skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Even if that were true, why is your "set of people" representative of such a large fraction of the US population that it would sway an election?

2. Even if it were somehow representative, is it more plausible that all of these people were on X getting these ideas (a platform that is small relative to other media), or that these ideas were simply blasted everywhere?

3. And even if it were somehow representative, and they did get those ideas from X, what makes you think that not having those ideas "false" ideas would have changed the election outcome [1]? People more often use "facts" to justify political positions they've already made, not the other way around.

[1] https://time.com/7263845/facts-dont-matter-misinformation-es...
I find that having a fan working in the room helps a lot. It's not foolproof, but it helps in certain situations.
I think Andreas and JT wanted something that would tightly integrate/interop with the large existing C++ SerenityOS codebase. I think they also welcomed the opportunity to build a new language, consistent with the SerenityOS ethos of building every part of their OS themselves.
They're making a joke about how Matrix e2e is so high friction and unreliable that even if you should have access to a channel you'll get "unable to decrypt message" errors from key or identity issues - not that they would be rightfully unable to be decrypted by third parties (all the e2e programs they mention have that property).
Additional example -

Had to review submissions to a conference. You had to pry open a thick rind of words, to get seeds of meaning spread all over the place, and then reconstruct the points being made. Wordy, complex and tiring to analyze.

Dumping it into ChatGPT to get answers was an act of frustration, and the output made you more frustrated. It gave you more words, but didn’t help with actual meaning, unless you just gave in and assumed it was accurate.

It’s making the job of verification harder, and the job of content creation easier. This is not to society’s larger benefit, since the more challenging job is verification.

I shudder to think what is happening with teachers and college at this point.
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I often struggle with dry, strained eyes from long duration computer usage. It turns out when focusing intently, human blink rates decline from a healthy 15-20 per minute to 3-4 (or even fewer in some cases).

I wrote a quick script that calculates facial landmarks on your webcam feed in realtime and plays a sound if you fail to blink for a configurable number of seconds.

I use the common way of detecting a blink, which is to calculate the ratio between the height and width of the visible portion of the eye. This can be done with just 6 landmarks -- two on the upper eyelid, two on the lower eyelid, and one on either side of the eye. I found that this doesn't work well in all angles / postural positions, so I also augment this with another metric that corrects for head tilt. It's not perfect (if you tilt your head such that your ear is brought closer to your shoulder, it may over-detect blinks) but it's extremely good in normal scenarios where I don't knot myself into a pretzel.

It runs significantly faster than realtime on my M2, and I leave it on all day when I work from home.
https://archive.is/gKg2T
Cost, and marginally, heat of the transceivers.
I get your view, read the essay years ago and we agree on the facts. I'm a journalist who gets 5-10 PR junk PR pitches a day. I don’t pitch stories from PR hacks--I pitch and write about the stuff I think is interesting and important. If I got an awesome pitch from a PR person tomorrow about something like that, why wouldn't I pursue the story?

I fully acknowledge the PR industry exists but to suggest that coverage of a beloved indie game creator by one of my industry's most respected reporters is somehow paid off or inauthentic because PR exists is such a leap. As I said earlier he's probably been trying to write about the Stanley Parable for years.

I also have firsthand experience of people I know at startups believing that their PR firm 'bought' them coverage. But if you read Paul's essay again he's careful to acknowledge that the service good PR firms are able to provide is that they can connect with journalists for stories not because of some shady undisclosed loyalty but because the PR people bring them interesting topics.
I wonder what would make the mention of a bully feel political these days...I really can't figure it out. As far as I can tell no such person could possibly fit this description so well that it would provoke such a defensive response.
> Why not just get rid of mosquitos?

Because its harder than it sounds: LOTS of effort goes into eradication, whether by large-scale environmentally destructive methods (literally draining the wetlands where they reproduce), toxic methods (spraying poison over areas they reproduce near human populations, which also means over humans and water used by humans), or trickier methods lkke releasing masses of sterile male mosquitos to mate unproductively with females to reduce the number of productive matings.

But these efforts are usually less than complete successes at the best of times, and have gotten worse over time as—as the article here notes!—“Efforts to prevent the spread of the disease have been complicated by existing malaria interventions becoming less effective due to mosquitoes developing biological and behavioural resistance to insecticides and barrier-based controls.”

> It seems that elimination is actually easier.

It sounds like someone has never tried elimination.
While I have no idea whether this is true for bodybuilding, it's true for software, especially web development, in my perception. Too much fucking around with frameworks, and not enough just writing the dang HTML. We, as a profession, know how to write HTML and we could get more results sooner if we actually just did it.
Some war between Germany and France was probably inevitable, and that the Balkan situation would blow up someday was also almost a given, but that this happened simultaneously and led to a war of this magnitude was very much contingent on specific things happening in Summer of 1914.
The insistence HNers have for utterly re-inventing their lives off of a single completely unsubstantiated book astounds me.

You know literally anyone can write literally anything in a book right? There's no vetting, no magical reality check. You can write a book that's nothing but good sounding falsehoods and nobody can stop you. You can even fill it with 10 pages of garbage, low quality citations!

The modern equivalent of a book is a 3 hour Youtube video essay, and most of them have more research behind them!

But nobody would obsess over them like people here obsess over lifestyle books.
Polypane is a chromium-based browser that you install on your own device and use while building applications that lets you develop at different (emulated) devices and screensizes/variation in one overview, with a bunch of development, accessibility and quality tools built right in.

Browserstack is an online device testing tool where you check if your site works on different real devices one-by-one. That is to say, they don't really compete: if you don't have real devices to test with then Browserstack is an excellent option.

What users mostly find is that by using Polypane (fast, local) they have far less use of Browserstack (slow, online) and the entire process speeds up. There will always be a need for real device testing.

There's no gen AI integrations, and I don't have any planned. You can happily use Claude or CoPilot in the browse panel though (which is a little browser that lives inside Polypane, so you can browse without losing the context of your project)
I read the website, but I still don't get what value it's offering over Chrome? Better viewport sizing?
As much as people love to have this romantic view of Open Source that it is composed of brilliant volunteers working out of their basements, the reality is that most of the Open Source work, especially the low-level systems programming (OS, drivers, base libraries, etc.) is developed by people whose full-time job is to make those things work. Companies are sponsoring the majority of the work here.

The Herculean efforts made by the Asahi community are absolutely incredible and something I thought would not be achievable without support from Apple. I am grateful for their work and their example should definitely be a case to be studied. Not only their work benefited people using their hardware, some of their advancements (e.g., their work in Rust) benefit the ecosystem as a whole.

That said, I wouldn't buy hardware whose manufacturer does not officially support Linux. Unsupported hardware is absolutely not worth the trouble for me. I'll keep using the hardware manufactured by the company that has been responsible for ~10% of the Linux Kernel development over the last 15 years. I don't have to worry about my system not working due to bugs or regressions. Heck, I never even have graphics driver issues.

Also, I've been kinda expecting these Asahi people to eventually be picked by the Big Tech companies and thus stop their work on Asahi in order to prioritize the agendas of the people putting bread on their tables.

Good luck to all the people involved!
seems like another reason to hop onto "move your servers to Europe" bandwagon
I use https://www.mail-tester.com/
Indeed. The whole "being cool from the devices you wear/carry" is very much about how it makes you feel, rather than any perception other people might have.

If I see someone wearing a Rolex I'm more likely to think "that's reckless" than "that's cool". And if I see someone wearing an Apple Watch - or any other gadget - I think "oh, an Apple Watch" and nothing else, or, at most, I think "I wonder what that gadget is, it's not something I've seen before".

I was once at a conference and there was a (notoriously 'flash' but very boring) guy literally juggling his Punkt phone, clearly desperate for someone to ask him what it was, so that he could tell them how much of a hipster he was.

No-one asked. After about 20 minutes of juggling it he quietly put it back in his bag and took his iPhone out of his pocket.
Fascism explicitly includes an economic component.

> […] strong regimentation of society and the economy.

> "Fascist goals" – the creation of a nationalist dictatorship to regulate economic structure […]

> Paxton argues: “fascism redrew the frontiers between private and public, sharply diminishing what had once been untouchably private. […] It reconfigured relations between the individual and the collectivity, so that an individual had no rights outside community interest.

> The Fascist Manifesto supported the creation of an eight-hour work day for all workers, a minimum wage, worker representation in industrial management, equal confidence in labour unions as in industrial executives and public servants, reorganization of the transportation sector, revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance, reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55, a strong progressive tax on capital, confiscation of the property of religious institutions and abolishment of bishoprics, and revision of military contracts to allow the government to seize 85% of profits.

Etc.

All quotes taken from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
I was under the impression that once laid, fiber is the most stable and future proof between all mediums (barring physical damage). After all it won't rot, stain or degrade like copper. It's plastic, mostly.
> then the effective definition of the word "oppressive" being able to be "interpreted" by executive agencies

I don't get how this could ever be resolved though. You can complain about how "oppressive" is "interpreted" so they can add more words, they can say "people are harmed" and then it's up to interpretation about who is "people" and what is "harm" so then you add more words to define "people" as living homo-sapiens and then it's up to interpretation about what is "living" and on and on.

> If there is a vagueness

There is literally always vagueness. "I never said she took his money" can have 7 different interpretations just based on which word is emphasized.

It's a meaningless tautology that any English sentence has some amount of vagueness and that people will be interpreting its meaning.
Okay, now why is m slope?

I'd also wondered why r is the correlation coefficient but it turns out it's the "regression" coefficient, as in how strong the regression to the mean is.
Could also stand for Speed of Causality.
> Apple gives you a brand new watch.

That seems very wasteful
And the majority of that with a loving wife! (she died in 2023 at 96. He died in 2024 at 100).
and so would a person that stays at every job for exactly two years
To be fair, every git forge (as they are known for some reason) has this feature
Cross-linker additive boosts organic solar cell lifespan by 59%
I think you missed that the OP was demonstrating that statement false in the latter portion of their comment.
Yes, I mean images/thumbnails/background optimization inside banners/youtube videos. "Our" ads are about to get a lot nicer.
Yes. Simply put, Software Engineering is Programming over time. As Calculus is to Algebra.
I get where you're coming from (and I've rolled my eyes at the "video games cause violence" line of reasoning myself).

However, there is much wisdom in McLuhan's "we become what we behold" -- and consuming too much "social media" turns one into a performative puppet. Twitter is the distilled version of this (Jaron Lanier called it "Twitter Poisoning").

If Elon Husk huffing Twitter 24/7 while owning Twitter isn't a case of "getting high on your own supply", then I don't know what is.
I'm saying that the expression of beliefs presented here is more than transhumanism.
I was pretty excited about this, but didn't the Serenity browser recently announce they're going with Swift? That kind of takes the wind out of this language's sails.
"Free and equitable" - Yes, he's not a socialist. He's a Liberal.
That's not actually the reason—eradication efforts have not been avoided on this basis, indeed, mosquito eradication has long been a central pillar of efforts to control malaria. The reason for trying something else is that eradication efforts have rarely been completely successful and mosquitos are getting better and resisting them from the reproduction pressure imposed by the massive, sustained efforts at eradication, not because eradictation is something people want to avoid because “genociding” mosquitos is seen as undesirable.
I've been running my own spam filter for many years now based on this super-simple heuristic: My filter looks at my outgoing mail, and any mail received from an address I've sent mail to, or with a subject that has appeared in my outgoing mail (possibly with a "re:" prefix) is marked as non-spam. Everything else goes in spam, and any spam message from an address I've never received mail from before is marked as unread. I get hundreds of spams per day, but only about a dozen from new addresses. It takes me about ten seconds to scan them for non-spam cold calls, which are extremely rare. The other source of false positives is things like subscription confirmations, but because I know to expect those, they are always at the top of the spam folder.

I put this initial system in place expecting to have to augment it later with a more traditional content-based filter, but this simple heuristic works so well I've never felt the need to implement that additional step.
> only a partial solution and wouldn't work for accounts where you expect unsolicited mails from people you don't know.

I actually think this would work fine. Imagine a quarantine inbox for new emailers that the user must scan and approve/block. This is exactly what hey has implemented.
> and you can be sure that this means you won't be able to download the DeepSeek app or download its model

The first part is clear, but my thesis is that no Western company would be downloading a DeepSeek app in the first place.

The second part is much more ambiguous, and unfortunately, the bill lacks specificity. I’d be surprised if it made it very far, and even more surprised if any of the hyperscalers supported it. It doesn’t do much to protect their moa because again, no one in the Western world is going to run a Chinese-hosted model anyway. And without clearer language, it could end up blocking the use of foreign research that could actually strengthen U.S. companies.
$3.55M in US Government funding for Mozilla's programs has been canceled
Never had/heard of your problem with Vitamin D.

A web search brings up - https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/comments/1ia6yyb/update_...

tl;dr - some Vit D supplements are based on lanolin. if you're sensitive to it, you may switch to a supplement that doesn't use lanolin. also one response talks about taking a multi-Vitamin B supplement for anger issues with Vit.D
I agree completely, playing it now feels very primitive. But at the time, even into the 2000s, it was a revelation.
What propositions cannot be written this way? If your answer is along the lines of "things that use the axiom of choice" or "things that use LEM", then you can instead prove `AC -> P` or `LEM -> P`, which are constructible (assuming no similar missing "magic" axioms, but those can be solved with the same technique). Then we can again look at programming where we have the Reader monad as a way to pretend `AC -> P` is just `P` and use it as if it were (but with the ability to pull `AC` out of a hat when needed). Arguably then, we can only prove `AC -> P` and not `P` itself because `P` is not true (obviously that's a controversial take).

I don't know what strategies they're using, but mathlib in Lean has formalizations for measure theory for example: https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4/blob/master...

For very practical programming work (like business software), I'd be surprised if there were any useful programs that can't be boiled down to `while True: f(x)` where f(x) is some finite terminating program that you can prove stuff about. When you do a bunch of work in a language/ecosystem like Scala's, you get used to the idea that if your function says it returns an A, then it returns an A; there's generally no failure modes to consider if they're not in the type (ignoring realities like a datacenter catching on fire that are outside of the programming model). Passing a B to a `Function[B,A]` is an actual proof that you now have an `A` in your hand.
I suspect it's more of "the witch is dead/the rich is dead"
equity is a post-modern buzzword that doesn't mean anything. it's only applicable in world of fairness which doesn't exist.
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-08-09-fiber-link-ho...
I ran a lot in two pairs of Altra Instinct 1.0s. Altra shoes used to be very minimalist that also happened to be zero drop with big toe boxes. The most notable thing was how little cushion it had, it was like running on a piece of leather, close to barefoot running. You wouldn't even think the Altra shoes made today are from the same company, they have so much cushion. I don't think its a bad thing, what I eventually took away from my Altras was that I need a huge toebox for my feet to be happy and if my shoes have too much drop I tend to heel strike. I'm glad my shoes have more cushion today, I just wish the cushion didn't break down so fast.
I work in finance. One of my clients is looking to raise their first big round of capital, at a really nice valuation, with a product that might likely take them to >$1b in revenue. Anyway, the original founders had differentiated opinions also in terms of the product offering, so one of the founders was bought out a few years ago for mid 7 figures or something like that. I predict that their decision to leave the company due to disagreement on strategy will probably cost this person a high 8 figure payday (best case scenario) or perhaps a 9 figure payday (worst case scenario). Just wanted to provide this anecdote as one possibility of what could happen. It’s not an easy decision but ultimately you should do what you think feels right, but don’t bee overly myopic in your decision making. Also, don’t think that the only options are stay (don’t sell any equity) or leave (sell 100% of equity), you can fall somewhere in between and have some skin in the game for potential upside.
Because it’s the fastest programming language
One might say our memory of this era is.. pollyannish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-QFRdHv61s
I suppose you could do something based on IDP-signed tokens, e.g. "valid for authentication to service x until <timestamp>"?
> An OS on an OS, in a document reader

Versus an interpreted language executed in a runtime running on a virtual thread of an OS running on top of a BIOS over a glorified calculator!? Insanity! Whatever happened to good old-fashioned pen and paper!?

There's nothing wrong with the model of delivering your software as a small program to run in a sandboxed browser environment. WASM, canvas, WebGL -- you can do nearly as much on the web as native nowadays, with a dead-simple deployment model. One of the only type of programs that's much harder to make in a web application is malware. Calling a modern browser a "networked document reader" is as silly as calling a modern computer a calculator.
Sorry, I wish sarcasm had a font face so I could make it more obvious.
The US news covers the US elections from a really strange angle. They act as though even as the votes are coming in, and there is nothing more the candidates can do to change the outcome, that they are still "looking for a path to victory" and they list all of the "paths to victory" that could be possible. As though we're watching them stumble through a dark forest.
Interesting. I bet a candle-flicker LED or two in series would add a nice bit of random (or psuedo-random LSFR?) AM noise to the IR LEDs.
Yeah they've chosen Swift as their C++ successor language for Ladybird (the browser project forked from SerenityOS's browser)

Some work to do with making Swift work with ladybird's garbage collection but my understanding that this work is in progress.

Andreas talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Eq0xlVs3g&t=759s
REST in Peace? Django's Framework Problem
What would it take for a consumer grade or business grade device and messaging app to be suitable for discussing matters of national security?

The article mentions being able to use a single account across multiple devices as being a problem — what other issues are there?
Not OP, but look into Jim Green's barefoot line, Vivobarefoot, Vibrams, Xero shoes, etc. There are more and more brands adopting barefoot styles, includig Merril! I live in my Jim Green Barefoot Africna Rangers. I use them for every occasion besides working out. I use Vivobarefoot and Vibrams 5 Finger shoes for running.
That's true enough. We don't know what we don't know, and there's always the potential for some groundbreaking idea to shake things up. That's why it's important to fund research, even if that research doesn't have obvious practical applications.

But this sort of innovation comes from having an actual solution that makes tangible improvements. It does not come from someone saying "this technology hasn't changed in years, we need to find some way to innovate!" That sort of thinking is how you get stuff like Hyperloop or other boondoggles that suck up a lot of investments without solving any problems.
C is the Roman numeral representing 100. You can't go faster than 100% of the speed of light. QED.
That's nice, but the parent explicitly cited part of US regulations where it's required, while ignoring that it's always required if equipped.
I looked into the presentation. (Demography versus Debt - https://www.bis.org/events/conf160624/goodhart_presentation....)

That's good. There was one point that I missed.

> Rise in debt ratios offset by falling interest rates, so debt service ratios mostly stable, or even declining