skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have moved between homes a few times, you’ll notice how you seem to occupy all available space eventually. It’s a good optimization strategy, I think. There’s just no reason to waste time tuning software for optimal efficiency if the users hardware is powerful enough they’d never even notice. Yes, that means software is less efficient than it was, old devices have more trouble running new apps, and doing a bunch of things at once hogs computers down faster—but for the majority of use cases, that is not a concern.
Windows Phone 7 had a genuinely unique twist on the unified inbox.

The operating system deprioritized apps with their own feeds, and instead provided a number of "hubs" that were like topical inboxes that collected data from multiple APIs.

There was a People hub that showed your contacts aggregated across phone contact book, Windows Live, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter... Notifications about people you know would show up in this screen regardless of the service. And there was a Photos hub that similarly showed photos from everywhere: local, Facebook, etc.

It was a truly original idea for a social media oriented phone. But companies like Facebook and Twitter were not too happy about the idea of being API pipes with little or no control over the user interface on the user's phone. Of course they had some good reasons not to trust Microsoft on this, given Microsoft's past behavior. I think FB shut down the necessary APIs completely a few years later and replaced them with more limited options.
Birds of a Feather Talk Together
absolutely, in fact many of the top ME/CFS researchers have converged their research and are teaming up with the Long COVID researchers to tackle this once and for all.

we now have novel technology being used like PET scanning, T cell biosensors, and single molecule ultrasensitive assays.

Antigen/superantigen persistence is shared and may be treated with extended courses of antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, immune modulators, and even trying checkpoint inhibitors to reverse T cell exhaustion.

the textbook is being rewritten and a key publication on how to treat at least Long COVID based on what I mentioned above will come out next week. NIH will launch their trials very soon likely announcing in March.
exactly. having an unified inbox makes me feel like losing context. i dont want to keep checking which message is this, where is this coming from, how should i reply, etc....
Does the new Reeder app count?
There is an implementation of that algorithm in JS by Raymond Hill (of uBlock Origin fame):

https://github.com/gorhill/Javascript-Voronoi

I toyed with it here to have it move:

https://animations.adgent.com/voronoi.html
A Buffer Zone for Trees
rolled my eyes at the sidenote “”hallucination” is what we call it when LLMs get code wrong; “engineering” is what we call it when people do.”

gtfo
Which VLM models you found that are superior? A finetuned Trocr is very good based on my experience
Get a room you two
Also because the candidate who won the first round and was almost guaranteed to win (not the nut job TikTok guy who came second) didn’t belong to any of the major parties. So the government wasn’t particularly excited about that…
Not my area but I think it might just be “system”.
This doesn't work for Tokyo or Taipei currently :(
The color scheme looks just like Twitterrific back in the day https://twitterrific.com/beyond

https://0x0.st/8Pym.png
One has to ask whose utopia? Whose vision is being implemented? See stories from a few days ago, "We need network societies, not network states":

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42941924

Or perhaps "The bro-ligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term":

> All of these men see themselves as the heroes or protagonists in their own sci-fi saga. And a key part of being a “technological superman” — or ubermensch, as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would say — is that you’re above the law. Common-sense morality doesn’t apply to you because you’re a superior being on a superior mission. Thiel, it should be noted, is a big Nietzsche fan, though his is an extremely selective reading of the philosopher’s work.

> The ubermensch ideology helps explain the broligarchs’ disturbing gender politics. “The ‘bro’ part of broligarch is not incidental to this — it’s built on this idea that not only are these guys superior, they are superior because they’re guys,” Harrington said.

[…]

> The so-called network state is “a fancy name for tech authoritarianism,” journalist Gil Duran, who has spent the past year reporting on these building projects, told me. “The idea is to build power over the long term by controlling money, politics, technology, and land.”

* https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395646/trump-inauguration...
How is anything you just wrote a counterargument to the idea that higher education is about signaling more than about learning?

Signaling that you came from a wealthy family is still signaling. And household income itself may very well be correlated with economically valuable skills developed through childhood that would benefit from signaling in higher ed—that wouldn't make income inequality morally just, but it would make it a positive feedback loop, which is pretty much what we observe.

If anything the idea that higher ed is more about signaling than learning is supported by the idea that the benchmarks we use are correlated more strongly with pre-higher-ed socioeconomic background than with the school you go to. If higher ed were effective at teaching the skills in question we'd see more of a leveling effect than we do.
> It seems like he wrote his Apple GPU driver in Rust and he needed Rust DMA support in the kernel.

Did he really NEED it? Why he couldn't use the C API?
He basically said goodbye like 4 times and continued to make long ass rants that lead to nothing. Is this what you want to spend your time on? I already feel gross that I went through all these threads. I can't imagine how you would feel having written all these paragraphs of slop.
Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll give it a shot
I will say that a lot of that RAM is going to creature comforts that aren't about apps getting worse per se. For example, everything is running double buffered images and windows in HiDPI. The era you're talking about, applications were in charge of redrawing their window whenever you exposed their contents/tabbed back to them/etc. If they genuinely needed double buffering, they'd need to do it themselves, so apps rarely did. Plus side, less RAM, downside, you would get gray nondescript windows and redraw errors when moving and resizing windows. Nowadays, Windows/macOS/Linux instead keep double- (or even triple-) buffered copies of all that. Throw on all the HiDPI images and whatnot, and you've already used up more RAM just on that one thing than the old apps used to take. But you can tab between apps with full previews, and you don't get gray blobs and tearing when an app is overloaded. Other things, like 64-bit pointers, or static linking becoming a common way to deal with DLL hell (sigh), also add RAM, but are also solving real problems.

I'm not really defending all those decisions or anything, beyond that it's not simply a case of lazy devs or whatnot. We made trade-offs as a community that genuinely improved the user experience. I may not agree with all of them, but I get why they happened, and don't spend a lot of time wondering why we used to need fewer resources.
hi, thanks for the info, the criteria is just that they have the headquarter in Europe. but i agree with the idea of make criteria more clear. do u have any tips about that ?
A lot of people have put Zig on pause or have outright rejected it. Nothing wrong with that (personal choice). Tsoding (well known YouTube programmer) makes fun of it and won't use it unless paid to.

Context is needed, in regards to safety. Zig, attempts to be safer than C, but then so do many other C alternatives and replacements. C3, Odin, Jai, Nim, D, etc... In fact, V (Vlang) could be seen as making a better argument for safety, because it provides even more default safety features and uses an optional GC. None of its libraries depend on the GC and it can be completely turned off (via cmdline flag).
It's about reducing the attack surface, dude.
One could argue that the gov't is the opposite of a startup, and that - precisely - what enables certain organizations to indeed (as they should) "move fast" is the groundwork of stability that a government provides.-

At this rate, they are going to "lean-execute" the US into a banana republic.-

PS. I write, while being all (or, mostly) for governments that are rational, and well run.-
There doesn't seem to be any evidence of 'pro-Musk brigading', though. It's pretty standard HN-y response to repetition. Happens a lot with big stories that get a lot of reporting and we're in a period of an absolute torrent of stories and their many followups.
So this is how it feels to read a regex when you don't know how to regex.
German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk's platfrm
The very title of the book makes it sound like a propaganda piece, it self-selects for readers who already want to believe it. I'll take a pass.
I’ve used most of those services and know well that outside of DynamoDB, EC2/Lightsail, S3, DataLakes (s3+athena) and AWS Lambda.

Most of aws services have sub-par performance for insane prices, for components that can easily be replaced at scale with open source more mature components.

Programmers have just lost all of their sysadmin skills these days and will use everything to justify the need for these insane , low performance abstraction abomination that Netifly, AWS RDS, AWS RedisCache, AWS TimeseriesDB, etc are.

Whatsapp used to process billions of users and exited for a billion dollar+ valuation and exit, with just a few FreeBSD running VPSes running their code, and a 20 person employee team…

Most people will never touch stuff in scale of whatsapp, stack overflow, instagram.

and they did it all just fine. Programmers should be mandated to learn Linux and Sysadmin skills again instead of re-inventing entire bullshit services for what is essentially often systemd replacement or a crontab/fcron replacement.
No, I'm asking what particular "rapid response" you would expect at this moment from a typical HHS secretary.

A declaration or official determination? Dispatching some kind of team? A press conference to assure the American public that they are aware and monitoring the situation closely?
Love this! There are some vector diffusion models out there; why not use tool calling to outsource to one of those if the model decides to draw something? Then it could specify coordinate range and the prompt.
> Imagine building a numeric display for a power plant operator to see how far off you are.

You could build a display with 3 as the denominator, and a decimal numerator:

| |_ 2.1
| | \ ---
| \_/ 3
One of these days we’ll have real consciousness built purely in GoL
DeepSeek to Notion
Sadly, this is not at all new on HN.
thanks!! i'll add it.
I agree, but does EU via NATO not fight or encourage wars? And is encouraging or sending weapons but no soldiers to proxy war morally better? Ukraine?
Rust has probably the most toxic people in open source software.
yeah i know it. thanks!! i'll add it.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250208112630/https://www.972ma...
Java also had its share of remote code execution attacks. Security is quite complex domain and it is not just memory overwrites that can allow RCE attacks. Though I can agree that in average C/C++ is more vulnerable.
yeah i cited it in the repo.
Shoutout for Mister Donut in Thailand! Lived there two years and ate Mister Donut often -- I had no idea it started in the US.
I found this out the hard way as some servers had a high cpu load and a weird agent that i did not install. After having a heart attack and assuming an intruder i discovered vscode had injected some agent that was stuck walking the servers filesystem and consumed 100% cpu on one core. On the one hand i love how having a server open in vscode feels especially as things like the docker extension work pretty well but on the other hand i really wonder if it requires these nightmarish sacrifices.
and who exactly are we to dictate what a 5000 years old country and civilisation gets to do when we literally fund the mass murder of an entire group of people because it's "God's Promise" ?
Curious about what would happen if Apple withdrew from the UK and locked all devices with a message saying 'Your device has been disabled following the decision of the UK government to introduce new laws which mean service can no longer be offered in the UK', or something similar. They could base it on GPS or detected MCC codes.

I wonder if you would get anarchist riots until the law was removed. Many of the young with an expensive bricked iPhone (or parents whose kid's iPad was disabled) would probably side with Apple over already unpopular politicians...
hi, can i ask for a little bit of help for define criteria ? do you have any tips?
> Instead of decisively saying "no, never" or "yes, make it so," he has consistently equivocated on the Rust issue.

He probably didn't want to end up like Stallman.
> 60 is easier to factor, but that's kind of irrelevant when most AC formulas use frequency as a multiplicator.

Is the fact there are 360˚ (2π radians) in a circle, and 60 goes into that cleanly, of any use?
> I.e., an American is more likely to be shot by police than a Japanese person is likely to be killed by a murderer.

Many parts of the US are stuck in a bad equilibrium where there is lots of police violence and lots of crime, because the police violence is targeted on the basis of ethnicity rather than whether someone's actually breaking the law or committing antisocial behavior.
why would someone want this data?
> have the whole server crashing

You do not need to solve that at the language level. A common pattern is using multiple replicas, service discovery and automatic restart upon a dead replica. For example kubernetes does this out of the box.

For dark corners of the code, that is often a good middle ground between interrupting the service and never die.
PlayStation Network service is down since yesterday. No statement from Sony yet on the reason.
"Extinguish" is about their competition, not the extended product/field. They will always invest to embrace and extend, that's the condition to outpace and cut off the competitors.

> Apple

Is Apple thinking different ? I'm lost.
I use a simple spreadsheet and I like inputting my transactions manually instead of automating imports. Makes me think twice about my spending. Spreadsheets are flexible enough so I can extend functionality if and when I want.
If that is true, then perhaps you should be doing something about it in meatspace? Say, donating to and volunteering for one of the groups which is engaging in legal action for or against DOGE and Musk?

Perhaps the single biggest problem with recent American politics is that millions of people feel that web sites full of stories and talk, by (at most) ordinary American citizens, somehow constitute "action".
Is Google Maps fatally misleading drivers in India?
They can presumably be fully braced when not in use, but not in the application?
I like how rendering positioning gives the illusion of there being more shape types than there really are, as the three triangles are the same and circle and hexagon are the same. I'm sure it's been done before but I've never seen it, so nice job
the llm isn't multimodal. an llm can only process textual tokens. what should those tokens be for pictures. the llm gets fed a textual representation of what was optically recognized by another process. that's my understanding.
I would also add https://wolt.com/
Finish Food delivery app
That’s a fair point. Science reporting often skips the discussion section, which adds important context. A strong report would compare this with other studies to show the bigger picture, especially given concerns about undercounting.

This report has led to a lot of minimization and misinterpretation especially from certain bad faith actors. Some claim the number is “stable” year over year, suggesting long COVID isn’t a big deal, overlooking that this study uses a completely new sample each year, not the same children.
I think you're just valuing your own time far too highly - if you're looking for a job, it's fine to spend 45 seconds writing a comment without getting validation from strangers first.
It is an esssential skill.
True. The data taken can end up anywhere, and where it came from is obscured. Too much circumventing of laws or purposefully violating the privacy and human rights of one's own citizens, even for profit.
They are not in any of those today, but a very recent history suggests they might be only if the government is serious enough to achieve the goals stated by Trump.

Their troops were in fact in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Serbia...

This does not excuse the atrocities and conquest as performed by Russia, while it's true USA does worry about optics much more (i.e. their presence in Serbia was a lot more toned down than in Iraq or Afghanistan, as Serbia is a European "culture" similar to the rest of Europe).

US go-to is "liberating" a territory, which is — interestingly — the same excuse Russia is using in Eastern parts of Ukraine (and which is why it's likely working with most of their own population, obviously helped with media control).
A Culture Mind for Understanding
First time I see someone criticize Access-Control-Allow-Origin. You do realize it prevented countless script injection attacks from affecting users? Most of whom are not people who are on the web for the purposes of hacking random integrations.

Also seems like your idea of integration is using someone else's server without permission.
Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot
The events have been the most discussed thing on the site.
I had to remove marcan from my social media because he constantly generates this kind if drama. :/
> about joining NATO in the Clinton era

Same way the Soviets wanted to “join” NATO in the 50s. To effectively castrate it and make it ineffective.

It would have been easier for them to politically and economically dominate Eastern European countries from “within”.

> Hegemony in a nutshell

From Chinese and Russian perspective sure. Especially Russian politicians have seen the entire world through an exceptionally imperialist lens for centuries.

On the other hand the US has probably been the most “benign” hegemony (relative to their power) in history (still a hegemony of course).
IMO the easiest way to play around is to use the reverse engineered APIs

https://github.com/erikbrinkman/rmapi-js
I wish Linus Torvalds to have long life and powers to keep his down-to-earth approach as long as it is possible. I wish his era was never replaced.
Or just allow competitors in?

Why does the monopoly need paying off? It’s risk/reward for them, if they end up loosing money on their venture why should the taxpayer foot the bill?
Caveat for all of this: I'm guessing wildly on that and you shouldn't take this as deeper than armchair/pub talk.

> All that supplying Hamas with weapons and Syria stuff, going back to backing Egypt in 20 century attacks on Israel, shows at least Russia cares

Could be, but Russia is currently grinding itself to exhaustion on a fraction of the discretionary budget of NATO countries that are also going "hmm, we can't trust the US any more either, and need to build up our own stockpile…", so I don't see them as being strong enough to be relevant — except by selling nukes.

As for "why not": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferatio...

I rather suspect that violations of that particular treaty will be taken very very seriously, something along the lines of the White House saying: "We know Russia sold them to Iran, we're going going to count any Iranian use of them as if Russia used them itself. Tehran nukes our friends in Tel Aviv, means we nuke Moscow." (North Korea, being much smaller and acting like it's constantly under threat from everywhere, might not see any novel risk).

But perhaps that wouldn't be a problem, even for Russia — fait accompli has a way of changing things, and a nuclear armed Iran might make Israel call for international oversight and join the ICC even at the expense of throwing Netanyahu under the metaphorical bus.
From the above link:

Sir Adam Beck #1 ten 25 Hz generating units were converted
to 60 Hz or modified as follows:

Units 9 and 10 to 60 Hz in 1956
Unit 3 to 60 Hz in 1970
Unit 4 to 60 Hz in 1984
Unit 5 to 60 Hz in 1985
Unit 8 to 60 Hz in 1990
Unit 6 to 60 Hz in 1996
Unit 7 to 60 Hz in 2009

2009! Talk about legacy support.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Adam_Beck_Hydroelectric_Ge...

* https://www.opg.com/stories/opgs-sir-adam-beck-i-hydro-stati...
VSCode promotes Visual Studio by being terrible at C# development. /s
“Since you have your high US salary why not visit the Berlin office, or travel there. Try to find someone in a similar position in life as you are, and extrapolate from that”

Good advice. Do the research before making the move. 50% salary cut at higher levels is tough to overcome though.
but those improvements, and the complexity that they bring, are not enough to make the switch from a Go codebase to a Rust codebase unless performance is REALLY an issue.
I for one like books which are willing to explicitly make a controversial point; it makes for much more interesting reading, even if I remain in disagreement throughout.
uhuh, and then Terry will rise from the death to make TempleOS work on the playstation 5
I don't remember, but if it can do ESC-. (which IntelliJ's can't and which I try to use multiple times per week, I'm not learning) it's less bananas than that one, for me.
In China, Apple limits end to end encryption and stores user data on state-owned servers. The Chinese app stores censors apps like the New York Times and Washington Post, disallows privacy apps like Signal, or any VPN that might bypass the great firewall.

I think the odds that they quit trying to earn the ~$100B annual revenues they get from the UK over this is closer to zero than 1
Browsers weren't really secure by design until IE first introduced a browser sandbox sometime in the IE8 days and then Chromium came along and set the standard for sandboxing.
There are plenty of other web sites full of discussions by people who share your worldview. Insisting that HN play host to "more is better" content that you personally favor may not go over all that favorably.
It was a life-defining piece of software for me too. As a teenager I found a server called “REALbasic Cafe” that inspired and helped me go from knowing next to nothing about programming to making my first money from shareware as a high school kid.

To this day I’m grateful I stumbled across the Hotline software and the server.
Not till now. Thanks.
But as weird as it can sounds. The failing and iterationg over and over is integral part of science. Which includes method itself.
I haven't seen that as much. The horde of people chasing the hype curve left C behind long ago. When they leave rust, rust will be better off
> what a 5000 years old country

How is that relevant and how does that entitle to Taiwain? They started colonizing it at about the same time as the Dutch.

> because it's "God's Promise" ?

That’s not the reason.
'The Licensing Racket’ Review: There's a Board for That
Start by visiting a stable country you want to live in, for example Costa Rica, and buy a small property. Return and contract a real state agency to sell your properties, then move.
I think 13A continuous draw is OK, as 3kW electric heaters are widely available: https://www.dimplex.co.uk/products/portable-heating/convecto...

Perhaps electric cars limit their draw below 13A as they're much more likely to be connected using extension leads.