skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another comment said, the more you use it the more it understand what you like and it gets better, and more addictive.

When I first started watching TikTok videos, I got the videos of 20-somethings dancing to the same song over and over and over. It was annoying. But now my "feed" is largely chefs making interesting dishes, like-minded people with opinions on politics (yes, I know echo chambers are dangerous), wood working, lawn care and pressure-washing videos for that dose of satisfaction, and then your random 10-second bytes of this generation's "America's Funniest Home Videos".

I don't watch every day, maybe a few days a week. But when I'm done watching, I'm usually grinning and feeling like it was time well spent, emotionally.

To each their own.
> a pretty hostile terrain - Italy has lots of mountains, hills, rivers

So does U.S., a lot more in fact. The length of Italy north to south is 1,320km, the distance from San Francisco to Chicago is 3,220Km and that's only 2/3rds of the east-west distance of the continental U.S. And there are two major mountain ranges to cross on that trip, and huge stretches with almost no population. (How many deserts to cross does Italy have?)

Trains need crews, the crews need to work in shifts, the crews need to be available along the way, even in Nowhere, Nevada. That causes delays and restricts schedules.
> All those funny portraits of history with balding VIPs would become anachronisms,

This is already the case in movies and television. Before 2000, extremely common to see a bald/balding character appear on TV. Today though, they are rare.
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Not to say that running a search engine is anything resembling cheap or easy...but we're talking Microsoft (not exactly short on cash or technical talent). And they've been running Bing for >13 years now.

You gotta wonder if there's some dirty handshake deal between MS and Alphabet, under which Bing is kept too crappy to be a meaningful threat to Google's near-monopoly market share, and Alphabet does MS some similar favors in return.
Vanilla-extract: Use TypeScript as the CSS preprocessor, output pure CSS
I believe it's possible to enable relative and absolute numbers at the same time
Believing baseless conjecture is dumb imo.
Reality is made of results, not intentions, so ultimately it's those that we're accountable for. This is one of the most considerable challenges for a species with such creativity, emotional drive, and long vision.

I fear the results of a world where China's deliberate moves towards dominance are unopposed, or ineffectively opposed. Even if everyone has the right intentions as we face down that risk, it's the results that matter.
Hearsay in an HN comment about an unnamed support rep making a promise in a comment taken out of context isn't a legal contract.

Meanwhile, here is what Steam's subscriber agreement says https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/english/

> Steam and your Subscription(s) require the download and installation of Content and Services onto your computer. Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms). This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license. The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services. To make use of the Content and Services, you must have a Steam Account and you may be required to be running the Steam client and maintaining a connection to the Internet.

> Valve may restrict or cancel your Account or any particular Subscription(s) at any time in the event that (a) Valve ceases providing such Subscriptions to similarly situated Subscribers generally [...]
Monopolistic pricing and anticompetitiveness has little to do with JIT or data analytics
OP is talking about VPS servers someone _other_ (eg. Hetzner) runs, I think.
Yeah, I'd gladly take a cheap large capacity SSD that can only do 500MB/s for storing data. It's still gonna be much faster, quieter and cooler than a HDD.

Looking at the prices, they have barely gone down at all in the last 3 years (for the same specs). And the best price per capacity is still at 1TB.
> Unix simply doesn't have a "way" in that regard

Yes. Nothing standardized in this area in UNIX/linux-land. We do have FHS, some xdg specifications and the series of configurations options that were born with dconf which resemble windows registry a bit.
But that means the modern USA misses out on the inherent benefits of density. This is a weird counter rational behavior— it is in everyone’s perceived best interest to live in big separate homes, but the collective social economic benefit of living together is evident. Also evident is how sprawl sucks vitality from culture.
Steam’s DRM “just works” and that’s why gamers don’t complain much about it. Also it’s the best way to play games under Linux.

I have a few hundreds games in steam and while maybe one day I may lose access to all of them it’s a risk I am willing to take because:

- I don’t think it will happen anytime soon because it’s a money making machine. The biggest risk for me is Microsoft acquiring it and stopping any work on Linux related stuff (I have been using steam solely on Linux for the past 7+ years)

- Even if I lose access to the library, Steam will have done a better job that I could. I know for sure that I lost the media for the first steam-enabled games I bought but I can still play them.
If you looked side by side at an american mustang and a modern european warmblood or thoroughbred (after the introduction of arab and anglo-arab lines into european studbooks around the 17th century during an apparent period of fashionable anglomania in france), the missing link between them would be iberian horses like the lusitano and andalusian. It's not scientific, but mustangs are thought (colloquially) to be the descendents of escaped iberian horses both because of the plausibility of the shipwreck theory, and their general conformation. (shorter backed, roman noses, pointed ears, whereas up-hill withers are more of an artificial selective breeding trait) Another marker for iberian horses today is the common incidence of piraplasmosis, which may be interesting to see if it appears in those island horse bones, as it may indicate where the horse would have acquired it.

The andalusian and lusitano are often called baroque breeds and they have a more compact conformation and up-and-down movement that we refer to as "carriage-y" now because we think of pulling carriages, but the iberian horses were bred for their agility and bold temperament for cattle herding (bullfighting and skirmishing cavalry), so a shorter back (think turning a short wheelbase) gave them an advantage. Wild horses in the US weren't subject to the "lightening up" of the breed that introducing anglo-arabs into european studbooks did. But admittedly these are post-hoc explanations that pervade horse history.

The DNA evidence in the article confirms some ideas that I think had more rigor and reason than folklore, unless we treat historians and horsemen as folklorists.
>If GC is so good, why wouldn't Python just garbage collect everything, which they already did once and could trivially do

I don't think python ever did pure mark-and-sweep ( cpython, at least, I'm sure jython and other alternate implementations have ).

My understanding was that they did pure reference counting, and kludged on a sweep GC to do cycle breaking eventually, as manually breaking cycles in early versions of python was a pain point. A quick lookup seems to indicate python1 was pure reference counting, and they added the cycle breaking when they released python2.
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This reveals a very worrying prospect of where gaming discourse will go.

Playstation Vs Xbox vs PC arguments are toxic enough as it is, could you imagine what they'll be when you run the very real risk of your whole collection disappearing if you back the wrong horse?
Oops, major facepalm, forgot /24 was the actual smallest size. It's too late to edit my comment to fix it sadly.
Or Spain with Madrid-centric approach.
GIF compression is lossless, codecs used in WebM and MP4 are not.
For the Europeans on HN: on the East coast of the US, the furthest you can get by train in ~5h is roughly Boston to NYC, or NYC to Washington, DC. Both are roughly equidistant (~220 miles, ~354 kilometers).

One of the perverse things with our passenger rail network is that you can actually take take trains that "only" take 2.5 hours, but: they run nonstop point-to-point, and any subsequent connection you make (e.g. to Richmond, a major city in Virginia) will be on a diesel train that shares trackage with CSX or another major freight line. The end result is that traveling the extra ~90 miles from Washington, DC to Richmond generally takes over 3 hours, when it should really take less than an hour.
People weren't happy with Instagram selling to Facebook, but the bigger problems and general drag of Facebook being Facebook didn't exist at the time. Now selling to Facebook is almost a surefire way to lose street cred. Snapchat famously said no to $3bn, and TikTok probably wouldn't consider it for any amount.

I really can't imagine any situation where a younger gen z kid finds anything Facebook owns cool. I think their window has closed, and as the parent comment says, Facebook can't do it anymore simply because they're Facebook.
Would be cool if you listed the city!
Install calyxos.org on your phone and give it new life.
pervertexEXT

The names consortiums come up with :-)
The blog post is largely incoherent for several reasons.

1. It recommends 8 byte counters. This implies making every object in your programming language 8 bytes bigger which is pretty much a non-starter. Almost everyone that actually uses reference counting uses more like 2-4 bits.

2. Reference counting can have arbitrarily long pauses as well. If you decrease the reference count of an object to zero, you have to decrease the reference count of all referenced objects, which can do significant amounts of work (specifically, it will do a lot of work in the cases where regular GC does almost no work).

3. The blog states that atomic writes are "basically free", but that ignores the fact that in multi-threaded code, atomic writes can actually be fairly expensive since each one requires communication between every thread (This is why python still has a GIL)

4. Because no one uses 8 bytes for the count (since you don't want to double your memory consumption), you still need a GC anyway to deal with objects that get too many references.
I mean why preorder if it's going to be on the cloud? You can always just wait until it's out to buy it
1. I guess the answer is that it is both global and local? An application window draws its contents to a buffer (basically, an RGBA image), which the operating system can copy to the buffer that represents the full contents of the screen. The buffer for a given window is effectively a grid of pixels; when we lay out the contents of our application, we compute an (x,y) position and (w,h) size for each primitive (whether a rectangle or a glyph). These four values (x,y,w,h) don't have to be integral, but if they're not, some extra work has to be done in order to correctly set the colors of the buffer's pixels that "sit beneath" the objects that we're drawing.

2. We do use Core Text, in fact, via a cross-platform Rust library called font-kit. It provides shaping and glyph rasterization APIs for us, but for performance reasons, we cache the results of shaping at a line level but the results of rasterization at a glyph level (as individual glyphs frequently appear in multiple places in a single frame).

3. We're currently delegating rasterization to Core Text; I'm not sure what it uses internally. My sense is that most of the development of new rasterization strategies is for applications like game engines, which need to be able to draw text efficiently at a variety of scales, a requirement that doesn't apply for a terminal. We prioritize crispness of text (and, to some extent, consistency with text rendering in other applications) over size scalability, as people will spend a lot of time reading text at a single size.

4. That's a good question, and I don't have an answer handy. We load (most) font data in the background, as we only use two fonts at any time (one for monospace text, like in the terminal grid, and one for UI strings). We currently don't do any shaping in the terminal grid (and therefore don't support ligatures there). That said, we cache shaping results at a per-line level and rasterization results at a per-glyph level, so don't need to do either step frequently. In aggregate, over a user session, the vast majority of the time will be spent "copying" an already-rasterized glyph from our atlas to the window's backing buffer.
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It's still work and needs done. How do you expect someone to get "25 years of experience" without giving them work to do?
If iPhone owners buy a new iPhone every 2.5 years, then it corresponds to a total of 600 million iPhone owners worldwide, or 7.5 % of the world’s population. The numbers aren’t that baffling when you consider the size of the market.
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When people talk about how bad trains are in Germany and how good (relatively speaking) they are in Spain, well, one word: connectivity. Hover over any city in Germany and you'll see almost no gaps in the map. Hover over any northern city in Spain and you'll see no direct connection by train among them (!).
Graphene reinforced materials used in rinks, cars and buildings
> I reckon that even at its height the type of people likely to be labeled conspiracy theorists and white supremacists were more common offline than online.

My ~50 years of life experience leads me to suspect the exact opposite.

New fancy soapboxes have distorted our understanding of each other, deeply. They amplify, magnify, and otherwise inflate the sense that fringe ideas are more widely represented.
Someone else in this thread said they got a hair transplant in Turkey for just $1,500, and from the pictures he posted the results were great!

Instead of dropping $20k, maybe you could think about a family holiday to Turkey, and your hubby could get a transplant while there?
>>Intranational flight is a lot more common there. I imagine the economics of it are better, lower ticket price, and in many cases probably quicker too, even including airport BS.

That is the problem in my opinion - I prefer sitting on a train, to sitting on a plane, but for most routes I need to travel (within the US) it takes longer to get there and is more expensive than flying - why would anyone want to pay more and waste more time? You either need to be faster or cheaper if you want my business.
They can put what they want in the TOS but they are selling to consumers in jurisdictions around the world and if it stops working so soon then they were clearly 'selling' something that wasn't fit for purpose. They could have sold it time limited or laid out their limitations if they wanted to protect themselves but they didn't.

I used the service and as a techie knew it wasn't really sustainable but the average consumer buying in good faith wasn't warned that their purchase might be so short lived. Might have been hidden in the TOS but that won't cut the mustard in many jurisdictions and will be an expensive battle.

I suspect they made a small amount of sales and it'll be cheaper and easier for them to credit than fight.
I can make it to Portland Maine from NJ in 6 hours.

Portland is only 112 miles from Boston.
I'd complement it: the fact "that as of today Windows is the only non UNIX OS" AND "this fanatical love of the UNIX way" sets us back.
> I do have to manage my attention to avoid ... ahem ... drawing unwanted attention

> I [. . .] never ever made anybody feel uncomfortable for sure

Really doubt both of these things are true. It's very obvious if someone has to intentionally avoid looking around a place naturally. The people around you will notice and they will know why, and that will make them uncomfortable.

I really don't understand this impulse either. As someone who has frequently hung out with friends of my age naked, and I consider many of them very attractive, I just do not get aroused in this situation. If it's clear that it's not a sexual situation what is there to get excited about? Are you so sexually repressed that any attractive person in the nude causes such an involuntary reaction?
In IOS even if you disable notifications from unknown senders, when a TFA code arrives it still shows up for you to paste when you're in an app.
Are Stripe costs eating 8% of your revenue?

Maybe.

Stripe's pricing is transparent, what's confusing is which combination of products you're using. They have 21 now.

We crunched their total fees in this article.

PS: we love Stripe Payments API, and integrated with them. We were confused ourselves and shared our internal analysis.
I'm not arguing that someone with a 3 month bootcamp is going to be a highly-qualified, productive software developer. But 10+ years to get to a productive state? That's not my experience, and I don't think that's because all the work I've ever been exposed to is "intern-level".
Amazing map.

Hovering around over South Sweden and North Germany, makes it quite obvious that the Femern tunnel will make a difference in connecting that area.

Same for connecting north from Lombardy through the mountains.
Moving the goal post, I see.
I get that, I live with children in an apartment in a city. However most people dont want that, the trend to WFH means people are moving to smaller, quieter locations away from other people.
There are a lot of powerful ideas in that article. Every leader of a "data driven company" should read it and tremble.
No, it was very spammy, content free, marketing drivel full of empty promises and bad abstractions.
It’s all articles on the same general press releases. The quantity of articles isn’t a great indicator of anything.
Ok, I probably was a bit too harsh in my judgement.
Those "junior" devs are helping us a lot, and I was in that position for long, too.

Just as an example, let me tell you that we currently have a (self-taught) intern which is years ahead of two developers from bootcamps which have been working with us for over a year.

Getting a job position doesn't automatically mean you are suited for that job, or that you're good at it.

And while there are good dev bootcamps, getting out of one and finding a job, doesn't make you a developer (or an "engineer" either, which in my country is a regulated title)
I'd phrase it differently.

Google got lucky in the sense that they set out to build a search engine, someone said "hey why don't we do text ads," it made money, and they've been riding that ever since. They're the kind of company that drilled a few holes, found oil once, and is now drilling holes everywhere without understanding where oil comes from.
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Wow, the second photo looks so natural!

If you don't mind me asking, how much hair did you have before the procedure? (I assume you used to shave your head, as it's totally bald in the first pic)
maybe on twitter
I'm pretty sure .local is the per-user /usr, and .config is /etc
I don't understand the purpose or significance of the three different endings of the stories and how the varied endings ultimately support the author's hypothesis? I feel like the explanation in the article missed a step because the dots just aren't connecting for me at all.
He's not wrong. All my games are in the cloud and it is great; it's just not Google's cloud.
America actually has a rather vast and impressive rail system. It's just used almost entirely for shipping.
So what? Italian automobile giant Fiat recently turned "FCA", which is the Italian equivalent of "PSSY"

It's fine, people joke and then move onto the next TikTok video.
Taking from the eBay playbook?
It effects like 2/3s of men by age 35 and about 1/2 of women by age 55.
>I think we'll have sustainable cold fusion before

I'm pretty sure that the Sun will destroy the Earth before we get cold fusion, because the latter is literally impossible.

>be directed towards say, solving

Basic science is a thing. Hair is part of skin, and understanding how hair works is part of understanding how skin works. Both existing treatments for baldness (finasteride and minoxidil) were originally treatments for other conditions repurposed for hair loss. Bald men face a higher risk of skin cancer as well, which is hardly trivial:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.30395

>Being bald has not stopped me

So the funny thing about the baldness discussion is that we always talk about treating male-pattern baldness as a thing that primarily affects men's experience of life. But, in practice, women often choose to date men with hair in preference to men who are bald. By revealed preferences, we infer that women experience some kind of perceptual pleasure related to having a partner with hair. This is very rarely considered a meaningful endpoint.
Maybe someone with more knowledge/experience can chime in here since I'm fairly ignorant of the Voyager program - was a bit before my time.

From what I understand the voyager probe(s) did some pretty crazy gravity assists to launch themselves out of the solar system - flying close enough to different planets in our solar system to build up great speed.

Could we not throw a giant solar sail onto a probe and send it out? I guess the acceleration would be smaller and smaller when you get further and further out with the sun being further away, but at least you'd still be gaining velocity, right?
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Looks like overall Apple subscriptions have solid growth. [0]

I use it after I got bored of Netflix and other programs, because it’s ad and in-app purchase free and loads quickly on all devices. The games are obviously not the best, but then again the PS4 games I have don’t really justify the long start up time and I don’t have enough spare hours for Civilization.

[0]: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/07/28/apple-860-million-paid-...
MSDF seems like a great choice, depending on your use-case. Given that we don't need to draw text at multiple scales, it doesn't seem to provide much benefit for us over caching rasterized glyphs provided by Core Text. (Copying a rasterized glyph is certainly faster than evaluating an SDF.)

Using Core Text also means our text looks the same as it does in other applications, which avoids bug reports from users like "text in Warp looks different than in iTerm". :)
For women online in particular I'm pretty sure lots of them would rather enjoy less attention on them personally. Too much it not pleasant for _them_. I'm thinking in particular about friends who are content creators, minding her own business and receive comments on her look, insults, sexist comments, unsolicited dick pics, rape and death threats,... I'm sure sexism has nothing to do with that.

OK I'm done on this topic. Maybe there are a lots of women behind internet trolls and then I'm wrong, that's an empirical question. My comment was on "strongly disagree" vs "bullshitting"