skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a former FC employee who was around when the acquisition went down. It was definitely a drama at the time. One could possibly even say a debacle. But to be fair to Joel, he had long moved on from the company and was focused on Stack Overflow. The new (at the time) CEO of the company is a merciless, self-absorbed jerk who couldn't care less about the product, its customers, or the employees who got sold along with the product.
The thing about AVIF is that it's genuinely heavier processor-wise (software decoding) or requires more hardware circuitry than JXL (hardware decoding). It's better than nothing and since AV1 was finalised a few years ago it's definitely helpful (JXL has been just finalised), but it's worse than WebP in lossless encoding (so stick to WebP for that) and may affect battery life in devices with a WebM hardware decoder but don't have any AV1 circuitry.
Welcome to HN Philippe!

> That compiler served as the blueprint for Borland tools.

When I was disassembling Turbo Pascal more than 20 years ago, I saw the similarities between the two, especially the scanner and parser where pretty much in line with the source code of Niklaus Wirth [1]. Even some of the global variables were the same. Back then I figured that since the source code of Niklaus Wirth was originally in Pascal, Anders Hejlsberg was actually "the Pascal Compiler" for the z80 (and later x86) translating the Pascal source into assembly. For me it seemed that Anders had a very good hand for register allocation, I remember the disassembly of Turbo Pascal was full of tricks, simply fantastic and elegant!

Here is one version Niklaus Wirth Pascal Compiler:
[1] https://www.cs.hs-rm.de/~weber/comp/pascals3.html
I’ve always used hotel laundry machines & as a general rule, have always been able to find them. Dead simple for me.
I revisited the site regularly and honestly never thought they'd make it to 1.0. We were using Phabricator at work and had to migrate (Gitlab) after the project was sunset. I still miss many features of Phabricator although it's not without flaws and quite idiosyncratic. I wish the Phorge people best luck!
Make that privacy and accents. There are too many regions where choice recognition just won't work without essentially building new voice models. And that's before we get to people using their second/third/... language.
I love shitting on Americans as much as anyone else but I went to school in Sweden and I also never managed to get proficient at cursive writing - it was always slower, more painful to the hand and far less legible than block letters to me. And my teachers really tried, one even gave me some special triangular pencil that was supposed to help your grip. Once I was out of grade school I never used it ever again. And now in 2022 I struggle to remember the last time I wrote anything by hand at all.
Same here. I’m also less like to reach for my phone if I have something to read on screen.
You want the original Deus Ex.
Unless you are stuck in a very poor country or with a debilitating illness, there are few other eras in history where you have as much freedom to change this.
> Because it’s the CC descriptions of music swells and things like “[laughs] and “[crying]”, etc that are distracting for me, and not needed.

This drives me nuts too, especially when they're being subjective and I'm asking myself things like 'Was that music really "ominous"? Didn't seem that way...'

Another thing that bugs me is when captions reveal a character's name to indicate who is speaking when the name of that character hasn't actually been revealed in the story yet.
> Don't waste kids time on a useless skill.

I would say teach them the founding principles of the country but unfortunately those are all written in cursive. Probably better that they can’t read the original so it can be “interpreted” and they learn the double plus good version.
"Have everything in writing, complete with date and signatures"

It is possible that the executives won't take it well to all of the formality here (writing and signatures). How would you convince them that this is necessary?
Inspired by resource allocation graphs?
Rewriting TypeScript code in Rust (or writing what would have been TypeScript in Rust instead) is in no way morally analagous to Therac-25. This is the kind of claim that Haskell programmers make on the basis that they believe Haskell prevents faults (providing no specific evidence - in contrast to Rust, which draws on numerous data showing that memory safety is a serious concern) in computer software. The core problem in Therac-25 was exactly this - the programmers thought they were very good at writing software (when they were not) and decided to remove the hardware safety restrictions (which they should have not done, even if they were really good computer programmers). It wasn't about type systems, it was about hubris and real-world hardware.
Which company are you using for dental and vision? What are the benefits? How much do you pay?
The only time travel I'm interested in is what people 20 years in the future will make of our current git-steria. Linus wrote it so there must be a pony in there somewhere?
It makes the days of planting favorable newspaper articles seem quaint.

However, the Russians have been fomenting revolution almost 100 years now, they are very good at it.

But this article is from the NYT so it won't be by trolls and bots. NYT is way up in the political influence sphere. The Sulzbergers were thoroughly compromised long before the internet came along. They get to keep their power and influence as long as they color inside the lines, and also they enjoy the not insignificant protection of the US Government.

TL:DR; A Game of Thrones was a documentary.
P.S. I am not saying that ROI is bad, either. Just that we can't say very much either way.
EmuTOS – Free OS for Atari ST and more
This post is practically devoid of content. Why do you care what other people spend their time on?
As long as it has single player mode
Reminds of the game “We were here together”, where you and your partner have to be at certain position doing some coordinated actions to solve the puzzle and advance to the next stage.
Ahh yes, the old "it's not tracking", it's "to prevent ad fraud". What harm are you trying to prevent from preventing "rooted users"? Do you think it was common for Windows applications to refuse to run on Administrator accounts?
In Norway, self checkout is more or less scan-scan-scan-pay. It works well, in my experience, and most stores also have the traditional regular checkout.

I'm curious if the shop-lifting challenge is similar in Norway. I would expect not, since it is a very trusting society, but I have never seen any real numbers on this topic.
> for example knowing which apps to launch for a given ‘Intent’

Isn't the whole point of 'intents' exactly that apps don't need to know what other programs are installed, delegating the decision to the OS and user?
“Anti-feminist forces”

?? Ok
Price Controls Have Failed for 4k Years–and Humans Still Haven’t Learned
> as you don't need to lift the pen/pencil from the paper as often
Except for crossing your Ts and dotting your Is and depending on your language's alphabet, other diacritics which breaks the flow since you're switching from gliding over the paper to pattern matching letters and words from the start of the sentence.
I seem to be missing the gene that most people my age have that requires them to have 5.1 or 7.1 sound, and I consider myself to be somewhat of a movie connoisseur. Actually, maybe that's why.

I can feel immersed in a movie without needing the sound to 'prove' it. The picture is still that little window in front of me, why does the sound need to be all over?

Happy to be educated as to all the reasons I'm missing out on 'the real experience' though.
> keystroke patterns or rhyth

Well this is something new to me. I understand how this can provide entropy, just I had not realized we are there yet.

Edit:
Quick search gave this - "Understanding users' keystroke patterns for computer access security".

So it can be a security measure too.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016740480...
Key point is all those were privileges granted by the monarch. You did not have a right to start a company, so whatever affordances were given to pre-19th century organizations by the state, they were grants.
> The pattern \lambda a. \lambda b. \lambda w. \lambda x. \lambda y. yλa.λb.λw.λx.λy.y is noticable in many places in lambdalisp.pdf, since isnil is used a lot of times in LambdaLisp.

Sadly, this heavy use of the isnil operator derived in section [1] adds a lot of unnecessary verbosity, since instead of writing

isnil list
result1
(let { head = car list, tail = cdr list} in result2)

one can simply write

list
(\head \tail \_ . result2)
result1

[1] https://woodrush.github.io/blog/lambdalisp.html#deriving-isn...
Twitter's done similar stuff too: https://www.vox.com/2014/11/26/11633282/twitters-now-collect....

It's one of those things about privacy like Steve Jobs said: "Privacy is knowing what you sign up for". A lot of the time, the creepiness comes from poor communication. It's fair for people to assume something bad.
In practice it works out great, this is yet another example of the whole "contrarian-means-im-smart" thing that's entirely too prevalent here on HN.

Cursive is there for exactly what the other person said, it's much faster to write than print. There are generations of people who have successfully written and read large swathes of cursive, yet somehow this person thinks they know better, and their explanation for it is akin to a new way of writing (which is what cursive is) and recommendations on practicing it.

queue xkcd reference about standards.
A Bose sound bar with an “enhanced dialogue” mode helped me greatly.
Not really sure why this is down voted. Did I say something wrong?
With (al)pine in contrast to mutt you at least have filtering rules to move a mail to a folder. I hope that this would be added to meli, too - that's the last thing I would consider missing when reading the docs on the website: https://meli.delivery/
Muon Tomography is kind of like interpolating the interior structure of things using shadows, right?

Cosmic ray muons have been used for decades to radiograph objects such as pyramids and geological structures. The technique of muon transmission imaging was first used in the 1950s by Eric George to measure the depth of the overburden of a tunnel in Australia. In a famous experiment in the 1960s, Luis Alvarez used muon transmission imaging to search for hidden chambers in the Pyramid of Chephren in Giza, although none were found at the time; a later effort discovered a previously unknown void in the Great Pyramid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography
Well, running a website is cheap, but not free.

The analogy is clunkier than expected, but it mostly works.

However, you are still not prevented from building your own printing press or copy machine. There were regimes that attempted similar controls...
Obviously it's because mauve has the most RAM.
One inbox is not a hard rule. You need capture tools in many different places (home/office/car are a few examples). You can even use voice recorder (memos) or similar tools. Its important to note that many updates have been made to recommendations as we move forward in time and tech is more present in our day to day, compared to when it was when the first edition of GTD came about.

Contexts, yes, I just found out that I currently was not benefiting from it. For me, nowadays, its more like "work mode" and "not-work mode". And simple and short lists are working efficiently enough. I don't know, maybe my life just got simpler ;)
Those are called implicit Intents; they are common.

Explicit Intents are also common and are used for a variety of purposes.
Yeah the edge with two conditions was a little confusing;

(1) and

(2) or

(3) At bone to go up, at flower to go down [or the converse?]

Was able to figure it out through experimentation, but the signage doesn't make it obvious.
I'm pretty sure the target audience is people in toxic organizations and situations. Otherwise you wouldn't need advice and don't need to read something like this. I didn't need advice like this then suddenly after some turnover found my self in a situation where I was dealing with people that created this situation
do you genuinely think that coders for gta VI are going to care that their work got seen before it was finished? how vain do you think these people are?
No, it’s likely to determine if you are a human or bot. Maybe also a proxy for age?
Ah, Cal Newport. Another BS self-help sales person.
Guilty as charged: I did use a sensationalist headline. Sadly that's what it takes to get people to actually read what you write online these days.

"The present suite of models is not optimized to detect or deal with misdirection."

That's exactly right - and that's something that developers who are building on top of these systems need to understand!

If it takes clickbait headlines to help people understand that (and hence make better decisions about how they build their software) then I won't feel bad about writing in this way.

I stand by my original claim here: I think security is the one specific area where attempting to iterate towards an AI prompt format that mitigates an attack isn't a good strategy. If you can't be 100% confident that your solution works for all possible attacks, you should find a different way to build a defense.
I sometimes think Twitter could be used for this.

But it seems you have to bring your own audience to Twitter. At least that is what I witness. Everyone who got a conversation going over there was a celebrity outside of Twitter already.
Dates and signatures are theatrical overkill.

I've yet to work at a place where meeting minutes, sent out to all attendees post-meeting, aren't sufficient for the same purpose (ass covering & continued adherence to The Plan as originally agreed).

I'm sure signature and date places do exist... but, I'd probably be looking for a new job if I worked at one.
Well, when I was in high school they also taught drafting with fine construction lines drawn with 2H pencils, fancy parallel motion rulers and so on. But that doesn't mean they will always have to. Stuff goes obsolete.

In my parents' and earlier generation, writing letters by hand was an important communications technique, and cursive writing was the most efficient way to do it. My high school assignments were still mostly turned in in cursive writing, until my final year or so by which time computers and printers were available (at the school, perfectly OK for printing off your assignments) and my touch-typing skills had advanced far beyond my cursive writing speed. End of cursive, for me, I can hardly write that way any more.

My mom, at around age 60 discovered computers and email too. Having learned typewriting in her youth, she took to it enthusiastically and 90% of her writing isn't cursive any more either. So it goes. Subjects can go from a mandatory skill to a niche subject, studied only by those who want to, in their spare time.
Inertia, nostalgia, politics.

I remember when the UK went metric in the early 1970s - not only weights and measures, but the currency too. It saved me an awful lot of heartache at school as I was taught entirely in metric and only had to learn imperial for pub quizzes later in life. Even so, the conversion was not 100% - had the Powers legislated at the time that road distances had to be in kilometres and beer measured in litres we wouldn't be having to put up with this nonsense consultation today; nobody's mentioned going back to £sd (yet).
It should be, but apps can create custom Intents anyway (for example, com.facebook.(katana|orca) definitely has custom Intents). It's closer to scanning what fonts you have by webpages though: they can't enumerate what packages you really have but they have a huge lists of these custom Intents to scan.
Reminds me a little of Game About Squares http://gameaboutsquares.com/
The fill me in - what do I not get about the inner workings of the EU?
This post is like a litmus test for people who reply to the title instead of the content.
Just keep pumping sewage via all communication channels

Very accurate, I've also heard it called "flood the zone with nonsense". There was a recent FBI raid where every possible exculpatory thing that could be claimed, was claimed by the usual suspects. Even when those claims contradict each other or what was claimed yesterday. The goal is to muddy the water so it doesn't need to be consistent.
This is my problem with fido/yubikey's and WebAuthN, etc. Somehow Fido and Yubikey have become intermixed and conflated. Like kleenex - one brand of facial tissue has become the common name for something that is or should be a commodity product. The top picks for me when I search for "yubikey" on amazon are all ~$55 USD. When I search for "fido2" the top picks are ~$24 USD.

This article is about Yubikeys. Or is it. The project itself is "virtual-fido".

I am sure that it is in Yubico's best interest to promote Yubikeys. And for the enterprise this is probably good. But in my opinion it is a barrier to the adoption of fido. Which is unfortunate.

I wonder if there is a way to use an iPhone or Android as a Yubikey. Oops, I mean Fido device. Anyone have an idea of how to do that? It seems like getting this to run on an Android would be significantly more functional (no extra device) and cheaper.
This no longer works on iOS. Apple locked the ability to enumerate installed apps several years ago. It makes app deep linking more painful but eliminates this privacy nightmare.

Funnily only apple and its ad network now has access to the list of installed apps.
Sure you can ask a newspaper to publish an opinion for free. It's called "letter to the editor". Very old institution.

That said, analogies are just that, and social media are just not common carriers. By their design, they are selective about information they show you, whether by algorithm, your choice or the operator's choice.
Especially since they use user submitted data including social network structure to manage your feed, it's editorializing by design.

A common carrier version would have to make the algorithms public, well described, remove moderation and other more undesirable features that increase income. This is not what these private companies run.
Congratulations, you don't have ADD
That's a very nice thought... helping meetup.com debug their app. But they're sort of like the pakleds of the tech industry. I spent several hours a couple years ago isolating some bugs, but their response is they wouldn't fix their code. The bug I found only impacted 10k to 50k users so it wasn't worth fixing. It's probably time to replace meetup.com with an open source tool + generally agreed upon naming conventions individuals or organizations can run to achieve the same ends.

Or maybe this demonstrates the utility of a "Contace Page as a Service" tool. Companies already outsource their jobs pages to 3rd parties, why not their contact pages?
Depends :) Maybe you are awesome in managing all that in your head (which would be an exception to the norm). Or maybe you think you are handling at pretty well, not knowing how much better you could handle it. I noticed you only referred to work. GTD is a life-centric system, valuing personal stuff as much as work stuff. Some people use all their brain powers to manage all of that, and then have very little less to keep up with the responsabilities/expectations that are part of a healthy personal and family life. That, for me, its what always made GTD stand apart from other systems.
Paper-feel can be a big deal, though.
What's wrong with it? I find it the most sane and least opinionated DE of them all along with XFCE.
Yesterday I watched the COO of TikTok, Vanessa Pappas testify to a US Senate committee.

https://youtu.be/meWM8d4Uz7Q

I appreciate there’s politics going on, but also felt Pappas did not help her case at all with answers which were really evasive.

I don’t understand though: at what point is a decision taken that national security is more important than the business model of a few companies?
> Am I just missing out on something?

Complex GTD systems are useful in unorganized workplaces where things are left to individuals to solve.. It's a way of juggling constantly changing priorities. So if you don't need them, it's likely that your workplace organizes well.
This might help

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-the-strangler-patt...
Oh yeah, for sure. It seems like antisec has taken a significant back seat to bug bounties and the like.
If you haven’t tried it yet, I think Far Cry 5 fits your desired description somewhat. I only played it for the first time recently despite it coming out several years ago and it was a little “too real” at times.

It has over the top moments (like GTA) but I think the story is compelling and it’s not hard to see the parallels to modern day groups and events.
3Play Media's format could do this. Their output is usually a transcript where you can click on any word and it will take you to that second of the video. The software they've developed for the people who create the captions does go second by second as well.

I don't know if they've ever considered having that as a display option. They're just one of the only companies I can think of for whom it wouldn't involve a whole rethinking of how they create the captions.
No. How many successful people have credited their success to some productivity technique? It doesn't matter, and worst case it wastes time.
Apple's WWDC 1997 Q&A with Steve Jobs
Something to note which wasn't mentioned here is that `cd` is not a binary executable, but instead a shell command. You won't find it anywhere in /bin, /sbin and so on. That's also why `sudo cd ` doesn't work, `sudo` will try to execute `cd` as root but it's not an executable so it won't find it. (tip: do `sudo -i` instead)
I do have fun with dota2, its not too competitive and there are times in it when you dont have to pay attention/ can relax.

Do also enjoy starcraft 2 but it can stress me a lot.

Did also enjoy the new doom games and also terminator resistance.

Sometimes creeper world 4, its really about micro management.
Vampire survivors also fun.

Yeah.
Gen X here. Good riddance to what was obsolete fifty years ago.
This is the difference between theory and practice.

In theory, with proper training, it is better. In practice, it's a mess.

I've said before: If you want to start hating cursive, start doing genealogy. It's takes so long for me to decipher what people were writing (they often were writing very quickly), and I learned cursive when I was younger!

(I sometimes run across census pages where the census taker printed. It is vastly, vastly easier to read).
Why Soviet Union failed to develop computers [video]
> hope that a $20M/year project can afford to hire someone senior

Never underestimate the ability of management to look a gift horse in the mouth while shooting it in the foot.
may not work so well if you want to write something in an area where other people are talking or with a TV/podcast in the background.