skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Old media” suffered far more from the competition by Craigslist and eBay, which drove away almost all their income in classifieds, which made up around a third to half of all income at average newspapers.

And yet… there just wasn’t any criticism of those companies at any scale comparable to what Facebook gets.

That’s evidende against this theory that journalists are somehow working for the commercial interest of publishers. Which was always quite silly anyway: if there’s one thing a journalist will always brag about, it’s how they screwed over their publisher with some story.
I had a Zenfone 6 and loved the reversible swivel camera. It resulted in a consistently nice picture quality regardless of whether I was taking a vapid gym selfie or a picture of my cats. I feel like that was the only real unique selling point of the Zenfone, and it's unfortunate that they've moved away from it as I was considering going back to it at some point for that reason.

From a compactness perspective, I now have a Samsung Z Flip 3 and it works just fine for me size-wise. I do always miss that reversible camera, though.
well, a lot of beautiful products and businesses use a waitlist mechanics.

Very simple way to get notification. You can follow socials, or if you don't want to read any news on your feed, you can leave your email.

People are added for waitlist on their own free will. No one is forcing them to do it :)

Don't see any big problems for users here. Especially the conclusions that you can't execute. What does this have to do with anything?
Catch me if you can
The importance of exponentially more computing power
What are the sort of rules you use to derive sex from text? Can you state some?
Thanks for your feedback :D! I have actually never tested the performance compared to strace. I just used `time` to try to get a rough estimate and the two were basically taking the same time for the tasks I threw at them. I certainly think that there is _some_ overhead. Either in my _not fully optimized_ implementation or in the libc wrappers the *nix crate provides. Probably the former ;).
No. HFCS is only a big problem because it's cheap, thus added in large quantities everywhere.
Ask HN: What core research are you most excited about?
Products and companies usually lag fundamental research by decades or more. What early stage publications or disciplines are you most bullish on for affecting humanity?
Custom elements don't require JavaScript.
I also remember reading about that somwhere, sometime... loading... ah, here it is: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...

> The file format is contorted, where necessary, to make common operations fast. For example, Excel 95 and 97 have something called “Simple Save” which they use sometimes as a faster variation on the OLE compound document format, which just wasn’t fast enough for mainstream use. Word had something called Fast Save. To save a long document quickly, 14 out of 15 times, only the changes are appended to the end of the file, instead of rewriting the whole document from scratch. On the hard drives of the day, this meant saving a long document took one second instead of thirty. (It also meant that deleted data in a document was still in the file. This turned out to be not what people wanted.)
AIX has a registry-like database for configuration called ODM that is like you’re describing.
I had one that I was glued to during my adolescence, constantly IM'ing with friends during the twilight of IM, before smartphones became dominant. Extremely durable, it was more capable than you would think. The lack of devices of a similar quality and form factor is extremely dissapointing; everything's lighter now but also flimsier. They were one of the greatest consumer devices of the era.

I still keep an old EEE PC around running XP, airgapped, for compatibility with old hardware I collect that VMs run into USB issues around. Runs great, parts are still available.
Windows 10 and 11 have moved away from the registry for applications.

It's in

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\<AppName>

for per-user information

I haven't had to go into the registry on Windows 10 or 11 except for enabling beta/early access features.
If you cherry-pick anecdotal complaints from the last 3000 years you can claim "People have been saying that for centuries" for any topic you want.

The reality is that there is a huge dopamine industry trying to fuel additive consumption including social networks and video games.

There is ongoing sociological and psychological research showing that decreased attention span is real.
I like to get lots of friends together then we go out for dinner and drinks.

Happy birthday!
Firebird 4.0 is now available on dbfiddle
Application writers are free to use which ever format they choose on Windows, as well. The Registry is just yet another option -- Microsoft does not force developers to use it. I don't see the Unix convention as the more "liberal" one, here. It typically has _one less_ option.
CalyxOS is a much more useable alternative. It's breathed new life into my Pixel 6 Pro.
So it's more compact in your pocket, which is where space is most at a premium.

Tallness doesn't make phones uncomfortable to hold (width does), it just makes them poke out of your pockets.
I just like the purple monkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
I can’t and shouldn’t be able to write to /etc as an ordinary or guest user.

Er-readying values isn’t done usually with apps.

You can get corrupted files if two instances fight for the same file. If that’s your thing, please use mongo. Also, please provide support to all the users.

Lastly, if you messed up certain configuration or data files, your system won’t boot either on ANY system.

Sounds like you’re just one of many anti-windows people, exactly what was pointed out about people bashing the registry.
Is Lucasfilms in the cryptography trade?
> Manually editing the registry though... That way lies madness. It's much scarier and it's much more fragile.

How... exactly? There's no way to create a syntax error as trivial as you can in config files. How is using regedit or powershell commands more fragile (I understand "scarier" in a way everything you're not used to is scary).
Odd that the Flip version isn't supported. I thought it was very similar.
Several a day here too, USA
who still trusts NIST?
:set relativenumber

The line the cursor is on is now shown in the left sidebar as 0, counting up for each line away from the cursor. So now it tells you what number to use for "10j" and "10k" to move up and down a specific number of lines.

m[a-z]
`[a-z]

Mark a point in a file into a register, and jump back to that point. Or even more interesting:

m[A-Z]
`[A-Z]

Same as above, except capital marks are global and work across files.

Also,

``

Jump back to the last place you jumped from (but only within the same file).
Tree sitter is amazing. It even works really fast on huge minified files.
Not to undermine everybody else's feedback, because I 100% agree with what they said, but I started with the tomato bisque lessons, and the contents were much better.
I found it genuinely interesting, and as a beginner home cook, I was learning things, such as stuff about acidity, different types of tomatoes etc.
However, I still found it dragged out a bit, with too many random unhelpful questions (e.g. which of these is a tomato?).
The app is very well designed in terms of the UX, and the only time I struggled was in getting back to the home page after a lesson. Feels like a third option at the bottom, or replacing the X icon with a home icon would be more intuitive.

My last suggestion is a big one, as it changes the app a bit, but why not start with the recipe? Others have mentioned the lack of a hook, and it gives something for the questions to refer to.

Good luck, I sincerely hope you're successful, there's an odd shortage of cooking apps.
-- my father refused to celebrate his - mine - or any other birthday for that matter - he used to say he was saving me from disappointment later down the road - that nobody will care or remember when I get old - he was mostly right --
It never died, but the durability and modularity of the EEE PCs has no analogue today.
Far more important to me than the speed of the searches is the quality of them. Are there any benchmarks that attempt to test this? I'm not even sure how to determine what the criteria would be, but there must be a few well-definable domains that could be used.
200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
TikTok (and its clones) is perversely addictive. It's effects are yet to be understood on teenagers and adults. I am glad it's banned in my country. However, Instagram reels and YT shorts remains.
One can add "future oriented" to that. Seems like the only visions for the future in vogue these days involve harming crap tons of people for the sake of past imagery.
Fedora 37 Proposing to Allow Unrestricted Access to Flathub
famous == celebrity here

It would be nice if you could select type of fame, since it's listed that way in Wikipedia
Raptor Launches Arctic Tern as an Open-Source BMC Solution
What do you think people did before smartphones, or even before the internet? It wasn't that long ago, you could ask someone. You know, in person.
I was a Pathogen user for a long time, from about 2009-2020. It was a total gamechanger. I'd still use it except for the fact that with vim-plug I can more easily keep my config under version control. git submodules are a hassle.
SUSE only supports GNOME. Any other DE is community maintained and only in OpenSUSE.
It does not contradict it, because you misunderstood my quote.

The Nazi movement, and propaganda in general, succeeds via dehumanizing the enemy, portraying the "other" as "less than human". My use of "Aryan" here was meant to shake you out of that hypnosis, which was created by a a series of arguments which sound logical when viewed in isolation, but have been framed in a restricted narrative chain that leads to the malicious conclusion. It was supposed to wake you up to the fact that once you have accepted the first five tenets unquestionably, you've essentially been brainwashed into the same state of believing the 'other' is less human, and thus measures against this group are acceptable --- which was the defining narrative of the Nazi party regarding the civilised Aryans and their duty against the evil caricatures that seeked to destroy civilisation as we know it.

To use your own words: if you were to believe that a 'stupid person' is a threat to 'people everywhere', you've been brainwashed by this argument into accepting that 'stupid people' are not 'people' (or somehow less than valid people), in the same way that Aryans were led to accept that jews were somehow less human than Aryans, and their exctinction was for the good of the world at large.

And since the term 'stupid person' is extremely vague and malleable towards any political agenda that could stand to benefit from abusing it, this becomes a very dangerous division to make. Not unlike the whole trend of people labelling everyone on the other side as "literally hitler" in modern US political discourse.
I switched from Lucene to Postgres for a wiki fulltext search, and I'm thrilled with it. Insanely fast, and great ranking, for my use case.
I get 5G at my home and it's the worst connection I have ever had(for mobile internet). If it's only one or two bars, literally nothing works. Pages take forever to load. Drop down th 4G and it's silky smooth.
Invoices contain VAT and even more complex taxes and charges. How much of your calculations is tied to specific cases like a USA company billing another USA company? What's your story for international customers and/or international operations?
When some (in this case Communist) party controls all of the aspects of public life and you cannot criticize it ... I wouldn't call that freedom. In fact, Yugoslavia was a one party dictatorship. Some soft porn on TV (probably in the 1980s) or ability to 'sleep anywhere' doesn't really change that.
> I can’t and shouldn’t be able to write to /etc as an ordinary or guest user

I don't believe you can. What distribution is this?
So, when used, the phrase always literally refers to situations where precisely every possible difficulty is present aside from any that result in impossibility? You believe that??

Live by literal interpretation, die by literal interpretation.
Actually, 50 fps is not going to be "buttery smooth" as well, because with a framerate of 60 fps you cannot update display image 50 times per second, so some frames will be doubled.

I have another hypothesis on "smoothness" of animated images. Most of computer-generated animations are unnatural and not cinematic because the objects jump between frames instantly while in real life and on a camera film they move smoothly. The hypothesis is that if the animation was closer to real life, then it would look really smooth even with lower fps, for example, 24 fps or 30 fps.

For example, when moving a mouse cursor, it jumps between points every 16 ms instead of moving smoothly. You could argue that a human is unable to notice such tiny details, but here is a simple test to find out: take a mouse and move it in a circle, so that it makes 2-3 turns per second. If a real object would move with such speed, all you would see would be a blurred circle (you can take any real object and see for yourself), however with a mouse I can clearly see a circle made of about 10-15 mouse cursors. So the animation of mouse cursor is unrealistic, computer-like and it can be easily seen (I noticed this effect long time ago but initially thought that it is a problem with Linux or slow graphics card).

So to make a smooth animation you could use oversampling: generate an animation at say 6000 fps, and blend every 200 frames together (remember about non-linearity of RGB values when mixing colors). If by chance anyone has some free time and curiosity, could you test it?
I get where you're coming from, but I think the biggest pro for the "UNIX way" is that text on a filesystem extremely accessible. You don't need a specialized tool to read & modify configuration, you just need a text editor. And while there's no standard for how the data is structured, it's usually pretty easy to figure it out from context.

I think it's also really easy to underestimate all the tooling built around text. As soon as you try out some other way, you loose out on version control, diffing, grepping, and a whole bunch of other general tools built for text.

I think the only way to get around this is to build generalized tools for working with binary data as a data structure. The problem with this approach is that now you need to maintain a database that describes every possible binary format, where text editors only really have to concern themselves with ASCII & unicode to be useful for most cases.
You could add a magical donkey somewhere.
I did try wearing more clothes, but due to the high temperatures everything is soaking wet in no time, and starts to cause rashes. No clothing is more comfortable.
Well, that's one specific communications channel. You mostly don't socially call people out of the blue outside of a very tight circle of friends and family--and cell phone numbers can't be looked up in general. However, many people--especially professionals--have LinkedIn profiles. And many in general can be searched on Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Given someone's name and maybe a little more information about them, you can often look up a lot more than a phone number and address.
I responded to the fellow stating "The article says they sometimes play them slowly and speed the recording up to the correct speed afterwards." which implies a change to the time scale. But also if you do a "perfect" non-realtime offline rendering Black MIDI is pointless; a piano has 88 keys; if you want to play thousands of notes a second then the only "benefit" you get is either a comb filter effect when the same note is triggered nearly the same time or a 3 dB gain (on maximum) if triggered exactly at the same time; there are easier ways to achieve this, even in real-time.
As soon as I saw Leonardo DaVinci and Picasso for Italy and France, I knew this was going to be the western lens, haha. Would be interesting to select the country as a point of reference.
Another fundamental problem with this type of approach is that science is hard.

If you don't know how to properly construct experiments and interpret data it's honestly not much better than hiring an ornithomancer to spot omens in the skies. To be clear, this is something that even scientists with decades of both education and experience sometimes get wrong. If you're coming at it with an MBA I've got some concerns.
This scene also comes to mind :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrFocPT-Rs
He didn't pull it out of nowhere. The reason it seems so spot on is because we've seen so many people on HN (and other places) say lightly paraphrased versions of that first paragraph so many times over the past several years.
This article comes by coincidence soon after a dialogue between me and my barber:

-- Have you read those articles about covid and baldness, published in the past week?

-- Not just read about it: I saw it. Especially those who have lived the worse conditions. A devastation on the head. Then, after months, they regrow.

-- ...They regrow?!

-- Yes. Initially, a complete mess on the skin. But later, hair regrows.

-- ...Extremely interesting.

Now, cures against baldness constitute a trillion dollar market. Surely beyond the wealth generated by the leading online vendor, as photographic evidence of his founder has us entail. (Even Hollywood, I remember as I write, stressed this in the most dramatic terms, during the latest "Oscars" ceremony.) Some intriguing mechanisms are even being revealed with the pandemic (skimmers: it is not at all granted that hair regrowth will involve past losses). Hopefully, research on TGF-beta will unlock...
Twitch has game category name collision problem
This looks great! I'm curious though if there are ways to get a bit more control over page layout. For example, can you put three charts on one page and have them resize appropriately? Or put two charts next to each other (without relying on the charting library itself)? This functionality is pretty important for our use case, but I've been assuming that notebook-style formats, when they output to pdfs or a printed page, are just going to output html that gets split up by the rendering engine.
I'm assuming it was easier.
Right, E.T isn't a stand out classic, it's a bit rushed, the game isn't a great fit to the movie (but it's far from the worst in that era), but what stands out in people's memories is mostly that it wasn't what they expected. Which somewhat tells us about that era of video games more than about ET.

In an era with Goose Game, Paper's Please and Unpacking, people understand that just because this is a video game doesn't mean it needs to fit into a handful of pre-existing niches - games can do whatever they want, but ET pre-dates that era.

I expect if you had shot a found footage mockumentary movie in 1940 (before even Citizen Kane was shown) audiences wouldn't even have understood what you were trying to do. It wouldn't matter whether you did a good job or not, reviews are going to say it's a bad movie because the reviewer does not have a framework in which to assess it.
What I see with my circle and Facebook isn't so much people having rage quit but just a lot lower level of overall activity.
Tools I use in my day-to-day DevOps Job
I discovered this feature by random. Probably they should make it more clear.
"... I still run my MSI Wind netbook ..."

Were the MSI Winds fanless, or did they have a fan? And the hard disk, I assume, wasn't a SSD? I ask because I just noticed kids of our relatives using an abandoned Wind as a toy (to play "work"). They claim it is "broken", but who knows. I sneaked behind their back and tested the keyboard for typing -- it felt really good! A pity to see a potentially useful machine simply lying around like this, especially when my country needs to help out close to 50,000 war refugees from Ukraine. Our CS students refurbish laptops for the refugees -- this one could make an excellent machine for an Ukrainian hacker, or any other user with modest needs.

Another excellent netbook was the Samsung NC10 [1]. Really good keyboard (93% of full size), sturdy build in general, screen hinges reach about 180 degrees, and a "fanless mode", that is, you can adjust the fan speed with a hotkey. Unfortunately, the one I tested suffered from its symptomatic "white screen problem" (described in the Wikipedia article).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_NC10
Point about /etc is that it’s just one part of “configuration”.

There’s no /etc for users. That’s why we get all these dot.dirs. At least some apps use ~/.config/
George Washington wasn’t born in Pennsylvania.
That's a two way street. Elizibeth Warren is basically the reverse story. Long time consumer advocate it was hard to find much fault with then sold her morals to the DNC and their donors for a senate seat.
I also honestly doesn't mind this relic of the "old days", and other issues like it brought up in the article. The Registry is still very frequently accessed by Windows, often several times per second. I don't mind that the code to support that is making a ton of assumptions about the details that should never change anyway as it's hidden behind the Registry API. For all I care, keep that code simple and as performant as possible.
Depends what you mean by "Asia" I guess but in the part I've looked at, not really. For Taiwan the largest names are Ang Lee (film director), Teresa Teng (singer), Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai (also singers). For HK, the actor Jackie Chan trumps anybody else. Hayao Miyazaki (animator) is one of the most prominent in Japan. And in South Korea around Seoul, there's Psy and a couple of other artists as well.
‘The entire protein universe’: AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein
Life experience has taught me that people who advocate 'small government' don't have my best interests in mind.

I am happy with the concept of
'small government', but typically folks who use it dont mean what I think it should mean.

They are happy to spend a lot of my tax money on the prosecutor that will charge me for jaywalking, but want to cut spending on the public defence attorney that will defend me from the very same 'small government' they advocate.

They tend to invoke 'small government should not interfere' when I ask whether a companies should be able to screw me over, but they want 'full force of the law' when I do anything they dislike.
Instagram just did a huge update I think a week or two ago that makes it more like TikTok and people are revolting because it went from "see what friends are up to" to constant ad spam, worse than before.

I always think FB/Meta is about to go the way of Myspace with a popularity drop off but I'm clearly biased as I deleted my account years ago and people still talk about using FB a lot.
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GraalVM is a set of tools. It's hard to cover in one reply... The big feature is it's probably the most advanced JIT optimizing compiler available outside of research. It can run _a lot_ of different languages too and it's cross platform by default. It will literally run on any device that can run a JVM, and even some that can't. It's also written in a language (Java) that's far more accessible for people to make compiler enhancements too, hence it's meteoric rise.

Another big feature is it's Native Image feature, which is an AOT compiler. You can make a native executable out of a Ruby, Java, JS, or Python program, with some asterisks. I think Quarkus' benchmarks really speak to why this feature is valuable (scroll down on this page) https://quarkus.io
Here's a pull request to BEIR to compare Manticore with Elasticsearch in terms of relevance https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir/pull/92. In this test Manticore provides better relevance than Elasticsearch in average. In general I would say for most users the results quality in terms of full-text relevance is about the same in Elasticsearch and Manticore.