skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you classify Genode wrt being a multiserver?
Curious: what kind of board games do you play?

Also: have you considered the possibility that they might not be "close friends", as you describe them? What makes you say they are? Just interested in your answer, not wanting to demolish your point of view.
Monopolies like this are pretty strange. It's the same for Match.com buying every dating app to ever exist.
I've been lucky, starting young, early industry, eager to please, and willing to work on interesting over a better salary:

* I was a beta tester and original 3rd party developer for the Mac, in '83, a year before the Mac's release; (Everything was written in assembly at that point.)

* I worked for DeVanney & Mandelbrot on their original Fractal Mathematics publication, the work later became the book Beauty of Fractals.

* Back when the Mac was new and there were many DOS GUIs floating around, before Windows 3.1 became the standard, I wrote the "official" in-house DOS GUI for AT&T internal use. I wrote that in '88, and it was their in-house GUI for about 5 years.

* I co-wrote the video subsystems for both the 3D0 and the original PlayStation. That was a two very different adventures.

* I was on the first Tiger Woods PSX Golf game dev team, the one with the South Park animation (for reals accidentally) left on the published CD. I wrote the front-end using an opinionated framework I made, which went on to be used by several E.A. titles.

* I was director of research for the first Internet Live Video Infrastructure provider. Wrote code that got patented, stewarded the patent process, produced live shows. This was '99.

* Worked in VFX on some milestone films, such as Chronicles of Narnia, both as a digital artist and as a financial analyst. Two Oscars were won during my time at R&H. I was doing an MBA at the same time my later period there. I wrote a production resources forecasting system that would be called a deep learning trained algorithm today, but I wrote it in 2001. Used on 9 major release features.

* I created, patented, and went bankrupt trying to commercialize what are now called deep fakes. I was too early, with a working patented system in '08. Financial crisis plus no one believed the tech was possible at that time, and those that did wanted to do porn, which I & my team refused to produce. That was hard, 'cause it worked, but humans are like cats...

* After that I was principal engineer on a globally leading enterprise FR system. Did that for 7 years to dig out of bankruptcy. That was stressful and I quit 1.5 years ago.

Yeah, I'm both lucky and overly ambitious. I'm currently taking a boatload of DL/ML & Docker/K8 classes, preparing to make something that combines my history and skills.
Trying to sell people a knockoff food 'delicacy' seems akin to trying to get people to buy cubic zirconia instead of diamonds or pyrite instead of gold. That is, the knockoff could be almost indistinguishable from the real thing but people are going to prefer the genuine article anyway.

I personally enjoy the oysters at my local fish shop, when i happen to be there on their 'oyster day' and they have them laid out on ice. If it weren't for that, oysters would never enter my psyche; I've never been at the supermarket thinking damn I'm really craving oysters. And if I did happen to see a bag of oysters next to a bag of foysters in the freezer section, you can bet I'm not buying either. I cant be alone on this.
I am going to repeat myself here. You wrote: <<Canada’s capacity is amongst the least in G20 nations.>>

Not even close.

Quick Google search for "icu beds per capita" finds: https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/intensive-...

Canada: 12.9 / 100K population (slightly higher than OECD average)

For the record, it is usually better to quote "OECD" than "G20". G20 just means total GDP is large, but GDP per capita can be very low, like India, Indonesia, and China. OECD is always (democratic and) high-income -- high GDP per capita. For example: Nederlands, Norway, and Switzerland are all OECD, but none G20. All are very high income and high human development.
Show HN: Given two bios, get AI generated conversation starter suggestions
We have a model of physics which is pretty accurate. The engineers who designed the skyscraper did not even use this model, they used a much simpler one, with known errors. Why? It is simply good enough™. But you can't claim it is even "true" when we know more accurate methods.
Google still uses page rank? I would think it would be using some vector search for most relevant? Or maybe page rank score is a feature
-- used to be escooter hell in Seoul - the government passed a law requiring the apps to make sure the user has valid driver license to unlock scooter - since then - considerably less insane --
I've just came up with two more: Solitaire and Minesweeper.

People love this programs so much that MS added them to their dreaded Teams. Now you can have truly productive meetings!

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/16/23462041/microsoft-teams...
thank you - any guess on the requests/second?

and what about the origin behind the cdn? seems like that it’s still rather critical and would have migrated multiple physical hosts over the past 30 years.

This sort of thing is fascinating and I do something similar at a much smaller scale at day job, keeping a simple service running that enables the rest of the stack to survive.
There used to be a place in London’s Borough Market that would sell you half a truffle in a jam jar for a tenner. Best gourmet treat I’ve ever bought, and as authentic as it gets.
IDK, it seems easy to imagine an alien mathematics based only upon continuous values? There's nothing obviously universal about discretizing things.
Good. All Section 230 did was grant safe harbor which created the massive consolidated, extractive, and exploitative megacorps we see today.

We would have figured it out naturally as we do other things. Instead, lawmakers forced the internet in an unnatural direction.
Ticketmaster is a monopoly and they maintain this through monopolizing venues. The US has seen this kind of monpoly before and it led to antritrust action, notably in US v. Paramount Pictures [1], which led to the forced separation of studios, theaters and distrbituion. It should be a clear model that Ticketmaster should not be able to own or have exclusive deals with any venues.

The dirty little secret of Ticketmaster is that most artists actually like that Ticketmaster exists. Why? Because they are sort of a reputational sacrificial anode. They are the token bad guys.

Imagine if a band started selling tickets for $300. Fans might complain and the artists might look bad. They don't want that. But if they charge $150 and Ticketmaster charges $100 in "fees" then Ticketmaster are the bad guys. The artists take no heat from that.

So the second thing we need is transparent pricing. There should be absolutely no fee sharing between Ticketmaster and artists because that's what happens now. It's the same as "fuel surcharges" on plane tickets. That too should be illegal. The ticket just costs more. That's it.

The third leg of this are the ticket reselling sites that fuel demand. Another dirty little secret is that the artists themselves sell tickets directly on these sites too. On the principle of transparent pricing I'd like to see this outlawed too. But again artists like to just blame this on Ticketmaster and Stubhub.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
Thanks, I missed that part.

But also it appears you missed that these changes aren't noticeable:

> Using a 12-bit colour depth limits the available colours, so slight changes to hue, chroma, and luminance must be made, but these are small enough not to be noticeable.

Again, I don't think it's about saving the disk/network the 3 characters. It's about minimalism and perhaps about developer experience: these colours are easier to read, write, and remember. Is that worth nothing?

Perhaps you use a CSS preprocessor and can define variables for your colours and don't need to write them down repeatedly. But perhaps other people don't. Or perhaps they're porting a colour scheme to many different applications. In these cases, three letter colour codes are superior to six letter ones.
> Good vegetarian meals are practically art in terms of their combinations of textures and flavors, not to mention colors. But they take a lot more skill to make, so people rarely encounter them.

Indian food is vegetarian almost by default, has a spectacular variety, and doesn't rely on meat substitutes at all. This, of course, is after having developed and iterated a culture of vegetarianism over almost four millennia (the Ṛgveda mentions abstention from meat consumption, and was likely composed in 1900 BCE – 1700 BCE).

This vegetarianism is a result of the Indian religions' tenet of ahiṃsā, or non-violence.

From pani puri to paneer, and from sambar to sarson ka saag, I feel like everyone should look at Indian food to see exactly what 'vegetarian food variety' is.

There's something for everyone: sweets, spicy (no, not all Indian food is diarrhoea-inducingly piquant), sour, savoury, bitter, stews (also called 'curries' in Anglosphere countries), stir-fried dishes, rice dishes, snacks—the sheer diversity is endless.

Honourable mention to Chinese and South-East Asian cuisine, which do use meat analogues, and developed a breathtaking variety of 'mock meats' centuries ago, and developed their own vegetarian cultures from Buddhism (an offshoot of Hinduism anyway, and therefore an export of Indian culture).

It's a very Western thing to eat so much meat, every meal of every day. More than one-third the population in India calls themselves 'vegetarian' (that's more vegetarians than the rest of the world, combined); the proportion of meals that are vegetarian anyway is significantly higher, approaching 80% or so[1].

Note that in India, 'vegetarian' typically means 'lacto-vegetarian and stricter' (includes veganism and Jain vegetarianism[2], which excludes root vegetables and the alliums).

Seriously, Western people: make Indian food.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/08/eight-in-te...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism
HN isn't just links. It's also discussion threads.
It is centralized in that these links and discussions don't happen in some abstract cloud that's not strictly limited to this instance managed by our BDFL
“Apes don’t read philosophy.”

“Yes, they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.”
If someone tries to argue that Twitter isn't centralized, I don't think they really understand what centralization means.
SV startups, founders, and investors don’t believe in anything except money.

How many times do we hear about a company completely switching what they do (“pivoting”) because it will make them more money?
If I'm wrong, correct me. I think they're using vector search to find relevant documents, but there's a possibility that page rank may be one of the factors for reranking documents.
Not sure if that's true. Do you think billionaires and state leaders are going to eat vat meat? It's about planning how the majority of people (us plebs) are going to live, it doesn't necessarily mean they want to live like that. And however radical or authoritarian their ideology could possibly become, even someone like Kim Jong-un has plenty of luxury.

I think what most of us agree on, whether we're rich or poor is that there are massive environmental problems which are only get worse the more people there are - and in the last couple of generations there's been a population explosion. Now the question is how do we decide what to do about it. The problem with groups like the WEF is that they're elitist and fundamentally undemocratic, not that they're looking for alternatives to conventional meat. These people want to decide for us and rule over us. There is no plan to give regular people agency in deciding our future, it's rich folks, corporations and state leaders (many of whom are unelected or sham elected) planning global governance and the future of our world.
> All that a lottery does is incentivize everyone to participate, even those who have no interest in going. Then a secondary market will engage in actual price discovery and you’re left with the current system.

How would the secondary market work if you have to put peoples names on tickets upon buying the ticket. No renames allowed (bring your name change deed poll and old and new IDs I guess). Can’t make the concert? Tickets can be refunded for the original price (maybe minus a token handling fee), and the ticket goes back into the next lottery sale pool.
This reminded me a little of Hedy language:

https://www.hedycode.com/

It starts off super simple, like:

print something

and then introduces all the fiddly concepts like quoting, escaping etc. 1 by 1 until it turns into python.

The designer had a neat talk about it at the strange loop conference.

One of the themes they talk about is the difference between "easy to learn" and "easy to teach" which I found insightful.

https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2022/hedy-a-gradual-programmi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmF7HpU_-9k
We are not at war.
Clippy's not dead.

https://www.slashgear.com/1102367/microsoft-is-reviving-clip...
Tornado cash never went down. It continues to operate.
> what's stopping hackers from […]

Why would they want to?
"There has been a lot of secrecy enshrouding the whole game for a long time."

Now I'm imagining a Truffle Mafia/ Mushroom Cartel, with mushroom goon squads, fungi warehouses, and done up in gaudy suits & ostentatious furs.
And yet, Go AIs are now unbeatable by humans. This demonstrates that "solved" is unreasonable and unnecessary.
Wow, this is a great post. I never knew about this NHS programme. I wish I had the same where I live.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/end-of-life-care/advance-decis...

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/end-of-life-care/advance-state...

At the risk of sharing some PII, are you willing to share some of the conditions that you set?
I think it’s mostly because going to a concert is a luxury.

Sure, it’s a monopoly, but the worst case scenario here is that some people won’t get to see Taylor Swift live.
Science can also not identify falsehoods, it can only shift confidence.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to understand that the previous marker of authority regarding news: "published in a newspaper" completely lost all its meaning as the blogosphere exploded, and publishing costs on the internet went to near zero. Kind of why I find the pearl clutching over substack hilarious, as if having a third party website sell ads on a writer's blogpost signals they are much more worthy of authority.

I think the air of authority these academic journals get is the next domino to fall. Get ready for a lot of "we used AI to write an academic paper and it got published in this journal" stories.
I did not mean to negatively judge your post. After all the title does explain that it's about a kernel parameter, which is probably enough information; telling which specific one it is could even possibly be less estetic.
its a shame because the scooters are by far tge most compact mode of transport, but are clearly tge worst in braking performance, safety, everything.

i also regularly see people on monowheels, they seem totally mad
Qatar World Cup Exposes Soccer's Shame
Really cool stuff. It still uses GCC, which itself is several million lines of code. I wonder if they have a desire to port to something like QBE (~12k line backend) and cproc (~8k C frontend for QBE).
Look at what legislatures do vs what "people" say. Lots of stupid stuff gets said, but in the end the only concrete measures are the continued subsidization of meat and making it illegal for vegan substitutes to be called "meat" or "milk" or similar.

That's one of your straw men, that the elite are working towards banning meat. In reality, 99/100 of the elite enjoy steak. They may pretend otherwise when giving speeches to certain crowds, but look at what they do, not what they say.
hmmh, what I got out of it was a little different ... simple deterministic systems can have surprisingly complex emergent behavior that is quite hard to predict.

normally, if you disturb a system three things can happen, it can be stable, it can explode, or it can oscillate. corresponding to e^x where x is a complex number or a matrix.

but actually in the liminal area at the edge of cyclical behavior there is a mode that is neither cyclical nor stable and it happens quite a bit and is responsible for many interesting and important phenomena and systems.

there isn't much regularity, the only way to predict is a model of the evolution of the whole system which is highly sensitive to small disturbances or measurement errors.
Yup. It's your ass - take care of it. You have a 20-40 year career ride (shorter if you hit it big, otherwise welcome to the long haul). People will look to consume you, and compensation helps but remember you have to live (or survive) as well as work. Ideally, you do what you like or at least do something that you're willing to get out of bed each day for.

Business, particularly larger business, will just get another one when you leave or burn out.
Going to a concert is a pure luxury. It's like getting excited that Champagne is too expensive - not really a working person's problem, and I'm not sure pure luxuries need government intervention in the same way as communication systems do.
Thanks. I've spent a few minutes on them while I did my research.

I got the impression that I need to install some software or integrate them into my backend. They are more like system monitor. Maybe I was wrong. That's not how I wanted do it.

I hope to upload my nginx logs and get the results immediately.
Gee, that kind of sounds like we should ban advertising and tracking in general.
If anything deserved the black bar it was this. Shameful that it didn’t happen.
>The big unanswered question is how they'll manage to stay good given the obvious incentive of abusing this setup.

Why do you think they're still "good"? CloudFlare has chosen to abandon sites that held free speech (abhorrent speech, but still free speech) while still protecting forums upon which credit cards and methamphetamine were listed for sale on the front page.

To me, that's not a sign of a "good" actor.
TS is more in the "mixed feelings" department, imho.

I would take Scala.js anytime instead. (If I would need to do front-end ever again).

https://www.scala-js.org/
> It's also not at all comparable to the repo for WSL in the top post (which is literally just a couple of text files, a handful of scripts, and a binary release - which I'd certainly agree is not really open source).

"The source is right fucking there" too even in that case. Do you see that the point is how much of the product is actually open source versus how much is not? What I have said is that a lot of people overestimate how much of VS Code is open -- and this applies even to yourself: in your initial post you thought the only closed parts were "some which required 3rd party online services", but actually almost everything from the IDE is closed, even stuff like debugging that does not even remotely involve 3rd parties nor online services. You have been mislead by MS yourself, yet you still claim that what they're doing is not misleading.

> I'm not really sure how you can possibly portray having the literal buildable source present as misleading.

Yet you understand how the "WSL" example is misleading too. It's literally the same thing just moved even more to the extreme. They put some "source" which is literally a negligible portion of the binaries they ship. Sure it is buildable, otherwise it wouldn't even qualify as source.

> Is it misleading that I can purchase binary software designed to run on my open source linux distro?

This analogy is absolutely broken. First, the binary software would have to be 1st party. Second, the binary part should be practically larger than the otherwise open-source distro itself. Third, it would have to be required to use this binary software to do almost anything _of value_ with the distro itself. Fourth, the differences between the open source and closed source parts must be diffuse (e.g. shipped as part of the same binary package, automatically downloaded, at zero cost, etc.). And fifth, the distro must still advertise itself as a "open source" product. Then you would have the correct analogy.
Okay that should be my last reboot for a while, I've got it ready how I'd like it for now, feel free to give any feedback!
How about clocks on Mars? Should these have Earth leap seconds? Time synchronization is already hard enough, complicating it with adjustments based on uneven planetary body movements doesn’t make much sense in a long term.
Wickr Me is shutting down December 31, 2023
A hold my beer moment! /s
Hard for me not to hear the name Pearl Jam whenever I see ticketmaster. Eddie Vedder's Audible that came out last year had a brief section on their encounter. The revolving door of regulators to big industry wasn't painted in a good light there.
"The Selfish Gene" shifted my perspective on the drivers of evolution>

"The Beak of the Finch" shifted my perspective on evolutionary timeframes.

"The Design and Evolution of C++" had an inverse impact on my appreciation of academic programming language design.
I'm Italian too and I'm not surprised at all
Nice. I'd still rather it be aiming at somewhere in the middle of the sea though. What if birds or aeroplanes get in the way of the beam?
Thanks, that article was wild.
Is there a book or long form of Wikipedia’s contentious history? Would make interesting reading I’d think
Your experience needs to be documented for history. Seriously. The people, personalities, the development setups, the day to day creation - all that is of keen interest to millions.
The decline and fall of declinism?
It’s entertainment, like going to the movie theatre which is also nearing monopoly.
It was never intended to be a full replacement for the whole browser, that would be a bad decision - they incorporated the parts they planned on and that’s it.
Yup. I love my manual E46, but I'll be the first to admit that modern paddle shifters are better for everything other than vibe, basically.
It did happen, actually. It was put up shortly after this comment and taken down about a day after the news.
Thank you! Are they are using Stockfish pro bono for existing customers, or is it under GPL?
Speakers announced for _synthesize2023 conference
Any particular reason? I was thinking about reading this.
Sure, but that's a tall order. The US cooperating with e.g. China, Russia and the EU to get everyone? Or the US running covert ops in China, Russia and the EU to take the money themselves? Both are a very different situation than the US simply sending a cop to some address and asking the person living there to please come with them to the station.

For criminals, it'll also be a huge operation, and it'll come with insane publicity which criminals typically don't like. Who's powerful enough and willing to potentially burn their existence in entire countries for such a payout, when they make billions a year?