skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is inane bullshit. It's a video game. Kids have always fucking loved video games. I and most of my friends used to spend most of our free time playing video games when I was in highschool because they're fun. We now all have stable relationships and 6 figure salaries, and most of us still play a decent amount of video games.

Kids play a lot of Fortnite because it's a fun game with a compelling "just one more round" hook (you should try it, or PUBG or Warzone if you want something a bit less wacky, it's fun!). It's not that insidious. When I was younger my peers were just as obsessed with (pick one of WoW, DOTA, Counterstrike).
Yeah, I noticed. Tried to look at it myself - I don't have it archived anywhere myself. But last time I looked at it I cringed pretty hard. It's not great code :)
But here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20120710162700/http://www.active...
Thanks, but "new-password" is not working for chrome. :(
no, a household is a tax filer plus a spouse and any others claimed as dependents. if you are single with no children and file a tax return, you are an entire household yourself. the median income for adults employed fulltime is about 33% less than the median household figure, not half.
The exodus at Twitter may have been the plan all along, maybe?
The codebase I worked on for 12 years (before I quit recently) had some TODOs in the codebase that were put there before I was hired. They didn't harm anyone and they were interesting to see the direction that the people who originally wrote the code thought it should go.
The trending topics were hyper-localized, often down to the city. It's a very small task that they scaled up to a massive degree.

Twitter pre-acquisition wasn't bleeding money, and it's plausible that these positions had positive ROI if they increased engagement and thus ad views.
What are good headphones that can maximize the experience and impact of brown noise while working ? Currently use AirPods but willing to invest in the right headset.
It's terrible. The chat on the left pops up whenever the cursor hovers over when you're actually trying to get to an email folder.
Dealing with Impostor Syndrome
They’re very well produced without the over the top drama of that old Discovery show Mayday.
Sometimes the most productive people are productive precisely because they can pick tasks that play their strengths and manage to ignore the rest. If they're suddenly forced to take on whatever shit work pops up, some of them aren't going to be as effective anymore.
> Pipeable software is great for developers and computer scientists.

> But for laypeople, they need a UI.

Totally agreed with your points. Also, maybe I am completely out of touch, but there is nothing stopping people from using Unix utilities. The majority of my meaningful computing is done within a terminal emulator where the majority of my tooling is pipe-able. An example that also highlights this is Microsoft's work on PowerShell -- which is built to be used in complex pipelines (I think Microsoft is an interesting example because they have a history -- pre-2010 -- of being one of the biggest opponents to the Unix philosophy).

Where is this mentality in the original article coming from that pipe-able tooling is no longer an option for people who care about that? Am I just that out of touch in thinking that Unix/Unix-like tools are literally everywhere and building a command-line-focused/pipe-able ecosystem is better than it ever has been?

EDIT: some grammar and clarification on my points
Yes I didn't see a single .com name a stadium or bowl game or have most of the super bowl ads in 1999 at all, none at all. Oh wait yes I did, literally every superbowl ad was a dot com right before the .com bust. https://www.cnbc.com/2010/01/20/The-Stadium-Curse:-Naming-De... puts a nice writeup of all the comapnies that went under after naming stadiums, there's quite a few from the .com bust. Aah WorldCom how I miss thee. Pets.com as well.
I mean their prevention implementation could just be lazy too
cross reference source material bibliography / appendix references with websites that provide number of citations for given biblo/appendex reference.

Assumption is that skill level matches skill level of group citing the biblo/appendex reference.

citation counts : https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2063576.2063757

find related topic in https://arxiv.org/ & check the 'related papers / books'
I hope you're proud of yourself - many people are now wasting serious amounts of time on your website.

Amazing work !
Australia. As a senior software developer, it's possible to earn a salary of up to $110K USD. That may sound OK until you consider that in Australia, an experienced coal miner earns $130K USD (7 days on, 7 days off lifestyle) and a garbage man earns $80K USD...

Also, many builders, plumbers and other tradesmen run their own businesses and are earning much more than average.

Because everyone else has high salaries, it drives house prices and living costs to insane levels.

It's a similar situation in most non-US countries through. It's even worse in Europe where software developers have to compete with people from developing countries (that was true even before the mass influx caused by Ukraine war) - They have it better because they can arbitrage the international cost of living differences to buy up cheap real estate in their home countries (which, as a non-citizen, I cannot do due to regulations).

I had actually relocated to EU (Germany) to try to improve my situation but was shocked to find out that things were even worse than in Australia due to higher immigration (more competition from countries with lower cost of living = lower salaries). It was so bad, I had to move back to Australia.

At least in Australia the class differences aren't so significant; being at the bottom of society doesn't feel as bad.
California has got reliable power from geo for quite a few decades, as has Iceland. Iceland is not awash in geysers.

Geo costs more than renewables, but that was not at issue. It is anyway cheaper than nukes, in places where it is used.
yeah, that's a difficult one, then you are only substituting you don't have to deal with tasks like that
All true. Source: I was there.
I believe that putting the equal sign between a blockchain and a database is fundamentally wrong. I also think that a lot of "cryptos" were just get rich quick schemes. After the dust settles we will see if blockchain is really useful or not.
Push notifications are a specific thing where your OS can briefly wake up, check for notifications for all services, and then sleep again. It’s how you can have 10 IM apps but still be notified of messages on all of them despite none of the apps actually running unless they are actively on the screen.

IRC is unable to do this because it requires a constant active connection which is something that was fine in the desktop era but is not usable on battery powered devices.
> That's pretty poor judgement to not even communicate this to affected users

Thanks for the clarification, but imagining it's pretty easy that this could just be a bug, e.g. they knew they wanted to prevent future usernames from having "clyde", and maybe even realized some existing clydes would be grandfathered in, but didn't realize it would prevent existing clydes from updating anything else on their profile.
As a side question, how did you find your cofounders? Were they previous colleagues?
Bose QC35

I use these for many years and listen to brain.fm
It's not rocket science and doesn't need a "million man hours" to figure out what he is trying to do.

Twitter takes in $5 Billion per year but spends most of that on costs to operate.

So he thinks he's clever and just has to cut operating costs by a billion per year and "tada" profitable enough to pay financing of a BILLION PER YEAR

Except you can't kick out three legs of a table and expect it to keep working like it used to, or at all.

Anyway he can do whatever he wants, my only curiosity is if this teaches people they can just quit twitter as there are plenty of better alternatives or will be soon.

Once people learn the "quitting skill" then maybe they can use it on Facebook etc.
Send Lines of Code from Vim to R/Julia/Python REPL
>IRC is so simple that it does not get in the way and you can roll a bot in less than 100 lines – protocol included.

I've written a Matrix bot for work that's nice and tidy to alert on certain server issues. Sure, you need a lib - but what the hell do I care? If I was writing an IRC bot I'd scope for an IRC lib as well.

With Matrix I at least have support for images, code blocks, and so on. Give me Matrix any day.
Anecdote for me:

I tried Kite a few years ago but didn't feel like I was getting much value out of it and never payed for it.

In contrast, I started paying for Github Copilot as soon as it was no longer free.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is the purpose of a democratic government to force your will on others? There are more than enough Christians who were in power to pass laws against “sodomy” (homosexual sex), miscegenation (interracial marriage) and all sorts of other morality laws. The purpose of democracy is not to impose the majority’ will on consenting adults.

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch”
Yeah, in other news many environments are badly engineered, badly outfitted, and their inhabitants are content to let their artificially occupied mind anguish with squealing refrigerators, air conditioners, notifications, sleep issues, illumination issues, blood sugar spikes and trenches, social uncertainty and misplaced conscientiousness, and so on without attributing their focus issues to anything more specific than "something wrong" or, in medical terms, "disordered."
Exactly, they started a decade earlier and got outdone despite the massive head start. Then again maybe without the big data they had no hope of succeeding, but they should've mentioned that specifically instead of giving a bunch of contradicting statements.
> The funny thing about Nate Silver is that the one thing he is famous for is using good, solid statistical analysis to get better results than most pollsters/predictors's gut opinions.

Yes, in that it's the public image that he crafted for himself, and a lot of gullible people believe(d). It wasn't ever really true though. I love this https://i.imgur.com/6Z9QQj3.jpeg despite it being a bit trollish, really dispels the idea that Nate had his finger on the pulse or that his 20% chance of Trump winning actually means he was right all along "and if you think otherwise then you're a math-denier".

What it shows is the pattern of a pretty typical political hack who, far from an impartial reporting of fact, is actually trying to make news and influence opinion to curry favor with segments of the ruling class. It wouldn't take Einstein to work out he was spouting total nonsense pretty quickly, but a lot of people read something they like, and hear the words "data", "logic", "science", and take that cue to switch their brains off.

What Nate Silver did -- what they all do -- is use fact and data and statistics to build their careers as influencers, if and where that intersects with telling the truth is only as a means to that end.
In your opinion how long is it before the dust will settle?

IMHO, the dust has already settled and been washed away by the rain water..
It's just name calling. Ignore it, and focus on the actual argument, if there is any.
It can also be extremely exploitative.

This, along with the ubiquity, is the big problem. It's bad enough if you have to go to a physical sports book in a certain state. It's downright exploitative when you're watching a game & you see an ad egging you on to bet, oh and by the way, here's also how to bet with just a few pokes on your phone. Sometimes you can even gamble on credit!
UI changes are the perfect example of "change for the sake of change". I am sure these people don't even consider the fact that over time the UI of a software becomes part of the user's subconscious and it just fades away and let the user do the job as quickly as possible, changing this UI to something completely different is just a mental torture for your users.
It isn't free, it's just at basically a zero-profit margin by design and intent.

Non-profit does not preclude people getting paid for work they perform.
I’ve seen studies that found that using white noise during sleep did not give the brain proper rest. Don’t remember the study name now unfortunately.
New York Times / David Yaffe-Bellany are looking pretty bad in this. Bordering on straight-up propagandists. Yaffe-Bellany should have his kick-back accounts looked over a bit.
Scrypted is a high performance home video integration and automation platform
I've get around 6 hours on asahi linux. MacOS battery is at least twice as good - not sure since I've never ran out of battery on MacOS. Sleeping works on macOS so I always have to remember to turn off the laptop on linux. Good for taking notes though, the CPU dips to 40 FPS on desktop sometimes and can't play videos.
doesn't fit the AAA definition, but counterstrike is very popular and has a f2p + cosmetic-only items for purchase.

I can see how the mechanics around lootboxes specifically can be problematic, but overall, f2p + paid skins seems like a pretty good business model for a game. no one is priced out of the base game, which is a) just nice in general, and b) leads to a healthy playerbase size. the people that care the most end up funding the ongoing support, and the developer is incentivized to make the base game enjoyable enough to be worth purchasing skins for.
Title should probably be changed to something like "Bob Iger Back as CEO of Disney, replacing Bob Chapek" because the current title has auto-dropped the exclamation point after "Disney Shocker!" and makes it sound like Bob Iger is a "Disney Shocker".

Especially since the reason Iger left is that he just wanted to retire. Basically everyone at Disney wanted him to stay.
I have an akai ewi sitting on my desk
good observation thanks for bringing that up.

edit: that's kind of the reason I ask this question - there is nuance between "positive" and "negative" use of bro. I hear (mostly younger males) use the term all the time in public and it's just how people talk at times and ages (of course this plays into our negative perception of the word as assume the HN crowd is older than 18)
I didn’t quite catch why we have 2.5 frames of latency and not just up to one frame of latency.
yeah, it would be pretty simple to skip validation of the username if it didn't change
i would like to know when there is a good open source version of Retool that doesn't have a paid version.
I don’t know if I have ADHD but this Brown Noise Loops album relaxes the heck out of me at night time and helps me fall asleep much faster than without it.

https://www.amazon.com/Brown-Noise-Loops-Therapy/dp/B06XQRTC...
Apple is reportedly planning to remove "hey" from their wake word
Why US government stopped Facebook from releasing blockckchain currency? Also Signal and Telegram were blocked. At the same time all these crypto exchange Ponzi schemes are allowed to function.
This very initiative (IRC 3) seems to be trying to fix that. At least parts of it.
My friends and I played a lot of Marathon over LAN and played a lot of poker, and honestly if I were the lord in charge of the network to monetize either, I'd say poker is the less immoral thing to run moderation on and profit for your efforts. That's what I'm trying to say.
> He named a region in Asia and explained that the small farmers there mark their landholdings carefully, but then the annual floods sometimes wash the markers away. Then unscrupulous larger landowners use the absence of markers to cut away at the smallholdings of the poorest. “But if the boundary markers were on the blockchain,” he said, “they wouldn’t be able to do that, would they?”

The developed world is distinguished from the developing world often by the strength of its institutions, by the general accessibility of legal recourse, by the prevalence of trust within the society at large.

Many places in the world have none of those things. Weak institutions, corrupt legal systems, and low levels of trust undermine development and prevent people from building and maintaining wealth for themselves and their families.

For me, the promise of the blockchain is that it can provide a technological framework upon which to build new kinds of institutions—institutions that function as alternatives to the institutions that we all take for granted here in the first world.

Is a smart contract better than a written contract? Maybe it is, if there is no well-functioning judiciary to adjudicate contractual disputes. Is a cryptocurrency better than a national currency? Perhaps, if your national currency is subject to hyperinflation. Is an NFT representing property ownership better than property title registered with a state agency? Yes it is, if the state agency can be bribed to alter or lose records that are inconvenient to large land owners.

It's important to remember that what might seem redundant or useless to those of us who reside in the first world may not be redundant or useless to those who live elsewhere.
You can’t create a Gmail account containing the words support, gmail, google, and several other variations
How is Germany falling apart?
On the pipability front of software, I think a lot of that happens through APIs now, either directly linked or through various network APIs. The gotcha is that few APIs can handle the kind of asynchronicity that a pipe can. With pipes I can so something like:

oaktree | nutgrinder | cookiemaker | cookieeater

and as soon as each nut is ready from the oaktree, it can be consumed by the nutgrinder and it can send nut flour to the cookiemaker as its ready and when the cookiemaker has enough nut flour to make a cookie, it can send a cookie to the cookieeater. Four processes, acting in parallel¹ with little friction to make it happen.

Now, try to architect this in your favorite programming language.² I did see where Google proposed something (almost a decade ago) for C++ to allow this https://isocpp.org/files/papers/n3534.html although I don’t know where it stands now. I’ve been thinking along something similar for finl for each of its stages so that, e.g., parsing and tokenization doesn’t need to be complete to start formatting, but it would be nice if there were a simple language facility to allow this.

REST APIs also fail at this insofar as you need to wait for a whole request to complete before you get a response rather than being able to send the request and get each chunk of data back as appropriate. We seem to have forgotten so much that we knew thirty years ago.

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1. Although not necessarily. IIRC, good old fashioned DOS pipes would wait until each process was done before opening the next application in the chain.

2. Assuming, of course, that shell scripting isn’t your favorite programming language.
This is a very good point. An overworked, under resourced team is running just to stand still. There's no time to take a step back, consider what might be done differently. It just has to be done right now. It's a recipe for stagnation.
This may hopefully improve the quality issues their parks have been facing while under Chapek's "penny pinching" ideology.
A 'Playboy' Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG
Note that he wasn’t saying that it was identical to a classic database but rather that the applications being built were treating it like one. I’ve seen a number of hypotheticals batted around and it was clear that most of them could have been a database, perhaps with signatures on certain records, because they didn’t need any of the anonymous aspects.

That could be a sign that developers don’t know how to architect blockchain apps but that’s probably the same as saying most people don’t need blockchains. It seems unlikely that there’s sone widespread benefit still to be discovered rather than maybe some niche applications.
With copies =2 you can correct errors too.
> if Musk was hoping to hold onto anyone else, one assumes a carrot would have been offered. Instead, as Clowes wrote yesterday, there were only sticks and lots of them.
I think this is it. The change is what does it. Intermittent noise is constant change.

Loud music in the next room never stopped me from sleeping as a kid. I'd wake up when the music turned off, though.
To each their own, I would still continue to use VSCode even if IntelliJ's current version was free.

Even Jetbrain themselves realised this since they are creating a VSCode clone called Fleet.
Classic Derekcomedy - this came up with a friend/colleague recently as well but more in the context of Donald Glover's early work
its good its a change, but bad its the former CEO. That means this company is in real trouble. There will be a new CEO within 14 months.
The problem with liquid cooling, ultimately, is you're still dumping to air. You're actually doing not much more with liquid cooling than just changing where the heat concentration is located.

Unless your radiator is outside of the building itself, you're dumping that waste heat right back into the system over time.
This is impressive for 12 render distance (You can see this by D: [render distance] in F3). Lower resolution and looking upwards does help though. Also, minecraft does a draw call for every single text in F3 which significantly lowers FPS. This might be playable at 60 FPS with sodium (beats optifine in performance) and a lowered view distance.
When talking about impressive performance of a "day 1" build I feel there is a difference between new drivers and new ports of existing drivers.
> I believe that putting the equal sign between a blockchain and a database is fundamentally wrong

In what way is a blockchain not a cryptographically-verified, distributed, append-only database? If you added a consensus protocol to git, you'd have a blockchain.

I'd say it's fundamentally right because the fundamentals are the same.

> After the dust settles we will see if blockchain is really useful or not.

Blockchain has been around for more than 10 years. If it had any valid use cases, we'd see them in use already, regardless of what crypto bros are doing.
Bob Iger Returns as Disney CEO, Replacing Bob Chapek
Bob Iger has had a lot of vanity projects over at Disney. The amount of debt that was put on after Disney acquired Fox (and not even all the parts they really wanted - Comcast got that!) is pretty high.

A good overview can be found on this video essay: https://youtu.be/w-4k9c8LZU4?t=377

Disney's long term debt for 2020 was $52.917B, a 38.78% increase from 2019.

Disney's long term debt for 2019 was $38.129B, a 123.19% increase from 2018.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/long-te...

Yes, Disney is slowly throwing money at the problem and reducing it's debt, but it's still a pretty high load.

Still not as bad as Warner Bro's Discovery though.

Warner Bros Discovery long term debt for the quarter ending September 30, 2022 was $48.612B, a 236.74% increase year-over-year.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WBD/warner-bros-di...
I think there are 2 scenarios really: 1) btc and eth go to zero or 2) we have btc and eth gaining the full recognition and regulation

Blockchain as a technology is revolutionary and will be used in niche problems outside of crypto.

One thing that most people seem to miss is that money is only as good as our faith in it. No matter what instrument you use this has to apply.
How does this work? Do the two devices still need to be on some sort of net work accessible to each other? Two cell phones not on the same Wi-Fi are going to have a hard time talking to each other buy anything other than Bluetooth, no?
Eh, I don't think arguing that really good animation/sound/art design being a bad thing somehow is a line of reasoning that results in sensible outcomes.

Be wary of predatory monetization techniques yes, but a bunch of people playing Fortnite because it's a fun, well designed game is not a bad thing.

(I deleted a comment where I worded the same thing much less eloquently. I'll keep the incredulous hostility to the one comment in this thread)