skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is necessarily true.

If I spend hours making a video clip and put it up on YouTube it would be true, because no one follows me on YouTube.

The most views anything I ever posted got was just over 100, which was a short video of something weird that happened when I set my water bottle on top of my car that I no longer remember enough college physics to explain [1].

Second most was a water pipe like at the building my office was in [2]. That got a bit over 80.

Third has a little over 50. That was some chestnut backed chickadees landing on my hand to eat peanuts [3]. That's closely followed by some antics of a Douglas squirrel and an Eastern Gray squirrel on my front deck [4]. (BTW, if anyone watches the one with the chickadees, try watching in slow motion or single stepping. Some of them have cool poses that go by way to fast at normal speed to see).

I'm not actually sure why any of those have more than a handful views as they were put there to share with friends.

There are a couple in the 30s, which are the only ones I actually tried to get anyone other than friends to look at. Those are videos of my bike's rear tire on a stand, with a weight on the rim, rotated and allowed to swing back and forth. I posted those to a bicycling group, and asked if it was possible to determine from how long it took the oscillations to damp if my hub was in need of lubrication.

Everything else has been in the single digits.

So yeah, if I put any effort into a video (which I think only the leak and the chickadees one involved anything more than just selecting one continuous clip from something filmed in one take on my phone) it doesn't scale.

But what about people who do get a lot of views? If someone spends an hour on a video and a million different each spend a minute watching it that has scales pretty well. There are lots of people that can spend an hour on a video and probably get people spending years worth of time watching.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODjTBPPAFg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUoSotRRVqg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShPgZhSbxU0

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIF7ZLbl_FM
Take this for what its worth - there appears to be a relationship between economic downturns / recessions and lottery spend - https://taxfoundation.org/does-lottery-revenue-rise-or-fall-...

Given the current sour economic forecasts and inflation concerns, I don't think the lottery spend increasing is surprising.
That's interesting. Thanks for the info. They're getting better at Quantum.
It's going to be fascinating to see the future of this field and all the potential medicine waiting to be discovered and the lifespan improvements and just sheer biological discoveries.
It feels almost like the new panning for gold. :)
It's pretty crazy to see how human advancement parallels computing power in so many areas.
Thank you! Hope you'll find it useful :)
The blog post about this is pretty much incoherent, and comes from a bad understanding of performance, atomic, GC algorithms, and reference counting.

The ONLY reason to reference count is when you need GC-like behavior on a few objects, but do not want to impose a GC on all objects. It is a very valuable tool in performance code not because it is fast, but because it allows you to make other things fast. Suggesting that you should reference count the world is patently ridiculous. This is the reason for Rust's Arc and C++ shared_ptr, not that they are faster than a GC.

The blog post completely brushes aside the costs of _atomic_ counter increments and decrements, calling them "just increments." The "atomic" is the key performance problem, not the increment.

Reference counting also makes objects larger so small objects cannot fit inside a machine register.

Modern GC algorithms are very efficient. They do not need to pause the world, and they do not need to be jittery. However, someone who doesn't understand how expensive atomic ops are probably wouldn't understand this either.
Great video. Note the signature on that guitar by the way (2:49).
Unfortunately it's been hugged to death.

I wonder if it loads the entire set of isochrones when you open the page, given how incredibly responsive it is. I tried to share it with someone who would really enjoy it, but alas, no luck at all.
I think you’re misinformed. https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/10/05/how-much-cheaper-a...
I don't run spyware OS anyway, Lineage+microg is the bare minimum. I've found unofficial maintainers give better support for their custom roms than manufacturers.
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There's only one scientist in the world and we have to collectively decide what she focuses on... Is that how it works?
Would be great to find an alternative to the dangerous finasteride, dutasteride and insufficient minoxidil we have.

To anyone reading this: Minoxidil + fin/dut will turn back your balding by a few years and stabilize it for more than a decade, in almost every man.

Yet fin/dut can cause brain fog, depression, anxiety and low libido. Some claim those side effects can be permanent, even after stopping the drugs.

Bonus tip: 5mg oral minoxidil is vastly superior to twice daily 5% topical application. One can drink the topical solution if pills can not be acquired.

Bonus tip 2: Microneedling weekly massively improves results.

Finasteride gave me severe depression and loss of libido. After stopping it I am fine. I am on 5-15mg oral min a day.

If you have any questions, let me know. I am very confident in my knowledge of male pattern hair loss / AGA in men.
>So what's Google to even do?

If they were serious about Stadia, Google should have worked to provide experiences only Stadia could allow. That was one tagline of SG&E before it was canned a mere 18 months in - clear failure on Google's part because you can't develop a game that fast.

As for what could have gone differently - cut deals with smart TV manufacturers to include the Stadia app on the TV, making it easy for millions to try it out.

Instead, the Stadia app wasn't even on the Chromecast initially. (OK, memory vague here but I remember having to fiddle around and after upgrading from the Chromecast that came with the Cyberpunk 2077 bundle to Google TV with Chromecast or whatever they were calling it, it was still a while before the Stadia app was there or left beta).

I also thought Google should have done a sports game tie-in, or perhaps F1 racing, to essentially let viewers replay something they just watched. Kind of a live replay, where YOU control the offense/defense/car. Say you're watching a soccer match and team X scores. During a break, advertise Stadia's version of FIFA, click a button and replay the scoring play where you control one of the teams. Can you also score, or can you defend??

Yes this would be complicated licensing and software between TV ads, game maker, license holders, etc. but it would have showcased an advantage Stadia had over traditional consoles/pc gamers - immediacy, play right on your TV in response to something you just watched. Brady just score a touchdown - can you do it to, or play defense and stop it (pick up Stadia controller, click some buttons or whatever and get dropped into that scenario, ready to play)??

I think this would have had insane appeal among sports fans, building excitement, etc. But no, Stadia just crapped itself and cancelled their in-house studio and basically tread water for the rest of the time.
Exactly, technically I don't think shareholders much care about where the revenue comes from. Killing off product that don't make a profit within a year launch might actually be what shareholders want.

We tend to forget that modern shareholders don't care much about which companies their money is invested in, it's just a stock with some numbers in a spreadsheet making the difference between investing in Google vs. Exxon.
Of course they will. They are not 'shutting down soon'. They will be shutting down by the end of autumn.

They don't want to scare their users and confirm that it really is shutting down immediately today, or next week. This account is damage control at its finest and Google will release a statement and then wind all of Stadia down, including that Twitter account in denial. Given that Stadia failed in the pandemic, it already failed in general.

I mean, I did say that this information was given to me from the future [0] so I've already watched this unfold once. Now it is unfolding for the second time for real.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039202
Both of you are right, but if you plan to be married for life, it only goes downhill (with mild bursts of looking 5-10 years younger for a minute after you take up running in middle-age.)
Still using my steam account that I created 18 years ago when it launched.
There are certain amino acids that are almost exclusively found in animal protein. That's why I made the comment about quinoa. Getting complete nutrition exclusively from plants just isn't something that humans evolved doing.

I eat meat only a few days a week, and typically only for dinner. So we are in agreement there.

I don't even have the same concerns about a vegetarian diet. Dairy and eggs have everything you need and in large quantities.

Veganism is a luxury lifestyle in 2022. If you aren't meticulous about your shopping, cooking, and consumption, it will make you profoundly ill given enough time.
I'm curious, do you not buy spinning disks due to the risk of failure?
> Beginning with the Gossamer Albatros and Solar Challenger, which may surprise some.

Yeah, wow, I would not have even had the remotest idea that the Gossamer Albatross and the Switchblade were somehow connected prior to reading this article.
The linked article appears to be entirely copied from the University of California press release. https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/07/25/chemical-controllin..., which is a much better source of information.

Also, here is a link to the actual paper published in Biophysical Journal.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2022.05.035
Prana/Northface/REI 'lifestyle' outdoor clothing costs a premium and is much less durable
I don’t understand why he didn’t just respond that your games will be gone. Or at least “in the worst case, your games might be gone”. People aren’t stupid, they know exactly what the evasive answer means, so why evade at all?
I thought it was a stretch as I typed it :P BUT I hate malls so it improved my life.
Is there any topic which cannot be googled in one day, civil engineering included? I certainly hope nobody employs "googling engineers" in anything requiring, ahem, "engineering".
The sense is that the Northeast corridor has too many curves and roadbed issues to be able to go faster.

There would have to be constructed a new corridor, not in the same path as existing railroad rights of way, for not a small amount of money, and going through expensive real estate.

The political will for that is not in existence, so far.
This kind of document really interests me. My project is called Linux on the Web, and has been under fairly active development for the past decade. I am trying to innovate on both operating system theory as well as application development best practices, all at the same time.

The current top level directories in LOTW are: bin, etc, home, mnt, tmp, usr, var and www. There used to be a dev directory (and others) that really just added to the complexity of the codebase more than anything else. LOTW development is a constant balance between the age old "complexity vs functionality duality" in systems design theory.
She's being insanely callous, as is fashionable to do on this website for some reason.
The belts and the backpacks are pretty good for their straight up utility. Same for the longsleeve shirts, bugs can't bite through them and they hold up better for camping and working outside than most other stuff I've tried.
Yeah... just remembered I don't actually know how to write bash scripts...
These are countries the size of Oregon.
It’s surprising actually, with normal people, nudism/naturism is generally super non-sexy, especially compared to the kind of models you see partially clothed in ads. Firstly, because most people don’t look like models, but even when you see more attractive people, the context is very different and you get used to it pretty quickly and the weirdness and novelty wears off. Anyone going hoping for sexual satisfaction will probably be disappointed.
The new ones are much clearer than they used to be in the 80s and 90s.

I'm convinced the old-style ones were the reason I buried the needle the one time I was given a cognitive test that specifically tested spatial reasoning. The old sets' instructions were basically 3d spot-the-difference puzzles, in which orientation might even change between states, so they were pretty much training for that kind of test.

The new ones have a little of that, but a lot more arrows pointing things out, little insets highlighting important parts, et c. Plus they put the pieces in numbered bags so you don't have them all out at once, for medium-sized or larger sets! Much, much easier than they used to be.

Flip side is the old ones used larger pieces, on average. The modern sets are all fiddly, tiny bricks, which does make them a little harder to assemble (and much harder—nearly impossible—to repair from memory if they're damaged during play)
You aren't out of touch. Some people are just living in bubbles. There's still a massive amount of Java, C# and other OOP work going on out there.
Reminiscent of debates back when about "Why Gay people should not have a BBS."

> We can no longer ostracize people who don't honor the social contract.

In the specific case of Jan6; how many people have yet to be "ostracized" sufficiently? There's quite a few in jail, and many more that have suffered social consequences regardless of their legal culpability.

Do you feel there's a difference between Jan6 and any of the BLM riots? Is that difference "why people were rioting" instead of "what they did" or "how they were punished"?
I accept your redefinition for the definition of redefine, but you still haven't defined what you mean by define in the context of redefine to the extent that you redefined its definition.

Is define in your redefinition redefined to mean something other than the traditional definition of define as encountered in a redefine context? Or are you defining define within the redifinition of redefine as defined outside of the definition of your redefined redefine definition?
if you boot linux directly from efi (no bootloader), remove plymouth, and tweak your cmdline and mkinitcpio a bit, you'll shave a massive bulk off a mainline distro's boot time. boot to a lighter-weight login manager (or just getty) to save the rest. i bet you could get sub-second cold-boot time on that desktop, not counting the firmware stage.
Just a clarifying question but when you use “attack” do you mean from a “critically minded research focused lens” or a “skeptical” one?
I'm visiting Italy in a month and have multiple tickets booked on Italo's Club Executive class. The seats look sweet and the price was surprisingly affordable. Looking forward to see how good it is.
It is a very real concept, but as a term it's no longer useful because the MBA's have heard it already. I don't look like a stereotypical programmer (tall white guy with good hair), so I hear what the "business owners" say when they think there are no programmer dorks in the room, and they passionately believe that "technical debt", "code quality" and "refactoring" are all scams that were made up to siphon money out of productive organizations (the article itself hints at a similar belief on the part of the author).
All evidence doesn't necessarily point to that. Medicare, for example, is much more efficient than private insurers.
Glad you are able to see the bright side. Are you employed as a developer? I'm curious how disability policies or laws etc might impact you.
It has been considered and basically it’s not really reliable or practical or safe.
Sal Leaf Plates, I didn't know that existed, this might make a hUGE difference.
If you're on a sufficiently fast SSD, you can boot Linux with a desktop environment in less than 5 seconds. Your "modern hardware" is probably getting throttled by flash storage or something.
Build your own web framework
Yeah I'd bet the specifics play in heavily. Anecdotally when I was in high school my girlfriend had a siezure from a ruptured aneurysm while we were watching her little brother. I don't remember how long it took her to regain consciousness on her own, but I remember her being fairly lucid talking to the paramedics, wanting to know what happened so not long. Didn't suffer any long term effects. I have to assume luck of the draw plays in heavily.
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Have you looked at something like Intel 660p? They're pretty crappy as SSDs go, but they're quite cheap (by about 40% compared to what I would put into my desktop, at least where I live).
You seem to be saying (and be certain of) that in the EU, were Steam to be discontinued, it'd be completely legal for you to download a crack to bypass the DRM for the game you were previously licensed to play through Valve's platform. Is this established as a matter of law? Could you share any links on the topic?

If it wouldn't be legal, then downloading the crack to the game you paid to play through Steam but can't anymore would presumably be just as illegal as pirating the whole game to begin with. Did you really purchase the game or just an indefinite (but not necessarily eternal) license to play it?
Amazon Drive is ending on December 31, 2023
Honestly wonder how many people didn't get on board with Stadia because the fear Google might shut it down, even though they would be completely bought into the cloud hardware idea. Definitely not zero, could have been many who are about to have their suspicions confirmed.

Google just doesn't have the guts to take on videogames, it needs many years of throwing literally millions onto a bonfire of gambles to create exclusives and license a compelling content library and the returns wont come till much later.
All I can say is your relation looks very superficial that I'm not sure why are you married in the first place. What happens if either of you for some reason (like an accident) suffer physiological changes that "you don't find attractive"? Are you going to pack and leave? So sad.
GeoApify[0] is one of these commercial services using OpenStreetMap data. They have a no-friction isochrone "playground"[1] that's sufficient for casual exploration. You can switch the travel mode to "transit" to include train routes, but the maximum travel time for the demo is capped at one hour.

The results are very different, eg chronotrains-eu.vercel.app claims that Wittenberge is within an hour of Berlin Hauptbahnhof, but GeoApify won't take you further than Nauen. Possibly chronotrains-eu is showing a best-case travel time while GeoApify is attempting to calculate realtime travel using the current day's schedules?

I doubt the main OSM site would ever host an isochrone demo, as it's more of a reference implementation of very basic map and routing features that OSM data enables. Notably, the routing demos there do not (yet) include any kind of transit mode.

[0] https://www.geoapify.com

[1] https://apidocs.geoapify.com/playground/isoline
Recommendation engines break or change every sprint on every app, so I am surprised your community had this issue, but not sure your conclusions are really the direction of these platforms.

Either way, I don't see those as problems or a market gap people want.

Many groups just share a google form or spreadsheet. Accurate observation that this is something that would work even if we were just using old instant message apps since a list of screennames could be shared just as well. But since you already had an existing community to transport, its not a problem there and not a problem I see in my own communities.
The engineering profession’s role in accelerating technological innovation
Hug of Hacker News. Now all the API returns 429 error.
Outlaw scary looking clothing
We knew about sugar but knowingly blamed it on fat.
I think what we’ve really seen is a reduction in quality of standard goods. As a result people are searching for quality “tactical” gear is higher quality by design. Further, with the lockdowns a lot of people made life choices to do more outdoor stuff (or the reverse). The people being more outside want good gear.
Lifetime warranty doesn't do much for you when you rub against the wrong thing in the wilderness and drop 25L of gear on the ground.
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After being frustrated with startup times of Firefox on Ubuntu for some time, I realize sometime recently I stopped noticing a large startup time on my desktop. Has anyone else noticed this? Does anyone know what changed?
For suitable definitions of define and redefine that are not redefined definitions of the original definitions as defined by definition, yes.
Dumb question. Is the IPV6 adoption sufficiently advanced at this point to handle only IPV6?

Will the client's local machine/browser, DNS, and all the routers in between be able to handle a full IPV6 connection with no IPV4?

Or will I have to run a tunnel of some sort?
Just my opinion but - I think amazon is both incredibly successful and scary.

ANECDOTE WARNING:

I've had numerous colleagues and friends work with Amazon and they all seem to either leave within a year or two, or change in ways I don't find kind. I appear to always be only a step or two away from calling Amazon a cult. . . but they are successful.
yes, everything happens over regular http(s) you can literally just 'fetch' a graphQL API
Magic (at least as far as I'm concerned). I would love to see an updated version of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
Existing freight rails are so bad that passenger rail should get its own pairs of tracks in many cases (both to be higher speed and to serve the places people actually live, work and shop), and if you’re going to the expense of building new you may as well build it to support higher speeds.
Perhaps we were unlucky. Fyi: the standard iPhone warranty does not cover water damage (and it was just a spill, not submerged). Found out the hard way.
For pants, its pretty hard to beat the Prana pant. They dry quick, don't rip, bugs can't get through them, they stretch a bit and its very hard to tear them. Lots of pockets. Used them treeplanting which is the best test out there. Used to use Canadian army pants but these are better and easier to find. Prana aren't tactical, more geared to camping/hiking/climbing community.
As an executive, my expectations are a bit different. I’m more loyal to the company, and the company is more loyal to me.

To prevent the company from being too disloyal we have golden parachutes.
not working for me. Neither linux desktop chrome nor firefox nor android chrome.
> same cost backpack

Is that accounting for inflation? $100 in 1996 is $173 in 2021.
this just shows how ridiculous our current school system is, forcing everyone to learn at the same pace, and if you can't keep up you fail and don't get a chance to improve when all you really needed was a bit of extra time.
Advances in additive manufacturing. Think 3D printers on steroids.
I just unsubscribed from Marvel Unlimited (and deleted the app) because they don't provide any mechanism for disabling marketing notifications ("Here's an issue of something you've never read!") vs. functional notifications ("Here's an issue of something you've starred!") vs. transactional notifications ("Your subscription is coming up for renewal!"). I understand that, for some people, new issue notifications are a plus, but not giving us a chance to filter out that noise is abusive. It's my phone not your billboard. Anyway, thanks to this thread I went back and checked my notifications settings and a surprising number of them were set not only to allow immediate notifications, but also to "announce" their notifications. Turned all those off.