skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why did you have to be a 24/7 presence for your kids?

1) Like most kids here, my 5 had nowhere to go. They step out of the house and in every direction is a road and a trespassing risk.

What there wasn't: A large selection of (or any) places kids could safely reach and congregate every day without a risk of harm by cars or misguided adults (like police).

2) My wife and I risked arrest if my kids were seen without a supervising adult. Like all the other parents.

> Your parents let you roam everywhere and that worked fine?

It didn't just work fine, it was where most of my critical growth happened. It's where I learned to sort problems, work with peers, concoct and carry out plans, develop new interests based on actual experiences and navigate an endless array of complex situations.

It's where I developed the foundations that nurture mental health.

> The only thing kids actually require is food, water, and shelter.

If this is all kids have then they are likely experiencing neglect.
That is why I exclusively run vscode in a virtual machine and use it through a browser tab on the host machine.

Luckily the web version is indistinguishable from the "native" version, they did a great work there.

Just share a folder with the VM and then bind mount whatever you want to edit at the time. No need to trust the author with all your credentials.
Thank you for compounding the problem. Skipping ahead to the conclusion, I am guessing the law is "be lean and flexible"?
My variant of this is putting the manual steps in between scripted steps as a comment, but having read the article I can see the benefit of this approach.

In PowerShell especially there are elegant ways to prompt users for “continue y/n?”.
Two years give or take 6 months.
On the other hand, the decline of robust and high quality software started with the introduction of very immature languages such as both javascript or typescript ecosystems.

It's really any other language other than those two.
Password Math
wouldn't be surprised if warm showers actually lower the core temperature.
It's only a small part of the barrier to entry, though. I could write Einstein's equations out in words, and most people still wouldn't be able to do GR.
I know it’s early but it’s funny to note the difference between the comments here so far and what the discussion was like in 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269430
TikTok to let US Android users download app via kits on its website
Yep! Sure, we can call GIF a “legacy” format but at least I can copy and paste it.
I can reproduce it without cloud services sure. But then I have to maintain it. Make it fault tolerant. Make sure it stays patched and backed up, buy enough hardware to make sure I can maintain peak capacity instead of having the elasticity, etc.

I have done all of this myself with on prem servers that I could walk to. I know exactly what’s involved and it would be silly to do that these days
There is no way I would ever download an .exe for something like this. If all it does is take an image, add some background and borders, and give you some sliders to adjust things... that can be a web page, where I am not putting my system's security at risk.
Thanks for replying, and sorry for implying the wrong state of things.

I think that writing software for an employer has always kind of sucked. There's never enough time to improve things to the state they should be and you're always one weird product feature from having to completely mess up your nice abstraction.

I do feel like writing hobby software is in a great state now though. I can sit down for 30 minutes and now with Cursor/LLM assistance get a lot of code written. I'm actually kind of excited to see what new open source projects will exist in a few years with the aid of the new tools.
He’s talking about local governments in places that have little or no fire risk. Should people living in dense cities be paying to underground power lines to rural communities hundreds of miles away?
If you have ever read any of Raymond Chen’s stuff, you would know that is a big “if”
Article 40 section 12 DSA.

Fine could be up to 6% of the annual income of X and in addition up to 5% of the daily turnover for continued non compliance.

The fact that Mr. Musk already stated that he would like to influence the elections would probably count as aggravating circumstances.

The only question is how fast the bureaucracy can work.
> Everyone in the modern world can do that (have reliable access to food+water+shelter).

This is wholly false. Me+kids frequently ate nothing but white rice for most of the 2010s. We sometimes couldn't afford rice. If it was during a school month, the kids could still eat twice. If not, then they didn't.

We barely stayed housed. The water was cut off more than once.

This is the US and our story is pretty common.
> glibertarians think they can do their thing on board a ship more than on land

Who are the glibertarians?

I assume you mean rich passengers (and libertarian seasteaders!) rather than the ships master concerned about the vessels safety.
Can you distinguish effective investment from ineffective? For example, paying competitively to attract and retain talent can be seen as an investment as well. And before you restrict it to just physical infrastructure investment, a non-trivial part of the cost of that infrastructure is in salaries and also how you manage everything at scale and I would think you’d want to incentivize more efficiency there too. This is why the tax code gets so insanely complicated.
There's Verisilicon, Imagination, Broadcom, and probably even ARM licensing out GPU IP blocks to anyone with capital.

Getting AMD on board could be a little trickier but could be feasible with a compute SOC deal balancing the deal out (this is a pipe dream).
You said No, including an interpreter like they did (Rosetta) was an alternative
I came here to recommend it – I also got it in German. One of those beautiful books, where you're thankful for the printing industry.
Free Software Foundation to auction off GNU drawings, awards, historic tech
> the mariners who found themselves on the island did not make a very good first impression as representatives of the larger outside world and that this contributed to the hostility towards outsiders that the Sentinelese exhibit.

The bad reputation that us outsiders have probably traces all the way back to the British intrusion into the island back in the XIXth century:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/north-sent...
What city in the Bay Area is that out of curiosity?
Trying it right now, yolo’d a half dozen eggs. Good thing I’m rich enough to risk such an experiment.
The 2013 referendum is not a valid argument in sovereignty disputes. The UN has repeatedly recognized the Islas Malvinas as a disputed territory and has urged the UK to negotiate with Argentina (Resolution 2065 and subsequent resolutions).
> What is the purpose of the dock?

It’s an app launcher. Since I only open app with Spotlight/Alfred, my dock auto hides and doesn’t waste any real estate.

The stage manager in my opinion should have been iPad only. But if you ignore the button in the control center it’s easy to forget that it even exists.
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The blog writer has particularly bad handwriting, and maybe that's why he needs these tricks. I've seen a lot of math handwriting, and seriously his is among the worst. Maybe he was drawing the letters with a mouse.
Self-determination does not apply here because the current population is not indigenous but was implanted after the UK forcibly took the islands in 1833, displacing the original Argentine population. The UN considers this a decolonization issue, not a matter of self-determination.

The argument that the islanders “chose” to remain under UK control ignores that democracy cannot legitimize colonial occupation. A referendum by settlers cannot override international law, just as a vote by European colonists in Africa in the 19th century wouldn’t justify occupation. The UK has consistently refused to negotiate, violating UN resolutions and international norms.
You're right of course, but it's kind of crazy that downloading an exe is putting our security at risk, in this day and age. It feels like our OSes are stuck in the middle ages.
Checking the source, you could also use your keyboard (eg 0-9 is a grayscale palette).
Windows is such a shit show that the number one Linux gaming platform works because it turns out the best API for Linux is… Win32.

Linux is a far bigger shit show. At least at the platform level. Windows is a lesser shitshow at the presentation layer
Same here except Motorola circa 2007. The build took hours and compiler was licensed from Windriver. We had to schedule time to do builds and test runs using some Rational pos software and we had a dedicated eng in charge of doing merges on release branch
[Back in the 1980s]

You should try to play chess yourself, and then tell me you think these things aren't intelligent.
> My wife says she basically just needs to go hang out at a cosmetology school to make the hours but doesn't need to actually do anything while she is there.

While I agree there should be some kind of license - you don't want a random person become hair stylist for the day and then switch to something else - there probably should be some examinations of skills. The current racket is about making money and protecting incumbents from competition but it also wastes a lot of time in the process.
If macOS isn't see as UNIX by Apple, why does the latter continue to submit it for certification?
Looks like the data is available for download here: https://github.com/Barabasi-Lab/GroceryDB

They also normalized the data for nutritional facts per 100grams which is super interesting IMO.
> they match, more or less, those of UNIX's philosophy

1. Good design is innovative
UNIX innovated by simplifying Multics -
throwing away ring security and PL/I's memory safety features.
Linux innovated by cloning UNIX, giving it away for free,
and avoiding the lawsuit that sidelined BSD.
2. Good design makes a product useful
Yet somehow people managed to use UNIX anyway.
3. Good design is aesthetic
UNIX threw away clear, long-form command forms and kept
short, cryptic abbreviations like "cat" (short for "felis cattus")
and "wc" (short for "toilet").
Its C library helpfully abbreviates "create" as "creat",
because vowels are expensive.
4. Good design makes a product understandable
See #3
5. Good design is unobtrusive
That's why UNIX/Linux enthusiasts spend so much time
configuring their systems rather than using them.
6. Good design is honest
The UNIX name indicates it is missing something
present in Multics. Similarly, "Linux" is the
gender-neutralized form of "Linus".
7. Good design is long-lasting
Like many stubborn diseases, UNIX has proven hard to eradicate.
8. Good design is thorough down to the last detail
UNIX/Linux enthusiasts love using those details
to try to figure out how to get Wi-Fi, Bluetooth,
and GPU support partially working on their laptops.
9. Good design is environmentally-friendly
Linux recycles most of UNIX's bad ideas, and many
of its users/apologists.
10. Good design is as little design as possible
Linux beats UNIX because it wasn't designed at all.
When deciding whether to do an incident investigation for a near miss, one aspect to consider is whether it was caught by a safety system as designed, or caught by a lucky accident. The latter should be top of the priority list.

E.g., Bad package deployed to production. Stopped because it didn’t have the “CI tested” flag: low pri. Stopped because someone happened to notice a high CPU alert before the load balancer switched over: high pri.
Last weekend, I took an old cross-platform app written by somebody else between 1994-2006 in C++ and faffed around with it until it compiled and ran on my modern Mac running 14.x. I upped the CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD to 20, used Clang, and all was good. Actually, the biggest challenge was the shoddy code in the first place, which had nothing to do with its age. After I had it running, Sonar gave me 7,763 issues to fix.

The moral of the story? Backwards compatibility means never leaving your baggage behind.
Actually I had set a policy to block automatic updates. Sometimes they break things, and having a profile backup before updating to roll back in case of breakage is a must. So it is a win win for me.
Now we continue to destroy software due to the immediate need to off-load our thinking to LLMs that pretend to 'reason' and generate code that the engineer has little understanding of which then increases the risk of introducing hidden bugs and lowering software quality.
I could finally get all the skiing in that I wanted to with time off like that!
I really like having 2 4K 27" displays. I even have a third monitor in vertical orientation but don’t use it that often.
Most often I have my editor on one screen and my browser with developer tools on the other screen.
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Obvious from the start for anyone paying attention, take a look at the founder.
I agree (and I think the ~point is that weighing and being thoughtful about how tradeoffs affect a given project is part of the process).
Also a ton of ALL CAPS TYPES. Are we seriously throwing out all of the standard Rust naming conventions to adopt the ancient Windows naming-as-typing crap?
The comment I was responding to certainly seemed to be advocating uninhibited free access via torrents, but your point is reasonable. I don't think streaming is a great way to support artists either, though I do think it's better than nothing.
Good thing not all of us write software for a business.

I write little utilities for my parents, games for my son, a web shop for my wife. I write social spaces for myself and my friends. I write tools for myself.

I write software for strangers on the internet. I write software when I’m drunk, to test myself. Sometimes I write software simply for the joy of writing it, and it never runs again after that first “ah, finally!” moment. Aah, time well spent.

Equating “writing software” with “fulfilling business goals” is…quite depressing. Get outside! Feel the sunshine on your face! Write your own image-processing DSL, just for the sheer unbridled hell of it! Learn Nim! Why not?

(Ok, maybe skip the last one)
People struggle at basic mathematics because they don't need it for daily use in society. And you forget things when you don't use them.

You'll also find that most people do the same stuff they would have done without a calculator still without a calculator. The advantage now is when they do reach for the calculator they aren't working with perhaps 2 digits precision like the slide rule that preceded them or having to tabulate large amounts of figures to maintain precision.
absolutely, in the here-and-now. But as a system, if the entire appliance/solar industry committed to a household DC standard (and if it was technically feasible, which it very well may not be), then you might have something. Solar would just provide regulated DC (which presumably would be less lossy than inverting to AC). But the devil is in the details: a DC system would have to have a comms channel announcing "hey, I'm an appliance X, and I intend to draw X amps from the DC bus" and coordinate it with the supply, otherwise it will cause all other appliances to experience a drop in voltage. That's just one of the problems, there are others.

However, if that were worked out, you could have DC plugs in the house for all existing appliances and fixtures, and theoretically you would get a gain on both sides (no inverter, and no v-regulator (or a simpler, less lossy one)).
Worked for Whittman-Hart, which merged with USWeb. Heard Firmage wasn't part of it because of his belief in space aliens. Good to finally get the whole story.
Rams’ principles were perhaps noteworthy when he first vocalized them as the state of design discourse was much more primitive back then (not even sure of that actually), but today they ring quite simplistic and hollow, and kind of useless as actual decision making tools.

“Good design is as little design as possible” ok cool but I have 30 different feature requests coming in every week from actual users, that doesn’t really help me make concrete design decisions

“Good design is aesthetic” whose aesthetic? Aesthetic is extremely cultural and arbitrary, my designers are fighting over whether a photorealistic leather texture is more aesthetic than a gradient texture background, how does that help?

“Good design makes a product useful” uh yeah okay I’ve never had a design problem that was solved by someone saying “you know what, we should just make this product useful” “oooh right how did we not think of that”.

I mean these principles all sound good and high falutin’ as abstract statements, but I’ve never found them useful or actionable in my 15+ years working as a designer.
It sticks out. I prefer a subtle hook to the right at the bottom.
I like the idea of Carbon and I hope to use it in the future. But wow,

> We consider it a non-goal to support legacy code for which the source code is no longer available

is such a pejorative way to talk about ABI stability.

Yes, supporting code you lost the source for is one use case for ABI compatibility. I guess it’s a real need that some people have. But it’s by far the most unsympathetic use case. It reeks of antiquated development practices. Plus, binaries with lost source are inherently a ticking time bomb since you won’t be able to port the code to new platforms or make any fixes.

But what about all the other use cases for ABI stability?

What if your vendor has the source code but doesn’t want to give it to you?

What if you do have the source, but you want to be able to update libraries without rebuilding every executable that depends on them? Especially valuable if you’re building an operating system, Linux or otherwise. (There’s a reason that Swift spent so much effort on ABI compatibility.)

What if you want to let people build dynamically-loadable plugins? (This one at least gets a brief mention in the Carbon goals document, albeit under the "legacy compiled libraries" section.)

What if you just want to save build time via pre-built libraries?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Carbon's decision to make ABI stability a non-goal. There are real tradeoffs in making ABI stability work. I'm just saying, if you're going to explain why you don't support it, don't dismiss the use cases for it by picking such a poor exemplar.
I had my AI "oh f***" moment and I'm a student, now what?
All the words you deemed imprecise are explicitly defined at length in the relevant act.

Including a multistep application precess to be recognized as a vetted researcher.
lol not gonna lie I thought it got the HN hug of death at first
Also see:

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250208204416.GL1130...
> Presumably over the past 12 years they could've implemented some of linking accounts to a region and ban the use outside of the region

I'm sure they could do better but it's messier than this, because Ukraine units self-fund much of their equipment purchases and will buy Starlinks etc third party (because Starlink can't sell individual units as military equipment... technically).

It's actually not easy to trace down exactly which are being used by Ukraine and which are used by Russia, especially when captured equipment gets reused by the other side not infrequently.
> This is highly directional radiation

That's the entire point!

A poorly set up antenna can cause havoc. This is historically the reason for denying passengers use of radio transceivers. Maybe Starlink is harmless, I don't know. But if it is, it will still take time for international maritime safety legislation to catch up.

Source: Marine enginner
Agreed that likely need to find the right group. Any advice on where to look?

I’m in nyc if that helps.
A maintiner's perpsecitive on the above:

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250208204416.GL1130...
That doesn't bother me per-se - those all caps names are pretty much all directly from the standard C bindings, and it makes sense to preserve that naming for the sake of having that 1:1 mapping with the ground truth C definition.

The actual issue here is that this "simple driver in Rust" is having to touch those direct C bindings at all - if Microsoft is going to advertise that they have support for writing drivers in Rust, that should presumably mean an API surface that's native to the language.
What’s the point though? That LLMs tend to be constraint by constraints in their prompting? That seems unsurprising.

Humans are visual animals. We can spot a chicken in a graph, but we’re unlikely to be able to tell that a different graph is using XY coordinates to encode a message against a one-time pad. But so what?
Or more broadly, syndication as a service. The user picks what service or services they want their hub/s to be, and the startup handles auth/accounts/publishing/etc with whatever other services they want to broadcast to.
Reminds me of the early days of Javascript when every other website had a gimmick like this one.
Prof. Bjarne's commitment to C++ is beyond comparison!
Similar situation. The P0 interest tends to immediately cease when there is sticky tape mitigation in place as well. There is no resolution. It just dangles waiting to bite again.