skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Figma is still not making a profit? It’s funny how so many acquisitions focus on revenue, which feels less useful without costs to acquire revenue (see $2 for $1 examples abound).

Adobe is down $40B in market cap. Some of that maybe to related to overall market weakness like FedEx and inflation, but it feels like shareholders value Figma at $0 and that this is a $20B write down??
Licklider is one the main persons behind the ARPANET. The Imagineers of War by Sharon Weinberger has a lot of context on his time in DARPA. Few things that I found particularly notable:

* Licklider was conscious about not having too much funding compared to other DARPA projects so that in case of a budget cut, there would a more obvious candidates for the slash.

* Initially, universities pushed back on ARPANET because they were afraid that remote access might lead to more candidates for their mainframe time
We learned so much from Figma at Liveblocks. We spent the last 2 years rebuilding a lot of those core concepts as APIs any developers can use to make their own product multiplayer.

If you're interested in more technical articles related to the topic, I think you'll enjoy those two:

- https://liveblocks.io/blog/how-to-animate-multiplayer-cursor...

- https://liveblocks.io/blog/how-to-build-undo-redo-in-a-multi...
No, he's talking about decades later. It remains to be seen if 50 Shades is still popular 50-80 years later.

I suspect not.
> More importantly, not all humans have 23 chromosome pairs

OK, your pedantic exception, too. Yuh got me.
I certainly do value a coherent visual design! That's why it bugs me so much when designers mess with the standards, trying to make their little slices of the web look different from the rest.

Blocking web fonts, zapping away floaty banners and other design irritations via uBlock Origin, and making liberal use of Reader Mode gives me a much more coherent experience of the web.
I wrote a multitasking (cooperative) unit for Turbo Pascal 4 under MS-DOS.[1]

Eventually, I could even pipe text between cooperative tasks.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220917140844/http://swag.outpo...
Similar story for me. :-)

Noting down some of the differences below.

Game: Pacman

32 years ago (12-13 years of age)

Programmed in Sinclair BASIC on ZX Spectrum+

Took two weekends as I recall

Played only by me and a friend

Lost the source code: There was no non-volatile memory on the computer so I used to note down the programs manually in a notebook, which I've lost.

Similarity:

"Good times." :-)

PS: The 34 years old computer still works, though 90% of the keyboard keys have stopped working. I'll need to replace internal keyboard membrane and also get adapters to hook it to a monitor.
What actually happened to Devuan, the fork that was created because of the decision to use systemd in Jessie?

> https://www.devuan.org/
> Quite impressive for someone to read an incident report and actually implement the recommendations - so often they sit in a filing cabinet forever.

That's not really true. There is a saying when it comes to transportation regulations, "Safety regulations are written in blood." That is, nearly all safety regulations are the result of analysis after a tragic accident.
Not at all, and it was well worth the read - even for a non-philosopher.
Regulating political speech for whatever reason (including offense), should be considered a legitimate exercise of moderation. It happens on Hacker News all the time - political speech is only considered on topic if and when it contains evidence of a "new or interesting phenomenon," and even then, users will mod down anything they don't like. And given the quality of most political threads here, I don't think many people here would prefer it if that were allowed to run amok.

If I'm running a car forum, I should be able to ban pro-Nazi rhetoric if I want, regardless of whether I find it offensive or merely technically off topic. Not every space on the internet needs to be /pol/.
It’s in a different genre, but check out Her Story. It’s a wonderful game that asks for the same curiosity and creativity from the player that Outer Wilds does.
Let me guess. Was the 5th circuit judge appointed by Trump, with a super conservative background, from the South, vetted by the Federalist society, and pretty young so he/she will last a long time on the bench?
Having a tax nexus in another country simplifies the hiring process, letting the company avoid contractors if they wish. It’s nicer for said employees as they don’t have to handle all aspects of employment as a contractor (or hire such help).

It’s some degree of hassle for the company, but if they need or want expat staff it might be the better approach.
I don't want to need an internet connection for reading a book. Is there an option to run this locally?
They are already stealing wood out of the forests. Brother cut down a tree day before yesterday, cut it up and we walked by that yesterday. Half of it gone already.
So you were linking against prebuilt libraries, and you had third party headers for those libraries that were doing some constexpr stuff that was breaking linking because the prebuilts no longer matched the headers?

In C++ if you aren’t able to build your entire stack of dependencies from source you are gonna have a bad time like this at some point. Any prebuilt libraries you depend on better be pure C, headers included.
Are there any good alternatives for Feedburner for professional bloggers?
Why not give users the power of moderation? Currently the website owner makes the decision for me about what content I should not be seeing. I want instead all or at least almost all content preserved and the ability to create and subscribe to blocklists. The website can have a default blocklist active to make it palatable for the majority.
“Se compran … colchones … tambores … refrigeradores … estufas … lavadoras … microondas … o algo de fierro viejo que vendan!”

If you know, you know ;)
> Do people actually think ads mean the company's approve of the messages of the content? It doesn't make sense to me.

I think from the advertisers’ perspective it may also be about just wanting to avoid a negative association. If an ad for a product runs on a video of an interview with a prostitute, then there’s a risk that people might form some association (perhaps unconsciously) between that product and prostitution, or even just an association between the product and any negative emotions from watching the video.

It may not be completely logical, but emotions are often not completely logical.
Because I Said So
That’s one I heard about a while back but haven’t given it a shot yet. I will now, thanks.
Really I would think that politician would be one of the easiest roles to automate. It's a very simple algorithm that votes yes based on whoever gives it the most money.
Meta shares plunged 14% this week, falling close to their pandemic low
https://web.archive.org/web/20170814002835/https://twitter.c...
Monthly mortgage payment based on varying interest rate x home prices
Dude is on sex offender list, every time he moves he has to inform neighbors about his rapist/child porn status.

"Megan’s Law refers to a collection of laws that mandate the notification of sex offenders in a particular community to the people that live there."

Here is how it looks in practice https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/yonkers/news/sex-offender-co...

Would you send your daughter to an event with knowledge organizers conspired to hide the fact one of the speakers, authoritative figure young people would look up to and trust, is a registered sex offender? More specifically the one from above link.
> We can’t do parallelism, only concurrency on a cognitive level.

While that might be through of conscious thought, but there's definitely at least anecdotal evidence to suggest that the brain performs tasks in the background. Think about how many times you've struggled to remember the name of an author, a movie, an actor; only to have it come to you hours later while you're working on something entirely unrelated.
> It is generally accepted that wood burning produces more co2 than coal and natural gas.

It's not that simple. Coal (/oil/gas) burning releases CO2 that was previously safely stored in the ground and didn't affect the Earth atmosphere. Burning wood only (granted, prematurely) releases CO2 that is already in circulation.

The main ecological problem with burning wood is deforestation and impact of harvesting on the animals and plants. If wood comes from renewable forests (there are lots of countries that properly manage their forests) then the environmental impact is much lower than with coal/oil/gas.

That said, importing the wood from half the world away sucks.
> which is essential for PWAs

In all these discussions on HN the set of "essential standards" is always in flux, and is different for different people.

> They state they have done user research (no information available on this) and that there is "little to no benefit" for a feature that was buggy and hidden behind configuration flags while at the same time enabling full support by default in their mobile browser.

Because it's quite possible that it's buggy and confusing on desktop, but not so on mobile. Not so different from Safari, BTW which also has A2HS on iOS, but not on MacOS

> The 1% remaining is still significant, the rest of the PWA standards Apple supports are just normal web standards that PWAs happen to use.

So... The other ones are not normal web standards? Or are all web standards normal?
Blaming the new regulation for The Eastland capsizing is verging on dishonesty. The boat was poorly designed and had already nearly cap sized in 1904 and 1906. It was bought for a bargain in 1914 because it was known to be unsafe. The addition of the new six lifeboats was only one modification amongst many which were done without due care and merely the straw that broke the camel back.
As with ESG and CRT, DIE is an AFU TLA that is Words Of Opposite Translation (WOOT).

THE "Inflation Reduction Act" (IRA) is another example.

Voting occurs in ~2 months. Study up and participate accordingly.
The last reactors France built all (including the one in Finland) have had more than 10 years delay compared to what was planned, so I doubt we are going to build 14 in the next decade :)
They toggled off their nuclear program, and even today the heads of those remaining nuclear plants are saying they can remain open. ...yet German re-committed to turn them off this year.

There is some significant stupidity happening in Europe's energy policy.
I am aware of the original definition and am not simply parroting it. I am questioning the idea of legitimacy here. Capriciousness is a highly relative term that is influenced by class and social differences i.e. what will appear legitimate and normal to an economically established person will be much more violent to a person of lower status.

The other problem is that even if you admit that legitimacy is a thing and not a circular construct (i.e. the idea is reinforced to promote the relative power of the group that sees itself as legitimate, and gains currency because the group is already powerful), you still have other states to contend with that are just against each other with no rules above them. And of course the capriciousness of a state against another state is seen as just normal diplomacy because we are used to it, when in fact it is often quite a brutal affair.
For those not familiar with US legal stuff, the 5th Circuit is the Court of Appeals for Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Getting them to hand over their jobs is the hard part :)
In one case the corporation is speaking. In the other the corporation is facilitating me speaking to you (like a telephone wire).

That strikes me as a pretty clear distinction.

My hair is not blown back at all here.
Nice job finding it!
Bot or not?
Interesting. Maybe I read too fast but what data was it benchmarked with? A common flaw is to not test with real world data. Most benchmarks are wrong. Would guess this is too. My gut feeling is that Nginx is significantly faster.
I don't study things for the love of it (well, I suppose I do) but to apply it, for what value is a skill if not applied?

I learnt these things because they should be useful. But employers would rather throw big data software stacks and a ton of expensive hardware at things rather than use brain.

CS and business programming should NOT be two disjoint subjects[1].

[1] IMO
I developed https://qwyre.com as a PWA offline app-based epub reader. You're welcome to give it a go. It even imports links to epubs direct and stores them in your browser. There is no central online storage, no tracking, and here's the privacy statement https://qwyre.com/privacy-rights
> "This is really disingenuous. When you're interacting with a stranger, and you find out they had a bad divorce, do you suddenly feel concern that they might divorce you?"

I think you got the general spirit of my comment, and I don't want to play tit-for-tat over the examples I provided. Why should the bar for banning people from associating with C++ conferences only stop at one specific class of crimes?

> "Do you believe child sex offenders are suffering injustice when they are not allowed to interact with children?"

No, I never said that.

What we're seeing here is a coordinated social justice campaign (taking place on Twitter and other social networks) to ban an ex-con, who is an otherwise free human being, from associating with a C++ conference.
It seems to me it gets the sounds right, but not the volume. Mexico City is so loud, from the music in the metro to the calls of the vendors to especially the constant traffic jam and the incredible amount of cars. The site sounds like the areas outside of the city. Not at all how experienced the city itself.
Just going off of general chemistry knowledge, vibration may be speeding up the chemical reactions that are happening in the wine (aging). Same as stirring.

EDIT> For a reaction A + B -> C, the more chances molecules of A and B have to get into contact, the faster the reaction could run since chemistry is just atoms bumping into atoms. Stirring or shaking can bring more unreacted A's and B's together.
I produce online books in various versions. The hardest part is making a functional web-version. I've always wanted to just use our ePub version with a browser-based reader like this.

1. Is it possible to craft a link that will open your app and load (and open) a particular ePub file we are hosting? It seems like this would be a good way for you to get users, if ePub providers were promoting your app.

2. The mobile experience seemed pretty bad at first. No ability do anything except scroll through the pages once I opened a book. Couldn't access any sort of menus or navigation or TOC or search. I saw that by rotating my device, I could get some of those things, but then the reading area got cut off, and I couldn't scroll the reading area vertically. (I could still turn pages, though.)

3. Search doesn't work yet?

I like it. :)
For having sold tens of millions of copies, one must concede that 50 Shades of Grey has some literary qualities.
This better be good or I will burn my local Amazon warehouse to the ground.

(For legal purposes, I'm mostly joking)
Do you mean that the macOS built-in dictionary will conflict with the popover?
This is great! I’ve been using Render to host all my projects ranging from static sites to full blown web apps ever since moving away from Heroku. Their free tier is also pretty good for prototyping.

Recommend it to anyone moving away from Heroku or looking for a cheap place to start.
2022 Digital Quality of Life Index
Yes (2018), yes (previously worked for Greg Abbott), no? (Virginia), yes (member since 2002), and yes (1978).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Oldham
According to the linked page, only Geometric and Range types are excluded
> some weird white savior bullshit

Pesky white people at it again! When will they stop?

Seriously though if your first response is to make a bigoted remark about the guy's skin color you need to seek professional help.
And some other projects that DARPA worked on: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/the-bunny-t...
At least for peltier cooling, as delta temperature across the peltier increases, it takes progressively more power to counteract conduction inside the peltier. This requires progressively more power and results in joule heating. Works great at low deltaT though.

https://www.meerstetter.ch/customer-center/compendium/71-pel... has some nice plots and explanation of how performance varies with deltaT.

A constant current driver can also be important - PWM results in increased joule heating. For 50% maximum constant current joule heating is (V/2)^2/R but when duty-cycling with 50% PWM, it's V^2/(2*R). Moving the scaling factor out from under the ^2 makes the savings more pronounced at lower deltaT as well. But constant current is more complex, especially with larger peltiers.

I cants really speak for Carnot cycle coolers, but they can often be effectively duty-cycled and can be placed remotely so the compressor waste heat can be vented into the room. Performance still degrades with dT though.
To all those defending EU’s march towards coal and wood, please remember that India and China will follow the suit :)
Minecraft and Last Epoch mainly.
Intro to reinforcement learning and on to hierarchical multiagent learning
> Let me simplify:

You simply don't know of EU works or you're lying because you have an agenda.
You can ban speech based on non-content criteria such as the volume of sound, but when you ban speech based on the content, it is a violation of the principle of free speech.

Whether private companies should not be able to discriminate speech based on content is still up to debate, but don’t compare this to shouting.
The vast majority of elections are "which boomer or older do you want to <strikeout>represent</strikeout> make decisions for you?"
There is no distinction between platform and publisher in §230. Your understanding of what you think it says is in fact closer to the state of affairs before §230, and the state of affairs that §230 was expressly designed to change.

Before §230, there were two court cases involving online content which, upon reconciling their rulings, suggest that any online site is liable for content if and only if they perform any moderation whatsoever (including, say, removing child porn). As a result of §230, online sites both have protection from being treated as the speaker of content even if they do moderate (or censor, as you word it) as well as from being sued by the users for the consequences of their moderation.
My speculative call is that it will go down, haven't hit bottom yet.

Nvidia is sitting on a bunch of ampere stock, the miner liquidation, and new gen cards coming out.

My guess is January-February when the Christmas buying season is past and all these are in full swing.

Flash memory is also experiencing a price crash.
The endgame of this is platforms won’t get advertising spend without their ability to suppress content objectionable to advertisers.
From one of the obits I learned the Locke lectures were finally published in 2013! In the early 2000s our prof handed out what I believe were a former colleague’s xeroxed notes from them.
There's a weird bias towards "we need a daddy to tell us how to talk". Maybe it's because moderation is too hard for mere crowdsource+algorithms and maybe it isn't. I dunno.

And maybe the owners just want to keep that sweet fascist option open.
A computer accomplishes tasks by coordinating many subsystems. Not everything is done in the CPU, and the brain is similar. The central unit can make requests of other components (e.g. storage controller), and they go off and do it while the central unit does something else. Only the real heavy thinking/processing happens in the CPU, and that’s always what discussions about human multitasking are talking about. Brains and computer systems work in similar ways.
It might be a good point, though I'm under the impression that natural gaz is also not magically collected and arriving in Europe either. So the argument is moot until some fair comparison of number is done.
The compressor isn't located on the cooling chamber - it's on the other side of the insulation so the heat can be dumped to the room.

The self heating (for better or for worse) of a peltier is generated at the cooling chamber edge.
Search doesn't seem to search inside the work I'm reading. Am I missing something?
The War Between Democracy and Nihilism
Have you read Section 230? If so, which section/paragraph of it do you believe supports your understanding of it?
Oh yes, but nearly all accident reports make perhaps 30 recommendations, any one of which would probably have averted the disaster that just happened, of which only perhaps 3 are implemented. The other 27 usually get skipped because they're too costly/politically unpopular/no longer seem important after some other changes have been made to prevent reoccurance.
You live in a state which somehow decided to not obey federal law? https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/megan's_law
Those jobs aren't being replaced by AI because the people in charge don't want them to be replaced. It's not the AI they should be worried about, but society shifting the paradigm and rendering half of all bureaucracy across the globe obsolete.

Endless bikeshedding is deemed very important amongst its practitioners, and is pretty lucrative to boot. Even when we never measured the benefits.
I well understand that (having worked there for short periods). And my sibling's in laws come from there.
So, because any website can potentially reach millions of people, all websites must be considered public spaces and must be coerced to allow all legal speech?

I honestly don't think it distorts the public/private argument, any more than MacDonald's serving billions of customers distorts the question of whether it's a private corporation or whether its scale transforms it into a public service.

But the inevitable endgame of this is going to be the government regulating all speech on the internet, and most of the internet no longer allowing any kind of user content, and I don't think the free speech absolutists so willing to throw the baby of free speech out with the bathwater of consequence are going to like it.
I think there's a big difference between market average and replacement cost.

The average market value is (in theory) the average person in your field, putting in the average amount of effort. If you're putting in the minimum amount of effort, it's safe to assume that the amount of work you're doing can be replaced by somebody that's less talented than average. As such, you can be replaced for a lower annual salary.

Point being is that your replacement value is directly related to job performance. If you're not doing an average amount of work, you are not worth the market rate.
If states or regions require decisions that are economically undesirable (losing more customers than they keep) then they can decide to not do business in those regions. See an IP address from Texas, block or send them to the junk bin. People should be able to easily avoid the junk bin when dealing with websites. Or, they’ll just leave. Let the junk bin be an EPA Superfund site, which people can enter at their own risk.
They could well do, if they’re working out how to optimise it, and the workers get the hang of it.

As I understand it a large problem has been with poor quality welds being caught too late in the process.

Quality isn’t an easy thing to change, but I trust they can remedy for future builds.
Any hope to run Stable Diffusion locally on iPhone?
What a lovely way to present contemporary culture. I'm enamored.
Neil Stephenson explores this theme in Termination Shock [1], worth a read if you are curious about the subject.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
Host you own RSS Feed under your own Adress? Then you have the advantage, that you control the URL/Address. The Load is not that big if your feed is a Static file.
Not to mention barely confirmed, 50-49, by the Senate.