skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a pile of contradictory statements. And since you're upset by that idea and unwilling to re-read what you wrote, here's some spoon-feeding:

"With Covid remote access became the norm and the online/proxy workflow more or less died"

No; remote access DEMANDS a proxy workflow, since you're not going to edit full-resolution files over the Internet. So it did not "die;" just the opposite. Witness the entire "camera to cloud" marketing mania that swept NAB a few years ago. That's based entirely on the rapid upload of proxy files to begin editing ASAP.

From NAB last year:
“We introduced the [Blackmagic Camera] iPhone app a little while ago,” said Bob Caniglia, director of sales for the company in North America. “You can shoot with that phone, work with the cloud service, share proxies. The camera to Blackmagic cloud to Resolve workflow started with the camera app. The Ursa Broadcast G2 [camera] is now in beta for that software too. That's a good direction on where we're going.”

Does that sound like it died? Or https://blog.frame.io/2024/04/11/visit-us-at-nab-2024/

But back to your assertions: "Proxies are used for several reasons, expensive storage, heavy codecs at high bitrates or multicams. They are typically avoided whenever you can because the online part of a proxy based workflow can be a challenge"

That makes absolutely no sense. You just claimed that proxies are used to avoid "heavy codecs at high bitrates" but then claim "the online part of a proxy based workflow can be a challenge." But you neglected to provide a single example of what's so "challenging" about it, especially when you just cited proxies as an advantage.

Thus, since you pushed the issue, we see that in fact it is you who has no idea what you're talking about. But hey, keep insulting other users.

Or... if you prefer to be informed:
https://filmmakermagazine.com/120946-new-remote-tools-workfl...

https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/cameras-support-expanding-...

and many many more...
iOS app size analysis running locally on your mac: https://dotipa.app/
bookhead - zapier for independent bookstores: https://bookhead.net
An IQ of 300 is impossible, because that's 13.333... standard deviations above the norm's average. Can't norm that.
you might try to make a joke

but US courts had done rulings which where basically like that
> Using RDS instead of self-installing SQL eliminates the need for an entire full time role for DB admin.

No it doesn't. The value in a skilled DB admin is not in keeping the DB up and running, because no special skills are required to do that; the DB admin is an expert in performance. They add considerable value in ensuring you get the most bang for your buck from your infrastructure.

A popular modern alternative to this of course is to throw more money at RDS until your performance problems go away.
Fedora is a modern Linux desktop distribution with active development and support for modern softwares. While using an old OS such as Windows XP is a huge security risk, with very minimal possibilities of running modern softwares. Even major browsers like Firefox and Chrome won't run on XP anymore.
Allocation Mechanisms
Thank you. These 2 are well-known, as well as plenty others. But I wanted to see answer from the author of the comment to which I replied. Apart from tests (of which both sqlite and curl have plenty, and that is obviously good), I don't see any reasonable difference in sqlite or curl code in aspects which were mentioned in their comment (namely, style and ownership). I'd like to see what they think is reasonable C code.
You could probably still run a JavaScript program from the developer console, though. (However, I think that does not allow it to run from bookmarks, unless it already can.)

> It's unfortunate that browser developers want to fully derisk all potential security holes, because that also means removing the choice from the end user.

I agree with you, it is unfortunate. (There are other cases of this too, though.) (I think there are other ways to fix security issues though, while allowing more and better control by the end user; but, they don't tend to do such things.)
Singapore didn’t have any democracy for decades. You can’t build a nation and a democracy at the same time.

You need the benevolent dictator, then the stability, then the slow introduction of government by the people over decades.
Media in this case is a plural of medium — something that both contains information and describes its interface.

I think the idea is a bit different than what you describe. New media contains in itself the essence of old media, but it does not necessarily supersede it. For example, we have theater and film.

This “rule” of media doesn’t help us predict how or whether AI will evolve, so it is difficult to relate it to hyping. It is an exclusionary heuristic for future predictions — it helps us exclude unlikely ones. But doesn’t help us come up with any.

I personally am hopeful that AI will evolve into something else that has more essence to it than mere function. But that’s just hope, which is rather less promising than hype.
Lots of large files, I think most would have been over 50MB.

There was a folder of smaller files to move, around a million files each less than 100kB. That took longer, but not long enough that I bothered to try and speed it up.
It is exactly a one a day pill. What are you imagining?
If this was actually happening, what would you expect to see different? The reason we have due process is so that we don’t have to rely on second-hand reports to monitor the justice system. Get rid of due process and this is what we have.
Some of the most horrific atrocities have been done by people trying to " take care of the world"

> We have been given many, many resources at our disposal, and we bear the responsibility to use them well.

You should use "I" rather than "we" and I would agree. I've been given the gift of life in my children and I do everything for them. Fortunately I have resources to spare and try to take care of my family and neighbors as well, and I suggest you do the same.
Humans hate being bored but only dick-around and learn things like this when they're bored. Speaking personally, I guess.

Since the 90s we've found "better" ways at "curing" our boredom. Put this UI on a modern OS in front of a kid today and they would just download Steam, Chrome and Discord. And be assured, they're very proficient at the in-and-outs of those platforms.

Just some random thoughts I had, not sure any of it tracks...
So a corporation should be in contempt with US law just to uphold a moral high ground for a some random user?
Could this help? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-note...

Instruments 16.3 includes a new Processor Trace Instrument which uses hardware-supported, low-overhead CPU execution tracing to accurately reconstruct execution of the program. This tool provides metrics like duration, number of cycles, and instructions retired for every function executed on the CPU. Timeline in Instruments presents execution flame graph, while detail views provide aggregate-level data like Call Tree or aggregated metrics (min, max, count, sum), divided by function. Traces can be recorded using the new Processor Trace template on supported devices: M4 Mac, M4 iPad, and iPhone 16/16 Pro. Tracing on the device requires additional configuration in the System Settings.
The actual cost is fucking your customers up by cutting costs after being sold the ideology not the tool (the tool is irrelevant). That hasn’t changed and this is just another hammer to make it worse. Customers and businesses will tire and revenue will not make ends meet (hint: it doesn’t now).

This hammer is however one which becomes stale very quickly unless you keep throwing megawatts and billions of dollars at it constantly. Thus when the bubble bursts it will break all growth predictions instantly and cause a major collapse.

It’s going to be a meaty train wreck and a huge opportunity and I can’t wait. Reckon I’ll retire in 5 years.
Agreed, when I was at uni a few years ago, having the lecture slides was a handy reference EVEN when I wrote my own notes during lectures.

One thing it helps with is for professors with their own special take on a subject where you have to use the exact right obscure method that only exists in their 20 year old slides and nowhere else. Or if the textbook is garbage or doesn't exist. When your course context is not the latest and greatest information, having the slides is handy for passing.
Flouridation of drinking water does not happen in the entire developed world, though.

And lower IQ scores don't necessarily say much about pure intelligence directly, a worsening education system could also contribute and that's not exactly far fetched. And your linked source says:

> The steepest slopes occurred for ages 18–22 and lower levels of education
So what's going on here then?

https://github.com/wangxiaofeng7/wangxiaofeng7.github.io

Someone making a homepage in the last few days, but to what purpose?
https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/commits/master/

Doesn't look like there is a lot of momentum left?
Any big school over 10k students
The current administration also seems very eager to advertise deportations, so if they're quiet about this one, it's likely something else.
Aren't non-rechargeable batteries still at least a little dangerous, though?
Sweet! I have a very similar desktop that I’ve shoehorned support for i3 into as well. Will do likewise with this.
> I teach at a regional public university

I think this is the main explanation. The median college student has a lower IQ now compared to 10 years ago because more people are going to college, and the marginal new student is below the college educated median.

That's it, everything else is downstream. The top 100k university students are as studious and capable as ever before.
>Sounds like a reasonable reason to dump a service that will just block you.

ANY and I mean absolutely ANY service can just block you if they think you're violating ToS, including Google/Android and Apple.
OP does not ban digital screens despite the title. They even play video games !

It's more the en-shittification of the Internet, and other media.
Ah, so Musk must have X systematically taking down calls for public execution of his political enemies, then? This is a legit exception to free speech absolutism and he is just asking Reddit to do the same thing he does on his platform.
Not from the US, but Biden gets a pass for his son. Trump would make Ramsay Bolton look like Mother Teresa if he had power over a Biden.
I think the part you quoted is about it needing to be fast to compile from markdown to html, not compiling the C program.
I am a big fan of Debian 12 with Cinnamon.
Séamas gets the credit for that one :) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/16/will-th...
No you can configure for every 3 mins if you prefer. But it then uses that metric to allocate time to different client accounts based on keyword matching you set up. And it does screen captures too. I like it because unlike most other apps it is completely automated and private (no uploading data into the cloud, secure encryption etc).
I run C on the server. Static content blocks from a directory are converted to #defines by a Python script, so I literally #include "staticpages.inc" and reference them by name. Another Python script generates the code for building the navigation menu (dynamically based on the current page). Another one generates the code to parse the URL and select a request handler. Most pages are header+navbar+content+footer, so I wrote a utility function:

The blog section is a memory-mapped set of C structures, but in the next rewrite I'll directly embed blog posts in the program, too.

I did it this way instead of using a static site generator because I realized that there's no such thing as a static site. My server has to run code to serve any website, including a "static site", so why arbitrarily limit it to the code for loading static files? https://www.immibis.com/blog/12

Not a single library is used, besides libc - at least in the backend code. I use nginx as a reverse proxy and SCGI as the interface from nginx to the C backend.
The only point I’d argue with this professor: give students your slides by default. In my graduate program, this is done for every class. As a working professional, slides are regularly shared so information can be reviewed later.
We here—those of us having a conversation on Hacker News—are capable of analyzing our perceptions and molding them to better fit the observed facts. We do not need to be victims of our own instinctive reactions.

So whether or not it does matter if the facts don't line up with the speculation, it should matter.
Maybe I’m biased because I grew up in a family where my dad at one point was a musician and my siblings and I all pursued competitive careers at one point in our lives (academia, acting, business, music, sports), but I don’t know if Americans in general are averse to competition. In fact, I’d say Americans love competition. Americans generally love sports, for example.

I do agree, though, that we Americans could do a better job at handling losing, and we also have a problem with people and institutions that want to win at any cost, violating mores and laws when they are impediments to “winning.”
Germany as a single state emerged only at the second half of XIX. You may argue that those multitude of German states which existed before still count, but how more functional each of them were compared to e.g. Khmer Kingdom is an open question. What is 'functional' to begin with? I probably would agree that there should be some sort of pre-requisite for a working democracy, but your theory of a 'functional state' (at least as I can derive it from your commentaries) feels a bit too raw so far
Just an FYI, you do know that Hanlon's Razor isn't a law, or even a rule of thumb.

It was a joke in a joke book, and has been taken entirely out of context by most people who use it to justify anything.
Suggestion: change the 'missing teeth' form line to include an ordinal count or something. I was surprised to learn when filing my form that I had "Missing teeth: 30"!
Thank you for the update.
This is a great question, and it's not as simple many comments here make it seem to be. This Veritasium video has a great explanation (and an enormous ball of molten sodium).
Luggage drop-off asks the same question, here in Australia anyway
Fundamentally, yes, right? For some definition of “enough.”

Actually, after some quick googling (so, maybe someone actually knows better) it seems like this is an issue where there’s an active discussion? Maybe somebody actually involved in the field knows more.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004JD00...

https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/3/79/2012/esd-3-79-2012....

But that came out in 2012. I bet you could find some other article citing it, as rebuttals.

It seems a bit implausible to think we could somehow pull enough energy from the wind to really matter, but then again carbon based climate change also seemed a bit implausible so, I guess, who knows?
No, the US is not currently a dictatorship.

The US currently has a president who tries to be a dictator, but that's not the same thing. And it has a congress that doesn't bother to check the president, but that's still not a dictatorship. And, as someone who lives in the US, the difference really matters.

The difference between this and a real dictatorship is the courts. If we lose that, we're in trouble.
Ah I see, that makes sense. Thanks.
Nobody is immune against mistakes, but a certain class of mistakes¹ should never ever happen to anyone who should know better. And that in my book is anybody who has their code used by more people than themselves. I am not saying devs aren't allowed to make stupid mistakes, but if we let civil engineers have their bridges collapse with an "shit happens" -attitude trust in civil engineering would be questionable at best. So yeah shit happens to us devs, but we should be shamed if it was preventable by simply knowing the basics.

So my opinion is anybody who writes code that is used by others should feel a certain danger-tingle whenever a secret or real user data is put literally anywhere.

To all beginners that just means that when handling secrets, instead of pressing on, you should pause and make an exhaustive list of who would have read/write access to the secret under which conditions and whether that is intended. And with things that are world-readable like a public repo, this is especially crucial.

Another one may or may not be your shells history, the context of your environment variables, whatever you copy-paste into the browser-searchbar/application/LLM/chat/comment section of your choice etc.

If you absolutely have to store secrets/private user data in files within a repo it is a good idea to add the following to your .gitignore:

*.private
*.private.*

And then every such file has to have ".private." within the filename (e.g. credentials.private.json), this not only marks it to yourself, it also prevents you to mix up critical with mundane configuration.

But better is to spend a day to think about where secrets/user data really should be stored and how to manage them properly.

¹: a non-exhaustive list of other such mistakes: mistaking XOR for encryption, storing passwords in plaintext, using hardcoded credentials, relying on obscurity for security, sending data unencrypted over HTTP, not hashing passwords, using weak hash functions like MD5 or SHA-1, no input validation to stiff thst goes into your database, trusting user input blindly, buffer overflows due to unchecked input, lack of access control, no user authentication, using default admin credentials, running all code as administrator/root without dropping priviledges, relying on client-side validation for security, using self-rolled cryptographic algorithms, mixing authentication and authorization logic, no session expiration or timeout, predictable session IDs, no patch management or updates, wide-open network shares, exposing internal services to the internet, trusting data from cookies or query strings without verification, etc
Wrapping your conspiracy theories into pseudo-science based on wild guesses doesn't make them more likely.

There is a long series of scientists in the US that were secretly working for the Chinese government. It is simply the most likely explanation that this is another instance of that.

It also doesn't make any sense that the US government would secretly "disappear", as you put it, this individual while they are openly deporting thousands elsewhere, often based on flimsy evidence. Furthermore, if you are secretly getting rid of someone, you do it to avoid taking responsibility. Why would you send the FBI to raid their residence afterwards? That immediately connects you to the disappearance, thereby sabotaging your own scheme.
a substantial amount of wind is also caused by (differential) solar heating: that's why wind doesn't only go in one direction

if you've ever spent time at the seashore, the wind comes in off the sea during the day (because of rising thermals on the land side) and blows back offshore at night (because the land cools and the sea is now warmer) that time in between the air is dead-still, and that's when the swarms of gnats can find you.
So no application code needs to be changed because no application code exists.

Isn't that like saying you don't need to modify application code with an REST API if your "application" is just a list of instructions on how to use wget/bash to accomplish the task?
I do get pulled aside for "enhanced screening" consistently while transiting Europe :-)

I'm sure you didn't actually mean it that way though :-)

A sibling comment made me recheck the rules and it does seem like phones and other small rechargeable devices are allowed in checked baggage.

Maybe I've been unconsciously extending "power banks and rechargeable batteries" to also mean device when questioned.

Except that one time in Latin America where they would only let me put my ultra-compact camera in checked baggage if I took out the batteries.
It’s getting there.
Dependency management in C is the hell that you and your dependency make it, alone. You can try to copy a .a file and a directory of headers into your project, or you can try to make a massive graph of 1000 dependencies that needs a SAT solver to untangle.

Dependencies are hell in JavaScript, Haskell, and Python too, but you don't notice because the computer works through the most common hells automatically... so developers don't hesitate to create hells. In C, they hesitate.
>What is going on here? Are we totally rejecting the society we've built for ourselves? Where do we go from here?

Internet decimated subcultures now we're stuck in a weird reflection loop with the internet and real life.
Vegetables can taste good if you cook them properly. Healthy food doesn't have to taste bad, and lectures don't have to be boring either
Nice one. I normally do jobs like this with ImageMagick but your tool work fine. As your tool runs inside the browser, as you say, the notions of "Upload" and "Download" aren't the best ones, as these suggest actions with other computers. Maybe use "Load" and "Save" ...

And as I experimented, I wanted to get different intensities of an effect to compare, but all generated images where named "noisy-image.png" ... it would be nice to have the amount generated in the names, e.g. "image-dust-30.jpg" or "image-film-45.jpg" to easily store them side by side and remember the variations applied.
Back when all my precious data was on floppy disk and hard drives, I HATED magnets. Now I am more ambivalent.
> 3 other students have been disappeared by the government

If you're talking about the students I think you are, they're detained in Louisiana and Texas. They haven't been "disappeared" in any way.
What procedures? Both the administration and Judge Boasberg assert that the court has no jurisdiction over the prisoners in El Salvador. Now that they have been remanded to El Salvador the US doesn't have jurisdiction at all.

What evidence? The administration has lready said in court that they have no evidence some of the men committed any crimes.

What's still being litigated is if the administration will be able to send any more flights to El Salvador.
It's also from a time when corporate mass surveillance was universally hated, software was not a service, and "phoning home" or requiring an Internet connection considered unacceptable to the majority of users.
In the context of taxes and tax enforcement, I have no choice but to assume you are being intentionally obtuse as to what I mean by “fair share”
I spent a week building and then a month over-engineering https://roastedreads.com - a site where you get roasted you based on what you read by literary characters (Gollum, Murderbot, Ms.Marple etc).
The main site of the Center for Distributed Confidential Computing[1] is up, and the chart of "principle investigators" still shows XiaoFeng Wang as the center director. But many other links on that site are broken and pages have been cut down, compared to an archive from last month.[2]

They used to have a Github.[3] But now it says "No public repositories".

Here's their NSF funding.[4][5] About US$3 million. Xiaogang (Cliff) Wang is listed as the principal investigator.

[1] http://nsf-cdcc.org/principle-investigators/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250120221302/https://nsf-cdcc....

[3] https://github.com/CDCC-Project

[4] https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-awards-advance-cybers...

[5] https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2207231&His...
The (subsidized, market dumped) price of cells may be low at the moment, but the price of storage, land and artificial inertia isn't.

You can absolutely sell non-PV power during the day. Big power consumers sign contracts for predictable and reliable supply.
There are no published facts aside from this guys missing, so there can be no adequate accounting of the facts.

You've misused Occam's Razor.
Very cool. We need more Buckaroo Banzais.