skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safaris default new tab page is the Apple store and most don't know how to change that.

edit: turns out I was wrong.

2nd edit: this used to be the case many years ago, thanks for those who confirmed
There's a misplaced apostrophe in it's.
Ask HN: Why do software tutorials use meaningless GIFs?
I'm building a few hobby projects in what is a new language for me, so the first step was to search for tutorials online. But it seems to be a trend to use gifs from movies and elsewhere to populate whitespace in most tutorials and videos. As someone who is an outsider, what is the reason for this? Well if it is to add a touch of humor to the video or blog post, it certainly doesn't work - on the contrary, it's irritating and distracting.
Sounds interesting. Two questions:

1. Is a new CSS framework really necessary? Smooth transitions have existed for a long time, it's unclear to me what is meant by "new css standards" and "take steps to take the experience to the next level". Corollary: can an existing webapp use Red Goose right away or does it need to be recoded?

2. There's this rumor that Apple fights webapps disguised as native apps with fury; yet Cordova & Ionic exist and prosper; what's true and what isn't, and what's your take on this? Is a Red Goose app at risk of being jacked from the appstore down the road for the sole reason that it's a web view?
Sorry to hear that. Please send me your website’s address on s@goose.red and I will take a look at what’s happening.
Firefox had/has "snippets" for a while.
You can turn them off, but the point still stands.
It is so extremely common that we were educated about it repeatedly in Engineering school.

Entire divisions get shut down over night when stock values go down. This is reality in the largest corporations (P&G, GE, GM, etc). Often the managers don't even know they are on the block.

Maybe Silicon Valley has been shielded from this reality of corporate culture in established industry by stocks that have tended to go up.

But also I suspect there are probably compliance issues related to insider trading about giving employees with stock or stock options a heads up.
The browser is traditionally the “user agent”. An agent operating in my interests does not advertise to me.
try using cloudflare, it's free and looks like is suitable for your needs. Also, for static websites, you can try using github pages/cloudflare pages- free hosting for static websites
It was just such an absurd take on things it couldn’t have been anything but a joke.
It's pretty surprising that sites optimized for Lynx first aren't a thing by now among curmudgeonly hackers. Not as a "best viewed in Lynx" joke badge, but a genuine movement. Why shouldn't you be able to provision resources or tweak infrastructure settings by clicking/tabbing around in VS Code's terminal pane, for example?
It is called "hannunvaakuna" in Finnish (or "käpälikkö" it seems), literal translation being "Hannu's coat of arms" and it's an old religious symbol similar to pentagram or swastika. Used for protection against spirits and whatnot. Although that name has fallen out of common use and people just call it "komento" -> "command". A nice symbol though so can see why they went with it.
One notable difference is the c-word, which is a gendered slur in the US, but not in Scotland or Australia.

I'm self censoring here because this is a US-run site and I'm afraid I'll get shadowbanned if I use it in full. I am not from the US and this word does not carry the same weight for me.
There is this great talk[0] by Susan Kare. At 14:30 she talks about this and explains how the ⌘ came to be.

[0] https://vimeo.com/151277875
No! Wake up sheeple! When the government comes for us all, you need a garage full of semi-automatic drugs! Take this, haha!
So there are two types of enterprises that are trading.

Those who invest and are after the price changes -- their entire goal is to buy things that will increase in value.

And there are those who for some reason have to trade but the price changes are nuisance for them. Like agriculture farmers. They know they will have to sell their produce at some point in the future, but they would very much prefer to know the price in advance because that makes it easier for them to plan and make better choices. Do I plant this or that?

When we are talking pensions, this is definitely the first scenario. The large part of the reason to trade is investing (the other is improving supply of money and also helping your businesses have easier time getting funding they need).

The about only reason I can come up with is fund managers sabotaging long term returns just to ensure small, steady, more predictable return every year. So that they can their bonuses every year.

Maybe another reason is people who do not understand trading? Then more steady returns create the illusion their managers are doing good job.
I learned it as the "Open Apple" key, and I used that for many years, until people stopped having any idea what I was talking about. And it's way too many syllables. I had to retrain myself to call it "command".
The thing which hit me was the (fast) speed at which the dial returns.

In a "real" rotary dial there's a governor which controls the speed of the return, thus setting the impulse rate so that the step-by-step switches in the exchange can follow.

Every phone tech back in the day would take considerable care to set the governor speed, and would instantly recognise when it was wrong.
z-lib also had a large collection.

archive.org for large collections of books and videos.

Can also download music as mp3 from YouTube.

Google Map offline map (super crucial, I learned a few months ago in Roger's outage)
Actually Apple itself already released Rosetta for Linux VMs. I hope it might also be usable with Asahi to run Steam.
The looped square is famously snagged off swedish road signs showing cultural heritage.
But if you can't enact change (on a macro scale) your choice (or lack of choice) drives you either back to explicit escapism, or into escapism masquerading as action (eg Qanon fiction). The former is less destructive.
Developers are often very aware of how the software performs but are refused time to work on it.
Outside of FAANG and startups, salary and standard benefits like a 401k match are pretty much it.
What would happen in the event that both parties had deleted a communication like a text or email before a request was received?

Are they compelled to hold onto them or something?

I always find it surprising when messages like this come to light.
I would be extra careful about the "billions" of social fraud in France.
Wikipedia make a difference between the shortfall due to unpaid contribution (undeclared work for example) and the loss due to benefit fraud.

Different figures are given but it looks that most those "billions" are in fact shortfall and not benefit fraud.
And effect of black UV lights maybe
Very true, childish behavior, specially by decision makers, is the bane of society (always has been). Cosplaying by adults should be the least of our worries, and besides it isn't even a recent phenonema (at least not for men): carnival, secret cults, religious ceremonies.
> Browsers used to be paid software.

AFAIK the big ones have always been free, except for Netscape between 1995 and 1998.
Network calls are IO reducing them greatly speeds up websites.
Software still serves its users... to advertisers.
> Why do they need to hedge against rates falling? The value of a mixed portfolio of stocks and bonds will also move with changes in rates.

Because the value of their present liability goes up more than the value of their bond assets, meaning they become more underfunded.
The first part is correct, but the second certainly isn't.
It's times like these that I'm glad I use about:blank as my new tab page.
Now I'm curious what you think are the "plenty of alternatives" for embedded that are obviously a better choice.
Decentralization has never worked in human history beyond hunter gatherers.

It’s continually amazing to me that people listen to people like Musk and Dorsey as if they have a clue they know what they’re talking about. You can tell they have full confidence that they do, trapped in their bubble of fame.
I absolutely hate motion blur and depth of field, even if my computer is fast enough to render them.
If I'm going to be censored for saying "cunt" I at least hope I don't have to do the censoring myself.
Infantilization by parents who wanted to keep the kids forever tied and dependent to them.
Should be RA_IS_ERROR
You are missing a ton of screenshots to show what the result would be on mobile platforms.
D3D < 11
I wish the price structure was a lot more explicit.

I can buy 20.000 credits for $5.
This will give me "around 5-20 code conversions"

That is a pretty big difference.
What are the metrics to estimate what a conversion will cost?

I am not critiquing that you cant have a fixed price since
length, complexity, edge cases varies significantly but I
would like some indication.
I dunno it definitely seems that way. In our own product reducing IO significantly sped up time to live.
Sigh...

Casey demonstrated... and it ought to be obvious... that the "ins-and-outs" of Direct2D don't matter.

If you actually bother to cache the glyphs into sprites, then Direct2D can be absurdly slow (it isn't) and still get something like 1000 fps.

Your comment is almost a parody of what went down.

How can you not see that generating a 16x20 pixel image can't possibly be the bottleneck on a modern PC unless you're doing something spectacularly wrong!?
The problem is that he is trying to monetize the distribution of content. All his talk about decentralization is pointless, because he wants a system where there are gatekeepers, the only difference from Twitter (or Facebook/Google) is that in his view these gatekeepers should be baked into the protocol. It would be comical if it wasn't diabolical.
https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Practical+Foundations+of+Pr...
Sveltekit
I've only just begun the journey but I'm sold!
After trying everything from Smalltalk/Lisp, PHP, ASP.Net and React et al and even bare bones web components, Svelte and Sveltekit has hit a sweet spot for me as a one man band.
It handles both server and client side in one app and can be fine tuned to get the most of both server side and client side rendering.

For desktop I mainly use C# on Windows but would love to dedicate more time to Smalltalk, a very cool concept and language.
The Weird Trick That Lets Amateurs Detect Warships at Sea
It could also be a very real consequence of feeling that you can’t or shouldn’t change the state and are therefore not responsible for it. The article doesn’t mention consumerism as a cause but I feel like it plays a role when people are mostly expected to play a passive role and fuel the economy in their spare time.
Tech Is Becoming a Regulated Industry
This article is full of such strange implied absolutisms and "just-so" stories. The silliest and most striking one is probably "Japanese women invented and pioneered emoji". As far as I know the :) symbol was first used by an American man, and there was no specific gendered usage of emoji afterwards.
Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time
I have 1 ms latency to 1.1.1.1 and a 10 gbps connection - faster than a SATA SSD - and most websites are still slow.
Why would a user care about how fast it was to build the software?
The path to acceptance of patches is not great from my experience.

I made a minor change to a doc, which then was then requested to improve other more general parts of the unwinder doc. I did them and submitted. It got kind of approved but not enough for merge. I tried to ping some time later but the approval of somebody else was needed and I gave up.

This post gave me the nudge to ping again for who might be the approver required.

[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2022-June/18978...
Eastern European here. I was blonde as a toddler and over time my hair turned brown. Eyes on the other hand were deep dark brown in childhood but washed out to a much lighter shade of brown after adolescence.
Dunno if you fully read my comment. But we're in agreement.
Solar Cell Efficiency
> No typos

"get it's importance"

"Bout to head out to dinner"
This is the exact issue I face at my present job. Our clients have low budgets for hosting, and that means code needs to be as optimized as possible.

Sadly, the people I report to don't care enough about it. All they want is to push through the visible changes as fast as possible. And every single time these performance bugs come to bite us.

Our solution? Scale the system resources.

I'm not particularly satisfied with the work. But as an engineer I don't get to call the shots.
Having a home page set to something isn’t the same as having ads that you can’t disable.
If memory serves, the gap on the dial set the "interdial pause" which created a minimum gap between strings of digits, which gave sufficient time for the exchange equipment to switch to the next selector..
I'm very familiar with the live editing aspect of Clojure, and I like it a lot actually.

What I am saying is that Clojure's long startup time is still annoying if you want to restart, for example if you trashed your repl session or want to start with a clean slate.

If Clojure would start fast enough it could also be used for CLI scripts and we would not need Babashka at all.

All in all, I think Clojure is a great language, but the slow startup time is still a disadvantage.
(others) YMMV but I usually don't. It's the complexity of the problems which I need to tackle and for which I have no playbook to follow and it will mostly involve deep understanding of HW, operating systems and algorithmic design. There're also compilers and programming languages which do require a non-trivial amount of time to understand but also keeping the pace with it because they're constantly evolving. Pick any of those to study and I guarantee that you can spend your lifetime doing so without having a single second to spare. However, to provide an actual business value to your company, you obviously cannot keep running through this rabbit hole on and on but by the end of the day you have to learn how to pick the right balance. In the end, I'd say that the problem space is simply too huge and I personally haven't found myself idling in my 10+ year career other than in the moments when I became too frustrated with the problem at hand. That's also one of the reasons I am reconsidering what I want to do in next 5-10 years :)
Graal also has a “fast build” mode, likely way slower still than go’s compilation, but there is that. It is meant for development though, you will likely want an optimized build for prod. But yeah, one should probably just develop in the traditional way, and then test it out in native after a few iterations.
This is difficult to evaluate if it really had an impact on the conflict. Western media likes the hate speech narrative of course. Is this kind of free speech detrimental for their society? Perhaps. But anyone has yet to make a good case where freedom of speech is against the interests of any minority, while the opposite case doesn't even need any further explanation.

The conflict is still escalating, Facebook maybe just made that visible. The proposed solutions do not fit a free society. Myanmar certainly isn't one right now, but these measures certainly should not be the rule. Almost 10 years now we have seriously propaganda efforts on social media. It did not solve any problems either.

> Facebook and other companies need to commit to making algorithmic amplification an earned right, which requires content authors to meet certain trustworthiness criteria

This is just a recipe for corruption and inequality. This is an anti-solution.
This article is amazingly poorly written. Its content can be basically concluded as “Japan is called Japan because it is called Japan”, since it skips any methodical etymological investigation.

Check yorwba’s comment below instead.
Consumerism requires consumers. Companies stop or slow down producing things that consumers won't buy. Here are examples specific to phones and big tech:

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/apple-reportedly-wont-b...

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/09/29/google-to-shut-gaming-se...
Because centralization works REALLY well, right? That's why the US practices decentralized command, that's why centralized economies have been so successful. This idea that decentralization has never worked is insane.
FWIW, your PlayStation will update on its own if left in rest mode.
I made it farther than that, but also stopped. It seemed to go on and on without making it's point.

It also seems it missed a big part (unless they talk about it later). Sure, some people might be doing stuff because of hardships and responsibilities (like living at home to save money). But I think there are also those who were not given responsibilities as a child and don't know how to be responsible and act like an adult now that they are one. I think the delays are even evident in our laws (age of many things continues to increase).
I'm not even sure the first part is. I logged into a Guest Account on my Mac and the default for 'New tabs open with:' is the 'Start Page', which is a blank page with history, bookmarks, frequently visited, etc.
> this is both a tragic and entirely predictable outcome

Well, Sunak did predict during the leadership contest that this would happen - admittedly we haven't had the actual IMF in yet but if there's another severe slump, I wouldn't bet against it.
I queue things in Pocket, and read it later on my iPad. It's a lot more distraction-free than my smartphone, so iPad time is true reading time.

It tends to slow down the news, and encourages me to go for long form content. This in turn tends to make me go for established content about older news.
Nordstream: An Accident?
Gilts are relatively risk free, in that they’re backed by government to pay some value out at a time in the future.

Derivative products based on the price of gilts where you might have to put up collateral are not.
Stupidity is contagious. If MS does it, why should't Google ?
The Future of Solid State Wind Energy – No More Blades
That’s easy for him to say after he’s become a billionaire making it a company. Can one give any actual credence to such a sentiment?

I mean, Twitter is an internet version of Post-It notes. I don’t even know what he means that it started out as a “protocol”.
I think crypto has a place in Web3, but truely this is EXACTLY what I want from Web3. It's not all about on-chain dapps, it's a return to protocols.
Leaving this here for those who might be interested in the concept of an inner child [0].

I like to think of the inner child in mathematical terms: if I am 40 years old, then it also holds true that I am 6, 10, 16, and 21. At all times, I carry with me the memories (with implicit feelings and attitudes) from each of those distinct years. The person I am today consists of those years strung together.

It’s no wonder things like Pokemon and CRTs intrigue me. Six year old me likes them too, and he never left.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_child
I'm sure textile weavers a century ago said the same thing, and the world replied that if a machine can do what you do even adequately, your profession was always overvalued.

In the end, it's an iron law of post-industrial capitalism that the market value of human effort eventually approaches zero.
Oxytocin is revealed to have heart healing properties
Ted Chiang has made a similar comparison, pointing out that corporations seem incapable of insight, much like the feared AI that might destroy the world: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-dang...
Ganymede sounds like it will be great!
I don't like the implication that those are somehow less worthy ways to spend one's time and money, or that the tendency towards those interests betrays some... divergent cognition or eccentricity. Pick any interest that you think is "proper" for an adult; the person who engages in it either enjoys it, in which case it's indistinguishable from any interest that doesn't meet that criterion, or they don't enjoy it, in which case the person is rather silly for using their free time to do things they don't enjoy.
Here's the game he wrote at age 12 : https://blastar-1984.appspot.com/
Vulkan is not limited to Linux at all. In fact, it is an open standard made by the same people as OpenGL.

OpenGL was a high level interface, so to speak. And due to this, it made some things easier and other things harder. Most notably, you didn't have the low level access some people/projects wished for. Some time ago, there was a push for a more low level interface and Vulkan was supposed to be the platform-independent, open solution. Naturally, when your interface is lower level, you also need to provide more boilerplate. So Vulkan is slower to get up and running but that's not a particular fault of Vulkan I'd say.
The story around it is rather interesting. It is based on AMD Mantle which was discontinued on behalf of Vulkan.
Unfortunately, not every vendor was pleased with an open interface. Microsoft released DirectX 12 and Apple released Metal as direct competitors with very similar (if not identical) goals, fragmenting the whole landscape in the process.

Today, Vulkan is supported on Linux and Windows. Apple provides GPU drivers for macOS themselves (not the GPU vendor) and never implemented Vulkan support to not cannibalize its own Metal (I suppose). However, there exists MoltenVK, an open project that creates a translation layer from Vulkan to Metal.
Apple's Korea Offices Raided by Antitrust Regulators
Especially when we as modern users run multiple applications, each of them deciding optimization is not worth bothering with.
> while any isolated derivatives transaction probably makes sense and is governed by deep and sophisticated mathematics, it does seem to be the case that in sum total we see, decade after decade, a cumulatively destabilizing effect

It's not true that derivative transactions are good in isolation and add up to something bad. The bad derivatives transactions add up to something bad. The good derivative transactions do no harm, and are good for everyone involved.

If you see a wheat grower hedging their variable yield, that's not going to add up to something bad. If you see derivatives on junk loans in a low interest rate environment, obviously that's different.
Reading this conversation reminded me of something Steve Jobs once said:

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again"
A network call waiting on the result of another call is still two times as long as it should/could be, no matter how efficient you make it.
We studied him too, he kicks off most of the major anthologies. Seems he's almost universally considered an overlooked founder of analytic philosophy. (There's the famous story about how Wittgenstein showed up on his doorstep to move in and study and Frege said, "no just go to Russell," he even underrated himself.)

So he is partly famous for not being famous, a paradox he would hopefully appreciate.
Vivaldi time!
He may not be clear of Twitter enough to do something like this. I’m wondering if a public action like that coukd open him up to some legal jeopardy. Just a guess.
Ask HN: How do you fairly and effectively interview software developers?
Proves the saying, "If you are not paying for the product, you are the product"
Are you saying it's safe to be struck by a tumbling bullet falling down?
I wouldn't say it is stupidity.

MS seems to have stopped innovating and exploit as much of their business before it dies.

Possibly Google realised the same?
This is just not true at all.

Everyone can join the Clojurians slack, it is a very welcoming place, also to newcomers, in my experience.

Everyone can create issues and patches, getting them accepted may take a long time, but the core team does a great job of maintaining high quality and not breaking things.