skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ran into matt webb talking about Croquet metaverse recently:

> Reading Alan Kay’s Wikipedia bio, after forays into Atari, Apple itself, and the One Laptop Per Child project, the great as-yet-not-mainstreamed invention that really stands out to me is Croquet. [1]

> †Croquet is a software development kit (SDK) for use in developing collaborative virtual world applications.* [2]

[1] https://interconnected.org/home/2022/04/25/kay

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_OS
Personally I talk to computers a lot these days.

It isn't riveting conversation, just stuff like "Sunset" (to make the lights warmer), "remind me to buy cheese when I get to $GroceryStore", "play $album please", but it adds up.

I also take a lot of pictures, which have become unreasonably good to the point where I'm still learning how to take a better picture with my fancy mirrorless than I can take with my phone. Both of them are computers.

After I take those pictures it does accurate analysis of what's in them, so when I search for cats, or spider, or flowers, it finds them. It does this on the device, which is pretty cool.

I have another computer that flies, I can tell it to fly circles around a target or do a bit of following. It's neither an expensive nor featureful example of its class. It flies for a real 25 minutes on one battery and weighs 249 grams.

There's another one which cleans my floor, to be honest we could have done an okay job of that in the 90s, batteries and chips were almost up to it.

Then there's the one that I can tell to make fantasy dwarves and it just does it. I think that's the one younger me would have been most impressed by.
Definitely the latter
It looks good but I'm probably not going to pay $8 a month to use it. Seeing that price puts me off of it immediately.
That's lot of reaching around to dilute and negate the 4th, 5th and 14th Amendments.
The point of the person you are replying to is very clear so I am not sure why you insist on arguing.

> Not sure what prevents you from doing that.

The technology stacks used on the back-end, front-end, mobile apps, and their associated tooling are most of the time very different. Most developers aren't polyglot, or at the very least have a preferred ecosystem in which they are the most productive. By introducing physical boundaries, specialization is easier.

For example instead of having a team only composed of Java developer, and having a development workflow and build process requiring Java knowledge, the back-end team may be composed of Java specialists, while the front-end is composed of nodejs + typescript folks, and the mobile app is composed of iOS or Kotlin experts.

Is there a technical limitation preventing people from using typescript in a Java project and separating concerns using the java module system or basic folder hierarchy? No. However this rarely happens in practice unless there is clear physical boundary such as the one enabled by SPAs, because people specialize themselves.
gentoo (and begrudgingly, i'll admit ubuntu server) are really light. I run web app servers on mostly gentoo, ubuntu if it requires docker, and a base install is 30-50MB of ram used. Right now my cgi, syncthing, and web fileserver is using 125MB. misskey server is using 725, i think it uses 175 on boot, so possible memory leak there. matrix server is using 363MB. Mattermost server been up for 3 months and is using 383MB.

if you remove all the source files and cruft from a gentoo install when you're done setting it up, the actual system is less than 1GB on disk, and as mentioned, 30-50MB of memory used. Ubuntu is similar, although it does include more helper apps so the disk weight is higher.
So if you don't want a girl without a vagina (ie: with a penis), there is no option to filter that out? After reading some comments on reddit, I wonder if trans might be the first stage of being gay for some people?
Shameless plug, I work on an app called Stemic (https://stemic.app), a different take on the same problem than Kinopio is trying to solve.
n.b. This post is basically just a link to an article that was discussed here:

Many popular websites see what you type before you hit submit (wired.com)

203 points | by amanzi |10 days ago | 227 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31338282
I think the lesson here is not that you misunderstood (which is completely understandable, no reason you should know the name of a local theater) but rather that it's never a good idea to assume the worst reading of a situation.
Right, because it works fine at a smaller scale, but could never handle the transaction throughput that VISA handles.
> Why does this get to the front-page of HN is the real question..

Fintech is a major part of tech, the question is why wouldn't it be? The VISA network relies on many intermediaries and it's bound to be affiliated with some clearing house that may have been undergoing maintenance on it's servers and sine thus is HN someone may be working on said maintenance.

For what it's worth, I just used VISA to pay from my dinner in EU, and it went through no problem.
This business of flagging legitimate downloads as "suspicious" is getting way out of hand. Here's what I'm dealing with lately:

https://i.imgur.com/ZzExHt2.png

This setup program is signed with an EV certificate from DigiCert and hosted on an https site. No other hoops left to jump through except this awesome Catch-22 implementation, which leaves no actionable solution.
aw, they don't have windows home server!
I don't think I can be of much help but WhatsApp web has been working for me on Ubuntu with all Firefox versions since WhatsApp web has been a thing. Did you try to start Firefox in safe mode, no addons and/or a fresh profile?
If you read point (4) he clearly did know it, he just saw it as a more ambitious and challenging problem.
From what I understand, there is no limitation regarding the type of company when it comes to the French Tech Visa (as long as it qualifies on the other requirements which focus more on the innovation aspect). (my coop would be eligible for example)

Starting a coop is like starting any other kind of company so same rules apply. (You must be at least 2 people of course!)
Tagging requires mental energy and some level of abstraction prowess - and might still be misleading. Social media is geared towards making the user expend as little mental energy as possible - and then organize the information they provide anyway for the advertisers using behavioral patterns or some variant of AI. This is probably considered by the industry to provide more reliable information - its like the difference between asking people to explain ethical behavior compared to recording what people actually do in reality.

So, we have a "tagging" model driven by advertising needs, that discourages our own need to tag (intellectually categorize) the content we consume. Instead of moving forwards, towards a more accurate tagging system that supports reflection and concept organization, it seems to me (in my pessimistic moments) that we are moving backwards into an online world where the only ones that know what we are doing are the machines.
Yes I wish that more software (and hardware) focused on being good tools. I should use software to achieve my ends, not the inverse.

Accept my input, produce the output I need, and do it with as little friction as possible. Don't assume what I want, and definitely don't shove it down my throat.
In this case, based on other commenters, there does seem to be something of a real outage (obviously not for the whole US though). However, as someone who has worked this style of job, I can describe why these fake outages happen:

While 95% of people are understanding about this, some small portion of customers are unable to separate the store they're shopping at from the minimum wage employee they're talking to. If you say "our system is down" they'll berate you for this mistake and act like it's your fault despite that fact that you're a cashier that makes $10/hour and has no control at all over CC payments other than pressing a button on the register.

It's not worth dealing with this so you lie about it being somebody else's fault: your internet is down or it's the card processor's fault.
What does 'crypto' even mean anymore? I thought it was the "store of value' using a decentralized blockchain (ignoring cryptography for the moment). At this point we can make up any news story and praise or blame crypto.

I'm still trying to decide if the narrow & broad crypto term is rather than has the problem.
This was 3 years ago, so I wonder if it did.
Shameless plug, I work on an app called Stemic, a different take on the same problem than Kinopio is trying to solve.
https://stemic.app
Like Oberon.
Why ? Isn't it typically the animals that get disconnected from the rest that are then able to diverge ?
the goal of the leetcode interviews is to get into who is the smartest mode, so the cost of hiring can be driven down. those who conduct the interviews are unaware of this. the process you describe would result in paying people more which is not what FAANGs and those imitating them want.
One of my favorite people and websites out there :)
The disappointing thing to me is all the time spent on this case: lawyers, administrators, jury members, and so on that could be doing something different, hopefully more meaningful to society.

People blame the hospitals but this the game they have to play in order to cover their costs [1]. Just seems like a tremendous waste of resources and social cost.

https://truecostofhealthcare.org/hospital_financial_analysis...
I wouldn't say everyone. Most people just played games on them. They would have gotten a game console if their parents hadn't wanted it to be educational.
I think you're missing the point. Mathematics isn't a natural science, and that's what I was trying to point out. There is a term for doing science on human constructs - it's called social science. Is your thesis that mathematics is a social science?

> Humans are part of nature. Human constructs are part of nature.

Humans physically are part of nature, sure. Human constructs are not considered to be as far as classification in the social and natural sciences.
Keep in mind that at the time Microsoft was being sued for being anti-competitive behaviour by Netscape and there were a lot of attention on the company for being a bad actor. Most of Microsofts's patents were defensive (they rarely used them offensively to my knowledge). There was a group of execs that were nervous about Linux but the lack of UI/UX/Usability strength put most of the focus on server capabilities. To this day many people want Linux to be a broader desktop OS but the only strong and focused effort on this are ironically ChromeOS and Android.
There's nothing anyone appreciates more than a listening ear to unsolicited advice on the internet :)

Thanks for the clip, Bill Burr is hilarious
I made a quick survey of text-based display managers a couple days ago. Ly looks fantastic, but I went with tbsm, which had almost no dependencies and was super simple to get going.

https://github.com/loh-tar/tbsm

http://loh-tar.github.io/tbsm/
I think Chomsky’s original sin here is his treatment of Russia as a sensible actor who will negotiate in good faith. Russia showed time and time again this is not the case, and that it responds only to strength.

His 2 ways of ending the war are of course correct, but in his follow-up he misses an possibility: weaken and tire your opponent before negotiating in earnest, to provide a better negotiation position. Russia is still in a mindset to plough ahead at any cost, and won’t settle for reasonable concessions. They want Ukraine beaten, humiliated and subdued to Russia.

What I’d imagine US “no negotiation” stance means is to call this game of strength, support Ukraine so that Russia’s continued war becomes untenable and then settle.

Is that pig-headed, arrogant or cavalier? I don’t think so. I think it’s just a recognition that right now Russia doesn’t respond to reason, only strength. So strength and resolve must be served up in copious amounts.
So much better!

Can we replace the current link with the Atlas Obscura one? That's what this Southern Living article is referencing anyway.
I'm the original author of AspeQt (of which RespeQt is a fork: the maintainer after me turned out to be hard to get along with, so the guys in the AtariAge community forked it). Great to see it still brings joy to people after all these years.
"Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight"

What is Gamestream ? What is Moonlight ?
The Zune theme! I found this from a quick search:

https://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Metacity...
Congrats on your fatherhood - only a dad could make a joke that bad.
"COPPA can ban ya" oohhhhhh! very good, The Reg :D
Some things are mutually exclusive. User serviceable phones and more sustainable transportation are not.
> Do you think that ... London School of Economics ... harbour[s] idiots

I've seen a lot of dumb takes coming out of people from LSE, and as such will have to say "yes".

(Haven't read the study but am not surprised by the conclusion)
Yeah, it's either that or "we'll cover what we think is a reasonable amount for your zip code". Which is usually SEVERELY UNDER the market rate in that area.

As an American, I was shocked when I lived in Ireland and saw prices for stuff upfront.
There are many things for which I envy USA, health care system is not one of them, not at all.
I had this Vitamix frustration with v-moda. I had a couple missing screws on a headset. They were totally unwilling to send a couple screws from the USA to New Zealand in an envelope (even at my own expense), instead insisting on the whole headset being shipped back to them, halfway across the world, at their expense. There is such a horror of simple parts being made available for home repairs.
So how die you do it?
Competition comes from corporations and start ups.
Interesting! Is the code for the automation available?
> By all means, change your behavior over time... By the process of pushing new versions of the extension, which can be statically analyzed, and forward-declaring the permissions you need to accomplish your tasks.

A ridiculous proposition on the web. User agency ought be able to grow & expand the wider the set of data they encounter. To propose that each new type of data encountered requires a new version of the extension is a farce.

All for weak & vague & unspecified fears. Be afraid user! You need this restriction, anything else would be dangerous to you! It's been uncompromising stances, offering no middle ground, no opt-out, disregarding all valid cases. Fearocracy. Security concerns are ruling with fear & absolutism. With no public evidence no escape hatches no real accountability. This is degrading.
Adding Doppelkopf a 48 cards combined half decks game. Played by 4. Teams 2 on 2 determined throughout the game. The game was influenced by Skat and Schafkopf and borrows from them. It is however very casual usually and the rule variations depend on the region you are in. Anyway to sum up trick an bid games are really fun!

Fyi for the US there is also binocle that has some traction and at least to my experience has been largely forgotten in the originating areas of Germany.
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29396/w293...

The authors are well aware of this, the analysis excludes these exchange accounts holding 5.5 M Bitcoin and is only about what is held in individual accounts which collectively own 8.5M bitcoin.
I'm 34 and all my friends were using AIM in middle school back in 1999
>i.e. stay alive long enough to make sure your children have children? In other words, is this something people truly feel when it comes down to it

The Aztecs sacrificed an estimated tens of thousands of people a year, because they believed it would postpone the next apocalypse in which everyone would die
Ah yes, before React even!
Phones are more likely to end up in landfills when batteries and basic repairs aren't user serviceable. The calculus should include externalities like the cost in resources for new phone vs only a new battery.
Occultist father of rocketry 'written out' of NASA's history
Is that in Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Ok Phil Helmuth… “you’re playing the game wrong!”
Yes, but it includes wrong batteries. If anything, it should be including numpy or pandas, not arrays.
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“Thank goodness Bitcoin wealth isn't distributed evenly among everyone who holds it. Show me a system where that's true (or even close to true), and I'll show you a system controlled by tyrants.”

yeah that makes a lot of sense
I had to ask in Discourse: https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-to-javascript-compil...

Whalesong depends too much in the internal details of the Racket compiler, so it only works with Racket 6.something. (The current version is 8.5.)

A "modern" alternative is RacketScript https://docs.racket-lang.org/racketscript/index.html but IIUC it can compile only a subset of Racket.
Teach your kids whatever they're interested in, not X utility
Interesting, from the outside it definitely appeared like there was a lot of effort into destabilizing footholds Linux and FOSS were making. There was the whole 'true cost of ownership' advertisement FUD, attempts to paint the desktop experience as poor (as you just did) when it was and continues to be a superior experience ever since KDE 3.5 (imo, of course), the sabre rattling about patents at the start of android, numerous institutions switching to and then back from FOSS equivalents of office repeating Microsoft PR verbatim as if it was facts... From the outside, it looked like a big deal.

Very interesting to hear it from the other side though, thanks.
Yep, that sure is a nice icon.
It’s risk/reward trade offs.

If you can afford high risk (React at the beginning?) and it works, you’re in a sweet spot for a long time.

Most of them don’t pay out though, and most JS frameworks that got started around that time died long ago.
I still have my first keyboard, an IBM Model F. The PC-AT which went with it was Ship of Theseuse'd into the late 486 era, I abandoned it when tower cases became standard.
I just followed your link and it says, "Your browser is not supported. We recommend using the latest version of Safari, Microsoft Edge, or Chrome."

So apparently Firefox is subversive and scary enough to make Apple refer me to Microsoft or Google to avoid it. I guess that's what passes for "Think Different" at Apple these days.
i watched a prep video from a FAANG a while ago where that Gayle woman who wrote that cracking the … book solves a typical challenge. she arrives at the optimal solution after one hour.

i then took an interview with another FAANG. i was asked to solve this exact problem and it was clear i was supposed to do so within 3 minutes or so. this just illustrates how horribly broken the process is.

it’s infuriating how this woman lobbied herself onto the hiring committee and essentially created a broken process that disregards any experience gained and optimizes for those willing to memorize optimal solutions.
I'd be curious how much money is spent each year on the bureaucracy of healthcare, from employees who do little besides manage health insurance, insurance company employees, billing specialists in medical establishments, etc, etc, etc.
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As opposed to laws and policies that control the lives of millions? It's not possible for human thought to work at the scale of modern society. Software is not special in that it replaces human thought. Something must 'automate' human decision-making, whether it be software or a civil servant looking at a spreadsheet going through a checklist.
If you read the article, the hospital made a mistake, didn’t know she’s an out-of-network patient, so got the insurance wrong.

If you only read the title, it sounds like the hospital scammed her. All the reports on this news sound this way.

The downvotes are crazy. I in no way indicated that the woman should pay the full amount because of the hospital’s mistake.

Also, if you have an open mind, you could see another perspective: her insurance is amazingly good, cutting $23k bill to $1.3k.
US proposals to amend International Health Regulations: A call for attention
An even more lazy approach is logging into the console,

regardless if textmode or framebuffer,

and simply do upward arrow & enter,

since whatever starts your session is the last entry in shell history anyways :-)

This way there is less surprise/annoyance with flickering/crashing X,

like you could have when starting X unconditionally after login,

which could happen after you modified something to test.

On another console, to not spoil the history for that upward arrow & enter thing ;-)

Which works regardless of shell/WM/DE/OS/whatever, at least it does so for me.
> If you had your current skills, but were starting from scratch, and had exactly 7 days until your cash ran out completely, what would you do?

Nothing special? Use my credit card, perhaps be late on a few bills until my next salary payment. Or if your premise is that I don't have a job either, then the same thing but for a bit longer until I find one.

I feel like the title and the text inside don't match - I don't get why starting from zero means that you need to make money fast.
Thanks for the link! It's nice to see that some cleanup is ongoing.
Same, except it was a C64. Many happy days and nights spent learning BASIC and later 6502 assembly with 3 metres of snow on the ground outside and pitch black by 3:30 pm.
Well, you can't buy that.

But you can buy servers at vultr.com or domains at porkbun.com (that's what I use bitcoin for) :)
The o-rings that require regular attention are the ones that handle high-pressure air. Run-of-the-mill waterproofing o-rings, like the ones used to seal dive watches and dive computers, are fire-and-forget. And yes, dive watches and dive computer have beefier housings than iPhones, but iPhones don't need to be waterproof to 150m.

(I am a certified scuba diver.)
Private medical services are a very profitable business for certain professions that buzz around doctors and nurses. People without knowledge about medicine and whose only interest is a private company's benefit.
Imagine going grocery shopping because you need food to live. You see the prices posted and you pay at the register. Then a few months later Trader Joes sends you a bill for $200,000… The entire Health care system is absolutely insane.
Yes, quite true

https://www.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-i...
Aren't you not supposed to comment on individual customers?
I thought I read that it was possible without going far off the path to get this all working with Windows 10 as well just not as well known/publicized.
You didn't read my comment. I didn't say anything about getting a great hand. I understand what Duplicate Bridge is.

I was saying that sometimes bridge players make decisions based on luck/probability. They could be quite certain a specific card is in a specific hand, and different players might decide to go with their hunch or not. If they are lucky they will be rewarded for their hunch, if they are unlucky they will be punished for it.

Let's put it even more clearly: suppose we had two players on separate tables, both have the same hand, and both have had the exact same series of events leading to their third trick (same bids, same cards played), and both players have accurately worked out that the King of Spades is most likely in the hand of the opponent to their right.

One player goes with his gut and plays as if the King is definitely there, the other plays cautiously because he's not positive.

Which player will end up with more points at the end?

You can't know from the information given, because it depends on whether the first player was lucky or unlucky.

(Yes, like poker the luck will eventually even out. I'm just saying it's wrong to say they're is no luck, when people can make decisions based on incomplete information.)
Usually it's the number row that gets me. I'm working on a keyboard that duplicates the inner columns for this reason.