skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not exactly the same, as this is designed for compression, but there's an excerpt from Infinite Jest about the rise and fall of "videophony", wherein the users would get Video-Physiognmoic Dsyphoria which was just anxiety from having to suddenly be presentable in a previously audio-only interaction. The 'solution' if I recall correctly was the marketing of videophony specific make-up, followed by pre-make-upped latex masks, followed by beautified filters of the user, finally ending up at full 3D rendered perfect representations of the user that covered the camera and screen such that the only thing viewing the interaction was each others fake avatar.
A peeve of mine is the constant need to throw popups when you’ve just installed an app. “Want notifications? Please like us! Follow us on X” and the list goes on... Whatever happened to “don’t stop the proceedings” for user friendliness? If your app behaves like it has attachment issues, I don’t want it.
Beautiful times. I especially loved swapping - that is you got a list of people and their addresses from a magazine and you saved on disks your favourite demos and zines (preferable those nobody else had) and then you added some random stuff for example label off your favourite drink, wrote some poems, maybe added a dried flower and so on and then you also added postage stamps. Then you were hoping that whoever received it on the other side liked it and he or she would have sent you something else. Sometimes you would just just pass on the disks you received and just added your name to a txt file or some funny looking directory. There was also a trick to put a glue over your stamps and it was the custom that the person would send you those stamps back so you could then dissolve the postage stamp and reuse them :-)
The internet somewhat killed this unfortunately.
Decades later I still remember the feeling of a postman holding packages in his hands from various places in the world and the excitement, what am I going to find? I miss that.
Except for side effects and memory loss. There have also never been any cases where the patient was awake, right? That's why the people mentioned in the article that were waiting in line tried running away, right? It was such a pleasant experience that people who couldn't fully remember it wanted to flee.
Why do you think it's unfair or morally wrong? I mean, people buying stupid collectibles is just money moving from dumb people to smarter people, as it always does.
It has a lot of pointless content and it seems like there are always better sources than it. Maybe their user base grows but the quality of answers drops.
There is the Dingo, which interesting enough was introduced a few thousand years ago and is not native to Australia. Then some time in the 1800's they introduced 24 rabbits because they thought it would be fun to hunt and that didn't turn out to well. And if that wasn't enough they introduced Camels which now number in the millions. I am wondering what's next?
The Amiga was definitely a big factor.

For one it was a “cathedral”, not a “bazaar” in the sense that it had more or less the same hardware on all models.

The hardware was nicely balanced: small enough that you could learn it all, yet complex enough to keep tweaking and pushing its limits for a long time.

It also had a long life, so you could get really good at it. People were using their 500s from the 80s well into the 90es.

Contrast with his to PCs where there was a plethora of different hardware components for CPU models, graphics and sound - a “bazaar”.

At the early stages the standardised Amiga was just much easier for the devs.

Later the PCs became so powerful that the energy moved there anyway - but I still remember the shock of the terribly messy instruction set on the PCs after switching from the nice and clean 68k.

For me personally that was when I stopped. It was simply not joyful to work with.
What I recall from my history lessons is that the top-down system you refer to was the end stage of a revolution that arose organically across the population just a few decades earlier.

Well, "organically". As all such things go, there were real problems affecting a lot of people, but once the movement to fix those problems gained steam, it got quickly leveraged and taken over by various political and economic groups around the world. In the turmoil that followed, one of the groups that co-opted the banner of the initial movement managed to take over Russia, and give birth to USSR.

The point being, USSR did not come out of the blue. What you want to compare the current social trends to is what Russia looked like in the decade prior to the October Revolution.
There's also Brave. Blocking ads, new advertising model, and privacy by default. They have 25M MAU currently.
Fraternities are basically lord of the flies right?
People roast and eat wild rodents like rats as “bush meat” but to my knowledge they don’t eat mice. If we had a plague of mice we would certainly find a way to utilize them.
Why Do Some Rich Families Feel So Middle Class?
The Saddest API Response
A related project is declarative dataflow, which is an interactive and reactive dataflow engine built on top of differential dataflow. https://github.com/comnik/declarative-dataflow
Sorry, but military abuse is literally what led to atrocities committed by the German and Japanese armies. Or atrocities committed by child soldiers:

- The lowest ranks have no power, get little sleep, little comforts and get bullied

- The people who withstand this for long enough, get a promotion and het a little more power and are incentivized to use this power to now bully their new subordinates

- This way, they become “part of the system” as well, so they are less likely to change that system

- Repeat ad infinitum through all the ranks

So what you’re building here is a pyramid scheme of bullies, who are all guilty enough to have no moral standing to stop the bullying and who at the same time are all bullied enough to want to make promotions so they might be bullied less.

Results: hush hush culture, blind obedience, no checks and balances on excessive behavior, larger percentage of people who “make it” will have psychopathic tendencies.

Give these people guns, bayonets and power and within no time they’re stabbing Jews for fun in Auschwitz.
Amazing technology. It was covered by two minutes paper on yt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVa1xRaHTA0
“An nescis, fili mi, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?”

“Do you not know, my son, with how little prudence the world is ruled?”

Scandinavian nobility still used Latin commonly in those days.
Test coverage is a necessary but not sufficient condition for catching bugs in a line of code.
It's not like that hasn't been tried before though. Boltzmann machines have all-to-all connectivity and RNNs have feedback connections (and sometimes backward connections).

NNs have been studied since the 90s and a lot has been tried already. I think one should also keep the bitter lesson in mind.
Anyone else got any particularly emotional API responses?
If something becomes a thing in bureaucrats world then it also means it opens a door for receiving funding. Then your family member or friend create a foundation or something and then apply for those funds. Maybe they ran out of things and figured out there was something called demoscene. They don't do it out of good will. At least not in my opinion based on experience.
There's certainly an entire industry of people selling useless shit to rich people, but when I heard about it was from a friend who worked at a call center when they used to reach them via phone :D
Yes.

What would make a difference is to change to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta

(Essentially the same difference as miles per gallons vs litres per 100 km.)
You can also tell that some of the dogs are way more "into it" than others. It's a typical pareto distribution. 20% of the dogs are killing 80% of the rats.
Some feature request:

The time does not stop when I win.

It's confusing that the mines are red and green, but the flags are red. Perhaps make the mines blue and green, so the flags have a different color.

Some times the squares are red+green and other green+red (and for three nearby mines: RRG, RGR and GRR). I'm not sure if that leaks too much info. Perhaps sort the color consistently.

Now the density of mines is too low, and it can be solved most of the time ignoring the colors. Increase the number of mines, so it's more frequent to get hard locations were you must analyze the colors.

(I programed a versions that solves all the easy part automatically. For example when you get a 1 and there is a flag nearby, it will open all the surrounding squares. An error in a flag is more dangerous, but it solves all the boring part, and keep the interesting parts, so it's more fun for me. Anyway, I have to increase the number of mines, because otherwise the simple automatic strategy would solve too much.)
Maybe, although I'm quite curious to see how people who mostly talk about old computers and crazy debugging stories are going to do that.

Funny enough, as a Canadian, I do end up getting exposed to both some of the American left and right politics, as well as having a good idea of when crazy stuff goes down, but I don't get much exposure to crazy stuff happening in Canada via Twitter, and I'm generally ok with that! Facebook, however, is the complete opposite; that's a wild mix of folks widely distributed in the "masks are killing our children" to "the government should lock every person in their homes" Canadian politics, and it's exhausting.
You could also use Python's fractions.
Literature, history, and math are all wasted on the young. We get exposed to a lot of things that we don't understand and can't appreciate, in the hopes that it will click for us later.

I honestly don't know if that really works, or if it's just cargo cult. I do know that I considered my English classes, and now I run a Shakespeare theater troupe. Much of my goal there is to present the Shakespeare that would have appealed to me at the time. I can't tell if I'm here because, despite, or totally disconnected from my education.
> came to the conclusion the UK has the worst software engineering salaries in the developed world

You should check Spain. I'm paying more to the hires in latin america than I got offered while trying to work in Spain
How on earth will this cope with medieval European or Asian cities if it cant cope with a generic American grid city with spacious lanes.
In a sense yes, but PinePhone is also focused on economically feasible for developers. The hardware may be solid, but the firmware and software on it still need a lot of work. It's a frustrating experience. Others mention freezes when making or receiving calls. I have the KDE Plasma version and I sometimes get kernel panics when taking it on and off the charger. Enthusiasts (like me) will pay $200 to support the project and have a secondary handheld device running Linux, but at higher prices, not so much.

Also, I'm not trying to knock the pinephone - I have one and fully support them. Their goal is to get more linux phones into the hands of more people, both devs and end-users. They're using open-source distributions and their approach will (in theory) lead to better software. The experience should get better over time.

There is the Librem 5 by Purism. They do target the free as in freedom crowd, and it starts off at $800. They also have the same phone made entirely in the USA for $3k. The PinePhone and Librem hardware have fairly similar specs. The Librem 5 does have a better camera and a slightly larger battery, but the real difference is going to be that they put a lot more polish into the system.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
The benefit of S3 Object Lambda is that your function is adapted to the S3 API. If you already have an application integrated with S3, then you can use Object Lambda to provide some new behavior to the data without changing the application.
I was surprised at that, too. I see the art style they're going for, but it's strange that no one at Charmin (or their lawyers) flagged this as a potential liability.
Haskell Foundation Update: Welcome to the Haskell Foundation
I don't usually have big net positions but I have no trotunle getting filled for a million dollars of some shitcoin at the same price
Some goods are more volatile than others, and probably tend to be commodities (e.g., oil/WTI) rather than finished goods, but US$ (and the currencies of most developed economies) is less volatile than any good that I can think of.
I wonder what will replace GPS ...
FTX.us surely has crypto deposits and withdrawals
I don’t think I could waste money like that. Compare a $100k watch to hiring an electrician for a year. In SK / AB Canada there are a lot of electricians out of work due to downturns in resource sectors, but there’s a lot of work they could be doing. It’s just that the work that could be done would be for poor people and no one is going to pay for it.

Owning the wealth gives you the ability to allocate labor and the current wealth owners aren’t doing a good job. Redistribute the wealth IMO.
That website is incredible. I had no idea I would be so engrossed in reading about the size and shape of map labels and the shape of building in a phone map application.
Doesn't this make it take up a bunch of real estate in the header? Or am I misunderstanding you?
Have you tried the new Mini? I switched from the Pro and love it.
It’s interesting to see the difference in how African Americans were depicted and covered.

It is well-known that the “white” press of that time often demonized its black citizens and escalated tensions that helped prolong the period of white terrorism, voter suppression and lynching throughout the Reconstruction period.

- https://tulsaworld.com/news/tulsa-race-massacre-1921-tulsa-n...

- https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article247928045.html

This sadly continues even today both in the US (to a lesser degree) and internationally.

We see similar treatment of minorities in the Chinese press (Hong Kong residents, Uyghurs) and in the US conservative press about migrants and immigrants.
Articles rise and fall because of luck partly. And having more comments than points works against them. It's programmed in as a sign the discussion has more heat than light. Which it does.

You think the article is thoughtful because you agree with it. The article itself said the phenomenon isn't new. And interest declines when we get several articles a week about the same thing.
Let’s not pretend we live in a meritocracy when we can see via legislative acts a whole lot of wealth is owned due to political corruption.

I don’t like the defense of the booj class by proles such as yourself when such kowtowing is effectively putting the boot on the necks of the masses.

Best not upset them or you might not get paid yourself, right? Talk about venal. “Let the rich be! I need to make my paper!”
In the example use case for that they suggested baking the size into the filename, like image_500_240.jpg
YouTube added live chat not because of Facebook, but because of Twitch which popularized this live-video-with-synchronized-chat. (except on Twitch it's about 1-10s of delay where on YouTube it's 30+ minimum)

Facebook and YouTube then borrowed that feature when they added livestreaming.
Depends, if I could work 80 hour weeks for a year in my 20s and emerge with a 50m bonus, that would be great, nice easy retirement after a year.
A 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby
Happy Nowruz!

I’m genuinely happy to learn about this today!
Seems ripe for automation and some AI.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/typical-ma-exper...
My view is that mainly because of so many different countries in Europe it was much more interesting to see what someone across the border could do and it was kind of a healthy competition and interestingly it was never based on nationalism, but on simple human difference of perspectives. It was a pure art, expression not motivated by money but from the will to create and impress.
To push computers of the time to their limits, create something thought to be impossible.
I wish these principles were applied in modern software development. For example why do we need few GHz CPU and GBs of RAM to run a text editor?
Every single answer that comes out of Stacksi needs to be approved by an employee of the client before it can be exported and downloaded.

The vast majority of answers to questions comes directly from a client's own security policies, which we (admittedly) trust are up to date and accurate. We do our best to ensure that we don't use files that were uploaded more than 6 months ago in our algorithms, but if we're getting bad inputs to the system you're going to get bad outputs. When our reviewers do write something new, we check with the client to make sure it is accurate and again, it needs to be explicitly approved by someone on the client's team who has the rights to review questionnaires.

I don't see how this is any different from a jr. employee at a company answering a questionnaire based on the policies and then asking their boss to review. The jr. employee is definitely not going to go through every system themselves to verify that the policies and documentation are accurate. They are going to assume the policies are good and then double check with a trusted source (their boss on the infosec team), exactly what we are doing.

We understand that right now we're not actually helping companies be more secure, and we've never claimed to be doing that. One of our first priorities moving forward is to develop additional tools to actually validate that what is being said in security policies is what is in place. We're not there yet because we are a small and young company, but we will get there :)
Seeing a lot of issues here that would also be violations of WCAG guidelines, and thus be something you could bring an ADA accessibility suit against the companies over.

https://medium.com/front-end-weekly/dominos-pizza-and-web-ac...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/dominos-supreme-court.html

For all of your web projects...

90+ score in Lighthouse is a good bar to aim for.

And look for any errors in Wave or Axe -- these should be part of your requirements (starting with requirements to the design team around contrast and colors they can use, as well as requirements to the devs), and part of your QA process. Call out issues you see. Compliance with WCAG (2.1, AA for most businesses https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21) is the de facto law of the land.

https://wave.webaim.org/

https://www.deque.com/axe/
For me it was Google Maps on my iPhone SE, but that was several years ago. The great GUI design for the display size is what made the classic iPhone size work. Essentially Apple decided to allow apps to be published that were terrible on smaller devices and I realized those horses weren't going to get back into the barn.

So I switched to a Samsung Flip, and I've learned that a device that has a large display and fits in my pocket is a reasonable compromise. Now they just need to be a reasonable price.
i see maybe cocoa plantations up the hills of dak lak? chiang rai? in the coming years?
An on-ramp meaning an exchange that sells stablecoins to be used on a defi chain. There are several PoS defi chains with orders of magnitude lower fees, which exclude US citizens from the onramps. Some of them actually offer some degree of consumer protection from predatory contracts and exploits, as well as promoting fair-launch projects with low fees.
I convince people not to do this by making it potentially cost them: get out of the habit or end up double charged some day. Not true for the majority of ecommerce sites that handle doubled requests sensibly, but there's one poorly coded site out there just waiting to blow their bank account out.
If dogs could organize their own Olympic Games, I do not doubt that rat chasing would qualify as a discipline.
ZPL: (Almost) C99 Powerkit
Ah yes, those savvy investors who bought Hertz, GameStop, and the Cryptocurrency du jour…
Traversing the Edges of a Graph
I lived in Kalgoorlie when a mouse plague went through there for a year or two... was pretty bad.

the memory of the smell alone still turns my stomach. Mouse pee is rank.
That's interesting, because you told someone that they thought january 6th was an insurrection only because of the media bubble they live in, but Tim Pool made a video titled:

"Trump Supporters HAVE TAKEN OVER THE CAPITOL, Shots Fired INSIDE, Electoral Count Session ENDED"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M8bginejxE

Which is it?

Also if you look at his videos, every single one is lying in the title. This person is a living satire of clickbait and misinformation.
iPhone and Android. So many apps have text they don't fit within their colored backgrounds, and overflow or get cut off.
You can turn off chat
Reader mode is thy friend
Google fails to quash Incognito mode user tracking, privacy lawsuit
You forgot cane toads, foxes, cats, wild pigs/boar, water buffalo, and horses. All are non-native and cause damage to the native animals and environment.

People have introduced a lot of animals for their own purposes which are not native to the continent and are now pests in some way.
Learning Machine Learning for Game Development
Thank you for sharing this. Its crazy how worked uo we get in the crucible of the moment. Do either of you even remember what the ticket was fixing?
Now you can imagine my pain as someone who is visually impaired and who had to increase all the sizes to the max to be able to read anything....
As someone in western europe, if it's non-US media it's probably Georgia the country, which is merely mentioned "rarely" as opposed to "only in us election week". If it's US media, it's probably Georgia the state. That said, countries are generally considered more important, so if it's not obvious you're talking about the US, I think the onus would be on people referring to Georgia, USA to specify.

Most countries are just not interested in internal divisions of other countries so it doesn't come up often. Just like I don't have the need to distinguish Munster (Ireland) and Münster (Germany) even though the latter often loses its umlaut in English text, or run into confusion between Northern Territory (Australia) and Northwest Territory (Canada). And the English language isn't short context sensitive words in other areas too, the most frequent example being "read" vs "read".
For software that you only occasionally use custom icons with no labeling is a real productivity killer.

It's so much worse on mobile without tooltips as well, maybe we need to standardise a long press giving a description or something similar
https://archive.is/bfRWb
It was not sarcastic. I'm not really sure what you're arguing. It's obvious that vision-only would be more advanced than using lidars. Lidars are expensive and take space, so that's why they're trying to use cameras only.
Yes, that article was discussed on HN before, it was such garbage that it's ridiculous this person is seen as 'an intellectual'.
I believe, while the general population’s suffering has clearly contributed to the original cause of the revolution, it did not in case of the subsequent forced top-down censorship system, which was established purely by and for the new elites to maintain power. I like to think that distinguishes it from the current “woke” culture, but maybe I’m mistaken and not able to notice a coordinated manipulation of public opinion by some hidden force. It smells of a conspiracy theory, though.
PDF Editors for Linux to Edit the PDF Content and Extract Pages to Merge
America's first 3D-printed neighborhood is 'the future of housing'
Thank you. So are those schools still eligible to sell us more bad debt? I do not consent to this.
PostPro – AI Photo Culling
I know of elite boutiques that pay at around $70k. Efinancialcareers has a habit of mixing up numbers and overestimating.