skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're looking for an LCD monitor... not OLED or something novel. I'm not sure why you would want 120Hz, that seems like the only challenge to a competative price. Most LCD materials have long response times (>5ms) so they tend to blur at high refresh rates. High refresh rates at high resolution are also a challenge and thus higher cost. If you're looking for 4k, it's also worth noting that most non-premium TVs will use 2subpixel (RGBG rather than RGBRGB) rendering for higher brightness ans lower cost whereas most monitors will use 3. There are also economies of scale to much larger glass >40" which aren't usually seen in monitors. I am surprised how relatively poor the color matching on many monitors is, however.
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? book by ethologist Frans de Waal: https://www.worldcat.org/title/are-we-smart-enough-to-know-h...
It's interesting. I downloaded, then renamed the Windows files from CPP to C so that I could easily compare the PSX to Win98 source version. You are struck at how small the project is compared to modern games. When you compare the source it becomes both a view into mid nineties game programming and how the game was ported from the Playstation to the PC. They really used a kind of emulation layer to ease the port to PC. There is a LibGTE.h which should be an abstraction of the 'Geometry Transform Engine' of the PSX hardware. I'm just getting into the code but it's small enough to grok and fun to look at.
This does feel like a somewhat bilious [anti-?]fanboy counter to the Google Graveyard website.
Isn't modern PHP just Hack?
You make an interesting point because here Verizon and ATT are local telcos as well so they can potentially cannibalize some of their own customer based in their serving areas, but both have had wired broadband service options in their serving areas which as stalled in terms of growth over the past few years. So I think they are looking at wireless, which is a cash cow for them, and probably figure they may win more customers from the cableco in their serving areas with a wireless option that does not require any installation or retrofit work at their homes. Bringing fiber into the home can be expensive, and DSL (copper) will not get you the speeds people are looking for these days for broadband service.

You are right, this is all a very U.S. skewed view of things. I do not know the European market but my guess is those providers are probably also looking for some revenue boost from 5G.
Golang? C++?
This looks like the classic plasma effect that's popular in the demoscene [1]. It's nice to see it take on a new variation that can be used for something other than a psychedelic lava lamp. Pausing at some intervals also sometimes resemble zebra stripes or fingerprints

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMfGiSZePXk
Needs entries for their Natural Keyboard Pro, still the best of their split keyboard implementations and the Natural Keyboard 4000, which was a close runner up.
Given the Herculean efforts (and superb results) of Rosetta and Rosetta 2, I'm still appalled that Apple couldn't have found a way to keep running 32 bit apps, even at a performance hit through some level of emulation or containerization.

In addition to countless classic games being dead in the water, my Mom was completely blindsided by the change, suddenly losing access to several old-but-trusted productivity apps, and she had to scramble to find replacements. I don't recall there even being a generic warning during the upgrade process, let alone "the following apps will no longer function: [...]; do you wish to proceed?"
Therapy is what helped me the most long term, and I think is the only really solution for true anxiety. It requires finding the right therapist though - I went through a few before I found someone. I put this off for so long because of the cost and, of course, the anxiety just meeting a new therapist. I think for me talking to a male therapist in particular really helped for some reason.

I used various drugs to help me "get through life" before therapy. My anxiety was completely crushing, and I felt I had no other choice.

In retrospect, I wish I had just gotten good therapy in my 20s, because living nearly 3 decades with intense social anxiety just really freakin' sucks and drags down all aspects of life. And with real long term anxiety, it takes a skilled third party to get your brain patterns to change enough to overcome it long term.

I'd say I also think I'm a "highly sensitive person", which means my primitive brain reacts more strongly to external stimuli. I think it explains a lot of my struggle in retrospect. I still feel stressed in social situations, but I know how to deal with it now mentally - I consciously recognize what is happening, and calm down the screaming part of my brain, and the anxiety mostly goes away.
That's a really tiny chair and keyboard.
Are you tracking warnings/deprecations in logs? Usually PHP gives ample warning time (at least one major version) before producing errors.
>a non-renovated fifth floor walk-up with no dishwasher, was listed around $4,000 per month, but when New York's real estate market took a hit — its market value plummeted by nearly 50%.

Is your 3br in a 5th floor walk-up in a building that is very likely over 100 years old? Have you seen the state (or the size) of non-renovated NYC apartments in pre-war buildings (pre World War 1)?

>'You know, our heat hasn't been working properly since October, the kitchen is not renovated and I'm wedged in between two buildings.

She doesn't mention the roaches, which are included for free! Nor does the article mention the size of the apartment. I'd be willing to wager that this decrepit old 3 br apartment is 1/2 to 1/3rd the size of the 3 br apartment you pay $1600 a month for.

>The reality is, if my rent goes up to around $4,000, then I might as well look for a two-bedroom building with a doorman and dishwasher."

Without a doorman she also gets the benefit of being able to experience the plight of homelessness in her very own doorway even while having the privilege of paying $3,300 a month.

As a lifelong New Yorker, I can promise you living here isn't all its cracked up to be unless you are very wealthy.
It's a common misconception that Microsoft closed the Games for Windows Live service.

Basic features still work:

https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/games-apps/my-games-apps...
What book on forensic accounting would you recommend for entertainment value?

I have some knowledge of french accounting, been exposed to US style, and thoroughly enjoyed long forms involving forensic accounting, money laundering and the like...
The "killed by microsoft" site looks like a rip off of the well known "killed by google" site. Id day that they really try to push fake controversy and extend the list e.g. Microsoft Edge just switched its technology and still exists.
Am I the only one getting a DNS error here? Tried link and www.
The Case for More Paid Vacation Days
Yes, definitely. I hope my comment didn't come across as criticism! I love seeing sites like your kid's.

I was more lamenting the general difficulty of the problem. (And possibly just the lack of books that are suitable for kids who are advanced at reading, but have interests similar to other kids their age.)
This is an interesting/surprising reply to me, so I've spent some time thinking about it.

The problem is that design is always a compromise between discoverability and post-discovery efficiency. Consider the swipe-left-to-delete pattern. It's not discoverable, but once you've learned it, you wouldn't want it any other way. Designers sometimes compensate for the lack of discoverability by adding a slower but more discoverable way of doing the same thing, like an "Edit" button that reveals a delete button on every item. Thus making swipe-left-to-delete a non-critical feature, and a nicety for those who discover it.

Another example is clickable usernames. We have an unspoken expectation that clicking a username in any app takes you to the user's profile. This expectation is so ubiquitous that apps (like HN) don't provide any additional indication that usernames are clickable. Imagine if every username on every app was a full blown bordered, textured button. Even someone with zero design sense would feel something's off.

It simply isn't possible to maximize both discoverability and efficiency at the same time. Every feature needs to decide who it wants to cater to and who it's comfortable leaving behind.
Movie Maker (sort of) lives on as "Video Editor".
It's php, so your architecture by nature is already serverless unless you are using some newer plugin like swoole.

For most projects, that $4 server is great and what I would prefer. But where serverless can excel is an application that has very spikey usage.

If your $4 server gets hit with spikes of usage that would require a $500 server for an hour once or twice a month, you might be better off with serverless, rather than paying $500/month to have a server that big all the time.
To me, it is a problem.

Only git for version control. Perfect? No. Good for everybody and every project? No. Good enough? Yes.
Only UNIX for any non-GUI application, and now even worse, almost only Linux. Perfect? No. Good for everybody and every project? No. Good enough? Yes.
Only C for system programming. Perfect? No. Good for everybody and every project? No. Good enough? Yes.
Only x86(_64) for almost anything non-portable. Perfect? No. Good for everybody and every project? No. Good enough? Yes. (same for ARM in portable world).

We use mediocre tools which share best property: ubiquity.

World of Good Enough, world of "multi-tools" which are not perfect for any application, but good enough for almost all of them.

We lost a tons of bright systems, ideas, approaches.

Now it is common to say, that diversity and inclusivity in teams are very well for corporate culture, as each person brings his/her own point of view, and multiple point of views are better for final product or service.

But in world of modern IT tools I see opposite. Monocultures everywhere.

Sometimes I read about different IT (mostly hardware, or integraged hardwae & software) of 1985-2005 and it is very sad reading: there was a tons of different systems, approaches, architectures, languages, ways to build systems. Each and every of them were more suitable for niche tasks. And what we can see now? Linux, Docker, git, x86, C.

Yes, I know, that there is Rust and there is ARM (at least!), but it is, what, 1% of landscape? And no new or specialized OSes (even IoT, which should be hyper-effective and realtime often is built on Linux!), no new platforms which shine in one or other niche, nothing

Yes, again, I know about POWER and z/Architecture (or how it is called this month), but, again, it is drop in the ocean of same boxes with same OS.
Cash settlements take several days. So while that is correct, a margin account let's you use funds from the sale of a stock immediately instead of waiting for the settlement to occur. You aren't taking out any margin (with interest) in this case, just using the funds you already have (but haven't settled). Otherwise a cash account limits how much you can trade very quickly since you are waiting on trades to settle.
Power Struggles Among Nice People
Wonder how they'd fair if gorillas trained the same way as an olympic thrower
What if an entity like the EU mandated that google make a public search index API, which would allow any competitor to create a low-cost clone. Google gets to stand as it is, relying on its brand and extra suite of tools to compete.

It's heavy handed, but if you view search indexing as a natural monopoly, it's relatively simple for how effective it would be at curtailing market power.
I wonder what would happen if you used this technique to compress sonoluminescence?

https://hackaday.com/2019/09/06/capture-a-star-in-a-jar-with...

Which is a fun project you can do at home on your kitchen counter and has mystified scientists since 1934. Some theories suggest it is a fusion reaction and that there is a plasma hotter than the sun forming inside the bubble.

I'm wondering what would happen if they could manage to compress the light as it formed. Maybe it could sustain the light for longer periods of time or increase its intensity? It would probably be difficult to time a sub-nanosecond compression of this kind, though.
Yes, and there it is. Libgte.c a PC implementation of the PSX libgte library. Some of these functions are quite laborious without the hardware support. See NormalColorDpq3()
I thought so too, but every time I tried to move on to something else it didn't last and I always went back to Solus. It's just well put together, a recipe like any other, but with a pinch of love I guess. Something you wouldn't get just by looking at a menu.
Wasn’t there an early exploration of using vector UI elements some time around then? I have a vague recollection of it being found as a partly implemented feature.
Zune is on there twice. Speaking of Zune, I loved it. I know it got a lot of shit for being an also ran against the iPod, but it was a seriously solid media player and I found it better than the iPod in many ways. Zune software was always gorgeous, had an innovative subscription model (you get to keep some DRM free songs every month forever, even if you cancel the sub. Wish Spotify did that.) and felt innovative compared to iTunes, which looked like Excel for music.
I didn't realise that Internet Explorer Edge is dead?
CNBC: 'Stem Cells May Finally Offer a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes'
> CP/M programs often behave in ways which would be damaging to modern hardware -- endless input-checking loops at full CPU speed, for example. To be honest, I do not know if this kind of thing would be damaging to a Pico, but I don't want to risk it. CPICOM has a number of pause points built in, to give the microcontroller time to idle. These do slow the system down even further, and I'm not sure whether they're necessary.

This shouldn't be necessary on an MCU. Any kind of sleep call is probably just spinning the CPU anyway. There's often support for deeper power saving states, but MCUs are generally designed to be run full speed all the time.
Press "Tools", then change "Any time" to "Custom range" and set the range you want.
Movie Maker was great. There is in fact a little-known useful video editor built into Windows 10 and 11 called Video Editor (previously was only available through the Photos app for some reason) but it doesn't hold a candle to Movie Maker.
The ApplyMatrix and DLSRotTransPers functions are implemented with inline x86 assembly. Must have been on the hot path.
There is also some inline assembly around decimating textures to adjust their size on load.
Finally, a question on HN I am "qualified" to answer. During my university education I came across Structures[1] by J.E. Gordon who, unlike me, was an aeronautical engineer but his take on structures really made so much sense to me, as a student of engineering, in a way that the fustian delivery of the professors at college did not. Some books stay with you for life - this one did for me.

[1] Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J.E. Gordon. Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245344.Structures
Is it really that bad? I believe if there is no alternative and a need then there will be a software at some point.
I guess it is pure economics and I personally miss none of these.
The "small businesses" argument is brought up in every discussion of the GDPR including much worse transgressions than merely bad UX in the data export process. I was not exclusively referring to this particular instance.
RIP Google Inbox.
Would there be a way to crowdsource the web crawling effort? Crawling@Home? I think that even with this you'd need a legal department to deal with takedown requests and illegal material.
Go is generally faster, but if you have performance issues, the language may not be the first thing to look at.

Look at your caching strategies, dependencies (APIs, databases), what could be static, etc. The frontend part is as important as the backend.

For something written from scratch today, I would actually highly recommend a stack such as Remix. Everything feels super fast, not because of a language, but because of the framework design.
I think it's a totally different product? Could be wrong though.
Well, code I wrote in 2006 still runs in production today, with very minor changes. I can't really be happier about backwards compatibility story. :)

I guess I started writing PHP when PHP 5 was already a thing, didn't depend on any third party code, and used PDO from the start, so... I guess I was lucky to pick the right abstractions.
MS really came too early. What they should have done is have an app store, only allow users to receive software via the pipe they control, and disallow anything that challenges them, a la Apple with Firefox or Google with youtube-dl.
Are people funding founders who want to make new search engines?
Have you all used presearch?

Presearch decentralized search engine, powered by blockchain technology.

https://presearch.org/
For Industrial Engineering or Operations Research, I'd say The Goal by Goldratt. An easy to read novel that leaves you looking at things differently.
Equities settle T+2. Without a margin account, Reg T requires that cash be tied up until a trade is settled. It’s not viable to day trade like that.
I found this article to be convincing in-favor of 5G. I think the real concerns about 5G are how it can be abused by providers and governments to spy on people, none of which was mentioned in this article.
I seem to remember a multiplayer racing game like this from about 1990(?) for PC/DOS.

What sticks in my brain was the fact that mines, caltrops, etc. would persist throughout the game unless somebody actually hit them. This meant that jumping out to first immediately wasn't always a good strategy as somebody behind you could drop a bunch of stuff in a pattern at a corner and a lap later the person in first would be the person to hit all the stuff.

The rocket-powered explosive skateboard was also amusing as if a couple people dropped them all at the same time you could effectively close down all but a small width of the track when they came flying around.

I wish I could remember what it was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILoo

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It's not my field, but feels like an appropriate answer.

After the recent death of the myrmecologist EO Wilson, I decided to order a couple of his books and have spent the last few nights reading "Journey to the ants". It has been completely fascinating, I can't put it down.
I want to Race the Bean
I have Hotline Miami's soundtrack favourited for a specific stretch of highway.
I agree with you on this. I search for tech topics a lot and google offers an option to search "scholarly articles". I like that option as sometimes a tech term gets confused with something else. It would be great if there was a way to select from some check boxed, like an advanced search, "search only for semiconductor datasheets" or "search all Jazz music" or upload a picture and "identify an insect" (agree that does not work well yet) or whatever someone might be interested in.

The question is if such an approach would lure a lot of people away, I could see an entry angle might be a front end to google with an app that does that.
That list looks like mostly like Former Microsoft products. What about all of the great products that were absorbed and dismantled by Microsoft, like the fantastic visual database called Formbase.
i think twitter spaces.
I was gifted a Nokia Lumia 640 when it just came out. It was a nice phone, it had good hardware, it was fast and worked smoothly. It had all the applications I needed and honestly thought that it was gonna take over Android, given Nokia's reputation and popularity of Windows.

Then Microsoft forced a Windows 10 update on it, and everything slowed down to a halt. Camera application was running at ~5fps max. Applications started crashing.

Then Microsoft pulled the support for the phone completely, and one by one, applications stopped working altogether, until all I had was a dumb phone with a crappy camera and a crappy web browser.

It's a shame, really. If they had made it an open platform and allowed users to install Linux, I believe it would have taken over the world.
And the occasional comment about how the story should never have gone anywhere near the home page.
I'd almost forgotten how much I hated that big orange FIREFOX dropdown menu.
How can I incrementally install exactly what’s in the lockfile, raising an error if it’s incompatible with package.json? This is what I expect npm i to do, but as far as I can tell, npm simply doesn’t support.
Using Inbox was the last time I enjoyed an email client. And actually made it to inbox zero on a regular basis.
Cereal mascots also starred in one (starts with a surprise sound effect if you launch the emulator, keep volume low): https://archive.org/details/KELLOGG_201902
You're not alone. Here are some steps to restore the old tab style:

https://superuser.com/a/1669549/9067
An eruption of ads.

The Reader view (F9) in Firefox fixed it.
FoxPro
Sure, I can see notes being very important for lawyers. But I don’t see that for software engineers and programmers. For a programmer, the facts are the code. The end. The code is what gets executed. Anything outside of it is secondary. This is of course besides persistent data that usually lives in some sort of database, and configuration, which falls outside of the other two buckets. None of these items require note keeping. Programmers learn by doing: taking notes is very much a peripheral activity there. So I’m struggling to understand why or how this is a big deal and the brouhaha about org-mode, zettelkasten and the like on HN!
Explorer isn’t the window manager. And does it really matter it’s serving as the shell? What technical benefits would a split bring?
Ok, what I meant to say it's a much more fundamental mechanism of cognition that has to do with processing perceptual information, while the other is a conceptual, logical mistake.
PDF cannot be tokenized (fixing rsc/pdf) – The Wow Signal
Latency just connecting to PostgreSQL (in my case) sucks anyway, so I end up having a connection pooler between PHP and the database in production just for the latency's sake, even if I don't care about scaling.

And that solves both issues at once.
You just invented pre-Google Yahoo!
I didn’t think Microsoft killed things.

Maybe they’ve changed, but their strategy seemed to be to take something already dead, give it a jolt and Weekend at Bernie’s it under a new name until it starts to smell, then give it a jolt…

E.g. , plays for sure, Zune Music, Groove music, Xbox music. Also Communicator, Lync, Skype, Teams etc.
> If they had made it an open platform and allowed users to install Linux, I believe it would have taken over the world.

Didn't they, though? With Maemo and later Meego (though maybe I have that swapped)?

As it turns out the developer power just isn't there.

That's not to say that that wouldn't be the case now, but at least back then, it wasn't able to survive.

I was so incredibly excited for my Nokia N900, but at the end of the day it was not a phone running Linux, but a buggy OS with a buggy phone app.
Mach Loop 4K: https://youtu.be/N2EG4xoqZbc
I don't think this (or these) list(s) are aiming to shame MS (or Google) for shutting down products, only to catalog and preserve the history.
Yes, I have first hand experience. Where are you getting this superiority angle? It would be better for you to ask what I think rather than make stuff up.
I think the users started calling them “servers” and it stuck. Their API, and I’m guessing internal naming as well, calls them guilds[1]

[1] https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/guild