skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm playing devil's advocate. I haven't actually played much WoW, but I have spent a long time thinking about escapism with a critical eye. It's one of my biggest regrets.

I encourage people to waste their time. I was the happiest when I had free time to putz around with games and hobbies. I made stuff for the joy of it. I wouldn't wish a successful career on my worst enemy.

I don't see any utility in distinguishing between flavors of escapism. Why would productivity make a judge say one waste of time is better than another? Because that judge doesn't see the value in wasting time and the ones with creativity seem more like work and less like fun.
That is quite a depressed take on life. Many people find all of life good. Why not set up your life so you can cherish every moment?
This is because JXL.js doesn't support `<picture>` tags - there is no rationale for WASM-decoding JXL when you can provide a fallback in natively-decoded JPEG/PNG/WebP.
Have you considered buying loose leaf notebook paper instead of printer paper? You get lines and I’d imagine it’s even cheaper.
Have you actually looked at potential statistical correlations between richness and smartness?
You're twisting those numbers quite a bit. Anyone can apply to YC, like half are an idea. I'd wager most of the rejected are not following through with 2-5 years of hard work on it. You're also acting like a reject from YC means 0 EV, even when many successful startups have like 3 applications to YC, if they even were accepted at all. That $30k EV number is useless and not in any way the actual EV of 2-5 years hard work on a startup.
Last.fm (and the sadly defunct what.cd) have shaped my taste in music beyond what I could ever imagine: I have discovered a massive amount of amazing musicians through these recommendations; something I feel Spotify has never really been able to achieve, even after a decade+ of use.

Scrobbling has almost become a religion to me, to the point I found solutions to scrobble my Vinyl listening and consider scrobbling capability in a player as a make-or-break feature !
> That is very interesting. Have you seen any research on it?

The relevant area of research I’m familiar with is around dishonest signals (and then costly signals) in evolutionary theory.
soon it'll just be my pillow and other weird scam stuff
> The UK has been very clear with anyone under 50: Want an education? You're on your own. Want a decent job? You're on your own. Want housing? You're on your own.

*England* has. Scotland takes a very different approach.
That someday EDM will be considered music for the elderly is endlessly amusing.
> It's in the best interest of wealthy countries to keep developing countries poor so we can continue extractive processes for their resources.

it really bothers me that people think this is an OK thing to do. We can choose to improve both the importing and exporting countries when these negotiations are set up, but we don't, because it's cheaper to turn people into slaves and drive them into the grave.

There are exactly zero people on this planet (or any other) who could convince me that collective altruism would not benefit everyone both immediately and in the long term, yet every single politician or statesman or business owner from any country seem to think that domination is the best option.

The amount of suffering that happens in this world because of money just stuns me every time I think about it. We are a garbage species, doomed to self-destruction, because of money and our apparently inextinguishable desire to have more than everyone else.

I will never understand the species or the society I was born into.
I have a relative like this, but she watches absolutely nothing. She believes some of her family members are out to get her though. She's in an assisted living facility and her phone has been taken away because she has called the police too many times, claiming that one of her family members is breaking in her window, to poison her.

I'm not claiming that's the same thing, but I'm not sure less time watching videos will correct the issue or won't just lead to some other issue.
I wouldn't mind it if someone made a version of Proton that ran on macOS.
FTX and How to Lose Money
I've always wondered how someone can talk about the perils of mobile phones and then binge watch lousy TV series.
Yet fleecing game developers with 30% cut on sales at the same time. It's a soft big cushion to talk profound thoughts from. Reminds me of billionaires giving advice like "you just have to believe and work hard"... yeah, but that's a low baseline you have to have anyways.
> What would happen?

You are completely out of touch with the reality that the majority of the human population still faces. What would realistically happen was that people would buy washing machines and have more time to read books with their children.
I think GP meant their parent's are anti-Trump. Mine are as well, but ironically, during Trumps rise and presidency, I noticed them starting to act quite like mirror images of (what I imagine to be) their Fox watching right wing peers - driven to nightly flights of righteous indignation by MSNBC or CNN, increasingly conspiracy minded and less concerned with non-political news/life.
I think it's a very interesting concept, comparable to brainstorming. Devs share lots of knowledge during sessions and learn from each other ways of solving issues. I thought about it more as a learning exercise.
The initial release of Proton felt like magic to me.

I tried many games with Wine across many years, from versions well before Wine 1.0 to 4.0, I also tried CodeWeavers something (Crossover?) when that was a thing. A few games worked very well, for example I remember running a newly-released Civ4 almost seamlessly. But most games didn't. Some would be playable but with graphical or audio glitches, performance or stability issues. Others wouldn't be playable no matter what. Tinkering with dll overrides, wineprefixes and all that was often necessary.

Then Proton came and, almost overnight, the Linux gaming experience improved more than in the previous fifteen years of Wine-based attempts. A few years later now, my default expectation has changed to games just working on Linux, unless they use a rootkit-style anti-cheat system. Most games I played under Proton have worked with native-like quality, I could as well be running them on a Windows gaming rig. A few games worked with minor issues such as a few seconds of garbled audio on startup or slower startup. There's only one recent game where I had to give up on Proton, and that game is supposed to run well according to ProtonDB, I just couldn't it right on my system.
Yes, but they needed 2 billion images training data to get to the point where the AI usually draws the correct number of limbs...

Any radiology AI that needs millions of training sets is useless in practice.
Thank you for the feedback, really interesting ideas.

> being able to search text on the sites in your browser history

I'm curious, have you used this in Memex when it was still supported?

> Linked texts, e.g PG might say X then Naval says something in the same area.

Do you mean direct hyperlinks and backlinks between articles? So if the Naval post references a PG essay, you'd see that while reading the PG essay?

> Reminders about articles I [...] might want to re read

How should it decide which article you want to re-read?
See the Makefile in https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/dev/codecs/...
the rust belt has good bones, as they say.
Do as I say, not as I do.

Parents waste time on their phones, so the kids learn to as well. I say this as a parent that struggles to regulate my screen time and my kids.

Putting it on the kids is a form of projection. It’s hard to hold our own shame and feel it. And easier to try and control others behavior.

The better conversation is why do we put so much shame into screentime given the power and ubiquity of computing? The, at best, the extremely marginal causal negative effects of screentime on children’s outcomes? Why don’t we focus on things that actually impact kids outcomes like Adverse Childhood Experiences (abuse, etc)?
Is there a use case for passwords at all? Passwords have the downsides of being guessable and hackable, as well as forgotten. I’d like to avoid the “correct horse battery staple” malarkey if possible.

In most cases, control of the account email is equivalent to control of the account because I can reset the password if I control the email. So it seems that magic links or OTPs are strictly better. Am I missing something?
I see you want to come over to my house next week and paint the walls.

Od course I am not paying anything because hard work is its own reward.
But what is the point of this entire exercise? Was he actually asking for React help? Is he actually hiring an intern team? Did he just want to engage the community by presenting a technical challenge? Is he signaling that Twitter is going to open itself up and invite greater developer interaction? It's all very strange.

> All this is going to do is discourage him and others from being transparent and building in public.

He's a celebrity hacker, he's used to it. He is not fragile, judging by his public persona.
In fairness Steam's prices are very reasonable. I imagine there are ways around it anyway.
Looks like an early version of Yahoo!
A partial summary of the paper:

- How can documentation be "user-friendly" to many different types of users: from very sophisticated programmers to brand new computer users?

- How useful are things like: reference cards, illustrations, extensive examples, sample sessions?

These are some of the questions in this short paper about (printed) documentation from Microsoft.

A focus group of thirty-four participants with varying computer experience were recruited to provide feedback on documentation on word processing, spreadsheets, database management systems, and programming language products.

Tutorials

- Everyone (including the programmers) want tutorials that show how to use the product or programming language.

- End-users also want tutorials for completing specific or common tasks.

Illustrations

- Programmers are mostly indifferent to pictures (I wonder if this is true today among programmers?). For end-users, illustrations are essential - especially program screenshots.

Reference

- Everyone agrees they want a "phone book" i.e. a book that tells everything about the product, including "tricks" and shortcuts.

- The programmers emphasise that any examples, especially sections of sample code, must include annotations to be useful.

Cookbook

- The cookbook includes models for solving many types of problems and for performing many types of tasks. (Interesting to note: in 1984 the term "cookbook" was a new, unfamiliar term in the context of documentation, but today is a familiar documentation pattern.)

- The "cookbook" potentially bridges the gap between tutorial and reference manual.

In conclusion, ideal documention looks like:

1. Tutorial

2. Cookbook

3. Reference

---

There is a lot detail in the paper. This an excellent, readable paper. And it hasn't aged much despite being written in 1983.

Finally, the title of the paper "Those Silly Bastards" is a quote from a programmer who participated in the research. From the paper:

> I want to finish by explaining the title of this paper - "Those Silly Bastards." During the focus group on programming languages, one of the programmers said:

They obviously are trying to give you something, but those silly bastards don't know what they are trying to do. Just give us a complete, accurate manual that tells us everything we need to know.

> There's a pep talk for you.
fairphone got rid of their 3.5mm aux jack to sell a bunch of semi disposable wireless headsets. So much for sustainability.
"Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos" by Julien C. Sprott.

I am lucky enough to have a 1st edition print, but there is now a free PDF online:
https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/SA.HTM
They Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
Do you have the backstory?

George was kinda fanboying over Musk's "work harder" memo. Someone kinda mocked him. He said fine I'll intern myself to prove my point.

So, Musk hires him apparently specifically to fix search.

Then George makes a post asking how to fix search, under the guise of hiring them(as an intern) to do it.

What is he bringing to the table at that point?
I still don't understand what scrobbling is
Exactly matches my experience.
I find it sad, that you can find such stuff on discovery network channels... so channels that were for legit education and documentaries not that long ago, and now show some reality crap (pawn stars,...) and fake conspiracy crap (ancient aliens, mermaids, bigfoot, etc.).
> It's not hypocrisy. A child and a retiree are not even remotely comparable. One is accountable to their parents, the other has likely worked their ass off for decades to earn a bit of down time.

Interesting that the perceived needs of people change over time based on how productive they are or were. This belies a sort of strangely managerial/administrative mindset as to the values that make a person "valid" to take time to pursue things they enjoy, and "earn" down time.
I don't think these feelings are restricted to young people.
You mean the economy that is facing a worker shortage has caused them to lose their job?
proton's beta build now has a cool name, I guess?
> The disparity between Rust jobs and C/C++/C#/Java/Golang jobs on Indeed is staggering.

Most of the world are things other than real systems programming. C++/C#/Java/Golang are likely better choices for this than either C or Rust.

But a C-like language is necessary. Rust may be (very slowly) displacing C for systems programming.

As you mention, it takes awhile for the pool of experienced developers to show up.
AWS Containers Blog – Preventing Kubernetes Misconfigurations Using Datree
I came to love being boring :)
They probably would prefer to parlay iPhone games to Mac, then they have tight control over them and can offer things Microsoft can't.
Another company that copied the engineering practices of Google without the profitability to support a huge internal tools team.
Ruby on Rails contributors should be called "conductors".
> The only thing I'm a little concerned about is Bankman possibly being a flight risk. He obviously has the money and connections to find a boat or private jet to flee somewhere where he can't be legally extradited and pay enough bribes to live comfortably on stolen money for the rest of his days.

You give SBF too much credit to pull off something like this for the rest of his life.
You signed up to last.fm (well, audioscrobbler) two days after I did in 2005. I’ve followed you there, I’ll trawl through your top tracks tomorrow.

I’m surprised/happy to see iLiKETRAINS as your top track.
You have decided to be an engaged parent! That's awesome. The world needs more of that.

The SteamDeck is, as a wise sibling said, not for playing more games, but for playing games more. It's really excellent for gaming in very small doses as opportunities arise. Find yourself waiting for 5 minutes for someone to do something? Hit the button, pick up the game right where you left off. When you get interrupted, hit the button, it goes right to sleep. Perfect for a busy life.
There is something to this — the general theme of daytime TV in Britain, when it’s not doing endless property shows, or shows where people buy property in other countries, is “the man is out to get you” — a litany of shows on small time criminals, consumer scams, or local crime waves. Perhaps not surprisingly, Britain’s elderly population tends to be very right wing.
I am building modelbox right now - https://github.com/tensorland/modelbox I began building this in Rust while also learning the language. It became quickly very complex as I started introducing streams in async traits. I think in a few years things will get a lot better as more people use Rust for building web services, but I had to go back to Go to be more productive and ship this thing out. I loved how the compiler was forcing me to think harder about life times and such.
Importantly, Proton also integrates DXVK. I don't know the details too well but I think DXVK is responsible for a large part of Proton's "it just works" and it's a separate project from Wine. You can configure Wine to use DXVK but in Proton everything is preconfigured so you never have to think about them as different components.
So many accomplishments are the result of someone just putting one foot in front of the other with a vague idea of where they're going. Hopefully, their north star is something others find respectable once achieved. They're then labeled "geniuses" if it works out and "fools" if it doesn't. Accomplishments are only impressive with hindsight.
>Why doesn't Apple put this much effort into bring MacOS into the same realm as Windows in terms of gaming?

I don't speak for Apple, but their bread and butter is the zillions of App Store games, so the business incentive is clearly to move those developers and games onto macOS so that Apple gets a cut of every game sale and in-app purchase. Moreover, those games are already optimized for Metal and Apple silicon. They already work well on modest hardware running on batteries.

In a sense it's a very clever strategy: Apple completely sidesteps the "PC game" market, which has largely left Apple behind, and creates its own "App Store game" market - a huge collection of games, all of which are optimized for Apple APIs and silicon, and which make billions of dollars for Apple through App Store commissions. Moreover, those games run across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Apple also avoids potentially unflattering GPU and game performance comparisons (especially with compatibility layers like WINE) - the hardware fades into the background, which is something Apple likes.

From the user perspective though? Many Mac users would still like to be able to run PC games (especially ones that aren't in the iOS or macOS App Stores) out of the box, and this would be served by developing a high-quality version of Proton (or equivalent) for macOS. And they'd also like Steam to work well out of the box. Making this happen would be a drop in Apple's bucket, and probably wouldn't reduce App Store sales. And it might help with hardware sales for students and others who might be on the fence due to certain Windows games not running on macOS.
My understanding is on-shore windmills cost about ~$1.5M and $50k in maintenance per year - last for 20 years - for 1MW.

I'm skeptical this can come anywhere close to that.

But if it's within an order of magnitude - it could replace old coal powerplants as they're decommissioned.
That makes UTC just a shittier version of TAI. No problem has been solved, because TAI already exists.
Gnu emacs
That's why I mentioned js. There's nothing in principal to stop wasm being implemented in hardware. Then it would be native code. Maybe this can be done easily with an FPGA?
I would probably want to be a fair bit further away if it was 55", maybe 1.5-2m.

Some people mount them to the wall behind their desk.
If you would like to put that advice to practice, this book will help.

(The Art of impossible)
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Impossible-Peak-Performance-Prime...

It guides you through discovering your mix of passions and strengths to land on what you might make you uniquely extraordinary.
Imagine you're an average person and you have 3 emails and 3 passwords that you typically (and repeatedly) use, in any combination. (That's pretty much every non-software person I know, and me on every site before I started using a password manager)

To login you have to try 9 combinations, but your account will be frozen after 3 wrong tries.

The log-in screen does not tell you whether you have the wrong email or the wrong password.

With the sign-up screen you can immediately know which email you used, then you only have to try the 3 passwords, and then you're in.

If you don't remember the password you can go to the forgot password screen and be confident you'll get the reset email, since you know the right address to enter.
You can find the creator of Zig in those videos as well
I like this perspective. It reads like the Ben Franklin quote: “Many young men die at age 25, but are not buried until they're 75.”
I just gave the 1619 Project as an example (alongside the NY Times burying a massive story at Bush Jr's request in 2004, so that it wouldn't come out during the election) of the political biases of the NY Times.

> Seems mostly like politibait, drawing conservatives into a tussle the way Trump drew in liberals.

Liberal and left-wing historians were actually the most outraged about the project. Trump only caught onto the controversy much later. The claim that the critics of the project were just conservatives was a dishonest deflection often used by the Times' supporters in the controversy.

The claim was made above that WikiLeaks isn't a journalistic organization because it has an agenda. Most journalistic organizations, even the paper of record, have strong biases and agendas. That doesn't justify labeling them "non-state hostile intelligence agencies" and trying to lock up their editors for 175 years.
Show HN: Show feed of local authorities, blogs, communities and news papers
It was a remarkably prescient film.
There's a slew of control standards in the lighting industry. Just in terms of wireless, there's z-wave, zigbee, RadioRA2, RadioRA3 (completely different protocol and frequency), and a bunch of others.

I'm personally about to experiment with DALI and zigbee-DALI bridges. Unfortunately, DALI seems more of a European thing, so finding suppliers as well as 120V-capable hardware is trickier (but possible).
Webassembly can be targeted by C/C++ and Rust. It's also designed with security in mind. The JVM is not a reliable sandbox.
At least, they should find another revenue streams.
Some companies only price per seat while their customers share seats with a shared-password tool. We all do this.
Having addons and other revenue streams is definitely a must have, although you are not fully usage based
I think everyone needs to feel seen—to feel that they have some unique value that they provide to their community or tribe.

If you have a rich local network of in person friends and family, I think that mostly resolve the unhealthy need to be extraordinary. Because I think that need often comes from feeling socially isolated and relying on online social interaction for validation.

When the public commons where you are seen is run by social media aggregators that only highlight the world's best of everything, it's very easy to fall into a trap where you feel like unless you are front page material, you're nothing.

But the real answer is to get a handful of friends who think you're front page material in their actual lives.
Show HN: Teenage anti-acne mobile app (iOS and Android)
We have been developing Sulu for about a year. It can determine whether skincare suits your skin characteristics from a single picture of the product.

My teenage daughter asked me two weeks ago to buy her a cleanser and moisturizer. Frankly, very good products, but not for teenagers. And I didn't know how to tell her because this is not a topic that girls discuss with dads.

We decided to focus on teens' acne.

I will be very grateful for any questions and criticism.
The Steam brand and mindshare is second to none in my experience.

My tweener kids will preference Steam over all other platforms.
They would rather buy/re-buy, or pay more for a game on Steam than use another game launcher.

Their are games that are free to play with Xbox game pass, but they would rather buy and play them under Steam.

They have negative views on Epic, Ubisoft and so on. Blizzard/Battle.net aren't even on their radar.

They are mostly indifferent to MS/Xbox Store.

With Steam, the brand respect they have is five-stars!
Thanks for the bug report - that's fixed now to only allow it for 3 seconds.
That...was excellent.
Value first, money comes after. I do agree with your comment!