skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that Manhattan is the only truly dense area with good transit in a country of 330 million. Tokyo is much larger than Manhattan and is dense throughout. Other Japanese cities are dense too, so people have options when prices out.
Social Security checks could grow by about $175 a month
My favorite case is when me and my co-workers developed a SPARQL query that, given a topic in Freebase, would return other similar topics based on "other topics that have similar attributes". For instance, two people would get more points if they were born in the same country, or if they both played the guitar, etc.

We estimated that it would take 100 years to run this query for all the topics in our database, which wasn't acceptable.

I figured out that most of the computational effort was in dealing with attributes that were shared by a large number of topics (such as "is a person") and since we were doing something like tfidf scoring the actual contribution these attributes made to the score was small. So we could eliminate almost of the work by throwing out attributes that were shared by too many topics without hurting the scores.

We also sped it up by organizing it as a batch job so we computed all the similarity scores at once and wrote a simple "map reduce" framework that mainly worked by sorting the data and breaking it up into hash buckets that could be processed with multiple threads on one machine.

This job took 20 minutes to run, which was a huge speedup!
Stripe is the latest fintech to falter, taking a 28% internal valuation cut
Yes, and they are not delusional.

People in other (generally higher trust, higher social capital) countries (such as Denmark) more often have a more positive attitude towards the role of government.

This is largely due to having followed a different trajectory of sociocultural evolution and having collectively undergone a different set of experiences. It's fragile without active maintenance (transparency, accountability, etc). Trust is easier to lose than to gain.
My comment isn’t blaming anyone. I didn’t say these folks are the cause of housing prices going up. I’m just trying to understand the psychology of how they’re reacting to that phenomenon.

My suspicion, though, is that ballooning upper middle class salaries, combined with tax rates on the upper middle class lower than the Reagan era, really are a key driver of housing price inflation.

Investment firms, certainly, are a red herring: https://www.vox.com/22524829/wall-street-housing-market-blac... (“However, the idea that institutional investors are somehow largely to blame for the current housing market catastrophe is wrong and obscures the real problem. Housing prices have been skyrocketing due to historically low supply, low mortgage rates, and the largest generation in American history entering the market looking for starter homes.”).
If you have thirty uninterrupted minutes of things to say, is that a meeting? Or is it a lecture/presentation? Is it better to break it up into discrete topics?

Attendees of a meeting will quickly disengage if someone talks for too long. Attendees of a lecture or presentation have different expectations.
I've clicked that.

There's a circle, with circles around, with something around one of these smaller circles. All of it is spinning. I've managed to click the spinny thingy and it turned into quadratic spinny thingy.

That's all.

What the fuck?

Please explain!
I submit this for one reason:

> The dodo's genome was fully sequenced in 2022

Well, this is quite some piece of news.
The sanction applies only to municipalities, but the law is a general one. Thus, others (e.g. businesses) could be sanctioned as well for using these and other Google products, on the same grounds. Thus, the headline is not really wrong (except that in a sense, they were already banned, since the law came into effect).
Ah. Yeah, fuck the 50 billion dollars a year NYC makes from tourism every year!
All the Pi Foundation engineers are either Broadcom employees or ex employees still affiliated with the parent. So yes, Broadcom do effectively own and control the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Again that's fine and the 10+ years of excellent Raspberry Pi user experience speak for themselves. I'm glad Broadcom did this.

But the purpose is to sell Broadcom SBCs, not to make an open source hardware platform.

IF there is a RISC-V Pi, it'll be because Broadcom see benefit for the rest of their product lines. Not to make open source Linux and ISA nerds happy.
I think there is a nuance here, where this is only useful if you do the work to tailor it to that person. ie "Bob, I know your team has had [X] concern in the past. From the [Y] perspective, does this seem useful to you?"

The meta point being I don't think there are simple tricks or shortcuts to better participation.
> Is it too early to adopt WASM for production use in a small company with limited resources?

It really depends on what you are doing with it.

For things like "I've got this C lib that I want to be able to call from the web" it's probably fine. For things like "I want to write my whole webpage in wasm" it's not ready for that (and, frankly, likely never will be).

It's a matter of finding the right fit.

> If we did decide to go all in on WASM, what sort of gotchas might we be dealing with?

Depends on what you mean by "all in" if you mean, "I want ALL my webapp logic to live in wasm" then the biggest gotcha you'll face is shipping stuff into and out of the VM (including DOM elements) is really painful. IMO, UX continues to best be done with Javascript or compile to javascript langauges (typescript, for example). Using a language like C, C++, or Rust to do UX work will simply not be pleasant, will be hard to hire for, and will complicate a lot of your build system.

Now, if by all in you mean "This logic only lives in this library and we are shipping that out as a WASM module" then I think wasm will work well there. Better, in fact, than other options like kotlin to native or J2CL (IMO).

That said, there are fledgling UX frameworks written entirely for WASM. However, they are all relatively young and AFAIK, not exactly well established.

This becomes an engineering decision and balancing act that I don't think can be 100% answered for your company.
Thanks for your response! It's a Samsung S22 Ultra, purchased unlocked.

As far as I can tell, Kindle was not pre-installed by Samsung, as it would have been preinstalled from the Galaxy Store.

The version of Kindle that keeps replacing the Amazon Appstore version is specifically from Google Play.
If you're doing high-end 3D stuff, Godot 3.x will probably disappoint you anyway.

If you're doing graphically simple games with a complex simulation under the hood (everyone loves RimWorld as an example), then you don't really benefit from an ECS that's tightly integrated with the engine. You just do all that stuff however you want, and use the engine as an I/O layer.
You could always just give your money to the insurance company. I'm sure they would appreciate it.
Question: in the new video Rooms of Element (Matrix), can multiple users at the same time share both their screen and their video?

This is a feature of Whereby that in my personal experience is indispensable for pair-work. Besides Teams not being GDPR compliant, Teams imho is designed with the typical US hierarchical boss presents, workers listen-model and doesn’t cater for a cooperative model of sharing screens at the same time, like Norwegian Whereby does.
Nyc apartments are at 4% vacancy, a decent bit below the national average. This meme is just straight up false.
'remove yourself from the equation'

The real definition of compassion.
Exactly.

(You're not missing anything.)
I’ll be as blunt as he is.

With the full context … he still sounds like an asshole.

Admittedly an “authentic” asshole I genuinely believe that’s how he feels, but he strikes me as a corporate suit wearing asshole … a real Bobby Kotic (I think his name deserves to be a pejorative for assholes in the gaming industry)

He can talk nice about it, but he’s saying anyone who isn’t focused on the money is and idiot, the stupid thing about that is that he clearly thinks “pay once” is for fucking idios and just let the mask slip to show this disdain for customers that want quality games that aren’t trying to productise the players. He’s saying if you don’t want to be sold, avoid anything built with Unity. Which is to bring it full circle… fucking stupid of him.
I remember Candid Camera. I don't think the general comparison with Candid Camera really lines up. I'm not sure I can explain why exactly. Maybe there was just a different general attitude that people had about that sort of thing back then. Maybe people were given the opportunity to sign consent forms before the video was broadcast. Perhaps it was less of a problem because it had to be more carefully orchestrated; not everyone had a video recording device in their pocket.

However, in this specific case, I think the biggest problem was that falsehoods were being spread about this person without her consent. From the article:

But after seeing the TikTok video featured in media reports describing her as an “elderly woman” with a “heartbreaking tale,” she said she “felt dehumanised”.

The woman's response:

“It’s the patronising assumption that … older women will be thrilled by some random stranger giving them flowers.”

Seems totally fair to me. She now has to feel like she's an object of pity. And the original gesture was clearly self-serving. If you check out the rest of this guy's TikTok videos, they're all like this.
Haha. No one loves it. Everyone wishes it was better. But no one wants delays or more crowded trains for 1-? years while it gets fixed/updated.
We did but according to anecdotal evidence self preoccupied boomers forgot to pass it on.
Or how the real houswives are really not acting or any reality tv show is not make-believe for entertainment purposes.
I belatedly figured out that my whole style of learning is based entirely on model building and testing, similar to what scientists do when they are exploring a new phenomenon. I keep meaning to look around for research on whether this is common to all autodidacts, just one mode, or if I’m rare.

The upshot of this is that I seem to be able to avoid the Expert Beginner trap and get into more of an Expert Journeyman, which is somewhat more useful and less dangerous. I’m often deputized to take over things I don’t actually know all that well, because I’m seen as having some knack for playing twenty questions and then being able to improvise reasonably well without running back to the delegator every fifteen minutes, or setting the building on fire for fear of asking for clarification when it’s warranted.

I am also pretty mechanically inclined, took a lot of things apart and back together, including but not limited to bicycles I’ve subsequently taken above 40 mph (like cars, there are many kinds of defects that only show up at 2x “normal” speed, because forces tend to quadruple). Software people who know hardware of some sort are, at least in my experience, generally safer about trying to defy the laws of physics.

But the danger with model testing is that I often sound like I know exactly what I’m talking about when I don’t (and sound too similar when I actually am the expert, so people either trust me too much or not enough). I’ve played with various levels of wiggle words and uncertain phrasing to try to fix this, always with mixed results. Sometimes even stating it as an educated guess, based on X and Y, causes other people to agree that sounds perfectly correct even if it’s not (one of the original definitions of a meme). Sometimes I avoid that trap of not believing my own model in my head, even if I don’t let on, sometimes I don’t. I should probably have more care about others aping my demeanor, but I tend to mentor anyone who is comfortable asking clarifying questions. It’s the ones that want to fake it til they make it that I can’t help.

The danger is, as always, in believing your own PR. Questioning it constantly is paralyzing and exhausting, both for yourself and for observers (especially the exhausting part). Questioning it not at all is exquisitely dangerous.
What are you trying to show with the first link? It doesn't seem to link into men dominating conversations in the workplace.
Yes. I Will buy VW again if they have a product that appeals to me. Just like I trust any Boeing jet that is approved by authorities. Not because I’m a fan of VW or Boeing’s business practices but because I trust the authorities that regulate them both.
SSD failure after 40k hours is “unrelated” to SSD failure after 32,768 hours
It's happened enough to know I'm not into it. You don't know when they just genuinely want to do something nice or when they're expecting something in return. I've had someone hand me a flower and then ask for my number. It got kind of awkward. Other times they hand you something making it out to be a gift, but then when you hold it in your hand they actually expect money for it. A trick sales tactic. And being _really_ pessimistic (unfortunately also from experience), who knows where that object has been or what's in/on it. And now, of course, who knows if they're actually filming you for some cringe TikTok video (luckily this one has not happened to me).

It does depend on the place, situation, and general vibe you get from the person, though. Aside from awkward experiences, I think it's just weird and rude to hand someone something under the guise of asking them to hold it for you and run away, then try to claim it as some sort of act of kindness.

One act of genuine kindness from a total stranger that still stands out to me the most years later did not involve them giving me anything.
It's very possible I was lucky. I also only worked with people who were willing to appear on video, had long work history, and didn't do more than a single job at a time.

Recently I had thought that maybe prices had gone up, and I was just not paying enough for the honest, individual contractors, but even at $120+/hr, we were getting people misrepresenting their skills or trying to trick us with subcontractors.
A viral infection doesn't last forever either. There may be no reproduction with mRNA, but an infection is limited by the control exerted by the immune response. To use an absurd example to demonstrate the point, if you used a dose 100x or 1000x higher than the actual shots, might that result in higher levels of spike exposure than a mild asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection? If so, then we've established that this is an empirical question, not something that can be reasoned about with a priori assumptions.
And then the residents in those cities will hate remote tech workers for taking all their affordable rentals. There is not an easy answer here.
I've been told that this is also an issue in Japan, except the reason might more often be a matter of pride than superstition. It is supposedly one reason (of a few) why fax machines are still in common use in Japan.

Later versions of Unicode support "Variation Forms" of Han characters as a way to be able to encode different variations. They are encoded as a Variation Selector code (U+E01000 and up) after the Han character.
The forms are listed separate from Unicode versions in the "Ideographic Variation Database" <https://www.unicode.org/ivd/>.
So far, it contains characters from a couple of Japanese dictionaries, a Korean and one from Macao/Hong Kong.
C# isn't the worst but out of the newer languages I've tried it's probably the one I'm least excited to write. Swift or Kotlin would definitely be preferred.
The thing needs to be finished and documented before anyone can write anything for it; open-sourcing it (as I notice from observing other projects) won't necessarily make great things happen. The GOS can already be run in emulation, althogh I don't know what would be accomplished by using the 48 byte playfield mode if one hopes to run it on a standard monitor. It's a lot of effort for a couple of dozen pixels.
Can't +1 enough. This is clearly the future, as the increasing popularity of type systems shows.

As interesting as those systems may be, they have it exactly backwards. Don't let the computer generate code and have the human check it for correctness: let the human write code and have the computer check it for correctness.
Really asking a colleague his/her opinion on work related decisions is potential bullying now?
This seems like a logical error- the argument blames the government for crime against minorities in progressive regions. There aren't always viable structural solutions to these problems.

Furthermore, it is defeatest and nhilistic to then conclude that we're all just pawns and screwed no matter what.

I do like your analysis on the root causes - protecting people vs. life micromanagement, it succinctly sums up the fundamental difference in ideology.
Note that AlmaLinux released 9.0 about 40 days ago. They're also significantly faster with releasing minor updates (including releases like 8.6).

On top of that, I like their attitude a lot more compared to what I've seen from Rocky's developers (regarding community interactions and such stuff).

https://lwn.net/Articles/896438/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlmaLinux#Releases
__UEXP_COUNTER__ is required so that you can abstract creating unique symbols:

#define MAC(...) WHATEVER UNIQ(X) WHATEVER

without __UEXP_COUNTER__, you would have to pass __EXP_COUNTER__ as an extra argument to UNIQ(X).

You cannot make a nickname for __EXP_COUNTER__; e.g.

#define EC __EXP_COUNTER__

because the expansion of EC itself has its own counter!

Using __UEXP_COUNTER__, UNIQ(X) can just do everything necessary: obtain MAC's counter, and combine it with the prefix X.
Pros and Cons of Doubles vs. Trace-Based Testing
Attracting billionaires is a win. Even if they’re just there for a couple weeks a year they’re providing a lot of prestige.
Give me a good example, and I'll give you an example in that instance where you're wrong. If sites are not currently contaminated by fake and staged content, I guarantee you they soon will be.

News sources previously reporting on and praising crypto companies and coins that have now been exposed as scams (now gone bankrupt) is a troubling sign that even journalism is relying on likes for reputation more than properly checking sources.

Many influencers pushed crypto heavily in the past years, leading to huge money losses for people who follow them. There has still never been proper public account for how this social media content cycle mentally manipulates people regularly.
I'm changing my name to this
They'll complain about Mark Zuckerberg being a robot stealing their data but then use TikTok all day.
Seems like a problem that can be easily fixed with a software update.

Just add a little bit of jitter into start time.

Do people need their thermostats to be punctual? I don't think so...
As people mention in this thread, SpotShotter doesn't work, and it likely wouldn't reduce crime even if it did work. The company is shady as hell, too.
Maybe the government needs to limit the amount of money going i to ads/tracking by enforcing data privacy and banning certain practices like fingerprinting users and stalking them around the web.
No special hardware is required at all; just 128K of RAM and a bank-switched cartridge.
>"cloud-first"

Sorry, I do not want my personal OS install to be cloud first. I want it to be cloud last.
Achieving peak Byzantium there, I guess.
Full interview is at https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource...
Show HN: Payload – Cross-platform desktop app for LAN file transfers
Hi HN.

I built Payload to make file transfers easy for less-technical users who need large/fast transfers, so I have focused on auto-discovery, drag-and-drop, visually distinct device icons.

It's using Tauri (an "Electron alternative" built on Rust) which keeps my binaries small and bundles to .msi, .dmg, .deb and .appimage. No CLI, iOS or Android support (yet).

The network stack is a separate binary written in Go. It uses mDNS for local network discovery and TLS over TCP or Quic, with a public Ed25519 keypair for each device. The protocol is ad-hoc and symmetrical control stream using JSON and binary data streams. Planning to open source these parts eventually..

Transfers should saturate the local network link. It reaches ~116 MB/s wired at my home, but if you have a >1000 Mbit link, I'd be curious to see how much speed you can squeeze out.

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21575869

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351111
I'd love to see GEM, Canon Cat, NeXTSTEP, and BeOS here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
Given our experience with Stack Overflow we probably know the answer to that question.
>Ukraine can choose whatever allies it damn pleases.

If only it was so easy then this would have been over as soon as it started.

Edit: forgot to quote context
It's been around for 20 years or so, never had any real strong value, but they keep trying.

If I want to get in touch with someone I worked with ages ago, LinkedIn is still a good way, or even the only way. The value will decline if people stop adding contacts when they meet new people. Is that happening?
>I question this premise. Do people demand the production values of AAA games, or are they just used to expecting it?

Well, look at what sells most e.g. on Steam or Epic's store, etc.

No, those aren't indies with "Minecraft" or "Nintendo" graphics. Ultimately it doesn't matter at all whether people "demand it" or "are used to expecting it" when it is what they are putting their money into.

And it isn't for lack of other choices.
An excellent self-hosted tool for data hoarders that want to preserve YouTube content:

https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
Garbage in, garbage out.

People use these sorts of stats in Seattle to pretend that crime hasn’t gotten worse in the last few years.

The reality on the ground is much different, most people just don’t bother reporting crime, because it’s not worth the effort and the police probably won’t come anyway.
>Short of establishing a parallel system of funding video game development (such as patronage), that's all we can do.

exactly (tho I wouldn't say in parallel)

>Please don't completely edit your comment after someone replies, it makes it hard to keep track of the discussion.

HN disables replies, or I expanded what I wrote as you were writing yours - I'll just disengage instead, bye
Under active development but still at an early stage, last I looked they were solving problems like standardising various configuration APIs file formats etc so a long way it seems from a daily driver let’s say.

However, maybe a year or so ago they started a strategy with Nest where they started rolling out updates which swapped the underlying OS with an early release of Fuchsia on some models and they seem to be expanding that into other models at the moment.

But still very much a thing with meaningful but not particularly public process.
Do you also recommend that people don’t live anywhere it snows? I mean, heating up in winter uses even more energy than cooling down in summer.
10 years of support for $0. If you need to set up a box and forget that it exists (unless hardware breaks), this is what you use.
You can auto-update AND tell the user to flip the switch as part of the update process.
4% of apartments in nyc are vacant. You can claim that luxury units are more expensive because a block on the southern border is made up of half empty units owned by billionaires, but the rest of the city does not experience that phenomenon at all.
The importance of privacy and the value of trading convenience to get it