skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm secretly hoping for this type of success for my game. Realistically, I'm just glad I have a creative outlet.

https://landgreen.github.io/sidescroller/index.html

It's also free, open source, no ads, no micro-transactions, web based, no freemium, no data harvesting, no gacha, no crypto harvesting.
A replacement for IBM Watson personality insights API
If your math is correct, why haven't some clever forward thinking investors already made the investment to cash in on such lucrative deal?

My guess is, IRL it's not as lucrative in practice as your math makes it out to be.
Not sure we can say that.

Recent history (from memory)
Roman invasion 55 CE.
Saxon invasion 400..500 ?
Viking Invasions 900...ish
Norman invasion 1066

All of these invaders made big changes to the country including place names, laws and language.

And there is the archeological record of pre-historic gene lines that are extinct in England as well.
Heroes and Mentors (Podcast Episode)
that game leaves a lot to be desired imo. there are a ton of things to do, but each "thing" is a pretty shallow loop. important components/ships are locked behind lengthy grinds, and you need them to be viable in pvp (which is itself mostly confined to combat zones and random interdictions). it feels more like a bunch of mini-games glued together than a single cohesive game. they did a good job with the basic "fly around in space" thing, I'll give them that.

imo, eve is the best current implementation of "be a real person in space". much less in-your-face grinding, since skill training happens offline. a few noobs in cheap ships can be a serious threat to an experienced player in something expensive. player actions can have serious consequences in-universe. although the last time I played, there were some issues with capital ship spamming in alliance wars. not sure whether they've done anything about that; it's been a while since I played.
Why not? The only thing Google mandates on Android is that you download them from Google Play (and even that can be worked around). Nothing stands in your way to use what you want for email or document editing or storage.
> 7 weeks: Enabling support for AI janitors to use multiple tools in either hand.

I think I see your point.
cletus i'm bored... ? ah nnaaah... Klytus I'm bored !
It's a new discovery in science, which means it will be about 10 years before we know if it's 90% correct or not. Probably need to wait a year to rule out simple measurement errors.

To some degree if a scientific discovery is news, it isn't firmly established, because if the entire field hasn't heard about it, it hasn't been properly vetted.
We don’t give colonoscopies to 20 years olds because it’s an expensive, invasive test with a low rate of cancer. We don’t give mammograms to under 40 year olds these days because the same and it’s notoriously inaccurate.

We give blood glucose level tests and cholesterol tests to everyone every year at the physical because they are cheap and easy to administer. Even though the effects of both may take decades to have any effect and have no correlation to ultimate death. It’s about trade off of cost and convenience.

If you detect pancreatic or colon cancer in a 20 year old patient via $1 blood test, that is immediately actionable. Cancer is ALWAYS actionable unless you’re talking about prostrate which grows slowly. But even in a 20 year old, you would want to treat that but maybe not a 70 year old.

And we’ve never had the ability to detect stage 1 cancer of the deadliest types of cancer. Imagine the new treatments that might save lives if we could.

Honestly, the number of people here who think they know better and citing unrelated research is bordering on anti-maskers parroting the surgeon general saying masks don’t work when they do.
Why would you think the content of YouTube is governed by any laws?
can't say china bots here?
Unfortunately, the QR code "binary" mode specification defaults to ISO 8859-1 for the encoding (because it was not originally intended to store actual binary data), and there's also no way to indicate what format is actually encoded. So all decoders of course just assume ISO 8859-1 because they have no way of knowing otherwise.

However, we could in theory get around this by using binary data formats that always begin with an invalid text character (0x80-0x9f). This way, an implementation can know that the data is not ISO 8859-1, and try to decode whatever format it discovers through the beginning byte signature.

I've actually put this into Concise Encoding [1]

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...
How could an oven or washing machine possibly be useful remotely?! I'm a fan of connectivity, but that just seems absurd for those appliances.
Most people pay $100+/month for cable, eat out multiple times per week, have thousands of credit card debt, and an unexpected $400 bill would ravage them.

If you want to live a un-average life, you need to have un-average priorities and sacrifice. Few on HN should be living paycheck to paycheck.

Check out Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover for a starting model. And yes, you'll have to sacrifice now to benefit later.
"Since these data are deemed de-identified by expert determination [0] and that’s hazy, if I could reidentify myself after de-id, and I didn’t authorize it, then I could be eligible for breach damages for HIPAA violations up to $50k per person"

The Expert Determination data would likely be released to you with an agreement that you would not attempt to re-identify the data. So if you then attempted to re-identify the data, even yourself, you would be breaking the terms of the license and I would think liable to civil action from the entity that gave you the data (and their upstreams). I don't think you would win here.
Best point here.

WFH is a hybrid between employee and contractor.
Thank you for having strong ethics. But, what a bizarre dark pattern.

How many users:

1. type out a complete email address

2. and then decide at the last moment to not hit "submit?"

Who even does that? Like 0.00000001% of all users? I've been using the web since the mid 90s and I don't think I've ever done this. Ethics aside, it's hard for me to believe that this dark pattern even yielded a useful return.

To be perfectly clear, I'm not defending this dark pattern. It's bad. I'm just questioning its efficacy.
Is there any concerns to how LiveView will scale compared to just using “vanilla” Elixir/Phoenix?
We heavily debated going with StimulusReflex instead of LiveView because of the team’s existing familiarity with Rails. In our experience StimulusReflex doesn’t work because Rails isn’t fast enough. Phoenix is.
Open Source is such a surprisingly high trust ecosystem. I really hope that isn't something that has to be changed in the future.

I can 100% understand the concern here.

Possibly there is some sort of internal corporate metric or just personal bragging rights get tied to these kinds of patches. It costs the company nothing to incentivize this and the maintainers get all the work associated with it.

Like all metrics "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." (Goodhart's law). There's really no reason for huawei to change other than for the maintainers to ask them to not do that thing.

I recall a talk from a maintainer once gave at some company (I forget where). He detailed what kind of patches get accepted and what don't. They were pretty straight forward standards, some more obvious than others (you know ... say what the patch does accurately).

It wasn't stated but he clearly expected some level of professionalism or just efficiency from the folks giving him work to look through their code on behalf of their company.

I don't think that's too much to expect.
Our best bet for dark patterns to disappear is via legislation, not putting the onus on developers. The initial premise that everyone cares about privacy simply isn't true, and with the influx of developers in the job market, it's just a matter of finding someone with similarly lax ethics.
That looks like an interesting product. One spec that I don't see in the article is the number of colors that the display supports. IIRC, that's still very low for eink displays. ie, only 256 colors.
The 'm' key will mute videos and commercials.
Low effort submissions are what wasted most of my time code reviewing at one job...
Even my work calendar doesn't share the details of what I'm doing in a busy slot. Not particularly something anyone needs to know. If someone really needs to meet and my calendar looks blocked they can ping me to see if there's anything I can drop or move. It's not really up to them to make the decision (unless I work for them and it's urgent).
It's weird that Skiff still represent documents in pages. I guess most tech workers make a hardcopy of a document once or twice a year (or even less?).
Being able to save, especially for years, is a special circumstance. At least in the US where wages have been flat for quite a while even as cost of living skyrocketed.
No. There aren't enough "rich people" to get a politician elected. Most of these things in the tax code are one small chip at a time to make some ordinary person favor a particular politician. Including things like "Roth IRAs" The fact that they have unintended consequences is another story.

I don't think the fact that Peter Theil has a billion dollars hurts me in any way, and no I'm not some unrealistic person who thinks that I, too, can be a billionaire! Only a petty person would be disturbed that someone else has more money than him. It's not a zero-sum game. The fact that there are some outlier billionaires doesn't hurt the ordinary Joe.
For any Mozilla people here:

How do you feel that this is prioritized and the Tab Strip API is not? (Edit, this issue:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447)

My background: I'm a "loyal" user, but not because of love anymore but because the alternatives are even worse in my opinion.

I have given up Mozilla the non-profit the last few years but will continue to use Firefox because of ergonomics and politics for now.

If someone can convince me Pale Moon is safe enough to use at work I'd switch in a heartbeat though. Same if someone starts maintaining a paid (or unpaid) fork of the latest Firefox that actually reimplements the Tab Strip API for web extensions and starts reimplementing the rest of the missing APIs.

(If this triggers an idea in a brilliant hacker here then create a kickstarter and mail me about it: I'm easily in on $10 a month, maybe more. I'm looking for a work browser that won't depend on Chromium when Google finally decides it is time to kill the extension API on desktop as well.)

PS: Even though I have given up Mozilla I'm still looking for a way to help fund Firefox as long as I know it is used for Firefox and not for running it into the ground.
Came to the comments to learn what KPI was. And leaned about Goodharts law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
I have worked in team with some kernel developers at Samsung, years ago, so let me put some perspective for those who do not understand the dynamics.

In some companies, the amount of patents or Linux kernel patches you get accepted is direct measure of your success.

As you know, whatever you measure becomes a target -- these guys feel very pressed to get ANY kernel commits accepted, no matter how small, irrelevant or nonsensical. Because in the very end almost nobody sees the amount of value that a company creates for Linux users. What everybody is looking at is that "Company X is nth on the list of biggest kernel contributors".

So "KPI grabbing" is meant to mean the practice of not caring for the value or quality of your contributions but rather for the count of the commits or LoC you can get accepted.

This is damaging to Linux kernel developer community because it just creates work for maintainers without creating much or any value at all.

These maintainers are absolutely critical resource for the project and their number and availability translates directly to how much stuff can actually be done. So no wonder people are irked by it.
This is exactly the data a modern Cambridge Analytica would want (e.g. shares, time spent on each post, all correlated to demographics). I hope this platform has controls to ensure that study data isn't misused post-study for non-study purposes, because the FAQ answer isn't so encouraging[0].

[0]
https://rally.mozilla.org/how-rally-works/faqs/#what-happens...

"With Mozilla’s permission, researchers may retain aggregated or de-identified datasets for their analyses. Mozilla may also retain aggregated data sets which we may release in the public good to foster an open web."

Shouldn't you ask the users for permission on using their aggregate data for purposes that could be different to the study they enrolled to?
Yeah they'll just pay your private company, and you sort out your own taxes.

I found there's loads and loads of US firms that are happy to take Europe based candidates.
Unfortunately, the QR code "binary" mode specification defaults to ISO 8859-1 for the encoding (because it was not originally intended to store actual binary data), and there's also no way to indicate what format is actually encoded. So all decoders of course just assume ISO 8859-1 because they have no way of knowing otherwise.

However, we could in theory get around this by using binary data formats that always begin with an invalid text character (such as 0x80-0x9f). This way, an implementation can know that the data is not ISO 8859-1, and try to decode whatever format it discovers through the beginning byte signature.

I've actually put this into Concise Encoding [1]

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...
I think it's demonstrably the case that if you get the link in front of peoples eyeballs they will be much more likely to click it and actually play the demo then if they have to do anything else at all.

The hard part is getting the eyeballs on the link in the first place. But that's the same problem you have on Steam and other app stores.
Then maybe it should have been tested first.

Back when Consumer Reports was testing the Model 3 and found that the brakes sucked compared to other cars, Tesla overnighted them an OTA update and fixed the problem, and everyone seemed focused on how amazing it was that Tesla could do this, and how dealership visits will be a thing of the past, etc.

Very few people asked how they managed to ship a car with both defective brakes out of the box, that were easily fixed with a software update. That's the sort of thing automakers used to test, rather extensively, before sending cars out for testing and use.

I'm old enough to remember when games shipped complete, not "broken and we'll patch it later." I'm not sure the changes have been an improvement.

I'm aware that modern cars ship with something like 150M lines of code, and that nobody could possibly be expected to make sure they're all correct. My solution of "Maybe we shouldn't ship gigabytes of untested and often broken software in a car?" doesn't seem to be very popular.
You're probably right. I'd like to see a demo of a something like https://todomvc.com/ made with it, and compare the feeling between a SPA and LiveView.
I noticed it installed one during the last system update, I think last Friday. Looking at the play store entry for it, seems like it's far from a unique case.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.ma.covid19...
It's likely the context of available time and resources that matters here. Huawei has the ability to contribute a lot, but instead sends an experienced, highly paid person around to hammer in a nail that was sticking out slightly and calls you over (when you could be doing something more productive) to high five a job well done. This would be appropriate for an beginner apprentice.

Yeah, it might've been slightly annoying to someone, but it's a visible waste of time overall.
ELI5

Can someone provide the simple overview of (a) how LTSE is different, (b) what the listed company pro/cons are and (c) what are the investor pro/cons
? You could've said that it doesn't have a screen. You could've said that it respects children's attention by not offering distractions on demand. It seems to me you can design a smart watch for children with these kinds of characteristics rather than opt out of the exercise altogether.
Yep. This is incredibly petty and unprofessional from the reviewer. Keep the ridiculous geopolitical slapfights out of the Linux kernel.
Spend every waking hour out with my camera exploring every corner of every small town around me and writing about it.

Like this: https://viewfinderfox.com/first-post-vaccination-excursion-i...

But all the time.
Discussion in Chinese online community zhihu if anyone is interested:

https://www.zhihu.com/question/466111598/answer/1951896502
True, a small computer running an Internet connected general purpose operating system should have a prominently labeled expiration date of some short time after the last patch. Use after that date is not recommended and potentially dangerous. WD sold something that looked like a toaster to the consumer but was actually a lump of cheese.
"abandoned cart" technology is why many ecommerce websites ask for your email first when checking out. My kid recently added some items to an online shopping cart to determine shipping rates, which required their email, and now they get spammed incessantly.
30 years ago I realized the same thing and stop being a slave too but the federal government is making it increasingly harder and harder to own your own business every time I turn around some entity with an alphabet name once a huge portion of money like the EPA
I think the proper way to do a “cleanup” patchset is to communicate with the maintainer beforehand and ask them what they’d prefer
E2E is mentioned in the article as a target for few of the alternatives mentioned but how do you trust these companies to build the E2E tech safely unless it is open and if not E2E, I would trust them way less than big companies like Google to keep my data safe as data security is hard. Almost every other day some service gets breached.

If ads on Gmail are a concern, it is mentioned briefly in the article, you can get Google Workspace for yourself as a single user. It is way cheaper than the alternatives as well and after trying out Hey last year, I personally prefer Gmail.

Here is an excerpt from Google's workspace page (https://workspace.google.com/security):

> No ads, ever. Google does not collect, scan, or use your data in Google Workspace services for advertising purposes and we do not display ads in Google Workspace. We use your data to provide Google Workspace services, and for system support, such as spam filtering, virus detection, spell-checking, capacity planning, traffic routing, and the ability to search for emails and files within an individual account.
It’s bing. You are using a reskin of bing search results.
They’re still going to be reviewed, and if the cover letter says “typo fixes” and one of the patches fixes more than a typo, that would be an instant red flag. A single bigger patch set is faster and easier to review.
lmao literally btfo
Don't worry, it's shit on the desktop too.
This seems to also be defining game creation in terms of money: a "great game", as if something has to be widely appreciated to be great.

Artists make art because they feel a need to express themselves. There are often less-stressful, more commercial uses for their same talents, but they do art instead, because there's something nagging on their minds to be expressed out into the world. (Often an artist-in-general will learn a new artistic medium just to express a feeling they don't feel can be expressed with their current toolset!)

And nobody ever said the artistic process itself is fun. It's toil for the reward—the satisfaction—of having communicated your thought in a way that seems capable of truly touching other people. Just like the "petty art" of the prose writing we're doing to each-other here — but with much more labor and intent put into each stroke, such that there is more value to be wrung out of each moment of experiencing the result.
Turing Machine Introduction
If you still have a binary, LÖVE 2D games are reasonably simple to decompile.
I'm more of a PC guy, but yeah, pretty much. For a while. But even that gets boring at some point. Human brains are weird, man.
I would maybe say personal flight is a decent shout for where we could end up? What does infra look like if that is possible?

Look at where flight was at the beginning of the 20th century and where it was 50 years later.

In general personal mobility is a trend I can see being massive in the next 30-50 years.

Also a fun fact: The peak use of draught animals in the US was in the 1920s. That’s almost 150 years after they started bing replaced by steam and had even moved into the early stages of the oil age.

These transitions can take a looooong time.
Your Job Is Not Advertised (2017)
I switched to Brave & DDG not because I care all that much about who's keeping track of what I'm doing on the internet but because I have no idea what the political leanings of the parent corporations are. I gave up on Google & Firefox when they started shoving left-wing politics in my face.
At this point its more about the cost/time management. Stuff will always have errors, its just about "is it worth out time and money to fix this issue?"
It is a reflection of very high growth and is being valued using a discounted cash flow model based on expected future earnings. Extremely rational.
The article does not contain the word climate.

It focuses on the economic development of the heartland. If am not mistaken this contains some of the poorest places in the US.
While I agree with that, I do not understand why this is quite so laggy. As we have different people here try and they all say it's laggy, irrespective of location (we are probably not all sitting in Portugal) and internet quality (maybe we all have slow internet though), there seems to be something wrong. But yes, add a spinner to indicate server communication and suddenly it'll look quite normal. SPA's that don't do that, with my connection, I often see the item appear but then get a server communication timeout after that which is, well, equal or worse to this.
McAfee must of kept the 31TB on a MB Live drive.
What’s the deal with captable.io transitioning from “a public service for every startup to safeguard their equity from day one” to basically the same price model as carta?

Why weren’t legacy companies given grandfathered pricing?
Normal HTTP request latency is much better in Phoenix that in Rails. You can't do much about the intervening network latency but I'd expect a LiveView app to be snappier.

Good practice seems to be the PETAL stack (https://thinkingelixir.com/petal-stack-in-elixir/) using Alpine.js to sprinkling in some client side UI stuff that doesn't need to go via the server.

LiveView isn't intended to replace SPAs. If you have a lot of UI interaction where the UI changes "shape" in response to user interaction then no you probably want JS. For a lot of things people are doing they don't need that though.

Implementing a form in LiveView is a use case that completely shines. You implement all your validation once on the server and use that same validation code (the ecto changeset stuff) to do your live UI messages in the client. It also doesn't matter if it takes 100ms for the text box to go red and say "password too short" in that use case. You can get a 'live' friendly and helpful interactive form with all the user feedback you want and it costs you barely more than the effort to do just the server side stuff, and without any risk of mismatching validation.
Sure. But how many people in high places -- billionaires and top politicians -- had hung out with McAfee, on his yacht possibly sticking their dicks where they shouldn't have stuck them?

Feels much, much more plausible that Epstein was silenced than that McAfee would have been. At least AFAICR I haven't seen any even remotely credible reason why anyone would have needed McAfee silenced.