skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long-standing Guardian reader, I couldn't disagree more. It might be financially solvent, but the business model of the paper under the leadership of Katherine Viner has shifted to high throughput, low quality content vying for clicks in the attention economy. They have gone all-in on volume.

Compare that to the Financial Times, which has a low throughput of very high quality content, enabled by a discerning and high paying subscriber base. I read the Guardian for the lifestyle / cooking sections these days, but the FT is an incomparably better and more serious publication, whatever your politics (mine are the diametric opposite of the financial class).
I've often wondered what impact the fact that major prominent liberal media outlets are often paywalled while conservatives one are not, has on public discourse. I have to imagine this translates to conservative media dominating online spaces, no?
I recently cancelled my Washington Post subscription and would love to replace it with something better. Unfortunately, my impression of The Guardian US so far is that it is still very much a UK paper. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t yet have an inside view of US news.
FDIC has limits. They were not respected, everybody was made whole. $150 billion of uninsured money was bailed out by the government.

> So, the FDIC, the Fed and the Treasury Department decided to go big and guarantee all SVB's deposits, even the roughly $150 billion that was supposed to be uninsured.

> Shareholders were wiped out.

Sure, but all the depositors were bailed out, which is what bailing out a bank means.
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Constructed languages are processed by the same brain parts as natural languages
I am by background a C++ developer, not a web developer, but Tauri has intrigued me as a cross-platform app framework.

The things that have been frustrating are the documentation, the variety of options (pick a front end framework, pick a build tool), and the sense of being on your own once you get Hello, World! working. I wish there were more examples with using 1+ different Rust web service frameworks, how to manage state, and so on. It has the feel of an older-style open source project where the developers are in love with offering options rather than committing to a strong developer experience.
I don't disagree, but I will point out that Sanders writes for them occasionally
Just nginx and static pre-compressed html and txt files. Publishing stack is my fingers and vim to get spell check. Backups are automated.
Ask HN: Don't you think vibe-coding is a marketing scheme?
Is this at all related to Eaglercraft (web: https://eaglercraft.com/, src: https://git.eaglercraft.rip/eaglercraft), which is also browser-based Minecraft?
My family went to church during my late elementary school years and I have been baptized and confirmed in the Methodist tradition, however I would more describe myself as agnostic.

I take my children to church a couple times a year, so they can experience it. I would take them more often but we live in a area where churches are more culturally influential and function like social/status clubs, which means that there are more people who are there to be seen rather than there to because of agreement or sharing an ideology.
Most websites are fast before the marketing departments comes to bloat it with ads.

10s of site loading time without ads or videos is crazy, none of the 100 websites I'm using daily are way faster than that.
All jobs I have ever worked have collectively wasted more man hours through incompetence and the usual corporate BS than I could ever hope to with any conceivable April fools joke.
To add, cloning is one thing, but a lot of games - including id's own games - iterated on the formula, leading to the genre of first-person shooters like Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, Medal of Honor, Halo, Bioshock, etc.

That is, clones rarely work, but evolutions do. Stardew Valley on the surface can be considered a Harvest Moon clone, but it iterated on the formula, leading to a lot of attempts at casual farm games from many different competitors. Minecraft was an Infiniminer clone (or inspired by?) and iterated on the idea. Fortnite was a PUBG clone which was a DayZ clone.
As for LLMs, that’s easy, it’s in the name. It’s good at generating texts. What we are trying to do is mostly get it to generate useful texts (and see if we can apply the same techniques to other type of data).

It’s kinda the same with computers, we know the general shape of what they can do and how they do it. We are mostly trying to see if a particular problem can be solved with it, how efficiently can it be, and to what degree.
What's better, seeing a beautiful view from the mountain after being driven up, or never seeing the view at all?
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1. Even those low-powered Android devices are basically supercomputers

2. The Javascript bloat hurts those devices immensely. See "Performance Inequality Gap 2024" https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-...
You described an interaction not between product owner and software engineer but between a user and product owner. A product person can also be a developer, it happens, but do not confuse the two roles before people think you're saying that a conversational UI can be product owner.

The original example I replied to was where somebody had an idea and went with it to some engineering team or conversational interface.

"If the AI was actually intelligent" does a lot of work. To take a few words and make a detailed spec from it and ask the right questions, even humans can't do it for you.

First because most probably you don't really understand it yourself, because you didn't think about it enough.

Second somebody who can do it would need to really deeply understand and want the same things as you. But if chatbot has abilities like "understand" and "want" (which is a special case of "feel", another famous special case of "feel" is "suffer") that is a dangerous territory, because if it understands and feels and has no ability to refuse you and fulfill its wishes etc your "conversational interface" becomes an euphemism, you are using a slave.
well,what about memory usage. storage is cheap indeed, but memory is limited still
On Booking.com if the hotel sucks but the location is fine, rating them fairly (instead of just 1 star on everything) gives the overall score of 6 or 7, out of 10...
Might as well be, but why blaming cis wasps for this? It's pointless bucketing of people based on, well, obviously misguided prejudice.
This anti-DEI push is really ridiculous. If you want to elevate merit, go elevate merit. Find someone who is successful, uplift it. If they're a woman, or black, or gay, or whatever, they get to write their story because they have merit.

Instead we're in the "undoing work" environment that frankly reminds me of Soviet Russia or Maoist China.

Hopefully we can emerge from this in a sort of "Deng Xiaoping moment".
So, nothing is worthy of discussion or can claim any benefits over the incumbents until it has become an incumbent itself? How is it supposed to attract the necessary users to get bloated if they can’t talk about it in relation to the established players?
I assumed this was about Greenland ...
So, umm, turning your phone off won't matter much if the border agent tells you to turn your phone on, log into your social media, and show your posting history otherwise you can't enter.

> If you refuse to unlock your phone when asked, authorities can seize it and will most likely need to obtain a warrant to open it, he added. However, visitors can be denied entry to the United States for refusing to unlock their phone.

As I understand it, they know the Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, etc. usernames for most foreigners because that's required as part of the visa process.

If the border agent wants you to log into an account they know you have, under threat of being denied entry, will you say no?
I use it on my Kindle and I love it. I can use better and more dictionaries, the controls are ergonomic and customizable, I can easily override the font so that every ebook looks exactly the same. It supports epub and with it my Kindle is faster, the battery lasts longer and it supports dark mode on an old model while Amazon officially doesn’t. Amazing software all around!
It's a hurdle people have to take; and its eating from their 1.5second attention span. Some will get stuck or leave. OP asked for thoughts, this is to help him convert more people.
Haha, the times they are a changing. I still remember c't april fools joke from the 90s where they published a scencil (template) to indicate where you have to drill a hole into your pentium CPU to be able to overclock it. I still chuckle about the whole thing almost 30 years after the fact, still wondering how many morons actually destroyed their perfectly working CPU back then. At times, active thinking of your peers just needs to be challenged so they don't get too confident...
I don't think I've reinstalled since around 2014, when I switched to a different Linux distribution. It's just a pain and while it cleans up some unused packages, what's the point really? Why do you reinstall Windows every 18 months?

One change I made that may help with this, is to not install crap on the host that I don't plan to use for a long time. Trying out a new database server or want to set up an Android IDE for a temporary project? Use a VM, don't clutter up random files all over the host. Is this what is happening on your Windows perhaps?
Not only could they obviously evacuate their targets, wasting tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars and dozens of civilian lives on an unsuccessful attack, but it's also literally not true they have no air defenses. They've successfully shot down multiple MQ-9 Reapers very recently (one of the drones used in this attack).

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/houthi-stri...
You can get Mini-ITX server motherboards with IPMI and ECC memory if you want something robust and remotely-manageable while staying small and low power. I have a SuperMicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F, which has a 16W intel atom C3558 and is quite old at this point, but it's fine for my little home network tasks.
can be applied to whole organisms?

Because it has been for several years in mice and monkeys.

really just a 100 hour task?

To learn, yes. It is a well established process. Mice have been aged, de-aged, aged, de-aged using this process. One can find videos on Youtube from Dr. Sinclairs team that show the mice and their physical abilities during the entire process. This has also been used on humans specifically in the optic nerves but it won't be long before it is approved for body-wide usage. I would not expect the learning process to exceed 72 hours not counting breaks.
Makes sense! Thanks for the tip.
You have to insert 5c.
When starting from scratch: yes. When maintaining a mature application: no, because then you need to keep in sync the app and balsamiq and there is neither the time nor the will for that. And the money.
For me personally those thousands of lines are often garbage. For example, constructors and fields generated by Lombok do not validate inputs, yet failing early instead of deferring the problem to client code reading the value is the easiest way to fight bugs. Sometimes one business method setting several values instead of multiple getters is better or the only possible way to preserve integrity of the state. Sometimes a field reflecting internal state will be annotated to produce getter and thus breaking the encapsulation. With all of that Lombok encourages poor code quality by enabling developers being lazy.
https://webui.me/ is a different approach
Weird that the current state of things for a simple, noninteractive site is some kind of framework and not just “write the HTML with a little JS where needed,” which works perfectly well and requires no additional baggage.
A someone who's been developing for the web for a living since the late 1990s, I agree that nothing absolves the web developer of the need to understand web fundamentals. But laying blame for bloated SPAs at React's feet is misplaced. With SSR, you can ship React apps that work with JS disabled. And with static extraction (a la vanilla-extract) you can do CSS-in-JS with 0 runtime overhead. Being mindful of bundle size and user-perceived performance is essential. For those that pay attention and leverage the web properly as a platform, amazing performance (and capabilities / UX) with React is achievable. See https://Remix.run.
Fair point.

So if we create a system that allows people to be banned from holding political office how do we stop it from being abused?

We know that justice is subjective, and mistakes can be made.

I would point to Singapore as an example where defamation laws are routinely used to prevent opposition politicians from holding office.
Yeah, it's basically an Arch Linux install. I just rsync it to a new workstation every 5-7 years (or move the disk) and go on. :)
I really like Sandstorm - it's a glimpse into an alternate world of how things could be.
It's always hit or miss in Ireland too, but its usually a miss. It's the only place I've ever eaten avocados that look and feel ripe, but taste like unripened bananas, it's a weird flavor that I don't know how to fix.
That one probably was pseudonymous.
Is that true of criminal law? (Genuine question, I know zilch about European criminal law.) Does French law have the concept of prosecutorial discretion?
It's because you aren't a web developer. I faced the same problems. Go make a web app with deno or node and you'll get the same feeling.
it's sad but I would imagine that it probably wouldn't exist as it does today if it genuinely rocked the boat. at some point--probably in the 70s and 80s when the establishment was really reasserting itself--there would have been some kind of hostile takeover or other method of silencing it. maybe that did happen in fact, I do not know
The Golden Age of Modularity: Why Effective LLM Coding Needs Better Boundaries
In particular, struct field alignment matches C (even without cgo) and so any change to the default would break a lot of code.
Older versions of Minecraft are better; they've added too much junk to newer versions. I stick to 1.6.3, 1.7.10, 1.12.2. Heard they added a bunch of telemetry and ban capabilities in 1.18+, for which mods are needed.

DRM-free Minecraft launchers exist, mostly forks of MultiMC5. Now if only offline installers existed...
Scale patterns on a guitar are optimized for A: starting (lowest note 1) on a particular finger on a particular string and B: not sliding your hand up and down too much. For example, I know five major scale patterns: two start on the first string, two on the second, and one on the third.
Minecraft is the most successful Doom clone because you don't even realize it's a Doom clone.
NeuRaLaTeX: We wrote a neural net library in LaTeX
Yeah, me too. I'm definitely more on the side of the Guardian politics wise, but the FT is SO MUCH BETTER.

To be fair though, the FT is both really expensive, sells market data for a large price, and has a tier of subscription that can only be bought by organisations (they didn't even show me a price).

The Guardian has been going downhill massively over the last few years. I think the point at which I lost faith in them was when they trumpeted that 50% of carbon emissions were caused by 10 companies (i.e. the oil majors).
> Yeah, though 'jcelerier brought up a case where "insecure" behavior is a feature, and the more "secure" design is directly incompatible with it

I don't think it's fundamentally incompatible with a secure design though, you just need to reify the authority to do those things so you can explicitly grant them to specific programs as appropriate.
You may be much too optimistic about the majority of the people who use this forum, or more importantly to its algorithm, perform the majority of engagement.

> lots of people flag stories about the Trump administration. I didn't flag this one .. but I flag most of the other ones.

> I'm going to keep flagging all of them, because these stories are all activating and attract tons of upvotes and comments, filling the front page with repetitive recapitulations of the same tired arguments. It's not what HN is for. -tptacek

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465123
You see the same thing in this thread. People mock free speech absolutists because Musk may have trolled them a year ago.

I believe this overall ineptitude will indeed not work in their favor and it is just a form of primitive reactionism.
No thanks, JSX is fine.
On my Paperwhite from 2018, the battery life is better on KOReader than on Amazon’s firmware.
Yeah, the concept of a commercial / off the shelf game engine wasn't that much of a thing until Doom, but with Doom and especially its successors Quake and Unreal from Epic it did. Quake's engine spawned Half-Life's, Unreal became one of the biggest game engines anywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXE0UTHnV5g

It is a ground effect vehicle.
> If Preact truly was as feature complete as React, it would be used by everyone by now

That's a false logical conclusion.

Preact (and others, like Svelte and Solid) are not only "as feature complete as React", they don't need some of the features of React (hooks are unnecessary when you have proper reactivity) and they are better at certain features (like SSR).

People using or not using them has nothing to do with feature completeness.
Now, given that a looot of projects use Lombok, it might be worth a try to actually standardize (or at least upstream) the feature given there seems to be an obvious demand of people to not having to pollute their codebase with tons of pointless getter and setter boilerplate.
Hope you got 10 bux!
Gon: A Rails-style scaffolding CLI for Go (models, usecases, handlers)
Hi HN,

I've built a CLI tool called gon, which brings Rails-style scaffolding to Go.

It generates models, usecases, handlers, fixtures and test helpers with one command, following a clean architecture structure.

Inspired by `rails g scaffold`, but for Go.

Repo: https://github.com/mickamy/gon

I'd love to hear your feedback and ideas!
Your view about each generation tending to fully 'break' with their parents, in a way (economically, spiritually) strikes me as particularly narrow. Perhaps it is so where you live, but this is simply not true for vast populations all over the world.
OpenAI is now worth more than McDonald's
3,500 years BP: The last survival of the mammal megafauna in the Americas [pdf]
His point isn't "network/hardware is fast, so let's be inefficient": it is the opposite. "network/hardware is fast, so why is the page still slow?". On lower powered devices and slower networks, it's even more vital to author lean applications and web pages — but "things are slow even when the hardware and network are fast" is a simple canary that we are swimming through some problems.
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Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service
I think the real value in this writeup up of a clever little prank is the way the author/prankster could map out the social reactions and how the spirit in which the prank was received cascades through a whole entire organization in ways that hinge on little cues, little things about who knows who and whether you're physically present before a particular impression crystallizes in people's minds.

It's just such a great example of how people could react either with uproarious laughter or by feeling that some boundary has been violated and can think that either reaction was the most self-evidently obvious one in the world and the reasons for it were entirely contingent. It's something where you can only really witness the irrationality of it if you're in the author's position.

I once heard it speculated that philosophy might have emerged in Greece because the circumstances of being merchants engaging in interstate trade, you could see the way that certain things regarded as received knowledge were really customs, peculiar to certain cultures and locations. When you're the prankster and you can see different people reacting in different ways that seem to be tied to patterns of the circumstances of how they experienced it, you can kind of witness the contingency of those reactions playing out in real time.
It's certainly an incredible gem, but I do find it quite bloated in features. Which is why I plan on trying https://github.com/baskerville/plato one of these days, to see if it does everything I need.
I do something similar with my home server, but with a WireGuard split tunnel. Much easier to set up and keep active all the time (i.e., on my phone).

Nginx handles proxying and TLSing all HTTP traffic. It also enforces access rules: my services can only be reached from my home subnet or VPN subnet. Everywhere else gets a 403.
A little hard to tell what's happening in the video due to lack of indicator of where the user is actually pressing/dragging.
Learning computer science with building blocks, not computers
It seems more like a meme.

Reminds me of the "10x Developer" memes I used to see.
"10x Developer doesn't have time to explain things." "10x Developer doesn't have time for pleasantries."

I thought it was a joke, but people were serious ... 10x Developer label sounded just an excuse for being an asshole...

I haven’t seen anything about “vibe coding” that indicated to me the person using the term was a serious person.
From the 1 GB a typical Electron app uses, only about 300 MB are binaries which might be shared if they were a WebView.

So yes, using a WebView might decrease your memory usage by 30%, maybe 50% for small apps. Not a huge game changer, maybe it would make a 8 GB RAM laptop more usable.
I've found Garmin's sleep tracking to be unreliable. For instance, if I lie in bed reading before I fall asleep, it often incorrectly logs that time as sleep.
Not _knowledge_ but rather information is produced every day.

You keep up like you and your brain always do - by focusing and prioritizing.

Your captain obvious)