skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All of Scandinavia, he believes, has persuaded itself that crime exists only in violent, poor abscesses on the edges of their societies. “The Danes totally subscribe to this idea that Denmark has no corruption, and to the idea of Denmark as the end of the road,” Brügger said, referring to the political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s notion that “getting to Denmark” is the goal of every modern democracy.

First, this is an assertion about “All of Scandinavia”, and there is some contradiction about crime exists but is small, and Denmark has “no corruption”. But this is basic over-generalization, between low and none, and a exposé that provides anecdotes but doesn’t challenge statistics.

Still people will claim (rhetorically) “none” when the real answer is not zero. And is that really incorrect? To be correct is to quantify and provide your reasoning. That’s something that public discourse is yet to embrace.
We already have a term for prompting a computer in a way that causes it to predictably output useful software; we called that programming, and people on this website used to think that knowing how to do that was a worthwhile field of study.
The killer feature of this and like 90% of apps in this market capture model is laziness. They realize if you can make something easy for someone they will do it even if it’s not quite what they want.

Users want good fresh food delivered at a reasonable price. But they are willing to tolerate shitty cold food at an expensive price because it’s a tiny bit easier to do than picking up the phone.

We are lazy by nature to preserve energy and many many companies have just perfected finding the right ratio of how fucked we will allow our selves to be to tickle that lazy button.
It's nice that it plugs into VS Code. I got very put off by Cursor breaking after it imported all my extensions.

Also cool that one can easily select different models for different modes.

Is there a competitor extension with similar offerings?
I use the Continue extension in both IntelliJ and VSCode and it's great.
Although, I'm just connecting it to my own providers and not using your hub.
So I'm more of a free-loader of the extension than a Continue customer. Anyway, thank you!
Hey, I've written software for a living for 26 years.

No best practice in the world is going to stop people from making mistakes.
just ten years in the gulag archipelago I guess lol, not death!
So do I, avoiding FODMAPs helps, but stress seems to be more of a factor than food. More stress == more problems. It's harder to manage, though.
> But, man, at that point you're bringing a bulldozer (with a super uncomfortable operator's station!) to drive a nail.

I think I do exactly the opposite. Having no SSR but everything be statically exported allows me to get away with cheaper hosting on the backend side (the REST API is on a cheap VPS). Static exported SPA means, the user's browser does all the heavy rendering. Plus, no AI bots or search engines contribute to my server's load.

Additionally, the site is fast. Not sure if you know how Next.js works, but since the initial load is already prerendered and just static html+js, it loads instantly. Then hydration happens in the background, unnoticed by the user and the actually JS takes over. JS+CSS are chunked where possible, and Nextjs employs a neat trick: It pre-loads the js+css for the next page once you mouse hover over a link - whether you click it or not. Also increaes the user-perceived speed. Plus, since all js chunks have its sha1 hash in the filename, they can be served with long caching times (even immutable, so cached forever) - once you loaded the website, recurring visits will be blazing fast.

If you want to try it out, the url is https://lockmeout.online - although I do not use a CDN and host verything on a cheap hetzner VPS - hence loading time might be higher outside europe.
Part of the courage needed is not pandering to the left.
Indeed, it seems the real work of politics is convincing someone that what they want is different from what they currently want.
how are "knowledge packs" different than just the package's README ? (if present and well written, it should be as usable to devs as to an LLM, if not, maybe consider letting the LLM write it's own "Readme" for a package on the hub be scanning source/types of the package)
I am okay with using it to describe things as "toxic" when they are, but there's a reason I still used scare quotes.
Does anyone have insight into how the v8 abs val function wasn't tested for negative values?
>Also keep in mind that most doctor's have high salaries and high debt load, they're not as rich as people think.

I suppose it depends on what people think, but doctors do alright.
With handmade wallets, if you can replace the stitching, they will outlive you. It’s really lining and stitching that gives up usually. That’s why hobbyists rarely line and the stitches are usually in a groove and people use waxed synthetic thread.
Wasn't Build Back Better meant to be roughly the same kind of objectives, maybe the stated means were different (and less vague) but roughly the same? I haven't paid that much attention to either, mind.

This whole thing feels more like its about getting a snappy word out there than anything achievable.
I like that ideal, but it only comes about in abundance. Unfortunately, I think humans are programmed to rarely feel a sense of abundance because we innately desire social status. Social status is a relative metric, meaning it only exists in relation to others. This, combined with a greed impulse, renders a constant need for more. In other words, the human state often runs counter to a sense of abundance, and this seems incompatible with that ideal. I think that’s why capitalism, warts and all, has been an engine for progress.
If you stop one person then maybe it becomes impossible to get from their give to their job. If you stop all the poor people from doing it then what happens? The jobs don't evaporate. Maybe it becomes economical to run a bus, or open more businesses outside the CBD.
In the long term it’s the sold cars that count.
Flatpak is also a great option for apps you might want to be more up-to-date than Debian provides in their package manager.
Yes, people will break the law. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be punished for it, and it doesn't mean that we shouldn't do things that are good for society (telling bad drivers they're no longer allowed to drive) because some percentage of those people will decide of their own volition to break the law.
Immunosuppressive or immune modulating drugs are not that bad. Usually people can take them without too much issues. Yes: Your risk for cancer increases a bit and you have to be careful to not get sick etc. but overall its not that bad.

Most people who have autoimmune diseases also need to take those drugs usually for life – (smaller dosages but still)...
I’ve happily used python-dialog, a wrapper for dialog (and dialog-compatible alternatives) which provides the very basics but is extremely easy to work with.

https://pythondialog.sourceforge.io/
What layers of hardware can comic rays impact? Memory with ECC is largely safe, right? What about the L1 cache and friends?
Anecdotally, my friend and I were prepping me for an interview, and my Bluetooth Bose Q35 microphone was crystal clear, while my JLAB Talk Go via USB was having issues with echo. Now the former is a $350 MSRP device while the latter is a $50 MSRP device, but the latter is also much bigger, has much more bandwidth for the wired connection, and has exactly one purpose. So I expect it do better than the tiny pinhole microphone on my headphones!!
Rats. I DJ’d a wedding with tidal last year and it worked. It just needed analysis.
> every single person in America except for like 200 executives

Oof sounds like the base is pretty divided in this one. Better send it to committee where it can be studied forever.
It did happen in the Muslim world. There are "slave" dynasties in many parts of that world (Egypt, India) which were robust dynasties borne out of freed slaves.
If only that was happening as much as the American right thinks it is.
Things that go wrong with disk IO
Not being an American I've always had similar impressions. That taxes in USA are hated way more than anywhere else.
This is a good callout, we'll definitely work to improve our messaging
[1917]

Over half a century ago you would have been about equally close to 1917 as to today.

Computers were already well-established and quite advanced, but uncommon enough to have always been out of reach for almost everybody up to that point.

However I would say the vast majority of computer programmers at the time were very familiar with how to make wise use of reference books like this to accomplish bold computational objectives without the use of computers.

Before they would have ended up in that profession for the most part.
That's not necessarily bad. That's leadership.

You can use leadership to do bad things, but you can also use leadership to do good things.
Signal has "message requests". iMessage doesn't have "message requests", and receives messages in a unique path which goes through the kernel.

Signal's message request, notably, also shows me the requester's avatar image. I don't know if that hits the kernel but it certainly hits code that as a category has suffered lots of security issues over the years. Which is to say: There's room for improvement all over!
How's that diesel truck research going? I've thought about getting into auto repair as a hobby, but wrenching on modern cars would basically be my day-job with added wire fiddling.
The irony is that Plato himself arrogantly attempted to outdo his teachers -- most notably Parmenides and Pythagoras -- misrepresented them and caused us to forget the deep truths that they had brought us. And we have been resting in a deeply Platonic slumber as a result.
I don't see how that contradicts what the author is saying?

More abundant housing would be better for society in general, in the long term. But it's definitely true that less abundant housing can be financially superior for existing landowners right now, I don't think anybody really disputes that.
The Cynic Wasps in the Beehive
> I’d listen to the Voice of America and marvel at the things that were being done in the developed world,

This is extra sad because the Trump administration has just killed Voice of America. Possibly fitting because this administration is also doing its best to eliminate the US being part of the "developed world".
yep. This is HN’s biggest flaw.
That's true. But, to the point of eliminating labor -- there's still a human in the loop here.

In fact I would argue that while people were still making capital decisions, the idea of optimizing them is only practical WITH some kind of software / calculator / computer. The tooling I write has added jobs, not eliminated them.
A popular view in the YIMBY community is that restrictive zoning and other policies that limit housing are pushed by homeowners who are benefitting from a housing shortage, in some kind of long-range Machiavellian conspiracy to alter macroeconomics in their favor. But this doesn't really hold up when you think about it.

Restrictions on housing expansion are generally very local, with projects being blocked on the municipal level, or on the neighborhood level. But actually, more housing in a neighborhood would tend to benefit homeowners there. As the neighborhood becomes denser, rents might go down, but land values will go up, since a given piece of land can now be used to build a more profitable apartment building.

What is really blocking housing is simply aesthetics, misguided economic and political beliefs, and fear of change.
How can we view in the usa?
I've seen this happen as the result of errant copy-pasting.
Oh, interesting, kind of a variation on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerator-driven_subcritical...

That's quite clever.
I'm pretty sure the political group that can guarantee a quality National Health Service in the US will win
See, people, NIMBIES in particular, take issue with housing and infrastructure, people with stock in pharma and insurance corps take issue with government supporting others.

In this very forum, some asinine person supported Trump administration axing the free tax submission programme of the IRS on the basis of them owning shares in the tax software companies.
There is such a thing as institutional knowledge, you build it up by retaining staff properly, training replacements and handing this knowledge down, you need continuity. Another important part of this is doing a thing often. For example, if you halt manufacturing of a widget and then want to restart manufacturing it two decades later, you are going to run into every single snag and problem found during the first iteration of the process, you're starting from scratch and you might not even be able to actually replicate the original process properly.

The effect even applies on a larger national scale, where if a country stops investing in infrastructure projects for a long period, they will find themselves incapable of executing these projects properly in the future.
why would you want to record subsonic frequencies?
Cool! Or lukewarm. Or both since they tested from 5K to 300K. And found that the thin films (5-18nm) 'behaved like' metals wrt temperature dependence of resistivity, where thicker films of the same material (80nm) 'behaved like' insulators.

I wonder how traditional superconductor materials would fare in a super thin film regime like this.
They are just incredible live ... Flood was the soundtrack of my childhood. It's great to see how many fans on HN they have. If you have a chance to check them out in concert, do it!
Conductivity: Film at Eleven
Substack Is Doing What Podcasts Did. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The sheer amount of regulations is an incredibly tangled mess. For housing, for example, typically every city has its own standards, so your talking thousands of different sets of standards. They usually won't be all that different from the next city over, but nevertheless they're functionally separate, you can't directly change the whole state or country at once.

You can get state laws that push cities to change, of course, and the feds can incentivize change through requirements for funding/grants, but overall there's just a lot of momentum behind the existing web of regulation.
Ask HN: How to get reliable live sports data?
To give some context, I have been working on a plain text cricket score site1 that loads fast and scores can be viewed instantly even from a terminal.

The problem I faced was getting reliable data. I tried with the ESPN endpoints and RSS feed, but they have limits in place and cannot be fetched every minute.

Currently I'm using Cricketdata.org2 API which costs me $12 a month. I'm okay with paying that but the API is not reliable and the support is very poor! For instance today, they swapped the team 1 and 2 in their API results!

So my question is how do folks like ESPN or Cricbuzz get data? Do they have people sitting and watching live broadcast and entering stuff on a form or something?

If you have worked on something similar, would love to hear your thoughts and may share some resources which I can refer to!

[1] https://criclite.com
[2] https://cricketdata.org/
> or at least none has been outlined so far

I love this, thank you for specifying the condition under which you might be convinced otherwise. I respect your position more for this. (And unfortunately as a Star Trek fanatic myself, agree with it so far as well).
If the message is filtered at the server, it adds a lot of requirements you might not actually want:

1) the server needs to have your contact list, in a form where it can query if user X is in user Y's contacts, in order to do filtering.

1a) If you really meant mutual contacts, the server needs to process contact lists from both parties together. If you are ok with getting a media message from someone who doesn't have you in their contacts but you have them in yours, this one is skipped.

1b) The server needs to know who the message is from and who it is to at the same time.

2) If you're ok with a text message, but not a media message, the server needs to know the difference between text and media messages.

3) I'm not familiar with the details of iMessage, but often messengers use a pattern where a media message is really a link to a media file on some blob server, optionally with some text. If you want the server to remove the link to the file, but allow the text, the server would need to be able to see and process that.

Again, I'm not familiar with how iMessage operates, and some of these may already be aspects of the service, but they're not strict requirements of a messenger service, and the less the server knows about messages and contacts, etc, the more privacy users have from the service.
I have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say. The RPIT will be bound by the caller and there exists a type such that the declared trait is implemented. Meanwhile an impl parameter will be bound within the method with some type existing such that the trait is implemented. That is the implication of existential, "there exists a type such that...".
If the person who has figured out how to earn a lot of food doesn't get to "hoard" it, it'll just get hoarded by a person with the biggest stick.

Where are you getting the 'earn' part from, and why isn't it in scare quotes like 'hoard'? It seems like you're just changing the parameters of the argument to support the conclusion you prefer.
>Politicians are beholden to the members of their district

In a perfect world with informed voters this would be the case. It is not. In America, you can get away with literally killing your constituents as long as you have the right party affiliation next to your name.
> Netlify could run a redis instance per application, though more realistically it needs its own implementation of a multi-tenant caching service that is secure, can scale, cost effective, and fits their operational model. They are not willing to invest in that.

But they have done that, as they say in the post.

Disclosure: used to work at Netlify, now work at Astro
Try a Sennheiser, maybe like a mke-600. Once you see how you can laser focus on your voice, hard to go back.
What would be the best way to provide feedback? I'm not sure when I will get a chance to look at Continue, but suspect it may be after comments are closed on this thread.
Crashes Only on Wednesdays (2015)
>Software patents like Amazon's for "1 click purchases"

I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process.

>We have that problem with midwifes in Germany, who are dropping out in droves because insurance prices exploded [1][2][3].

I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, especially in Germany where there seems to be a lot of woo based practice masquerading as actual medicine. If the insurance prices are exploding due to actual malpractice, the profession probably should clean up their act which necessitates people leaving the profession. Sure you probably lose some of the good with the bad, but maybe they should have cleaned house a little earlier.
Mozilla VPN Extension for Windows
You are buying Soviet propaganda. Just an example of what what happening in Khrustchev times for expressing a dissatisfaction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre
Had a yeti nano, pretty good. Still the condenser mics are too sensitive at times.
Sometimes I hear a 10-20hz pulsing sound (so pretty fast, chirping sound) emanating from around my brainstem / back of neck at the level of my ears and a slight feeling of some liquidy movement inside. I always thought it was connected to CSP movement but maybe it isn't. But if it isn't I can't see what else it can be as it happens when I'm completely stationary.
Automation tax sounds sketchy. How would that work? All computers have DRM and programming becomes illegal? Unregistered physical automation becomes banned? Man the toolmaker can no longer make tools? What use are a bunch of depersonalized hominids?
>The way I see it you only have two real choices:

Unfortunately, due to the way politics and money work in the US, we have zero real choices...

>1. Raise wages to match global increased productivity

This is blocked by our two-party political system. Openly by Republicans (at the moment) and practically by Democrats. Both of our political parties seem to serve the people that actually pay them (ie. rich business owner donors) vs. people that vote for them. At least if it comes down to a problem between the two. This is shown in sharp relief in the famous chart by Martin Gilens showing which laws get passed in the US based on interest group.

>2. Democratize ownership

This is blocked by actual owners. Money equals ownership in the US. So, perhaps we can use our dollars and spend a certain way, one might think. Just BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, and State Street combined have more assets under management than the entire United States GDP, and they are just 4 companies. Good luck!

>That's it.

That is probably not it, but if it is we are fucked!
California bill aims to phase out harmful ultra-processed foods in schools
Noah Smith also wrote a IMO nice review of the Abundance book [1]. I'm very happy that problems like this are discussed:

> This is only one way that Klein and Thompson would have us focus on outputs instead of on inputs. Progressives love to focus on the number of dollars the government spends on high speed rail or green energy; Klein and Thompson would have us focus instead on how much actually gets built as a result of that spending.

[1]: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/book-review-abundance.
EXT4 Better Hardened Against Maliciously-Fuzzed File-Systems
I've been using this one for the past +5 years, and I'm quite happy with it:

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/streaming-gear/yeti...

It works better if you're really close, but .5-1m away still sounds fantastic (I work from a 3x4m sized room, with some outside noise).

Cons: it's quite big
When examining any given political outcome, your first question should always be "how does this benefit people with large amounts of money", because that's why most of the things in our society actually happen -- particularly the persistent structural flaws.

It can be absolutely true that CEQA was passed by sincere environmentalists. But it can also be true that the beneficiaries are wealthy property owners. If this law produced really bad outcomes for those people, it would already be gone/reformed. But it makes most property more valuable, so that doesn't happen.

Anyway, I'm offering this because loads of people think this is some kind of left/right "process" dynamic that they can fix, when in fact if you fix the process dynamic those same people will find another way to fight you. And that's ok! It's possible to win! Just don't confuse yourself that this is some accidental screwup that you can easily fix, like a downed tree blocking the street.