skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still bitter that they've deprioritized results from SongMeanings.net in favor of garbage like Genius. The former is one of the only sources for lyrics from smaller acts, especially from the 90's to early 2010's. Since it's from the pre-Web 2.0 era, it's disappeared from Google's search results.
Without detracting anything from your other statements (the comparison to MP3 is excellent), "notwithstanding" is doing a lot of work in the line, "Nintendo first party games notwithstanding." Nintendo's games are the reason folks buy a Switch.[1] It's pretty unbelievable the record they (and especially EPD) have:

1. Breath of the Wild was game of the year for most publications, is considered by some the greatest game of all time[2], and single-handedly sold the console for many people I know

2. Super Mario Odyssey is generally heralded as one of the best Mario games ever made and shipped 22 million copies

2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the best selling fighting game of all time

3. Mario Kart 8 is the best selling racing game of all time, and the 7th highest selling video game of all time

4. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the 13th highest selling video game of all time (2nd highest in Japan)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_... (and apropos of nothing, compare to PS4's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStati... - Switch's top 6 best sellers all moved more than PS4's #1)

[2] https://www.ign.com/articles/the-best-100-video-games-of-all...
Games and basic UI elements work great, but there's still several WinAPIs unsupported. 2D drawing for example: Paint.net, the in my opinion best image editor in existence, is borked.
> Which Palestinians are you thinking of who are still fighting this pre-1948 home thing?

It's the publicly declared goal of Hamas, BDS, and most of the Palestinian diaspora.
The PLO is an interesting case - traditionally they also never forfeited the right of return but Abu Mazen made some interesting claims around a decade ago about how he personally doesn't want to go back to his old home or something like that. Nevertheless, it seems impossible for any Palestinian leader to publicly forfeit the right of return. Its political (and possibly physical) suicide for anyone who tries that.
The right of return is foundational for Palestinians, I find it surprising you haven't picked that up from talking to Palestinians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_right_of_return#Sc...

"The majority of Palestinians consider that their homeland was lost during the establishment of Israel in 1948, and see the right of return as crucial to a peace agreement with Israel, even if the vast majority of surviving refugees and their descendants do not exercise that right"

Now the even if the the vast majority do not exercise that right is speculation imo, and wrong. Many will exercise that right (otherwise why insist on this? it's a no go for any peace plan).
Just wanted to say that the getting started docs are really well done and super helpful. I don't think I would have followed through if it was not the screenshots and the detailed instructions you've put in there.

Kudos on this amazing project and all the work you put into making all this!
Have been trying out Xcloud gaming lately and it works surprisingly well. Although I won't be able to play on a train or plane, it will definitely fill my travel/hotel gaming use case.
I feel like the author has used his games published numbers to hide the fact that the number of gamers is large and growing much larger all the time.

There are 8 billion people in this world, and the Playstation 2 is the highest selling console ever at 155 million[0].

In a world of 3 billion computer and internet users, 12,000 Steam games a year doesn't seem like that much too me.

The real problem is that all the sales are going to go to the top 1% of games.

But here's another truth that dispels the author's main point: I can make one or two games a year, but I can play dozens of them.

Game developers that see this problem should be encouraging people to develop games - and buy as many indie games as they can afford.

In a world where everyone is making art at 1x and buying art at 10x, then many many more people can make a living from their art.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_cons...
If you take the chart in the article at face value, where USD is the base currency and almost every other currency is undervalued in comparison... doesn't that mean that USD is overvalued in those terms? Or that USD derives its value from other currencies depending on it?

If you calculated an equilibrium of sorts then USD would be worth less. And you'd have to separate the currencies that are based on USD as the standard and not gold or some other resource... right?
Its 100% because FB/meta is a growth stock and they lost users. This made all the finance projections break and institutions had th liquidate based on their new projections. That is how finance works at scale.
We will need to do another one in other timezones
Earlier today, I was playing around with doing some video game save file editing, and any of the tools that would have been useful in that endeavor is what I think they would be looking for. That is to say:

* Start with a hex editor--you need to read and write (but mostly read) the binary data of a file.

* Fast exploratory decoding: this sequence of bytes might be a uint8_t, int64_t, null-terminated string, double, etc... tell me all of the possible values that might be lurking there, so that I can guess where precisely a value is stored.

* Structure editing: binary files are usually structured, so I want to be able to say what the structure is for this data. Like maybe there's an int count of entries, and the entries are variably sized (so grab the full size from the middle of the struct), and let me code that into the editor so I can see where entry #342 is. Notably, this also lets me check if what I think is a size is actually a size.

* Structure guessing: of course, part of the issue with reverse engineering the format is that you're often unsure of much of the data, so you also need to be able to fill on only small sections of the struct. I know that a struct is, say, 540 bytes, and that byte 148 was something I was interested, but I don't know what's going on for the preceding 100 bytes, so don't make me fill anything in. Or when I do find something interesting in there, make it easy for me to designate something there without trying too hard.

One of the issues you run into is there's not really any good way to convey the structure format of binary data--C structs are just way, way too underpowered (as they are fixed size, so there's no way to convey "this array has <field #5> elements in it" or worse "this array has as many elements until <end-of-stream>").
I went through three Xbox 360s.

I can handle sending in some controllers while I can still play.
Haha yeah, I was wondering when someone would suggest this. Last night, after I got the result back immediately from DuckDuckGo and Bing, I returned to Google and added quotes around the lyric itself, and it returned the right result immediately.
If the pieces could be rotated by 45° that would help I think?
If your package updates and users of your package update and their code ceases to compile, that seems... fine? It's the system working as intended. They can just downgrade back to the previous known good version. It would be much worse if you made a breaking change to code but consumers' code that used yours continued to compile but no longer functioned as expected
Ask HN: What tools and templates do you use to document your Product Analytics?
Like many orgs, we try to keep on top of tagging important user actions with our analytics tool of choice.

However, we're trying to be more mature in how we document our Product Analytics so that we have a history of changing analytics event names, event properties, weaved in with product history of changes. This could include documenting this like the fact we renamed a CTA, combined two CTAs into one, or changed the functionality for a modal.

The goal is to allow a new team member to dive into analytics without getting lost or having to ask multiple other team members "what does X event mean?" or "Are we really missing Y event between X and Z dates?"

I imagine this has to be a problem others have run into, and hopefully solved. I'm curious to hear your solutions. If you have a template you've used to track this, please share. If there is a paid product out there that does this, let me know!

Thanks HN.
Maybe rewriting it as a bookmarklet that displays the results on the page?

Anyways, here's the current result in a pastebin: https://pastebin.com/fR89qMKk
For right to repair reasons maybe you should have such a right over a washer or tractor or printer
I guess people really do like barely reworked 20 year old games for $75
If you asked someone where they were from and without context they said "Molise", that would be a bit odd, no?
"Incredible Journey" like where the dog, cat, and goldfish had to walk 250 miles barefoot in horrible conditions just to find their real home at the end or something? Sounds apt.
LinkedIn is one of the reasons I stopped trying to have any meaningful online conversations. And im guessing Im not alone. The cognitive dissonance and lack of any nuance is truly astounding. Im not sure if thats the real people self or they put on a show for clickbaits. Irrespective of the causal factors, the outcome is mindless statements that are just cringy. I only use LinkedIn to update profile for recruiters to contact me.
What! There’s only 10 provinces!

And I prefer to say it’s one and half time zones past EST ;) gotta respect that half hour time slot. I just love Newfies.
It's a pain to keep FDroid installed apps updated. Silent background updates are impossible. Yet Play Store can do it.
Coinbase’s philosophy on account removal and content moderation
The difference is far more fundamental, and I cannot do justice to it in a drive-by comment; but in short: FOSS projects are typically grounded in the idea of a gift economy, while business users are grounded in a market economy. The motivations in these two frameworks are as different as chalk and cheese... you can't "incentivize" people to give the gifts you want -- then it wouldn't be a gift anymore, and you've irreparably changed the nature of the transaction.

Further, unlike gifting inside relationships, the motivation of gift givers (FOSS creators) is not to please some specific receiver(s), but to share with the world what they can envision and create... with the chance that it might brighten some random person's day being a pleasant bonus. They might occasionally be amenable to feedback, but they are simply not in the business of servicing clients. So why would/should they care eg. about security? Some of them very well might; all I'm saying is that you shouldn't be surprised when they have their own priorities.

If businesses seek the "accountability" of a software vendor, they can try to find a supporting entity to enter into a business relationship with. Or hire developers so they can solve bespoke problems in the preferred manner. They could even try to upstream patches (depending on how receptive the maintainers are), but the only thing they have a right to do is to fork the codebase (complying with the license) and maintain their own version to satisfy their needs. That's just how gifts work. If they manage that, they are of course most welcome to organize together with like-minded users and set up maintenance teams, foundations, etc to support the project. It's possible the license (eg: GPL) means that this entity needs to continue operating in the gift economy. Entities in the market economy need to figure out how to do that, if they wish to use OSS inputs as an advantage in the market setting.
I love it and hate it at the same time, I couldn't clear a single line :) Those green blocks are evil.

I like your sound design choices to use drum machine samples.
Was it Save Your Tears by The Weeknd?
Obama took many attackable positions, but he is neoliberal and so is most mainstream media.
I despise the Switch joycons, and not just for the drift issues.

“Is my controller in single horizontal mode or paired vertical mode?”, “I want to be player 1”, “stop hitting buttons!”, “The pairing failed.”

When the kids play together it’s always a shit show. Contrast this with the PS4, we pick up the controllers and play. I’ve never had to even think about the controllers with the PlayStation, they just work.
At least VirtualBox has stopped working properly for some time now in my distribution without any plans to fix it. Workaround is freerdp remoteapp but this also breaks sometime with overlay menus... It was about time someone took a shot at this. Also, MS hyperv has been doing a lot of improvements to improve desktop user experience (e.g. opengl) whereas VMWare and virtualbox are more geared towards enterprise I think.
Further info: https://prolost.com/blog/edr

What’s nuts is that this also works on displays without the ability to control luminosity on individual parts of the screen. The link you posted works on my 2020 11” iPad Pro, which has an LCD with no local dimming.

However, it slowly ramps up over a second or two, whereas my OLED iPhone (which can of course set luminosity per pixel) enters retina-searing mode immediately.
Starlink satellites aren't really naked eye visible anymore except in cases where they flare from lucky angles. They're around magnitude 6.5 which is basically at the limit of human vision.
I introduced my daughter to ScratchJr when she was 5 and Scratch when she was 7.

I taught her class Scratch. It does make a big difference which language you start with. I think how much you are involved with your child’s learning make also is a big part of the success.

I introduced her to MakeCode at 8 and we used the microbit to build a robot with legos and servos.

This project was such a hit that her principal asked me to teach it to the middle school kids.
There should be a name for the misery of what you're describing. I call it privacy whack-a-mol, but it needs a better term. Something bleaker.
Detecting Individual Decision-Making Style in Chess
I can imagine working at Amazon taking away your desire to do anything outside of work. Did you feel the same way before Amazon?
subtle and underrated
I have an idea. You could give them a reason to slave away at programming when there are 10000 other things that are easier and more entertaining: pay them.

Make their allowance have a bonus based on some objective function of their work product or effort in programming or whatever field. At the same time, try to encourage them to use it to explore things that interest them. Such as, creating and releasing games or programs for their friends.
Not just variance but also the concept of essential complexity: One cannot possibly hope to control all the variables, and so one must strive to continually seek to improve the system ("monitoring/alerting") as defects emerge ("hidden factories"), conduct experiments to evaluate predictions against actual outcomes ("a/b tests"), to not erroneously change systems and processes to fix "special-causes" [but understand that most causes of quality degradation are "commons-causes", which has to be fixed by changing systems and processes ("root-cause analysis")], to not drive down costs for the sake of it but rather seek to drive down long-term costs ("ecosystem"), to have a more humanist approach to management... among a host of other concepts.

If you are curious (and have the stomach for some MBA-ness), this article (four parts) should be well worth your time: https://archive.is/tXJhw
what's the history?
I mean, the optimal solution is obviously a web standard that allows for notification badges on tabs. Each site changing their favicon to show a notification badge is a hack.
12 trips to the range.
We've been suffering from this literally for decades by the dominant Korean search engine, Naver. Now it is time for you to suffer too, westerners!
Yup! The version I was looking for was a slowed & reverb version that I later found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXCAKgqD3M
Bingo. I was a backer for the canceled Time Steel 2 and would have happily paid $200 more if they said they needed to raise the price. I still wear my Time Steel and am not sure what I’ll do when it expires.
What's wrong with the toilets?! The Germans put a useless poop shelf in theirs, but are otherwise identical, and the Japanese make you squat over a porcelain trough. Or are you referring to fancy electronic Japanese bidets? Have those taken over "the trough" so thoroughly?
This reminds me of analytic functions. If you know the value of the function for an infinitesimal region, you know the value everywhere.
When someone says they're from America I'm occasionally tempted to ask, "which, north or south?"
As an aside, I find very interesting the story of how "cringe" became an adjective.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-did-we-get-so-cring...
Get a lawyer to help with the sales agreement. Assume that they're not trustworthy (they rarely are). But they'll do the same with you.

Ensure that assets belong to you before the full payment, but also ensure that they get everything after full payment. Both of you should sit with the lawyer and discuss it.
Sometimes lately I can't tell the difference between google or an alternative like DDG. It's all crap.
Does it work? I read the laser tech had issues.
https://www.cos.io/about/news/reproducibility-initiative-rec... (an example, but from another rich person).

Most rich people are less interested in funding replication studies than they are discoveries, but sometimes they do invest heavily in infrastructure development like Chan-Zuckerberg.
I love python but I loathe django. I cringe everytime I have to deal with it or developers who believe that is the right way to write a web app. It's hard. Either people are using python to write scripts which are poorly written or they're using it to write django. Most of them don't understand python at all. It's sad. I think Ruby has that problem with Rails. The ones who learn only Rails don't understand Ruby and don't use it for anything beyond Rails.
Why airline route maps look the way they do
Yeah, I went through 4 or 5 PS3's. Fortunately my PS4 stood the test of time, and we'll see how my PS5 does.

As much as I enjoyed gaming during the PS3 era, it really had some almost impossible to ignore challenges.
> While the availability of games increases daily, its performance will always remain the weak point.

Honestly I don't care that much about performance any longer, graphics were mostly good enough 10 years ago. Modern graphics looks better when you put them side by side, but the graphics 10 years ago was good enough that you easily get used to it. The current switch has problems running 10 year old high end graphics, yeah that is a problem, but the switch is 5 year old hardware, if they made a new switch with modern hardware it should be able to run all those games smoothly.
I left LinkedIn the day I received one of those endorsements. It’s such a disgusting red flag that I want nothing to do with the place.
It's easy to write an app that displays arbitrary graphics at 1600 nits on the MacBook Pro. You just have to use the Metal API, an "extended" color space, and a Float colorPixelFormat.

I'm not sure that this blog post author is trying to accomplish, possibly they are trying to use some other API besides Metal?
There are also unlocker methods for Nvidia vGPU functionality these days or, as the setup guide states, you can use VMware as the backend which has a paravirtual GPU with a Windows driver.
There is even a documentary:

https://youtu.be/kUs8tWJ0EWM
It's also incredibly slow. It was a pretty neat trick but kind of gobsmacking in its ambition (which eventually caught up with those implementing it).
Without necessarily endorsing the premise of the comment, I wonder what can be done to prevent this. Has humanity ever been successful at preventing institutions from regressing to exclusively serving their own needs? It's not clear if as a species we can actually pull that off, at least not in perpetuity.
This. Nintendo understands FUN. That's what it comes down to.
They'll have to call it the "Pizza Trap" instead of the Canary Trap...
Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list
> The not so happy thing about this is that at this point the entire web is somewhat flawed. Too many sites have produced too much junk content just to game Google. A fundamentally new approach is needed to identify and surface “organic” (whatever that may mean) results. So I suspect (albeit with no data to show for it) that even if we just switched all ads off we still wouldn't be happy with the results that we see.

Honestly, I suspect that if you deprioritize pages with ads, referral links and sponsored content in search results, this problem will mostly solve itself.

The glut of garbage on the web comes from people trying to make a quick buck online, and I suspect Google is happy to show that content because the garbage is laden with Google or their partners' ads. Even content that doesn't have ads, but encourages visitors to buy products, is valuable to Google because they can use that information to show users more ads or funnel them into buying products via Google Shopping.
This conflating of two different types of things is quite bad in my opinion and it wrecks credibility. Real light pollution (not satellites) completely obscures the night sky from view. Satellites do not in fact obscure night sky viewing in any way (you've always able to see tons of them at night in dark areas even before Starlink), they don't even obscure amateur photography, it just takes a bit of software work to remove them. The only reason non-astronomers are up in rage about Starlink is because of "billionaire boogeyman scapegoating".

They are ONLY a concern for professional astronomy using super sensitive huge aperture astronomical telescopes. They raise the noise floor of the CCD because of oversaturated pixels spilling energy into other pixels. Which is why companies like SpaceX have worked with those people to reduce the brightness to reduce that affect. Even then, for many types of observations they are not an issue. See: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/palomar-survey-instrument...
I finally caved and picked up a couple of Pro controllers. No looking back.
This isn't an experience unique to people from the US (see other comments). Would you consider saying "State Name, USA"?
This obviously a slippery slope that the EFF is luckily tracking. Child abuse is wrong but this is sweeping draconian legislation that is obviously against search and seizure is going to turn this country into China but worse. Why is it that almost every politician has some angle of attacking the fundamental rights of the people of this country? Search warrants are legal. This is unconstitutional.
Also, I hear home taping is killing music.
And it relies on Windows's built-in RemoteApp server: "We will need Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise or Server to use RDP apps".

I guess it streamlines launching apps?
Isn't that hindsight speaking? When it comes to cultural trends, we percieve only the now and it's gradient from the past and don't really do much extrapolation or prophecy.
I was able to find it with this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22like+you+didn%27t+care+I+...
Singapore is missing :(
There's sanitizing, and then there's writing a parody of your life that's borderline low fantasy. If the joke is that everyone involved knows it's creative fiction, and I'm just the odd one out, then so be it. But if people reading those posts think it's anything more, I'm.... worried about people.