skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine your boss asks you to display how many other visitors are viewing a nearly sold out item to convert sales

Yeah, you could say “no, such overt manipulation is definitely unethical”.

But on a more technical side, I like to be a progressive enhancement purist (though sometimes it’s not the pragmatic option) and I don’t see any good reason why client-side scripting should be required for an online store. Can LiveView be used as a progressive enhancement, producing traditional HTML with links, form submissions and all that will work without client side scripting? If not, I don’t think LiveWire is suitable for that specific sort of site; and if it is, then surely you can’t know how many visitors there are on a given item? To be sure, the estimate will still be more accurate than the likes of (30 + 20 * Math.random())|0 which is maliciously manipulative, but it’s not correct any more.
thanks - I'll do some research on this

if the code is sandboxed, then what useful things can it do?
Good. We need this. The USB-C connector is capable of providing laptop-grade power supply, and Apple is the only straggler that I know of.
Stop reading «world media» then and start looking for worthwhile analysts.
I think it matters whether or not you look at games that are a single "work" or games that are part of a series.

For example, I think Lukas Pope is a good modern example of single author creating really unique and novel games. Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri on the other hand are more like good examples of fresh ideas being injected into a series under new leadership.
See, in our library they had maybe 5-10 copies for 100 students, so I never heard of something like this. Also some of those books I've been referencing again even after finishing my studies so I'm glad I have them.

And yes, what's wrong with about 100$ per year? (my degree was 9 semesters)
Meanwhile here I am on Windows 11 (via the dev channel) living the best life with my touch laptop that I use both for work and leisure.

Can you explain what makes you think Windows 11 "pretends desktops don't exist anymore"? If it's the product line-up revealed at this Surface event: the Surface line is explicitly a line of touch devices, so the focus on mobility seems on par.
By your own words Civ does not fit that pattern, because you said Civ II was the best instance. Now I am unsure what your point is.
Wasn't this a news item ten years ago?

Ah, yes - confirmed in the article!
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I always have an intuition that Deepmind will solve AGI.
Not just subsidies though, also technology and organization.
Good, though in practice it's not the charger the problem, I use the same USB plug everywhere, it's Apple and their cable. Right now I always need with me a micro USB cable, an USB-C one, and Lightning, because Apple thinks different™.

What's Apple reasoning for not abandoning Lightning for USB-C on their phones?
If you know too much we will have to ... you. It's sad that in the western civilization, copyright and DRM are used to limit access to information.
This is non-news, this has already been the case since 2009 [1]. It mandates micro USB, EU iPhones come with an adapter. I'm not sure what the current status is, USB-C phones don't come with an adapter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
If it's a hit piece it is easily the longest and best researched hit piece I've ever read. It's mostly a summary of Humbird's report and the people it's "hitting" end up agreeing with basically everything in it by the end of the article, only arguing that where there's a will, there's a way.

The idea that any imaginable technology will become efficient enough to be competitive on useful timescales is wrong. In my lifetime battery storage for the grid and nuclear power are all examples of technologies that were once predicted to become highly efficient and widespread. Flying cars and moon bases are examples of tech people in the 60s and 70s frequently assumed were just around the corner but which never even got off the ground. Decades on nuclear is being killed by massively increased costs, and batteries have become more efficient but the gains have been incremental rather than exponential. They are still nowhere near being cheap or abundant enough to switch the grid to windmills.

Engineering challenges are real. Improvements are usually not exponential. Computers are an exception, not a rule, and even there the exponential growth story is complex and not ideal: the era of big chip performance improvements stopped decades ago and since then it's all been incremental improvements for anything that doesn't trivially parallelize, which is most stuff.

Finally, you're comparing lab grown meat to TVs and refrigerators. That's not a valid comparison. Those machines had no competition, they enabled huge, immediate quality of life wins that couldn't be obtained in any other way. Lab grown meat is - in the absolute best case - identical to normal meat. It doesn't improve quality of life in any way. It's basically an indulgence, a psychological prop that rich people can pay for to feel virtuous. For everyone who already feels virtuous enough and isn't interested in charitable giving, lab grown meat has no purpose, and especially, it's easy to rationalize away any small amount of guilt felt (e.g. better for the cow to have had a nice life in a field than never having lived at all, nature is full of predators that are nastier than us, scientists are lying about climate change, etc). So there just isn't the growth market that benefited things like TVs.
> Organization charts are not nearly so widely used as they should be. As organization charts are an excellent example of the division of a total into its components, a number of examples are given here in the hope that the presentation of organization charts in convenient form will lead to their more widespread use.

If Mr. Brinton were still alive today, he would be a very happy man...
So I'm guessing starting a brand new EVM chain and mine/stake from scratch is most optimal to broaden ownership then?

Time to scrap ETH and start from scratch?
> However, might as well put full trust into the person with the freeze key, would likely be a lot cheaper.

It's easier to trust someone when everything they do is public.

> make ERC20 compliant with some local laws, wow, I'm just speechless.

Switzerland is one of the leading actor in blockchain, with rapidely adapting and welcoming regulations (the first "crypto law" was enacted last year) and a fast growing ecosystem (https://cryptovalley.swiss/ https://trustvalley.swiss/ https://www.cmta.ch/).

It kind of make sense if you think about it, as crypto really is the future of banking, that the first banking country is taking the lead.

So yes a lot of people are working on it and a lot of implentations will come from Switzerland. It's also convenient that the Swiss law is very easy to apprehend, is translated in many languages and is often taken as a reference in international law/contacts as it's a no bullshit law without spectacular outcome in litigation.
Why do we insist on growing meat in the lab, when it already grows on animal in a natural way?

It could be seen as a naïve question however I think it's a part of bigger trend where humans are trying to replace natural processes with cultural. Isn't the science-fiction dream to grow babies in an artificial womb and give them to parents "when they are ready".

This trend worries me. I think we should go the other way and acknowledge and accept that we are animals and part of the animal kingdom in every way.
Any proper fact checker states the conclusion, and then spends multiple paragraphs describing how the conclusion was made, with sources.

Anyone can and should attack that reasoning or sourcing if it's lacking or faulty. It usually isn't.
Brave Android has the toolbar at the bottom and it's crucial. The address bar is separate at the top but I never use it anyway.
I'm a Blackberry fanboy. My Key2 was far, far superior a device to the latest gen iPhone I own. I have tried for years to get used to glass, and while I'm ok with it, it's still a massive compromise.

My second favourite mobile-device keyboard was that of the Ericsson T28 [0] from about 20 years ago. At some point I accidentally discovered a feature I just found outlined at the bottom of page 28 of the T28 user manual [1], where the volume rocker switch on the left side would act as a text entry modifier key, so that pressing the number 2 button normally resulted in a B, holding the volume up and pressing 2 gave a C, and holding volume down and pressing 2 gave a D.

I remember getting so, so fast and so comfortable at texting with this method. By random chance, an acquaintance a few years ago in a co-working place had an old T28 that still worked and let me play with. Naturally the first thing I tried was the old input method - and it was like my muscle memory never left. I was so fast and so comfortable with it. She was blown away... after 20 years she still had no idea that that mode existed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_T28

[1] https://www.lokety.com/ericsson_t28s_manual.pdf
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Solar power isn't cost effective, which is why there's now an energy crisis in Europe ... it became a lot cheaper, but it didn't reach the point of making economic sense for it to replace other forms of power at scale, largely due to fundamentals outside of the semiconductor industry: lack of reliable sunshine, lack of sufficiently cheap batteries, etc.
I think it’s a horrible idea. It means moving to a future, better standard (let’s say, USB-D) is neigh impossible as it would require a change to an EU directive (that is: 27 countries need to agree on it).

Just getting this into law has already been in the works for years and years, if the EU had worked a bit faster we would have been stuck with micro USB-B, which would have been unfortunate.
As a bonus, you have a piece of work that's born both analogue and digital. And the ability to back it up easily.
Yep. But so is a visitor dropping a bag of USB Mass Storage devices anywhere. Or a visitor with a proxmark grabber in his bag/suitcase.
It's not about replacing forest with cows. It's about replacing forest with cow-feed.

1% of US cows are grass-finished, the rest eat grain.

These grain-eating cows may be located in a place that has grass, couldn't be forest, and couldn't be agricultural land. And yet they eat grain nonetheless, from another place, that could be agricultural land, forest or otherwise nature that creates biodiversity.

The grain comes from somewhere. That creates land use issues. Not because of replacing forest with cows, but because 99% of cows sold in US stores are eating grain which must come from somewhere that is obviously not only useable for growing just grass.

Yes, in theory it's possible to have cows eat grass only, that's quite obvious. But if you were to limit beef in US stores to only those type of situations, you'd have to reduce the supply by 99% today and radically shift the way beef is produced worldwide.

And even that 1% / 99% isn't the entire story. That only tells you what is grass-finished vs cows that eat grain. An even smaller portion of that 1% are cows that are eating grass from a place that could solely grow grass and could not be used for other purposes such as forest.
It's more like "this is how Linux fixes it". And then because operating systems share a lot of the same principles, you can see whether a Windows solution exists, or if Linux is a better fit.
"One day I'll be able to work whilst walking around in the forest..."

To be frank, this sounds thoroughly dystopian to me
I think it's even easier than that; we now have cables that are normal shape and size of a USB connector that have an embedded system in them with a webserver, keyboard emulation, mass storage and wifi for a remote attacker to connect to.

It's also easier to just ask to quickly use the worker's computer to get a presentation going.

"Oh yeah sorry, my presentation is made in PowerShell instead of PowerPoint".
> What's Apple reasoning for not abandoning Lightning for USB-C on their phones?

People having a lot of legacy MFi stuff. Car docks and stereo systems in particular are expensive to replace.
When my Windows 95 kept giving me blue-screens multiple times a day, it actually did help.
In China KFC sell rice.
I can't believe I'm not the only one who's thought about this!! Putting my kindle on the table in front of me and flipping pages with a clicker in my hand would be such a great experience. I used to do this when reading on my phone by using the volume rockers on some old wired earbuds and it was great.

It's not even about accessibility for me, although that's probably the better way to sell it. It's also about comfort. Holding the device in one hand isn't very comfortable and already makes it hard to flip pages. Holding it like a book works, but since it's smaller it's even more uncomfortable and in general holding your arms in isn't a particularly ergonomic position. Putting it down on a table or pillow in front of me works great, until I have to flip the page, meaning I probably need to get me arm out from under a blanket if it's cold and either way it's annoying, takes enough time to break the flow of reading and is likely to jostle whatever surface I've placed the reader on, so I then have to adjust it back.

To be clear, this is a 1000% first-world problem for me. If you treat the reader like a book, the experience will be just as good as a book. But I don't just want a book, or even many books in one. I want something even better.
You mean any OS that has been painstakingly ported and compiled for the Pinephone? I don't think that leaves you with a plethora of options...
I take the opposite view - technology has progressed faster than any other aspect of our experience on this planet. From first flight to landing on the moon = 60 years. From first computers to an iPhone = 60 years. What else has changed in this world faster than technology?
I'm pretty sure you can have an ad-hoc setup with a serial to network adapter. It might require more custom software on both ends, but if you control both ends anyway, it might give you a smoother experience anyway.
Does it still do the thing where if you take a bit of water from a full reservoir, the hole just goes crazy, tanking FPS?
I can’t wait for an iPhone with a USB C port, and I’ll buy it immediately.

There’s nothing technically wrong with Lightning, but it’s a monumental pain to have to carry around 2 sets of incompatible cables because of it!
$29?
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD819AM/A/lightning-to-us...
Great to see! A no brainer imo as:

- productivity increases

- recruitment is easier

- staff retention improves

- absenteeism will reduce

- employees will be happier

- etc etc
Conspiracy theories are not partisan
The big problem with just plain Bluetooth to me is that “as far as Bluetooth ‘just works’” is “not very well” in my experience. The usual problems with connects and disconnects are annoying, but I’ve also grown impatient with this notion that we can just use our phone for everything. It drives me bonkers, for example, to have my music rudely interrupted by a text message sound instead of just having a subtle ding come from my pocket while the music continues to come from my stereo. Or that I can’t make a phone call while the music continues. Or to have my phone ring at stereo volume. I just want my music to be separate, I guess, which is totally possible through software, but none of our devices actually seem to have features that allow that. So a dedicated device is ideal, IMO.
> They aren't grazing cattle in Manhattan, it's in places like rural Australia or Texas where there is no infrastructure, no arable land, and no human population that is competing with the cattle population for resources

Nasa [0] claims that the single biggest reason for deforestation is conversion to cropland and pasture, and Vice [1] says that 80% of the deforestation is for cattle in Brazil. Meanwhile, in the US almost 70% of all crops grown are used as animal feed [2] (e.g. all that midwestern corn and soy) - and the efficiency of that is staggeringly low; Only about 3% of the calories used for beef feed translate into our human food,

> They aren't grazing cattle in Manhattan,

They're not because it's a concrete jungle, and land is expensive in the immediate areas.

[0] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Deforestation/def...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjwzk4/feeling-sad-about-the...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel...
It was, and quite a success, and probably encouraged the current step.

It changed a problem from "find the right charger" to "will this charger charge this phone quickly or slowly?" with hardly any problems. Someone will post a link to that Google engineer who tested cables, and there was a manufacturer who supplied non-USB power via a USB plug (can't remember which voltage but it wasn't 5V1A), but on the whole, a great improvement over the old state.
I remember seeing a demo of that (Braille keyboard on a phone) was crazy. What's also neat is the StuffMadeHere guy on YT added vision to that via Lidar in an iPad... the vibrations(?)/raising pins fed into a similar brail keyboard position.
You can get away with 1 cable actually :) That's what I do. Be it car, home - it is convenient to have any port available. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001490533074.html
Luckily, we could always make it worse; there were times where full-sized ports were thought of standard yet we had PCs and Macs with mini-versions that were specific to the manufacturer (like mini-composite, AV-jacks, mini-VGA, mini-DVI).
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Apple ID too
> An Associated Press analysis of available government data from May shows that “breakthrough” infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 107,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 1.1%.

> And only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-941fc...
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> I am just surprised why we don't see more X implementations in other languages?

X probably doesn't have the mainstream appeal some people think it should have.
To anyone who enjoyed Civ4 especially, I would strongly recommend Old World, a classical antiquity period game that in many ways feels like a sequel to Civ4, and does a far better job with 1UPT than Civ5 or Civ6 did. Old World is designed by Soren Johnson, and multiple people on the team are straight from Civ4 days.

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the game's developers)
Only for the build time to take a nosedive when they ditched C.

Explained here, by a factor of 2.

https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#performance
> EU iPhones come with an adapter.

Source?
Since 2009 I probably had 8 iPhones or so, never seen or heard about any adapter
and yet if you actually did that, people on the other side of the political spectrum would complain that it's unfair for poor people because they now have a higher food cost burden. Shouldn't the rich subsidize for the poor for these essentials?

So then you get back to the original condition - subsidizing food once again. In fact, this is the reason why they are subsidized in the first place!
it's because of climate change, cows and chicken use too much space, resources (water, crop), so we're burning down big regions (amazon rainforest) to have enough space. We also can't feed the whole world with meat, so we can either go all vegan or have a different way of producing meat, so why not skipping the whole animal part?
Cool! I wish there was an easy way to consume browser streams in FFmpeg — the other way around.
It is the same argument my friend, Nico [1] presents in his experiment where he is 'generating' 1kg of wheat [2] to help himself and other understand the 'claim' that we can grow things indoor and so we can go ahead and keep fucking the planet.

[1] http://disnovation.org/index.php
[2] http://disnovation.org/lss.php
Saw something like this in 2011 on Yandex demo day in Yekaterinburg. Didn't fly then. Can't find the link, unfortunately.
They didn't see this as a problem when they introduced lightning and USB-C on their macBooks and high-end iPads, though. Instead you were supposed to buy more future electronic waste in form of dongles.
This article is mind numbingly stupid.

It's essentially some guy with a monochromatic worldview having a personal crisis trying to reintegrate his "things I don't like = far right" and "things I like = left wing" thought process with the reality around him.

Nothing useful here.
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You have no idea what you are talking about
Maps is not something you need an account for.
Mine last Delphi was 7... greatest release!
How about “one day I'll be able to walk around in the forest while working”?
It sounds like he'd enjoy a language with type inference.
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Ah yes, but how much would lab-grown meat produced in Switzerland cost?
I also imagine if this device is on close to 24/7, reduced electricity costs will more than make up for any cost savings in the end.
Oh, it was called Octodon, thanks to people posting it in the comments.
Meat tastes a lot, if you can't taste it then you have destroyed your taste buds with spices or something.
I compared the distributed transaction patterns (dual-writes)
Have you got any numbers on what percentage of UK beef is reared like that?
> Google Drive is free. The individual in-question was not paying for the service.

Huh? They paid with their data.
And furthermore, the more you use them for, the greater the likelihood of falling afoul of some ToS or bot.
Don’t forget that the most popular game of all time, far outperforming billion-dollar studios, was written in about a year, in Java, by a single dude. There’s something very beautiful about that.

If it was part of a book or movie you’d roll your eyes.
That’s a different law, it requires a USB connection on the side of the charger. This would require a USB connector on the side of the phone.
Most car docks I’ve seen had a swappable base plate to accommodate either lightning or USB C.

Now days of course, they’re all moving to wireless charging anyway.
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