skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That has not been the experience of the students I know: They get older Amazon Firesticks for free or almost free, use a frontend which might be popcorntime (not sure it its that one, or just looks the same), and have essentially a Netflix-like experience. Some use Usenet accounts, another uses a proxy for torrents, but there's also those who torrent directly. It really was surprising to me–I expected that after the wave of cease & desists along with fines all over the news about 10 years ago few would dare.
> [..] only deems the GNU licenses to be truly free (libre) software.

Simply has never been the case.
Mark Twain — 'Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.'

In democracy government is for the country/people and not the other way round.
I find it a little amusing that the given example function does a computation which could've easily been simplified into a single instruction on x86, which needs only a single register (assuming the input x and the return value are both in eax):

lea eax, [eax+eax*4+7]

...and it's likely that a compiler would do such simplifications even before attempting register allocation, since it can only make the latter easier.

This is particularly likely to be necessary if the desired instruction is already using indirect addressing, and both register allocation and instruction selection must take those constraints into account.

As a long-time Asm programmer, I believe that instruction selection and register allocation are inseparable and really need to be considered at the same time; attempting to separate them, like what most if not all compilers do, results in (sometimes very) suboptimal results which is easily noticeable in compiler-generated vs human-generated code.
Kindles have literally always behaved like that, from the beginning.

The very newest generation of Kindle changed the storage protocol from traditional mass storage (which was compatible with everything) to MTP, which is mildly annoying for Mac users, but it is still intended to just show up as a flash drive.
I dont know which scenario is worse for a president, an experienced economist like him not understanding what he was endorsing or being part of the scam.
Profiling MoonBit-Generated WASM Using Chrome
Kindle Paperwhite (and possibly others) have adjustable colour temperature too, with time-based automation. From a quick squizz, not quite the same as the Kobo (I don't think it has the "more blue in daytime" function) but just noting that it does exist on some in some fashion.
AFAIK this was based on Windows 3.1 standard mode which was small enough to package in a mini.cab.
This article is misleading at best. The ban was introduced in 2020.
I unplugged the router from the wall, and turned off my phone. I also moved it to another room, as it's been demonstrated to make you stupider even when it's switched off. (I think it has to do with the subconscious expectation of constant interruptions associated with the physical object.)

The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4

The only thing I missed was documentation, so I downloaded offline docs. Then occasionally I missed Google. So I just kept a list of stuff to Google an hour or two later when I came back online.

I made sure my work was full of variety so if I got completely stuck on one task (rare), I could just switch gears.
Have been to India and China lately. What a huge contrast. I wish the people of India manage to manage the pollution as quickly as possible.
Use almost any video editing program and it has this feature.
Someone in SF with a $2M home can buy something pretty significantly away from the crime areas of Mexico City, and probably has a remote salary that can afford private gun toting security.
Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators
> One need not be morally bankrupt to make choice #1

I'm talking about the people making the decisions about who gets free doctor's visits, not the people on the receiving end.

> We all choose things that are more expensive for society because they are more convenient or less expensive for us - lots of regular activities of what patio11 calls the professional/managerial class have negative externalities that the rest of society pays for: air travel, personal automobiles, and lawns all come immediately to mind.

That doesn't make it ok. Most people have at least some semblance of conscience and try to cut down on those things - of course no-one is perfect, but that doesn't mean we should allow whataboutism to get in the way of good policymaking. (FWIW I'm all for taxing those things at a fair rate that covers the costs of those externalities)

> If you want people to get their medical care from a PCP and their medicine from the pharmacy, then make it cheaper for them.

Sure. But make it cheaper for all of them. I agree that "it's about incentives" - so don't make it so that the incentive is to do the antisocial thing until the system pays you to stop. It should be easy to extrapolate where that leads.
I can't judge the format, but everything else looks fine.
The only thing that is concerning me is the filtering that looks a bit too strict in the inner loop.
Companies themselves should join employer unions just like employees join worker unions.
How do I get Apple Books on there?
They're too busy being on your lawn.
Thank you for expounding. I can only assume we're talking about empathy from the real estate lobbyists who control housing policy.
Most policy is set by gut because we lack the data and lack a sufficient understanding of the limitations of the data we have. Sometimes we launder gut through truthy data strawmen, to our detriment.
This is the nuanced perspective that’s sorely needed in our society. Some people refuse help, and it becomes a talking point and a reason to never offer help— but that simply shouldn’t be the case.
It sounds dumb, but have you tried just running slower? And using a watch or something to see your pace so you don’t subconsciously keep pushing faster.
When I first started running outside, I had no idea on pace. I ran at what I felt was "reasonable" and what I felt was similar to my experience of treadmill runs. It was really rough and hard work!

Tl;Dr - I got a basic thing that told me my pace (this was pre-smartphones but basic wearables existed) and turned out what I thought was relatively gentle and reasonable speed was actually a really fast pace and totally unsustainable.

When I knew what my pace actually was, I could stick to a much more sustainable (for me) ~5:30 min/km pace and it felt soooo slow and embarrassing and like I was barely even moving in comparison! But this was a much more realistic pace for a tubby software engineer. And for a long time I had to keep checking the pace as the speed would creep up during a run and it took discipline to "stay slow".

I use the runkeeper app that has the option to do pace read outs through your headphones every few minutes. I'd recommend trying something like that, and perhaps try to begin with a pace of like 6 or 7 min/km for 10-15 mins runs and stick to it and see if that helps, before starting to extend duration and speed after you've built some endurance. I've found fitness and condition improves fairly rapidly - O(weeks). Good luck.
> living things... Definition?

I feel confident we have shared definitions of living vs. non-living things, but if you insist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism

We don't need to get into what we mean by consciousness, or experiencing qualia. We only have direct evidence of our own consciousness. But I disputed a different statement, specifically:

> A lot of people hold the prejudice that both 'thinking' and 'consciousness' are substrate dependent, without a lick of evidence.

Define "a lot of people." In my anecdotal experience "a lot of people" believe in AI/AGI without any evidence for it. Those people implicitly believe that thinking and consciousness can happen in non-biological "subtstrates" whether they have thought that through carefully or not.

I just pointed out that if we agree on what we mean by "thinking" and "consciousness" for purposes of discussion, we (human beings) have lots of evidence for it, and all of that evidence occurs only in biological entities we call "living" and "organisms." We have no evidence for thinking or consciousness in rocks, stars, or computers. You can call that a prejudice if you like.

Not too long ago claiming that cephalapods or birds or insects could "think" or had something we might call "consciousness" amounted to extraordinary claims, rejected by people, mainly out of prejudice. Now we have persuasive evidence that non-human animals can think and appear to experience something that looks like consciousness, though we can't know for sure what happens in the mind of an octopus, crow, or ant. We have evidence but not definitive proof, in other words.

Today we have people making claims about AGI and machine superintelligence, with no evidence (but large financial incentives). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Watching a crow use a stick to get at some food, or an octopus cleverly escaping from an aquarium, most people infer intelligence. Similarly many people infer intelligence when they "chat" with an LLM (and that happened back in the '70s with ELIZA). One possible explanation: we have created thinking, conscious software. Another explanation: our brains trick us (and people who stand to gain from deceiving us will trick us). Since we have lots of evidence for our brains tricking us, and other people defrauding us, and no evidence that computers can think or experience anything, I choose to wait for more compelling evidence of machine intelligence.
https://steamdb.info/app/916440/

Looks like there were around twelve -80% sales last year alone.
If programmers are some of the most in-demand workers in the world, why do they have to send out over 1000 job applications and are still treated like trash by hiring processes? Hacker News is one of the few places on Earth where this belief that programmers are in control of everything still exists. Pretty much everywhere else has adapted to the reality where programmers are in great surplus, but the investor class won't be happy until it's a minimum wage job, or even better, an unpaid internship. No wonder HN has a reputation for being a bunch of out of touch Bay Area investors with little concept of the real world.
> I don't trust Google reviews anymore, Maps or otherwise.

What do you use as alternative?
No, this is not how words work. You may also love making chocolate, and love dogs, but you would not make chocolate and claim it was for dogs simply because you love both things.

For means there is a relationship, a benefit or inclusion between the two items. X for Y means that you have associated X with Y, and they should be used in conjunction.

There are so many valid uses of the word “for” and somehow this satisfies none of them.

See: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for
In most areas, this will simply show which restaurants are actively maintaining their Google Maps entry by having all negative reviews removed, which ones are putting some effort into fake reviews and which ones just don't care.

I would say the best places typically score low fours and have at least some one-star reviews written by seemingly deranged people.

One might think that caring about not having bad reviews corelates with caring about the quality of ones services, but I haven' t found this to be the case.
Folks who don't run may not appreciate how ridiculous this is. For most normal people this speed is near an all out sprint ... for 21 km. Most folks you know who run 10ks can't keep up with this guy for more than about half a km, if that much (a typical 50min 10k runner can't run a 1k in 3 minutes).
MoonBit looks like a promising language for WASM. They have WASM-GC and produce quite tiny code size.
https://www.moonbitlang.com/
You don’t. It’s impossible with Apple’s DRM.
> Note: no, we could not have done it any other way. Any upgrade strategy to IPv4 that extended the address size would have necessitated having two internets

No, this isn't right. Instead of having IPv6 we ended up extending IPv4 by using port numbers as extra address bits and using NAT. This transition was painless (for the most part), and didn't require building a second internet.

In a better and saner world we could have got roughly the same thing - except conceptually simpler and standard - instead of IPv6.
You are severely behind the times when it comes to modern day piracy :)

There are apps like Stremio with the Torrentio plugin (and optionally a direct download server like RealDebrid), that, yes, also work on the TV, which essentially replicate any of today's streaming apps with a nice UI, only you don't have to shuffle between ten different streaming services to find the one want. It's actually superior UX to any of them because it's all-in-one.
We don't have anything like a machine that causes homelessness though. Homelessness has existed for thousands of years if not all of human existence and we are probably the closest any society has gotten to eradicating it entirely. We are dealing with probably the hard last 10% of a hard problem. It's just not at all as if we have a terrible system that leads to these outcomes. On the contrary, we've built many systems to successfully prevent these outcomes. They're just not perfect
That's what I do, zone 2 training. I use a chest strap monitor too. 30-45 min sessions, 2-3 days a week for months altogether, mixing it up with intervals some times. I've done this many times over in my life, never seeing any improvement. Even today, the smallest of jogs will take me to max HR within 10-15 min.
In the future we could use it to measure real popularity by the value of their coin. side note: I've been thinking there should be a HN store where we can buy ingame cosmetics from all these points we've gathered.
Good to know that it's also supported by most browsers.

https://caniuse.com/?search=oklch
And that's _much_ more expensive than 1k/month. At least if you keep the ability to investigate effectively around all the time.
What do you mean by "affording more than we can do"? The measure of affordability is whether something is possible or not. If anything, a non-zero unemployment/under-employment means more can be afforded. By definition, in real terms, you can never afford more than you can do.

Accepting the IOUs means more exports, which is what everyone seems desperate for at the moment. In fact, Trumpism seems to be all about shutting down imports and increasing exports, which happened jolly fast and wasn't in any way related to an inability to import.

And as I said, the simple response to export demands exceeding capacity is normal - increase capacity through efficiency, import stuff to sell. A good post on exactly this stuff: https://new-wayland.com/blog/savings-are-an-export-product/
This! I've worked on https://github.com/bjesus/air as a completely alternative and open source UI for my Kobo Clara HD. PostmarketOS support on the device is great and very recently an important patch that will allow us to use Wayland was also merged: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merg...
Why did they decide to do meth?
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076161
You just added gravity, which is another form of entropy.
Government debt that is denominated in a currency that the government can create at any time is hardly the same as the debt you or I have.

Governments do not actually borrow from anyone if they can create their own money. They provide a facility for the rich to park some of their immense wealth but that is not where the money comes from, those individuals accumulate they do not create money.
It was actually more a technical question, the site uses LiveATC streams, there doesn't seem to be any specific reason to limit which stream the user chooses, I was just wondering if there was any particular reason for it. Maybe you could include an 'advanced' section where users can enter their own stream code (e.g. not 'ksfo_twr' but 'lhbp_app2' or whatever?
> ...and he's helping Argentina's economy, and that cannot be further from the truth sadly.

Tell me you don't live in Argentina without telling me you live in Argentina.
Have human wellbeing as the priority in making products.

Treat users with respect.

Make hardware open, firmware open, repairable.

Let’s be honest here, there are user hostile products and pro-user products. Let’s make making user hostile products illegal / unprofitable with laws.
You wouldn't want to miss MoonBit if you are interested in WASM. It is the most WASM-optimized language, quite promising.
https://www.moonbitlang.com/
And forces states, especially poorer ones, to raise their taxes.
in similar vein gui tools for git killed the need of remembering commands. it is so painful watching somebody struggling with git when something "advanced" as rebase needs to done and they only know how to use git via vscode integration
Illegal and he can stuff "radical left lunatics" rhetorics cause it just makes it more plain he is about to abuse power.
I've done a lot of zone 2 training with no improvement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076161
This is a terrible, terrible article.

- First of all, it's from 2020. Pretty much _every_ filesystem driver/progs has had several performance-related updates since then, so these results are completely irrelevant today.

- ReiserFS is already gone from the kernel, which further shows the age of this article.

- The in-kernel ntfs3 driver is now the preferred NTFS driver. Since the article didn't mention it, the author is likely using the old ntfs-3g (FUSE) driver, especially considering the age of the article. There's a HUGE performance difference between ntfs-3g and ntfs3.

- The tests themselves are completely rubbish:

- A simple "cp" command is neither accurate nor sufficient; at the very least, a 'sync' should've been run immediately afterwards to flush the primary fs write buffers.

- They should've also freed the pagecache, dentries, inodes and disk cache before running each test.

- A TRIM command should've also been run between tests, since this is an SSD.

- The source of data should be a RAM drive so that read speed is accurate and consistent every time.

- SSD read operations aren't tested at all.

- Random I/O operations aren't tested at all.

- Various FS mount options haven't been listed, which can have a significant performance impact (eg compression, atime state etc)

- A professional benchmark tool like fio or PTS should've been used.

TL;DR: This is a completely rubbish and irrelevant article that no one should be reading in 2025.
> Lack of contrast hinders everyone with any kind of vision issues (old/colorblind etc.)

False. Someone with some kind, but not everyone with any kind. This broad stroke that you've just painted is counter to the goals of accessibility.

> “Too much” contrast means young hipsters complain it burns their eyes.

Let's not trivialize disabilities we don't even know exist. But if you wanted to research this, you can look up the term "photophobia" or "light sensitivity".

> Even the highest standards for readability leave a comfortable range for expressing creativity (and soft colors), it’s not like they require #000 on #FFF.

Again, false.

Let's consult Accessibility Requirements for People with Low Vision:

> 2.4.2 Light and Glare Sensitivity

> Many people with low vision have extreme sensitivity to light (called photophobia). Bright light makes it difficult or impossible to see, and causes eye pain and headaches. For some people, the normal brightness of a computer screen with a light background is not readable and painful. They need to change the background to a darker color. Glare sensitivity is common with age-related vision changes and cataracts.

> [...]

> 3.1.2 Text Contrast

> As mentioned in the Light Sensitivity section, some people need low brightness, especially for backgrounds. Some people who need low brightness for backgrounds also need low brightness overall and thus need low brightness text.

> Other people need high contrast between text and background, including many older people who lose contrast sensitivity from ageing. Some read better with dark text on light background.

> For some people, common color combinations or colors from a limited color palette work fine, for example, black text on white background or the inverse with white text on black background. Other people need to select more specific background and text colors. For example, people who need low brightness overall, need to select the specific background and text colors that provide sufficient contrast for them yet not too high brightness. Readable and optimal color combinations differs vastly among individuals and can even vary for one individual depending on conditions such as fatigue and lighting.

(emphasis mine)

Source: https://w3c.github.io/low-vision-a11y-tf/requirements.html
I think zoning is THE reason for what the article explains (and thanks for sharing it by the way, it was very insightful, imo).

But how does fixing our zoning issues translate to, for example, firing thousands of IRS workers?
Hire an agency.

This is buy, not build.
Indeed. But I have another point of view: what if our society is utterly broken? To see what I mean, imagine a world where that level of effort would cure any disease, even aging. How would that split us?
In common JS or Py use cases, static typing makes your code less safe, because all that extra time you spend on it is less time writing tests. Meanwhile the types won't catch any bugs even the most simple test coverage would.

Sure, JS has some quirks that language design gurus complain about, but nothing that actually matters on the job. Like, == operator is weird, oh well.

Python is rightfully king for certain things like data science, but parallelism and package management are two big messes in it. ||ism is trying to be fixed with asyncio, but it's kinda too late. You know packaging is broken because every Python repo has a Dockerfile, not something you see in JS where npm is solid.

Golang is more for different use cases. Looks good but really should have done error handling like Rust, or used exceptions.
Some more context:

Sun -> Pluto distance is average of 40a.u.

500a.u. is 0.0079 lightyears.

Nearest star to us is ~4.5 Lightyears.

This exoplanet is ~520 lightyears away.
And Clinton had emails server which makes her same as DOGE secrets wise. Or something.
Who decided that? Would you hold that same standard if a politician you didn’t like did it?

I don’t like most politicians, but if Bernie Sanders (someone I do like) blanket retweeted a crypto scam, I would say that that’s bullshit. Unless he was the biggest moron on the planet, he would have to know that a retweet will be read as an endorsement by a large number of people.

A public figure, particularly a high-profile elected figure, particularly a figure who is in charge of how laws are enforced, should be held to a high standard.

But as other people have pointed out, it actually wasn’t just a retweet.
what can you do with jailbreak Kindle? My Kindle usage has been pretty basic.
On one side, having compassion for vulnerable people is fine, but resources are finite.

The government can help people, but who would they rather help?

- a kid full of potential needing shelter, food, clothing

- a brilliant student needing a scholarship

- a scientist that needs funding for important research

- a family affected by natural disasters

- a veteran with PTSD

- the guy in this article

Should a kid go to bed hungry, or a student be denied access to education so that the government can subsidize the self destructive lifestyle of a person that doesn't even care about the people paying for it?

If you pay taxes on your income, plus taxes on everything you buy, etc... you worked at least 5 out of 12 months of the year for the government. So the government not only can waste it but also end up in debt that will be repaid by your children?