skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Take a second look at this post’s title [of "I increased my traffic 13,000% by changing a title"] - is it “clear, descriptive, and informative”? Or is it “flashy, gimmicky, and potentially clickbait”? I’d classify it in the latter, but if I went with the former then you never would have found this post (or me).

The author has this backwards, which was part of their initial problem. The title "I increased my traffic 13,000% by changing a title" is clear, descriptive, and informative.
Work Samples as Measures of Performance (1991)
Thanks, interesting critique. The app is an MVP - really a platform into which new definitions can be poured.

I did a little searching and found this source for affiant which will be good to add. https://www.sos.nd.gov/notaries-public/notary-terms-and-defi...

For sure, I agree, definitions of the lesser common words will be the most valuable to site visitors.
Big Tech should share Europe network costs, France, Italy and Spain say
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Celody generates tokens using a "proof of music" mechanism. If you listen to Celody music for a random time period, tokens will likely be generated. With this token, you can vote for laws, elect politicians, change personalities, swap images, mate people, chat, stake, buy stuff and more. The world is constantly expanding.

You can do everything xD
These AIs weren’t trained on logos.
as with anything, there is a set of people who are too excited, and they are all evangelists

you know plenty of people who aren't vocal about their experiences because they understand it's not appropriate or acceptable in the situations you have shared.
I would argue MINIX is the most popular… as it runs in every Intel CPU.
The Senate was designed from the beginning to be an obstacle. If you can't get both a majority of people, and a majority of states to agree then it should stay a law at the state level instead of the federal.
> avant garde

I just have to ask: In what way? Any examples?
How is it not obvious that we shouldn't be burning fossil fuels? Or that we should have mental institutions instead of letting people wander in the street? Easy solutions like this have been obvious for scientists in these fields for decades. You don't have to understand the complexity, just listen to the experts who do in this domain, and they have been hollering the obvious to deaf ears who would prefer a profitable status quo versus a collectively beneficial overhaul of how we do things.
Ah yes, the Shitlassian story. Read up on it here if you don't know about it: https://shitlassian.com/
That is spiritually what their Scheduler library is doing, as mentioned in the article. Which works for a lot of things just fine until one task begins to overrun its time slice or just hangs. And then you're looking into preemption.

But if you're overruning an AVR micro maybe it's time to take the training wheels off and move up to a larger system.
Some of these and more are featured in Around the World in 80 Treasures which I highly recommend.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x80ubq1
I should have been more specific in my trite original post.
I think at the college hire / intern level, its not quite as useful as everyone is so green .. so people screen based on college / attempts at raw brainpower games with brain teaser puzzles and stuff.

On the more experienced end of the scale, I'm often surprised to see how many resumes with 3-5 years experience are basically Python-only. This, in the absence of something else in the resume that speaks to domain expertise or something.. its definitely a less exciting prospect to me.

The 2000s version of this were Java-only devs and people who acted as though we didn't need to know how the hardware worked anymore because Java abstracted it away. You see this attitude with some cloud/k8s type dev today.

In both situations, naively.. yes you don't need to understand much about the hardware for your basic implementations.

Arguably once you get into moderate levels of complexity you actually have higher cognitive overhead because you need to understand how the underlying hardware behaves and how the abstraction layers between you & it interplay..
I've lived in Illinois my whole life (Im in my 40s). I've heard how the potholes are terrible and getting worse as long as I can remember. They aren't particularly bad, nor do they seem to be getting worse.

Observations I've made:

* Snow plows have 2 functions: moving snow and making potholes. The frequency of pothole complaints starts climbing in November and peaks around April (when construction season gets started).

* "that pothole has been there 20 years" typically actually means "that pothole is near where a different one was located at some point in the last couple decades", or "that's a spot where the plows often can tear up the road"

* The people who often complain about potholes on some stretch of road tend to suddenly be the people who complain about how re-doing that stretch of road is a waste of money because "it was just fine before".

* 10 years after a re-pave when some street gets it's first new pothole - "ugh they just redid this road and it's already got potholes? typical $city_name"
And the interaction is handled by Phoenix LiveView (html pushed trough websockets)
I'd add Mont-Saint-Michel, France.
Price of Bitcoin inflating at the same rate as fiat printing = Bitcoin deflating while fiat inflates. That's good right?
My question is why would you want to do that?
Sorry, but TikTok is not modern-day Geocities, not even a bit. The operative word is "City": Geocities let you browse individual "neighborhoods" of websites at your leisure. It stayed out of the way, giving you the satisfaction of discovering little weird nooks and crannies on your own time, just as you would by traveling to a real city. Website makers also weren't trying to go viral and be invited on to the Jimmy Kimmel show.

There is nothing organic about TikTok. You have to wade through a deluge of formulaic dance videos set to repetitive music clips for about an hour before the all-powerful algorithm determines that maybe you're not interested in that.

For a platform that probably has billions of videos (Geocities never did), discoverability outside of the algorithm is impossible, because the search functionality sucks.
Agreed, for whatever reason it never got much attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375516 (2 comments)
People are often in a prisoner’s dilemma, where they are relying on the developers/team to spearhead the investigation including the judicial investigation against the perpetrators with the chance of their being a financial remedy

and so therefore nobody is trying to kill or impair the developers/team

if you were referring to people committing suicide or being suicided by the people they borrowed money from, thats not everyone’s problem and people in those circumstances should re-evaluate to avoid that risk or accept that risk
The correcting feature of typewriters is not what I thought [video]
I see this happening in all areas. Everything would be prompt-driven.

Do you like this? What about this? You simply nod or reject the solutions that you don't want.

Pretty soon somebody's expertise and experience is not going to be enough to continue paying them what they used to get before this magic blackbox appeared.

One day enterprises will realize they can just outsource that expert who's been reduced to simply typing prompts and nodding yes or no.

I am worried that the middle class is rapidly disappearing. We will own nothing and be happy seems quite ominous. The question is then what field is safe from advancements in AI?

The only field I can think of is doctors, lawyers, executives, buy-side money managers. Even their jobs will be partially automated but it will be safe as long as they generate revenue.
The problem is that developer has no idea if the implementation is going to be performant for their use case. The mutable compilers normally have less magic and thus are easier for the developer to understand and optimize. FP is really just a higher level language, that's why they don't teach algorithms classes using FP languages.
North Korean Tactics (2020) [pdf]
Or Fluid which is free except for a few features which cost $5 (https://fluidapp.com/)
joke's on you! my card gets debited and reversed but never gets validated to even get started lol
My current job is a chore.
Here at 7350 feet altitude in Colorado, I haven’t had the need to turn the air conditioner on yet this summer. PS- Don’t move here.
In context of a "small server", I think they are equivalent. AWS gives you a lot more functionality but you're unlikely to be using any of it if you're just running a single small "pet" server.
Right, but, what's the problem with that?
Ask HN: Game engines for lightweight Android/iOS games?
Hi folks, long time lurker.

I had developed few minimal puzzles games using Unity 3D (back in those days it was called that) during my graduation years and really enjoyed what little I was able to produce with what little knowledge I had. They were nothing fancy, just flat translation/rotation/scale based animated games. Since then life happened and I switched to a full-time android role working on native app development.

I am really interested in getting back to game development (android/iOS) and wanted to hear from folks on how to go about engine/tools to use. Some of my main criteria/concerns are:

1. Performance/Smoothness: Should feel like native components (60FPS) and easy to develop native-like UI components.
2. Build size: Should not have a lot of bloat and produce builds that have size similar to native counterparts.
3. Basic 3rd party plugin support: Should support commons ad network, IAP, analytics, storage framework, etc.

My evaluation of current candidates

1. React Native: Cross platform, native like performance, tons of existing JS packages to use from.
2. Flutter: Cross platform, native like performance. But don't think the current ecosystem for library has lots of options.
3. Godot: Cross platform, heavily supported, easy to extend. But seems like an overkill for use-case, also produces build with more than native counterpart size.
4. Unity: Cross platform and lots of extensions to choose from. But again an overkill, large build size and excessive battery usage issue.
5. Defold: Don't know much but heard its from the guys behind Candy crush and made specifically for 2D games. Need to explore more.
6. iOS (xCode): I already have extensive knowledge of native android developer, might as well learn iOS development and build natively for both platform. Best platform, plugin, performance, build size support (best of all, just twice the dev effort)

Apart from Unity, I'll have to pretty much learn any of the tool/language I go ahead with. Hence the dilemma to choose which on to go ahead with.

Attaching links of games similar to my art-style

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.balysv.loop
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noodles/id967624193
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weplaydots.twodotsandroid
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weplaydots.plus
Server hardware is so cheap and fast today that 99% of companies will never hit that limit in scale either.
I've just now gone through the steps to export my Brave Browser for Android tabs into a JSON file and I think I've set a new record for myself:

[me@comupter]$ cat tabs.json | grep "page" | wc -l

17022

That's all of the "open" tabs since I got this phone back in January of this year. So about 7 months worth. I was aware Brave automatically puts tabs to sleep to conserve resources, and this confirmed to me that Brave wasn't auto-deleting any after a certain time-based or numeric threshold.

Yes I am a big-time tab accumulator, but I'm sure the number would be smaller if the Brave team would just implement the "Bookmark All Tabs" feature that's been requested since at least 2019: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5711

Method to get open Google Chrome tabs from an Android phone into a JSON file (steps are identical for Brave Browser): https://android.stackexchange.com/a/199496
But there are already a hundred different methods for doing this. Saltwater batteries, the type that power emergency lights in life rafts, activate upon contact with water. You just need any two dry electrodes that, when in contact with not-pure water, result in a current. I'm not sure that the novelty of making them out of ink would change things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-activated_battery
Huh? Using lxd would be identical to what you suggest (VMs on Xen) from a security upgrade and management perspective. Architecturally and operationally they're basically the equivalent, except that VMs need memory slicing up but lxd containers don't. There are security isolation differences but you're not talking about that here?
^ why reading Anglo-gibberish is a standard

Because of the internet and the vast amount of knowledge accessible in English only.

Even you, who is calling it "gibberish" is forced to use it to participate in these thread.
Isn't Ireland stuck in 5-figure?
With infinite memory and "no cost memory allocation" you'll be likely correct, but in real world production loads you'll hit those limits quickly and then the immutability is likely getting in the way. Imagine just keeping a large (possibly compressed) bitmap (TBs in memory) to keep track of subscribers in your queue which is what many distributed queues use - how would you do it in immutable fashion? Copy the whole bitmap on each small change? There are simply many problems where immutability is the wrong answer if you want anything resembling performance.
There simply isn't that much demand for wood. It is already used extensively as a building material, but only a tiny fraction of the world's forests are used for lumber production. Indeed lumber production doesn't even make up a large portion of trees that humans clear. For context 12 trillion trees of lumber would be enough to build 100 to 500 two story residential homes per human being on earth.

Again, this doesn't really matter since this wouldn't physically fit on the planet.
I wonder if this is more correlation than causation. The pot holes are result of freezing/thawing cycle. And this happens when there is need for snow plows. Though snow plows certainly can make them worse.
People photos on the main page are deepfakes :)
>All Biden's statements prove is that he struggles to function without a teleprompter.

... and then a Fox News article; OK; I mean, you choose you own sources ... I'm going with my source from the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
> I remember catching myself in some meeting talking over a quiet woman who had probably been wanting to talk for quite a while.

As a man who used to be very quiet/timid, and get talked over constantly, I'm fairly unsympathetic to this specific anecdote as having anything at all to do with bias.

Quiet people get talked over. Period.
There's no need for "microservices" in the first place then. That's just logical groupings of functionality that can be separate as classes, namespaces or other modules without being entirely separate processes with a network boundary.
The teachers can't watch everything at once at the playground. We were doing things like climbing on top of the slides and jumping off. Sure you'd get scolded, if you were caught that is, but with 200 kids running around a huge space it's not so easy to make sure they aren't all horsing around. Not to mention stuff outside of school. Parties where the adults are chitcatting and talking amongst eachother gives opportunities for the kids to be tearing around the neighborhood or playing in the woods.
BOM cost of brand new Apple MacBook screen is ~$40. Phone screens are also in this ballpark. But manufactures arent interested in selling you at cost, they arent even interested in selling at a healthy profit, they want to discourage repair and upsell to new devices.
Most FP languages have modules so not sure where this idea comes from.
If you're nudge-nudge-wink-winking that this is biased, in which direction is it biased and why?
The contract was fine until an upgrade

Often times the market doesn’t like upgradeable contracts for this reason, ironically the misunderstood idea of smart contracts not being upgradeable is paraded as a bug

but its all situational
Where does one buy LSD this day and age. Doesn’t seem very popular in my neck of the woods and have not heard anyone having it since I was in high school 20 years ago.
If you can have humans sort the generated images into "good quality" and "bad quality", you can just keep iterating. Our subjective ratings is another score to optimize for.
Famnom's (https://www.famnom.com) MealPlanner allows meal planning for families optimizing for available foods / recipes in the kitchen, nutrition preferences (customizable) and taste preferences (customizable) (no shopping lists though).

Code's available at https://github.com/umangsh/famnom and https://github.com/umangsh/famnom_flutter if you want to run your own app and server.
My point is that supply and demand is heavily affected by priorities, and so you need to account for people's priorities if you want to make assumptions about what the difference in size means.

There is plenty of affordable land in Europe, but instead we're seeing even people who do not need to move to more expensive cities for work still do so because we willingly choose smaller houses.

That is not to say that there aren't plenty of people who would like more space, but I've personally worked with people who "wanted" more space, but only if they didn't have to move even one fare zone on public transport further out, because they liked to be dead centre of a major metropolis.

My example of a French castle was not random - I'm considering retiring to France eventually, and for the cost of my house in London, I can literally buy a castle 10x the size of my house, on huge grounds.

Yet today I would not swap my house for a castle even though I work 100% remote and could do so if it suited my lifestyle, because my location currently matters more to me than more space.
Determining something as progressive requires a more historical perspective - for an alarmingly high percentage of our history as social creatures, eugenics were accepted as science (or divine judgment). It's only in the last century that we have started to unpick those ideas as repugnant, and it's not a universal opinion.

If a progressive movement started advocating eugenics, they would be advocating a return to previous social mores - that's conservatism in a nutshell. Just because that movement also happens to hold "woke" ideas doesn't change the direction they want to carry progress.

This isn't a moral gotcha for anyone who has more historical memory than a goldfish - the problem is that most people don't seem to care to, so they come up with contrived examples like yours bc they can't keep the thread of human history for longer than a generation.
I checked. It's definitely a fork. Eg, compare https://github.com/NewbiZ/xv6/blob/master/fs/fs.c to https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/blob/master/fs.c .

I didn't find a mention of the original copyright.
Why would you break apart a microservice? Any why do you need to use/split into microservices anyway?

99% of apps are best fit as monolithic apps and databases and should focus on business value rather than scale they'll never see.
You don’t get paid until your start date.
Honestly I've been fired 6 times. And I'm thankful for each one for the same reason as the author. Grateful even.

Life is huge - humongous even and you owe it to yourself to explore.

The world is a very large place. You can succeed in very different ways as long as your provide value. In a lot of situations and places that bar of value is lower than what you are accustomed to.

I've known Billionaire founders who know little about business or code, software engineers who made more money selling shoes online.

W.r.t decisions:

People seem to need these "Walls" that they need to run into to be forced to make a decision about their lives - layoffs, firings, family care issues, health issues etc.

Don't fight it- go with the flow. Use those to do what you really want to do or at least to give it a brief try.

A low cost of living is the only thing that really gives you a robust form of freedom.
Yes! A really cool way to work with it is to generate a bunch of images, arrange them on a transparent canvas (i.e. in Affinity Designer), and then ask Dalle to fill in the gaps.

For example see here[0], where I've combined a picture of a flying whale, a tardigrade in space, and a bunch of flying turtles.

[0]: https://labs.openai.com/s/quqITCrFI7h0G1HKyfUrmJU0
Because of the Java ecosystem, in Clojure you are in much more advantageous position than with Elixir.
at first i figured the algorithm is a troll, especially given its acronym.
> carbon neutrality you essentially have to decarbonize transportation, heating and cooling, industry, agriculture, and electricity.

You're missing one of the biggest contributors: construction. Cement and steel are both huge sources of carbon emissions. There are potential solutions to this, but it's another very difficult area to transition.
> The # of businesses that are actually sensitive to >1 minute of annual downtime are already running on top of IBM mainframes and have been for decades.

Is there any?

My bank certainly has way less than 5 9s of availability. It's not a problem at all. Credit/debit card processors seem to stay around 5 nines, and nobody is losing sleep over it. As long as your unavailability isn't all on the Christmas promotion day, I never saw anybody losing any sleep over web-store unavailability. The FED probably doesn't have 5 9's of availability. It's way overkill for a central bank, even if it's one that process online interbank transfers (what the FED doesn't).

The organizations that need more than 5 9's are probably all on the military and science sectors. And those aren't using mainframes, they certainly use good old redundancy of equipment with simple failure modes.
I'm not familiar with Cell Biology by Pollard but MBoC has incredible diagrams and flow charts that make pathways and other concepts incredibly easy to understand
>Pretty soon somebody's expertise and experience is not going to be enough to continue paying them what they used to get before this magic blackbox appeared.

Every art director at an ad agency just shrieked!
The semantics of objects are pretty straightforward, but the assurances that they provide on top of your data is their main value add in this context.

Yes, things like protobufs, or equivalents thereof provide you with a list of auto-generated low-level assurances, but there are often bits of non-trivial business logic about data modification/reading that cannot be easily expressed outside of a object implementation in a Turing-complete language.

They also clearly express a concept of, and when used correctly, boundaries for data ownership, which for non-ephemeral data can be important.
All that work just to get what you want in a toxic environment you could have easily avoided.
The Restaurant Amenity for Washington VIPs? The Secret Back Door
I’m sorry that you don’t like the joke in my profile. I have not made any negative comments about you or Kubernetes. I think we just fundamentally disagree about what qualifies as an answer to my question.
Oracles owes absolutely nothing to someone using their free tier. Oracle doesn't care why would anybody use a public VPN and would certainly mark any person who does that as a fraudster.

Finally, here is their pitch for their free tier.

That ends that inane discussion with your misplaced moral arguments(also known as entitlement) quite clearly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32322140
What could possibly go wrong with a society full of people living unexamined lives?