skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scientific studies regarding the Montessori method are mostly positive,

... whatever that means.

Letting children choose their own way is good. It is, however, very difficult in the age of global surveillance, when every toy is only used to collect data about its user.
Scaling Law for Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Diverse Stretchable Networks
Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to other online spaces like Twitter and Reddit where the discourse today is so toxic that it has desensitised people into accepting or even encouraging abusive behaviour. Name-calling is a typical example. It’s something that should register as abusive but doesn’t for most people any more, because in these very high-profile online spaces it’s not just normative, it’s actively rewarded with likes and upvotes. It’s probably impossible to not have that seep into most people’s baseline expectations for online conduct.

An army of dictatorial tone-policing moderators won’t create a safe space free from abuse, just a different kind of toxic space. So it is a very hard problem, not solvable by just kicking out a couple of bad apples. We are all swimming in a sea that causes the apples to rot.
> I come from the position that economies are naturally occurring phenomena which cannot be centrally planned or controlled.

This is a challenge to untangle. It sounds like you're saying that there is no point trying to regulate, legislate or control what happens in the economy at all. But that sounds bonkers to me.

For starters, there are (and should definitely remain) absolute limits to business activities. We've moved on from Victorian-era child and slave labour for good reasons, even though such a situation was "naturally occurring" at the time. Moreover economic activity is dictated by cultural mores - if your service is morally reprehensible in some way then you won't get much business whatever your matgins are. Economies are inherently subject to the laws and customs of the agents.

Secondly, some regulation is pretty clearly beneficial. For example, there's a recurrent tendency for market power to concentrate in modern economies; we need robust anti-trust regulation to prevent consumers from getting ripped off and to prevent fragile supply chains. A well-conisdered balance of public and private provision supports the least well-off in society while allowing room for the fruits of individual flourishing.

Thirdly, we must consider what makes one economic system better than others. One way to measure this is to look at how efficiently it converts resources to social utility. I'm far from convinced that it's efficient to employ our brightest minds to build trading models with brief lifespans so that investors who are already well-off become slightly more so. It's worth investigating what regulations and incentives could put those minds towards things of greater value - solving climate change, cancer, sending humans into space etc... .
I have a suspicion it's because business typically uses Windows, which means Word and Excel handle the data. Business people view it one page at a time. Manual cut-n-paste moves data, which is tedious. There's no conception of data without formatting. Hence PDFs as the only data format given out.
Uh... that link has an interesting redirect.
It would appear LFPs are making their way into EVs, despite having about half the energy/mass density.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery
Maybe you have a more positive view of corporations than me, because calling fascism a government of by and for corporations does not whitewash it at all for me.
The nice thing about a deadlift is that, if you're unexpectedly weak that day, the weight is below you.
Wait, how come you even have HolyC experience?
Wonderful! Another thing that will have downtime from the folks that brought you GitHub Actions (which goes down every month)

Now when GitHub Copilot and its Agents go down are you just going to be waiting for it to fix your critical issue, or will you just roll your sleaves up and do it yourself?

Can't wait for these agents to all stop working all at the same time the moment GitHub has another outage.
I've never warmed or ramped up in over 12 years of heavy lifting. That being said, that could explain my bad back.
Yep. And certainly at the beginning of all this there was reason to think that this was happening. For example, Solar for All grants were paused with no explanation of why or the expected path for releasing them.

So, yes, impoundment is a relevant term to use.
Does this also hold for other functions such as sin, asin, multiplication, division, etc?
I get by just fine with Codeium on VS Code, although lately I have been getting some crashes
I know it's a few years old, but you've also got a great portfolio of previous work OP: https://thestrikeagency.com

I know the kind of work and love that goes into this kind of project. From one software nostalgiac to another, I salute you noduerme
Does anyone really get time to refactor anything these days? Seems like (at least where I'm at), everything is go-go-go, feature work.
I'm disillusioned by OpenWrt. For a few years I did pull requests adding packages, fixing stuff, improvements. Only the minimal 1-2 lines PRs were accepted and merged, while big important changes that I worked on, tested and keep updated for years were never merged. Most were simply ignored with no feedback.

Instead they seem to focus on getting GPUs and Doom working... and now they even do hardware dev. And it's not even decent hardware, it's crippleware ewaste hardware.
>The Balatro background reminds me (intentionally, I suspect) of demoscene effects, I love it

Oh, yes, I love it too!
How's their autocomplete? I'm honestly not interested in tighter integration of chatbots. What blew me away about Cursor was how much better it was at autocomplete. I honestly probably would have tried it sooner if people emphasized that strongly enough in online dialogs, but it weirdly always seems to get relegated to an afterthought compared to the flashy chatbot, which was... fine, I guess?
You can't link to Jwz directly from hn, because jwz is a man-child

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Thanks for that! Wasn't aware of the aggresive tracking nor their remote admin capability. This screams to be containerized at all costs. I will try to reduce its use to the bare minimum and only from the browser as I've been doing so far and will ever install their client.
Wow, Copilot is so behind Cursor it's pathetic
I'm from Norway where we have currently ten parties in our parliament[1].

We still mostly talk about them as distributed along a left to right axis. Though as I mentioned it's not a perfect approximation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storting
Ouch. That sounds painful. Yeah, I usually ended up writing to screen RAM at $400. It was convenient to let the kernal manage cursor position and all that, though.
This should probably be an "Ask HN" but how many of you are in businesses where critical individuals depend on cocaine (and other "performance enhancing supplements") to optimize business outcomes? For example, some of my friends in HFT tell me this is fairly widespread.
It's been a while since I knowingly tried a Flutter app. Most of the ones that I have used even temporarily are Google garbage, and they are so bad that I will not give any Flutter app another try. I also fundamentally think that the technical approach of Flutter is wrong and should be resisted. You now not only have the "build platform lagging system platform" problem (something that happens to all non-native development options), but you have to trust that the Flutter people understand the target systems well enough to make the "draw" work (I think they fail every single time, just like Swing with its "windows" or "mac" personalities did).

But platform appearance is the thinnest layer (and Flutter can't even get that right because of its model). Design is about how something works (and a little about how it looks). Flutter apps don't look like iOS/macOS apps, but more than that, they don't feel like iOS/macOS apps. Flutter apps on the web will never feel like a proper web citizen, because they aren't — they're either a single canvas or a lot of canvases that have to have accessibility hacks instead of building on the platform.

If Flutter as a system decided to take the Swing approach of having its own "native" look and feel (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/java-swing-look-feel/), I would not expect Flutter apps to conform to the high standard that I’ve expressed here. But the moment that they said "we can do better than Apple with the Cupertino personality", they failed — and IMO so does everyone who uses that.

(We had someone at work try to push Flutter as a cross-platform, including web, engine a couple of years ago. It was a complete disaster because he didn't know Flutter, didn't know Dart, and wasn't actually very good at architecting anything in the end, either. His React apps were nearly as bad. It took someone less than three weeks to rewrite the demo app from Flutter — which took 2 people ~6 months to build — to React Native and it did more, more smoothly.)
Show HN: I Build Theprofoundprogrammer.com Archive
There used to be this awesome website called theprofoundprogrammer.com that posted great memes that I frequently use when I feel the need to be snarky or funny (always).

So during the latest streak of "lets built something useless" procrastination I've collected as much of them as I could find and created this simple website to have them handy for the next time I need one - https://theprofoundprogrammer.org/

X thread with all the photos as well:
https://x.com/aaaljaz/status/1887543425253192192
First, cash. Actual, physical cash. As much as they'll let me take.

Second, why not T-bills? When would T-bills be a problem? If the federal government went down. Compared to a bank, which would be a problem if the bank went down. Well, which is more likely to happen? I think the bank is far more likely.
Technically WebGPU and Metal support GLSL exactly as Vulkan supports it. You transpile. there is no difference except maybe you're used to that step with Vulkan and not with the others
IRC is terrible the same way it was terrible when I used it 30 years ago.

It's Y2K brah if you can't paste an image into chat, your chat is garbage.

Chat is more than text, unless you go to meet your friend for coffee and you chat by typing out words on a typewriter and handing sheets of paper back and forth between each other.

And that's like one of the ten thousand problems with IRC.

"But it's lightweig..." so few people care about how lightweight it is that the statement "nobody cares how lightweight it is" is only off the mark by a millimeter or two.

Two more problems are: the ratio of dickheads-to-humans and security flaws so bad that any organization releasing a spec that bad today would be pilloried as either incompetent or actually literally malicious every day, by everyone, all of the time, on hacker news.

ps: the limit for IRC is 512 characters. If you try to paste an strace into an IRC chat if your client and server are good it will be broken up into multiple messages, if they are bad the message will be discarded, and regardless of if your message makes it from your client to everyone else, you will probably be autobanned for flooding.
When working with git it’s better to split refactorings, bug fixes and features per commit or merge request (if you squash) else your git history will be not so useful anymore.
Arm's 2025 Q3 Financial Results – By Ryan Smith
Believing in Aliens Derailed Internet Pioneer's Career. Now He's Facing Prison
I could be wrong, but on earth, communists tend to control their companies with an iron grip.
My worldview is there's a big market for WYSIWYG editors, and a big "market" for FOSS editors and tools, but not too much in between for simple text editing.

I can't think of many scenarios where someone does care about the backing format or explicitly wants to write raw asciidoc, but doesn't want to just use asciidoctor or other free CLI tools.
There are a lot of LFP model 3's on the road, and my understanding is it was only canceled because of manufacturing location effects on tax rebates.

A lot of BYDs cars use LFP. And they sell a -lot- of cars.

The 2024 Mach-E is LFP. The Kia EV5.

And so on. I think you have an outdated model of lfp tradeoffs.

Many of the extended range models still use higher-density chemistries. But LFP is making amazing strides.
Interesting this was added during covid era. I had no idea I could sign a document. too bad I just dropped 10k on acrobat pro licenses.
How does something like this get enforced?
https://archive.ph/ot5Ml
Your snide comment might have had some weight if there had been zero instances of the US government [0] or US corporations [1] killing people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_by_the_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Unite...
You’re really trying to have it both ways here.

Only Manhattan counts as the city. Brooklyn is Long Island. The outer boroughs were added for political reasons centuries after the city was established.

UWS is one of, if not the most tranquil places in the city, but take a train in any direction from Union Station or any other major hub and it’s pure bedlam.
The Two Archetypal Marketing Messages: "Bags Fly Free" and "Soup Is Good Food."
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-asthma-medicine-lawsuit...
My advise isn't for those in that situation.

My advise is that many not I'm that situation, maybe you, act and think as if they do need to, but in reality don't.

Others are straight hedonist.

I'm saying don't be either.
If their target demo are families it's not a stretch to how two households would share the subscription and so the cost then with the price increase and their recently implement single household restrictions it's getting dropped.
+1 for spite-driven development.
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The method is called `CoherentAllocation::into_parts`. And it takes self by value, which means the struct is consumed (this is implied by the into_ prefix). Of course you would either reconstruct the allocation or free the allocation yourself after this.

See Vec::into_raw_parts or Box::into_raw for an stdlib analogy.
The first quote was from a “chief disruption officer” at a blockchain AI company.

There is no faster way to get me off a page than to read that.
Github has completely abandoned the Intellij Copilot plugin it seems. Even model selection is not supported. This is good for Jetbrains though because they have their own competing AI service. Jetbrains AI doesn't support multiline edits in tab completion or chat, but it does in the inline prompt mode (although its limited to the same file only).
You can configure things with cmake! All you need to do is

1. Figure out what varibles you want to change

2. Add a -DVAR_NAME=value parameter to the command-line!

...which sucks to do.

Meson is a much better way of doing things, but even that falls into "Here are the supported flags and settings, and then here are variable names for everything else"
What are the terms of use here? Does yscore agree to an NDA when I upload my business idea to you?
Sigh... it really doesn't matter compared to say how and what you test, and that you are consistent. He's saying your opinion about where a brace goes or even spaces or tabs is just not that important compared to crafting simple systems with clear code.
> So what are people reading?

I've been liking AllSides. They aggregate news from all parts of the spectrum, so you get stuff ranging from Jacobin / Daily Beast all the way to Fox News / Breitbart (I'm not commenting on the truthfulness of or recommending any of these sources, just using them as an example of how wide ranging the sources being pulled from are)

For each headline, they pick a left, center, and right source and show that headline. They also show various headlines either side misses along with which side of the media is covering it. And other stuff, but mostly I just care about the news.

It helps with avoiding echochambers. One side's doomerism usually ends up being what another side's cheering. Given the current political climate that's been especially helpful to my stress levels.
I do regret the jump from desktop computing to mobile, but mIRC for example didn't jump while Discord, Meta, and the other advertiser-pleasers went in mobile-first.

mIRC for instance:
Linux - use Wine

MacOS - run mIRC inside a Windows emulator, with no plans to change that, although it is compatible with other Mac-ready IRC clients that you can use to talk to the same people

Similar situation for Android and iOS compatibility

Source: https://www.mirc.com/mac.html
I’m reminded of Peter Thiel’s critique of how the “lean startup” model precludes truly generational companies from being built.

What is YC now? Ever more it seems like an alternative to college so you can tell your parents you’re doing something respectable, and they give you $500k on the side.

If you gamify the admissions process to this extent, it’s hard to imagine you’ll attract people who are truly passionate about what their company does over those who are trying to meet the “YC investment thesis” criteria. I know so many people who outright lied on YC apps and got in.
Ask HN: B2B SaaS Onboarding flow Free to try with/without CC?
Hi we are getting ready to launch our first self onboarding flow at Twig.so. I love the idea of customers understanding what we do and getting started self serve without a "Book a demo". My big question today is should I
1.) Place a stripe CC paywall with a 30 day trial?
2.) Allow users to try out the product with you using a credit card and then show warnings closer to 30days.

I have not done this before. So looking for advice on what works and what doesnt and any learnings you may have.

My goal is to accelerate the speed at which good customers(Customers that have a need for our product) try out the product and start paying for a service they deem valuable.

Please share your thoughts in detail. I looking for deep insights and learnings from your experience.
I love the minimalistic approach—particularly how you used HTMX to keep everything mostly server-rendered, with just enough interactivity. It’s refreshing to see a project that doesn’t lean heavily on big JavaScript frameworks, especially for a straightforward rating tool.

I’m also interested in how you plan to grow the user base for meaningful crowd-sourced data. Without accounts, I appreciate the zero-friction onboarding, but I wonder if you’ve considered any optional identity or “gamification” features to keep regular users engaged.

Either way, it’s great to see a PWA done simply with Go, HTMX, and Tailwind. As a coffee fan myself, I’ll definitely try RoastQuest—thanks for sharing and good luck refining the concept!
'thedonald' was not violent are even hateful by Reddit standards. Banning it was a big mistake and gave fringe supporters headroom.

Reddit has in general got way worse since 2016. The amount of bloodthirst and hate is very unsettling.
I bow down to you sir , amazing
These things are super cool, I had this domain bookmarked!

When I was bored in school, I'd make kaleidocycles (a 3d but less interesting flexagon) with a sheet of paper, a pencil, a ruler, some scissors, and a glue stick. Once I learned Illustrator I began to make some custom printed designed ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidocycle
The unwavering commitment to the thoroughness of the investigation really makes this bit work. "So you think this is a frivolous topic?" the authors seem to be saying; "well, let us show you just how seriously we can take it."
Always makes me feel like a CRUD monkey when I see this stuff
Its disgusting how we've accepted 1 company MITMing the whole internet. Cloudflare hosts DDoS provides while selling DDoS mitigation. It's a mafia racket.
I'm very opposed to DT and Musk's operations for what I feel are reasons I've seen validated over time.

At the same time, I wholly agree about the CIA and USAID; my introduction was migrating several web systems for some USAID-funded groups which led me to look at what they were doing.

As far as I can tell, the groups just generally were doing what they were putatively trying to do, mostly education and disaster relief. Which seems to me to be much softer than, say, attempting the assassination of a Lamumba, Castro, or Sankara.

What gives me pause in celebrating what appears to be a rather large attack on the CIA is that I generally don't trust Trump, either his motivations or his political abilities, in dealing with these kinds of institutions.

I worry that even if he disbanded the CIA and FBI the function of the foreign and domestic secret police agencies will still need to be performed by someone or other, as they seem like the kinds of functions that a lot of folks have naturalized as being part of the modern capitalist state. And it may be the case that a modern capitalist state cannot work without its secret police.

In any case, it seems likely that whatever they replace these groups with, new institutions won't have the same cultural commitments as the existing groups, which at least have a pretense of supporting "US Democratic Principles". For all the internal contradictions that allowed those folks to justify commiting crime after crime, my feeling is that replacing them with some post-truth nihilists will result in the naked application of authoritarianism.

That's my worry, but hey, I get stuff wrong all the time and there are 3-5 points where my analysis could be off.
New US Energy Secretary's Idiotic Press Release – CleanTechnica
TBH your example seems to me exactly what is wrong with these "study for the test" type of tools:

> For instance, when YC partner Dalton Caldwell notes that teams with technical founders have "5x better odds," you need to know before submitting. YC Score flags these deal-breakers and shows you how to fix them

There is no "fixing" that issue. My guess is that teams with technical cofounders do 5x better because they have the tools they need to succeed and the drive and passion to do so. If your tool said "Sorry, you've got 3 non-technical cofounders", and you think your solution is "oh, quick let's go get a technical cofounder", you're probably extremely unlikely to go up to that 5x success rate because you didn't have the "organic coming together" of technical cofounders in the first place.

This is classic Goodhart's Law.
If we actually could get to a world where programmers can be replaced, we'll also likely find that vast swathes of the population will be replaced. Then we'll need a totally new conversation on how society should look. That conversation is coming no matter what, because there will not be a global consensus to stop ML development, esp. on the war front.
so virtually every platform on the entire internet?