skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This company is also beholden to its customers, they have to compete with other companies and individuals and can only profit if they are really good at what they do. If it is extremely profitable many others will jump on the opportunity, thus lowering prices. What incentive would a government granted monopoly have to improve?

And no, a government is almost never beholden to it’s people. It automatically has power, especially communist ones. The “democratic” one also only have to convince a few groups to agree on a few topics to get full controll.
>I think the jury's still out on our impact of printing it out into a three ring binder.

Ok, sure. But Power Point presentations are valuable, right? Please tell me all of those slides mean something?
IBM used to have a specific keyboard for APL programmers :-) Go big or go home.
Light gas compresses easily because photons are bosons. Most ordinary matter is fermionic.
My main question is: Did the number of photons stay constant throughout the isothermal compression? If it didn't, that would basically explain everything.
(I wouldn't rule out other effects though.)
When people actually talk about quadrillion dollars, I no longer listen, I only hear.
> What's the next breakthrough idea that extracts the good signal from all the noise of a trillion web pages?

Here's another recent Show HN that demoed a new search engine:

Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443738

I know this was offered as a bit of joke. But it prompted a really thought-provoking discussion and seemed to me to suggest a genuine paradigm shift in search or information organization. It is a novel way to extract a useful signal from all the noise. It brought to my mind "Dr. Know" from Spielberg's AI movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QkgAuEPbk

Will the signal be a good one? It will need to get better and inevitably will. The thing that worries me: will it even matter?
Most probably nobody wanted to be the messanger of the bad news, perhaps due to the fear of being made a scapegoat?
That means they must have to alert the driver an awful lot, if you think about it, because that's an eternity.
TDR was responsible for the logos, team design, manual, and packaging of the first WipEout, working through XL to Wipeout 3. The feel and character their work gave to those simple polygonal wedges was impressive, and that graphic design perfectly laid out the ultra-futurist vibe with global half-kanji minimalism.

We'll never know for sure, but I've always thought that the success of the franchise really stemmed from their influence at the beginning.
Sorry, the digital copy of this is rather hard to wipe my ass with unlike the paper copy. In that sense, I'd rather have a paper copy, it's more useful.
There are some. Neeva is one I've heard of, and there was another similar one mentioned on HN just recently that I've forgotten. There was also Cuil. Bing exists of course. And then there are the language specific ones, Yandex, Naver, Baidu, and others I'm sure. And that's just the ones that make their own index, there's a sea of competitors like DuckDuckGo and StartPage that mostly license results from someone else (including Google). And there are also verticals with competitors like Amazon for products or Yelp for food, which Google very much considers as competition.

As much as people claim otherwise, it's not that Google has no competition. People are trying! Google's product is legitimately good, despite the widespread perception of declining quality.
The only thing stopping me from using PHP is just I’ve been burned in the past by massive breaking changes going up in major and even minor versions. Granted they are major releases, but the amount of work to bring existing code up to “code” is a gargantuan amount of work. I’ve dealt with similar issues in Ruby as well as Rails, but it wasn’t too hard to fix and even older syntax is happily accepted without deprecation messages. With PHP, I’ve had to cleanup very verbose code (often from older open-source packages or software) and spent hours and hours cleaning up breaking changes.
> It truly felt like "an experience from the future" back in 1995 - and to some extent still does, for this fan at least :)

This fan as well. Really fantastic, innovative stuff.
> what would a competitor need to defy Google?

A competitive business model. You can create tech that is easier to use and more powerful than Google's services, but you won't last unless you actually make money.
I perfectly understand that reasoning. And if you're working for an agency and have to deliver a solution that nobody will maintain for 5 years and then some people who weren't part of the original team will have to pick it up again... then yeah, that approach might make sense.

But meanwhile, I think there are enough people who don't mind the occasional backwards incompatibility if it means finding better ways to write code now.
Highly recommend Smile by Brian Wilson too. It’s caught out of time but a masterwork of what was coming. As we lose musical prodigies to their genius, for decades and forever, their impact moves me and my family by the grace of bringing emotions of life to the listening experience. This author seems to forget that important history, when pop became deeply personal.
This totally disregards the concept of shadow profiles..
The desktop app does better image processing on your camera feed. That's about the only reason.
Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins: A very serious incident
Article seems to be behind a paywall.
I like how the in-game magazines perfectly capture the look of the magazines my dad always had around the house.

For a slightly younger crowd, there's also Tracks, which my kids have enjoyed: https://store.steampowered.com/app/657240/Tracks__The_Train_...
Define "willing" in this context, though. You, myself and most people on HN have a really good idea of what data we willingly give Amazon, while the average person does not. Is it really an accurate statement that people willingly give them their data when they don't actually know what they're giving?
Green New Deal Proposed via NFT “Vo”: New Fruit Tree
It still depends on their contribution right? If you said all lights are equal in strength, then being on top of one gives a strength of 1. Being x units away from it gives a some value less than 1, based on the sqrt of distance

Being close & between two lights would take the sum of their strengths, say .75 each so 1.5, giving a value greater than 1 (more light than either individually produces)

Being far from the two lights, each contributes .25 strength, so .5 total — half the light of standing on top of one

And of course if you get really far, a ridiculously large number of light sources are contributing a ridiculously small amount of light, which may still sum to something fairly small

I’m imagining it works like an influence map: https://www.gamedev.net/tutorials/programming/artificial-int...
Recent Dota 2 quitter checking-in
No game was ever fully optimized for PAL because it is literally impossible. The only way to fix the squashed down graphics would be to completely re-scale all the art. This re-scaled art would no longer fit in the existing 8x8 tiles so you would then have to completely redo all the background and sprite mappings, you may have problems with overlapping parallax layers no longer lining up to whole tiles, and might have problems with video ram since the re-scale art now requires more memory. Basically a fully PAL optimized game would be pretty much a completely separate port built from the ground up.
It depends… do you have to take the crust off to change out the filling?
I find curved displays much nicer to look at on the edges. I hope spherically curved monitors come out some day too.

I use a 32" 2160p 4K curved display (1500R). It's harder to find than the 1440p curved displays but they're out there.

Also, I find I prefer looking straight in front of me best and don't really use anything more than a single 4k display. I try to improve my app switching skills & tools before using more monitors.
In my case the algorithm decided I should be slowly forwarded into the arms of a pharmacist prescribing a stimulant to help with a bunch of mildly ADHD/ASD quirks in my personality.
I missed that, might you or someone else have a link? I'm not seeing it.
I have owned this sowftware for about a year and can say the author did a good job. It's worth it.

With that said, this may not necessarily be fault of the authors, but the tutorial and documentation really doesn't help. The Qt and PyQt/PySide ecosystem is so fragmented that understanding how to truly use fbs only came to me after months of browsing github for example code.

Something like a video tutorial series on YouTube that shows how to use Qt Creator with QWidgets with fbs would be great then another on how to use Qt Design Studio with QtQuick with fbs would be amazing.
Since it's part of the introductory chapter, my interpretation had been that the portion I quoted was supposed to be a general, well-known "law" implied by quantum theory, i.e. not a result specific to the situation at hand. Hence my question where that supposed law is coming from.

But it seems they were indeed merely announcing a result specific to the wormhole they constructed since on p. 6 the authors say:

> In deriving (2.12) we assumed that the distance d between the two black holes is smaller than l, d << l. Even when we do not make that assumption we find that the time through the wormhole is always longer than through the outside, πl > d.
Seems fair to me. They did improve quality for quite a long time. The quality only seemed to start dipping when shareholder expectations started driving what SERP pages look like.

Or, roughly, "The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users"
Kind of funny that the idea of constantly flipping between a bunch of things increases productivity. I’d imagine if this person had instead limited themselves to a single 15” laptop screen their productivity would’ve increased over their baseline because they’d be focused on one thing at a time.
I think it would be shocking to todays people to see a TV from 20 years ago, before all that digital funkiness. Instant switching between channels.
It's been a little while but as of a few years ago it's certainly still widely available. It's easy to get a test kit if you'd like to verify what you have.
Doesn't a form of mag amp figure prominently in Gravity's Rainbow?

https://niklasriewald.com/2020/01/02/the-math-behind-gravity...
The only viable alternative to PageRank I know of is social search: show me results that my friends (and friends of friends and so on) liked/bookmarked.

Delicious sort of tried it but never executed well on the search side.

In a way it's a personalized PageRank algo with users linking to pages they like and to other users they follow. This always made more sense to me than a global authority ranking.

When looking for a babysitter you want recommendations from friends you trust, not some global ranking of popular babysitters.
I don’t think we need static typing as a requirement. For folks who want to opt in, it’s probably fine.

The divide could be catastrophic and for me, would be a major turn off. Look at JS and TS. Some projects go all in, but then others half ass it with `any` return types all over the place. If the JS ecosystem can come together around TS, it’s probably still a decade out until it becomes the default used everywhere. That gap creates confusion and chaos.

If people want similar languages with more/less features, they can create those communities. Erlang and Elixir are good examples.
> It would make sense to take what ever came to their mind at that moment as their surname.

Or whatever was the first thing that came to the mind of the clerk that was filling out the papers. I know a guy whose family name became "Bohunk" at Ellis Island.
Sounds great.

Can't help but notice the lack of any concrete data in their press, though. I have no idea if I'll be able to play it on my computer.
thank you for articulating this properly -- privacy & censorship are intricately intertwined, like yin & yang
Thanks for that. Was a big PWEI fan in the late 80s/early 90s but had no idea of their connection to games/graphics.
Search is kind of an investment dead zone. Even if you've come up with a completely paradigm-breaking method, getting money to develop the idea at scale would be tough since Google (and others) have so many patents that litigation risk would drive off funders.

If you have a great idea and access to deep enough pockets to develop it, there's still the problem that much of the information people want to find are behind various walled gardens and not suitable for public search. Incrementally more helpful arrangement of the same publicly available data that Google already has, isn't worth the effort of challenging the behemoth
The majority of programming is tedium, that's my experience. The fun stuff is over early on in most projects. The rest is grinding it out, and incremental polishing to get the code base to a bulletproof level of reliability. I have worked on large commercial embedded code-bases that absolutely needed to have zero crashing bugs with months, if not years of uptime. Maybe you haven't encountered that. Its not surprising since few programmers today seem to care about that sort of reliability. I don't know what "standards" you're setting for yourself, but I'm glad you're happy doing your thing.

It's surprising you haven't encountered different programming cultures in the world. The bay area has a distinct culture than eastern Europe which is different than China or India. And this co-relates to varying attitudes on open source and other down-stream effects. Naturally these also differ from industry to industry.
'...that will require further investigation, maybe the videos in this thread can be geolocated?'

...which is a reply to the following thread:

Ukrainian soldiers shoot Russian prisoners of war in the legs and afterwards give them a severe beating. At the beginning of the video, there are Russian POWs lying on the ground with bullet wounds in their legs, some of them have got leg bones broken.

It might give the impression that the Russian military were captured after having been wounded. But that's not the case. At the end of the video, we can see Ukrainian soldiers shooting all the newly arrived prisoners through their legs.

Many of them are dying from shock due to the pain right on camera. And all of this is being filmed by Ukrainian soldiers themselves.
What data does Amazon have that you haven't given them?
Some atoms also behave as bosons (specifically those consisting of an even number of elementary fermions), so that cannot be the real difference.
> The defacto package manager, Composer, is also world class.

Composer suddenly got good, didn't it! Composer 1.x was one of my pain points I think.

I can't think of many things that really bug me much anymore.

Null coalescing operators and named parameters are the kinds of things that make me happy.

I also adore Laravel (and particularly Lighthouse).

But what I really like about PHP is the humility and maturity of the whole endeavour. It's really typified by Rasmus Lerdorf who openly critiques his own abilities and seeks out smart people.
I think that is mainly due to being direct-lit backlight. I'm currently using a 43" Sony X800H, which is edge-lit, and the pixels are fully lit at my 2 1/2 - 3 foot viewing distance.
The obvious downside of this is that you're adding all these noisy "@param string $filename The name of the file." and "@return string The modified filename." comments.

A lot of PHP projects are littered with this kind of stuff, and when there's actually some important comment it's easy to miss.
>"Interesting. I find innovation in TV's to be opposite of my desired direction. Smarts that make them slower, wifi, ads, slowness,forced firmware updates, slowness, unfathomable picture controls and auto magic colour correction that's Gawd awful, unresponsiveness and slowness."

Maybe just do not connect it to a network ever. At least I don't. I've used TV as a monitor for a while but after some time strain in the neck showed up I downsized to 32" 4K monitor
I bet you could make a killing on Etsy selling MOBA abstinence coins a-la Alcoholics Anonymous sobriety chips. There's a nice sizable market of League of Legends players who could probably use one.
I am getting quite tired of the "small businesses" argument about the GDPR. It's starting to become the "think of the children" equivalent but for data protection.

Would you also be against food safety or physical product regulations (ban of leaded solder or other toxic chemicals)? After all, those can and do affect small restaurants and other businesses as well.
Waiting for the wasm version eagerly
What does a modern high performance php serving stack look like?
My screen on my main PC is a 32" BenQ QHD display. I run it at 100% scaling. I don't like the idea of 4K displays at >100% scaling, as I'm just wasting money on pixels I don't actually use directly.

To be honest, the DPI on this monitor is a little too low... I have a QHD 27" on another machine, and that seems 'just right' (for my eyes).

If 4K monitors were the same price as QHD ones for the same screen size, then maybe I'd re-consider, but whilst they are sold at a premium, I'm not interested.
I don’t know, we’ve had staged content presented as reality for a long time(ie almost all “reality” tv) and we seem to be doing ok. The TikTok content you’re describing doesn’t feel terribly different from that.
There is so much variety in web development that to crown any language as “the best” is at best unproductive.

This attitude of “what is the best” promotes cargo culting and should stop.
You can also shift to more postures the farther back the display is and it will still take up roughly the same field of view no matter how you move, whereas with small monitors you can't both sit up straight and lean back without drastically changing pixels per degree of vision.
Plausible, except I think crypto ending up as yet another asset class might enjoy a longer life because, allegedly, institutions are playing in it now. They can leave too though.
Exactly, also you can see what the sky looks like in different locations and at different times, and learn the properties of celestial bodies.
Men's Underwear Index
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The article itself was discussed yesterday. That Twitter thread is very one sided though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30810534
The comedy here is that if I only mentioned the mandarin teachers randomly showing up on the feed, someone would have mentioned the CCP involvement, when the reality is that I'm aware and don't care, so I tried to acknowledge the people that would care, but consensus has already shifted to defending the dopamine stream of TikTok

That's rich
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-surnames
This is Olbers' Paradox[1] and is one piece of evidence that the universe isn't static.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox
I like this detailed walk throughs, although obviously subjective it reflects well on the many obstacles and dark patterns that are put in the way.

The "funniest" one certainly is that there are dozens of download buttons to actually download the data in the end.

So, it seems understandable that the author got quite frustrated with this process Amazon built.
So would you say this quote is true?

"All militaries suck, the one that sucks the least wins."
Totally true for the "big three", but Sourcehut hosts mercurial repositories: https://hg.sr.ht/.

(Unaffiliated, but a happy user.)
No. But the 2003 war was not an aggressive war. That has specific meaning. And aggressive wars are worse.

The 2003 invasion didn't happen in a vacuum. Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. That too was an aggressive war to expand its borders. Hence all the UN resolutions that followed. Including the ones those 31 countries use as legal justification for the 2003 invasion.

You aren't required to agree with that justification. I don't myself. But comparing the invasion of Iraq to the invasions of Georgia in 2009, Ukraine in 2014 and Ukraine in 2022 - isn't useful. They aren't the same thing.
I don't like all jazz (or even most jazz) but the few pieces I do know well enough to like I really like. And several of those are by John Coltrane's classic quartet: Afro Blue, Favourite Things spring to mind. I like them for similar reason I like other music. It makes the hairs on the back of neck stand up and I feel stronger emotions than I'm normally capable of. It feels like the smartest, most interesting people I've ever met are talking directly to me.

(Interestingly - I can't get on with Love Supreme. I've tried but I lost the thread a few minutes in.)
'“Probably worth three hundred, maybe more,” he said. He was going to buy an urn for his father’s ashes and then put some of those ashes into a pendant for Brionna. Maybe they would go together to California and scatter the rest on a beach.'

I really hope this is just talk. If you're having trouble paying rent, I don't think an urn, pendant, and a trip is a good idea. Granted, this is mostly the symptom of the structural economic issues in the country.
Maybe he got a large but shitty quality TV? I got an OLED 2 years ago and none of this rings a bell.
Don't feel too bad. Everyone has to be wrong about something. Luckily for you it's something small like this ;-)
You're misunderstanding. I will rephrase:

You said that everyone "willingly" gives Amazon their data. The average person does not know what kind of data Amazon collects on them, therefore I am positing that it's not fair to say that they are willingly giving it over.
Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’
I think Russia would consider this a favor. Imagine how happy North Korea would be if we did the same for them.
The term “Human resource” already does that for me…

“Do you have some resources for me?” “What kind?” “Human is fine, nice and flexible”
Their Android browser is great. It kills ads and floating videos, and has excellent features.

However I just can't rely on the search results. It's rare for me to get a decent result for a search so I switch between chrome. I'm not sure why because I thought DDG used Google search.
There’s nothing that’s simple when you’re dealing with 10s of thousands of different datasets across many different internal team and service boundaries with their own security setup depending on the data that’s being stored.

The cost of automating and properly securing it (since “gather all customer data into one place” is generally not great as it’s a single point of failure from a security perspective). All of that isn’t really worth it to spend the effort automating if the total number of requests for data is not that high.