skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#2 is not satisfying. The ant might not perceive humans but if the ant is not "special" then the ant should perceive tons of other life forms equivalent to its own level, across the islands that it can observe.

Resolving the Fermi paradox by appealing to hypothetical aliens who are too high for us to perceive just feels like "aliens-of-the-gaps". The number of species on Earth with human intelligence (and quantity of such individuals) is orders of magnitude less than the number with ant intelligence. Aliens more advanced than us should similarly be that much less common than us. If humanity is not special, other aliens who are more equivalent to us are still missing.
I cannot read the article due to the paywall, but just to vent.....one painful phone pet peeve for me that's declined recently is the art of people leaving a useful voice mail.

Ok, I get it. There's a few technically-challenged people that struggle with emails and texts and prefer to use their voice. I'm perfectly happy to deal with that.

But they call and leave a voice mail that focuses on the wrong information. They'll agonizingly slowly spell out their first and last name (D-as-in-dog, E-as-in-elephant, etc) and phone number (even though any digital system provides that already) but not even mention what they're calling for.

What should be a 15 second voice mail like "Hey Mark, this is Denise from the Jersey office. Please send Rachel in sales the paperwork for order #9485. Let me know if there's any problems with that. Thanks!" turns into a 2 minute long voicemail that is physically painful to listen to and that ignores the only necessary piece of information required and turns into an unnecessary game of phone tag.
Yes. And while many desktop applications will use web technologies, and all of them will use some kind of UI components, this still has nothing to do with WCAG (which is a guideline for webpages and web applications).
Additional comment, I find this confusing as well:

>> << The fed purchases treasuries in order to fulfill several different goals, all under the broader umbrella of monetary policy.
I would have been willing to accept this rationale pre-Powell tenure. His clearly political response to badgering from, at the time, Trump WH ( and then Biden WH ), made it clear to me that monetary policy is dangerously aligned with political issues ( where by design it was supposed to be apolitical or at least independent of political pressures ).

Is monetary policy no longer monetary policy simply because it is political?

This is really a rhetorical question on my end. The truth is that monetary policy is always political in nature.
Powerful words, but don't put words in my mouth. I did not say the part after the "because"; that's your message (and it's a good one!). But me; I'm just here to keep making the Internet work, in my own (tiny) way. Politicians and oligarchs will make their war and their peace, all we can do is keep working and building, hoping they don't topple it all.
Wonder if the same could be said of civilizations.
They do it through the electric engine. It's a bit of a jerky motion, like allowing 1-3 km/h over and then braking down to 20 km/h. After a while you do not even notice it.
The entire value of Uber was the app hailing (in my opinion) - the cab companies could have leaped on that but didn't.

Same with the bike rental things like CitiBike - there should be roving vans throughout the city moving and balancing the slots based on usage. They have the data, use it. They could even offer to "fix" problems (e.g., arrive at the train station and there's not a slot available? CitiBike will send a vehicle to get you to your destination within reason).
I've tested this. The fastest I could get a Voi scooter in Germany to go downhill was 27 km/h. They're limited to 20 km/h on level ground and gradually start braking if they exceed that speed downhill.

It might be possible to find a hill steep enough to overcome the braking force, or one that results in a strong enough braking force to make the scooter difficult to control, but it should be obvious to most people that attempting such a thing is dangerous.
Base16 Color Framework
I see FP [0] (and FL [1,2]) as continuations of the original APL vision – an algebra for programs.

It is really nice to see this implementation of FP and I hope it will spark interest in the community. :)

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/359576.359579

[1]: https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/trs/FLProjec...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxcT4vK01-w
All of my conservative friends live in Berkeley, attend nudist weddings, and live in Communes. Don’t yours?
That's cool. I wish this would be a thing here in Europe, but I don't think it would be workable because of hygiene.
Wikipedia for almost the past decade has reminded me of those televangelists that would beg for donations to keep the lights on and that Uncle Sam was kicking the door down to seize their assets. Then they'd drive home in a brand new Cadillac.
Water resistance != waterproofing.

There's no need for glue to ensure water resistance. With a repairable(easily opened, non-soldered parts) phone it would be much easier to repair water damage anyway if you accidentally dropped it into water or something. Most people have no need for keeping their device on them while swimming.
Blindspots like bushes and shrubs only REDUCE SAFETY. People can't see the cars, cars can't see the people. Probably 70% of the cars will slow down, making it even more dangerous with a false sense of security among pedestrians.

Since pedestrians don't have signaling apparatuses, the only way to share the parts of the road that must be shared is to clearly see everyone.
Thought it will change keybindings to be closer to nano's.
I wonder if I'll ever use a make newer than 3.81. Alas.
Tested with GMSL and no incompatibilities: https://github.com/jgrahamc/gmsl
Way more pragmatic than a single $1.7M toilet in SF (2019)
> Imagine this scenario in the not-too-distant future.

Just two paragraphs made me realise that we need a word for
pastel-shaded, drop-shadowed, near-future cringetopias set to a Brian
Eno soundtrack.

What poverty of imagination makes someone think being woken by gentle
tinkling bells and birdsong from a radar alarm clock that tracks my
breathing is anything but terrifying. I'd sooner wake up with gunshot
wounds in the trunk of a car sinking into the river. When will this
emetic, insipid, techno pamper-porn end? Give me Mad Max dragsters and
laser swords ffs.
If someone made a game where they hold up in a burger joint that had some creepy clown standing in the corner and a red bucket of fries on the menu, would McDonalds have a moral or legal right to stop that piece of art from being released?

Ikea thinks their shit doesn't stink. If he didn't use Ikea art assets in the game and didn't call the store Ikea, then Ikea should really get over themselves.
This is what I've been saying for a while would happen about when AMD ended up on TSMC 5nm if Intel was still sitting on Intel 7 (nee Intel 10nm++++++). They'd immediately lose that high margin data center money and no longer be able to keep the lights on for litho R&D exactly when they need it most to come back.
I am a little confused by his expectations. He describes it as a "what should've been a 30 minute fix patch" and "a 1700-line patchset that implements 3 kernel modules".

If he is expecting his code to be reviewed at the speed of 1 line / second, that just seems really fast for kernel C. Alternatively, if he is expecting the maintainers to not understand the details of the modules, that is something I would be uncomfortable with as a maintainer. I would want to make sure that new code meets my standards and that I understand why any complexity in the code exists.

If he is expecting his involvement in the review to only take 30 minutes that's more reasonable, but for mainlining stuff from Asahi, it seems like having upstream understand what is special about M1 is probably worth your time to explain / convince.
Not that your wrong but... high inflation will drive up the cost of Greece's debt just the same as high interest rates so they're damned either way
Yeah, that was a really weird post. Labelling Musk "abusive" and characterizing him as a "predator," and then a veiled threat about possible hacking from all of the people who have root on the boxes.
But we can for sure say what is not merit. Choosing or discriminating against a person for their race is not merit
"people yell at their TVs"

That era ended a long time ago; nobody on a percentage basis watches legacy media any more, almost everyone clicked off. The microscopic fraction of the population who still watch, actually LIKE the five permitted media stories. So changing what's produced would be very risky; might lose the very last few viewers, might not gain any return viewers.

The author is trying to do "startup strategy" in an industry that's in "shutdown mode", that's a tough one.
Well, that goes to the question of "what is does 'metaverse' mean anyway?"

I haven't seen a description of what 'metaverse' means that doesn't just describe Minecraft (which I love).
The bond that broke the internet
Right, but then you have the people that want to make all their applications according to one specific color theme, then you have the ones that make wallpapers according to the theme, even PC builders who want to have their desktops following the palette...

Anything nowadays is a community.
I don't think so, or we disagree on the meaning of words. Chunking is not message-oriented in the same sense that UDP is.

With chunking, you basically just insert markers into the stream; this does not imply by any mean that the stream has been split in multiple messages - as a matter of this is taken care of by the lower levels of the client/server, the middle/higher levels certainly don't want to deal with it. This only is a perverted solution to the problem of dynamically generated "messages" (mainly HTML pages), that has been further perverted to implement gruesomely message-oriented "protocols" (Comet and others, IIRC).

UDP, on the other hand is based on datagrams. They can be split into smaller packets on the wire but they are reassembled at the network stack level so no program can even see it happened unless they insist on it.

Websocket is much closer to a message oriented protocol over a streaming pipe than HTTP chunking is.
> kill by far the largest share of people by any transportation method.

That's only because cars are by far the largest share of transportation period.

When you normalize by looking at the death rate per person-mile, the numbers are very different. If you're trying to decide "what is the safest way to get to work", then the best numbers I could cobble together (which are not great) from a few sources are:

Deaths per 100 million miles:

Car: ~1
Bicycle: ~9
Walking: ~16
Motocycle: ~40

It's very hard to get good numbers here because most car fatality numbers also include fatalities from pedestrians and cyclists who were hit by cars.

Really, there are two different questions to ask:

1. What is the safest way for me to get to work?

2. What is the safest way for all of us to get to work?

You might assume those have the same answer, but they don't. The safest way for all of us to get to work is probably to have everyone walk and/or bike. But if you unilaterally decide to start biking or walking to work in a heavily car-dominated area, you are increasing your own personal risk unless you can find a route that separates you from the cars well.

Transportation safety is fiendishly complex and no one sentence comment on HN will capture it well.
I read somewhere that Ultima V is the last Ultima that Lord British did the majority programming work. For Ultima VI he was convinced that he need a full team to get it done.

I still think it should be rather doable (and should be done by any aspiring game programmers) for a one man team to complete a Ultima V spin-off (same graphics, same complexity but on modern platforms) nowadays. Modern computers, languages and game engines abstract away a lot of the difficulties.
Isn't Jack Dorsey already launching a clone? Blue-sky or something
My go-to was Softpro Books in Denver. I would scan the shelves at B&N and Borders too, just in case, but Softpro had a much better selection.
Really enjoyed the read and the details, but the number of words per row and thus the width of the row is straining.

In the for-loop example, I prefer that you can easier and more direct see what's going on with Svelte. The syntax is more expressive.
Intel's in trouble, but they will have no difficulty sourcing the cash for any investments that promise to reverse the trend. The terms might be better or worse, but it's not like Gelsinger is going to have a great plan that just needs $20B and it just sits on a shelf because the investment can't be sourced.
Such as intelligent life having billions of years to send probes, build powerful radio beacons, and form galactic civilizations? It is called the Fermi Paradox because the physicists did some basic calculations at how long it would take to colonize the galaxy.
Organizations that I would feel proud to work for: The Internet Archive. ISRG. Wikipedia.
Sounds like you had an exceptional experience, having seen more crashes in one week than I see in years of living here. And I promise you, I spend a lot more time on foot and on bike in the city than you do.
That's not what the GP said.

That might be what you read. In that case work on the hate and division in your heart before you preach.
I think one can be opinionated and critical without being arrogant. I do not know who the author is, but reading the post, I'm getting huge Main Character Syndrome[1] vibes. I mean, calling it "The Hero's Journey"? Seriously? Sure, buddy. The world is a story and you're the protagonist hero, venturing forth among a world of NPCs. I don't care how much of a literal genius someone is: that kind of life attitude is pretty off-putting.

1: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/digital-world-real-w...
> it's just that the Linux kernel isn't really the proper place to hack together cutting-edge shims for unsupported hardware

Presuming that the hacks only exist within a particular kernel module, and that that module only gets loaded when the given hardware is found, don't those hacks then only affect people with the (previously, and still mostly) unsupported hardware? Which — at least for hardware in the critical path to userland interactivity — is strictly better than their hardware not working at all?
Ye isn't going for revenge. Maybe he is billing it that way, but revenge requires an initial wronging, and he was never wronged by the collective Jewish people. Other people referring to him as "seeking revenge" is validating some of his false grievances.
Same thing happened in Miami - it was a great idea to have them because it really did help relieve congestion amongst the downtown and financial districts.

Then they got banned because people are idiots and rode them idiotically and left them everywhere.

The city then brought them back, put caps on their speed, forced them to be rode only on streets and financially incentivized people to leave them in predetermined drop-off areas. It lasted about 2 weeks before that was shown to not work, because, again, people didn't really pay attention to the rules (and some of the rules, such as banning them from sidewalks, are outright dumb due to the fact that dangerous wild driving on main roads is celebrated in Miami).

It really is unfortunate just like you said - because they were a real asset to public mobility.
Or half buried campfire rings (aka a repurposed truck wheel rim) hidden by the grass on the side of a hill.. I think I must have done about two flips in the air after hitting that. At least in that case I don't think I hit my head hard, I landed in the same grass which cushioned my landing, but if there had been something else hidden in the grass I might have lost more than just a bicycle wheel.
I own my own escooter and I do give a shit. Don't lump us all in together. I think people who own escooters are far more conscientious than people using rentals, and I believe a better solution is to incentivize private ownership.
Working for a game studio and launching a game is a really satisfying experience IMO

I think part of is that everyone is working on the same project and has a shared common goal of making the game as good as possible. Plus there's so many different disciplines involved, its really awesome to see everyone's combined talent come together.

And as much as there can be some negatives to gaming, I do think games and other entertainment like movies are a net good thing in the world
Zuckerberg fancies Meta is "IOI" from Ready Player One. Let's leave alone the fact that the state of the art is simply not capable with our technology.

What is the Minecraft/Roblox economy as opposed to the rest of the economy? Like .05%? Growth given the lack of actual capabilities is likely flatline.

Metaverse was obviously a BS pivot. Question is what Zuckerberg is covering up before they pivot back.
>In June, the same DHS advisory committee of CISA — which includes Twitter head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde and University of Washington professor Kate Starbird — drafted a report[1] to the CISA director calling for an expansive role for the agency in shaping the “information ecosystem.” The report called on the agency to closely monitor “social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable news, hyper partisan media, talk radio and other online resources.” They argued that the agency needed to take steps to halt the “spread of false and misleading information,” with a focus on information that undermines “key democratic institutions, such as the courts, or by other sectors such as the financial system, or public health measures.”

Soviet-tier insanity. I wonder if the Intercept article itself would've been classified as "disinformation" by these people.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23131362-june-22-202...
remix feels like the react version of htmx. I'd just use the latter, tbh.
> Banning e-scooters wholesale rather than figuring out how they can be part of a safe mobility culture is like banning combustion vehicles at the onset of the invention of cars.

Plenty of cities did just that, after a rash of pedestrian (and equestrian) deaths. What resulted was a multi-decade lobbying effort that redefined the "street" to mean a thoroughfare for combustion vehicles.

Plenty of cities are now walking back that effort and are once again banning combustion vehicles in their cores, or at least are not dedicating the space entirely to cars and trucks. A ho-hum example is Kaiserslautern, Germany, where you can drive in the city core, but it's just much more efficient to park in a lot outside the core and walk.

In the process of typing this comment, I discovered that I agree with your overall point, but I would suggest ditching the "protected lane" part and simply take away the dedicated space for cars.
Honestly kind of not remembering mobydick right now, but most likely the first one, overcoming the boogeyman, the man eating whale.

This in terms of modern news. "Clinton/Biden are Ahab." They were overcoming the monster which is trump.

In corrolary if looking at the other political spectrum. It's trump overcoming "the swamp"

Both of which are ridiculous but that's the story being spun for either side. When in reality neither is true.
The essay you linked doesn't at all convey that Wikipedia is cancer, in fact it does somewhat the opposite. A shame the title is so inflammatory and doesn't at all reflect the content.

It's in fact a seriously amazing essay, thank you for sharing it here. The 2006 Jaron Lanier essay, in addition with the 13 responses (including from Cory Doctorow and Jimmy Wales) is a golden nugget of internet history, and a snapshot of what people believed would be the future of the internet (oh boy, with 15 years of insight, there is quite a lot to say)
Zines.
Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?
After coming back from my home country where the insecurity is a big part of the daily life (armed robbery, kidnapping, murder), I started thinking of what would happen if something happened to me and how would I be able to ease the burden on my love ones to manage my digital assets (cancel subscriptions, keep my digital libraries, etc). So I ask: do you have a procedure in place to grant or transfer access in case of death?

My first idea would be using a password manager for everything, list every device used for 2SA and confine within my will a master password.
I find the lack of Bracewell-von Neumann self-replicating probes to be a convincing argument that we are the first technical civilization to at least approach the level of launching a BvN probe. (In short, the first launch of a BvN probe is basically a permanent phase change of sorts for the galaxy, one that ours has not yet undergone.)
Less clear than you might think. Choate isn't as rich as Harvard, but it's still on a tier with, say, Wesleyan (for context, not as a fair comparison), with the finaid apparatus to match. They are absolutely capable of letting you "afford" to attend if they want you there, not quite orthogonal to whether you can afford $250k/year (more than Harvard sticker price anyway) but maybe at a 60-degree angle or so.
I agree that we still have a very long way to go. I disagree that the areas of the universe that are still mysterious to us are likely to be hiding places for aliens.
People were able to re-brand "charity" to "non-profit" in the US as well -- in part because if you have a $500k salary as CEO of a charity that looks like you're taking money, but if you have a $500k salary as the CEO of a non-profit...
A brief history of Elon Musk sabotaging Matt Levine’s time off
This is pretty much the case all across Europe, where they're limited to 20-25km/h.
Is the billion in debt payments actually confirmed? That would most likely require some increase in revenue which is probably why Musk is looking into the verified twitter payment thing.
The lost art form of elaborate, pre-PowerPoint multi-image shows
There are plenty of people who suck at them, just as there are people who suck driving at cars and motorcycles. I might be OK to having a permitting system, but as well all know people still crash. Having an outright ban on scooters I think is stupid. Making all of society behave like the lowest common denominator is not a great policy.
No - they basically went on soft-strike during the BLM protests. You can run a red light in front of them and unless you hit their SUV it’s unlikely they’ll react.
Is there any market segment they are currently competitive in?

I can't think of one.

Even in their darkest days, AMD was winning the "$100-300 desktop with an integrated GPU" segment by a large price-performance margin (vs Atom processors).
> well-intentioned

I'm not so sure that's always the case.
"Any interns on that team who are going to get bullied by replits lawyers and CEO in the near future" for developing this?
OK, I mean, sure, focus on that part rather than:

>The Federal Reserve Banks are not a part of the federal government [...]
There are definitely some Elon Musk fanboys out there. They're just not on HN.

What's kind of annoying is that as a Tesla owner, many people assume I'm an Elon fanboy. Nah, I don't really like him. I applaud his ability to take risks, but I wish he'd shut the hell up sometimes.
For $1500. Who's buying?
Tooling wise, a Mac IIcx, a 'full page' portrait display, Think Pascal and a complete set (vol. I to III at the start) of 'Inside Macintosh' books were programming nirvana.
> I could list a half dozen languages that don't have multiple implementations (Rust, Java, Scala, C#, PHP, Go) and yet I've never seen anyone raise that as a concern.

That's because you're misinformed! These languages all have multiple implementations (Scala's is just multiple backends), so yeah people don't complain about it.