skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You make it sound like a full tank is safer than a half-empty tank.

Back when I was working as a Ford tech, I was told that a full tank is a fire hazard. An empty tank is an explosion hazard.

You can run away from a fire. If the fuel pump can be changed without dropping the tank (e.g. by going under the rear seat or truck bed), then it is preferable to work on a full tank.
Shortage of KP Nuts and Hula Hoops looms after cyber-attack
The main issue with selling "the metaverse" is that Facebook can't do it. Zuckerberg has made sure that the would be early adopters are steering clear of anything coming out of Facebook/Meta.

You can't piss of the tech entusiasts, reviewers, podcasts and everyone in between by constantly exhibiting poor judgement, arrogant behavior and blatantly invading peoples privacy, and then expect them to be excited about your next venture.

Facebook has burned pretty much any goodwill it might have had, and now it want's you to emerge yourself in it's VR world? Zuckerberg has to be incredibly delusional if he think that's going to sell.
Yes. This is also what the page you linked to says.
Cryptonomicon has given me countless hours of sleep.

Regarding Why We Sleep here is a critique [1]. Was posted on HN in past.

[1] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
I wanna quit my job and never have a boss by the time I turn 40. Need to procure assets for that.
Its a lot worse then Facebook, there isn't even any text.

A hybrid of Vine and Instagram designed to make you stare into your screen with the smallest of interactions.
> was able to make deals that at first looked wildly overpriced but in the end seemed to be a steal

I wonder how much survivorship bias there is here. Presumably they've made some truly dreadful acquisitions too?
Weird Browsers
conda install -c conda-forge scrapy
Jira Agile/Software does not respect Jira's ISO8601 setting (2013)
Yes, BUT in similar situations people behave very differently than the ones in Milgram's experiment. This is the whole point of it being not replicable.

That this remains true is due to a) no one being allowed to repeat Milgram's experiment exactly and b) more general scientific funding bodies not allocating money for pure replications.
Yeah I find a lot of toxic stuff on TikTok, but whenever I bring this up people say something like "ahh, the algorithm has discovered that you actually like toxic stuff, so it's your own fault".
I doubt many kids want to share a common platform with their parents. Since the older generation is more numerous this will probably be true.
> It looks like the timeline for VR won't be short enough to save FB, but even if it were arriving soon enough he must know that FB probably isn't capable of delivering a truly new thing.

I think it is...eventually. But the technology to go from where we're at -- where it's mostly just useful for games -- to a true game-changer in the big picture, it's just not there yet. Gonna be several years at the bare minimum, probably, a lot of problems still need to be solved.
Yes, economic behavior is a good example of this. There are also countless social strategies that are in constant competition. When you provide "objective" proof of some behavior being beneficial, it becomes a competitive advantage for others to have, a "life hack" that you should adopt. And this influx of alien adopters often corrupts it, rendering less useful, skewing the study results finally. Meditation and mindfulness practice in general is a good recent example of such thing happening.
People are hardwired to censor some words like that (like cov!d) precisely because of 1
>It's completely unlike other social media

In what way? It seems like something between vine an instagram.
Are we reading the same comment? @randomsearch said it would take decades for the company to decline.
Robot Dogs Take Another Step Towards Deployment at the U.S.-Mexico Border
You lost me at Zukerburg got lucky. Facebook changed social media forever, they completely innovated this domain.
Well you could say the same about todo lists. Yet a lot of people make money with todo lists.

I am sure there are some people making money with bookmarking somewhere…
3 times less users then any of the others. Most of those in english speaking countries.
As much as I like VR I have to agree it will stay a niche product. The need to wear something on your head is a major hurdle. Like 3D TV's that have mostly disappeared. Also when you are in a VR environment you want to interact with it. You need free physical space to do that which is an other hurdle. There are more niches than gaming only though. Like education and product design and demonstration.
>iPhones do not offer different colors.

I don't mean you chose colors and corner radius because you want to make your buttons look like candy. I mean features like text sizes and high contrast , go check your iPhone Accessibility section (but only if too many settings won't affect negatively, there are probably many options and labels to read).

My point is that hard-coding fonts,sizes and colors in your app is against accessibility, some fonts are harder to read then others for some people, small sizes is obvious the issue, some people need higher contrast then gray on white to read comfortably. If you are a competent dev or designer you need to understand that your app needs to work if the user wants a different font and different colors, Apple has guidelines. What would be nice is to think about the app as a tool that lets the user do a job and not like a work of art that a desgner needs to add it to a CV,
That is very passive consumption, which can be entertaining but in the end never really is.
By the way in some countries where medical marijuana has been legalized it still is practically impossible to get a prescription (because all doctors are radically conservative and don't believe in medical marijuana) and even for those lucky to get it prescribed it can be 2-5 times the price of high quality black market weed.
Come on, what kind of clickbait is that? So Brave has an opt-in option to see ads [1], and they have some measures to protect against fraud. They are simply being honest about the fact that using a VPN would increase the chance of being marked as suspicious for the purpose of paying you to see ads.

This is HN, and one might hope we can do better than BuzzFeed. In fact, Brave probably would want you to use a VPN, they sell their own VPN service after all [2].

[1]: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026648512-How...

[2]: https://brave.com/firewall-vpn/
Inja: A Template Engine for Modern C++
user-defined fonts: good for a tool

author-defined fonts: goof for art
I'm actually back to Firefox from Brave, the development tools are better and with their new memory management and suspend feature, it's way more efficient. I just couldn't stand sorting bookmarks in brave, it closes the dialogs when you drag-drop which is infuriating even on 1 sublevel.
The page title was: "Why don't I see any Brave Ads after enabling them?"

The Brave ads are entirely optional, requiring user opt-in,
and it is hard to criticize them for defaulting to not showing ads if they suspect the user is fake. Their advertisers pay to show their ads to real users, not headless browsers in a data center.
I live in a city in Europe with excellent public transit (not stigmatized, clean, used by everyone from the pauper to the millionaires, for some routes faster and more convenient than a car). Sometimes it still sucks due to the waiting and the "last mile" problem. A 10-15 min walk from the nearest transit stop to the actual destination, having to change, the waiting times and lack of flexibility (the bus may only be going once every 30 minutes) means I'm still taking an Uber for some trips.

Smaller vehicles going more frequently with fewer stops and more routes would make public transit a lot nicer.
So, you're saying that there is tons and tons of CGI that never gets noticed. I can totally see that. Something like replacing a missing button on a characters coat, or adding a clock on a wall in the background. As CGI gets better, bad CGI stands out more.
Meta however is buying FB shares. They spent 20 billion in Q4 and 14 billion in Q3 on buying back shares. They must be confident..
Survivorship bias. Or why you should take the advice of successful people with a grain of salt.
Problem is we have dozens of various interests, which are different for each one of us. Single interest platforms can be good for only subset of things.

FB does come with lots of strings attached. We're all aware of that. I'm just suggesting that, with some effort of unfollowing and blocking, it can be useful.
You made me curious to look up how SIX survives then. Apparently they entirely depend on donations, many of which are not monetary, but essential infrastructure (racks, power, fiber connections etc)
This has a fundamentally faulty premise that smartphones and paper are equals in delivering reading material, or that their format is preferable.

Learning platforms such as Duolingo, Brilliant, or Khan Academy very infrequently give you a wall of text to parse. This suggests, that it isn’t a necessity or preferable for comprehension.

So to me, this feels silly. As if someone is complaining that a bike hurts your ability to leisurely move at a walking pace through a park.

Why was there an expectation that it would be more ideal?

Use tools are that are appropriate for the context.

For long form text, use a context that allows you to consume slowly, whether than be an e-book or hard copy.
> Lasers are great to send signals, but we don't want to establish worldwide mesh protocols with it

https://earthsky.org/space/spacex-lasers-will-define-next-st...
My summary: in social science, measurements are coarse which means the statistics cannot evaluate subtle changes. In math, logic is very precise so subtle changes can be measured.

The author makes a point that both social science people and mathematicians are trying to prove subtle things which are actually probably true. In other words the social science replication crisis is because the experiments are often impossible to perform consistently when the effect is subtle, leading to the use of inconsistent lucky draws to demonstrate things.
A non-trivial percentage of the population get motion sickness easily. VR is a non-starter for them.
You just posted the alternative. ;)
I mean, all they have to do is "if europe, remove trackers" and they're golden.

The problem a lot of websites have is that they have no control or insight in which trackers there are, and whether they conform to GDPR rules. Which is IMO exactly why we need these rules.
Without any attempt at being argumentative - because I am truly ignorant of the subject and freely admit so - is there any reasonably concise description of why serif typefaces are acceptable in print but verboten on screens? This has always seemed to me to be a sort of long-standing fashion thing amongst typographers, but as I know very little about the subject, I've never tried to argue it.

I've never tried to measure my reading speed based on typeface, but it's never seemed that different. Am I wrong?
A Dutch Windows 10 install won't find "control panel", but it will find "configuratiescherm". It won't find "credential manager", it will find "referentiebeheer". At least it was like this when I used windows ~2 years ago. Definitely a pain point.
I've been there myself. Getting sick of people asking why I'm single. Getting reminded of feeling like a failure by the question. Too rejected to start looking. Wanting to justify why being single was okay.

I've also been happy and single. During that time I would not have bothered trying to justify my choice to remain single.
Brilliant analysis. I would add to the list that a much higher level of scrutiny from M&A regulators is going to be the last nail in the coffin (making new massive acquisition a lot harder).
But cars need infrastructure (roads) which tend to create the same exact thing (big construction corps getting all the cake, thanks to political connections). The scale is for sure smaller but still...
This is how serious research is done.
10 points for Jeff Geerling.
Oh, in that case I'm wrong in my opinion.
Fyi: The guy who made this streamed the whole coding process on twitch:

https://m.twitch.tv/ottomated
It's really ONLY the daily users that are dropping, everything else is still going up:

> But not all growth trends were negative. The company’s family of apps, which encompass Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger continued to modestly add users. The number of users logging in monthly to Facebook continued to grow, even as the number of daily users dropped.

What's interesting is that it seems like Facebook isn't counting Messager users as Facebook users and that more users are actually using Facebook every month, just not as frequently as before.

The weird bit is that a drop that small and cause Facebook/Meta to lose that much value. The stock market either reads the news like HN does, or Facebook is a lot more fragile that I would have guessed.
Some historical studies, some modern studies, on human bodies. By combining the data we have on things like nerve conduction studies, muscular studies, in the living and then experiments on cadavers donated to science, and so on and so forth.
How many Gees can that pull?

If a car could easily stop in the space of a meter then it would be so easy to make self-driving safe.

Not that I think a car needs to understand anything more complex than momentum, but you're not offering a very strong argument on the matter of car navigation.
I think this is a great analogy in that there are fundamental physiological limits on how much 3D TV the human body wants to watch, and the answer is “not much”. All the VR/AR products I have seen fall into the same boat—a bit of a lark to use for an hour or so, beyond that, no thanks. It is a fundamentally different experience than reading a screen or listening to earbuds, and I don’t mean that in a good way.
Why don't they offer VPN on their desktop product after 2 years?
I'm certainly no expert on the Great Plains but for a decent understanding of its vegetation history I wouldn't turn to wikipedia but instead look to see if there have been any decent pollen analyses done. After a short search I found one study [1] that said:

> Nonarboreal pollen comprises between 37% and 86% of the assemblage
throughout the record with the largest percentages occurring during the mid-Holocene (~8000–4000 yr BP). The pollen record also suggests that
at 8200 yr BP, there was an abrupt shift from oak-elm woodland to a more open landscape of grassland or savanna, which remained through out the
mid-Holocene. Additionally, the pollen data suggest that vegetation composition exhibited little change in diversity through time despite recurring fire.
Charcoal concentrations varied from 30 to nearly 1200particles cm−3, indicating changes in relative amount of biomass burned, but the morphotypes of
charcoal pieces indicate that woody fuels persisted during the mid-Holocene despite the apparent grassland-dominated landscape. Magnetic susceptibility
in the sediment ranges from −0.9 to 22.4 (×10−5 SI) throughout the record, with the biggest increase occurring as the vegetation shifted from woodland
to grassland entering the mid-Holocene.

So I'd suggest that the change from oak-elm woodland to more open grassland or savanna was possibly (probably?) precipitated by the arrival of humans in North America.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Berangere-Leys/publicat...
> You lose the ability to comment/like photos.

They can reply with any comments to the email / txt can they not? I'm thinking of the scenario of sending photos to close friends / family. For larger audiences, I'd use my own platform running something like WordPress.

As for "likes" - I guess I'm of a generation where they are irrelevant to me :)

> For small audiences I like google photos the best.

Will check that out. cheers.
> new memory management and suspend feature

What have I missed?
WhatsApp already does payments in India (and few other countries?) [1]

[1]: https://www.whatsapp.com/payments/
Also substantial relief of anxiety and ADHD. Much easier to approach any kind of task and do it happily without distracting or procrastinating.
Now do Texas. Once Texas legalizes Marijuana, there will be no reason for tech people to not move to Austin.
OP didn't complain about it not feeling "weighty and powerful", but feeling less real:

> digital post-processing seems to have ruined Villeuneve’s more realistic vision

> the complex colors of the world have been bleached out

And I agree – Dune definitely feels less real, less believable. Dreamy, in fact. And I think it plays into that, they use the blandness as a strength, creating a feeling of bleak otherness.
https://www.f2pool.com/coins shows Bitcoin on top in daily dollar issuance.
Ethereum was on top a few months ago, but not for over a year.
Too bad there is no IPV4 ETF, would be a good investment even now.
Idk if it is just me but I find VR headsets just tiring after a point.
LOL. I'm trying to figure out how someone using an account that's 34 days old would feel that they need to tell someone who's been here since 2010 how to contribute to the site. Did you forget you're using an alt account, or are you really that much of a jerk?

Besides, what in the world are you criticizing? The length? Learn to read full paragraphs with complete thoughts sometime, it'll help your attitude.
Haha yeah HR is never anybody's friend
Snite-IT – A free open-source IT asset/license management system
I'm all for functionality-first but Pinboard's UI is ugly to the point of ignorance.
Author here, I took the bookmarking idea as an example. But there are plenty of ideas such as this, for example todo lists etc
Thanks. I know I write long. It's a habit from a misspent youth working as a journalist.

Here's the Soup Lovers group, since you liked the idea so much: https://www.facebook.com/groups/491105414344063

(Seriously, that was suggested to me.)
How does one DM on hackernews? :)
For those not familiar with US society, this is huge. Mississippi is generally regarded, true or not, as a conservative state, perhaps even reactionary.

Its government was a staunch defender of slavery, the later Jim Crow laws which mandated racial segregation, Negro voting disenfranchisement; the last to repeal alcohol prohibition; still frequently challenging abortion rights; among other such.

Mississippi is kind of a belle weather for how Southern conservative governments will lean. That Mississippi of all places legalizes marijuana means that it will probably be legalized in all 50 states within a year or two.
> Looks to me like purchasing some of the software should be part of anyone's therapy budget

Having a therapy budget being normalized like this is worrying to me... are you all right? like, collectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_communism
What you can do is the following:

0. Use Firefox, not Chrome

1. Install an ad-blocker (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...)

2. Install ghostery (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/)

3. Install Cookie Auto-Delete (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...)

4. Use Google Container (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...)

Then start advocating using https://plausible.io/ over Google Analytics in your own sites where possible, and use https://search.brave.com/ or https://duckduckgo.com/ for search.

For e-mail there are many options besides gmail.
I used Sublime from 2012-2014, then briefly Atom, then Jetbrains, then ended up with Vim for the past four years.

It's sped me up a bit for sure, but even more importantly is that it's done wonders for my RSI. With the amount of time I've spent using non-ergonomic laptops over the past 12 years, even typing was pretty painful for a while. After minimizing my mouse usage, getting a Kenisis keyboard and my wrists starting getting better. The ergonomic keyboard helped, but VIM definitely has also. Whatever editor I work with, I configure it so I can use VIM bindings.
Most modern GC-ed languages offer more than just garbage-collector:
On top of my head:

1. Prevents memory corruption

2. Have way better compilation time than C++ and Rust, absolutely horrid compile time for both.

3. Have all sorts of developer-ergonomics features (like being able to write functions in arbitrary order (compared to C/C++))

4. Have built in reflection (none in C/C++)

5. IDEs/autocomplete/refactoring tools etc, just generally work better for C#/Java/etc.

Garbage collection is probably close to bottom on the list why I would use GCed language when making an indie or hobby scale game

I would never consider using Rust simply because it takes too long time to compile even for relatively small projects.

Especially not for hobby or indie scale game projects.
Thanks this makes sense what you said about the salary bump.
I guess it won't hurt to start looking around.
Thanks for the advice.
But the web isn't "single interest" and, as you yourself referenced, there are open standard ways (RSS) to compile information from across it. This may have evolved more without FB so heavily dominating the scene.
Hi rezuz,

Thanks for your comment. Yes unfortunately we just got started and we don't have a lot of content for now but we hope to make the amount of content grow quickly to make the search engine really useful. For now it's more like a demo.
The comment did actually seem to be a flat out lie. It specifically states that include statements don't work when they did in fact work as normal.

I don't think the lie was deliberate - the comment was probably erroneously added.
Thanks this is really good advice!
A very interesting solution that has worked for me is...Zotero.

Zotero + the web connector basically allows me to do a lot of things that are usually only achieved with paid products. For example, full text search, saving HTML copies offline, linking related websites, adding tags and notes, all of this (and more) is possible.
The problem with bookmarking applications is that aside from a few websites you visit regularly, browsing and searching your bookmarks isn't going to be substantially different from browsing and searching the web, so you can just as well do the latter. If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks, then this would also be a revolutionary new way to browse the web (or your filesystem, while we're at it). Whatever you come up in terms of search, however, has to directly compete with the quality of Google's search engine.
Jetbrains handled it pretty well by adding a search box to the settings screen.
Snapchat is the primary social media and chat platform for my daughter and all her friends (ages 11-13).
The color mixing used here was discussed few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30033611
I am here with popcorn watching and relishing. I hope the decline continues and accelerates.
I agree with the last point.

> Finally there is no problem to be solved in the first place. And everyone is creating a solution in search of a problem.

Personally I stopped using bookmarks except for something temporary that I use multiple times a day for a short period of time (e.g. work related notes, designs etc). The more general purpose solution is, well, Google because at the end of the day you will have a huge bookmark list that you will have to search through anyway.
so… your brother in law used opiates for 14 years until he overdosed on heroin, and you’re blaming weed? I’d say a family that didn’t help him successfully overcome his 14 year addiction is a more plausibly causal relationship, which is also absurd to suggest.
Huh? Why didn’t he use flashbots to avoid the mempool???

https://docs.flashbots.net/

His super-devs may not be so clued up after all
Is it something offline? How does it index the pages you visit?
I will have to stop by Oxnard and check it out. I’d been thinking that I must have an atypical experience since FSD is quite wonderful for me. But if a few dozen miles over and you get a city where FSD becomes awful…