skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody was harmed in the Milgram experiment. That's the whole point of the experiment. It is to fake harm. The one seemingly receiving the electric shock is an actor faking pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
It certainly feels like the contraction/expansion cycles of capitalism are accelerating, so, if we time the question appropriately, the answer will be yes.

At some point, I'd assume the frequency will be so high socio-economic systems won't be able to respond and it'll look like a steady state.
"javascript must be enabled"... well...
Revolut is down since 10:50 GMT
What if I don't need fiat, because many things can be payed in some form of crypto like in Metaverse?

What if round-trip those through many different cryptos?

What if round-trip those through funny NFTs and with that even inflate NFTs?

What if a combine many of those steps?
That's fascinating. Matt Taibbi recently did an article - a takeaway from which was that Facebook is currently doing exactly that - burying content that is true but lends credence to crazy.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-british-medical-journal-st...
I'm very sure some enterprising person will think of a way to do it ;-)
Agreed - this is a subjective value judgment, hard / impossible to automate. As a list of links to check out, sure. As an automated conclusion? No thanks.

Someone is going to have to make a judgment call. If curation isn't built into the service, the user must spend more effort.
Awesome font have a section on accessibility
https://fontawesome.com/v5.15/how-to-use/on-the-web/other-to...
But how do you get the distros to pick them up?
Depending on your workload, a single Elixir (BEAM) node will happily serve 10k users without breaking a sweat
Real lockdowns are effective as we see in China. lockdowns in the west are not.
I feel like there was a lot of discussion on this topic a few years back.
You might be surprised people are so naive. If you just do following thing I would say it would be so easy for facebook to capture market.

Release a phone with:
- 0 Bloatware,
- High Ram/ CPU/ functions
- 100% privacy and no ads (initial days to allure consumers)
- Cheap price

People will purchase them and after 3-4 year add tracking slowly in name of feedback etc. There will be some loss but for long term I think facebook should do it, or it will be wiped off from market.

If people buys oculus it shouldn't be that hard.
Funny cross-section: this image gets shared on r/crtgaming often enough:

https://reddit.com/r/crtgaming/comments/rwq466/crt_master_ra...

The answer has been becoming clear to more users in the past few years: shaders. With a bright, high resolution OLED that has black frame insertion plus a good shader you can do a pretty decent approximation of the look and feel of a CRT. The de facto standard is CRT Royale but others have done good work in recent years.
Yeah but the regulations would be opt-in, for people who want a safe avenue. Anyone else will still be able to interact with the underlying permissionless blockchain network.
Gotta love that sad pouty face they chose for the article though
Maybe they are feeling the heat from [0], an actually free podcast index. (For supporting free(dom) apps: [1]).

[0] https://podcastindex.org/

[1] https://podcastindex.org/apps
I don't use the official Apple Podcasts app anymore at all.

My favorites now are Breez [1] for all Value4Value[2] podcasts, and Overcast[3] for all podcast that haven't upgraded yet.

[1] https://breez.technology/technology.html

[2] https://podcastindex.org/podcast/value4value

[3] https://overcast.fm/
> But the fact that a company can do this to another company at the flick of a switch by changing the rules of the game on a whim is still kind of scary

You should read about what Ford Motor Company did to the horse and buggy industry. Or what email (arguably Hotmail) did to the postal and phone companies. Or what Boeing did to the transoceanic shipping companies.
Discussed yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177084
That’s actually not my problem with it; my big problem with it is that the whole thing gives me a headache after about 15 minutes. And you can’t use your phone, have something on in the background, etc. Also basically every game was way easier to play outside VR.

In my mind it’s a novelty you will be far more productive without.
Color theory blew my mind. First the fact that something that feels so natural needs theory - boy was I ignorant. The different color spaces, ways to achieve color, the perception of color, how the different media stores and reproduces color, incredible.
Sockets for Dummies
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185142
That would be so much abusive from youtube that I don't believe it.
And since I use yt-dlp I don't think I'll be able to see the text of such blockade.
Creating Camera Lenses with Stereolithography
Astroturfing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21345659
I have anxiety and depression.

So while I deeply care about politics, it's really not good for me. At least, a little more acutely than it is for others. Slight uptick in daily stress for me will ruin my sleep for weeks. It's a slow build but it happens. And I fall asleep just fine. It's the staying asleep that doesn't work. Melatonin, valerian root, lemon balm, l-thenanine, weighted blankets, good sleep hygenie, all in combination will not stop my mind from racing at 3am about SOMETHING.

I have several interests - classic film, music (typically older), tech (decreasingly)

And I can't find any place that doesn't drag it into modern politics.

The way people "discuss" on these platforms - reddit Twitter, etc is so toxic. And frankly it's made me toxic in how I reply to people once goaded into taking the bait

These platforms and algorithms and mobs are feed off negativity.

Every couple of months I'll get a reddit or Twitter account. I'll enjoy it for a while and then the politics leaks in more and more and I just end up deleting my account (and all my comments or contributions too)

I tried going back to magazines. But the phone is always "there" and my magazines are not and I just end up not reading them

Phones have changed impulses and behaviors and after 10 years of it, almost - I've found those behaviors harder to break than stopping smoking or cutting caffeine or eating poorly.

I'd ditch my phone all together.. But I work for a fortune 500 big tech company in a technical role and we know how that goes.

All I know is I hate social media. Hate..

But there's virtually no modern way to really engage with people on any given subject - nutrition, fitness, classic films, whatever. Without all the pitfalls of those competing mobs.

Going back to the remaining forums sounds nice but they've become content ghettos.
Demystifying the Profraw Format
Rooting phone is already been futile, since many banking app etc. doesn't work anymore. We lost it badly :(
There's a nice diagram in this article that describes gene reassortment - with clues to how you might create children in genetic algorithms.
I think if someone gets the word right, everyone else loses HP. It is a battle royale after all.
> keep the code that changes together close together.

Agreed. I do that, but never got around to factoring out a one-liner that expresses it.

I also tend to have fairly deep directory trees that tend to reflect the code hierarchy/structure.

I will also factor out large chunks into standalone subprojects, and reinclude them as packages. This results in very high quality code, and also gives me dozens of libraries of tested, ship-quality, reusable code.

Another thing that I do, is have fairly large source files, that aggregate multiple classes/structs/enums/protocols that relate to each other. It drives me nuts to deal with the typical Java "Each class has its own file -no matter how small" thing.

I practice what might be called "eXtreme documentation. I rely on Jazzy (sort of like Doxygen), and now, DocC, so every element in my code has a headerdoc. I make heavy use of the "// MARK:" macro, as well.

I write about that, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/ (I need to add a DocC update).
I agree, but it is also correct. Somehow similar to asking "github or subversion?". It also a bit confusing once you introduce Linux into the mix.
I will stick to Windows or Mac instead (oranges to oranges comparison).
Whoops, there goes my day. If there'd been team Wordle when I was a kid I would have been a lot more sporty.
Reference counting is a GC algorithm, despite urban knowledge that describes it as otherwise.

Chapter 5 on the "The Garbage Collection Handbook",

https://gchandbook.org/contents.html

Or if you prefer chapter 2 on "Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques" https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15411-f08/misc/wilson94-g...

Plenty of SIGPLAN papers about the subject.

Despite all marketing talk, the real reason why Swift went with ARC was easier interoperability with Objective-C, otherwise Apple would need to build something like .NET's RCW/CCW for COM interop on Windows, which follows the same concept as Cocoa's retain/release calls.
I likely use often also incorrect or misleading terms.

Yes. The mass market works (thinks) like that. Like you said, we're here on a tech board and therefore I refer to the actual definitions. Depends on situation when correct terms must be used or not.
Oh I edited the post to clarify the misinformation one wasn't my take. But the current mainstream / majority view on HN. Which has only seen some pushback in very recent months.

Having lived through an era in Hong Kong where only one voice and one view is allowed. I tend to have a contrarian take than most on HN.
You can try Strattic - it turns WordPress into a static site generator so you can use page builders etc. as usual, and then in one click generate the static version of the site. https://www.strattic.com
The teachers’ unions have their own interests to look out for…
What in the hell kind of analysis is this?

I’m betting $1000 that OP has never stepped foot in Mississippi.

“Negro voting disenfranchisement”?
Your complaining about something that hasn't happened here? Ok
rp looks like a very interesting and clever approach. I'll have to take a closer look. Is https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/examples/rp.ni... the extent of rp's documentation?
The law enforcement won't step in because they're technologically inept.
Sugar being a controller substance was an episode of Sliders.
Google Buildings Polluted with Toxic Vapors from Chemical Spills
I agree with the premise. However, this isn't survivorship bias, it's just a selection bias.
I was an happy Symbian user, then an happy WP user, so it is.

As for GNU/Linux based phones, it is always the same OpenMoko like story, I don't have high hopes for them.
It's a bit out of date now, but here are some of my thoughts on this from 10 years ago:-

http://williamtpayne.blogspot.com/2012/07/structure.html

http://williamtpayne.blogspot.com/2012/05/development-concer...

Looking back on this now, it all feels a bit unconventional and strange, so I wouldn't make the same recommendations today. I think that people want to operate in an environment with fewer, and less rigid constraints. I do think some of the driving concerns are still valid though, and still worth considering.
Eh. I work for a company that also gets reviews like this a lot (reviews for products we offer instead of the app itself). You’d be surprised how many people accidentally do it, and how hard it is to prevent. I really think it’s a bit rich to suggest it’s intentional.
Yes, but you have to code for it. I guess you mean you want to "kill the process" in some way, and that's not possible as far as I know.

One easy way is to add a flag

let working = true;
(function work() {
console.log("running");
if (working) requestAnimationFrame(work);
else console.log("stopped");
})();

Programmatically, you have the function cancelAnimationFrame that you give as parameter what requestAnimationFrame returns. The same as setTimeout and clearTimeout
South Korea’s nose-only ‘kosk’ mask for Covid-safe eating raises eyebrows
What is it that these apps offer that the default Google podcast doesn't? Does it give better discovery options? I'm asking because, I use Google podcast, but I use it to listen to podcasts that I already know exist, using the app itself to find interesting new podcasts hasn't been very successful for me.
> 3D has come and gone many times over the history of cinema

So has VR a couple of times in the history of computer based entertainment, so the analogy hold IMO.

> VR adds something other than image quality - it adds the ability to be immersed in the content

Exactly. And it needs content that is noticeably improved by VR without obvious disadvantages, and there have been few examples of where the benefit has been enough to counter the faf. I've played a bit of Elite with an expensive VR setup and it was great but that doesn't hit the movement issue as being sat in a fixed place matches the immersion requirement of the largest part of the game (being sat in a cockpit), and I'm told Half-Life: Alyx is good enough that the constraints imposed by VR don't impact the immersion enough to break it. But those are the only two examples I can cite: you need people like me (a techie who doesn't game much at all these days despite doing so a lot a decade or two ago) and the less techie public to be able to identify more than two or three great examples for the product to have any hope of being more than niche. This isn't just a technology gap (between what we can do now and what people see on TV with things like the holodeck) but also an issue of making suitable content good enough is more difficult to get right.
Well it's simple.

- Cryptocurrency market is a scam.[0]

- It spends inordinate amount of electrical energy that can be better spent maintaining existing bank/credit card infrastructure [1]

- It's a scam[2]

- It contributed to overall graphics card shortage [3]

- It has another scam (NFT) growing on top of an existing one [4]

Have I mentioned it's a scam?

What irks me the most is people are acting as if crypto currency is real/usable or a sane solution for a problem it can't dream of solving.

It feels a bit like yelling "King is naked", but the rest of the populace is "No, it's just spider silk.", and "Would they waste all that effort to just make nothing?"

[0] https://www.singlelunch.com/2022/01/09/an-anatomy-of-bitcoin...

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/10/26/bitcoin-electricity-consumpti...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/22620464/tether-backing-cryptocurre...

[3] https://medium.com/geekculture/cryptocurrency-graphics-card-...

[4] Just use your brain for 5 min and realize that NFTs don't work.
I have actually never thought of it like this, excellent answer!
Firefox has a setting "allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" (browser.display.use_document_fonts). I like how this wording considers user-defined fonts the default.
Tech women can fly for their abortions.
> Zuckerberg got lucky and then executed brilliantly, transitioned from nerd hacker to CEO amazingly well. He deserves a lot of credit for that.

“I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS. People just submitted it. I don't know why.!They ‘trust me’. Dumb fucks.” - Mark Zuckerberg at 19 years old.

No, he always had scummy intentions and does not deserve credit for exploiting people’s trust.
Apple Podcasts prompts you to review it on the App Store, but apparently only while listening to a podcast. I believe this is the only Apple app that prompts for reviews; and it's the new behavior that's responsible for bringing the rating from 1.8 to 4.9. Strange that the article doesn't mention this.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22791968/apple-podcasts-...

> I wondered if maybe this was a common confusion with podcast apps, where listeners think they’re reviewing a podcast instead of the app itself. But no, I didn’t see that obvious pattern when I checked reviews for other top podcast apps in the App Store. Almost every review on competing apps was a review of the apps themselves.

> Apple confirmed to The Verge that it’s using a new prompt but claims it’s nothing out of the ordinary. “With iOS 15.1 released last month, Apple Podcasts began prompting listeners to leave a rating and review just like most third-party apps — using the standard Rating & Review prompt available to all developers,” wrote an Apple spokesperson who only agreed to comment if they were not named.
It absolutely is not. It used to be, I guess.

Yes, people there, generally, are less overtly racist and bigoted, and there is some cool infrastructure, but it trades in rural isolationist prejudice for tech-tainted delusional world building, at the cost of its once beautiful community and culture. Austin is scary, I have never lived in a city that so clearly feels like it has a mind of its own, that changes so much and so explicitly that when you go back to visit your old home, it is literally unrecognizable, everything it once was just poofs away in a year.

After living in a number of cities since, I understand just how weird Austin is, but not in the way it was "weird", wants to be weird. Its now like if a Stepford wife was a city: some totally flawless shell wrapped around a void. Its like if a Tesla car was city, which is perhaps a more apt similie, where it rides off its popular sentiment alone while the internals are shoestring, or at least questionable.

It trades in explicit Texas politics for extreme and swift gentrification, and a, at this point, willful neglect of social services for the communities they've, in part, helped displace. There is little love in Austin now, no matter how many granola eating hippies can still afford the rent. Most of that place is gone, or quickly dissapearing.

Give me Houston, which has comparable politics in the inner city, and the best museums and food in the state. Give me San Antonio, even, which is a more humble, but at least human place, and that does have better breakfast tacos than Austin. But Austin is gone.

I dont think the enthusiasm and attention it gets is going away anytime soon, and people will continue to move in, and it will get "cooler" in the eyes of every google employee that resides there. And property investment will continue to churn, like crude oil in a Kitchenaide. But it has gone crazy, and I see no hope in it going back, its too big to fail, and that is maybe the whole problem.
Huh, Netnod in Stockholm is also owned by a non-profit, I had no idea. But its still very expensive to connect to afaik.
Is it though the same thing? obviously taking cash spewing out of an ATM is illegal - but I honestly not sure if this is the same thing.

I am thinking more along the lines (made up example), you studied the trading in certain stocks and figured out a pattern where big investors were always buying huge blocks of stock XYZ right before the close, and so the price went up - if you picked up on that, and then front-ran those trades and then sold them back to the big buyer while they are buying at the close - you are not doing anything illegal - you are exploiting inefficiencies in the system (and making a pile of dough.)

Not a perfect analogy I know - Just trying to understand where this 'hack' falls on that spectrum of exploiting inefficiencies vs sticking a gun in someones face.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here, but I'm a fan of npmtrends[0]. You can search for npm libraries that you know, and it will recommend related searches for you. Then it'll compare them based on downloads over time and show their github activity at the bottom. I use this every time I need to find a new library.

[0] https://www.npmtrends.com/
I suspect the original comment is referring to Starlink taking a (~ 15% deposit) and 'promising' 1-2 months wait time which isn't reducing so they end up still waiting 6 months later, and the expected delivery is still reported as 1-2 months in the Starlink account.

It's possible that the delay is due to lack of legal clearance in the customer country. Starlink needs to get approval to install and operate the ground station satellite links in each country. From the few authoritative statements I've seen those are sometimes delayed due to local country bureaucracy.

I ordered Starlink in the UK in February 2020 and the equipment finally arrived in May 2020. I /think/ the stated delivery estimate at the time was 2-3 months and never reduced until the order confirmation email arrived and I paid the balance, after which the equipment arrived a couple of weeks later.
This scepticism shouldn't surprise you. Not being sceptical is just an indicator that you've not been in the field for long enough.

30 years ago, the end of programming was prophesised, because 5th generation languages (5GL) and visual programming would enable everybody to design and build software.

20 years ago, low-code and application builders were said to revolutionise the industry and allow people in business roles to build their applications using just a few clicks. End-to-end model-driven design and development (e.g. using Rational Rose and friends) were to put an end to bugs and maintenance problems.

10 years ago it was new programming languages (e.g. Rust, Go, Swift, ...) and a shift to functional programming that was advertised as being "the future".

Today it's back to "no code", e.g. tool-(AI-)driven development that's all the rage.

It's not so much being "uncomfortable" or clinging to the exceptionalism of the human mind. It's just experience. Every decade saw its great big hype and technological breakthrough, but the lofty promises didn't hold water.

Note that this doesn't mean nothing changed - model driven development still has its niche, visual programming is widely used in video production, rendering and game development. Features of functional programming have been added to many "legacy" languages and many of the newly introduced programming languages have become mainstream.

The same will happen with AI generated software. There a large portion of the "mechanical" process of programming will be done by AI. Large and complex software systems with changing requirements, however, will still be designed and implemented primarily by people.

Programming is a conversation between humans and machines. AI will in many cases shift the conversation closer to the human side, but fundamentally it'll still be the same thing.

I like to think of it as the difference between writing your program in assembly and writing it in Haskell; different approaches, same basic activity.
What do we need, exactly and realistically, to achieve a real lockdown?
There is text, it's embedded in the videos themselves.
You could be right, but I'm not sure that's it. I think the novelty just wore off. The people you care about you post pictures to in private groups. Why post to 400 other acquaintances who aren't really friends? I think people just don't bother any more.
Woolly mammoth and other Ice Age remains found in Devon
was flashbots a thing back in aug-2020? i think they only launched a few months later.
I think the trick to "we buy homes" or whatever is they buy way under market. My neighbor sold for something like 150k, they fixed the place up and resold it for a little over 500k. Landlords aren't going to go that low.
Ha ha you found it lol
VR is the future of porn. I’m not convinced it’s the future of anything else. VR gaming sucks.
Apple reviews reviews. Apple can arbitrarily reject reviews. One of their apps is unpopular. They have added motivation to toss out negative reviews.

There are a lot of dark patterns about Apple's app store review process. Users get a "thank you we'll look at it" but never get a way to check the status of the review submission. It's like a slapping a "feedback receptacle" label on the side of a shredder.