skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Without even looking at google, I bet there's a "mandown" project that formalizes markdown with man extensions.

The irony of the poor state of affairs of the quality of documentation for mdoc & mandb are not lost on me.

EDIT: couldn't resist. There's at least two mandown projects.
scdoc makes writing man pages a lot more pleasant: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc
Now we can have 4 router startups on top of this
> The reductive, absurd, extreme of this is why don't individual people go out and build all their own stuff like cars and houses.

This is not absurd: 3D printing is a possible (next) stepping stone towards enabling this long-time dream.

The problem rather is (as very, very often) the huge amount of red tape and regulations that prevents individuals from experimenting with such ideas and bringing them forth.

So, if you look for the root of an evil in the world, it can often be found in the laws and regulations, and the politicians who passed them.
Guess what happens with any promising European startup (including Eastern European ones). It's acquired by American companies.

Europe doesn't have a ton of large and high paying software companies, but it does have a ton of good developers.

Romania probably has produced half a million software developers over the past 30 years (in a population of about 20 million), yet it basically doesn't have any large software companies. Probably the biggest you might have heard of are Bitdefender or in the past Softpedia.

Or the alternative, foreign companies set up shop there to scoop up the local developers. Using Romania as an example, Bucharest has R&D centers with at least hundreds of developers each (some with thousands), for: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, SAP, UIPath, Huawei, Honeywell, IBM, Cognizant, Ericsson, Ubisoft, HP, etc.
Isn't what you're describing the effect of hedge funds moving into everything in order to "maximize returns"?
The market shifted. Solar used to be a luxury product, with only some environment-conscious rich people putting them on their roof. In that market the solar shingles made a lot of sense.

But solar has become a commodity product. Panel-wise the big bucks is in massive industrial greenfield installations, but Tesla's private-label brand can't compete on that market. In the residential market they are competing with every single local contractor who's willing to make a few bucks throwing bargain-bin panels on your roof, and their own system of proprietary panels and subcontractors can't compete with that either - especially when they force you to buy a power wall as well.
So one, I don't think you know what the word "impostor" means. If somebody faked your wife's identity, I think you could be reasonably upset even if she could "do the job" adequately, and it would be weird indeed to say she wasn't an impostor.

But two, are you serious with "If they couldn't do the job they would've been fired"? I think the most charitable assumption I could make is that you must not have been in the working world long. There are plenty of places that are bad noticing and getting rid of underperformers, even when everybody involved is well meaning. If somebody is actively running it as a scam, it could be hard indeed to detect. And really, they don't have to evade detection forever. Even a few months of paycheck may be more than enough for them to cover the costs of getting the jobs.
You can do this if you use an approved third party installer. I just installed a large solar array with non-Tesla panels but using two of the latest Powerwalls as inverter and storage
Coffee definitely doesn't seem cheaper in the US. A bag of Colombian Supremo from Costco is $20 now! Up from $15 a short while ago.
explain the legal basis...

tl:dr Congress has for various historical reasons decided to cede more and more power over trade regulation to the executive branch over the years, starting all the way back in the 30s. This has resulted in the president having almost unilateral leeway to decide what constitutes "security concerns or unfair practices" when it comes to trade. And until congress passes a bill to reign in that power, it is probably legal for the president to decide that almost anything is 'unfair' and that basically any response is reasonable.
OLMo 2 from AI2 is fully open-source, including code, data and recipe: https://allenai.org/olmo

There are others, but OLMo is the most recent and competitive.
thanks! would love to connect
If you agree to work for someone a number of hours per week, and you don't do it, while having no intention of doing it, and they are paying you while you are lying about it, that is fraud in most jurisdictions.
XUL would have had worse issues because it could make arbitrary XPCOM calls to all sorts of native components and nearly the full gamut of native component issues written mostly in C/C++.

XUL was in many ways always a ticking time bomb.
Proving a Null Hypothesis?
Solution is extremely simple, fly the candidate out for an in-person interview. A one-time plane ticket is a tiny expense compared to paying for the company to be a fully in-office operation, or paying a fraudster's salary.

Onsite interviews were a normal practice just a few years ago.
> have produced excellent tech <<talent>> for decades..

There you go, hope it makes more sense for you.
Idk dude. The schadenfreude is real. If a company wants to self-immolate to chase shadows, I will happily watch.
No and it's pointless to force yourself to focus. If it's not natural, it's not worth it. Do things for fun and stop taking yourself too seriously
I believe CrossOver now has full support for 32-bit games.
MCP was originated at Anthropic, and has been adopted by OpenAI, Github, Cloudflare, and more.

It's completely open, with active engagement and direction from the community:

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol

I don't think it would have such wide adoption so rapidly if it were an "over-engineered implementation".
Having been using Linux for a couple of decades as well, i'd never give away manpages in the terminal.

Any time i need a quick refresher ("was it -f or -F?") i can just pause the current editor (ctrl-z) look up the manpage (man <whatever>), exit (q) and then go back (fg) to whatever i was doing.

Having a web browser is just useless annoyance in the workflow.
I use batman from bat-extras[0]. It may very well be the best named command line utility I know.

[0]: https://github.com/eth-p/bat-extras
Its a fairly ragtag operation, they do do it, just manually and I guess nobody has gotten to it yet

https://github.com/css-naked-day/css-naked-day.github.io/com...
> Like "I don't know anything, so I'm just going to try "stuff" I find online without really understanding.

A reasonable place to start. But fair that you can't stop there if it isn't working. Next step, in my opinion, is to look at the interface more closely to see if it provides any hints. It will most of the time if it is well designed.

> But even with the best designed interfaces, not everything is discoverable

Sure. That's what the test suite is for, though: To document for users full intent and usage. You're still not going to go to a reference for that. As an added bonus, it is self-validating, so none of the "is it me or is the reference incorrect?" rigamarole.
Show HN: Fermi – A Wordle-style game for order-of-magnitude thinking
I always thought it was cool when someone could make a plausible estimate from reasonable guesses. I recently learned that these are sometimes named after Enrico Fermi, the famous physicist, and its the same technique used to create his famous Fermi paradox.

You build a rough logic chain using a few sliders and fixed quantities (e.g. weeks per year), and the goal is to get within an order of magnitude of the true answer. The math is simple; the thinking is the game.

Would love feedback.
I hope there’s a config file for dockerfmt. Over time, it will get more and more options. It will approach Turing completeness.

Then we’ll need a formatter formatter.

Software is like onions said Shrek to Donkey.
Honestly, no. They are not great, and it's getting silly to pretend they are. If they were, we wouldn't have stuff like tldr, cheat, bropages, and a good half of StackOverflow wouldn't exist as well, let alone LLM tools to translate your verbal request to half-broken ffmpeg command.

Man readers suck, man pages suck too, man markup language sucks, the contents of a typical manpage suck.
How I Use Remind(1)
I saw a video today on Instagram (from Tiktok), AI generated of course, where rows and rows of people sit at sewing machines sewing shirts, but instead of the typical Asians one commonly expects to see, they're all overweight American-looking people...
Always lagging, always late. Google is so lame these days.

(I know, they still get billions in revenue, but maybe that's their curse, too comfy to take it seriously)
I started doodling on pen and paper again, like on the back of those yahtzee papers. Killed my screen time like nothing else, it's so much fun just drawing random nonsense!
Definitely not. Foremost, there's no positive example shown - ok, great, so if I happen to be in the audience who is able to spot that "mc^2" is actually "e" what happens next with that letter? Is it in the position it's going to be played? Just "somewhere" like Wordle? Repeated?

Are there even 26 well known physics forumlae that resolve to letters?

And then the first example turns that up to 11 by offering "6.67 x 10e-11" and "r x p" and I can't represent the rest of them without MathML

I am definitely not the target audience for this
Well I read man pages Via debians web server precisely because they are easier to read in html.

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages-dev/syslog.3.e...

Bit I don't think html would be a good source format.
> Many of these agencies are from collectivist cultures, so in the mind of the agency, they all work in our project. This may not be true, but the agency sees the position as theirs, not the recruit's. So they typically don't the issue with putting recruit A in front of the interviewer and then slotting recruit B in after the position is secured.

Guess France is a collectivist culture. That's 101 of many consultancies: get the contract by presenting the A-Team then switch with junior employees a couple weeks in.
I’ve started paying more attention and noticing a lot of the creators/maintainers of open source libraries are located in Eastern Europe.
This is more interesting, and if I remember correctly, they had some interesting ideas:

Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

https://www.wired.com/2008/01/ff-aimystery/
Hello, I am the founder of Rubik's AI, and, I would love to hear feedback on our newest release, DeepSearch. Thank You!
Understandable, thanks.
UK electricity prices are set by the highest priced generator which is normally gas

Eventually more green energy will overcome this issue

Many of the commercial solar and wind farms run on a contracts for difference price - they're guaranteed a price for the energy they produce and when the market price goes over that a rebate get's paid to a Quango and should eventually feed into bills payers prices
I prefer Markdown :(
Yes, AI is used a pretext for many things. RTO, cost cutting, you name it. But since the fact remains though that there are fake recruits for remote positions, if you strip out the AI rhetoric, it remains a legitimate argument in favor of RTO.
Because Wine is a translation layer for Windows APIs into what the host operating system requires. Including translating DirectX into Vulkan/Metal.
Show HN: AI-Driven Index Tuning With Postgres MCP Server
Hey HN,

Postgres Pro is an open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built to support every stage of the development process.

It does a lot more than help generate and run SQL—it helps you make sure your application and database actually run well.

Features:

- Industrial-strength tuning algorithms similar to those in MS SQL Server

- “What if?” tool to evaluate LLM-generated index suggestions

- Works with Cursor, etc., to make changes in ORM code

- Ensures safe SQL execution with restricted mode

- Includes health checks to stay ahead of production problems
I think you're missing that the bigger value is having the manufacturing on your home soil instead of depending on being in the good graces of China.
Apparently China propaganda making fun of the US.
US has ~300B trade deficit with PRC.

Flip side is US MNCs pulls about ~300B in revenue in PRC that's not counted in trade balance accounting (because western products made in PRC factories sold to PRC consumers isn't cross borders transaction unless profit timely repatrioted, which is rarely) - most of the KFCs and Nikes and Apples can be replaced with domestic.

Whereas there aren't much PRC MNCs in US, and what few there are getting lawfared/stomped out of US, i.e. TikTok divestment and de minimis going to kill Shein/Temu.

Dependin on how / where things escalate, lots of US MNCs may lose their 10-40% revenue from PRC. There's also next rung of stupid, i.e. TikTok US getting nationalized, CFIUS forcing PRC divestments in agri, media, blah blah. Or US seize PRC assets, fucking with SWIFT, in which case trillions of US capex in PRC and not repatriated MNC profits goes up in smoke. Then we're stepping stones away from Tesla / Apple getting nationalized. Then who knows.
Powerwalls have been a huge disappointment for me so far. It gets pretty cold where we live but the Powerwalls are installed in a somewhat insulated garage. However in winter it gets cold enough in there that they need to use their own power to keep themselves warm, so they drain themselves that way in just a few days if there's no solar charging. Similarly, when the solar generation is high they need to cool themselves and that uses power. Our utility doesn't allow grid charging of storage. So all together I have relatively hope we'd actually have much backup power in an outage.
> retailer part of the price of a product is around 50%

Not according to the article. The retail price is $100 for a shoe they buy from the manufacturer for $50, but $24 of that $100 is "discounts". Therefore the average price sold at is $76, making the retail part of the price 1/3.
> How much do you trust your government with your money? A system like Pix don't stand a chance to get a worldwide adoption

You mischaracterized that.

> You have bizarre logic here. For example, in a topic discussed about GPUs, someone would say that it's not possible to run databases on GPUs, so GPUs don't have any chance of succeeding.

He's saying it wont get adopted worldwide. Not that it wont succeed (which is a very ambiguous metric).
i created a not tetris clone here https://ihopethisisfun.franzai.com/ (not tetris in a flipping / rotating board with vertical lines also possible) and I learned more about the SRS (super rotating system) then i ever wanted to know, think it is still off and i might give it another try soon
And I think it has to be both. I think the organization has to develop a culture where boundary-setting is normalized and encouraged. There are plenty of people who will burn themselves out without thinking twice about it. (I used to be one of them.) An organization that wants to be sustainable needs to a) keep them from doing that, and b) help them learn not to.
These protocols are to put handlers between you and your own data so they can sell it back to you via “search.”

Companies who are betting their future on LLMs realized a few years ago that the data they can legally use is the only long term difference between them, aka “moat.”

Now that everyone has more or less the same public data access, and a thin compute moat is still there, the goal is to transfer your private textual data to them forever so they have an ever updating and tuned set of models for your data
Tit-for-tat is a pretty well known winning strategy in game theory for conflict resolution, it's very predictable: if you cooperate, I will cooperate, if you want to compete, I will compete.

It gives a quite transparent off-ramp: if you start to cooperate, I will cooperate.

There's no point in not playing tit-for-tat in this situation, not retaliating is a losing strategy.
>Would it be fair to say that interview processes don't differentiate good hires from bullshit artists?

Anyone involved in interviewing really needs to ask themselves "what are we testing for?" In my world, we require anyone who makes it to the full in-person interview to give a technical talk on any topic they want, followed by Q&A from an audience that has a broad collective knowledge base. This has the benefits of:

- Letting the candidate start the interview on strong ground of their choosing

- Giving both the candidate and the team a chance to talk shop in a way that simulates the day-to-day work context

- Offering an opportunity for the candidate to gauge how curious and cordial their potential future colleagues are

- Making it very obvious if the candidate is BSing if they can't answer live questions about something they chose to present
> I would have thought Japan and China hated each other more than they hated Trump but it seems otherwise.

I believe they still hate each other much more than Trump, but under the given circumstances even archenemies can reach temporary (likely unstable) pragmatic agreements as long as these agreements are clearly advantageous to all of the involved archenemies involved.
> MCP itself is also an over-engineered implementation of AI plugins by OpenAI

I'm confused by this comment and a reply that both seem to be under this assumption... first, it's from Anthropic, and second, it's hardly over-engineered. If you actually go and try and implement a specific MCP server's functionality from first principles into, say, some chat client of your choosing, you will quickly run into the problems that MCP addresses.
So fly the person out for an in-person interview back like we did in the ancient year of 2019? This seems like a total non-problem to me.
Technically full time positions don’t really mandate a set of hours.
> JetBrainz

Its Jetbrains, and they don't deny having workers there at all (the company itself If I recall correctly is located in the Czech Republic). In fact, they went through great expense to exfiltrate their Ukrainian employees and cut Russia off before everyone else got on the bandwagon (IE, before it was 'cool').
Doing it on one of my sites actually causes a pretty significant performance issue, because there's a horizontal carousel with infinite scroll behaviour, which gets flattened into a vertical list which keeps loading more pages indefinitely. Glad that I've tried this, that's definitely a problem to fix.
Well, all of us are full of crap thinking that we can resolve our screen time problem by talking to people through this screen thing.

But hey, since I’m here, I’m gonna give it my shot at hypocrisy as well: something worth looking into is how to feel OK with yourself not reaching for the screen compulsively. On your own, with your thoughts
Spark / Readdle. Not a unicorn, but I've been a happy user for years.

(Their response to a customer-service request a year or so ago was sobering. Along the lines of "yes, that's a bug we know about, but the developer who owns that feature lost his home in a missile strike last week. Once he's got housing and a new laptop he'll fix it." A week later he fixed it.)
It was the secret button: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932247
That completely discounts the strategic value of self-sufficiency. I mean, why not outsource ALL manufacturing and agriculture if someone else can do it cheaper? Surely that wouldn't come back to bite us, right?
> But I think China's response is a huge gamble

It isn't. Trump got the math wrong. China and the rest of the world has a trade deficit with the US not the other around (if we count properly).

Does Trump not understand that US' position is the fragile 1? A lot of people can't live without necessities e.g. from China. Most people can live without US goods e.g. Netflix.

China has proposed banning US films. China licenses huge amounts of American drama too. Watch Hollywood crash.

Sports like NBA and Major League (baseball / soccer) are all exports with advertising, TV rights, etc. These were big in China.

The US education industry relies on foreign students as a major part of their funding. A lot of them are Asian.

China has a real monopoly on things like fireworks. There is no alternative.

Let's crash billions in the gaming industry too. Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Microsoft, etc.

The list goes on.
I have repeatedly tried to use LLMs as search engines, both general (like ChatGPT) or more focused on specific domains.

I have not been impressed by the results. In my experience, LLMs used this way generally output confident-sounding information but have one of two problems the majority of the time:

- The information is blatantly wrong, from a source that doesn't exist.

- The information is subtly wrong, and generated a predictive chain that doesn't exist from part of a source.

I have found them about on-par with the reliability of a straightforward Google search with no constraints, but that is more of a condemnation of how poor Google's modern performance as a search engine is, than an accolade for using LLMs for search.
People who want play tetris _fast_ (on places like jstrs) will prefer the "real" rotation to the "NES" rotation, because it allows you to place pieces with fewer button presses.

To explain why check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QBs703nOnk&t=502s
I recommend this one for Android: https://github.com/markusfisch/ScreenTime

It doesn't limit apps, it just displays your screen time in a permanent notification and allows you to view and export past statistics.

I've found that to be very effective. From a systems perspective, it amounts to adding a new feedback loop, similar to this leverage point described by Donella Meadows[1]:

There was this subdivision of identical houses, the story goes, except that for some reason the electric meter in some of the houses was installed in the basement and in others it was installed in the front hall, where the residents could see it constantly, going round faster or slower as they used more or less electricity. With no other change, with identical prices, electricity consumption was 30 percent lower in the houses where the meter was in the front hall.

We systems-heads love that story because it’s an example of a high leverage point in the information structure of the system. It’s not a parameter adjustment, not a strengthening or weakening of an existing loop. It’s a NEW LOOP, delivering feedback to a place where it wasn’t going before.

[1] Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-t...
You can have up to 2000W panels with an inverter up to 800W. Note that the 800W is what you're allowed to produce, not feed in, but it can still be beneficial to overprovision panels because with 800W of panels you won't produce 800W of power in mornings, evenings and winter. Panels are also cheap af in Germany currently, about 60€ for a 440w panel.
If I go to cyber cafes can I find profile details of people who have used Buzzed Chat before me on that machine? If not, then you must implement that feature ASAP.
There are seventeen names so far of people who died because it was more important to NASA management to get things done on time than to get things done right.

How many more names do we need to add to that list, before the psychotic mania for paperclips-uber-alles efficiency has been satisfied? And for that matter, I'm sure somewhere there's a headstone carved "Robert Strange McNamara," but have we checked what's in the casket under it? Or that there's a casket there at all? Did anyone see a body?
This is what happens when you have an attention economy that rewards the people who say and do the most ridiculous things.

“Reality TV star dares reality TV star to do ridiculous stunt, I bet you can’t guess what happens next!”