machines in order to get something much better.

Granted, most of these people are also willing to run an unsupported operating system. Perhaps a handful would be willing to jump zealously into Linux.
Is it a product though? What can you do with it after you buy it besides paying Microsoft monthly for the rest of its lifetime to actually do something with it?

I'm pretty sure this is just part of a service.
I wish it was somehow possible to perform a piece of music that would cause remote code execution. It’d be so cool to plug in a MIDI keyboard, play an Am6,9/G# and have it open a terminal window with root access.
Who killed the rave?
My wife rocks Arch. She calls it Facebook and email and internet.

On a more serious note, my work intranet wiki page for turning a stock Ubuntu (Kubuntu but I also allow any Ubuntu variant) box into a corporate one is getting quite short these days.

It's a lot shorter than the Windows equivalent one. They are hamstrung by the lack of a central software source.
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The next long-polling request can include a list of the ID(s) returned in the previous request. You keep the messages in the queue until you get the next request ack'ing them.
Sometimes a temporary cover is built first to minimise disruption on the surface.

Here's an old example of an umbrella bridge over Oxford Circus during the construction of the Victoria Line. There's a longer video out there of the construction of the Victoria Line that covers this in more detail.

https://youtu.be/9ghWdnYtp2I

Some of the stations on the Broadway Subway Skytrain extension in Vancouver use a similar approach, where half the road is closed and a road deck is built, then traffic is shifted over to the new road deck while excavation takes place from the side. There's some great views of this while riding the bus.
https://archive.is/ul4Ui
People looking for "an ethical dating app" are usually incel or incel adjacent.
Dating is a zero sum game. Most men don't understand women. I'm saying this as a top 10% guy (IRL and on apps). It's best to acknowledge this and take this into account.
Was all of our posting on the net on forums, HN, Reddit, digg, Slashdot, etc. just to train the AI of the future? I think about this a lot. AI has that "annoying forum poster" tone to everything and now I can't unsee it when I (rarely) use it. Maybe I'm just post-internet. I've been thinking about that a lot also. I'm tired of 99.75% of the internet.
> For me and others I've met with ADHD, reinforcing strengths through receiving motivating rewards is THE system that works.

Do you have any specific examples of what that could look like? I have tasks I’m motivated to do, but introducing rewards for ones that I’m not motivated for always feels artificial
If I sit in front of a computer all the time I'm awake, I still wouldn't be able to be producing as much content as Simon Willison. My productivity would start to decline after 5~6 hours, and probably diminish after 8~9 hours. The consistency in his output is just magnificent and awe-inspiring.
Cloudflare is not that much different:

>Cloudflare requires valid legal process such as a subpoena or a foreign government equivalent of a subpoena before providing this type of information to either foreign or domestic government authorities or civil litigants.

https://www.cloudflare.com/transparency/

>It is our policy to notify our customers of a subpoena or other legal process requesting their customer or billing information before disclosure of information, whether that legal process comes from the government or private parties involved in civil litigation, unless legally prohibited.

https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/slt3lc6tev37/6g60HDCGGk...
They are not, not at all.
Upgrade Mac Mini M4 storage yourself
I've been dabbling with axum as of late and I agree the docs are relatively good.

I think 2 things that are missing.

- What you mention, "use this for that" sorts of guides. The ecosystem is pretty good, but when you pull down axum you aren't getting something like Java's Spring framework. Instead, you are getting something more like Javascript's expressjs. That makes it a bit tricky to go through and track down which tower plugins you should be using.

- "How to structure your app" sorts of guides. Axum doesn't really force any sort of layout of design, which is good, but it's also not great in that it leaves that actual design up to the beginners imagination. Something like "Here's an example of a todo app with multiple users" would do wonders in showing a recommended layout. Covering how you should do DI, input validation, error handling, session management, module layout, testing. All that sort of stuff would be really useful to have/see.
> ADHD focussed psychotherapy

How does anyone even find this? I find there is a lot of signal vs. noise in this realm of care. What I mean, many professionals list that they treat ADHD, when it's clearly apparent they only list that for marketing purposes. The actual care provided is either antithetical or completely unhelpful -- at least for me.

For example, of the many psychotherapist I have seen, I would often be given advice to make a schedule or a To-Do list, which let's be honest, is common fucking sense, and things I already did/still do.

If I were perhaps struggling to do something, the advice given would be something like, "Well, you just have to get it done." Wow, can't believe one needs a masters degree for that sophisticated level of wisdom. . .
Agreed. Reader View to the rescue (again /sigh).
This made me laugh:

> Firms working the lightning-rod grift sent effete dandies to sell farmers on lightning rods for their house, barn, even their outhouse and doghouse, with no money required upfront, but when it was time to collect payment, the salesman was replaced by two or three hulking roughnecks.

And this:

> The majority of the leads hung up in the first three seconds; others stayed on the phone only long enough to detail the sexual acts they’d performed on my mother the previous night.

Interesting line:

> Eventually, it clicked, and I learned one of the bedrock principles of salesmanship: Whether you’re peddling long distance over the phone, Bibles door to door, or your own political candidacy on live national TV, it doesn’t matter what you’re selling—it matters how you make people feel. If you make them feel good, they’ll say yes.
I can relate to this feeling deeply.
I don’t think that’s necessary. We could create open trust networks/protocols that don’t rely on megacorps. In fact it’s probably exactly the megacorps who wouldn’t want this to happen because they benefit from the relative trust they have on their closed environments.

Eg certs. Let’s Encrypt equivalent for credibility, where I can trust you as we interact more, and borrow from your trust networks. Send spam and you reduce your cred. (Letscred.com is available right now if anyone is very bored :)

Gotta be tested very carefully so you don’t end up with a black mirror episode, of course.
I find that for a lot of "cheap junk from China" gets cheaper when you eBay it directly from China and cut out the cost of the Amazon middle man.

Recently I bought a chainsaw tool on eBay from China as I didn't want to buy a 6-pack for $10. I was able to buy a couple for about $0.20 more per unit. Sure, higher unit price and they'll be here slower but it's several $6ish saved.
Serious question, how do you follow crypto news and not get kinda depressed about it?

I find the concept(s) and tech interesting, but crypto news is so full of drama and horrible people / acts it's hard to enjoy for me.
Fabrice Bellard open sourced a 4G (LTE) base station.

https://bellard.org/lte/
Show HN: We built a platform for language learning with AI
Hi HN!

We're Ryan and Dre, engineers who built Scena, a platform for creating and sharing interactive AI personas.

While learning Dutch and Spanish, we found language apps focused on gamification but lacked real conversation practice. So we built tools for users to create and share their own AI conversation partners.

The tech stack uses Azure speech services and fine-tuned GPT 4o mini, with a Swift frontend and AWS backend. What makes us different is treating personas like YouTube, anyone can create and share them. Early users have created everything from language learning through murder mysteries to technical interview practice.

Everything is free and open to try. We'd love feedback, especially on scaling user generated AI content.

iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/scena/id6504126953
Distro watch's ranking isn't a good metric since it could be gamed easily. My understanding is it's just based on the number of clicks on the website, which I bet is gamed. I doubt MX Linux is actually that popular. I've never known a linux user who runs it, I have ran it myself several times. But I have known more Void users than MX users.

Addition: This isn't a dig at MX. I enjoyed the times I've installed it. I personally like it, although it's not my main go to distribution. Just that distrowatch's ranking isn't reflective of reality.

This has information to how they do it
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
I've found myself more than once referred to Nat Bennett's Simpler Machines; most recently: Why doesn't everyone do XP?[0].

0. https://www.simplermachines.com/why-doesnt-everyone-do-xp/
Agreed. I don't think I'll be able to go back. PoE2 has its warts, for sure, but it's EARLY access and it's already better than Diablo 4, which is saying a lot.
Paradoxically, modern times seem bring more and more pseudo-products that can be purchased but cannot be actually owned (at least without resorting to unreasonable difficulties).
This is not what the cover in cut and cover refers to. This is a temporary bridge erected over a cut and cover operation. When the excavation (the "cut") and structure are completed underneath and the backfill/concrete is placed up to ground surface (the "cover") the temporary bridge will be pulled out. The "cover" part is about covering up the buried structure after it's built to put the ground surface back to where it was.

Edit: If the road deck is left in place permanently then it is a permanent elevated road deck built over a cut and cover tunnel. I can see how some people might consider this the "cover," but that is atypical in the industry and not what people are usually talking about when they say cut and cover. I'll concede that this approach sometimes happens, but I wouldn't call it "often" like GP does and I'd also note that even under this scheme the final surface/cover (e.g., the roadway) is completed after the underground excavation and structure are finished, meaning that the cut still precedes the cover.

The most common terms for this in the industry are "lid" or "cap." As in, you put the lid on, or cap, the excavation or cut and cover tunnel.
Raygun musical cancelled after viral Olympian's legal threat
A private jet with a prioritised Starlink connection, no doubt. Alas, most people are not the richest person in the world.
And it's worth noting that you can't just ignore this problem if you're using websockets - websockets disconnect sometimes for a variety of reasons. It may be less frequent than a long-polling timeout, but if you don't have some mechanism of detecting that messages weren't ack'd and retransmitting them the next time the user connects, messages will get lost eventually.
I tried to sign the guestbook but could not. Didn’t expect it to work but would have been nice.

Wish guestbooks were still a thing. Visiting my site to find a new message was always a treat.
> Genuine question as someone not from the US, wouldn’t that make a significant part of a generation mad at Republicans?

This would be a minor "infraction" compared to what he has already done. I don't see this moving the needle one bit.
Implementing a Model Context Protocol Server in Go from Scratch
I showed them different options. One liked xfce, the other liked MATE. These were for old computers by the way.
You do realize that your ISP/host/transit provider also complies with subpoenas and court orders, right? This doesn’t change anything.
For some, I think it's a bit more fundamental than that.

I'll give an example of a conversation with a family member, who bought a used computer a few months ago and claimed it was "broken" (they didn't know where the power button was, and thought the charging cable was wrong (it was USB-C))

Me: "Oh, well since it's used, we should probably do a clean install. I can reinstall Windows for you if you want...but if you're interested, or I could do Linux instead. It works as well as Windows, but if your computer ever breaks, I'm not sure a technician could fix it as easily. It's got different benefits though, and would use this older hardware better."

Them: "Oh? But how could you even do that?"

Me: "Linux installs are pretty easy. As easy as Windows install."

Them: "But isn't this a Windows laptop?" (It was a ThinkPad.

Me: "No...it's just a laptop. Your laptop. You're not required to use Windows. You can use whatever you want. You own it."

Them: "But how could it have Linux if it already had Windows? I thought this was a 'Windows' laptop? Doesn't this only work with Windows?"

Me: "It can have Windows. It could also have Linux, instead. It's just what's installed right now to make the computer work. It's yours to do with as you wish."

I could kind of see a look of surprise on their face. It hadn't even occurred to them that they were permitted to install anything but Windows, because they saw it as a "Windows" laptop.

Ultimately I ended up reinstalling Windows because they were afraid of dealing with the unknown, as you mentioned.
I believe the road decks on the Broadway Subway are permanent.
No it doesn't.

"When did Jeff Baena die?"

> There is no record or credible report indicating that Jeff Baena has passed away. As of the most recent information available, he is still alive. My training data includes information up to October 2023. Events or details that emerged after that date may not be reflected in my responses.
Because the system is bureaucratic and stupid. Notices warning pilots about irrelevant obstacles are, literally, a meme. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/wzsvru/the_notam_sy...
I didn't claim that it would be a universal solution. It was just an observation of mine, especially in the context of the mentioned com[arison of their long polling approach vs ElectricSQL.
The thought rattling around in my head is what usages people have got out of 'personal computers' (i.e. not specifically IBM compatible PC) over the decades that they've been available to the general consumer, and what are they doing now. In practical terms it's difficult to see why MS would be motivated now to encourage the hobby side of PC, they don't really need it any more as most things that bring revenue to them aren't specific to being on windows.
I don't think so. Linux still hasn't figured out how to install programs smoothly. In fact, installing a Windows program on Linux is easier than installing a Linux native program. Anything released in AppImage format requires you to write your own config file to get a shortcut and icon? Seriously? Until they figure that out the average person is going to quickly give up on it.
Prediction, from the fact that it is a dating app : This will be heavily skewed male.
Normally they land with flaps down, which reduces landing speed.
Advice: Get a second diagnosis, from a medical doctor that has ruled out chronic exposure to toxins/poisoning.

ADHD and other spectrum disorders have in the past been used as a catchall diagnosis for certain groups of symptoms.

For example, heavy metal poisoning often presents as ADHD or ADD misdiagnoses and was not simple to test in years past.

Mercury may leech from silver fillings (depending on where in the world you live), this naturally happens when kids drink soda (which is acidic/caustic for dental amalgams, or may be contaminated through High Fructose Corn Syrup, where mercury is used in its production).

Lead from inhalation may cause similar issues where lead-based paints may shed chips or dust when its deteriorating even when it looks stable.

Arsenic from water as well.

The problem with heavy metals is they don't stay in the blood so a blood test absent a chelator may not properly indicate the issue. These metals get bound up almost immediately in tissue to prevent damage, and you don't know how much gets stored until you take a chelator which may cause acute poisoning (when its bound up, and suddenly gets released into blood).

Eating cilantro (a good chelator) for example has caused migraines and headaches in people who have chronic exposure to such, like mercury. These toxic conditions may also result in poor learning outcomes, brain fog, and other disadvantages that seem to constantly change where finding the words to describe them are quite difficult for the person afflicted.

There are also studies which suggest some of these related symptoms may be linked with high exposure to unsafe levels of PFAS, microplastics, or high levels of flouride.

Its important you first get a proper diagnosis. If you don't bring up the possibility/concern, few doctors will make a connection. Acute poisoning presents very differently from chronic low-level poisoning.

There are some very good medicines that treat the symptoms for ADD/ADHD, but when the cause is toxic exposure; more damage is done by only treating the symptoms.

There are also some significant side-effects related to ADHD treatments, that may be permanent, which may result from those treatments for children who are still developing.
As a public service announcement.

'The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.'[1]

[1] https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
In recent news, net neutrality is on the way out as we speak.
Nice nostalgia piece overall, but I especially enjoyed this line:
"The distinction between noise and signal becomes decreasingly apparent the further one gets from their source."

Very succinct and insightful. I will use that in the future.
I take back any insinuation that gay, lesbian or bisexual people don't want to date, that's certainly wrong.
I wrote an emulator in Python in college and recently redesigned and rewrote it in rust. It was a pretty fulfilling experience. I spent several weeks writing a long program just to get data to sufficiently test performance. After all was said and done, my rust emulator still ran the program so fast I could barely get enough samples for a flame graph.

If anyone reading is working on a chip-8 emulator for the first time, a word of warning: for instructions that affect the vF register, be sure to check whether the register should be set before running the instruction but actually set it after. This is subtle but affects several popular roms.

My test program if anyone wants to marvel at my inefficient assembly:
https://github.com/dreary-dugong/fib8_benchmark

There's some fun stuff in there though, animated graphics and self modifying code. Highly recommend hacking on chip-8.
When sales people post that picture of a saleperson with a round wheel and the "customers" too busy on the side of the road to switch from the square wheel as too justify something for themselves.
This is the reality - most airports run their runways “to the fence” for some variation of “to the fence”. If they could reasonably have a thousand extra feet of runway they’ll add that, as it supports more operations and doesn’t really hurt.

Some of them even move around the recommended touchdown point depending on other factors, if the runway is extra long.
> If people were able to connect and move on quickly, there would be little reason for the app-creators to continue developing.

If an open-source piece of tech is working as advertised, why would its devs continue working on a finished product?
Yes, there is a self hosted GitHub runner for signing. The token is installed on a desktop in the office that runs this.
To be fair to her, check out some of the other things that have happened.

Compared to that mall collapse, a berm that far off the end of the runway won’t even be notable.
How to Discover Hidden Subdomains as an Ethical Hacker
Ethical dating sites are possible and have existed. But they dfintiely can't exist in this current landscape. Like you said, an app who's goal is ultimately to stop people from using the app is not one that will get the funding needed to stand out from all the Match.com shell companies.

> lean into what makes you unique and try to find the same or something compatible in someone else.

This part is cultural though, and the fact is most people (regardless of gender) are not looking for "unique". Quite the contrary. I suppose that is a bit of why the "normie" nomenclature is not as far off as you first think.
Have you seen the Python Atlanta website ? https://pyatl.dev

I built it and it’s pretty bad. Even with the power of the Wordpress template I managed to make a bad website.
But I spent too much time thriving for perfection. And this one sort of works which is better than a non existent site that might work better.

Perfect is the enemy of done.
Might as well use Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 at that point, supported until 2034. Been using as a daily driver since it came out last year, pretty much the same good experience as with the Windows 10 LTSC.
Coming full circle from Terminal connected to mainframe, to a PC on every desk, back to a terminal connected to the cloud.
https://massgrave.dev/

MS doesn't care about piracy at all. They'd rather let you pirate it than losing you by switching to Linux or Mac
Re-read the post, there’s more in the path than just your client and server code, and network switches aren’t the problem. The “middle boxes and proxy servers” are legion and you can only mitigate their presence.

You’ve been offered the gift of wisdom. It’d be wise on your part to pay attention, because you clearly aren’t.
https://archive.ph/TPirU
Since the post have been taken down and the URL now returns 404, here is an archived copy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240527214609/https://debunking...
Calculation is harder in a world of functionally limitless compute is sort of interesting. Where do we go from here?
There have been lots of reports that Israel is ‘advising’ the UAE in building their airbase in Socotra. Though I’ve not seen any admission of it outside of conservative Israeli or anti-Israeli media.

The White House told Congress of boots on the ground in Yemen about a year ago (but the DoD walked that back).

I’d probably not try to argue there are no Israeli or American intelligence or military officers in Yemen.

Whether they are in range of Ansar Allah or qualify as an occupation force is probably a semantic argument where each side can reasonably claim honesty.