skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome!

Probably wouldn't sign up for a course at the moment, as I am focusing on honing BE and FE software engineering skills at the moment, but definitely will bookmark just in case the stars align. (meaing when I have time and see a live course that I like. As a side note, it would be a cool feature to see some upcoming courses on your site too).

Best of luck on this though! Really want to see something like this succeed.
Knuth didn’t arbitrarily make stylistic choices, he followed long established conventions in mathematical handwriting and printing where possible. IIRC he explained this at the beginning of The TeXbook. In this specific case though, it’s not hard to realize that parentheses, braces, radical symbols, etc. two ems taller than necessary both waste a lot of vertical space and look like crap.
That’s a great pickup.
Noticed it yesterday and thought the stylesheet had glitched on my browser as the font was soo bad but then later on it was trending so realised Twitter had just been stupid.

Was getting a headache from it.

This change can be undone for now using this JS: document.cookie="ab_decider=responsive_web_chirp_font_enabled=false&responsive_web_nav_visual_refresh_enabled=false"
New public domain on the internet probably peaked with flickr's height.
Same Day Working Capital for Electricians – Same Day Business Advance
If you use digg as reference the long term outlook of reddit is not that bright.
The Debian Manifesto
Wait, I thought IndexedDB was implemented with LevelDB [0] in Chrome?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelDB#Usage

Edit: Sorry, just re-read the article. The author does mention that Chrome's IndexedDB isn't implemented in SQLite.
20 years ago I bought CThreePO.com hoping to sell it to a Star Wars fan. Nobody wanted it. I still own it.
I used it to host my essays and blog about science fiction. It is now hosted on my home machine and the things that used PHP no longer work. Many pages are orphaned. I count about 8,000 pages, although google no longer spiders most of them.
You need a mobile team, you need a spam team (or 10), you need people working on a portal for advertisers and the analytics they need, need more than 3 devops for full 24/7 coverage, etc.
Maybe they finally upgrade the 486sx based server everything runs on?

But seriously they could invest in some content discovery/recommendation features. There are probably a lot of small subreddits that go unnoticed by people that just check /all or /popular.

Their video player needs some major work.

They could decentralize the site. Shard off subreddits by some category system. The homepage would then be an aggregation of the shards. If the main site is down you can potentially still reach some shards.

Of course they would still have a ton of money left over. With a stack this high they could convert the office heater to run directly off cash for a few years.
I work on Gecko, so I have a bit of context here:

A big reason is probably because Gecko no longer officially supports single-process mode.
Well, I agree with the problem, but not the cause. Infrastructure maintenance and failure to plan for it are endemic in America. The only time it seems that ongoing maintenance is planned and funded from the beginning of a project is toll roads, where private-public entities can extract profit from the road.

My stronger point though, is funding. It isn't the fault of state utility operators that we don't have the capacity. It is the fault of local and state governments who have not reacted quickly enough to growth requirements.
So what's the best alternative?
Why is up level rate limiting bad?
Absolutely. I find it much more intuitive than fdisk, for example.
Doesn't that feel incredible? Just one win like that can make a whole month or more of happy thoughts for me. I benefited from a manager like this early on...never forgot. Now, when I can, I pass it on.
Well competition is good for consumers but is not for the actual market players. And what's the point of competing in the compiler space?
The Fictitious World of ‘Carbon Neutral’ Fossil Fuel
> Signal isn't large enough to make people stick around when dumb decisions are made)

Boy does this hit close to home, whenever I think of Firefox and its accelerating decline.
Shouldn't we change our behavior after the bad things happen? Not based on speculation?
I have dumped Google completely once they changed drastically.
MathML is supposed to be generated by software and rendered by browser. You're free to write LaTeX JavaScript convertor which could convert LaTeX to MathML (and probably those convertors already exist). Nobody is going to ask users to write MathML, just like nobody is asking users to write proper HTML.

Supporting MathML instead of LaTeX makes sense, because it's machine-readable language which is easy to generate and parse. HTML uses XML-like notation, SVG uses XML notation, so it only makes sense for equations to use XML notation instead of completely different language.
There is an youtube video[1] by the excellent channel Huygens Optics which goes through trying to make a microscopic tesla valve.

The valve does not work as a checkvalve (it is sufficiently small that surface tension and all that work differently than in a macroscopic system), but the author argues that it did satisfy the real goal of being a tesla valve -- which is to look sexy and high tech.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnmP7UD_zk
The argument is could this new system result in a court ordering a blanket "send us the backups for anyone who gets a match for any reason" order from some court.

This is highly likely in my opinion.
War on drugs lost, war on smoking won: people smoke the herb too. Because it’s not yet monopolized the incentive to not use weird chemical pesticides and whatnot is lower than it is with tobacco. Still I mostly agree. I just worry there will be long term health impacts that weren’t there when weed was grown organically and much lower in thc. The vaping pandemic of 2019 comes to mind as one example.
Just tried making a screen recording with QuickTime on my Mac and investigating it with the "mediainfo" command-line tool (available on Homebrew).

It's absolutely h.264, not ProRes. It's similarly h.264 when you record from the built-in webcam in QuickTime using the default "high" quality, but switches to ProRes if you select "maximum" quality for recording. (ProRes files are enormous, BTW.)

A lot of people report that simply renaming a "mov" file to "mp4" works when the data is h.264 such as in this case. Unfortunately every tool I have which takes .mp4 as input also accepts .mov, so I can't actually verify this since for all I know my tools might be ignoring the extension and autodetecting mov. But if anyone knows any websites that accept mp4 but not mov I'd be happy to test an upload and see if it works.

Edit, for anyone interested, here's the relevant output from mediainfo:

General
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt 0000.00 (qt )
...
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 4 014 kb/s
...

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L5.1
Format settings : CABAC / 2 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 2 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
...
Bit rate mode : Variable
...
Frame rate mode : Variable
...
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
...
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : avcC
Safari on iPhone also does not play webm files.
It's a cruel fate of any privacy-focused service, as they are more likely to be used by criminals. Be it mailinator or TOR or monero.

This is ultimately a question of freedom vs security. Said government entity is prioritizing security over freedom.
> But only once I found myself in a job I loved surrounded by people who encouraged learning, were curious, and loved to teach me. You gotta find your tribe. Don't let your brain rot.

I have a corollary: badly managed companies make good people go bad.

Even worse is the delusion where you believe awareness of bad influences protects you from the consequences...some things can not be mitigated. For example “the culture of mediocrity” :<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257623179_The_Cultu...>.
I've always wondered if windows 3.11 was not meant as a minor upgrade of 3.1, but they assumed versions are a float so 3.1.1 was out of the question. There is AFAIK no windows 3.2 to windows 3.10
A sexism. What a liberal cunt you are
The cost is fascinating. Is the value of a single place for all these conversations that much higher than having a bunch of independent forums scattered across the web? For users, there's a high discovery value... but at the cost of apparently far more expense running the site than has been able to be recouped yet.

Curious to see that even where centralization hasn't financially paid off, people are willing to keep tossing money at the dream of it paying off one day after 16 years.
IBM won, then lost, the PC market
I think I see the problem:

"Encouraged by their success, the IBMers in Boca Raton released a sequel to the PC in early 1983, called the XT. In 1984 came the XT's successor, the AT. That machine would be the last PC designed outside IBM's development process. John Opel, who had succeeded Cary as CEO in January 1981, endorsed reining in the PC business."

It was said that IBM bureaucracy was so thick that it would take them nine months to ship an empty box.
Many years ago I had occasion to register networksolutionssucksbigfathonkingweenies.com. The story of how that happened is here:

https://big-fat-honking-weenies.blogspot.com/

[UPDATE] Hah! The domain is available again!
I remember that in my first job, one of my first tasks was to fix a bug where the dates were off by 1. I knew nothing about the codebase and nothing about professional software development so I just incremented the date in the UI by 1.
>I do think living with such a negativity bias is very disempowering - and not to mention not fun. I don't mean to be stupid and blindly optimistic (I manage risk for a living among other things) but like I said, living with certainty that everything will be terrible will ruin your life.

I think it only seems overly negative -because- so many people are blindly optimistic and assume things just get better naturally with no action required on our part. That's why I have such a negative outlook, I can envision the immense work we need to do to address climate change (and many other issues) and I'm seeing such a small amount of work being done that it's basically a rounding error. Watching people reject even the small amount of work required to personally address COVID (a free shot) does not fill me with hope that we can make big changes.

>But the world is inherited by those who DO do those things - everything we have, everything we are, everything we're investing in - is there because someone in the past believed that the future is worth the work

I think this is the disconnect between us. The future is worth the work, but we refuse to work on the future. We instead work harder to prop up the unsustainable present.
Older estimates are probably short by multiple orders of magnitude.

We can see this in practice by looking at e.g. a self-driving Tesla vs. a mouse.

Watch a frightened mouse run across an uneven landscape, climbing and clambering and avoiding obstacles as it controls four independent limbs and countless small muscles in real time.

A Tesla's auto-drive is nowhere near that good in spite of having only a few levers to control: accelerate, brake, left, and right. It also has far better sensors than the mouse including better eyesight, a wider field of vision, etc., and last I checked mice do not have access to a cellular network supplying them with a heads-up macro view of the local environment. They don't have "fleet-wide learning" either.

The Tesla's AI uses over a hundred watts of power. The mouse's brain uses milliwatts.

As I wrote this my brain was consuming between 30 and 60 watts. My laptop peaks out at 80.

We are not even close to what biological neurons accomplish in raw compute, and while we are getting pretty good at training giant regression models that we call AI I am not convinced we really understand things at the algorithmic level yet either.
Add live audio / video conferencing to your app in hours, not months
Honestly screw mp4. They put the header at the end of the file so you can’t stream it unless its specifically made for the web. I can watch most video files “while downloading” except mp4. It’s nonsense.
This article is a soup of crisscrossing claims and motives, but after thinking that, I realize that's what the news is actually like, and whenever it appears otherwise, it's because of narrative-building.
I can't reply to or upvote ~stalkersyndrome's response to add my applause, but I'll do it here instead. He's right. It's inconvenient, and people don't like reading that, which is why it's downvoted to dead, but alas, this is the same reason people avoid getting counseling, because they haven't worked up the courage to be honest with themselves yet. We'll get there, I hope.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156934
Actually, it was the "button press" that I think is out of date, for much the same reason the original Enterprise bridge looks very silly nowadays. We don't need huge arrays of buttons like that anymore. We may still want a few physical ones, of course, just as we like physical volume and climate controls in our cars, but our 21st century Machine rooms would not have hundreds of buttons in them, but a touchscreen and voice interface. Even if we had a physical manual for it, which I'm totally comfortable with as a story choice.

You may have simply automatically upgraded the interface in your head, but I'm pretty sure the author was envisioning something more like the Enterprise bridge.
Same happens in Korean for technically what's green. Most adults will say 'blue light' for signals in a quick response. It really has to do with Chinese characters for blue 청[靑] and green 녹[綠]. When examining the words, they're both describing something that is 푸르다. 푸르다 means something that is related to the clear sky, sea, or the color of grass. Unfortunately, Google Translate just responds that 프르다 simply means blue which it's not.

Also my take: Your tongue twists a bit less when saying blue in Korean rather than green. Can lazy reflexes affect language?

More info here (warning: Korean) https://kidshyundai.tistory.com/990#:~:text=%ED%95%9C%EC%9E%....
I paid for Instagram adverts for my band's music to see what would happen
Who told you reinventing wheel is how progress made?

Can we be precise here? I never had a memory about a major technical progress being reinventing the wheel.
Uber doesn't have the same network effect dynamics.

I don't switch from FB to another social network unless a bunch of my friends do.

As a consumer, it is very easy for me to install Lyft or Curb or $LocalTaxiApp and switch. There is very little brand loyalty.

As a driver is a harder, there is a burden to onboard to a given app service. But I've seen plenty of drivers with simultaneous lyft/uber signs, so I know they are doing it. And driver forums/social-networks are constantly talking about ways to maximize income, so if there is new app that is better many would try it, because they wouldn't need to abandon the older platforms just to try the new one.

Bootstrapping having both demand and supply is the hard problem of the two-sided market to scale. Riders and Drivers might try out an app easily enough, but they'll only stick with it if there is enough capacity to market-match (and some cost benefit over the other app-markets).
But to make it work, Total's pioneers of carbon neutrality first needed to find green projects capable of meeting two requirements: generate carbon credits backed by an international organization, without costing too much. After struggling to come up with an answer, the team set up a meeting with South Pole, a project developer based in Zurich that came recommended by rival traders. That's how $600,000 from a $17 million LNG transaction ended up, in part, paying for forest protection in Zimbabwe.

The resulting trade looks like a win for everyone. Total kept its promise to investors to shrink its carbon footprint. Impoverished communities received financial support. And the buyer, China National Offshore Oil Corp., cited the shipment as one of the steps it's taking to "provide green, clean energy to the nation."

But climate experts and even a crucial organizer behind the deal say it will do virtually nothing to decrease carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, falling far short of neutral. -Bloomberg
I tried to carve one of these in styrofoam just to show it to the kids after reading about it a year or so ago, but the material was too soft/porous. It's on my project TODO list if I can ever talk the wife into letting me buy a 3d printer or glowforge.
Ahem, Waylan Yutani. :P
The HN crowd is vocal about tech paradigms they are familiar with, like social media, online shopping and streaming video.

But when it comes to the actual commercial infrastructure underpinning large swathes of the digital economy, the knowledgeable ones are drowned out by the uninformed bloviators.

This is clear when you look at the comments for stories related to Google/Facebook Ads (the ad product itself), Shopify, Mailchimp/Marketo or Salesforce/Dynamics CRM.
I was 23 in 1991. It was OK, but just yesterday I was talking with a twentysomething guy who was playing for me a song he'd written using GarageBand on his phone. I told him, man, I wish I'd had YouTube and GarageBand when I was his age. It's really hard to say what I'd do. I'd probably not change anything. I've noticed that computer technology isn't really anything special to my kids. I'm not sure I would have taken up an interest in programming as a youth in 2021 as I did in the 80s and 90s.
Well, the hack didn't involve an inter-blockchain transfer. It was internal transfers carried out at the same time on ETH, Polygon and BSC networks, so each of them would require a separate hardfork to repair this.
Reddit userbase is way more hostile to ads on average, more block ads, a lot of the content is non-advertiser friendly, they have less information on their audience for targeting, etc.

Reddit is more forum than social network, they'll need to get creative to make more revenue from users. Winning strategy for them might be to try and get more older users who don't care about ads so much and have lots of money
Had a faster broadband connection in the 90s than right now. It was also cheaper.
Uber and Lyft disrupted the market, but the market was able to adapt around them.
> missed the elephant that is ...

Definitely a big deal, but mostly invisible on the demand side. You're talking about improvements to the supply process; the article is about what consumers experience.
Can you speak to the experience of coding on the iPad? I have been considering picking one up for personal reasons but the price seemed prohibitive when I thought it simply could not be used for portable work purposes at all.
> I dislike 360deg videos because there is always something happening where you're not looking, and you miss a lot. Using a VR headset doesn't solve the problem.

I'm not a fan of 360 video (it's very flat compared to true 6DOF VR and the resolution is currently very poor) but I think you're being unfair.

This is a creative failure - not something intrinsic to the medium. Watch a carefully made 6DOF experience and tell me that this problem isn't solvable. Wolves in the Walls or Gloomy Eyes are amazing examples of guiding the viewer through a volumetric scene.

> This leaves video games and simulations, both are expensive to make and play.

Considering I disagree with your previous statement I obvious disagree with this too. I'm also fairly sure you're missing a broad swathe of content but I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "simulations"

> VR will never be as popular as a smartphone or a movie, it will always be a niche.

Probably true but I'm fine with that.

> And the moment when every one has an oculus rift (or whatever headset) with a computer able to use it with enough FPS is far far along the road. So far we might turn in another direction before getting there.

Why is "everyone" an important benchmark? Smartphones were interesting even at the point where they were still niche and they would have remained interesting had they stayed that way. As long as a medium has enough makers and consumers to be self-sustaining then that's ok. I think VR has demonstrated a staying power way beyond the original nay-sayers. There's great work still being made and sales are still increasing.

And I still enjoy it and want to contribute to it.
I had misremembered. It's not for air traffic control, but for aircraft cockpits. It's this: https://b612-font.com/

In particular I suspect that the '()' and '[]' glyphs are far more common in source code and terminal use than in cockpits. I found them far, far too similar. Also there's little distinction between 'O' and '0' , and between 'I' and '|'. Other than those problems, it's mostly fine - 'l' and '1' are usefully distinct, for instance - but the friction from those particular difficulties was enough to make me hate it.
I'm assuming they already have a load working for them, in my game I'm just thinking about what they could do on top of what they already have...
How else are you going to get people to download the app?
No, it does not require Apple, NCMEC and DOJ working together.

Apple could intercept hashes that are sent and compare to their own database.

Someone in the NCMEC could add non CSAM hashes to their database.
well sure, but fdisk is a command line utility that you don't use unless you have no other choice, the windows equivalent to disk utility is disk management (inside computer management), but it's been as "not updated in forerer" as quicktime on macos.
It's not Alien but I think it fits in the (unknown) category really well... Buried, with Ryan Reynolds. It's a pretty good flick that's filmed almost entirely in a small dark box with only him in it.
Thanks! :) We're really excited about how our token system results in a nearly "plug and play" charger -- just add power!

We have two models:

In a few markets, we operate a "full service" model where we're invited in by a building owner to install infrastructure at our cost, and charge a subscription fee to users to access it in addition to charging for energy consumed. Building owners love this because it's a natural way to transfer costs for the infrastructure to tenants, and -- as "full service" implies -- it takes all the administrative overhead of managing the infrastructure, billing tenants for power, etc. off their plate.

We also offer our technology as a platform for other companies to use as a part of their product or service. With a combination of our SDK and API, they can enable their own app to access HeyCharge devices. This means we can offer the low cost of hardware, low cost and high scalability of setup, and low operating costs to their product/service. We're piloting this with several energy utilities, mobility operators, and a few more that I can't talk about yet. In this case, we operate on a hardware sales + SaaS model.
Does the word "Aptitude" trigger you, comrade?
Very hilarious that you think gp is complaining when they are suggesting to suck it up. Pretty much proving you are spoiled and overpaid.
Can you please provide more evidence to support this claim? From where I'm sitting, TikTok's and Instagram's businesses would disagree strongly.
Qualcomm and Spoke will bring C-V2X connectivity to bikes
What would be the best way to do migrations with absurd-sql?
Android Linux fork compiles with clang for ages now. Upstream doesn't want them.