skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think Reels is superior to TikTok?
Pretty sure that's 100% accurate, what's with 'hmmm'? Or perhaps you think he used more drugs than others?
Privacy is the reason they're growing at all, it's their competitive advantage. I think even investors are smart enough to not kill the chicken that lays golden eggs.
I don't mean to be rude but I think this is maybe a psychological issue, not a technological one. I'm doubtful that 1600 tabs open in any way reflects some advanced or thoughtful way to work, it's just problematic.

'Junk Hoarders' -> 'Tab Hoarders'.

Maybe find a way to truly organize bookmarks and find a good bookmark manager plugin that lets you 'get to your stuff' as you need it.
Line jumping is revenue center for theme parks these days. At Disneyland it's called the MaxPass, at LegoLand, the Fastrack. I'm sure there are others.
AskHistorians moderation is legendary -- and unique.

Tiny subreddits (like usbchardware where I am mod) are easy to keep nice. But most larges ones are horrible, horrible toxic cesspools. It is basically a phenomenon that communities break off the larger one when it becomes too toxic -- but all too often the larger one won't wither. /r/canada and /r/onguardforthee/ is a classic example.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/7z706y/whats_... and an example post from /r/canada within the last hour, you don't need to look far for stuff like this "I feel like ISIS would be better the liberals at this point for canada."

Let's not even mention the childfree subs because what the original one became is shudder
The Shortcuts Catalog for iOS 14, feat. 300 shortcuts and 300 actions
> I'm concerned about China's policy of heavy-handed protectionism and censorship internally while benefitting from global markets externally.

Foreign companies benefited enormously from the opening up of the Chinese market, and China is not nearly as protectionist as it's made out to be. Western media has trouble entering China because of political censorship, but Western businesses in general have very good market access. China is a very significant market for most major US tech companies.
Great article and looking forward to the rest!

I enjoyed the economic tidbits that remain relevant today — rulers owning and controlling extraction of commodities, locating production based on cost of transporting inputs, and treatment of labor varying according to its scarcity.
Interesting interaction that wasn’t discoverable, just like 3D Touch. I wish they had guidance in the watchOS Human Interface Guidelines for migrating away, especially in full-screen apps.
Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened?
There's a utility called dtrx ("do the right extraction") that does basically this, and also makes sure that files are always extracted into a directory.
My guest booked today was Morgan Housel, a VC and former journalist who's frequently on CNBC. We had to reschedule b/c of a conflict -- this would have been the perfect day to get your startup on. Remember, you really have to get yourself out there in front of the public, and don't take my word for it, just ask some startup founders! We're routing for all of you!
Vite looks pretty darn neat
Good point. You definitely seem correct.

Most of the big ones were being DOSed when I was checking.

I found this which suggested Agartha, but they do actually mention it's not ‘approved’ by Darknetlive.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3581387

I wouldn't expect the Russian vaccine yet, and I'd google around before buying it. I'm already on a trial vaccine so I'm not supposed to get any other vaccines. But I might buy a non-animal vaccine for family when it comes out.
Phone screen was super short, like 5 minutes. Followed by a vague exercise to create a tracking service without a database (wat?). Then there was like 2 weeks of back and forth emails for scheduling for a review until they said they needed someone with "stronger programming skills".
I have recently found it curious how the voice is tied into the emotions, at least for me. A few years ago, when reading a section of a novel to my wife, I found it hard not to start crying at a passage I found moving enough when reading silently, but that did not nearly bring on tears. And more recently I repeatedly revised and reread a eulogy for a friend dry-eyed, then found myself struggling not to break down when I delivered it a the memorial service.
This is the sort of answer I was looking for. Unfortunately I’m on iPhone. :(
Actually close to 12 years, GNU tar 1.21 https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

Another "recent" (much more recent IIRC) change is that you don't need the dot anymore in find to search in the current directory.
We moved to this sort of village where our house had a few fields, and I think my dad entertained the idea of trying to do it seriously (he did have past experience but was working in a different field and had an unrelated university degree). In the end it was just a lot of hard work, some of it fun (I got to drive a tractor at 14!), but most of it was tedious and not very rewarding. I guess had we turned a little profit this would make us more incentivised, but also about a year later we moved away to a city so it wasn't practical anymore.

I'd recommend starting with a pretty small field and not going commercial on the first try.
Hot food is invariably more edible than cold...

I'm not so sure on the value front. There's a lot of meat on a typical £5-7 hot meal. You can't generally pay that much for a sandwich, and when you buy a cheaper one, it's miserly.
Months before the executive branch took notice there was widespread outcry in computer security circles about tiktok, including on HN.

Tiktok was a toxic malware vector, until the executive branch took notice, then it suddenly became a poor victim of political persecution.
That's wasteful. I hope someone can prove him wrong by doing it in CGI.
I am ninety nine percent sure that sodomy would be punished if discovered or even suspected in many sharia regimes. The notion that sharia doesn't involved what is private seems quite revisionist to me. Can you point to a country where sharia law is enforced by the state where sodomy is allowed when it occurs in private? Would you care to quantify what fraction of people living in majority muslim states enjoy such protection?
I hate it, and I hate what it stands for. I mentally associaciate Pret with bankers, and I haven't forgetten about 2008.

I'm being facetious, but only just... I work in fintech, and I end up associating with a bunch of bankers, and I give those who still patronize Pret a bit of a hard time.
I guess Marketing learned a valuable lesson about SQL keywords. It's also amusing to me because you know some engineer at Amazon must have brought up an edge case where a valid request would start with SELECT - but they were probably dismissed because how often would that happen - really?
As a long-time rPi user and embedded developer, it’s really not about ideological purity (or at least not entirely). There are real ramifications for the lack of open documentation for the GPU interfaces on the Raspberry Pi that make it really hard to use (as in utilize) if not running a mainstream Linux w/ binary blobs and device overlays. The GPU even does the system startup and initial boot loading; it’s not just closed source, it’s also entirely opaque and undocumented (documentation only available for bulk purchasers from Broadcom and under NDA, purchasing Raspberry Pi in bulk doesn’t get you the SoC documentation).

(Unlike typical devices, the CPU doesn’t do system startup and initialize the GPU as an add-on or co-processor, on the Raspberry Pi the situation is more or less reversed.)
I think we're getting more and more expensive. The Raspberry Pi 4 made a lot of deliberate trade-offs to stay at $35. Going to the ODROID-H2+ means paying another $85 plus (I forgot this in the parent) RAM cost. Then going to a "real mini-itx" board probably means paying for a "real" mini-ITX case and power supply. It'll be nicer for sure but there's significant price creep. Looks like the CPU isn't included either.

The ODROID-H2 Case Type 1 has a fan and space for two 3.5" drives for $20. The ODROID-H2 power supply costs $9.40. I'll be astonished if anything compatible with that ASRock board will match that.
Definitely collectivism is not good for anyone not following the goals of the collective. The idea that collectivism is "better for us" is a collective point of view, that doing something optimal for the most of us is better than doing something suboptimal for all of us. Collective thinking has many positive and negative examples, often both in the same example. One with a high positive side is the rise from devastation of post-Korean War South Korea to the powerhouse it is today in about 50 years, and this considering that South Korea has very few natural resources, so the only resource they can count on was manpower.
If you have a computer with linux, this kind of things could help: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
Show HN: Open-source Browser-based lecturing platform powered by WebRTC
As a student, during this pandemic, I wanted a simple way to have online lectures that felt like in-person ones so I created liteboard.io
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A lecturing platform powered by WebRTC and Janus with state-of-the-art drawing tools for anyone who wants to host their own lectures!

I'm completing my second year of college next term and I would love to get some feedback on the project! Here's the Github link: https://github.com/jeverd/lecture-experience
I’m going to try this. Thanks!
I'm curious about this code the way hardware peeps are curious about the Apollo guidance computer. haha.
grift: noun,
a petty or small-scale swindle.

graft: noun,
a shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap.

Edit: Ugh nevermind I found more definitions of graft. Google only showed the plant/medical-related ones by default.
I want to take whoever wrote this and throw 40lbs of gear on their back (which is light, but that's just so they don't fully break on the trip) and have them go hump with me it over the roughest imaginable terrain and let them carry all the tech and batteries they want to their heart's content while we go cut fire lines. After they see how useless and unnecessary all that crap is, and how it goes tits up from being dropped/smashed/heated, and how unnecessary it is to do the job they need to do, I'd love to see them pack up their rucksack for the next trip. I'll bet a LOT of money they don't take any of it.

Firefighters don't need a fucking ipad to cut lines. They need a pickaxe, chainsaws, shovels, etc.

Technology in this type of application is almost never more efficient or better than existing methods, but it gets used when it reduces training costs enough to be deployed.

I worked EMS. If I needed to find a house fast and reliably, I'll use the custom fire department's map binder over any technology solution you can come up with any day and it will be superior in essentially every way.
LuaJIT Implementation of Simple Object Machine (SOM) Smalltalk Dialect
Woops! Here it is: https://shadowproof.com/2020/09/18/khaled-el-masri-stands-up...
Please ask GitHub to tell MasterCard to change their 'offensive' and 'oppressive' name. /s

It is NOT inclusive. :red_angry_face /s

> https://github.com/mastercard
Why? The hard part isn't building a Vine or TikTok clone. It's getting 800M people to come and use it.
At the TSA, it's called PreCheck.
Thanks for sharing, SVGs are great!

Do keep in mind are not fully supported in many older browsers. You may want to have a PNG backup.
https://caniuse.com/svg
Oh, nice. That was announced September 7, 2005, and the article above was posted July 20, so I guess the article was right about the upcoming announcement, and the comments were right about the phone's future.

But the article's mock-up looks nothing like the phone.
I have an entrenched Anki habit – I picked it up while studying for an exam, and now it says I’ve been using it for an average of 17 minutes a day for 2 years. It’s a great tool and I recommend it. But I don’t think it helps to fix the phone addiction problem. Getting to an average of 17 minutes was hard work that required a lot of willpower. I’m sure most people with a phone addiction problem are spending much more than 17 minutes a day on unproductive scrolling.
it's like holding a court case on a military base. everybody there works for the CIA or is a family member.
Let's think about it a different way. Suppose a vendor has a deal with Bloomingdale's to create a small boutique within the store and sell products. The deal states that the vendor use the store's payment system and give them 30% of revenue. That is not an unusual setup. With Apple, the 30% is the first year, 15% after that.

Now suppose the vendor decides to start using their own payment system and give Bloomingdale's no share of the revenue. This is of course counter to the signed contract. Bloomingdale's takes the step that is already spelled out in the contract they both agreed to. First, they issue a warning and ask the vendor to stop and return to the terms of the contract. The vendor refuses. Bloomingdale's now takes the next steps specified in the contract and removes the vendor's property from the store and ends their revenue from the store.

So now imagine that the vendor runs to the courts (and the public) and says Bloomingdale's damaged their business by not allowing them to sell in the store at no cost. They would be laughed out of the court room. This is what Epic has done. Using the "damage" caused by their own actions to justify their actions is a losing strategy.

Its actually a bit worse than my example because Epic wants to sell other vendor's goods through their store and make a cut of all of those sales. They basically don't want to follow the rules of Apple's app store so they can create their own app store. The hypocrisy is telling.

If Epic felt they had sound legal basis to question the Apple store rules (and existence) they would simply bring a lawsuit and try to effect change. They also could have simply entered into direct negotiations with Apple and made their case. They could lobby other vendors to join them. They could continue to follow the rules until the court's decide and no users would be impacted and their revenue would continue the entire time. They made other choices and so they have hurt their own business.

Personally, I think the app store royalties and policies need to be updated and made more appropriate to the scale of the business and the community. However, I also disagree with Epic's approach to the issue. You don't have to be an Apple acolyte to consider Epic's choices to be inappropriate.
"If the Administration wanted to support an open Internet, it would have avoided this route; rather, it would have first tried to understand how such actions may affect the Internet and conducted an impact assessment."

If only the Internet Society had followed this advice before trying to sell the org domain.
I learned recently this is sometimes visualized by something called the "Swiss Cheese Model": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

Regarding self driving cars:
I was once told that a big reason for the safety of fly-by-wire systems (when planes first moved from directly attached controls) is that the engineers who built those systems had to take the first flights, so they made sure their systems were good. That is probably the case for self-driving cars too, but falling out of the sky feels more viscerally unsafe than driving on a highway, and the gradual nature of the changeover probably isn't helping either.
Hmm. okay I understand that you still disagree but I don't get your point.

> So I think you can tactically play football and chess equivalents in 1D, but the actual movements required to execute the game still require three dimensions

I don't know what you mean by tactically. I never played football in 1D in my life and I think no one ever has, except if you are referring to a computer game or computer simulation. But I have played blindfold games without a chessboard and without a computer.

> but you can't move your pawn forward on the board in 1D

you don't need a board to play chess. A chess board be it in 2D representation on a computer screen or in 3D in real life is just a optional representation of the chess game, but you don't need it.

> a computer or any existing encoding of data that we have today requires representation in 3 (or however many you think we have)

I think we most likely have (according to theories that are mathematically sound) four non-compact dimension and seven that are curled up, so 11, but obviously there's no proof for that.
Unfortunately, TI did make ASM much harder to do earlier this year. There is a jailbreak for some OS versions: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1198899-texas-instrumen...
Congrats to Tenet for hitting break-even last week, despite tanking at the U.S. box office.

https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/tenet-box-office-ch...
Great perspective! I think things are early stage, but that the next couple of years are going to be the most exciting period for VR with possibly several of the upcoming games you mention hitting very large sales numbers. There's no guarantee, but just like the Wii was the must-have console of its generation, the Quest 2 has the potential to be a runaway success with sales numbers simaler to the consoles. As technology watchers, sometimes we watch these incremental improvements over many years and its hard to recognize the moment something is about to pass into the mainstream.
To quench your concerns a bit, I should mention that the reason nuclear has such a high safety record is because it is one of the most regulated industries, as it should be. When we consider radiation dosage levels, safe is magnitudes below what we've measured to be dangerous. Most of us that have worked in or adjacent to this technology are actually happy with this. There is real improvement that needs to be made in regulation though, because there is such a thing as too cautious (i.e. making a small reactor have the same insurance liability as a large reactor. Another example I've seen is "Hey, we did all the sims and testing, x method is better and safer and cheaper" and get responds back "x is untested in practice, we will keep doing y because it is proven." So the industry is a bit slow moving). But there are many that aren't in the industry that do not understand the nuances are try to push more. But I assure you that they don't have the ears of regulators. These are the people screaming about Thorium on Reddit that don't know a proton from an alpha particle. Every scientist I know in the field is much more risk adverse than I see in other fields. Quite frankly, for good reason. The reason for the "knows the most, fears the least" comment is because after you've studied this stuff for years, seen safety practices, understand the levels of added safety, you realize that accidents are difficult because so much thought has gone into preventing them. So armchair scientists are saying "why don't we advance like we do in other tech" but actual scientists are saying "Hey, it is time we use the decades of simulation science and knowledge in practice." The difference is subtle, but distinct. You'll find that scientists are different from your average software engineer.

I want to also say that if I see the industry moving away from its high safety principles I will gladly fight against it.
Over what length of time?
This is right outside Washington, DC, and it's full of Federal government employees. You could not find a more favorable jurisdiction to prosecute leakers/whistleblowers/journalists the government does not like, because the jury pool will be full of government employees. That's why Assange was charged in this district.
Link requires Google, Facebook, or email signup. Here's a direct link to the PDF:

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4443772/file/4443780.pdf
The probabilistic model of knowledge as just a collection of hypotheses that have failed to have been falsified over sufficient testing is the dominant epistemological view today in empirical sciences. Knowing = Probably Is. It's just a matter of degree, so making the statement "it is not true that we know that, but it probably is the case" is ill-formed in the absence of consistent belief thresholds.

Normally I wouldn't say anything, but you did pull a "well, actually" there, so out-pedantifying seems warranted if only for the humour of the situation.
I use Moode Audio. https://moodeaudio.org
I guess the differences are how long it takes to detect a typo, and therefore the blast radius in getting it wrong in a script that could be executed many times before you notice.
You have to admit though, octopus entomology /would/ be surprising.
megablast, you might have missed the possibility that it allows the octomom to not die immediately after tending the eggs.
Author here. There are two versions of the interpreter: one transpiles SOM to Lua source code, and the other compiles SOM directly to LuaJIT bytecode. The latter offers more optimization possibilities; currently the bytecode compiled version runs twice as fast as the transpiled version; additional optimizations are work in progress.

There is also a class browser, a Lua source level and a LuaJIT bytecode level debugger, all written in C++/Qt.
Yeah I don't know about all that. We sunset it now but about a year ago we enhanced an AngularJS (1.x) with Typescript and React. It was pretty easy using r2a [1]. It was pretty much an angularjs 1 app for the most part. Then we had like 5 React tags that we built more complex components that used our GraphQL layer natively. It was pretty easy too because all we had to do was typically pass one or two arguments to them, then the r2a'd tag did the rest - all react code from there. There's also a2r [2] for anyone that needs the opposite

1 https://github.com/coatue-oss/react2angular

2 https://github.com/coatue-oss/angular2react
I wish we couldn't run NodeJS, then the front end devs wouldn't run this monstrosity that takes ages to start, downloads GBs of dependencies, consumes 12 cores for minutes at a time, etc.

I exaggerate, but only slightly.
The Pi doesn't use PXE. It's different, but documented here:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
Oh yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the radical fundamentalist apocalyptic medieval religious cult of an ideology that these people profess. Yes yes, everything is the US's fault.

I thought HN wasn't supposed to be a site for politics but it's pretty clear that as long as you have the RIGHT politics, which demonizes the US over ISIS, among other ridiculous beliefs, you'll get those karma points!
Thanks for the detailed examples. Maybe it's karma threshold, maybe a bug, or maybe I never wrote a title that would trigger the autoformatter, but I never noticed it.
I didn't get into the details because I was adamantly against doing it.
Because stewardship of the earth got translated into dominion over it and that became the dominant narrative in a dominant branch of Christianity in most of the world (Evangelicalism).