skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
300 Bps is demon speed! I remember using an acoustic coupler to access the early internet at 300 BAUD (i.e. 300 bps), or about 30 char/sec.

Later on, I also remember downloading Linux kernel tarballs, hot off the press, via FTP using 9600 bps modem (if I recall correctly - slow as crap), which I'd kick off before going to bed and hope for the best in the morning. Sometimes I'd make a script to download a few different files at once.

On the theme of slow computing in general, I remember doing embedded software builds on a PDP 11 (Xenix) that would take an hour or so to complete - so you'd go and practice your juggling or somesuch waiting for it to complete.

Still, the big thrill in mid-late 70's had been the switch from batch punched card deck submissions to a mainframe (an hour later comeback to collect the syntax error, or core dump printout) to being ONLINE (woo hoo!) - sitting in front of a terminal and actually interacting with a computer in real time!
@deng: Title should be prefixed with Ask HN:
How Silica Gel Took over the World
Somewhere I read that the cotton gloves are just for show, because onlookers get in a tizzy if they see things being handled without them. Gloves limit dexterity, so it's apparently less damaging to use bare hands.
Unfortunately I don't have an iPhone to try when we go to Japan but I will ask my friend to try it out. We will travel to Japan later this year.
I won't call it a grand theory but I like this solution to the puzzle.

https://gaby.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/wilde-democracy/
> China, Russia and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernise their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.

An annoyance of mine is that this person is from Europe and seems to ignore that the UK[0] and France[1] are modernizing and, at least in the UK's case, expanding their stockpiles.

There seems to be a continental myopia towards the European role in adding to the problems of the world.

EDIT:
You can downvote me all you want, it doesn't make me wrong.

[0]https://fas.org/publication/delays-deferment-and-continuous-...

[1]https://thebulletin.org/premium/2023-07/nuclear-notebook-fre...
Information theory, with practical applications.
Indeed. If it’s sold as already in a device, it doesn’t need the battery sticker and in general the regulations around shipping it are significantly less onerous.
> Well, fascist is more appropriate than Nazi because Nazi is superset of fascism with a heavy anti-semitic element, and I'm not aware of many rabidly anti-semitic parties in the mainstream in many countries.

Scratch a little deeper on the things popular Republican politicians and members of the current administration have been saying and promoting for the last few years.

Conspiratorial movements almost always end up at "it's The Jews", and so do theirs.

If you see talk about their opponents engaging in dark "rituals" involving child murder or abuse, you can be 100% sure you've found one that'll get you there. It's just blood libel, keeping reading and listening and you'll see that they're fully at that point before you've had to do much work. It's tedious.
Do people really think imperfect enforcement of immigration law is an excuse to willfully discard the right to trial or constraints on presidential power?
Well apparently at least public school libraries in Utah's Davis County[0]. To their credit, they did actually ban it due to vulgarity and violence, so at least they were principled in that sense, but then the book was brought back due to backlash.

[0]: <https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/21/us/utah-davis-school-dist...>
It is crazy how out of touch people on this platform can be. I live in Europe but have been to Asia and South America. People use WhatsApp everywhere. Just because you live in North America where everyone uses SMS/iMessage/whatever doesn't mean everyone does. I can remember my parents scolding me because they got charged for me receiving some SMS. WhatsApp was a gamechanger. You could send messages or pictures without having to think about the price of it (While being connected to a WLAN...). So at some point no one used SMS anymore. iMessage was out of the question also, because only a very small amount of people had iPhones. And everyone was scared of sending a Message because you wouldn't know if the Message would cost you or not. But everyone had WhatsApp.

For some people it is a requirement to have a social life. It is not your choice to use it or not. Network effects are taking care of that. If you think Signal or whatever is a better choice, good on you. But if you don't want to cut ties with some of your friends, prepare to use multiple apps. Including WhatsApp.
I have a similar setup going on. I'm a heavy user of LLMs, but the only time I use the code they generate is for throwaway scripts. I like to describe the problem I'm working on, paste in my code, and ask about everything wrong with it. Am I missing something? Are there glaring flaws or inefficiencies? Are there better ways to approach this? I never take suggestions unless I fully understand and agree with them. There are lots of poor suggestions, but lots of really good ones too.

Infinite tailored critique and advice. I have found this immensely valuable, and I have learned lots doing it. LLMs are static analyzers on steroids.
Calculus 1 remained, but that's hardly enough to develop an intuitive understanding of why things behave as they do or how to begin analyzing them.

But this isn't an isolated case - this has been widespread ever since the education system adopted the "no child left behind" policies. They now teach to the lowest common denominator instead of valuing competence, not to mention excellence.
Ask HN: Web Analytics in 2025
What's the current best-in-class, balancing usability and reliability with cost? I'm looking for:

- Funnels
- Heatmaps
- <$15/month (at very low usage to get started)

Previously I've used GA but there's no heatmap. Amplitude has both, but funnels are only on the "Growth" enterprise plan.
> I've read articles about businesses laying off people specifically to replace them with AI

Out of curiosity, were these announcements by AI companies or companies with an interest in AI companies?

At lot of articles you read are effectively advertising, especially if it’s a CEO talking about their company.
Decades of name calling and refusing to compromise from the right and it’s the left with the bad attitude that’s dividing people?
Silicon Valley or SC-ideological technologists have this ideological short-circuit for social problems. Let’s call it the Law of SC since every short-circuit needs an authoritative-sounding name, I mean law.

- The premise is that there is a social problem

- There are some examples of this repeating through history

- It always plays out this way

- Therefore we will conclude that it is technological determinism

- Bonus: Argue that this is fundamentally human nature-determinism by evoking Darwin, Buddhism or Stoicism

- Since this is Determinism (tech. or human) it can’t be solved

- You have now achieved the end-goal: “Explaining” the problem, which gives you smartness cred

- Bonus: Argue that technologists were already in the know. (Steve Jobs once admitted that his kids weren’t allowed to use the iPad.)

That this is a hopeless attitude is revealed in the conclusion:

> You don’t win by keeping up. You win by stepping out.

Because you cannot step out. You can’t rewind the clock. This is reactionary in the political sense since it aspires to go back to the past—but you can’t.[1]

We have made these technological dependencies for ourselves, or fetters. Now we need to deal with them. We need to make them work for us. What we don’t need is to stick our heads in the snad and proclaim that the best we can do is to take timeouts from technology, to create smartphone-free zones or whatever. Really? You advance these gadgets to the point where you need them (or a laptop/desktop) to minimally function in society... and then you become scared of them? No.[2]

What’s the incentive for technology companies? To prey on your attention, your time, and erode your self-worth. This is already known. Where’s the technological determinism here? Just look at the Wizard, pulling the strings—is this your technological determinism?

You (or we) are just complicit in making shitty technology. Don’t blame technological determinism or human nature. Blame yourself.

Commutes don’t expand. Home prices go up into stratosphere near any place people have to work. And the car industry lobbies against public transport. These are all human-made problems. There is nothing deterministic about them.

Your Dilbert-style laws are a crutch. Try to expand your focus beyond your narrow expertise. Then you’ll see that something better is possible.

[1] Try to become a hermit. Civilization (modernity) will eventually encroach on your little hermitland.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43510559
First hit when googling "Books with rainbows are getting banned"

https://www.salon.com/2022/04/15/ohio-school-district-bans-c...
"been proven" by who?

There is no final arbitrator that is above all others.

Liberal democracies are build on the principle that no institution is beyond corruption. That's why they build systems based on separation of powers and checks and balances.

(1) Courts should be independent, because executive branch can be corrupt and law-making branch (voters and their representatives) don't always want to follow the laws they set up.

(2) Law making branch (elections, representatives) should be immune from courts and executive branch messing with them. Lawmakers have immunity from courts and executive. Courts and executive branch should not be able to limit candidates too much.

(3) Executive branch should execute laws, but not allowed to make them. Courts should keep the executive branch in check and have at least some immunity form it.

It's all balancing acts. Different countries have different balances.

> And who should decide that if not the courts?

We could trust voters to take that into the account when making decision who to vote.
Did you try obsidian plugins for this?
Look at US companies that have physical locations near you. (You didn't say where you live in India.)

For example, when I was at EMC, we had a very prominent office in Bangalore, and "hired" people from that office instead of hiring contractors.
im following since im starting my consultancy company too outside the US
My experience is that if people are in an environment where helping others is socially encouraged rather than punished, most people want to help even strangers providing no benefit to themselves other than the healthy little dopamine hit. There's exceptions of course, but not enough to actually cause a problem.

Unfortunately I find there's a lot of social pressure (at least in the US) telling people that if they help others they're a rube and a mark, or worse, so help isn't normalized.
What kind of happy surprises are you getting with those?
> "More and more European capitals are going down the path of violating democratic norms," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a briefing when asked about the decision.

Sounds like they're upset that their investment just went up in smoke.
> Is there a name for this fever dream style of writing, that even if you follow up on all the loose ends dropped throughout, find that some of them evaporate under scrutiny?

Journalism.
That hasn't happened yet though, it's only a preliminary investigation.
I don't see it as dumb at all. I have solar PV, but adding a 5.8kWh battery would cost over USD 2k / local currency equivalent. As a result, I frequently have to export solar to the grid (during low demand, mid day periods) and then buy it from the grid when it's already in high national demand (and priced accordingly). I also have a 13 year old car that our family is fast outgrowing. It's used once or twice a week mostly for shopping, and also for some occasional long drives to see family etc. The latter are the only times I'd be at risk of starting with low charge (easily avoided). My next car will almost certainly be an EV, or PHEV. I'm supremely eager to be able to leave it in the garage/on the driveway as a home battery that's an order of magnitude bigger than a standalone battery I would buy and then have to devote attic or closet space to (and have to accept a fire risk for). I'm effectively deferring several buying decisions (car upgrade, battery purchase) until I get a good V2G option that is an all-in-one solution.
> We love to call out the workaholics, people who sacrifice health, family, and everything else to get ahead. But let’s also talk about the other extreme, people who check out the moment the clock hits 5, talk more about their CTC and office gossip at dinners rather than the craft of building something new.

I'm sorry, what? No, thank you.
The argument is that when a corrupt party against all the levers of power, there is little to stop it from doing whatever it wants. The American government is built on some assumptions about keeping nakedly corrupt, amoral authoritarians away from power.
I just downloaded nvALT on Sonoma (14.3), and it runs, but looks a bit funky. The styling of some elements is slightly broken, but does not seem to affect the functionality. I haven't tested all the features though.

>Now I just try to use something that lets me keep notes in a folder and use it but then iOS becomes a mess unless I use iCloud

I didn't quite understand: do you want an app that syncs to iOS but not via iCloud?
Really surprised that Autosleep performed so poorly. I've been using it for over a year and I'm pretty satisfied, and chose it because it was the only apple watch sleep app I could find that didn't require a monthly subscription. Admittedly I don't look at the 'score' so perhaps that's it, I just look at the overall 'quality sleep' hours and have found that tracks pretty well with how off-my-game I am that day.
So how do you solve that problem? If kids use public transport there is more demand for it which means there is a justification for increasing provision which will make more people use it.

Kids on public transport is common in most of the world.
how do you exactly fallback to common crawl? isn't the cost to even hold and query common crawl insane?
The guy in the story has as much free will as anyone does. Just because everything's stitched together with time travel, doesn't mean the individual instances of the character aren't making authentic choices in each moment. Free will doesn't mean our choices are non-deterministic and detached from our circumstances and history; I don't know why that would even be desirable. Compatibilism is the only coherent stance on free will.

> and without learning anything at all

Well, you learn something later, when the egg hatches. But blank-slate reincarnation also promises that you'll completely forget the trauma of being the elephant man, at least for the duration of the egg process. Surely the real burden would be remembering all those billions of lives with only your paltry human mind to bear it.
This looks like what web developers have been waiting literally decades for. Possibly replacing (eventually) a bunch of JS libraries to make this all do what we want.

I don't have Chrome installed, but I'm curious how it handles multi-select fields, as I didn't see that in the example video.
that guy Theo-t3 is so strange for my taste :)
It’s different because it’s simpler to assume that the total angular momentum of the universe is zero. If one black hole is rotating one way there must be other stuff rotating the other way to counterbalance. If you assume instead that the whole universe has angular momentum, well, where did that come from?
Still when we ask power org-mode users (I'm a former emacs user so kinda familiar with the space) it seems there's nothing that magical about it, or that we can't replicate easily on Obsidian...

Maybe its more about discipline to fix your bad notes.
We are definitely seeing a renewed interested in "Sovereign Cloud" A.K.A. cloud with local ownership and regional AZs that are regulatorially aware.
If you don't pay for the product, you are the product.
(2009)

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egg_(Weir_short_story)
It's more like anyone who wants to dismantle the free press is a Russian agent in this case. Not really moved by your protest.
ToS;dr is a collaborative effort! Folks can contribute for Kagi at https://edit.tosdr.org/services/11540/.
Sure! Some ideas come to mind:

1. Async and conditional effects without hopping component boundaries with switchMap

2. React.Context ritual vs oneliner `pipe(shareReplay)`
- this is easily the most useful thing, in lines of code alone

3. React is used shallowly for jsx and html, and rxjs is used for events and state and quite literally everything not writing to the dom.

4. Lazy by default, no need for suspense bc it's inherit property of observables.

5. Merge and combineLatest give you algebraic tools for constructing your logic instead of stringing components down a subtree

6. Scan but that's just inline redux reducer but I use it all the time

7. Observables are on standards track for HTMLElements in browser.
- element.when('click').map/filter/takeUntil etc.

I view react as promises--. You have to do wildly hacky things using custom API ideas that change between majors, can only use sync functions, yet all your logic is async. It's like the function coloring problem on steroids.

The maiden voyage of my blog will be soon, it's first big write up will be the test page for this jsx transform, then I'm gonna be writing a field guide for how to translate between react and rxjs.

Incredibly good reference imo:
https://dev.to/mfp22/rxjs-can-save-your-codebase-49fi

Tried to make this concise but I'm on mobile
Convert the GTK 3 and GTK 4 API documentation into a single `.txt` file each.

Upload one of your platform-specific C++ file's source, along with the doc `.txt` into your LLM of choice.

Either ask it for a conversion function-by-function, or separate it some other way logically such that the output doesn't get truncated.

Would be surprised if this didn't work, to be honest.
Citation needed. A lot of the Latinos I know in NYC voted Trump. A few were Democrat voters who grew tired of being insulted by Democrats who casually lump Latinos into a big "left loving Latino pool" when they are Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Chileans, Ecuadorians, etc; Individuals with distinct cultures and backgrounds. Latinos are also heavily religious which is very influential as well.
You too can ride in such a vehicle - just visit the Columbia Icefield in Banff, Canada.

https://www.banffjaspercollection.com/attractions/columbia-i...

They drive out tourists on to the ice (as long as it is still there, couple decades left).

I did it, very cool.
I used to work for an assistive tech company that did part of this. For people who have degenerative diseases like ALS, we would create speech profiles for them before they lost their voice so that once they did, their computer-generated voice (through eye tracking software and hardware) would be their own and not a generic voice.
Here’s what Claude says.

1. Direct effects on brain physiology: When CO2 levels rise in the blood (hypercapnia), it causes vasodilation of cerebral blood vessels. While this initially increases blood flow, sustained elevation disrupts the brain's normal pH balance, affecting neural function.

2. Acid-base imbalance: Elevated CO2 in the blood forms carbonic acid, decreasing blood pH. This acidosis affects enzyme function, neurotransmitter activity, and neuronal excitability throughout the brain.

3. Oxygen displacement: While not typically reaching dangerous levels in standard indoor environments, higher CO2 concentrations can slightly reduce oxygen availability to brain tissues in enclosed spaces.

4. Inflammatory responses: Research suggests prolonged exposure to elevated CO2 may trigger low-grade neuroinflammatory responses, potentially impairing cognitive processes.

5. Disruption of neurotransmitter systems: CO2-induced acidosis appears to affect several neurotransmitter systems, particularly GABA and glutamate, which are critical for cognitive functions like attention, memory, and decision-making.

Studies have shown measurable cognitive effects at CO2 concentrations as low as 1,000 ppm, with more significant impairment at 2,500+ ppm - levels commonly found in poorly ventilated meeting rooms, classrooms, and offices.

As for indoor vs outdoor:

> Rising atmospheric CO2 levels from global warming don't pose the same cognitive risks as elevated indoor CO2. While indoor environments can reach 1,000-5,000+ ppm, causing measurable cognitive decline through mechanisms like acid-base imbalance and neurotransmitter disruption, global atmospheric CO2 is only about 420 ppm. Even with projected increases to 500-1,000 ppm by 2100 in worst-case scenarios, these levels remain below thresholds for significant cognitive impairment. Our bodies can also better adapt to gradual atmospheric changes compared to rapid indoor CO2 accumulation, making climate change impacts the primary concern rather than direct cognitive effects.
Thanks! Will make a note of this, for sure scope to make them easier to digest.
Great AI Steals
Hey! You sound like an interesting person and I'd like to learn more about your path of transition from employee to an entrepreneur.

I couldn't find a way to contact you, so if you feel like it, drop me an email (email on my website in profile).
I feel like the jump from what the comment u were replying to was saying, I.E. something ‘easier’ might be harder in the long run to saying it’s sad scientists need to collect empirical evidence to prove things like fasting and ”extreme hot/cold” (I assume temperatures?) are good is a big one and not necessarily a good one.

What good would fasting or these extreme temps do and how would we prove it if not for evidence.

Scientists are NOT the problem here.
There are some open source tools, e.g. https://github.com/storizzi/notes-exporter
I've used another tool in the past (cannot remember the name), and it worked ok.

I personally cannot trust Apple to store data, so I only use Apple Notes for throw-away notes like shopping lists.
Not all Meta products are alike. WA has E2E encryption, has had it for a long time. It's the same protocol as Signal: in fact, it was built for/in WA by Moxie/signal a while ago.

That doesn't make the metadata private. Meta can use that as they want. But not the contents, nor the images, not even in group chats (as opposed to Telegram, where group-chats aren't (weren't?) E2E encrypted).

What you say or send on WA is private. Meta cannot see that. Nor governments nor your ISP or your router. Only you and the person or people you sent it to can read that.

It's a d*ck move if they then publicize this. And, as others pointed out, illegal even in many jurisdictions: AFAIK, it is in my country.
I am full-time building LLM-based NPCs for a text-based MMORPG. Been doing a lot of work recently on allowing progression through scenarios with them where the rules are in a class, and the LLM takes care of communicating user intent to the rules engine, based on free-text, and writes back to the user with the results.
Potentially, but it seems like an untestable hypothesis by itself.
I know 0 devs or UX designers with any real world experience that are sweating.

For UX specifically, it makes creating personas so much easier that I think we’ll see a UX once this hype cycle ends.

I don’t know or talk to any PMs, personally.
Those people are all wilfully ignorant at this point.
Energy conservation and momentum conservation are different
It's just settler colonialism. This is what it looks like, it's the same patterns and attitudes, complete with every act of resistance justifying further dehumanization and taking even more. Hell, the map of the West Bank even looks like it, it's just entirely that, top to bottom. The only difference is we're 80ish years past the point when nobody (except the colonized) minded if you were doing settler colonialism, so there's a little push-back.