skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A useful poll!

But the very-literal should be reminded: the linguistic mechanisms of synechdoche & metonymy often result in a fuzzy use of parts, or regions, or emblematic examples, or associated items to mean some other closely-related more-amorphous entity.

For example, "the White House" for the entire elected president's policy team, no matter which part (or if it's operating from some other place). "Wall Street" for finance, even that outside of New York. Someone's "good eye" to mean their entire skills of evaluation (of detail, aesthetics, potential, etc).

And of course 'Silicon Valley' for, depending on context:

• a narrow geographical region around the south SF Bay

• dominant industries in that region, especially computer/infotech

• the whole SF Bay Area, or even Calfornia - at least to the extent there's some (possibly thin/alleged) connections to tech or the SF bay

• all computer/infotech companies everywhere, with weak but not absolutely-required implication of some connection (HQ/roots/investors) to above

• mindsets highly associated with the any of the above

These shifting boundaries based on context/intent annoy people who prefer precision, but are inherent to terms used this way.
GeForce Now is so much better than Stadia these days. The input lag of Stadia is much worse in general, and on GeForce Now, you can get much higher graphics settings.
The problem with the current iteration of America is that satire is not obvious. Many things that would previously have been considered satire have actually happened in real life (the four seasons lawn and garden incident could have come directly out of an SNL skit).
Because of this, screen-sharing capabilities are critical to resolving computer-related problems that people report.

I once got a report from a coworker that he couldn't import a text-based configuration file into an application. I was unable to reproduce the problem. It wasn't until I had a screen-sharing session with him that I saw the problem. The configuration file extension wasn't correct. It looked right at first, but then I realized that it had an extra .txt at the end of it that was being hidden by Windows. The application saw the .txt at the end of the filename and rejected the file.

Nothing wastes time like emailing/texting/chatting back and forth when a voice call and screen share are available.
Well, I did ctrl+f but this is actually the first time I'm hearing about / for quick search, haha. Thanks!
You don't think it's possible to seek nutrients without having experiences?
> "wrong type"

I find that people have very different understandings of what "wrong type" means.

If you restrict yourself to places where python or js actually mention type in the error messages, that misses a whole lot of things that basic use of a simple type system would catch, much less skilled use of a sophisticated type system.

There's an example I give - admittedly tangential given that it does not replace (and could not be replaced by) unit tests, but hopefully giving some insight into the range of what's possible: I once used C's type system to catch "you called this function from the wrong thread" at compile time, converting subtle runtime failures or meaningful runtime overhead into "you can't call this here, dummy" before running anything. This was hugely helpful as requirements evolved and I found myself moving large pieces of functionality between threads.

I don't think this clearly resolves the broader discussion; static type checking is a tool and its applicability may well depend on the problems at hand, the language in question, and the developers involved; I think how it should be applied certainly depends on these things. But I think it is too often dismissed based on an overly narrow understanding of what a "type error" can be.
> People are significantly more exposed to the stock market these days than in 1910.

[citation needed]

> Considering tons of people's 401k's are basically made up of the biggest companies in the US

When defined benefit (pension) funds dominated private retirement, guess what they held? (And if you say “but people weren't exposed to risk, because ‘defined benefit’”, guess what happened when funds failed...)
Yeah, would depend on how long it'll be featured on the frontpage page indeed. I know people who only check the /best page once a week or something like that too who would probably miss this unless a ton of people upvote it.

Or maybe we can ask @dang to give it a "jobstory" treatment so it keeps around the frontpage for longer?
>I appreciate all the volunteers working on Linux, but do none of them use popular hardware?

Why should they? Dell is selling the laptops with Linux, they should be the ones to test. Would you ask the same question to Microsoft for a windows driver bug?
Google figured out the game better than that. After a few years there's no ongoing costs for those devices, but they still take their vig if users continue to use them.
Go is focused on the distributed systems domain though. It's fine, even desirable, to have languages focused on particular domains, that make design decisions based on the constraints of the domain. In this domain, closed enums are footguns with costly consequences if you get it wrong.
"Who is the observer" is not consistent. Maybe "what part of myself is the observer".
Adding PostgreSQL FDW aggregation support to Multicorn
As Lightning grows so will USD to Lightning custodial services. I’d be surprised if there weren’t any you could use right this minute, actually.
I hope they saw what happened with the "Diablo sequel".
Mostly people who were already familiar with kanban boards like Trello. We also tried to sell to people who have to move whole workspaces as cards through a kanban process (we also had automation templates in the graph) and got two pilot customers there. But unfortunately nothing more.
I find the experiment skewed. Or more precisely, that it is not meant to investigate human behaviour or psychology. It is rather precisely designed to support a chosen result to support a given world view. The fact that it has been ran for 50 years is a strong indication of this.

IOW, the experimenter wanted to be able to arrive at the conclusion that difference in performance was unrelated to workers and designed the experiment so it would give this result. In short, this demonstrate few things outside of a very artificially setup situation, where the workers have no say and the job is predestined to fail.

Anyone who worked anywhere knows very well that there are actually vast difference between two workers.
Ownership and title aren't exactly the same thing.
Brazil changes visa rules to attract digital nomads
Wait a bit and HN will probably provide you a similar discussion.
There are lots of different numbers that you can use quantum mechanics to predict. It turns out that the size of the proton is both harder to predict and harder to measure than many of those other numbers.

Meanwhile we can measure the fine structure constant to 12 decimal places (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_coupling_const...) and that measurement is in very close accord with the predictions of quantum mechanics.
> I wish game engines would put some effort into making games FEEL real more than just LOOK real.

“More realism” doesn’t equal “more fun to play”. Games engines are capable of realistic physics (look at the simulator and racing genres, for example), but that’s not what people want out of a game like Halo Infinite.
Mechanical keyboard keys that are 10" tall for standing desks.
Well, we have states that are almost 3 times as large as the entire UK. If the pollster listed every region the size of Wales, this would be a very long list
Last time I looked a lot of landlines had switched to digital. Then some telcos use lossy compression algorithms that kill fax.
Nominative determinism should be a valid legal defense
Im off to a party, see you later HN
This is the thing I think is missing from all of these analyses; does the fume hood vent to the outside? I have lived in plenty of houses/apartments/condos with gas stoves, and external venting has always been a hard requirement for me.
This is only allowed for "non-digital" goods - otherwise if you distribute in the App Store. Hell, you can't even link to or mention that it would be possible to pay anywhere else.
The GP is talking about Meta embedding its own app store within the Facebook app, not about Facebook creating its own iOS app store. An "internal" app store would still be subject to the same restrictions and security that the actual Apple App Store already has. I don't believe the mini-apps within WeChat or Alibaba's apps can flout those regulations, but it's China and those are big apps so who knows.

From a technical perspective, I'm not sure how hosting littler apps within your own app, which is already on the Apple App Store and subject to its review process and rules, would allow you access to improved tracking.

On the subject of a Meta third-party app store independent of Apple's control- yes, there is motivation there to do that, but I am dubious of how much of a threat that is to the end user because:

1. Apple still maintains control of iOS and can restrict invasive tracking from the OS level.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30199125

2. I'm not actually convinced that Meta, Google, Amazon, et al are really capable of executing successful alternative app stores. They would need to make it a sufficiently seamless and friction-free experience, and offer enough incentives for users to overcome having to sign up for yet another service just to use the apps they already have access to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204012
Meet in person. Have a Facebook group for family stuff. Make rules for no politics and such from the get go. Make people understand that you are the admin and will remove them if they do t behave. I guess that covers it.
And someone has added imaginary places like Finland, as a joke.
I had high hopes for vr. Then Facebook took it over. I won't touch this dystopean future.

It should be strangled before it strangles us
There were similar polls in 2013. We could compare against those to measure tech dispersal over the last decade!

- "Poll: Where are you currently living?" (Countries, 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582647

- "Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?" (US states, 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5222370
In 2009 neither Apple nor Amazon allowed P2P payments.
Perhaps they meant the gravitational constant, which is not known to a very high degree of precision.
Good I'm glad to hear that cheques are used less now.

Regarding security, the logic/claim is that the long distance transport between the organizations is "safe" via phone. The in-house processing on the recipients last mile is their security problem. And the pdf to fax in-house infrastructure "is safe, IT said".

That public internet, dark and sinister, in between the two, is not to be trusted, though. That's the legislatures position over here.
Now now... You'd just be pandering to the separatists.
It IS only VIRAL if you make it from clicks on the emails!!

ALWAYS make clicks with the RIGHT to be SAFE from VIRALS
In knowledge work the skill of the worker matters vastly more because "the process" mostly takes place in their head. You can optimize a workspace and tools for productivity and the reduction of errors but ultimately that has a minimal impact on "the process" that's taking place in the knowledge worker's mind.

If the process was the problem (or perfect), adding a new (or replacing) a worker would have minimal impact but we know this is not true. You could have the best documentation, training, and absolutely stellar code yet one person can turn everything to shit quite quickly! The opposite is true as well: Bringing on a fantastic new worker can make your existing team look like a bunch of inefficient laggards.

Neither of these situations can be fixed by improving processes (maybe hiring processes? Though I doubt it). It'd be like having one magic blue bean in the box that--if found--can either drastically improve or degrade the final productivity by 90%. Would the optimum process improvement then be to try to eliminate magic beans entirely? Sure seems like it (i.e. hire the lowest common denominator and don't try to optimize for the 1%). That way you reduce the likelihood of taking on the "bad 1%"--even though it reduces your chances of obtaining the perfect magic bean.
Thank you so much for doing these, my childhood is complete!
There must be another category "voter" in between commenter and lurker.

Content creator > Commenter > Voter > Lurker

I wonder what percentage of users vote frequently but don't comment.
> always-online mobile payment systems (eg. alipay/wechat) are quite successful in asia.

I don't live in Asia.

> you do realize that even though the credit card doesn't require internet access, the terminal itself does?

I do, that's why I emphasised that 'I' don't need to be online. I don't care about the payment processor's requirements.

> Are you losing track of the thread, or are you trying to move the goalposts?

No, I'm not moving goal posts. You said that hobbyists are running nodes, I say so what? That has zero to do with transaction fees.

> As it relates to scrutiny, how is an issue? Unless there's some fatal flaw with the protocol itself, you should be secure against loss of money, even if the peer was malicious.

Have you actually read the resources? The protocol itself explicitly does not protect you against loss of money - it can't. It has to rely on trust in intermediaries and software trying to give security guarantees that the protocol itself cannot provide (hence the need to monitor the BC).

> What's your objection here? That you can get hacked, or that your intermediaries can get hacked and somehow cause you to lose money?

The issue is that the intermediary is inherently insecure (and shouldn't be trusted by design) and in contrast to the regulated finance industry, there's nothing protecting customers from fraudulent or extortive behaviour of 3rd parties. Manipulated routes (no hacking required) can lead to increased fees or delays without any transparency or protection for users.

You might find that acceptable as The System is a sufficient safeguard, but even the Lightning team admits that there are unsolved problems (i.e. monitoring of the BC is required to mitigate these flaws, which brings us back to initial point).

> trust in systems rather than trust in people.

That's an interesting assumption given that systems are created and operated by people. It's trust in people with extra steps minus regulatory and legislative safeguards. Brave new world.
I had a couple of weeks in Cyprus a few years back,

* Bortle Class 3-4
* Artifiical brightness 81.7 μcd/m2

according to https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

It was lovely and clear every night, I could not only see the ISS pass, I saw something dimmer following it at the same speed - I later found out it was a Dragon cargo capsule

Still very difficult to pick out anything milkyway ish.

I live in

* Bortle Class 4
* Artifiical brightness 375 μcd/m2

Can currently pick out the usual - Cassiopea, Orion, Ursa Major, etc, not the milky way. It's usually overcast.

However for picking out a decent number of stars - I was pleasantly surprised one evening on Manly Beach in Sydney (1350 μcd/m2) to be able to see a fair amount of (unfamiliar) stars. I don't go south of the equator much, and when I do it tends to be for work and I'm in a city - I had some time in Sydney though, and it was clear.
Sure, let's do the math:

The average cost of manufacture is a PS5 is $450, the cheap version of a PS5 is $399, so a $60 loss. The platform takes a 30% commission on games the are priced >=$69.99, so at three games per machine they're making a profit.

The average cost of a game on iOS is 48c. Apple takes 14.4c, all that money then does things like supporting devices long after they were sold. Unlike google apple doesn't monetize its users: google continues to make money after devices are sold because the platform itself exists to help their ad business, that means android would still make money for google if they didn't even have their own store.

Add to that apple providing actual major software updates for devices more than 5 years after they were sold - not just security fixes - and I would argue that apple has a greater justification for their commission than Sony or MS do.
I don't know who's "number 1" but deadalus is talking about revenue, while the page you linked seems to be about copies sold. GTA seems more expensive to buy than Minecraft so you might both be right but about different things.
> and are used to surface relevant replies

I think what they really mean to say is "all non-echo-chamber replies will be censored." Any other interpretation assumes something that isn't true: that all Twitter users are calm, rational, thinking individuals.
One of the big open questions now is the ability to mod GTA6 (or whatever the next major installment is called).

Nopixel[0], a roleplay-focused modded GTAV server built on the FiveM framework[1], has absolutely exploded in popularity during the past year. Many of the most popular streamers on Twitch are active on this server. Cumulative live viewership of these streamers is in the tens or hundreds of thousands at any one time. Looking at the top live GTAV streamers[2], almost all are playing on Nopixel or some similar GTARP server.

Rockstar is notorious for being hostile to modders. Since Nopixel has become such a phenomenon recently (and a huge cash cow for streamers and streaming platforms) there is a lot of talk among the GTARP community about GTA6. There's speculation about whether Rockstar will continue to turn a blind eye to modders, lock down their software even more, try to go after modders legally, release their own competing RP platform or something else.

As an aside, I'm somewhat surprised I've never read any discussion about Nopixel on HN before. I started by watching one popular streamer try it a year ago and gradually began watching several Nopixel-only streamers when I get the chance. It's goofy and rough around the edges, but there are wildly creative and entertaining people involved. It feels like I've been watching a novel form of entertainment emerge in the course of a year. In a certain sense, it feels more like the "metaverse" than any thing I've seen recently advertised as such.

[0] https://nopixel.fandom.com/wiki/NoPixel_Community

[1] https://fivem.net/

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20...

edit: clarified that Nopixel is a server built on the FiveM framework
Ending the exclusives seems like a real mistake to me.

It's hard to find a justification for why firms like Google would be interested in cloud gaming except for the fact that their competitors are. That is, what's in it for the consumer? The part about it making the world safe for phones by not requiring the consumer to buy a PC or game console seems bogus because phones are able to support hi-spec games today such as Genshin Impact.

The one cloud gaming killer app I see is that they could have a monster machine with a huge number of CPU and GPU sockets that could simulate complex and highly coupled worlds with a relatively large number of players. I'm thinking of something halfway between Titanfall and the fictional Sword Art Online.

If cloud gaming could offer an unprecedented experience then it could force the whole industry to change, but if it doesn't it just seems like something that trade publications can drone on and on about for years.
I want substack to have some kind of overall subscription where I can allocate my overall subscription spend to the newsletters, rather than having a per-newsletter fee.

Maybe something like Kindle's system that has some kind page-read/engagement metric against the monthly revenue pool.

Maybe something where I get discounting for buying in bulk. 10 newsletters for the price of 5 a la carte or whatever, and I can allocate my "newsletter credits" at will, even switching between them.

Also how can libraries and other institutions subscribe and delegate their access?
Consider the phenomena of the most formidable linguistic infestation of any language in the history of noises beyond clicks, grunts and twitching - the word: L I K E.

It's the omni analogy, used to equivocate everything conceivable, from punctuation, confusion, concrete or abstract meaning, nothing, something, to anything deemed unworthy of minimal effort or patience. Adverbs be damned and banished to hell!

We've entered a paradigm where everything is a similarity of itself and nothing is what it is. "How do you feel?" , one might inquire. Only to be informed that the feeling bears similarity (l i k e) to something else. "I feel l i k e shit", one may say. Certainly not shitty, but approximate to shit, with no defining parameters.

It is an age come where nothing can be what it is, but only a reference to another thing or its similar self. A linguistically programmed virtual reality, where no one need speak precisely if the smoke of ambiguity and mirrors of distortion can substitute.

Now we can have our thing that resembles a cake and do something similar to ingesting it too.

Horray.
Now we need to divide the votes by the population of each place
I live just south of Denver! What a coincidence.
That maximum precision had a confidence interval. The new smaller 5% value is within that confidence interval, which is now also tighter.
Nice of you to distinguish Georgia and US Georgia ;)
I mean, I’m pretty sure it fails down when the theory relies on people willing to burn capital solely to stick it to someone else. That’s less like innovation and investment and more like warfare.

It also runs counter to all observed behavior. A lot of these regulatory barriers can be overcome by money and we don’t see disgruntled people/groups banding together to provide services or goods at a loss
not in the US, in the UK.

i know financial systems in the US are about a decade behind those here.

for example: we have Faster Payments in the UK. completely free instant payments between bank accounts. and when i say instant, they’re millisecond instant.

if i mistype a name when sending a bank payment, it will warn me and ask for a confirmation.

if i mistype a bank account but not the name it either comes back to me or it goes to the right bank account.

and there are many other features like these.
I wish!

While I liked the React approach to UI modularization much more than that convulted MVC interpretation Ember had, Ember's routing was quite awesome, and I missed it switching to React.
Not to mention supporting data for announcements like these tend to come up in discovery requests for lawsuits so I highly doubt they'd make such a definitive statement w/o the points to back it up.
> they were already on the way out of the team, so why not use them to fill up the PIP quotas

Well, for starters, this LinkedIn post.
NFT Crowdfunding for non-crypto products
This is kind of like saying people don’t want to run their own grocery store. Clearly it’s false. The bad assumption is that owning Bitcoin == Running Bitcoin. Running Bitcoin (nodes and miners) == Running Bitcoin, and people want to do it for obvious reasons - the beauty of the protocol is how little power those people running it actually have.
These are fair points, I am curious how you perceive the existing wireless industry in the United States.

It seems to me that Verizon and others are in a state of perpetually profiting their consolidation of companies that were in the "right place at the right time."

Would you agree with this? If so, do you think these companies are making outsized profits given lack of entitlement?

How would you craft policy that would cover not just the Apple but other companies like wireless carriers?

Separately, you mention Mentor Graphics above. Did you mean to refer to chip-level design tool software?