skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is true of all games, where you don't specifically seek out other players choosing to be purposefully weaker.

The transition from elementary school sports to middle school sports is pretty jarring. By the time you get to high school they've started weeding out anyone who enjoys the game versus dominating other people in preparation for college and the few who become pros.

Video games just make this obvious to kids who don't like sports.
Hey Sam! I'm Louis, the guy who built Nicheless. The purpose of the platform is simple – it's a place to improve your thoughts through writing.

I wrote a bit about it here: https://nicheless.blog/post/why-i-built-this

Also, people can like and reply to your posts, but both those are private. Only you'll know how many likes a post has, and all replies will go directly to your DMs instead of a comment section. This is so that it helps reduce uneccessary trolling and status games among people, with the goal of making it easier for people to write for the sake of thinking, and not to impress their audiences which may or may not exist.

Let me know if you have any questions. Happy that you took the time to try it out.
If we start shifting towards specialized hardware configurations to solve specialized problems, how does “move everything to the cloud communicating through fragmented docker images” fit?

It just seems weird to me to see posts of spending lots of money on complicated scalable Kubernetes clusters, but at the same time people are putting their AI computation engines right on die so that they get good cache coherence. Maybe they’re more resolvable than it seems.
I've used it for a long time and my favorite thing it can do is write documentation and code comments.
It's an outrage journalism piece on a musk tweet, has nothing to do with the title.
Experimentation has become a cop out in many companies I've seen. I've seen it become an easy way for product managers to show 'they're doing something' and no one would ever blame them for it.
I've seen it used as an excuse for not being creative, hard working, knowing the market and competitors and making big bold bets, but rather to just throw random stuff on a jira board. Later in meetings the experiment 'working or not working' is being discussed without any repercussions for having wasted a whole engineering team's time for weeks.

I'm not against experimenting in general, but it has a place. Experiment what you truly don't know. Don't experiment what you know. If you're good at your job you know things that need to happen. Get those done.
I agree that game is great - It's currently only $6 on the Switch eShop.
I believe a lot of the inter workings were AWS based… maybe someone knows more about it, but I remember that being a non-starter for me
>Should land owners be obligated to lower the price to $0.25 so that this teenager can buy the property with a coin he finds on the street?

Wouldn't a reality where land is only held by those using it and you can buy land for a quarter be better? I don't even mean to be funny or anything but that seems like a much better situation that our current one.
> However, historical evidence from the 19th Century… strongly suggests the stone is a 19th-Century creation of a Scandinavian immigrant (likely a Swedish immigrant working at the local train depot)."
>More depressing -number of cores will also level off eventually and where does that leave us then?

Short of breakthroughs (e.g. quantum and currently unknowns), the only clear path is less generalized architectures and more specialized chips. As you move more towards ASICs from general architectures you get improved performance, reduced power, and so on.

We've lived in the era of software where hardware was abundant and cheaper than an engineers time. Throw more hardware at it and make sure you have generally optimal algorithms in most your run paths. That's going to change more and more and I suspect we're going to have to start rethinking or redeveloping some layers of abstraction between current software and hardware.

As it stands now we're building more and more complex things atop weaker intermediary layers of abstraction to save time and meet budgets but that's going to have to be revisited in the future and the inefficiency debts we've been building up will need to be paid down. Clear code will become less of a top priority when clever optimizations can be added in that may not be so clear. We're still many many year away from this but that's my prediction.
Would Hunger isn’t a food problem it’s a corruption and distribution problem. It’s nearly impossible to get the food to people that need it
I've been following Dmytri since he developed Thimbl, a distributed micro blogging protocol in the early days of Twitter. His analysis always brings context into why decentralized systems are more about politics and power than technologies. The uptake in Mastodon usage given the recent twitter acquisition reminded me of this talk where he addresses some of these issues. "Never be deceived that the rich will permit us to vote away their wealth."
>> The same god that told his people to go into the populated land and to kill every last man, woman, and child.

If God appointed them to die at that time then you could argue that God's plan for their time to die was being met.

Religions do not always make sense from a modern point of view, but they can be self-consistent in interesting ways.
yawn...believe it or not, twitter was sorta a shitshow before musk bought it. Musk is being blamed for problems that have always existed, and obviously there is going to be some turbulence for such a momentous event.
As a paying customer of both, I can tell you that at this time and for the time being, it's not better, and it's, indeed, worse, and feels slower regardless of being a native app!
Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did.

Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls.

I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same.

Happy to answer any questions you may have, and grateful that you took the time to try it out.
OP appears to have attempted it.

“ One issue is that the protocol for wifi calling is notoriously opaque. Carriers frequently change the underlying infrastructure and protocol details.

Also, the protocol assumes terrestrial broadband with reasonable latency and bandwidth. At McMurdo, as of this writing, latency to terrestrial locations is in excess of 700 milliseconds. Usable bandwidth for any given end user can vary widely, down to a few dozen kilobits per second.

The protocol also doesn’t expose any useful diagnostic info to the end user in order to troubleshoot. You just have to cross your fingers that the magic “wifi calling” icon lights up.”
Jobs was no saint. But, he would never approve of an initiative that he himself wouldn’t want to use.

Schiller was the last person that had Steve’s sensibilities.
The feature I most want in a browser is for them to enable client side ssl certificates for password free signin. The UI is actually quite trivial to implement and it would turn the entire internet into a single social network, sidestepping the awfulness [1] of existing solutions like openid-connect.
[1] It's awful because it gives a company's entire customer list to google, facebook, etc. That used to be called goodwill and it is/was the lifeblood of bricks and mortar companies.
I love this. It's exactly the kind of use case I had in mind while building Nicheless. Happy that it resonates!
Well, your 6-7 cups of coffee better go to CodeEdit sponsorship, honestly!
Sad to see this. I had one of the V1 helms and it was a good, if niche, product.

We need more ideas like this in the world.
> "Let's say I pay you $10M to eat a pile of shit, then for kicks you pay me $10M to eat a similar pile of shit. You know what the end result is? The GDP has increased $20M, and we both have huge shit-eating grins".

If people were buying piles of shit for $10M, then that is what the GDP would be. That's not faking GDP.
Apologies! Trying to fix it right now!
Speed through the turn is limited by lateral forces. The wall can provide more lateral force than the tires can. Yes, there's friction, but the cars are fiberglass, it's pretty slippery against a smooth painted wall (and they have a ton of power).
Then that pretty much spells the end of true AI.

We may shift to computers that operate off of chemical signals instead of electrical ones - like the brain.
This graph shows transistors basically maintaining pace and completely disregards multi-core performance. Of course single core perf will rise more slowly when a chip now has 8-64x as many cores.
Why would you need an account switcher? Just upload your id and participate as your one true self
During the course of the race bits of rubber come off the tires and form what is basically a rubbery gravel. The racing line is cleared of it by the passage of the cars. Get down too low or up too high and you start sliding like you would on gravel. So he went high, accepted the slippery-ness and used the wall to keep him going the right direction as he kept the pedal down.

On the racing line, even with a clean track, they still need grip to turn -- he didn't.

Also to note that as it is the end of the race, they aren't on fresh tires and probably most/all of the field didn't have the full grip they would during other portions of the race.
Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
If Twitter crashes and burns, what existing or in-development social media site could "replace" it?
What makes you think he wasn’t beyond ‘sins of the father’?
Who knows what sort of tech aliens would have? I don't think this whole foray into general purpose computing was necessarily pre-destined. Maybe their whole system could look more like a bunch of strung-together ASICs. "You made your computers drastically less efficient so that anyone could program them? Why would you want your soldier-forms and worker-forms to program computers? Just have the engineer-forms place the transistors correctly in the first place, duh."
The quote doesn't say it's not a bad measure of economy, nor that it doesn't matter.
Closer with our neighbors! We have weekly happy hours at a rotating house, it's super fun. There's a group neighborhood text chat where we share bird and wildlife pics.
If you are not bundling your code to begin with which you wouldn't be without a build step; I think there are ways to reload when a file is changed. Like an extension that speaks to a file system watcher.
https://archive.ph/Gda4v
The biggest properties of HTML/Word I prefer over Markdown is that pasting/typing special characters like [] or backslashes into the graphical editor won't break formatting, and there's a standardized format with unambiguous rules to parse content so every receiving application interprets it identically. The biggest properties of Markdown I prefer is that (like HTML) it has first-class semantic code and block and blockquote sections (Google Docs only allows changing the font, unsure if MS Word has a semantic system), copying text between documents preserves meaning but not mismatched fonts/sizes/colors, and you can universally copy-paste it between apps, read it in a text editor if necessary, and diff/merge it textually.

I think there's a local optimum of markup editors, with semantic HTML as a syntax, and a graphical editor which offers code blocks and tables, but does not inject presentational tags like fonts and sizes (and optionally colors) into the document being edited and saved. I think this should satisfy most of the points I want, though it's worse than Markdown at universal semantic copy-paste, reading as plaintext, and diffing/merging. Unfortunately Qt's QTextDocument converts semantic HTML into presentational. On the other hand CKEditor (sadly JS, an example at https://pinouts.ru/edit_page.php?file=mini_pcie&lang=eng) looks promising since the editor exposes semantic tags directly on the UI, though I haven't spent much time researching.
Why is measuring productivity easier to do in the office? Don’t your coworkers have deliverables? How does being in the office make it easier to tell if those deliverables are complete?
The last 64 bits are derived from the MAC of the interface, which is quite a good idea (we probably won't see MAC exhausion because it's only two-level, and it's supposedly guaranteed unique). The stupidity lies eleswhere.

(Seriously. Just how fucking stupid do you have to be to replace a protocol whose addresses are too short, with one whose addresses are too short.)
You were probably downvoted because you made a curt statement with no backing arguments like in this follow-up post.
The earth is at best a temporary paradise, doomed to be burned up by a rogue asteroid or if it's exceedingly lucky its very own sun. Also incomprehensibly limited in the population and diversity of life it can support when compared with the universe.

How incredibly selfish of us to decide we shall be the select few that get to live on a single planet when the universe has the potential to support so many more lives.

Every second we delay, countless earth-like planets are being consumed by black holes, never to be seen again.
First I'm hearing of it, but it seems like a decent piece of hardware. If you can boot Linux on it just load it up with NextCloud and TailScale. That should get you to the same level of functionality.
Working less than 90 hrs a week is quit quitting in finance
But.. If they choose they can do this without this tool - and this does nothing to make that easier or to amplify them.

All it does is get a lawyer to contact them - which is something they could do already if they are making something up.
This was the quote that got a "are you f'ing kidding me?" from me:

> Penguin Random House lawyer Daniel Petrocelli, who defeated the government in a previous merger challenge, argued during the trial that the deal would have “enormous benefits” for readers and authors alike since the imprints, or brands, owned by the two giants would continue to compete against each other.

Glad to read in the next paragraph that Stephen King got to call that out as "ridiculous" in court.
Says who? The Twitter board of directors didn't own a lot of shares to begin with. The C-suite (as we now know) had a golden parachute which means he's going to get paid millions as long as he kept the status quo.
Dependent like a cancerous organ that is slowly killing its host, while removing might kill it immediately sure.
This is a bit head-spinning:

> "However, in four-dimensional space we can knot spheres. To get a sense of what this means, imagine slicing an ordinary sphere at regular intervals. Doing so yields circles, like lines of latitude. However, if we had an extra dimension, we could knot the sphere so the slices, now three-dimensional rather than two, could be knots."

After a little searching, here's an animated video on how to construct a 3D representation of a 4D knot... very cool and strange stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h68AxRiGxBw&t=0s
New OpenSSL 3 critical vulnerability
That's a misunderstanding of the business. All the bad stuff that happens has some reason behind it. Nobody adds recaptcha to the site because they think the users should be solving it. It takes time and money to implement, so it's done for specific reasons like spam prevention.

If you can't connect the change to "how will it benefit the company", there's no reason for the change like one described here to happen.
Lots of details from the 2018 Ars Technica review https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/review-helm-personal...
I suggest you not only look at non-profits but also worker coops, worker-controlled boards, etc. if you're interested in better incentives
What subforum of a subforum is this? I’d like to read more.

Also is this still true today?

I’m having trouble believing what I’m reading…I can’t pass a Tesla interview but I know enough to do things much better than what this engineer is describing.
Schiller took over the App Store in 2015. App Store Search Ads started in 2016.
Thank you - that is interesting.

I could only access the one article you linked https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta... which mentions: “With miles of broken or missing sidewalks, inadequate outdoor lighting, distracted drivers and wide streets that facilitate speeding, Gulfton could also be Exhibit A in what has become an alarming nationwide increase in pedestrian fatalities in recent years, disproportionately concentrated in the neighborhoods of people of color with low incomes.”

On reflection, I wonder whether there is any component of cause and effect because black people could be harder to see at night: “Pedestrian fatalities occur mostly in urban areas, at night in dark lighting conditions”, “In 2015, 74 percent of pedestrian crashes happened in the dark”.

I also assume survivability is strongly affected by age and disability.

> I do kind of question your intent or at least motivation here.

In this case I simply used poor search terms. You are violating the site guideline to “Assume good faith” when you write that. I had thought that my examples supported your paraphrased point of discriminatory death. For anti-discrimination, sometimes men and drunk people (as you rightfully reiterate) are not seen as targets.

I am generally curious about causes and effects. It is difficult to tease out the underlying reasons why we measure some clearly unfair and biased outcomes.

I heartily agree we should aim for streets to be safe for all pedestrians, whether: drunk, impoverished, man or woman, PoC, children, etcetera.
>That's not really what this site is for. Your talents would be better put to use over on Reddit, or maybe Fark.

No. You don't get it. It's literally impossible to change a mans opinion. Everyone is too biased and they have their pride tied up with their arguments. Dispassionate logic is a fantasy.

Changing someones opinion is a sign of an effective discussion. Which is basically what NEVER happens on HN. HN is just people patting each other on the back while never effectively conveying information or changing someones opinion. If your opinion changed or even if you got defensive around your position it means you learned something. The discussion was effective and Informative.

That is the purpose of HN. It's just too bad being informed that you're utterly wrong feels bad and is seen as a bad thing. It shouldn't be this way. Realizing you're wrong should be a form of enlightenment.

Also it's not a skill. Being informative is simply about being MORE correct and right then the other party and Informing them about it. Which is what happened to you.
YEET, as it were.
Not mind blowing, but calling a subroutine BURNBABY in your moon launch code is just great.

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/a13539c7c5c482...
They don’t take credit card at McMurdo, it’s cash only. There are two Wells Fargo ATMs in the main building. Cash that is spent on station gets recycled back into the ATMs. The New Zealand base does take card however.
Everybody mentions this, and what's great is that it is a pretty natural solution to a lot of problems. I remember coming up with a version of it while writing an optimized prime-sieve[1], and was surprised when I later learned that it was some named technique.

In addition to just the basic loop-unrolling (which I'm pretty sure you usually don't need to do by hand with modern compilers), it works really well when you need to jump into the middle of a pattern. Like if you're sieving primes in a wheel-factorized array.

[1] https://github.com/patricksjackson/primes-cpp/blob/master/pr...

// Here we're only checking possible primes after wheel-factorization
switch ((p.second/num)%30) do {
case 1: target->set(n); n+=num*6;
case 7: target->set(n); n+=num*4;
case 11: target->set(n); n+=num*2;
case 13: target->set(n); n+=num*4;
case 17: target->set(n); n+=num*2;
case 19: target->set(n); n+=num*4;
case 23: target->set(n); n+=num*6;
case 29: target->set(n); n+=num*2;
} while(n <= high - range.first);
Well shit. There goes that thesis.
Helm (home email appliance) shutting down
Yeah, that's what I mean. OS vendors have almost completely stagnated on UI design for nearly 20 years now.

Mozilla popularized tabbed browsing back in 2003. OS X Leopard released stacks in the dock in 2007. I'm much more of a Windows user, but I had to look up that it had taskbar grouping all the way back to Windows XP in 2001, so I don't think it was enabled by default, because I really don't recall using it until Windows 7 in 2009.

What was it about tabbed browsing that was so much better than MDI? We've had MDI available for app developers since as long as I can remember. I don't know if it was in Win3.1, but I do know I used it in Win95. I think tabbed browsing is a key linchpin in this issue because I think it created an inflection point in how many open documents a user could expect to manage with ease. Before tabs, I don't think a lot of people tried to run more than a handful of apps with multiple windows at the same time, even with MDI. Nowadays, it's not unheard of to see someone completing about their browser crashing and taking it dozens, if not low-hundreds of tabs.

So there is a huge window here that feels like the two most popular desktop OSes couldn't be counted on by cross-platform app developers to provide a good means to manage dozens of documents in working space, because their vendors just kinda sat on their hands. "You want TDI? We have MDI at home." Ooooh, transparency effects on windows. That's really improving workflow /s

Honestly, stacks and taskbar groups aren't that good. Are they kind of junk because it's inherently impossible to do at the OS level? I don't think that makes sense; it's a pretty high level abstraction. It seems much more likely that folks at Microsoft and Apple just didn't feel any pressure to dramatically improve UX. We didn't get the first major, single-page-like web apps until round about 2005, but I don't think it really took off until 2008: smartphones giving people Internet access on the go, the popularity of the iPhone giving mindshare back to Apple so they might become a desktop contender again, and the desire by many developers to never have to ever ever ever touch Java Swing again. What real innovation and proliferation have we seen in desktop OS window managers since then?

So I'm imagining an alternate universe where OS vendors didn't cede control of UI R&D to browser vendors.
I’ve done both. Vanilla is fine, but people use frameworks for a reason. They really are easier, particularly for inexperienced developers, but in general for experienced developers as well. I don’t see any reason to be snooty about not using a tool because you want to keep things simple.
But the person entering the details already thinks the person they are entering it in is guilty, so unclear why getting notified would be "conflating that with evidence of guilt in the same exact manner the articles does".

> If the article didn’t set such a good example of how to ruin an innocent person’s life

But it doesn't? The accused person is never named publicly - a lawyer is involved to help decide on next steps.

It seems you are concerned about fraudulent accusations. But this doesn't seem to do anything to make fraudulent accusations easier in any way because the public accusation is out-of-scope of what it does.
As you might have noticed, it is quite painful to fire people, and if you have a public profile (as most CEOs of large corps usually do), you get a reputation hit for being ruthless and all that stuff.

Previous management at Twitter didn't own a significant percentage of the company shares. Why be the "bad guy" when the paychecks are still rolling in? But when it's your "own money" at stake, you get much more motivated to cut unnecessary costs. Even if that makes lots of people on the Internet hate you.