skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone wants a fun, near future scifi novel that explores this idea more, read/listen to Delta-V by Daniel Suarez.
There isn't any more a "native" office. Now it's a web app -> Office 365
Worth reading every time. I still remember the name of the last soldier of World War I to die because of her obituary for him. When I get the magazine I always start from the last page.
Maybe old Netscape folks shouldn't feel so bad.

Microsoft even did it to the Soviet Union. And they got away with it that time! ;-P
The term normally used is 'manhwa'. Webtoons can be from any place (and there are many Chinese ones too), manhwa is the Korean word for comics (so it can be physical or digital). Though slightly different, the words do get used interchangeably.

Manhwa are very mobile friendly, the language is simple, and most notably they are colorful, which attracts audiences and makes it quite accessible. Compare it to some of the more dense manga you might read where sometimes a panel requires a lot of pinching and zooming.

For sure though, as the article points out, there are a lot of amazing and intriguing stories in manga, which have better story density compared to the thinner, spread out stories in manhwa which are catering to an audience that just wants to keep scrolling. The artstyle too, I don't think we're going to see anything close to Junji Ito or Berserk style work in webtoon format anytime soon.

But anyway this trend of manhwa's popularity has been noticeable for several years now. The top entries on manga 'aggregator' sites have been manhwa as well.
Here are 20+ of them which includes some of the ones mentioned in this thread:

https://geshan.com.np/blog/2021/04/sofware-engineer-podcasts...
I'm in the UK but yes, we also prescribe physiotherapy and exercise based on self reports. My point was we don't always need an MRI to corroborate what the patient tells us.
Sorry, but does it.
Or maybe by their 40s-60s they have lost all interest in what 25yos, tee-shirted or not, think about their attire. They have seen the fashion wheel spin more than once, and are no longer compelled by it.

(Source: upper 60s, go into the office mostly because a) it's not far, b) my office setup is a bit better, c) I don't want to wake my wife with Zoom calls. I do have some tailored shirts but seldom wear them.)
Ask HN: Are there any alternate indexes / search engines for YouTube?
I miss the days when you could watch a youtube video and get suggestions related to that particular video. It led to discovering new things. Now they just show me more of the stuff I've already seen, or things they want to promote.
Mindshare and count of installed devices is now the phone. MS lost the phone battle a few years ago.
Nicely done. This is a commonly needed utility, obviously most relevantly in spaces where the purveyors of data aren't in the business of nor are they interested in making the data available or easily consumable. When I worked at a hedge fund doing research on various sectors, we had tons of data points we needed to monitor. Some of them were only available on government agency or company websites. Being able to detect when something changed, and quickly, was obviously really important for us. Anyways, good job commercializing this and doing it in a way that will feel palatable to customers.
good, keep em coming.
Quite a list here of Linux compatible VST/VSTi, some paid, some FOSS : http://linux-sound.org/linux-vst-plugins.html
For example, Pluto and Charon is a pair that sometimes comes up; a space elevator connecting Pluto to Charon would very possibly just about be within our current civilisation's capabilities, if for some reason we cared to build one enough to sink the Earth's economic output into it. They're tidally locked. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator has its section on "Extraterrestrial elevators".)
There have been many times that I have incorrectly assumed why a particular outcome occurred only to find out later as I suddenly became responsible for that same scenario that they had good reasons for their choices,

Your attitude is about fifteen years out of date. We live in a world where you have to turn off your wifi if you don't want to use a Microsoft account and any option Microsoft doesn't like us using is displayed in a tiny font that's almost the same color as the background. You don't think we can tell when we're being told to go fuck ourselves?
Thanks, I was just looking for more le Carré adaptations today! Finished Smiley's People yesterday.
Yeah. Super interesting concepts I hadn't come across before, but it's hard to see the motivation for the design choices, in light of the stated goal (which is itself a bit 'out there'). OTOH, it's in general a hard problem to predict the emergent characteristics of the ecosystem of a programming language just from the underlying design choices.
It's the field of information theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory
Or smartphones, or servers on the internet, or IoT devices, or car head units, or the computers that are put into the hands of every school age kid nowadays.
Thanks Michael and congrats on all of the success with TinyPilot. It's nice to hear this from the perspective of someone who was on the show.

I tried to make the story about going from development to production but it is for sure super focused on the technology choices that take you from A to B. There's the lessons learned which kind of apply to any tech stack but that's also near the end of every episode so you have to listen to the whole thing to get there.

There's a number of little funny stories hidden away in some episodes. Like one guy was on vacation driving with his wife and ended up switching his web server from Apache to nginx while literally driving as a passenger.

Deployment is a tricky topic to "promote" because in my opinion deploying a Flask app is almost no different than Rails. If they both have a web + worker + db + cache component, it's basically the same pieces (especially if you're using Docker). The hosting provider choice, monitoring, logging, CI / CD workflows, etc. is all the same. When I went into making this show I came at it from the perspective that even if you didn't use Ruby you could still take away a few nuggets of info from a Rails episode since there's a lot of overlap but I'm beginning to realize that's not how this works in real life.

What I'm thinking now is maybe exactly what you said around being interested in Flask. You care about deploying a Flask app, not deploying in general.

You are right though, I have no problem sitting down and listening to a 5 hour conversation with John Carmack and Lex because I'm interested in hearing John's stories. I'm not there to learn the gory details about z-fail stencil shadows. I care about why he ended up inventing that and how it helped him build a cool looking game. When looking at things from that angle, that changes everything. Running in Production is like "90% technical details / 10% story" but "80% stories / 20% technical details" is a more enjoyable listen for a podcast. If this were a technical video course that would be much different, but it's not. It's a podcast.

Now to be fair, I did try the best I could to avoid going too deep into the technical details about a specific topic because I know most folks will doze off or lose interest because it's not relatable but still, bouncing around a bunch of technical topics at a surface level is still very tech heavy.
1. What’s science? This is a surprisingly hard question. Im going to guess physics is your model and you’re going to cite popper about falsifiability to me. A lot of activities which don’t look at all like physics are science.

2. Citation needed??? The professional incentives around publishing are bad - I don’t dispute the author’s claim there. But to say we are ideological activists suggests you haven’t met very many social scientists.
I vaguely recall some variant of MC/DC coverage that also treats each bit in any bit flag checks as independent boolean conditions. It seems like there could be a similar variant that requires checking each value of such a "leveled" enum independently; if your enum says you can take on values 0-5 and the logic checks <= 2 and <= 5, nonetheless there should be a test case for 0, 1, 3, and 4.
I don’t like these comparisons because they’re super reductionist about what “The Environment” is supposed to be. Apparently the only form of pollution is CO2. There are lots of types of pollution and secondary effects from manufacturing that are worse than CO2.

Industrial mining activities leach chemicals into the soil, cause lead and mercury contamination, groundwater contamination, habitat destruction, and so on. Using dirty coal plants to power assembly lines puts smog into the air, ruining people’s quality of life, causes lung cancer and birth defects. The list of secondary effects is a mile long. On the other hand, driving a used car might produce more CO2 (Which the author is alluding to as being dirtier after X years of ownership) but has none of these secondary effects.
> but there's little evidence that they're destroying ecosystems

Plastic waste in the ocean is a major issue for seabirds [1]

> or harming health

"The combined data, although fragmentary, indicate that exposure to micro- and nanoplastics can induce oxidative stress, potentially resulting in cellular damage and an increased vulnerability to develop neuronal disorders." [2]

I do agree that single-use plastics are a much bigger issue than less-durable plastic stuff like that laundry basket, and that greenhouse gas emissions are a bigger issue than waste disposal. That does not mean that plastic waste is not a big problem.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5714369/Film...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32513186/
You can tailor your slacks and shirts too, and it's pretty cheap. It will make you look a lot better than what most people expect if you're the type to dress business casual. That is, if you care.

Suits are very expensive to tailor by comparison.
Every time someone gives a programming language a name that needs disambiguation terms for a decent google search, a puppy dies.
Thanks for extensive answer.

Do you have a few of these cutting-edge algorithmic advances papers in mind, could you list them?

I guess I got too pessimistic because of things like "emergent features" [1] / "grokking" [2] that seems to happen only with a lot of compute, and also the fact that the original (vanilla) transformer architecture remains (one of) the best, despite many additional ideas and "advances" (but that is only evident at large scale) [3].

Because of the points above, it's really hard for me, as a non-expert, to assess which papers are true advancements, and which were only published in pursuit of vanity metrics (e.g. publication counts) but actually represent overfit/cherry-picked results rather than robust progress.

[1] https://timdettmers.com/2022/08/17/llm-int8-and-emergent-fea...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6WM6hs7RQMKDhYjB/a-mechanis...

[3] https://twitter.com/YiTayML/status/1551657355036676096
Ask HN: Software Development Final MSc Project Ideas?
In my final year of studying for a MSc in Software Development, I have to build a project. The scope is anything, provided there's a front end and back end, which has been designed, tested, built, and given rationale for the decisions made.

What would you build if you had a year (part time) to do this? I'm on the search for good ideas to dedicate the time to. Thanks
I can believe that. They certainly had a lot of corruption and behind-the-scenes lying to make things fit, especially towards the end. However it seems to me that there must have been at least some growth there underpinning things for some time, else they would have collapsed much easiler, right? They also seemed to have an outsized economic impact abroad compared to other places with similar population that started the 20th century in a similar economic place (india, china, south america).
We do not have any known materials which are anywhere near strong enough on the macro scale for a space elevator on Earth. If we did, we would still need to launch it into space using conventional rockets in the first place, which would cost trillions of dollars at current launch prices and require solving a bunch of new issues (if it's launched in segments, how do you join them together at full strength in space? if it isn't, how do you coordinate ten thousand rockets to launch into orbit simultaneously - and where do you launch them all from?) Once it's in space, you have the issue that it necessarily will need to be above the equator, which every satellite in space crosses twice per orbit - and there's no good way to make a structure as large as a space elevator try to dodge things, so it also needs to be strong enough that it can handle impacts from space debris or derelict satellites at orbital velocities without weakening to the point that it breaks.

And then of course you need to supply power to anything climbing it - which is an immense amount of energy required to climb 30,000+ miles vertically - and there's no practical way of sending that energy up the cable itself (you could do it with superconductors, but the power requirements for cooling thirty thousand miles of superconducting cable is more than many nations consume). One option is to use microwaves to beam power to the climber, but this is currently only theoretical, and raises further materials science issues with the microwaves heating up the cable along its length.

Finally, having a space elevator is a massive hazard to the Earth in general. If most structures on Earth fail, the damage is limited to a small area where the structure stands. If a space elevator ever fails for any reason, it would wrap around the equator as it fell, releasing the equivalent of two Hiroshima bomb every mile along the equator as its kinetic energy is rapidly converted into heat. It's not quite as bad as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but it would still be enough to significantly alter the climate and wipe out at least half a billion people from the impact alone. It's not a project that should be undertaken lightly.
Fun Website Lets You Simulate an Asteroid Impact in Your Hometown
The ape experiment seems like it's been misinterpreted badly - including by the linked video. The kids are told they are "playing a game" whereas the apes are trying to pull the treat from the box. The children aren't being outsmarted by the apes, they are doing a different thing. Many toys and children's games involve arbitrary and pointless actions. The kids have been taught to do something, are told to do something, and then do it.

If you told the children their goal was to remove the gummy bear from the box with as few actions as possible they too would skip messing with the mechanism on top. The apes are playing one game (get the treat) and the kids are playing another (manipulate this box the way I show you). Comparing their actions and drawing conclusions is silly. It's like saying someone playing chess is missing a lot of moves that a checkers player made.
Kind of a tangent, but it'd weird to me that this man chooses to transcribe ж as j in his surname. Typically ж would be zh, and I think of j as a palatal consonant.

I had to look up the Cyrillic spelling of his name to be sure I wasn't misunderstanding.

I guess some English speakers would be more comfortable with J for that sound.
Well, it's wrong for one: It correctly gets the division (I assume it has that fact memorized) but 14.173228^2 is 200.88 not 201.83. it then also does the addition wrong, and the square root is also wrong.

You gotta be REAL careful with ChatGPT output that sounds convincing and technical. It's very good at convincingly making stuff up, even math-y science-y sounding stuff.
Try to avoid Apple products. Nice, but not worth the brand cost.
Most average users complain just as much, and are just as unhappy with it. Only reason they stay is learned helplessness and lack of realistic alternatives.
I just wanted to ask Google to find a more comprehensive list, but I was reminded of a serious search issue that I would like to see addressed at some point:

Especially whenever there is a current event with lots of news it is nearly impossible to find anything that is too close to the subject.

It would be great to be able to restrict search to older results, to avoid being in the shadow of more recent articles. Even adding "USSR" did not help at all, almost everything I got was related to recent events.

I've had this problem sooo many times in the past already. Google is way too focused on the latest information. Just yesterday somebody also pointed this out in a comment, about that website link that made it to the HN homepage that help find the right glue for two different materials, which was an example for an old rarely changing but still relevant website.

Anyway, on topic, here's a list that I found starting out from trying to widen the search from the starting point that I knew Antonov is Ukrainian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_design_bureaus_in_Ukra...

https://www.value.today/headquarters/ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_of_Ukraine

"Donbas: What’s Ukraine Losing—Industrial Hub, Breadbasket or Both?" -- https://www.russiamatters.org/blog/donbas-whats-ukraine-losi...

Here is a video showing a pretty cool - albeit pretty unreliable, according to what I read - 1960s motorbike that was made in Ukraine: https://youtu.be/DvxcK645HF0 -- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr_(motorcycle). Dnepr (Ukrainian: Дніпро) is a motorcycle brand produced in Kyiv. I became interested in this bike while reading this RR story from a Ukrainian author - with lots of brilliant author-made painting-illustratiuons (if you open the inline images in a new tab you will find they are a much bigger resolution; It's worth scrolling through the chapters even without reading anything, just for those pictures): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/54085/the-armorer-and-the-...
ChatGPT and AI tools help dyslexic worker send near-perfect emails
https://archive.vn/yPkuK
Why be a negative twat?
Why NASA’s Artemis I mission is so rare, and so remarkable
Like hell I’m gonna pay that kind of money for a keyboard which I cannot use on the next iteration, and is not as good as what it should be on a device which really still really lacks features.

If they wouldn’t be such a b** as just release macOS on it, or even just a good vm with Linux without side loading (and external display support), that’d be great.
i would really love to read any work about the current thinking about dreams, do you have any references you recommend?
> This actually does not sound like the start-of-the-art for cryptography.

I'm wrong. Review the paper Google provided as a source for more information. [1] There are also lectures available online from Ronald Rivest, [2] one of the researchers that helped to invent/discover the RSA cryptosystem. (If you are not familiar with how RSA works)

[1] https://www.hit.bme.hu/~buttyan/courses/BMEVIHIM219/2009/Cha...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4qaxSKTVlA
Free Speech-to-Text APIs, AI Models, and Open Source Engines
https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/connect-to-a-display-wi...
I just found out about this being archived so I created a fork at https://github.com/GorillaIncubator.

If anyone wants to help with this project, please head over contribute. I'm interested in moving this project forward if there's enough collaborators. If you've been thinking about contributing, now's the time to pitch in. I don't know of any other forks that are organizing with the intent of keeping the project alive.

If there's enough community engagement, I'm hoping the original maintainers would be open to unarchiving the project and letting us continue maintaining it there.
I'm probably not the target audience for Apple products.

If I sum all I have paid for computers, laptops, phones, smartwatchs and accessories the last five years, it would barely cover the cost of the metal stand for Studio (whatever it was called, I'm sure it had a catchy name).

On the other hand, last year I paid more for powertools than most apple customers do in a life time :(
This is a random site but I concur with it:

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2021/all-9-john-le-carre-movies...
Well clearly Apple doesnt have a fixed margin on all stuff they make, rather they do continuous detailed analysis of each segment of the market, competition etc. and push given price as much as possible to have largest income. Accessories are logically overpriced even more since they already have you in their ecosystem, ie you dont buy samsung watch if you have iphone (but you still probably should buy top garmin instead, at least now).

All this (and much more) is kind of expected from most worthy company ever. Competition does the same to some extent, Apple just has a bit more protected position so it can go further.
Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with front end development in 2023?
Git 2.38.2 Release Notes
My Nvidia driver dies every single update.

It's basically part of every update, first thing I have to do is reinstall the Nvidia driver via ssh every single time.

And maybe every month or so, when I reboot it comes up in some ridiculous resolution, like 640x480 or something. This is also fixed by reinstalling the Nvidia driver.

When I get a new desktop (main PC is Windows), I switch my linux server to my old hardware. I just bought an AMD GPU for my desktop so in a couple of years when I upgrade my desktop, I'll be rid of Nvidia bullshit once and for all.
Made a post on another related, which I'll paste here:

I just found out about this being archived so I created a fork at https://github.com/GorillaIncubator.

If anyone wants to help with this project, please head over contribute. I'm interested in moving this project forward if there's enough collaborators. If you've been thinking about contributing, now's the time to pitch in. I don't know of any other forks that are organizing with the intent of keeping the project alive.

If there's enough community engagement, I'm hoping the original maintainers would be open to unarchiving the project and letting us continue maintaining it there.
I'm sure its a niche opportunity due to the high voltage lines that run along the railway, unlimited electric power source its the only thing we need to start developing ironman-like suits.
It's not really clear to me which model(s) are being compared, but it doesn't seem very surprising that a last-gen chassis with an M1 dropped into it would be cheaper than essentially the same system in a painfully thin tablet with a much better screen (including a Pencil 2 encoder).
A suit wouldn't be the last signal checked, but the first - back which most things were done in person. It's not the signing of the deal that needs the suit, but the introduction. And once you've been introduced in a suit, changing it later is another signal that you may prefer not to send. As well as that if you've gone to the trouble of having a suit and maintaining it, you may as well wear it all the time rather than waste time figuring out if you need to wear it that day.
Which, to be fair, is something that much of the Ukrainian population still does. It's mostly foreigners that see this as something important.
Because if you don't add money as incentive the only other strong incentive is for people who join the social sciences because they want to push some kind of policy that they feel strongly about (In this case, their personal beliefs and values serve as their incentive).
There is even a joke among psychologists that people who join psychology departments are mostly those who themselves need psychotherapy (and they choose to study psychology instead).
OP wanted to know why his podcast was failing and I told him. I'm not obligated to provide a solution.
Using KDE, everything can be changed using only a mouse (or a finger with a touch screen).
Parts of HS2 (the northern bits) won’t ever be built. From where I’m sitting in York, it already looks like a failure.