skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was one of the first few Ux designers for a large defense contractor that made data-link communication devices for the military. Prior to my arrival all the GUIs were done in Matlab. Think 80s VCR-level complexity. Needless to say, these GUIs were not well received by the boots-on-the-ground soldier that had to operate the equipment. Furthermore, they were a complete mystery to the top brass who funded these projects.

When I arrived, some groups in the organization had begun to refactor these Matlab interfaces into WPF applications with slick new updates to the widgets, but it was really lipstick on a pig. After listening to all the stakeholders and users our proposal was to develop a skeuomorphic radio interface (green box with a bunch of dials and frequency display). Only the critical controls were featured on the radio face. All of the configuration options were buried. Now, I get all the eye-rolling when it comes to skeuomorphism as a fad, but it really resonated with our target audience and their superiors. This "Virtual Radio" soon became the defacto style for all communication devices throughout the organization. Because of the animation capabilities of VPF we were able to mimic both the look and feel of the various analog radio controls. It was super realistic. More importantly it allowed us to more easily communicate our designs to a broad audience, including: soldiers, contractors, technicians, and top brass. It has been nearly a decade since I left the company. I hope that this design has gone away. Not because it was ineffective (or trendy), but rather these communication systems needed to evolve to be self-configuring and self-operating, requiring little if any interaction by a soldier other than monitoring. After all, the best interface is one that doesn't need to exist.
> There are also more of them than ever.

This is super misleading. There's only slightly more wide-open platforms now than there ever were, but there's way, way more locked-down ones.

> There's just also a couple new categories of computing appliance

A couple?
I guess the "digital but with physical buttons" is the middleground. It still gives the designers the ability to mess around with acceleration curves that amplify fast movements, or to not sample the value fast enough to get coherent digital readings. I don't understand why they do this. As a university engineering student, I have a great love for linear systems, which usually is anything analogue. It makes everything easier.

For example, the focus ring of a consumer digital camera lens drives me nuts, it's practically impossible to do a pull focus reliably between two objects. If you do it a little faster or slower, it will be off, regardless of the travel distance. On the other hand, professional cinema lenses usually have actual mechanical focus wheels attached to ensure perfect reproducibility.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=emergent+behavior+agent+based+simu...
The problems with npm are completely orthogonal to what the author is describing here.
Eh, I don't care to have more vitamin D. How would I test my crops for these higher levels if my neighbors start growing these? There's no visual signs that my prior year's seed is contaminated.
I've done things like this. There's nothing like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. From a business perspective, it's... not ideal because you can't plan for this sort of thing, and an employee who has done it once might not do it again, but it's nice that when you need a rabbit and there's none to be found, it turns out you have a magician who can pull one from a hat.
You might want to read the original post--a core feature you're paying for is local-first sync, which is explicitly designed to solve a lot of the problems with iCloud.

I do want to see a world where there is a generic syncing service (maybe AWS can run one, but open standards / open source) similar to Dropbox or iCloud. I can pay one lump sum for all my storage and all my apps will connect through it. But so far no such thing exists outside of the crude file-based syncing of Dropbox, and that's not suitable for building realtime apps on top of.
Incorrect, C2x will and that matters for casts from unsigned to signed. But signed overflow will remain undefined
My 2022 Kona EV has an amazing, mostly physical button based interface fwiw.
Ask HN: Best topics for a business-technology innovation course?
What topics do you suggest for creating a college-level business-technology innovation course?

The goal is a 40-hour course that gives a feel of Hacker News such as "What is a MVP?" and "How to plan a project roadmap" and the like. I'm seeking ideas from HN about topics, tactics, techniques, links, and the like.

Thanks!
Logic languages are great for expressing database queries, so you can treat your program like a database. And if your program is a database you can do database-y things on it like using transactions to "rewind" the program state. Or in the context of distributed programming, well... distributed databases are a thing, and we know how to handle updates to databases in that context, so writing your distributed logic program is as easy as forming a series of database queries, and you can let the DBMS do the magic of distributing it.

I guess I think of logic languages as SQL but I actually want to write my whole program in it.
> Just blacklist any coin downstream of a blacklisted coin.

What does this mean? If a single blacklisted coin is put in a mixer then every other coin mixed together is blacklisted? You've just banned mixers. Eventually every single coin will be able to be traced back to a blacklisted wallet, so you've also just effectively banned crypto in the long run.

> No legal entity would be able to hold or trade blacklisted coins.

Mixers don't have to be entities though. No one owns them, no one is responsible for them. They're just code someone uploaded one day and promptly forgot about.
That doesn't appear to be true, actually. I followed the link and it goes to a summary of a consultation:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

A consultation isn't an opinion poll. It's something anyone can write in to because they invite responses, so you get a biased sample. There's no evidence in this report on which you could make claims about the British public in general (most of whom would not have any opinion on the topic). Not entirely shocked that New Scientist would garble this / lie about it so badly.

Moreover the 88% figure is actually for a different question:

"We asked whether organisms developed using genetic technologies should be
regulated as genetically modified organisms (GMOs), even if their genetic changes
could have been produced through traditional breeding"

"Most individuals (88%) and businesses (64%) supported continuing to regulate
such organisms as GMOs"

Not quite the same thing.
I'd be careful with that - it's widely known that Reddit admins use "fake" gold to artificially bring content that they want to the frontpage.
Rust for the win!
A Stargate based RTS
>at a country scale agent-based simulation becomes less interesting, because individual agents don't influence much, only their collective behavior is big enough to matter

This is very untrue, which is why this problem is infeasible.
This is awesome, I love workout tracking and am currently doing a 5/3/1 program- wish that I had a iOS device to try your app out. Love the way you have structured the IAPs and the look of the app from the screenshots.

Currently using Strong (more than 400 workouts logged).

Curious, how did you go about marketing this?
My two favorite/most-annoying aspects of macOS:

1. Me: Clicks on .py file ... MacOS: "Please update XCode with 13GB of patches..."

2. Me: Tries to run "gdb" ... MacOS: "Please create a manual certificate to debug your C code..."
as someone late to the party, what's the local development auto-reload, auto-deployment, etc. story in k8s? i can set up a k8s instance with that or k3s or microk8s or whatever relatively easily, but how do i get my code into there without having to build and push images after the smallest change? short googling points to skaffold[0], but is that state of the art?

[0] https://skaffold.dev/
This reminds me of the game Prisoner of War. The setting is completely different (you are a POW in a german concentration camp) but the mechanics are pretty much there:

- Live in the "walls" (barracks)
- Sneak out during curfew to do tasks and build things to open up more areas, and also for food
- You nurture a relationship with the other prisoners and new ones arrive often

Check it out!
Open world game/exploration about Indo-Aryans some 4000 years ago.
As the only SQL client with native support for PlanetScale, Arctype is definitely useful from that perspective. I also like the UI and find it pretty easy to use.

In my admittedly limited experience using it, I found that some MySql datatypes seemed to be missing from the table editor (e.g., `TEXT`). Not sure why this is and I haven't had time to dig further.

It's promising, and way better than even some of the other paid options. (Like, what is DBeaver even doing??)
You’re trying to speak as some sort of dealer of fact about a topic, which with due respect, you don’t really understand.

“French debt” wasn’t just some unpaid loan. Haiti went through a variety of trevails through a long an vicious period of fighting for independence. At the end, they ended up where they were not diplomatically recognized by the US or Europe - Haiti went from a land of plenty to a pariah, unable to trade, and the only way out was to pay a steep indemnity, helpfully financed by the French on usurious terms.

Debt was used as an implement of control. I’m not sure what you’re looking for, but those are not conditions that will allow a nation or a economy to flourish.
Obsidian is great, and they are similarly priced to us ($10/mo for sync).

We felt that local-first sync is a core feature of the product, and to exclude free users from that would be leaving out a huge amount of the value. So we opted to include it for everyone, but limit the amount you can store.
I’m happier yet to know you’re involved! That at least gives me reason to believe Muse will be around for years.

(^^ parent cofounded Heroku)
Hey @loxias! Yes, you're exactly right - VideoMentions scrapes the video page markup and pulls out the "baseUrl" for the English caption track. It converts that XML caption track into JSON, then searches it for keyword matches.

YouTube doesn't provide a way to search all of YouTube based on spoken words, unfortunately. Still, I think this is a useful tool for quickly locating spoken word matches within a certain channel.

Some Hacker News commenters have suggested that I could auto-import all the channels the user is subscribed to, or get videos from their watch history, which are interesting ideas. For this first iteration, I kept things simple with a single "Channel URL" input.

Thanks for checking out my project, and for your feedback!
Cool app. Very impressive that it makes that much :)

I thought about an fitness app myself. I'm curious when it will be available: With ML you could really analyse what someone is doing and counting and basically playing fitness coache for you including proper counting of your things.
I would stick with the truth. The truth doesn’t mean the whole truth, but some subset. At minimum you will feel better if you don’t lie, but worst case you get the job and your manager later learns there was no relative. You’ve abused trust and can harm the relationship.

You are allowed to be ill. You don’t have to elaborate on the condition. Just emphasize it was serious enough you were unable to work. Assure them you’re recovered and hence now looking.

But I would avoid the impulse to lie. It doesn’t matter if everyone else is lying around you. Or if corporations lie. Or whatever. There’s literally nothing to be ashamed of or to hide, so why descend to a level beneath yourself to hide something that doesn’t need hiding?

Finally there seems to be a view here that all managers are out to get you or extort you and will lie and cheat to get it done. I’m a hiring manager of hundreds and I genuinely do care about my people as people. When someone is sick I appreciate what that means. You shouldn’t want to work for someone who doesn’t. If the only way to get their job is to lie about something you shouldn’t have to hide, why on earth would you want their job? There are better people out there hiring. Even if it takes a little longer find the RIGHT job not the expedient job.
Eh, I'll happily support GMO food but I'm not particularly eager to encourage arbitrary "healthy" traits that will make the produce aisle and the vitamin aisle converge. Genes spread beyond their intended target and even to other species. Such things should be done with caution.
Dwarkesh Patel – Competitive Friendships
> In order to have a higher exhaust velocity the fuel temperature needs to be higher than chemical propulsion.

Are you accounting for the fact that the NTR exhaust (hydrogen) is lighter than chemical rocket exhaust?

At the same temperature, both propellants have the same average kinetic energy per molecule, so the hydrogen must be moving faster.
Fpp pvp game where players are cats that fight not with guns but with cat parkour moves executed with help of the environment.
DBeaver is the main database IDE I've used. What are your issues with it? The UI is not the most beautiful. My biggest gripe that I can remember was that I needed an extension for SSH that kept getting uninstalled after every update of DBeaver.
ML Assisted Troubleshooting – Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Netdata
What do you mean by "best kept secret"?
Eh, feedback loops exist here for sure.

Countless studies have shown the initial trajectory of a post dictates its upvote/downvote ratio over time. Bots commonly will ensure the first few comments dominate most of the threads views.

Conservatives are reaching younger people the same way candy companies reach kids. By feeding them a diet of sugar shit that's going to have massive long term negative consequences. "Nothing is your fault, hate all immigrants" is a great way to reach someone that can't get a job and wants to blame someone else. It's not going to get them a job, it's not going to fix their situation. Oh boy, but it does generate engagement.
"Ahistorical" has a specific meaning, which does not apply here.
It just locks you in even more than normal programming does. This is a feature in some places like modding video games or making cookie cutter websites.

But for devs it can be a restricting middle man with no benefit.
Except you'd become a write-off yourself after getting into a car accident in a Cadillac/Lincoln. Especially if you didn't buy the safety belt option :)
That's a great idea for a game.
You must have had some pretty awful managers. I’m sorry. There are better managers out there.
We <3 PlanetScale. If we have some data types that aren't showing up for you, please let me know at justin at arctype.com, we'll get those fixed asap!
Possibly fastest in a microbenchmark, but that's 2k of cache (at least) which the table will consume.
It is great for the ecosystem when companies like Facebook can die off. It's great for the ecosystem and allows a new generation of companies to grow. Also it is inevitable.
Oh Nono, My mistake, they are working and growing a lot :)
Related consequence at LLVM, which is changing their policy: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/upcoming-project-policy-changes...
Does Option + Command + Q work? Not near a Mac to try it, but that was the convention back in the Tiger days.
>> It's actually mostly fun. Until you see a newb drive a tank that took you hours to procure wildly into the enemy and you rethink how you're living your whole life.

Wow, this is depressing ... they actually managed to recreate one of things that I hate most about work in real life (that a lot of our hard work goes to waste because of stupidity of others).
> And by law, these things have to be deleted when you've settled your debt.

So if I paid off my debt on time, and you made your creditor fight tooth and nail for five years and get a court judgment to get your debt paid (but it is paid now), future lenders would have to treat us the same?
Good job! I know exactly the feeling. I'll once again shamelessly plug my project, since it's vaguely relevant.

I'm making about 200 USD/month by selling watermark removals on https://gifmemes.io. What I've learnt is that I'm very bad at marketing & design and will much rather spend hours programming useless features. For example I've spent like 10 hours getting an wasm ffmpeg converter of gifs to mp4s and webms, which was not used AT ALL, while most of my traffic still comes from cold-writing (is it even a term) for 1 hour random people to put links on their websites or subreddits.

The scene in the Sillicon Valley series, where Richards enhances the algorithm by 1 % is quite accurate.

On the other hand, being the solo developer and product owner is quite powerful. My implementation of billing into the app took around 2 hours, which is probably less than a meeting about it would take in a company.

Finally, I can run silly experiments. There is a button in the "Buy watermark removal" page that says "It's too expensive", which leads to 50 % discount. Around 70 % people still buy the full price.
Ask HN: What's the simplest way to run load tests?
I have a backend API and some test data representing real clients. I can write a wrk script that loops through the test data and sends requests to the backend. However, my development machine is network/connection limited so I'd like to run this on some cloud provisioned platform. What's the simplest tool or PaaS that would meet these needs? It doesn't have to be the most cost effective, I simply need the ability to run many instances of my wrk script.

https://github.com/wg/wrk
That’s more of a “won’t” than a “can’t”
Linux Memory Management at Scale (Arch Conf 2020)
one you just type in the number. The other requires a knowledge of counting and ordinality etc.
Is 90 seconds greater than 45 seconds? Is 9 bigger then 5?
Your Nas takes more space than a synology Nas. Also comparison with a synology that is 10 years older makes no sense.

It seems also you can read synology SHR drives in Linux.
Are you sure? A cache miss might be very expensive.
Hey HN, I am the Founder of Justmove.fun, where we are trying to create a new narrative for home-fitness, that is less about pain & sacrifice and more about fun, games and community.

Justmove.fun is AR-based motion gaming platform existing at the intersection of Fitness + Gaming + Social.

Browser-based app which eschews the need for any specific hardware, Justmove.fun turns any living room into a connected virtual playground, for you to play your way to fitness. You can paly solo AR-games, create friend groups and do connected sessions or compete against others from across the world in live action P-v-P games.

We believe only if you enjoy something, do you do it more & often. We want to create the easiest and most enjoyable form of activity that is readily available to everyone to begin an active, healthy lifestyle.

Hope you will enjoy it and it will help at least few to have a more active life.
Certified stud.
The Supreme Court decided that "well regulated militia" doesn't mean anything, so they just ignore that part. They dub it the "prefatory clause" -- kinda like a comment, which might be some kind of hint but doesn't affect how the code actually runs.

So it goes, so it goes.
Quantum Computers and CMOS Semiconductors: A Review and Future Predictions
You might enjoy Eco. It's not quite an MMO, but it is a multiplayer game that can have large server populations where everyone must work together to advance through a collective "tech tree". It starts very similarly to a Minecraft playthrough, but has a much deeper cooperative progression of advancing different trades and resource gathering methods until the server can construct a laser cannon to destroy the meteor en route to impact the planet. There are also pollution and environmental mechanics, and diplomacy and collective governance. So you may have a player who produces lots of ore, but poisons the oceans to do so, and other players can collectively lobby to restrict that through the government. But at the same time, everyone must rely on the production of ore to further advance the tech tree.

It can be a lot of fun with the right group of people. There's also a lot of flexibility for adjusting the game's parameters, so you can make it work with 2 people or 20 so that everyone needs to work together but the tasks don't seem insurmountable. It's one of the most novel and interesting multiplayer game concepts I've played in recent memory.
Layoff Alert: The Zebra insurance company
I wonder how it evolved over time, after you left.

Most soldiers are in their early to mid 20's, right? They might have never encountered an analog radio at this point! On the other hand, those old physical UIs did have a certain intuitiveness to them that might just be easy to learn, even if it isn't familiar.
Are there successful examples of ".. sales from sources other than Google", or ones where majority is not via GS (google search)?

Short of good examples, this tough love comes of misplaced.

GS is THE dominant search engine. They WANT to be in that spot.
It sounds strange to me, that google put themselves in such spot, and project that no one should have obligation towards them.
>NYT has published ahistorical, ideology first products and presented and pushed them as history

Well, isn't that the whole business of the NYT since forever, only with "history" usually replaced with "news", and "ideology first" sometimes being "the government says so"?
If it's really the stress of a rare event occurring, then shouldn't we be addressing the misperception around that risk? For myself, I never worried about that, and neither did my classmates. I don't worry about that now as a parent either.
The problem is that "household" water use isn't California's problem, and the people have figured this out. You could reduce household water usage to zero, and it wouldn't fix the problem.

California will either stomp on the agribusinesses or the water problems will continue. It's that simple.
You're misrepresenting that article.

That article was not some random historian offering an academic criticism. That person was hand-picked by the NYTimes to "fact-check" their article. They undoubtedly chose her because of her ideological background, thinking that she would be okay with revisionary history. She wasn't. So they ignored her.
It's somewhat old, but the Caesar series might be what you're looking for.
He's made multiple baseless accusations in the past such as there supposedly being a genocide of the Uyghurs.

It's perfectly possible for an assertion to be both: (1) promoted by crank, and (2) entirely substantiated on its own merits, independent of whatever crank might say about it.

One such example would be the ongoing fact of the genocide currently in reality (not "supposedly") underway against the Uyghur population in China.
When you grow up, scheduling a game is THE difficult task.., for everything.., but some Saturday nights the submarine is alive with the full crew