skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have worn glasses since I was a kid, and I didn't ever really mind too much (though I'm starting to be bummed out by it now that I'm in my 40s and my eye accommodation is starting to noticeably atrophy), but... you "really enjoy" wearing glasses? Why? How? Regardless, even if you have vision that doesn't require glasses, you can always just wear un-powered lenses--or even just empty frames--if that's what makes you happy...
sort of https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-24/mt-gox-cr...

I got my FTX money a couple of days ago.
I can appreciate that. I'm on a journey this last year or so with Elixir, which also has an elevator pitch of "consistency" and "simplicity", true to a couple of defining principles, rather than hodge podge of committee like language initiatives.

But does it really matter now days? If you're doing anything web oriented, you don't get to abstract the hot mess that is web programming away. You still have to learn a ton of nuanced stacks, many couched in idioms that were established decades ago, and perservere today, wrapped in layers of whatever.
A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes for UI/web design. :)

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

> Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together.

> Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors.

> See which color pairs contrast as you edit so you can create a palette with built-in WCAG accessibility. This way you can plan in advance which foreground colors (for headings, body text, form fields and so on) should contrast on which background colors, so you can avoid running into surprise low contrast issues later when designing.
Some segment of the population wants more teachers, but is not willing to pay them more to attract them, because taxes would have to increase. Over 1k school districts in the US are on a four day week, as it’s the only way to retain those teachers on the budget they have. Americans want more private employment. Where? If healthcare and construction, where demand is greatest, do they think laid off government workers will retrain? Or retire? The last administration attempted to create well paying, union jobs in clean energy technology manufacturing and this admin is rolling all of that funding back (much to the detriment of red states, to their self inflicted surprise). The economy is at 4% unemployment, and 4M Boomers are retiring per year, ~11,200 per day.

If this is an attempt to free up labor for private industry to further diminish worker power and wages, the demographics crunch comes regardless due to the compressing working age population pyramid. The federal government creates jobs for both unprofitable yet necessary work and is an employer of last resort in the ways it offers and structures work available (military spouse flexible work arrangements, locating offices and working spaces for federal work in communities where no other employer will offer jobs, etc).

> Most Americans care about creating American jobs in the private sector not about growing the government by creating more government jobs. More Americans are employed by industry and small businesses (as it should be) than by government.

The American electorate, broadly speaking, is grossly uneducated and unsophisticated in these matters unfortunately. They don’t even know who pays tariffs, why they’re inflationary, etc.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/politics/the-biggest-predicto...
Great read. I posted some thoughts on the pros and cons of using Mastodon for comments. Overall, it's been a positive experience for my blog.

https://jszym.com/blog/mastodon_blog_comments/
700 real watts of LED has got to be intense. Also your room would be very hot.
A safer alternative could be to reset BIOS settings to factory defaults - that should reset NVRAM as well.
"Directus TV" (with content such as "Live scenes from our team with ambient music to help you get into the flow when you're coding")

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They really did it. FSaaS (Flow State as a Service)

Sign me up
Not OP, but I escaped Authy over a year ago and I've been happy with 2FAS on Android. Aegis is also very good. 2FAS has backup to Google Drive. Aegis does Android Cloud Backup. Aegis is available on FDroid. IIRC I chose 2FAS for purely aesthetic reasons, but I could've easily gone with Aegis and been happy too.

Speaking of escaping Authy, good luck with that. I had to use their desktop app and api to pull my data. I read in another comment that they've recently closed that api. So, you might be stuck migrating each account manually. That bullshit alone is worth the trouble of moving.
I'm not sure if they hit the US side as hard, but they were (to be frank) trolling a lot with PWA support as a protest to the DMA over in Europe.

https://x.com/mysk_co/status/1754978973417672794

I didn't keep up with how this ended, but they clearly do not care for the feature.
If only that same attitude would spread to consumers to fuel a new self-hosting renaissance.
1st of March is HEXUS cut off date
Startup founders turn to 'seed-strapping' amid difficult VC landscape
I would have preferred they partner with some UI experts.
Maybe in Germany that’s “super small”, in the US ~70% of the population lives in sfh where that can be assumed.
https://bitwarden.com/blog/bringing-intuitive-workflows-and-...
Trump doesn't give two shits about Taiwan. My guess is he'll break out his great negotiation skills to get China to … agree that Taiwan is part of China and that we should pay them more for chips (except he'll sell it to us as paying less by just flat out lying about it).
Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical.

https://retrochronic.com/
I guess I'm just not understanding the minimum subtraction example. They claim it only loops through the array once, and I see that in the code, but I don't see how that's possible. In Python land I can certainly do [x - min(v) for x in v] and maybe that looks like I'm only going once but really I'm not. Maybe I'll fire up the compiler and check the resulting code.

I guess I'm still in the edit window. I installed it. Naturally once of its hundreds of dependencies needed a newer rustc than the 22.04 PPA but whatever, got that sorted. Turns out it doesn't compile down into assembly but if I'd kept reading I would've seen that it goes to Ivy, an intermediate language that's run later. Running the example gives:

> vine run vine/examples/sub_min.vi
[1, 0, 4, 6]

Interactions
Total 948
Annihilate 491
Commute 21
Copy 88
Erase 102
Expand 142
Call 63
Branch 41

Memory
Heap 1_184 B
Allocated 19_520 B
Freed 19_520 B

Performance
Time 0 ms
Speed 6_245_059 IPS

Apparently the stats are default. Which makes this feel like a toy but again, whatever. Running that first way gives:

Interactions
Total 1_069
Annihilate 562
Commute 21
Copy 96
Erase 114
Expand 163
Call 67
Branch 46

Memory
Heap 1_184 B
Allocated 22_000 B
Freed 22_000 B

Performance
Time 0 ms
Speed 7_088_859 IPS

IPS seems quite variable at this small an input size. So my conclusion is: if it helps one write code better, go for it. Who cares. But this certainly doesn't seem like some magic bullet that doesn't need to go through the array twice. The ivy code is not very human friendly so I couldn't wrap my head around what it's actually doing, but it looks like it's a bunch of functional programming. It really does look quite slow and mathematically pure. So as a math toy I think it's doing a good job.
Given they just got hacked they are probably being a bit cautious transfering funds around.
> It was dropping for most of the 1990s, and most of the 2010s.

It was dropping in the 90s because of Clinton's enormous budget cuts and firing half a million federal employees which is clearly an outlier and something that now seems to be far more partisan and difficult to achieve. And in 2010s it was dropping relative to enormous stimulus spending and corporate bailouts aimed at helping the economy after the housing crisis.

> So it's been rising steadily over the past 45 years...except for about two decades of that time? This isn't what most people call a steady rise.

You can quote me correctly instead of making up a weak strawman. The entire thread is here for everybody to read, you're not going to be able to fabricate some "gotcha". I said it has been rising steadily for a century, and that recent trend is more shaky but probably still trending upward.
Wild it's New Zealand made
Speaking as a user, I do prefer native apps that actually do the things that you have mentioned (i.e. use idiomatic UI for the platform, integrate with its features etc).

The problem is that the vast majority of the apps that we're talking about here - the ones that replace websites - are little more than a web app repackaged in the app store. So it still has all the downsides of a web app UX-wise, while also working around any privacy settings that would have applied in the browser.
The corrections in his blog post show you the level of precision mathematicians are used to.

A regular interviewer would have left the inaccuracies as they are because it’s too tedious to go over all of them when you have a casual conversation.
I know any number of people with STEM degrees who are unable to think critically or reason from first principles.

STEM are also, I think, the wrong field(s) in which to rely on critical thinking to, _broadly speaking_, be taught. The technical background - programming languages or maths or basic biology / chemistry - that have to be assimilated before reaching that point are too high a hurdle for most students. Humanities, with a natural-language corpus + common experience, are a more-accessible approach. (The trivium, if you're familiar with classical-education terminology.)

That's not to say STEM courses can't teach critical thinking - they can, and must - nor that educators in Humanities haven't done a piss-poor job of it over the last half-century or so. That is to say that the general decline in critical thinking skills is mostly attributed to the decline in the status of and standards within the Humanities disciplines.
Is it true that it is React’s fault? Is there any other replacement for heavy user interaction, that is clearly more performative? You cannot do that on server side.
To further expand on that, Europe gave aid to Ukraine as a form of a loan with the interest being paid back based off of Russian frozen assets.
Why Gen Z Will Never Leave Home
I would assume that we'll see much faster change via appearance of new smaller and nimbler competitors, rather than adoption by current companies. I expect a lot of rapid trial and error, similar to what we saw in the 90s with the advent of web startups. And who knows which (if any of them) will become the next Amazon and Google.

As for banks in particular, seeing the success of the likes of Revolut, I think we'll see more disruption in this space too.
Very interesting. I wonder if this a result of some "swiss cheese" effect due to constraints around UEFI and NVRAM themselves, when updating EFI variables.

NVRAM must maintain atomicity of memory transactions for power failures. Its whole purpose is to store data when you turn your computer off. As a result, when deleteing an EFI variable, you can't manage the individual bytes - you have to delete a whole entry (which can be rather large - based on the EFI specification and the code used for edk2, e.g. https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/83a86f465ccb1a792f5c5...). Deleting these entries might become a problem when you start running against memory constraints and what slots in memory are actually available; hence a possible fragmentation issue.

Additionally, I appreciated how short and specific this blog post was. I enjoy this style of post of someone encountering a problem and solving it.
I can't think of something more hostile than requiring an account on a 3rd party, totally unrelated, platform to post a comment on a blog.

I'll literally take ads and tracking over it.
It’s great, and I learned a ton from Rich Hickey, despite not fully grokking Clojure or FP in general. I briefly worked at a small Clojure shop with an extremely talented crew. People were excited about FP and writing real business logic with it. My stack was different there.

The problem started when the honeymoon phase ended, and the codebase grew as the business gained traction. Dynamic typing became a burden, and once the key people moved on, they struggled to hire developers who wanted to write Clojure.

Also, JVM juju shooed many away. After I left, a coworker told me they had started rewriting part of it in Go, and that was going alright. Now, their stack mostly consists of Python for LLM stuff and Go for the main backend. There’s still some Clojure running legacy systems that haven’t yet been migrated over.
> John Carmack famously said: “Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It’s expected to be there, but it’s not that important.”

I feel like these days many games, especially expensive ones, went with completely opposite take. That gameplay is something that's supposed to be there but not important. With terrible results.
If that is the case, the timing is strange with the US State Department changing website content indicating otherwise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzy300vlzo
This seems like a odd conclusion.

The Reagan tax cuts and Trump tax cuts lowered taxes for many in the middle class. I never heard anyone claim anything about tax cuts "trickling down", it was more "you'll pay less taxes".
I know the law is BS and this just hit me differently. I am really really pissed.
It's true that the top line tuition is generally discounted through financial aid, but that's been the case for decades. People aren't shocked at the absurd tuition, but at the rate of increase that vastly outstrips aid, making the normal discounted cost increasingly unaffordable.

The actual shocking costs are buried well below the top line as services and facilities that you'd expect to be paid through tuition are separately charged but mandatory fees.
Maybe? I don't know, ~any of the women I know don't seem shy about their preferences, but I'm sure women I know isn't a particularly representative sample.

I just don't terribly think that masculine or not, neither choice seems socially less/more acceptable to me.

And for my own preferences, even if I was feeling ridiculously overly-socially concious of my choices I don't even know which end of the scale I'd have to pretend to be embarassed about.
A few people care about the technology but a minority.
It seems better built and based on the solid BSD ports architecture.

Also, brew broke my machine a vouple times too many. It’s there, installed, but nothing it does is in the PATH. I keep it because I need to help other engineers who bet their machines on it behaving well.
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Nice write-up! That the “View comments” simply redirects to the source post when JavaScript isn’t available — it feels very natural, more than I’d have expected!

I wanted to do something similar a while back, but while avoiding JavaScript; so I wrote a shell script that outputs fedi/Mastodon threads as HTML. It’s almost certainly less stable than your approach, but it works well enough for my use-case: https://hak.xwx.moe/jadedctrl/fedi2html
In action: https://jaded.xwx.moe/lib/haiku-k-esperanto.html?en
Sometimes I also open the file manager. Most of the file heavy lifting is done in the terminal, but, sometimes, the GUI is the way to go when you are not sure what you want to do.
I'm going to assume that the people I'm talking to are the ones who are against that and trying to fix it.

At this point in my life, I've seen enough people desperate for work that I'm not going to fault someone for working for an "evil" company. Maybe they really needed that money. Maybe they really needed that insurance for a loved one. I really don't know their situation and I'm not going to judge them just for that.

If, after talking to them, they talk about how excited they were abound working on code that helped exploit addiction in young girls, then I'll reject them. But if they were just there because they really wanted to work on react.js, I'm going to fault them for that.
It is a rarity to see any organization that self hosts email or uses a domestic provider any more. It is all foreign controlled now (specifically Microsoft). It should be examined by regulators everywhere both as a monopoly and a sovereign threat. The move to US services started long before the current political situation and will still be a threat to sovereignty long after the current US exec is gone. The frustrating thing is email services like many cloud services are highly substitutable and can easily be built on open source infrastructure.
I you ask the locals about the health care systems in those different countries - I am from one - they'll tell you that it has it's own set of serious problems.

A lot of the savings in those systems come from simply not providing certain costly treatments that are common in the US.

That's not to say the US system is the greatest etc, but many Americans have a really idealized view of the alternatives.
I was hoping that by enrolling the first key, the offsite backup would also be enrolled. Is that impossible? I don't want two distinct keys so much as I want two copies of the same key (akin to spare house keys).

If I'm unlucky enough to have a house fire (which has happened in my extended family), I would like it if my MFA access was not among the items irretrievably lost.
WinFSP: Windows File System Proxy – FUSE for Windows
This is super unexpected to me. Sort of tangential but it reminds me of healthcare costs discussions, where orgs like National Nurses United will point to rising sticker prices and say that health systems are screwing us all over. But it's more important to understand actual spending trends and sticker price is just not a great metric to have that discussion.
Hosting Deepseek R1 is not the problem. It's just not great in a lot of use cases.
Let me preface this by saying : I don't really like Trump, by why are people suddenly listening to his self-ascribed titles?

In 2016 he was the 'King of Debt' , a title he ascribed while talking about the debts he inherited from the previous administration, no one thought to start worrying about the start of a new monarchy then -- why now? because he's faster and looser with exec orders? hopefully everyone remembers 'king Bush Jr.' then.

Personally I think it's kind of hilarious to watch; on one hand you have mega-corps moving away from places TO America so that they can facilitate E2E, while simultaneously the persona-in-charge at the moment is driving people to any of the countries that have a long history of demanding keys and throwing a fit when denied.

Unless of course this article is about moving our data and software development to the Slovenia .. but it's not.

I think it's great to work towards not being beholden by other countries actions, but it should've had effort towards it before a bad-actor nudged everyone awake; not during the crisis. It shouldn't have taken Trump to remind everyone that nationalization of important goods is sound strategy.
I didn't even consider that different parts of the planet may be more or less likely to be hit. Are most of these dangerous asteroids in the normal orbital plane or could something come straight down onto the North Pole from 90 degrees? I assume yes possible, but much less likely.

All in all though it is extremely complex.
I personally switched to using 2FAS[0]. My favorite feature is that it comes with a browser extension that can automatically fill in the OTP on web forms, after approving the request on the phone app.

[0] https://2fas.com/
We can all agree Windows is the canonical example of what not to do with a GUI since Windows 1.
> I said "latched onto" specifically because someone else said it first. Though they said "about 1980".

Wrong, try actually comprehending the thread. I was being generous, they said "mostly until 1970". 1980 is higher than most of the 70s. I could have taken an average of every year in the 70s, and 1980 is 1.5% higher than that. So if I did that it would have shown nearly 2x the rise.

> It's only different if you choose the two covid years. There are several years before and one year after that are all lower than the 1990-ish zone.

So it's different if you choose something different as you did which is okay, but apparently if I do it it's wrong.

> Because of 2020 and 2021. Unless you expect another anomaly like that to happen in the next handful of years, it's obscuring the real trend.

And the 90s were low because of Clinton's historic expenditure reduction, which is an outlier too. You want me to remove my outlier so your outlier can look better by comparison?

> The numbers are slowly climbing over the last decade, but after a big period of decline in the first part of the last 40 years, and we're still below where it used to be.

The numbers have steadily been increasing over a century, and even in the past 45 years, certainly from the 1970s, they have been rising. Exactly as I said in my original post.
Websites could choose to not track you, to make tacking opt in and having opt out selected as default, could choose to follow do not track as rejecting cookies, they have multiple choices but chose to give you a worse user experience for their profit. I do not think it's fair to complain at Europeans for this, blame the websites
They backed a group of militias to invade areas where this was happening [0]. They also pressured family members of tens of thousands Chinese in northern Myanmar to return [1]. China literally waltzed into Kokang and put the top scam leaders on a plane.

The real question is why there hasn't been any remotely comparable response from the US. Every EAO that matters is aligned with China and thus doesn't care when Americans are scammed. The US should make them care.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_1027

[1] https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3141474/beij...
Tulsi is #8 and #9 on Trump's platform: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform. She was featured prominently in the campaign, along with Elon and RFK Jr.: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-returns-t.... Traditional conservatives might not like her, but they knew full-well that she was part of the bargain.

That's just how political parties work! No single faction needs to carry a majority--but everyone votes together fully aware of what the platform is. And Trump kept his promises to his coalition partners and appointed both Tulsi and RFK Jr., and John Thune of all people busted his ass to get her confirmed. (Democrats should try this approach.)
If you're arguing other countries will suffer with the end of USAID programs, that will be a hard argument to win.

Providing HIV assistance while undermining political stability is a high price for other countries to pay and I'm sure is a net negative for them.
The benefits of learning in public
It's not spam, it's a try to create an independent crypto encyclopedia plus some social articles around cryptocurrency and life.
Currently at least, it’s much easier to get a laptop without any Nvidia GPUs. I always tell people to get the boring machines because those will be the solid ones.
No, companies wanting to track everyone who uses their websites / sell user-behaviour data to advertisers made the Internet significantly worse.

The EU just made it visible.

[EDITED to add:] Actually, not even that. The companies doing the creepy tracking/spying/selling chose to make their compliance as objectionable as possible, I think deliberately in order to try to make anti-creeping measures look bad. The internet could be much less obnoxious and still perfectly compatible with EU regulations. Companies wanting to exploit you on the internet chose to comply in as obnoxious a way as possible.