skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience the rise of GUIs over TUIs they lost the command buffering. If you knew what you were doing with a well designed TUI you could hit a sequence of keys that would be buffered and "replayed" as the next screen(s) loaded. Hit a sequence of commands in a GUI and they'll just get lost after the first one as the app/website loads.
I thought this would be myths about myths, but it's actually facebook gossip.

Does anyone know any interesting myths about myths?
This should be marked as [2014]
A common example is "lines of code". If you pay by lines of code, then coders will bloat up code to pad their metrics, making it verbose and redundant.
Breaking into someone's house and assaulting them with a hammer is already illegal. This is also an isolated incident and not a pattern of behavior.
G and bananas stuff as usual
Zdogg, MD made my day!
> I think the extension could communication with its containing app, but the system is not set up to do that.

and on iOS, the containing app is likely not running (in a GUI context).

Typically, the extension is its own small program bundled within the app. The app can be run by an end user, while the extension can only be invoked via the extension mechanism.
This is a pertinent comment and I hope the plugin author takes it into consideration.
Nobody has a right to city-subsidized on-street parking. In most cases there is considerably more off-street parking than needed, not to mention easy opportunities to park within transit/bike/modest walking distance, and removing street parking removes a significant portion of congestion and pollution because you don’t have guys driving around for 20 minutes looking to save a couple bucks, or blocking a traffic lane while they spend 5 minutes trying to inch their Denali into a Camry-sized spot.
The Peter Norvig spellchecker: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

I like it because it's so clearly coded - there are no crazy syntax tricks or hacks - it's just obviously the right way to write it. And yet it is compact, elegant and non-obvious if you are writing it yourself.
I also thought so when I came across it. But then I remembered that to modify the 'Send To' items in the context menu, I needed to type 'shell:sendto' in the 'run' box. I'm assuming it's the same thing you're referring to. So, I guess it's from that.

Anyway, a great piece of software.
>How would you evaluate an early-startup in the first place to build that motivation?

Lots of equity. (If you’re pre-funded you can’t offer good salary)

> And also, what would repel you from applying at an early-stage startup?

Not having lots of equity. Lots of pre-revenue roadmaps instead of figuring out how to charge early. (Unless it’s a social network)
I’m not sure it was a mistake though. You have to ask yourself what marks goals are here. To me, being cash flow positive is pretty far down the list. Meta could have results like the one last week for a decade and mark would still be a billionaire. He’d still be the ceo of his company. Pleasing Wall Street is not a priority for him. To me the main goals here are first creating a hardware platform meta controls in order to ensure his company can’t be destroyed by other companies taxing him like apple did, and second I do think that mark is legitimately committed to connecting people whatever that means to him. Reality labs still seems like a good way to accomplish these goals even if it isn’t financially worth it.
Napoléon
It is surprising how no one is talking about the productivity loss due to social media & entertainment. I feel most people now spend a considerable amount of time on social media, entertainment on both personal & work time. I am not saying companies should impose restrictions on employees but we are living in a generation of 24x7 entertainment. We are definitely less creative and productive compared to workers 20 years ago.
I like Bhutan's constitutional adoption of "Gross National Happiness" as an alternative:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness
Russia is a country of 140 million people. You must understand that it is not possible or sensible to suggest that Vladimir Putin spends day and night orchestrating and micro-managing the luck, life, fortune and misery of every single person in Russia.
Yeah, sure. It's super easy to avoid gainful employment. Based on this comment I can already tell you're a genius.
I wasn't aware this was part of a larger pattern of assaults on politicians in the US. Link?
I love pico-8, but it’s never really seemed like a VM to me—at least in the sense that there are virtual instructions running in the background. It feels more like the constraints and memory mapping are integrated into an event loop with a Lua API to interact with the “machine”. Does anyone know precisely how the internals work?
"ir_black" is the colorscheme I've come back to most often. Came across it a decade or so ago, and there's something about this scheme that's appealed a lot to me (I think it's something to do with the color palette being in-sync with my mental model of programming constructs?) and it's been my primary colorscheme since.

Available on vim [1], iterm [2] and VSCode as well [3]

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[1] https://vimcolorschemes.com/twerth/ir_black

[2] https://github.com/pnasrat/iTerm-2-Color-Themes/blob/master/...

[3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gerane.T...
Destroying modern cosmology is constructive! They can't lose their cosmology, because hundreds of years will come due if that happens. Because theirs spins whole fake world, but it really provides no meaning, only fantasies (aliens, black holes, worm holes, weird mathematical phenomena played out in the model).

The modern scientific and academic system is hundreds of thousands of people who are not there to challenge knowledge, but play with models for tax dollars. I'd rather destroy their models and send them home than prove my own, for they would only appropriate mine into their models, and continue their deception with more power for knowing the truth.

I could tell you the truth, and we could work to validate it, but you won't believe me without what, science based on measuring the sky? Yet you buy their science which I can invalidate, and you can't validate beyond pointing to "what scientists believe". So that tells me, there's no point in making a better model right now. One good shot will kill their cosmology, and then the bottom will be out and we can put the cosmos back, together.

You can wait and see tho, stay believing we will go to Mars, you will die with that dream unrealized. Were you born yesterday you will die before humans go to mars. Unless you think Mars is WAR, like people did before rulers changed the meaning of things. In that case, we are definitely going to Mars.

Galileo was the point when the narrative changes from "we matter to god as the center of the universe", to this heat death nihilism. Why, because telescopes? I don't buy it. They could have smote Galileo and kept the old doctrine intact. I suspect something bigger...
GPD is also personal choice. There's no Grand Law of the Universe which says GDP should be the primary metric. Its importance is an invention of human minds, out of either human nature and/or historical happenstance.
The "demographic window" created by policies that none of said people voted for?
The downvote answers that lol
I'm not a Tesla fanboy, but come on. The model Y is the best selling car currently in Germany
Ken Thompson's self-perpetuating hack on the c compiler and login.c to create a back door that is invisible in the compiler source code and the source code of login.c. Described in his Turing Award acceptance speech, "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
Ask HN: What to do about Childline sending kids to YouTube?
childline.org.uk uses YouTube for all its videos and asks kids to join their channel [1].

My complaints to them to ask them to stop have failed, so here I am looking for ideas from the community.

YouTube's own terms advise (apart from YouTube Kids) YouTube is for over 13s and under 18s must have parental permission. [2]

In 2019 I complained to Childline about their integrations with Facebook and YouTube [3].

Firstly, (and hopefully now removed), their site included ad tracking of kids whilst they sought help on their site.

But also, that YouTube wasn't appropriate for their audience. [3]

To understand...

In fresh browser profiles (no history, cookies, etc) visit Childline and their videos offer links to click through to Youtube.com - from there follow the content and adverts they show.

I quickly ended up in looping video recommendations (is Youtube broken) so repeated the experiment a few times and discovered ad content varied from the benign (finance products kids can't use and infant toys) to the weird (hypnosis therapy) to stuff that might not be quite right for kids with certain problems: diet pills, hair loss pills and high sugar drinks.

Luckily, the recommended video content I looked through wasn't too bad.

But, to recommend Youtube to kids who may well be online alone (Childline is a confidential service), means to recommend a platform that includes a whole variety of content they may end up on and there's some pretty gruesome stuff [4][5] on Youtube.

If you search online for social media harms for kids there's a load of research about why sites like YouTube are not great for kids (or adults, but we can look after ourselves) including its very nature being addictive... and for many kids they likely can navigate the risks, but kids using Childline are more likely to be kids who need a safe place and not needlessly directed towards something like YouTube.

Also, why would a children's charity want kids in a bad place to look at content published by an ad network that re-targets them on viewing habits? Before the internet, if kids had problems you'd recommend them to get advice confidentially from a professional healthcare worker, counsellor, doctor, priest, etc; not go ask the local landlord for a bunch of leaflets they've got behind the bar which Childline dropped off; which feels like the kind of habit we now have with kids going to YouTube for advice.

1: https://www.childline.org.uk/toolbox/videos/
2: https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms
3: https://markalanrichards.com/posts/2019-03-17-ad-tracking-of-childline/

The following content is not friendly to any age, but shows some risks for what kids can find:
4: Drill Rap murderers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7gJQJl7YA
5: Video game decapitations? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzI-Acv3Ss
This kind of reminds me of the same attitude engineers (I can't speak for other cohorts) had about Apples appstore rules. It is a private entity. It is apple. Apples cares about it's users. Use something else. Yada yada yada. Now the same engineers complain about how unfair and monopolistic it is. Different horses for different courses!
Financial and legal hardship data are often insufficient. For instance, see the various examples listed in https://twitter.com/samspital/status/1587084634193596419 (citations in footnotes around PDF page 23 of https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-07-22-FINAL...).

I'd certainly like to live in a world where students of the same age, with the same family income/savings etc., with the same teachers and classrooms, with equally supportive parents, would have equivalent opportunities throughout their K-12 careers. In such a world, I would indeed be the one "perpetuating bias" with my comment. But we live in a world where the race of those students, controlling for everything else, is statistically shown to have an impact on things we'd generally agree are an important part of a child's learning experience.

Now, we might reasonably disagree on whether admissions departments are overreaching in trying to ensure that their merit-based decisions take these factors into account. And we might reasonably disagree as to whether the government should have the ability to intervene if such overreach were found to exist. But the idea that any of this is only being done to perpetuate bias, ignores the fact that bias already exists.
Congrats on this launch. Super valuable product
Just did a quick test comparing WEBP and JXL when saved at a file size equivalent to JPEG quality 90.

WEBP has blurry chroma, looking like it's subsampled then upscaled.
The chroma on JPEG-XL is trying to be full resolution, and if you look at the chroma in isolation, it looks a bit blocky, but it's not blurry at all.
When spam started to flood the early internet, it wasn’t from the BRIC countries.
I mean $7.25 is completely inaccurate, and that’s my bad. What I really mean to say here is that it feels like the whole non-C-level part of the work force is disincentivized to try hard, because C-level pay is hyper-inflated. Workforce get stiffed on ownership of the companies they participate in. Completely.

1) the first start up I ever joined, I ended up owning 10% of the platform and grinding frequent 70+ hr work weeks. I desperately wanted to spread my wings and make suggestions (you know, career advancement type bullshit) but I was consistently treated like I had only been hired because there was a talent shortage, and that I was expected to follow orders and shut the fuck up. Execs sold the company 3 years later for $50M. I got $6,000 from the deal.

2) Amazon is a multi trillion dollar company, with huge talent sourcing issues. Why? Employees are grist for the mill. When I interviewed, beginning SE’s were salary capped and offered a tops of $40k in stock options that vested over 4 years. Most devs don’t last more than 2.

These can’t be unique stories. I’m of the opinion that money and control need a fierce decoupling. I’d give a shit about implementing big visions if I were treated like it matters that I care and if I were presented a fair stake in the company. Until then, I’m going to worry about pursuing my personal projects more often than not.
It's not China or Russia's fault. It's the consequence of the ideology that says common people are too stupid to make the right choices in their own best interests and there must be an inner group of enlightened know-it-alls that make all their decisions for them that leads to these kinds of totalitarian outcomes.
Yup. There is simply no way we can replace GDP with another metric. There's always a thousand smartasses who say the unemployment rate is fake. It's not fake, it's an indicator and can never tell a complete story. Employment, economic activity, inflation, trade are all drowning in data points that inform some specific minutiae.

The solution is to not base policy on indicators but politics needs to keep things simple.
I see you've never run an email provider.

Back when I was at university, 18 years ago, they told me their filters were blocking a thousand messages per day per student.

At my current workplace, scammers guessed my email address in the first month.

"Aliases" is a solution to neither of these situations.
Man, nonsense is just what you've spouted. One name vs hundreds of thousands afflicted from burnout and inept social skills with a challenging social reality in which they struggle to rebuild them in. I would seriously hate to work with you based on how much of a dumbass you definitely are.
The silliness of GDP is one of the worst-kept secrets in politics and economics. It's like measuring the quality of a car by how fast it's going.
What I suggested is playing politics. Being so direct and about your ploy won't get you in the club. Create leverage before you try a power move.
And it had it's downside too.
- Developing on DOS with non-networked machines. (OK,l one job was on a PDP-11/23)
- Subversion (IIRC) for version control via floppy - barely manageable for a two person team.
- No Internet. Want to research something? Buy a book.
- Did we have free S/W? Not like today. Want to learn C/C++? Buy a compiler. I wanted to learn C++ and wound up buying OS/2 because it was bundled with IBM's C++ compiler. Cost a bit less than $300 at the time. The alternative was to spend over $500 for the C++ compiler that SCO sold for their UNIX variant.
- Want to buy a computer? My first was $1300. That got me a Heathkit H-8 (8080 with 64 KB RAM) and an H19 (serial terminal that could do up to 19.2 Kbaud) and a floppy disk drive that could hold (IIRC) 92KB data. It was reduced/on sale and included a Fortran compiler and macro-assembler. Woo!
The systems we produced were simpler, to be sure, but so were the tools. (Embedded systems here too.)
The miller operates the mill to provide his value.

What does the landlord do? The miller isn't merely holding a millstone captive, he (or another miller) is required to operate it.

If the miller dies, someone else has to operate the mill. What happens when a landlord dies? What meaningfully changes?
The Guardian does something similar.
I miss that ability to just pass whatever around easily in JS.

Ok… it’s Footgun prone and callback hell is real.

But I still try to obtain that in other more boring language.
Who else will host their videos for free?
KDE uses gpu acceleration for its ui. So that should be a negligible impact on performance. I am unsure about if you even have shadows with CPU rendering.
> wishful thinking

I have no stake in the matter. My supposition that some employees simply stopped working comes from my experience seeing similar things happen at other companies during periods of uncertainty, and from my knowledge that quite a few twitter employees were very uncertain about their future with twitter.
Before writing might be a bit early, but before finishing and producing is useful as it can be listed early in catalogs for preorder. Getting the ISBN earlier probably is cheap and allows the publisher to use the ISBN as identifier for the whole project.
The guys a fucking dumbass. Don't waste your breath. We work surrounded by these idiots on a daily basis. Baton down the hatches and kill on sight. The guys a retard.
Sure. But a code review of their checkins will reveal their productivity pretty quick. Any one claiming 10x (or even 0.75x) productivity would want some very good supporting evidence if they have zero activity in the source control for a month. You want some great specification documents or API documentation or platform architecture diagrams or something…
This is all hypothetical though since there aren't censors
Both Win10 and Win11 will draw outline using accent color if you enable "Show accent color on title bars and windows borders".

There are also tools to configure it further.
As someone who programmed COM back in the day for C++ applications, I can tell you definitively that you got no benefits over other languages outside of brittle macros and non-standardized Visual C++ compiler magics.

Especially once you crossed over into Office/VB land, and everything was just IDispatch, Variants, BSTRs and SafeArrays.
As the article correctly mentions, GDP is analogous to a company revenue. It doesn't directly reflect the profit, but it is an objective metric which is relatively easy to reason about.
I didn't do anything with digital things yet, although I've created a doc (literally just an email) with "where to look for my money just in case":

- insurances

- bank accounts

- stocks

with names of institutions, emails etc.

This is especially tricky since I live abroad in a country whose language no one else from my family speaks; so I included some links to a list of dual-language lawyers who could potentially help handling the cases; plus contact points to a few close friends who could be of help too.
The Human Development Index is another good alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
interesting. thanks for your reply
Also liberalism continues to power the most peaceful and prosperous regions in the world. Giving up on it because illiberalism is on the rise is equally as stupid.
Maybe it's splitting hairs, but there is COVID, and then there's COVID policies and reactions. It's sad, but with various kinds of stimulus (extra child tax credits, the COVID checks) people on the bottom of the economic totem pole were actually more flush than before COVID. Add in the shutdowns with schools and it just made more economic sense for someone to stay home with the kids than beforehand.

Some, I'm sure, were also scared (some cases rightly, in others in spite of being in a statistically 'safe' demographic). In summation, I suspect that the labor force contraction was more from the reaction to COVID than people just becoming chronically ill and disabled. I sure hope that's the case, time will tell.

I don't think we're disagreeing on what the numbers say, perhaps just on what we attribute the drivers for those numbers. We have a lot of different polities (US states, foreign governments, even school district to school district) where different policies were put into effect. I hope we crunch the hell out of these numbers and learn some lessons about whatever response was the best for human welfare. It's going to have to be a retrospective thing, as longer term loss from chronic illness (if it turns out that COVID does cause this in some percentage of the population) and learning loss, psychological effect, etc, etc.

I fear there will be more pandemics in the future. I hope we can have a sober analysis of which harms were caused by what turned out to be erroneous policy and what harms we failed to prevent so in a future pandemic we can act in whatever way best safeguards human welfare. I sadly expect that the answers will make everyone look bad at least some of the time and for partisan reasons we won't look at this though.
Yes we should for all the reasons already outlined.

It isn't the popular speech that needs protecting.
Oh nice, I didn't realize it was a custom format.
profunctor optics.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

Modern phased arrays can have independent transmitters (synchronized digitally or with digital signal distribution) or you can have one 'cheap and stupid' transmitter and many receivers, doing rx beamforming, and as for complexity you mostly 'just' need to synchronize them (precisely). The receivers can then be made on the very cheap and you need some signal distribution for a central signal processor.

Non-linear or sparse arrays are also now doable (if a bit tricky to calibrate) and remove the need for complete array or rigid substrate or structure.

If you imagine the car as a multistatic many-small-antennas system there's lots that could be done. Exploding the RADAR 'box' into its parts might make it all far more interesting.

I'll admit I'm way over my head on the industrial aspects, so thanks for the reality check. Just enthusiastic, the underlying radar tech has really matured but it's not easy to use if you still think of the radar as one box.
Is that the reason GDP is silly though? Under the assumption that the car will attempt to go as fast as capable (not usually true for cars, plausibly true for an economy) and that the capability is a measure of quality (true for both), GDP serves as a nice proxy for something we do care about.
How is that different than what landlords do? Genuine question.
Looking at the screenshots, I have to disagree; these really do look bad enough to make the difference between the game succeeding and failing.
> With one flip of a switch, Apple wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars. The entire business of a company. This is monopoly.

You can easily re-frame this as: with the flip of a switch Apple single handedly stopped anti-consumer practices by some of the most manipulative and nefarious companies in the world, like Facebook.

Companies don’t have some inherent right to exist. Facebook turned off their game integrations and killed thousands of companies overnight. And that doesn’t make either a monopoly. None of your statements add up to the other.

> At no point in American history has a company had this much power.

This is funny. Google has more power by a large margin (influencing opinion, killing off entire industries on a nearly yearly basis), and has engaged in much more nefarious anti-competitive behavior.