skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think that works either as direct democracy results in lots of mediocre content getting massively upvoted.

I think the key is to have individual sets where each user has particular people whose upvotes and downvotes count for more and use that to filter content. This would be transparent at least to the users involved so there’s no black box algorithm.

It kind of reminds me of overlaying vectors and for any given user there would be particular vectors to overlay to rate every thing according to its value to the user.
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is" (Yogi Berra)
Axe throwing is an adult activity. When I was a child I only threw knives.
I've been noticing this for at least a decade now: people don't seem to grow up anymore. When I think of my grandfathers, who were born in 1898 and 1905, respectively, I remember serious men. They were good-humored, but they were adults and they carried their weight in the world. My father, born in 1935, also has that seriousness. It's hard to put a finger on exactly what it is that men under 70 lack now, but it is definitely something important.
> Responsible gun ownership should prevent anyone from bringing a gun in a situation where they will be drinking

It's illegal to posses a gun while you are under the influence.
We've always been at war with Eastaisa.
Great questions! I'm Marvin, one of the founders of Red Goose and the maker of the Toucaan CSS framework.

1. We gravitated towards a new css framework following some initial work with existing web apps that were responsively designed. While some well-designed responsive web apps might make it to a level where they genuinely feel like mobile apps, we figured most websites reduce responsiveness to the idea of just shrinking the desktop UI to fit the handheld format. That isn't enough and those are the folks who are going to need the new CSS framework.

And yes, one would have to recode their website or plan a separate stylesheet for app-in-webview using parts of Toucaan.

2. I agree that Apple has fought the web and the web standards for a long time, but they do not reject wrapped web apps that meet their app store guidelines. Besides, it doesn't have to be a pure web-view if that is what it takes to get your app through the door. I'd say much of this depends on case to case basis, and it is in the interest of every business owner to go in with the cheapest web-view option first.

A Red Goose app is a web-view, but it also a starter app in Swift and Kotlin. So you can choose to get into native development should there be a need to. And get the best of both the worlds. I don't know, the likelihood of Apple booting the entire web-view based ecosystem from the app stores is fairly low. Even their Safari is a web-view based app. :-)
It would appear by implication that you would see meetings as always less useful than documents. This is clearly not true. Calls and meetings are almost always better for working through nuanced issues.
It tells us nothing, really. Hundreds of thousands is <1%

It might only surprise people, who can't quite wrap their heads around the fact that other people are individuals with their own opinions, regardless of geography.
I worked with a startup company once that seemed to bias towards stanford / berkeley grads. I was surprised how good some of them were, easily ahead of me with 5 yrs experience from a mediocre Canadian university and work experience in Canada.

I've noticed people adapt to the demands placed on them, so highly encourage people to at least start out in a very demanding environment.
Room-temperature superconducting claim is retracted
I sympathize, but there is also a tendency for these "big things" that attract groups of really smart people to be the rooms of the biggest money-making ventures rather than the best-social-benefit ventures, no?
In the first part (balanced signed integers) I had sort of expected this to eventually say "Oh, this is basically how Rust's niches work, huh" but it doesn't. This is especially weird because Jonathan explicitly calls out the "new languages" like Carbon and whatever Herb will call his thing.

Rust's Option<NonZeroU32> is guaranteed to be the exact same size as u32 (4 bytes) and the standard library could do the same thing with a BalancedI32 type if it wanted to.
Sun Tzu's Art of War divides spies into five categories: Local spies; inward spies; converted spies; doomed spies; surviving spies.

These people seem to be in the doomed spies category.

"Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly for purposes of deception, and allowing our spies to know of them and report them to the enemy."
Ironically, I think that if they’d made that a policy at the beginning the service would have had a much better chance of succeeding. So much of the initial coverage was dominated by people balking at paying full price for games they couldn’t use when Google killed it - saying that they’d give you Steam/Epic/GOG codes or something would have been a good way to completely avoid that and start rebuilding their corporate reputation.
We aren't counting the endzones?
Yup, the other side of the coin is even darker. To add to the list - the recent trend to phase out cash in favor of electronic payments.

Protesters can just have their accounts frozen, and/or deposits confiscated, as we seen in recent examples.

(Those young kids who use their latest Apple watch to pay for coffee in the morning just because it's "convenient" really do not understand what they are sleepwalking into...)
> Well, at least unless you end up as big as Led Zeppelin was before someone catches you, I guess ;)

Are you talking about the Led Zeppelin who get entangled in judicial pursuits for plagiarism every couple years? If it was as clear cut as you say it is it would never reach any judge.

There is even one case where someone was condemned for not copying any specific song but the general style of another musician : Pharrell Williams had to pay 5M to the Marvin Gaye estate because of this

https://rpjlaw.com/blurred-lines-copying-songs-musical-style...

https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2018/07/blurred-lines-b...

Yes, this is extremely shitty but this is the world we live in
He also plainly stated that the thing he wants to start is a protocol, not a company, so it is hard to class it as “a competitor” in the traditional sense.

Does gmail compete with smtp?
I'm unsure, but it sounds like an idea worth exploring.
Richard Sackler in 2021: his family and Purdue Pharma are not to blame for US opioid crisis.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/us/purdue-pharma-richard-sack...
I am sure Dorsey understands he can’t put the cat back in bag even if he really wanted to. Twitter is a company and a company platform whether he likes it or not. More so it’s been a company for 16yrs now, so I wouldn’t put any ounce of credence to this dialogue other than a founder ruing his mistakes. It just served to seed the idea in Musk’s brain to buy it.
An amusing tale about memory leaks on a missile
no, but you can definitely talk about it.

i also had a chat with a C++ dev that created a "Database"-class abstraction for our MongoDB instance and implemented methods to access each field of every documents separately - didn't care about side-effects, didn't know about ACID transactions and didn't care.

finding a good abstraction that allows for performance tuning later on is hard, no matter the language, and react devs should make use of good abstractions as well.
> It is generally accepted that Newton developed the concept of calculus in the mid-1660s. He wrote a few separate papers on it in 1669, 1671 and 1676 but didn’t publish any of them at the time – they were only published much later, in the eighteenth century.

> Meantime Leibniz is also believed to have independently invented calculus in the mid-1670s. He claimed to have developed the ideas around 1674, publishing them ten years later in 1684.

I feel like that's how science works. You build and build and build, and at one point, what others built can be used as a platform for new builders and that's when we perceive these quick jumps in technologies.
So "Childhood's End" without the aliens?
Bandwidth and emotional valence.

Above signal flags, text is almost the lowest possible bandwidth form of human-human conversion. It will take you an hour to write something that you could explain to someone in 5 minutes via voice.

Even if you do manage to find the time to write all down, you quickly hit problem 2.

Text is shit for communicating any form of sentiment or emotional valence, which is a pretty critical part of communication, especially when you’re getting into the nuanced ends of any particular topic.
> We’re doomed

Yup. We're doomed, because we're an evolving species. In a few hundred thousand years we'll be very different - perhaps our overweight brains will have shrunk, and we'll no longer be curious about silly things like the origin or final fate of the Universe.

"Spreading out" is more likely to happen to fungus and bacteria spores, than bipedal mammals.
That you’ve never felt this way does not preclude that others may.

Texts do not convey emotion. Allow verification of nuanced points with simple interjections and interrogatives. The limitation of threads of conversation to simplify discourse through a more direct dialog and rebuttals.

I have had relationships due specifically because texts are really incomplete and poor means of conversation and the other side fails to pick up and acknowledge the severity of the situations I was trying to describe.
Juts assuming that Big Pharma is greedy, isn't it cheaper to kill a few mice instead of a few humans in a phase 1 study? In which cases they can skip the animal tests?
> Who still using chrome?

According to statcounter[1], Chrome had 65.52% of the browser market share in August 2022.

[1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
+1. Would be great to have integer NAN, INF and -INF supported in h/w.
Are those good conferences?
Word!
Storing JSON is so often the most direct and explicit way of accruing technical debt:
"We don't really know what structure the data we'll get should have, just specify that it's going to be JSON"...
I joined a startup several years ago and worked with a bunch of people in their 20s who were Harry Potter obsessives. I just couldn't believe it. To this day I cringe thinking about them.
> Have you considered that your computer is the problem?

I wouldn't say so, Elementary OS's built in code editor takes a few seconds at most to open a file

Then again, Electron is really slow (among other things), but anyways, regardless of the toolkit you're using, your app is still an overly complex .html page, doing things the DOM was never meant to do or programmed for, e.g. DOM traversal becomes slow. (Unless you use something like React Native, which is 'truly native', but mobile only)

Honestly the idea of web apps sounds a whole lot like trying to make a video editor app in MS Word
Several years ago I implemented some very basic rules outlining some distance metrics between two chords and ran some multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to generate, say, a 16 bar progression while trying to minimize these distances between any two subsequent jumps. I added a couple or three other objective functions for judging the progressions by my idea of structure (i.e., starting and ending on the same chord), and found the results to be very promising.

With enough of a sophisticated rule system (which could be built from existing music) an AI should be able to optimize for tension building or storytelling quite easily. Of course it will only optimize for the definition of tension building or storytelling that it understands, via statistical methods or being told by the programmer explicitly. In the latter case the programmer is just doing one of the things composers always do, while in the former, the generated content is interesting - or not - in much the same way (IMHO) as transformer-based language generators like GPT-3.
The Russian economy will ‘die by winter’ because of the military mobilization
It's clear v4dok doesn't understand how FHE works, maybe due to confusion with enclaves like SGX. The hardware isn't able to leak the plaintext because it doesn't have the key; it executes on the ciphertext.
https://archive.ph/G2Iy8

This is very scary; if the economy is totally disrupted, the Russian "Federation" could splinter into a mess of countries/fiefdoms, many with nukes.

Russia currently spans eleven (11) time zones. With total economic chaos, there will be no way to hold that together as a single "Russian Federation." It was dicey back in 1991 when the USSR dissolved - this could be worse.
I’m not trying to persuade you to believe me.

I’m trying to persuade you to be skeptical of claims that it is approximately zero.
I can't reproduce these results with the 77 inch A80J.

Running the machine in standbye for 8 and a half hours and testing with a Kasa device consumed 32 wh of power.

According to the app I am using it would cost about 6 dollars a year to run this on standbye at .17 cents per Kilowatt hour.

That said I do not use Homekit. Someone in the Braviam forum said enabling Homekit and allowing Homekit to turn on the TV causes a huge power draw.
Would you have accepted a python solution? I typically don't do this type of stuff using raw openssl on the rare occasion I need it.
He's a PRO.
It’s a crime this lovely video didn’t end with a voiceover of sir Roger Penrose explaining conformal cyclic cosmology theory.
There's no way that this is free booting, nautilus is a decently sized publication.
Any reasons why you picked Postmark instead of SES?

We currently use Postmark but are considering switching to SES to save on costs.
Thanks for the thought provoking original comment!
IMHO: Google is handling a bunch of things, including Stadia, and including GCP, in a very poor way.

GCP: copycat of AWS, but with less high margin, higher level services, so have been losing money since the beginning (ask some of Alphabet's board members, if you can, and watch their eyes rolling). The only thing that could have given them the advantage - not, not Kubernetes, although K was and is a great thing to fund - was a "cloud in a box" product, so companies could install a rack of GCP in their existing Data Centers, and use it. See "The Cloud Wars of 2017", written by me [0] six years ago.

Stadia: you can't build Stadia without getting into account that the market has one big monopoly (Steam), and a few huge other ones (Xbox, Epic, etc). The strategy has simply been to ignore this simple fact. It's like Netflix building a streaming service, without a huge investment into content as well. Doomed to fail from the get go.

Small rant, no horses in this game on my part; just a pity that two huge opportunities were wasted like this.

[0]: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac...
OpenSUSE Is Disabling Patent Encumbered Video Codecs
OpenSUSE is re-disable video codecs due to possible patent issues.
Fedora as well: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API
Cloudrun’s Fall 2022 Update: Faster and More Reliable with Simpler Pricing
Well you're speaking for Putin, and he's convinced absolutely nobody he didn't bomb Ukrainian cities, not even you or anticodon, who don't even believe the lies and propaganda you're spreading with your own words. But it's a living, being complicit with war crimes, huh? Too bad Putin destroyed your country's economy so terribly you can't find better work than being a trolling lying keyboard warrior. Maybe if you got into better shape you could drive a tank.
I'm not sure that Russell is overrated by non-philosophers - his unusual popular fame for his field is down to his brilliance as a writer and communicator, and charisma and social engagement as a human being. Those are valuable qualities and he is rated accordingly for them.
I guess this could arguably make sense as a vocabulary type (provided in the standard library so that everybody agrees on it, not for performance reasons).

Right now though you will probably get such a type for free with a library of common maths features you'd likely want to use with it. So the only question is whether there are several different libraries and people would prefer to mix and match.
I mean ~300mil MAU isn't exactly dead. If it were a country it would be as big as the US.
I don't have the fastest internet connection but downloads from steam sit happily at 30MB/s so in an hour I can download 108GB of data.

The earliest cdroms that I remember were 1x drives - so it took an hour to read that 700MB. Obviously drive speeds increased tremendously over the lifespan of cdrom (did it reach 48x?), but compared to the earliest generation it is about the same.
That's how you get 1 star ratings.
Sounds like you’re surrounded by toxic people, likely as a result of this attitude.
360? The cheapest Xbox is the current gen Xbox Series S, at £249.99.

And you can also finance that for £20.99/mo for two years.

And you can also re-sell it when you get tired of it.
I'd like to know how many MiSTer owners there are in the world.

Part of me wants to say it's a lot, and part of me wants to say that the retro gaming community is peanuts compared to other FPGA consumers.
That's always an important question to ask when we discuss new ideas. New ideas doesn't arise for no reason. There are problems and people will ignore (not negate) them to defend the status quo when discussing alternative paths. As always, the truth lies somewhere between and that's why we love HN. We're not twitter.
On my computer, Chrome has a 0% market share!
So your assertion is that people who start with capital, always succeed, irrespective of the parent's statement?

Because loads of people have a leg up, and go absolutely no where.
It's not correct because he states "That’s why it’s best to use secrets as files", this is event worse than store in on ENV because in this case you just need read access to the file system instead of needing code execution, if you have RCE with the same privilege level of the application you will have access to the secret anyway.
Short term rewards would need to be less enticing than the long term ones. Doing so would involve restricting many rights and privileges and people would hate that.
Likewise. That's what I was expecting going in rather than Lovecraftian monstrosities like INT_NAN. Plus they're actually something that's supported in some existing ISAs.
Firefox has had ads on its "new tab" page by default for ages now.
I think you didn't get the sarcasm in my comment...
Nobody elected her yet she is making unpopular and impractical moves. This easily back fires on her come election day for simple facts: there isn't enough electricity nor materials for several million electric cars in NYS. It takes 20 years to repave a road in New York state. They going to replace the whole electric grid in 13?
OpenSSH 9.1 is almost ready for release. Please help testing
How do you teach people a new workflow? (put link in by accident, comments only)
Hi all,

Sometimes you find a solution to a problem that is easy for people but requires them to do something they have never done. It’s about changing their typical workflow. I know that this is just a matter of educating people but does anyone have some good ways of going about this?

Thanks,

Frank
The phone and laptop have had them since last year, the iPad Pro has had them for years and years now.
Telepresence (at least by today's standard) is not the same as being there, and being literally present with decision makers. Overhearing conversations, hallway encounters, inspecting physical infrastructure, having individual agency to move in a space (see things for yourself), being able to 'read the room', and communicating, by your extra commitment, that you are serious not just the decision makers but even the wider public (photo ops), are just the few intangible benefits missing from a zoom call straight off the top of my dome, and that's just scratching the surface. Telepresence is getting better by the day, but let's not pretend it's as effective, particularly in global politics, finance, etc.
It's sounds pretty standard in it's exorbitance to me.

The tickets that aren't gifted tend to be paid by corporations using up their training budgets, and well-heeled consultant networkers rather than individual coders I suspect.
Why imply that Ukrainians motivation somehow excludes NATO from the equation?

NATO provides intelligence, training, counsel and supplies. You can't just pretend it's not involved and that at some point this war didn't become Russia's proxy war with NATO.
you can tell when you missed fasteners when sheathing a wall in a house just by pounding on it with your fist.

or when milling metal you can hear if your feeds and speeds are off.

same with engines you can hear if they aren't running right.
Well, Chrome is inexcusable because of ungoogled Chromium and Chromium Web Store. But Google search still delivers more complete results and will be hard to switch from until Bing or other competitors improve.

There are entire categories of search I perform on a daily basis in which Bing ignores the most relevant result (usually from a domain that just doesn't appear on Bing for some reason).
Founder and CEO are different. If you are an external CEO dropped into a company your allegiances might align more with shareholders/board.

Dorsey situation different.
Hmmm, I thought musk and Dorsey want less moderation...

Anyway, the ugliness you talk about seems inherent in the medium. I don't think that's fixable, especially as it doesn't seem to hurt Twitter bottom line. Which, let's face it, is the only metric that any corporations really care about.
I too am disappointed in the defensiveness. It's a completely valid point, and using Japan as a precursor in this narrative was really enlightening, I think.

There are a million causes and effects one could talk about here, supporting all manner of ideologies, and of course I've got my own. But that people are increasingly preoccupied with meaningless, child-like consumption, of fun over joy, is actually a problem.

I say this as a big nerd who likes games and comics and so forth, which I think is where some of the defensiveness comes in. I don't think the problem is located in liking comics. It's in making comics your identity. It's adopting the identity of a fan, a consumer, of making that your outward image, that makes people more childish and less trustworthy, less serious, and easier to control.
This is essentially what corruption is. Fixing corruption is extremely hard, especially when it is less overt like this. The main thing you can do is to teach people how to spot bad apples and push them out, fire them or in other ways punish them and reduce the damage they can do. It shouldn't be culturally acceptable to be a bad apple, but that requires a cultural change and those are really hard to do.
One possible explanation is that Putin wants to prevent a possible rival from winning over oligarchs by promising to make agreement with the eu. Many oligarchs are losing a lot of money on this war and it is likely that a coup that replaces him with a more friendly leader could ease up the sanctions. Without the gas leverage this option is less likely. There are clear signs that Putin is very paranoid of being replaced in the near future.