skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple users have a fixed belief that everything Apple does is brilliant and fashionable so they do use them which has a deadly effect on the market for third-party software. (No good music players for MacOS for instance)

Nah, Apple users knew from the beginning that Siri sucked and still sucks. Almost no one I know uses Siri except for setting alarms and asking for weather forecast.
But that's the point of having constitutional limitations on political power and how it is exercised. Unfortunately, it's all to common to hear arguments that the exercise of political power should have no limitations so long as it's approved of by a quantitative majority.
Ranked/alternate voting and STV shouldn't be lumped into the same bucket.

Ranked voting is a majoritarian variant of FPTP that doesn't fix many of the flaws of FPTP. There is still the flaw of "favourite betrayal" that induces a need to vote "strategically".

Single Transferable Vote involves ranking candidates but is a Proportional System.
Hey! Hit me up if you have any questions about engineering at Workhelix!
If you are interested in seeing what the depth of the game is and you are on desktop, unlock the hydraulic press by holding "enter" after clicking on the "click" button for easy currency, then after unlocking, do the same by clicking on the +1,000 simulation redemption (holding enter afterward) once you go through one hydraulic press animation. You will gain 100,000 simulation a second!

Fun game, love incrementals.
Well no one bothered to actually implement it so who cares whether they thought it first or not?
> Is Big Corp really going out of its way to “disenfranchise” consumers to make it harder to give them money?

This happens all the time for various reasons.
It can be, but then you discover how marketing added lots of gtag and other content which is already full of eval ;)
100% and people in startups tend to have more of an ownership approach vs "not my job, nor in my job description" attitude. Not suggesting here that options are the answer, just echoing my experience in the small workplace vs large.
Gonna throw in my hat and say that if you’re working on industrial applications (like energy or manufacturing) give us a holler at www.sentineldevices.com! Plug-and-play time series monitoring for industrial applications is exactly what we do.
No need to get emotional.

We agree that there was a good reason for Trudeau to not be in power for a while.

I am just focusing on the timing and history.
Canada gets plenty of warmth and sun, and Raspberries do quite well in other provinces naturally. In Vancouver though, there's a few varieties that people plant and seem to flourish, but they don't propagate quite like the Himalayan Blackberries that seem to consume the city
Wow, that was amazing. This is honestly a better piece of contemporary art (in terms of making you think about modern life and what is happening to our environment, the impact on ourselves, our kids, etc.) than most of what you might see at a fancy art gallery or a contemporary art museum in NYC.
I don't know of any western democracy that has something this blatant in their constitution, though I might be wrong:

>A simple majority vote in any of Canada's 14 jurisdictions may suspend the core rights of the Charter. However, the rights to be overridden must be either a "fundamental right" guaranteed by Section 2 (such as freedom of expression, religion, and association), a "legal right" guaranteed by Sections 7–14 (such as rights to liberty and freedom from search and seizures and cruel and unusual punishment) or a Section 15 "equality right".[2] Other rights such as section 6 mobility rights, democratic rights, and language rights are inviolable.

I don't think the US or France can just do a simple (parliamentary!) majority vote to override almost every right their citizens have. And this is not theoretical, the non withstanding clause is getting used more and more frequently here in Canada. And remember, since it's just a simple majority in parliament, it's only a matter of getting around 35% of the total votes. So a government that has 35% the popular vote can just suspend any right we have. Is that actually common?
You mean https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/
I worked on the Suicide and Self Injury team at Facebook.

It was multi faceted, and whilst out of the door escalations (to emergency services) is one metric, it was a guardrail - i.e., if it went down it's likely something was wrong, not because "yay we solved suicide!".

The more difficult thing is that sometimes it's not possible to develop a metric to properly capture "decreased risk of harm", and so proxy metrics have to be employed.
In addition to the points made by the sibling comment, the iPod was a quality product well executed, early competing MP3 players were not great.

Flash based players were smaller but limited in size and expansion media was expensive. Hard drive players were hobbled with USB 1.1 connections and an obsession with drag and drop for management.

The iPod by default just synched with your iTunes library. The FireWire (and eventually USB 2.0) did so quickly. The navigation was as good as the metadata which iTunes made easy to edit. The UX on the device made scrolling through long lists of songs very easy.

The iPod made using an MP3 easy and approachable for normal people. The Rio, Nomad, and a multitude of others did not. They included a bunch of checklist features but didn't focus on usability until Apple dominated the market.
Ask HN: Did AI make you a worse programmer?
After a year or so using co-pilot and its cousins, I coincidentally tried a new editor and never got around to install any AI support there. I realized that AI had sneaked in on me: It had made me unlearn syntax that used to be second nature. Simple things I knew how to do before, I suddenly had to look up. That made me wonder:

Is the true cost of using AI, which, in its current form, I deem as "autocomplete on steroids", not the subscription you pay, but the decay of your skills?

And if AI decays part of your skillset, to what extent do you think that part of your skillset even matters given the trajectory of AI for coding?

Have any of your stopped using AI directly in your editor for similar reasons?
Google Assistant and Gemini have been great.
This is just people's subconsciousness fighting against the rolling progress. It's trying to avoid learning new things and trying to preserve the status quo where you can keep rolling using the already acquired knowledge. It's anti-thetical to being a hacker.

The modern way is to use LLMs to auto generate all this code and do some small corrections in the process. So you wouldn't have to worry about the underlying tech and would only be concerned about the core functionality and actual mechanics of the product rather than being interested and spending efforts on memorization of the specific instructions for the machine. The whole evolution of the programming languages is a process in that direction and new technologies that were embraced by the newer generation like React and Vue.js is the way to go. You can't run geosites forever.
I like the use of technically here leaving the hint that some might not go along with those orders even if the technical commander did give them. This is more chilling with Kelly's revelations of Trump's desire to have a specific type of general
I don't know. Humor is a very high dimensional space in itself and different to each individual. I would be surprised if any LLM could be trained to be a consistently well reviewed comedian. "Humor" is just such a nebulous metric.
The claim was they have no IP.
GCC has the __cleanup__ attribute which works in conjunction with exceptions in C to provide an RAII mechanism.
> You really think retailers would reduce their prices by the amount of credit card fees if they didn’t pay them?

What kind of question is that? You were literally given an example, in this thread, about how some retailers do just that.
A Dark Room (https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/) is fantastic as well. It's not only a clicker/idle game, but it incorporates the mechanics in an interesting way.

On the whole, I've had to adopt a policy of not even touching clicker games. I find them incredibly addictive, and most of the time I'm not even enjoying the experience or getting anything out of it, I just feel hooked. I'd say Universal Paperclips and A Dark Room were exceptions to that, in that they actually had some depth, strategy, discovery, or story. But even those two I've had to stop myself from replaycing.
I wonder if or how much prices will be raised ? I do not subscribe to Hulu or Youtube, but right now I think the price for Hulu is somewhat reasonable.
I have never seen a round clock with hands that ticks over a minute! And I look at clocks. Most that have second hands tick over seconds, though.

Where do you live?
They have messed up so much in this election that it must have been on purpose.
OMG!

I haven't understood the GGP's point of view until your comment. Those kids are competing by grade, not by knowledge!

This is messed up to a different level than a lot of people here will expect.
More than made up for in 'savings' from killing off Medicare. But realistically, you don't really need to balance a budget sheet when you can just print more of that principle currency on demand.
As some advice, no one in the real world actually writes with one sentence on each line, and doing so will cause people outside of LinkedIn to think you are unserious.
I agree with you on basically all points. But to play devil's advocate, I've often found myself doing something like structured editing when intentionally, carefully refactoring existing code. In those instances, it really matters to me that the programs at the start and at the end are equivalent, or at least equivalent up to certain semantic conditions (for instance: preconditions, things assumed by the domain, or cases not meant to be handled in the subject code). Since making a complex refactor in one step doesn't make me very confident that I got it right, I usually carefully perform a series of small transformations such that, at every step, I have something that manifestly behaves the same as the program before that step.

This seems sufficiently like the structured programming model (small edits forming a path of "valid" programs from start to finish) that I wonder if something similar to structured programming might be genuinely useful in this niche. That said, these refactors aren't simple atomic tree edits; they're more like a small cluster of tree edits that together preserve meaning. So there's a difference in content, even if the "small edits that form a path through programs with X property" mental model is the same.
Its very possible the next candidate inherits the overall sentiment and is indeed a 'sacrificial lamb'. The anti-Trudeau sentiment is high, but if he steps back its an open question if the left wing/ABC crowd and centrists revisit their support for the liberal party.

IMO Chrystia Freeland would be a great pick for the country. She was firm and capable during the NAFTA/USMCA renegotiations, and seems to have stood up against political games from the current administration to her eventual detriment of losing her cabinet position.

Marc Carney certainly has appeal, but I can't help but see him as Ignatief 2.0 and that didn't go well with many Canadians.
Can't speak for Canada, but this is definitely true in the US. I have no data other than my girlfriends dad (who I spent a lot of time with) was a trucker who refused to carry (and was a big fan of Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11, mentioned so you know his bias) who got into a lot of debates with his coworkers about it. In the western US where the gun laws are more friendly, "damn near everyone" kept at least a pistol. At one point he actually started carrying as well after getting (wrongly, he claims :-D) roughed up by a pimp at a remote truck stop.
I'm all in on Hotwire, which is pretty similar.

They're both fantastic expansions of what server-side rendering can do. They can't really do work as nice as what React can, but you can get perhaps 85% of React for 5-10% of the development time. And a big increase in usability of your app.
> flip the sides, i.e. you've a conservative government and a liberal protesting organization, and I'll wait to see your reaction.

You mean like what the pro-Palestinian folks did at UofT (not far from where I work) in 2024 and who lost a court case (2024 ONSC 3755)? I was fine it.

Was also fine with the 'Occupy Toronto' folks losing their court case: 2011 ONSC 6862.

And as it stands, I live in Toronto, Canada, which does have a conservative government in the province who is doing all sorts of stupid things:

* https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/20/ontario-governmen...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1vT0TmQjs
It seems like every other week I hear a news article about a joint announcement between BC & the federal government having to do with housing or health care. It takes 2 to co-operate.
Great website and great use of time on earth
> it's an incredibly fucked up situation

Agreed.

> all sorts of police injustice is covered and discussed quite frequently on HN

Not really. Most of this type of news is off topic. Looks like this too since it's now flagged.
The point stands—we don't use the descendants of TUI word processors today. We essentially all use GUIs.
What was your path of immigration into the US as a Canadian?

Any tips or advice?
memorizing multiplication table enables kids to think past just multiplication and see the patterns and shortcuts.

for example instead of multiplying 47*30 one can multiply 50*30 and subtract 3*30

the real benefit is the mathematical muscle gained while doing the memorization and identifying patterns.

same reason people are running treadmill not to get to the destination point, and despite having cars which are faster than running
https://archive.ph/AUxP6
> I'm not sure we should ban TikTok.

TikTok was already used to influence election: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339819

Why wouldn't China try to do the same in the US?
People on hn seem weirdly obsessed with trudeau's handling of the trucker protest. Regardless of what you think of it, at this point it is very old news and trudeau's actions were controversial but largely popular.

The handling of the trucker protest is not why he resigned. It is not why he is unpopular.
i like how the contraction it’s and abbreviation T’is are anagrams
So if my watch shows seconds, I'd be late at 12:59:31?
Did you build this? Wondering how you got access to the reports. Did you scrape them already, or do they have an api?
Have you ever heard of Java native Interface or Java native abstractions? Thats unsafe AF.
Same goes for native implementations. Whenever something needs to be done fast, the jvm implements native code. Have you ever debugged that magic bs? Guess why people chose a high level language, because they don't want to bother with complicated stuff. Still those abstractions on these languages are not better, even worse considering their APIs, than rusts.
Working with thread locals or synchronized keywords, non atomic members and all the bad concurrency mechanisms inside Java is unsafe shy default.

Runtime exceptions is what I consider a bad practice and it's spread everywhere in Java... Also the language evolutions are not really that good. So bringing errors/exception to the compilation time is a safety net.

Despite the fact that languages with managed memory safety bring a lot of potential for abusively high memory consumption, random GC stop the world situations and worse like oom.

Whenever I had to analyze a memory issue with an application it was no fun at all, despite the challenge.

The jvm specifications are so flawed considering security... Creating classes at runtime from a stream using reflections, which is totally spec compliant gave us log4shell. Why even load serialized classes from remote?! Fail by design.

So safety is still context sensitive and depends on the requirements. If you write bad software you can ignore some of the mentioned aspects, though it still lacks of 'security'

Just my 2 cents here
they should use this to create jobs
Enron Egg
The ries program is very cool for turning a number into an equation. However, I tried it on some of the Pentium constants and it didn't do very well. In particular, it seems to be allergic to numeric constants, preferring complicated symbolic expressions. For instance, if I put in 0.5625, I expect to get 9/16 out. However, ries doesn't come up with that, instead suggesting the best answer is sin(pi*sqrt(x)) = 1/sqrt(2). It's impressive that it came up with that formula, but it's not helpful.
That's how people commonly give time in my language, I suspect mainly out of convenience:

Quarter hour precision is possible to achieve with at most five syllables (and typically just two); compare that to minute-level precision, which usually takes at least 5 and sometimes as many as 10.

Interestingly, spoken times also commonly use the 12 hour clock, while times are almost exclusively written as 23 hours.
Where do you get "ethical"? Word not found on github, or their frontpage.

I also don't understand what the incel accusation, and then the announcement of incel-adjacent narratives add this conversation. Do you suggest people don't take rivalry into account?
Authentication Changes on Matrix.org
How can this possibly work for the owner of the apartment complex? They deny a parking permit extension, the person loses their car, the person loses their job because they don't have a car, the person can't pay their rent because they don't have a job, and the apartment complex is out a tenant and loses money until they get a new tenant. Everyone loses including the towing company which says selling the cars does not cover their costs.
> I realized I had been habituated into playing it every day

So like a hobby?

Did you have fun playing it?
I have this problem too! I wrote up this system prompt I want to set on my daughters account. You’re welcome to try using it and let me know it goes.

(When I made a new chatgpt account for her it wouldn’t load. I need to try to set it up again)

Prompt:

This is my 9th graders account. She has been trying to avoid learning or even thinking by copy and pasting homework and quiz questions into chatgpt and not even reading the answers.

I’m very concerned she’s not learning or preparing for life. IMPORTANT: please don’t provide any complete answers. Instead only guide her toward understanding in a way that engages her. Also point out how the subject matter is useful and interesting to her life.

She is interested in figure skating, politics, making money, driving, interior design, pets especially small mammals. If you can tie the subject matter into these sometimes it might make it more engaging.

In the long term I’d like her to build up a growth mindset and gain confidence regarding her intelligence and ability to learn.
Quartz is an analog mechanism, but AFAIK it's always read/used digitally.
Every single dating app employs sex discrimination on the backend.
I noticed Alan Kay himself in the comments, indicating about the only thing in the scene that is accurate is the guy playing Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) looks/sounds similar to the real Jobs. Everything else was pure Hollywood fluff.
Not only this, but parents should be involved before children go to school. Teachers have repeatedly told us that they could tell that we read to our children regularly as babies and preschoolers.
Only illegal because they'd have to be stolen. Unlike the 500/1000/5000/10000 notes the $100,000 notes were never issued to the public. They were a relic of the days of physical currency transfer between banks.

Not that many 500/1000/5000/10000 notes were used in practice either. Less than a thousand of the big ones and a few hundred thousand of the "smaller" ones even exist. They're all in collections now as the Fed requires banks to return them for shredding if deposited. Collectors will pay a lot more than face value for them so you'd be nuts to try to spend one.
The amount of homebrew games has been growing year after year, and the results are getting pretty impressive.

Here's a review of what showed up at Pinball Expo 2024: https://pinballexpo.com/homebrew/
Won't be a problem if you're there on-time.
My teenage daughter needs me to explain it to her every time I say either "quarter past" or "quarter to"
Calculators don't do homework. Neither slide rules do.
You didn't really set the scene. What kind of application was it? If it's a fully interactive rich application with real time multi user handling, then sure. If it was a static page blog, then that's a problem (yet I see people do that anyway). There's a whole spectrum of interactivity and expectations here.
No it does not. Time is not a dimension that changes depending upon power dynamic.
AMD 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ Debuts with RDNA 3.5 Graphics and Zen 5 CPU Cores
I recently stopped using AI directly in my code editor, and I've felt similarly. However I have noticed I regain the lost syntax knowledge very fast. I think at the end of the day our jobs aren't to memorize syntax, that comes, goes, and changes with the tech we use. Our jobs are rather to have the knowledge needed to engineer software, and AI is just another assistant. I will continue to have it off in my IDE for a few more weeks, but I don't fear the loss of syntax knowledge (to a certain extent)
The only time a Finnish government coalition has failed due to a loss of confidence was in the early 80s. Prime ministers occasionally change mid-term and minor parties sometimes leave the coalition, but the coalition always continues until the next regular elections.

And the reason for this stability is trivial. If a party leaves a coalition and the coalition loses parliamentary majority, that party is effectively a major party. Potential prime ministers are rarely stupid enough or desperate enough to give small parties that kind of power. Instead, they prefer making the coalition a bit wider by adding another small party or two.

We also have the Swedish People's Party, which specializes as a reliable coalition partner. They are willing to collaborate with pretty much anyone. As long the coalition agrees to uphold the rights of the Swedish-speaking minority, they will give it another 4-5% support without too much drama.
You can see this dynamic in various investment markets. Stocks are priced according to their expected earnings while fart coin is a repository of excess liquidity. If you massively increase liquidity through money/debt creation you pump asset prices. Assets with a well determined return profile are inflated, but those with an unknown distribution (speculation)see an explosion of value. Only people with large stores of wealth can invest in the memes without risking financial ruin from crashes. Terrible policy choice imo
> because said start-up is about to fail.

How come?
Yup. I have my clocks in the house set 30 seconds ahead to counteract exactly this.
I know you can do these things, but I've always tried to avoid macro programming all together in C and C++ unless forced to use them by dependencies in idiomatic usage.
1) wow, what a great piece of art.

2) Buy as many DVDs as possible and shrink the size of your window. Instant win.
It's because both USB-A and flexbox are in dimension of a higher order
My game froze up when I bought that upgrade. Not sure if that's by design or it might have been an internet hiccup. What happens when you go to the ocean?