skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stats about general internet usage should mean very little to GitHub since it is used by a specific subset of the population which I'd wager is way more heavily skewed towards laptop/desktop

Also shouldn't they be able to just know this based on traffic? Why the need to use third-party general research as a source rather than "Our traffic patterns suggest X"?
> One could also imagine ensuring that > n/2 consensus members are always located inside the restaurant/hardware store/etc.

If the simple-majority is inside the restaurant, then the restaurant is online and the rest of the world is offline.
The point is that if you pull 100 dependencies from PyPi, you have absolutely no idea who you are trusting unless you put the effort to go check those 100 dependencies.

If you link to dependencies that you get from Canonical, then you know that a security team is caring about the packages that Canonical distributes and actually patches them. Who patches security issues in PyPi? The individual package maintainers, which may well be pushing a malware leveraging typo-squatting. Typo-squatting is not really a thing in the Ubuntu package manager, is it?

Not saying it's perfect. Just that it's better than the far west. PyPi is pretty much like downloading a .exe from a webpage without even opening the webpage (because back in the days, opening the webpage could sometimes - not always - tell you that it was clearly shady).
I've heard reports from hiring managers at multiple startups that have ran into "suspicious" candidates when doing remote interviews - with things like fake resumes and LinkedIn profiles. I wonder if that's related to this.
Much of the benefit I get from LLMs is, ironically, avoiding LLM output from the results of web searches.
Tuta.com for emails, Mega for backups, Bitwarden for passwords, Iridium as my browser.

Deleted Facebook, never used Instagram, Snapchat nor TikTok, I access YouTube via DuckDuckGo’s ad-less interface, I am quitting X.

You can’t really do without WhatsApp, at least in my experience.
> CC wasn't suitable for software

This is wrong. CC is perfectly fine for software in some cases, such as here.

Ok, CC is not tailored specifically for software, thus the general advice "you should use something else" but I do not see why CC would not be suitable here to achieve OP's goals.

Can someone explain?
For large C projects, tinycc is invaluable for extremely fast, non-optimized builds. Like 10x faster than gcc or clang builds. In my case I don't wait 10m, when tcc is done with it in 3s
Sounds annoying, and even though this feature undoubtedly saves lives, I’m not convinced that I want to be compelled to have it. My understanding though is that lacking regulation, the demand just wouldn’t exist.

I might have died there on the Belt Parkway this summer, didn’t even see that guy slam his brakes and wondered wtf my car was doing. JFK, everyone’s in a rush.
I'm using Zed too. It is VS Code-ish but feels fast, works out of the box and feels just... right. I wish it had support for Jupyter notebooks, but it looks like it will get there.

And it never crashed on me, unlike VSCode which reminds me of Windows 3.1.
Maybe check out Open Props?

https://open-props.style/
You probably use it the way many users do, and I wouldn't be surprised if that happens someday.

But it's mostly just a sign of how almost nobody actually cares about the code now, and just use GitHub as a source of free libraries that may as well not have source available at all.

For others of us, a README is something we may briefly read once or twice when first considering or integrating a project, but the repo's code is where we spend way more time -- evaluating quality, tracing potential bugs, unearhing quirks and overcoming sparse documentation, considering whether a fork is needed, etc

But that's all hokey old greybeard stuff these days.
impulse control plays a role
Best practices for building and deploying recommender systems
Should this be under Show HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
You can still do that on Windows 10! It's just not that much fun anymore.
'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly
So? IT wont affect performance. Dont call the library and ITS egfectively unused Code in the binary.
Normal apps is compressed a bit in size with a big back button, to make it very easy to exit them.

Should maybe have been a separate AppStore category for apps dedicated to this mode.
I would probably try to make an app or two for it, if it existed.
The reward center of my brain is probably all kinds of jacked up, so perhaps people get something from these accomplishments that I do not. However, I agree with you. I have noticed this sentiment is leaking into even otherwise health individuals too -- mainly Gen Z and younger. I guess society is heading towards some massive existential crisis. If AI eventually meets the predictions that some people have, then perhaps the issue will only get worse too.
Sure, adding that functionality to NVMe would be easy; there are sufficient provisions around for adding such support. E.g. for example a global flag who's support is communicated and which can then be turned on by the host to cause the very same normal flush opcode to now also guarantee a pipelined write barrier (while retaining the flush-write-back-caches-before-reporting-completion-of-this-submitted-IO-operation).

The reason it hadn't yet been supported btw. is that they explicitly wanted to allow fully parallel processing of commands in a queue, at least for submissions that concurrently exist in the command queue. In practice I don't see why this would have to be enforced to such an extend, as the only reason for out-of-order processing I can think of is that the auxiliary data of a command is physically located in host memory and the DMA reads across PCIe from the NVMe controller to the host memory happen to complete out-of-order for host DRAM controller/pattern reasons.
Thus it might be something you'd not want to turn on without using controller memory buffer (where you can mmap some of the DRAM on the NVMe device into host memory, write your full-detail commands directly to this across the PCIe, and keep the NVMe controller from having to first send a read request across PCIe in response to you ringing it's doorbell: instead it can directly read from it's local DRAM when you ring the doorbell).
I think your choice is very appropriate.

And it is open source.

Probably not OSI-open source or FSF-open source but it is open source, period.
My BIL was a “nukie” when he enlisted. Dumb as a box of rocks, and they kept a sub running like clockwork.

You’re absolutely right, the issue was secrecy, not “years of education” or whatever GP claimed.
You lie down with dogs, you get fleas.
there's no winning. have you seen the people who are supposedly "winning"?
NO. This is all very destabilizing for me.
http://web.archive.org/web/20250124223333/https://www.lrb.co...

https://archive.ph/75aY9
"These benchmark were run on David Lattimore's laptop (2020 model System76 Lemur pro), which has 4 cores (8 threads) and 42 GB of RAM."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330499

NB. This is not to suggest wild is bloated. The issue if any is the software being developed with it and the computers of those who might use such software.
Then let’s just ban tipping.
This is awesome! Just a heads up, I didn't get any pronunciation on web.
Chrome does too
I am not advocating for Blanchard in any way, in case I'm giving that impression, just talking about Popper in general.

Thought experiments, unless something provable like mathematics, are worse than useless, they are deceiving. There is an evil demon that deceives us, that we cannot overcome.

The only source of knowledge is to go out and ask, 'what do you mean?' Thanks for answering!
Unless you want individually addressable LEDs, the answer to the "if I can" is "yes".
The correct place for those requests is here: https://github.com/community/community.
Pepperidge Farm remembers a time where ChatGPT 2 made no claims about being a useful information lookup tool, but was a toy used to write sonnets, poems, and speeches "in the style of X"...
> A golden middle approach is best, sadly no one can agree on it.

That's what I was saying: I think that we agree there. My initial point was that I don't think that the package management culture in Rust is a middle approach: it feels like most crates don't care about how many random dependencies they pull.
Meanwhile, in CL/Clojure: everything is constexpr with no syntax difference. You can even do I/O at macro-expansion time.

And I say that as someone using C++17 at work, not just a smug lisp weenie.
I know that "rocket scientist" has been a standin for "smart person" or "genius", but in this case, I would be more surprised if a computer security expert (various job titles) had been scammed, because it's their job to be up on this stuff.

How often does a rocket scientist deal with computer viruses, or phishing emails, etc compared to a security expert? Most of the time, their IT security expert (ideally) stops it before it gets to them..
How could the people of Chicago possibly think a casino is going to improve things?
unfortunately I can't use Zed until they support REPL on remote connections (or remote Jupyter)
> So the 15% is people who use the internet exclusively via LTE/5G without paying for home broadband.

Does that factor in people “borrowing” their neighbors WiFi?
I have to wonder who this article is written for. Is it supporters of Harris who want to find comforting words or share in anger with someone on their side? Or is it meant to persuade supporters of Trump? I think it may succeed at the former but not at the latter - phrases like "Cheeto Mussolini" don't help because they come off as personal attacks rather than a discussion of policy or platforms.
You really don’t want to see my pre-university grades.

I was on a mission, and I can’t do two things at once. So school was about efficiency. I got great grades wherever that took low effort. That only went so far.

After graduation, nowhere I wanted to be would have looked at me.

It took me a couple years after high school to find the right university, but my personal projects paid off.

Looking back, it was a gamble. But you don’t really choose those kinds of paths.
L.A. County's evacuation alert system broke
I would expect the certificate mismatch to prevent this.
“There is no perfect number to send, no perfect geography to send it out to,” Galperin said. “It requires, ultimately, human judgment.” well... hmm... I'm not so sure anymore. Humans turns out are pretty bad at this.

I turned off the emergency alerts on my phone BUT a few nights ago. At 12:01 AM. BAM BAM BAM from a test ios phone I had left on.
No kidding! This is my first time experimenting with converting Keynote slides into HTML, so I'm not surprised it didn't go perfectly. I just pushed a quick fix for the overflow issue but should probably figure out a longer-term solution.
Well, I wouldn't call that gaslighting, just a statement of fact. I guess you could go with "Sorry buddy, I don't trust your content because you used AI slop for your images." If you think saying the same thing with more words is manipulative and gaslighting.

Also, "enemy"? That's a little harsh, don't you think? I would never consider a random doofus on an internet forum to be my enemy.
More insane... syntax from the C++ committee. How about a readable function-like keyword, like any other self-respecting language? C++ surpassed APL and Perl by far already. Really, in APL there is some consistency at least.
Why Some Engineers Become Rockstar After 5 Years and Some Stay the Same After 10
It depends how much you want to compromise yourself.

These days being associated with Musk in any way is going to make you look bad. Musk goes out of his way to make sure you look bad.

He's trying Nazi jokes now: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/elon-musk-nazi-joke-adl
Unfiltered twitter is significantly less NSFW, just as a point of feedback. Good luck with you project tho
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I prefer Siri to Google Assistant. The latter is the epitome of retardedness. At least when used in German. "Hey Google, new appointment tomorrow at 14 o'clock: Clean kitchen." This used to work fine 7 years ago. Today this creates an appointment at fucking 2 in the morning and asks you what you want to name it. With Siri I don't have any of these problems.
This a neat project and an impressive collection. I’m curious, if shes hosting streaming listening party shows is she obligated to pay royalties?
This presentation was more about industry trends than GitHub specifically. My point here is that as time in apps becomes a greater portion of the average user's time on the internet, the more poorly-built web experiences will stick out.
I imagine because practically 0% of the population have mice and keyboards attached to their phone. You can go to vscode.dev and similar on a phone web browser if you really wish.
All numbers have infinite digits, it‘s just that the “terminating” numbers have an infinite string of zeroes at the end.
The most essential part of "trolling spammers" is to use considerably less effort/resources to string them along than it costs them to proceed. Otherwise, it kind of raises a question of who's trolling who.

Even forgiving the work you put in to set all this up (a fun Saturday, for sure), do you imagine you're doing that here?
Yup, that's on me. As noted elsewhere this was my first attempt at converting Keynote slides into HTML (using https://github.com/mcfunley/better-keynote-export). I've pushed a fix for the overflow.
Physical attacks against crypto asset owning entities
> that even the smartest of us Hacker News users

Well, ok then.
I used it a lot. When it was still possible to use the desktop version. Mainly triaging issues, looking at some code, search, pr review…
Related: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/62372 (GH increasingly not displaying anything without JS)
You're not giving that impression, but your criticism was warranted. (I don't understand falsification as well as I thought I did.)

I wouldn't quite say that thought experiments are always deceiving (Albert Einstein found them quite useful, for example), but they are very parodiable. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/183

> "Did he just… not see any of us?" "Rationalists are terrible at seeing stuff. He probably just tried to deduce who was here from reason alone."
Right, it's about the differences between CRT's.

> The pixels were placed by artists who looked at how they rendered on a CRT, and they'd change pixels here and there, do hand dithering, and play with the colour palette until they got what they wanted on the CRT.

The issue is, sure they could do that for their CRT. But plug in a different one and the colors are different, the hand-dithering effect looks totally different, etc.

This stuff was drawn using zoom levels where the pixels really were squares. Obviously the artists looked at the preview to get a rough idea of how it would look blurry, but they also couldn't optimize too much for their particular display. It was more important for the design to be robust across a wide variety of displays, some of which would just look like crap no matter what.

So I'm saying, if you just apply some blur it's fine. Nobody needs to be emulating the exact characteristics of a CRT to chase down some "artistic intent" that only vintage CRT's provide. Just blurring out the jaggies is really the only thing that was ever consistent across displays, and even that varied greatly.
Why not just do <ul class="my-class">…</ul> and then apply the styles to ul.my-class > li ?
For 1), have you tried https://github.com/pulls and https://github.com/pulls/assigned?
Really great writeup on the current industry trends, that hits all too hard as I'm sitting here implementing yet another design system...
Shouldn't the compiler optimize this into a single call if they're called so close together?
Good question, I always wonder the same thing. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-2024-Performance seems to show that that the newer linkers still outperform their predecessors, even after maturing. But of course this doesn’t show the full picture.
With most of these tools you can turn off the suggestions, and configure a keyboard shortcut for when you do want some suggestions.
Github project URLs are the defacto landing pages for most software components, both public/opensource and private/internal. It's reasonable to lead with the documentation.
> Which is all to say, that mobile is the new baseline.

> 15 percent of U.S. adults only access the internet through a mobile device.

Absolutely nobody is using GitHub exclusively from their phone. As an aside, this site doesn’t work on mobile.

> But there is a bigger problem. Why are there so many design systems in the first place?

Because homogeneity is boring. I read the article linked about the global design system:

> Many — or even most! — web developers shouldn’t need to understand many close-to-the-metal HTML concepts in order to make web applications function

Next they’re gonna say that web developers shouldn’t need to know how to code. HTML isn’t low level.

> For the love of God, why is there more than one way for me to provide my shipping address on the internet?

For fun? The screenshot shows 3 perfectly good looking forms. I have never ONCE struggled to input my address into a form.
Still early days, but something to watch.

https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim
> Duplicate work should only happen if you are confident that [...]

You are making a ton of assumptions on the quality of the average library you can depend on: that a whole team worked on it, that it worked on it a long time and that it produced good code. That's really not a given.

You are also assuming that writing a feature instead of using a library is "duplicate work". It's not necessarily the case. Maybe the library approaches the problem in a much more generic way than you need. Your requirements are not "significantly different" then, just a subset of the library.

> so that such critical requirements can be properly guaranteed, again probably better than you can do yourself.

Are you saying that the packages available in cargo are systematically audited? I believe that the vast majority of them is not audited at all.
They have! It's called Julia and it's great.
Dear Hacker,

Please improve your memetic immune system.

> our only option is to wither and die

incorrect
It still doesn’t display properly on ios safari.
It's taken me most of a lifetime to figure out that this is kind of the opposite of the right way to deal with the problem. You're effectively fighting fire with fire, and the whole thing needs to not be a fight at all.
What I said was merely an expression. In more literal terms, "Why work hard when hard work yields little to no results?" Basically, learned helplessness in a nutshell.

At face value, I think I could potentially accomplish meaningful things. I am not trying to change to the world, but I could be better at my craft, a better employee, be healthier, etc.. Sadly, the only thing truly stopping me is myself.

Believe me, I've been trying to change myself my entire life, and nothing has ever worked. Of course, many would say that I should just accept myself. However, it has always been difficult when others do not accept me.
The mention of general internet usage stats was in the context of broader industry trends influencing overall consumer expectations.
I totally disagree. For one, for every minute the spammers spend on someone trolling them, that is real harm not being done to people in the world. That’s high value. Second, this is a fun side project that this person would have been investing time in regardless (I assume), so it might as well be a side project that adds real value to the world.
https://alpynedreams.github.io/vgui.css/demo_greensteam
>It was sort of a clever analog-era compression hack.

Also known as technical debt around these parts. The repercussions of that clever hack are still being dealt with to this day. I've spent a good deal of my career specializing in proper handling of video sources that are painful to deal with all because of this clever hack.

color burst, front porch, 1.001, ugh!!!!
We use Ubicloud for our GHA runners, because we have a very extensive test suite and need the extra parallelisation. Extremely easy to roll out from GHA, reduced our CI costs from CircleCI by 80% and we've been very pleased. Thanks for the great product!
Zed needs a full helix bindings support and helix needs plugins. Both are so close!
This is splitting hairs. These are vocally low/anti regulation and tax states hostile to even the belief in climate change when scoped to state reps [1] [2]. Let them financially support themselves and their disaster risk costs. They voted for this (both at federal and state levels). If they would like federal support for their high risk geography [3] [4] [5], they should consider voting for an administration that will provide such policy and support and believes in the science.

California is the world's fifth largest economy. They will be fine.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/02/texas-environment-cl...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252012825/florida-gov-desant...

[3] https://www.axios.com/2023/09/27/insurance-rates-climate-cha...

[4] https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Business%20Functio...

[5] https://www.newsweek.com/map-reveals-scale-florida-property-...
Could also have been running Tailscale or similar on the phone, then you could use POST both ways even when it’s not on the same network.

Had a good laugh from this.
Exactly 0 of the hundreds of projects in my company's git organization have pages. But they have READMEs.

Most software is not popular opensource with a carefully curated web footprint.
Definitely Google, with its Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental. Very high quality, a lot of tools (web browsing, code execution, etc), and surprisingly uncensored if you want.
While I am normally in team "hey scale it by capita", this case makes me hesitate. (Would we also need to factor in statewide cost-of-living values?)

If $X is exported from residents of my state out to support another state, that's the same local impact regardless of how populous the destination is or how finely that $X gets split after it arrives.

In any case, I think it's enough to support the idea that there's a tension (if not contradiction) where the states that receive the most absolute benefit are also the ones electing politicians who pretend the exact opposite.
But these are different things -- color hacks and overscan or switching display modes are about circumventing known hardware limitations in predictable and clever ways.

The topic under discussion here is the pixel art -- the idea that the artist would be relying on a fixed amount of horizontal blur to get the amount of glint in the eye "just right". And that's what you couldn't do, because that blur would be dramatically different on different CRT's.

The art was designed to be robust under blurry conditions that had extreme variation. It wasn't designed for some kind of ideal CRT so it would look "just right".