skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you using "refresh" very often?

Ummm yes? Funny, I just wrote another comment complaining how hitting refresh on a major airline's flight status page is liable to give one of those terrible "something went wrong" messages (apparently the search results are liable to expire, but until they do, refreshing will actually update the info, so it is useful to periodically press to see if the flight got delayed).

Combining stop and refresh is also dangerous since that's a race condition. Suppose the page is taking forever, I decide I've had enough of that and want to press stop. But in the second it takes me to actually click on it, the page decided to finally load! Now my click, instead of stopping the annoying spinner animation, clears out the information that FINALLY arrived and brought the annoying spinner back.

(I actually think there is a pretty good case to just remove the stop button though, it isn't vital and just hitting back or close does the same thing anyway. But combining it with the refresh button is about the worst possible thing you could do to either button. It takes one useful button and one meh button and combines them into one awful button.)

Speaking of clicks, that's actually the last straw that made me abandon firefox entirely: in version 75, they broke clicking on the url bar. Instead of doing the sane thing - putting the cursor where I clicked - it instead selects all. Before, double click would select all, meaning if you wanted that, it was still easily available. Now double click instead selects... a word. So they completely removed the very useful single click functionality and turned double click into a completely useless behavior. Absolutely unbearable.

I could tolerate or undo most the other UI changes they did, but this click thing couldn't be user style'd away, couldn't be configured away. They just shoved this massive breakage down. So I uninstalled it .

> takes space even when you're not loading

I'd rather have a predictable UI of marginal utility that doesn't change out from under me than a UI that randomly changes from bad to worse in its own time. At least you can get used to consistency, even if it is consistently mediocre.

> What makes v1 "the best ever"?

Don't put things in quotes that weren't actually said. I actually said "v1 was not great but ok, and it got overall worse".

There's actually specific changes I think were good, coupled with other changes that were bad.
Contrary to many posts here, I think that Google completely controls the quality of the results. The feeling is that quality has gone down because a lot of top ranked website are SEO ads filled websites. I think this is true and on purpose. Two years ago top results were very often Wikipedia, Stack overflow or reddit. Sending users to those websites is not profitable for Google.

I also think that's why it's very hard for competitors to compete. As soon as one is going to get credibly menacing they'll improve on the quality again to preserve their position.

I think that has happened with McDonald's for instance. A few years ago the quality was at it's lowest, the food definitely started to feel fake, air filled and not satisfying. Since the small local competition of hand crafted hamburger popped up a bit everywhere, and credible international competitors ramped up (5 guys, in n out...) they had to improve the quality. And my impression is that it's been a bit more than a year that the quality dramatically improved, and their hamburgers actually taste like food again.

I think it's simply the quality versus profits cursor and it can be adapted any time.
It's missing Atom editor, it was my favorite text editor, now it's abandoned to death on github. They stop working on it the day they bought Github.

I still remember Nat Friedman here in the comment section saying he won't stop developing Atom. He didn't even keep on his promise for a week.
brew install coreutils

Getting GNU tools on MacOS is super easy and honestly I don't know anyone using ports/fink. All of my development ends up on Linux machines, in rare cases I need something specific to Linux or my production environment, I just connect to a dev machine but for the most part I use MacOS as the primary desktop at work along with everyone else.

For me it's all about workflow. I spend a lot of time in alacritty, vscode, and a browser with bitwarden. I'm covered on every OS with those tools so I've stopped caring about OS all together, I like bits of all of them, and dislike bits of all of them.
No, but there are definitely ones that will try to randomly connect to any open wifi networks if left unattended.
Teams is unbelievably shit though. It’s like they don’t even care.
> all those features.

The forum, chat, and Pikchr features have been added since then. Indeed, everything in the Fossil ChangeLog has been added since then, because it cuts off a few months after your post: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/changes.wiki
I think so. There's a huge fault, right up the middle of Africa. The Rift Valley is an awesome place.
It appears that the game on Windows (correction MSDOS) used raw frame buffer not Direct 3D. The entire polygon rendering appears to be in x86 assembler contained in 3DPOLY.ASM with the triangle setup in DRAWPOLY.ASM

However there is also a code path for drawing using a proprietary ATI CIF hardware accelerated 3D API in winati.c - support for RAGE cards only.

I'd never seen the proprietary ATI 3D calls before.

I dug up some more info here:
https://drew1440.com/tag/ati-cif/
Didnt it turn out to be "Black workers were frequently called the N-word on the assembly line" _by other black workers_?
The environment (visual block "coding") reminded me of an environment for developing apps with kids.

I think it was developed (see edit) as a university project. Quite good for teaching the necessary concepts and enabling kids to build their first simple apps within an afternoon.

Edit:
Based on Google Blockly [0]. The university project I was thinking of was MIT App Inventor [1].

[0]: https://github.com/google/blockly

[1]: https://appinventor.mit.edu/
єМапа – Air Raid Sirens Map of Ukraine
We tried it for a while at work, but the data model of nested epics and workflows and issues didn't work very well for our "matrix org" team, and we went back to Jira after a few months.
What evidence do they have that suggests these threats are coming from North Korea?
I tracked the warnings and I keep up with changes out of necessity. But that's the least they can do - anything else would be insanity. However it does not make me feel any better when debugging version/compatibility/configuration issues between the language, different libraries and the environment.

I'm not saying there aren't good reasons for _some_ of the changes, including historical error prone baggage. I'm also not in any way try to disrespect the maintainers. But to say PHP is a stable language and ecosystem still does not reflect my experience with it.
Although it's true that the value of most great works of art is partly historical, I think the majority of innovative masterpieces also have great aesthetic value. I think Seinfeld is one of the funniest comedies of all time and Pet Sounds is an extremely well-written, interesting, and pleasurable album, regardless of both being made before my time.
Also:

* Windows POSIX Subsystem: WSL has similar features, but not exact what the POSIX Subsystem is.

* Windows OS / 2 Subsystem: Killed.

* Multipoint Server: Killed in server 2016.

* Hyper-V RemoteFX

* WDS boot.wim deployment: Killed in server 2022 and Windows 11, although MDT provides a much better solution.

* TFS: MS wants you to use Azure DevOps.

* Hyper-V Server: The free ESXi alternative. MS wants you to use Azure, so it is killed with the release of server 2022.

* Microsoft Security Essentials: Killed in Jan. 2020, and its signature updates will stop in 2023.

* Windows CE: Replaced by Windows IoT

* Aero: Such a beautiful effect. Killed in Windows 8.
is Enlightenment still a thing? It would make a good start?

https://www.enlightenment.org/
I really miss Microsoft Systems Journal, Microsoft Internet Developer, and MSDN Magazine.
That post introduced me to both WebGL and reverse engineering back in the day. I remember reading it years ago and asking myself "seriously, is it that easy to do 3D in a browser???". The web as an app platform is not without its issues, sure, but for quick prototyping being able to just write some JS and have instant access to plenty of APIs is awesome.

Last year I decided to finally break out of the browser and get into actual PS1 homebrew. Unfortunately the state of the scene wasn't, and to some extent still isn't, that great: most homebrew games are still made using what's basically a modded version of the original Psy-Q SDK, which is rather limited in many ways. I started contributing to an open-source PS1 SDK instead [1] by first adding a dynamic linker, then revamping the build system entirely and now building a custom high efficiency FMV playback library (totally not inspired by pl_mpeg of course) that combines the hardware accelerated MJPEG-like decoder with the GPU's alpha blending capabilities. I'm also working with a few other people on reverse engineering one of the most famous PS1-based arcade systems, the Konami System 573.

It's a shame the PS1 isn't receiving the attention other consoles are getting in the homebrew scene. The hardware is architecturally simple yet powerful [2], but I guess nobody wants to fiddle with 120mm polycarbonate circles anymore.

[1] https://github.com/Lameguy64/PSn00bSDK
[2] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation
Does the 4K 120Hz actually work properly? There are a lot of TVs that claim to support 4K 120Hz but actually display the signal at half vertical resolution as 3840x1080.
I get flat out insane speeds on 5G. Must faster than any home internet I have ever even had the option to subscribe to. When it works.

When it doesn't work, my battery life goes to shit & I cannot check my email because no data seems to get through. I disabled it about 3 days after buying a 5G capable phone. I've never turned it back on.
Immortal:

- SharePoint

- VBA

- Office
It makes sense that Amazon would dedicate resources to making the sign up processes easier because it actually makes them more money compared to making the cancelling easier. That would be a waste of time to work on.
Materials Science: Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik

https://archive.org/details/StuffMatters

Very accessible and fun to read, and the book is structured around introducing a lot of fundamental materials science concepts in the context of everyday objects (silverware, chocolate, etc)
> [...] in hopes of luring customers away from the cable cos and telcos or other wired providers.

For some, like me it's not a mere lure but a liberation - out of sheer bad luck, the fixed line internet speed at the last 3 places I've moved in a UK city have gotten slower each time, ending up at <2Mbit in the centre. There is no fiber, if you have fiber know that you are merely lucky, for everyone else it's a question of how noisy your copper twisted pair is, which will only get worse.

LTE internet is my only practical option, and it's not simply competitive, it completely obliterates the fixed line competition in my area providing me with 30-100Mbit (depends on time of day), for £35/mo no contract.

I know this is different in the US, but right now in the UK there are 3 major LTE providers which all have unlimited data plans! - even better, 2 of them have unlimited plans without a contract, which IMO is vital because you must test out reception. LTE definitely beats ADSL in this country, only fiber can compete, but availability is very patchy.
> I agree, “mental health issues” are much more similar to obesity than to cancer.

Will you explain how/why you agree with that sentence?

To be clear, nothing in my comments concluded anything close to this. Your agreement is certainly not with me.

If I said “poverty is more similar to overspending than homelessness”, I’d expect someone to tell me this is a meaningless (and ridiculous) comparison, and rightly so.

Such conclusions are not useful, and don’t help anyone involved: not the person struggling, not the person trying to understand the struggle, not the people trying to fix it.

Will you help me understand the point you’re trying to make here? Because it’s unclear.
A theoretical exploit can always hack anything at any time anywhere.
Somehow Google thinks I’m located in Charlotte, NC (on Verizon in the Southeast) but this app accurately located a town within about 10 miles of my real-world location.

How in the hell is Google worse than a random GitHub project?!
I was doing something similar, except I went for an LG tv for Web OS in the hopes something good would come out of it being open source.

As luck would have it, https://rootmy.tv came out for Web OS. It's still in a very basic stage, but it's better than nothing!

I'm a HomeAssistant user, so I do want my TV connected to my network.
I loved that soundtrack too.

Fluke also used Wipeout imagery for their "Atom Bomb" video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMzCpy0fXc
Borg being single-threaded is painful in the era of consumer 12 and 16 core CPUs, and even prosumer 64-core.
Documentation here: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/serverext.wiki
Yes, but firejail integrates them, docker does not.
"I've recently started an experiment to send data deletion requests to 600 data brokers and document what happens."

Another idea for an experiment is to send 600 data deletion requests from 600 unique computer users simultaneously to a single data broker and see what happens. If the escalation process is automated when the data broker fails to respond, the most interesting results IMO will be from the data protection agency. It is difficult to ignore 600 cases. It also tests the broker's and agency's systems. In theory these systems should be able to scale. If they cannot, then it is arguable the broker and/or agency is making an assumption that privacy is something that only some people, a relatively small number, care about. At the very least there would be a question of whether these systems are adequate for what they are supposed to do.

This experiment might be thought of like a petition that requires a minimum number of signatures. What is the purpose behind having petitions and minimums for the number of people who sign them. Here, a minimum number of people must sign on to make a data deletion request before the bundle of requests are actually sent.
Not killed exactly, but I hate what they've done to Minecraft. It used to be something kind of unique, a game experience that was universal among kids. They paid $1.6B to gate it behind a microsoft.com account and force schoolkids and school districts in to the MS ecosystem.
It was beautiful! My childhood's best IM, apart from IRC.
It gave me pants for the same temperature. Strange...
> Partly cloudy 19 °C

> It's Pants Weather

Hmm
Kagi is just showing google and bing results mixed together.

Also there is no actual path for them to be profitable (their pricing strategy isn’t viable imo) and they are currently loosing money on every search.
Author of "єМапа" developed by Ukrainian developer Vadim Klimenko.[0]

Map data based on Ukraine's official air raid alerts Telegram & OpenStreetMap Data.[1,2]

[0] https://twitter.com/vdmkin

[1] https://t.me/air_alert_ua

[2] https://twitter.com/osm_ua
Show HN: Boredle – play Wordle using the words on any webpage
With monospaced fonts, as used in programming, the ligatures take up 2 or more "spaces", but the special characters only take up one space. Thus, they are quite easily distinguished, for me.
Wipeout is clearly not "abandonware".
Better off using ipfilter or nftable namespace filtering.
As a sibling comment to yours says, Olbers’ paradox is that it doesn’t matter.

If we assume that the universe is homogeneous, infinite, and eternal and the density of stars (possibly averaged over a large but constant scale) is constant, then in any direction on the sky there is some (possibly very faraway) star, occupying a finite (possibly minuscule) solid angle in our field of view. The 1/r² falloff (aka conservation of energy) means that the energy received per unit of solid angle is independent of distance from the emitter, equal for example to that on its surface, so every piece of the sky containing a star means we should see stellar-surface amounts of energy shining upon us from every direction.

Assuming some sort of absorbing dust would obscure the stars doesn’t help: if the universe truly is eternal, every dust cloud, being unable to store arbitrarily large amounts of energy, will eventually heat up to the point that it radiates as much as it absorbs and so is as hot as the stars which it obscures (this is the insight behind Kirchhoff’s law and the existence of blackbody radiation).

What does help is either implementing “no point in space is special” through a device other than simply a constant stellar density (e.g. having stars distributed on a self-similar fractal of Hausdorff dimension < 3, our falloff argument having included what amounts to a definition of Hausdorff dimension) or abandoning “no point in time is special” (giving the universe a finite age or at least having no stars in the far past). Observations show the second possibility (named the “Big Bang” by its critics in what was meant to show its ridiculousness) to be true.

(Modern cosmology has much more direct arguments for a finite age of the universe, but they also require more advanced physics and/or observational technology, so the directness is in the eye of the beholder.)
Came to say the same. The vast majority of these were superseded by new products or their feature set was absorbed by other tooling. Back office was one of the worst examples. It became baked into Windows Server except Exchange.

I’m no fan of MS, but they tend to err on the side of overextending support and backwards compatibility. I would have killed Works 10 years before they did.

And some of these are just failures. I still have my MS Bob floppies, but come on.
Still like/use MS Money. Strangely the lack of updates or support means nothing.
The About page answers this in detail: https://www.bookvine.io/about-page

Overall, this appears to be a learning project for a middle schooler and his dad as well as a way for them to cover costs through affiliate links. While this might be a fun and useful way to discover new books, you should read the reviews and cross-reference your findings with parental or specialty groups like teachclean.com if you are concerned about the subject matter.
This isn't a peak HN green account until you go on a deranged, racist tirade and get it banned within an hour.
Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever
Why Is Airbus Working on Hybrid-Electric Batteries?
All seems sensible stuff, the "it just works" can't be overstated.

But the Apple Maps point felt like a stretch - Google Maps is available everywhere. I don't see much to suggest you'd need it as an app, it works great in the browser with hardware accelerated graphics, which it has had for 10+ years.
That is how laws are usually written. Hashing out the details will be done by the courts.
I wish I had kept my Dell DJ. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Digital_Jukebox
I hope so too :) There are libraries at https://github.com/landlock-lsm to simplify that, I'm using these productively for a few months.

(In fact, I'm sending this from a landlocked web browser. :))

This also ties into the discussion thread about firejail being suid-root - Other than namespaces, Landlock is an unprivileged sandboxing mechanism and doesn't need to escalate privileges in order to drop privileges.
Add to the list:

VSTA (visual studio tools for application). C#/VB.net integrated IDE which was meant to run in parallel to VBA (and I think ultimately replace it).

Microsoft Solver Foundation: an abstraction over in house and commercial solvers (Google OR Tools is a neat similar effort by the way)
Sufficient 5G saturation will likely result in induced demand. Skepticism is similar to being skeptical that anybody would ever need more than 64KB of memory. Right now, 5G saturation isn’t large enough for new applications to be developed that assume 5G, but once 5G is everywhere, we’ll look back on our pathetic tens of Megabits that we pay $40-80/mo as the Stone Age.

Things that more bandwidth provides: wireless home internet, cloud gaming, 4-8K streaming on multiple devices. Things that 5G provides: more efficient wireless connections which should, in theory, eventually get passed on to consumers.

Many of the 5G applications do exist currently, just in their early stages. Just like 5G penetration.
Kagi’s pricing strategy is ridiculous. A single search can cost 5 cents in charges if I click through a few filters.

IMO Kagi can only appeal to people who care about search enough to pay and don’t search enough to make it too expensive, which is probably a contradiction.
Hopefully there's a scale option. Vast majority of these sorts of frameworks with a custom UI display do terribly on modern high res displays.
And 8k is coming....

I'll probably get a big 50-55" 8k for the main and try to put my 1-2 40" 4ks on the flanks.

If you're not twitch gaming, TVs are such a better bang for the buck.
Funny, I've experienced breakage in "happy-path" operations on macOS, that I haven't had recently on Linux. On Arch, building SDL apps is accomplished by installing packages systemwide. On macOS, setting up Qt Creator with CMake and Ninja is accomplished by installing CMake and Ninja... oh wait CMake can't find Ninja because $PATH is only edited for apps launched from a terminal, not Qt Creator! And on M1 Mac, Homebrew installs libraries to /opt/homebrew/, so the average build system can't even find the SDL you install there. I haven't figured out yet how to make apps include that path.

On Linux, having gdb launch apps is easy, though debugging running apps needs sudo or tinkering with yama. On macOS, having lldb launch a release-mode app (eg. ls or cat) requires disabling SIP then entering your admin password or Touch ID. And Valgrind doesn't work on Mac.

True, editing government forms on Linux is a pain. Chrome is close to usable, though its formatting is iffy. Though I dread contaminating Windows installations with Adobe's bloatware.

And I've had Arch and Paru break sometimes, rebuilding software and such.
Samsung's newest qd displays are qdoled so you get extremely fast response time and very high contrast ratio and the dots give high color saturation so the color volume is very large. Brightness is also high (for an oled).
Some background reading on Nokia's demise under Microsoft:

https://mobilesyrup.com/2014/08/14/ex-nokia-exec-tomi-ahonen...

There are great links at the bottom of that page to Tomi Ahonen's exhaustive coverage of Microsoft's destruction of Nokia's lucrative, profitable business model.
Realizing ones own mortality, and a lot of spite.
> but we all have a Facebook account.

Nah.
They’re also not the same thing because one is named “drugs” and the other is named “TikTok”

But putting pointless distinctions aside, an addiction is an addiction. Gambling addicts won’t die if you lock them in a room for a week (with food and water…), but they’ll go back gambling once you let them out.

Same with TikTok and other social media. They’re creating real addictions in people with real consequences. I’m not an expert scientist doctor man, but afaik addictions are bad.