skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that may be a completely fair, and potentially shared, view.

I can only recount from my direct experience, and the style of software that is driving this campaign literally wants to make loot boxes more profitable. They cannot enjoy the natural consequences of making something truly valuable in a subscription form to get the fee down to 15%; and they’re upset. So maybe I’m spiteful, but it feels justified.
That's very considerate!
Youtube does still have feeds. The bandwidth can be reduced if readers use the If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since headers when requesting feeds (so if the feed hasn't been updated, the server can return an empty response). I also imagine that as feed readers become more mainstream, you'd start to see more intermediaries for fetching feeds like Superfeedr[1].

[1] https://superfeedr.com/
> However my grandmother smoked 1 cigarette every day with her morning coffee after breakfast her whole life and it did her no harm whatsoever. I think with most substances moderation is always an important factor.

How many cigarette smokers have the willpower to only smoke one a day?
TikTok’s popularity is already waning in the U.S. Installs of the app are down 33% YoY in November, from 6.6MM in November '21 to 4.5MM in November '22. -0.3% YoY worldwide.

In fact, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outgrew TikTok and even YouTube during this period:

https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1602045164016615428?...
Sorry for the crashes :( I've been trying to improve it's internals more than adding features as of late. If you haven't already, please file bugs on github and/or submit crash logs to the mailing list. (I've taken a break from working on it lately. So, if you've done that and I haven't gotten back, I apologize.)
>Multiple studies have shown that moderate alcohol consumption lowers HDL cholesterol and reduces strokes.

Source(s)?
And who paid for the studies?

>Also, if you use alcohol in a social setting, then you are getting added benefits from human-to-human social interactions where you are likely to have more conversations, talk more, smile more. Obviously those benefits are not directly connected to alcohol - but they pair well together.

Come take a walk through my home town on a Friday and Saturday night at chucking-out time, there's plenty of "human-to-human social interactions", and with a lot less of the "smiling" part.
There are certainly times when a heavy weighting in favour of latency makes sense and times when it doesn't - and interactivity is the defining factor for me. If I'm synthesizing an FPGA core or rendering a video I don't want latency optimisation to slow it down if I've wandered away from the computer, and left it to do its thing. If, on the other hand, I want to get on with something else while the long-winded task is progressing, I want what I'm doing now to be have priority, to be regarded as the "foreground" task, and I don't mind if the long-winded process takes longer as a result (within reason!) And, crucially, if that long-winded task eats all the RAM and I decide to cancel it, I want the user-interface to remain responsive so I can do that.

I'm glad you've recognised the delights of a low-latency interface. The ideal interface is invisible, unnoticed by the user - my own thoughts are that an unpredictable response time is jarring, causing the interface to be noticed in a way that it shouldn't be - I've heard it called "jank" in the context of cellphone apps. So I believe people do recognise it, but probably underestimate how much it detracts from a pleasant user experience.
> in the Hellas basin (where no one particularly wants to land)

Why don't people want to land down there? Is it too rough a surface, more so than at higher elevation? Would it be feasible to land outside the basin and make your way down?
Them being dense is advantageous too. Numbers are a very convenient format for encoding IDs, but that doesn't mean that IDs are numbers.
One day HN will learn that blockchain resolves this, and everyone will still probably say there's no use case
Octopus.boo
Please elaborate on how a law banning a single company is the same as a law that allow companies to comply.
The electricity bill is like $2000. It'd waste more money for a manager to think about how to replace equipment, at California pay rates. This whole thread is making me lose faith in HN.
He said he found gay pride parades offensive, suggested that there should be hetero parades in response, and then said that anyone that disagrees with him should be shot. He's certainly entitled to his opinions on being offended by pride parades, but suggesting those that don't agree should be shot certainly crosses the line.

That is just one example. He also has been very anti-trans.
Twitter didn't always use Snowflake -- that was introduced in November 2010. There was another, much simpler algorithm used before that which generated much smaller IDs (e.g. under 3e10).
Or maybe there's one set of lawyers who are good at defending innocent defendants and another set of lawyers good at defending guilty ones?
Not just last-gen hardware, but also with a network that deliberately drops maybe 0.5% of packets, and delays some at random!

I hadn't considered the VR aspect, but you're absolutely right - the jarring nature of UI "jank" would be literally nauseating in VR.
given how long it takes to build these places, I feel like the number of iteration cycles is an important metric, especially when other options are not standing still.

I do understand that with more focus things can happen faster but you can really only pour so much concrete per day. Hopeful that we can figure out "leaner" ways to get this done.

I would love to see progress on this stuff, just don't like the idea of betting on successive megaprojects in the age of "a website is hard".
Awesome to hear from someone on the other side of the API with knowledge of this. This is ringing bells for me. Yeah, the id parameter was how we knew how many servers there were, and we saw more assignment in some servers than others that neatly mapped to a int32 max failing to divide by the number of IDs we saw. I thought I recall Twitter confirming that was how round robin happened but I could be totally misremembering. We never got a contact to talk to Twitter about it. FWIW, we did eventually see this fixed. I imagine it was pretty easy to spot one server seeing less load than others.

The offset was actually how we calculated volume, because millisecond collisions become a variant of the german tank problem[1]. A few times when y'all made tweet volumes public it mapped pretty closely with our estimates.

This was around 2011, so your knowledge should be relevant.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
Shout out to the h-feed / h-entry microformat https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed, sadly underutilized but an extremely easy way to make the web much more syndicable.

They're comprised of standardized CSS class names to be inserted into HTML and enable meaningful scraping. Especially given that more and more sites are produced using JS frameworks, which have a harder time producing XML than older generation PHP and the like, h-feed seems a no-brainer.
To me this is the most important part of the article,

“It’s a big milestone, but NIF is not a fusion-energy device,” says Dave Hammer, a nuclear engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Herrmann acknowledges as much, saying that there are many steps on the path to laser fusion energy. “NIF was not designed to be efficient,” he says. “It was designed to be the biggest laser we could possibly build to give us the data we need for the [nuclear] stockpile research programme.”
They other light sources were orders of magnitude below the required brightness with no path to required commercial brightness, ie they didn’t work
I mean, if you're already using WhatsApp...
I think “improved” also subtly implies that there was something in the code to do A, A has been improved so it no longer breaks in a specific way, and A could still be vulnerable to other unrelated attacks.

The thing I just improved is subject to future improvement. Subtly different than saying “fixed the input validation routine”, which implies some finality, or overcommitment.

Some still might interpret that as Apple using CYA language or a lack of admission, but to me it seems like a fairly pragmatic statement of what seems like reality.
It's down across the board except for Facebook apps, meaning Meta probably increased their advertising budgets during this timeframe relative to the others.
I think you're out by some orders of magnitude. With the current energy issues in the UK it'd be under £100. Other things suggest in California it's more like 20 cents per kWh so were you thinking ~$20?
I've used Emacs for years now.

What I like about it is how little I have to use the mouse. Actually, I don't have to use the mouse at all, but sometimes I'm just lazy.
It's all keyboard, baby. :)

Once you get used to the keybindings you can keep a steady flow and concentrate on your work, in contrast to pretty much all modern IDEs which are mouse driven.
I use both. I have my Macbook and I have my PC with Linux and I just bounce between them as desired. It solves that struggle for me.

Stuff like Syncthing for files and Obsidian for notes, help ease moving between them.
There is also the potential to use it as a watering hole for more sophisticated or subversive measures where they subtly change what you post to promote something you don't actually promote (so at some point they deviate from pure proxy to mitm).
That is usually where I used it too.

When I started writing these as pipeline execution. Then I’ll use a maybe?() instead if the conditional does not need to depend on the result of a previous operation.
In other words, nobody forced Google to cancel Dragonfly.

If China can enforce a censorship policy, America can enforce a consistent not-based-in-China policy.
> FTX on the other hand has very few KYC docs so the trustees are left with wallet addresses.

FTX (US? International? Both?) required KYC during sign-up. Or what do you mean?
> Prefabrication of larger components, outside of a few building types optimized for it, remains elusive

I thought this was a weird one. Aren't roof trusses pretty often made off-site and delivered and craned into place? I also see trucks with framed-out walls driving around that just seem to need to be lifted and nailed into place. Is that not what those are?
If you want to make money, are liberal arts degrees worth it? And, is the decline to a sustainable level from an unsustainable peak? Recall all the student debt holders who got their education and can't afford it.

Personally I believe in the value of a good liberal arts education, even though I'm a software engineer.
A perk? The app on its own store will cost 70, the app on the Apple store will cost 100. The app will be on both stores, people will decide where to buy from.
They watched their own flesh and blood son transition with breakneck speed from a high rolling billionaire who hobnobbed with society's elites to facing spending the best years of his life in prison, a disgrace to his family and their legacy. How do you think you'd cope with that psychological ordeal?
Intellij is using those resources to provide very helpful features.

And they do introduce performance improvements - e.g., downloading pre-existing indexes instead of having to index your entire JDK and Maven repo.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/shared-indexes.html#shar...
ARM China, pardon me.
You are assuming no compounding. You have to model it as an annuity.
Yea.. "auto increment" in mysql. it SUCKED in so many ways, primary of which was that it required a single mysql database to be the primary for all tweet writes. Every tweet just incremented a counter by 1. As we scaled up that server got overloaded rapidly and became a huge single point of failure. Snowflake was introduced to solve several problems at once. =)
It has more to do with immigration laws. Canada is a popular destination to send workers who simply can't pass the higher bar for US immigration.

If they use the term "engineer" in the work description, they won't be able to sponsor visas for candidate without an engineering degree.
Speaking of which, I sincerely hope (though not holding my breath) that they take a good, hard look at the Sequoia partners who enabled this. Diligence is theoretically part of their job and they either committed an act of gross negligence by not doing any, or they committed an act of conspiracy by seeing what the game was and blessing it.
Small but meaningful correction: Apple decides what is allowed on _Apple_ devices consumers own.

So again, how does this hurt choice? You can choose a dozen other phones. Your ability to participate in the smartphone revolution isn’t hindered in any meaningful way.

To be clear, I HATE the App Store review process as it stands. But that’s not because I don’t have a choice and somehow magically think other app stores will fix everything. It’s because it is objectively badly run as a business process. They don’t respond for weeks. The communication is entirely arbitrary. The application of rules is wholly inconsistent.

I’m not sure a second App Store will help with that.

I can still only see mostly downsides by creating confusion for consumers like others have said will happen.
I'm certainly not as confident as you are. Why wouldn't essentially every large app with even a moderate amount of lock-in do this? I would be extremely surprised if any large social networks or online games wouldn't immediately do this.
In Australia, you can't advertise cigarettes, and cigarettes have to be sold in faded green packaging (without logos etc.) with only health warnings. You can only get cigarettes if you know which brands to ask for.

That has prevented some people taking up smoking. I think it's fair.
The periodic table is pretty awesome. But I wonder if there's a layout that takes into account this fission/fusion division? Would it just be a line?

-- Yeah there are a few alternative designs, but nothing that seems to do the division.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_periodic_tables
Not sure how'd you compete on features without being as heavyweight.
I'm sorry but you sound much more arrogant here with your strange assumptions. AFAIK all of those things he said are based on the data from the experiment. And I've read the same (i.e. that it's very far from being energy efficient).

> will believe
Wouldn't be better if you were able in to verify stuff to some degree yourself instead blindly trusting every expert (not at all implying that the people who did this experiment are untrustworthy but your bound to run into some bad apples with this attitude eventually)
Plaster and gypsum board (drywall) can be used together. The author's own house uses plastered gypboard, and from what I understand plastered gypboard is still extremely common in Europe and around the world.
Of course, but you don't think the gov't is more selective and more punitive against the larger players? Law is inherently discretionary.
I used to watch this guy's exploits on TV when I was a kid. Very inspirational
During my first week in my first programming job I remember overhearing a senior engineer saying “don’t worry, there’s not another leap year for 2 years”. I was still working there on February 29, he wasn’t. It was a stressful day. My condolences go out to the engineers who will be working on January 1st 100000.
Not sure what Europe you're part of but it's way closer than that. And in some European markets, iOS has 60-65% share (like Scandinavia).
My alma maters vending machines used an unsigned integer for understanding school debt card balance. However the school debt card used a signed integer to allow for small negative balances.

Well students uncovered the flaw and had their cards be at negative 1 dollar, which the vending machine read as a very large balance.
Look at the binding energy curve: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/NucEne/nucbin.htm...
See also this thread on Permies.com forums: "My Progress Gleying a Pond With Pigs" https://permies.com/t/38201/Progress-Gleying-Pond-Pigs Long story short: pigs make ponds. You gotta see it to believe it.
So if we had the 20% wall plug efficiency, then we need that 3.2:2 ratio to become 10:2 to hit break-even. That looks like a huge gap but maybe there are tricks here that resolve this once you get over the initial gap.
What? Exercise does not take that long, and adds far more than 3%. It also improves the quality of life by 10X compared to not doing it.
I personally believed so since a while ago, for that exact reason. Although I was thinking more of miniaturizing the existing bomb design where fusion material is surrounded by a fission shell made of material with lower critical mass. But I am no expert either.
Those are figures for current electrical production schemes.

After decades of R&D fusion should become significantly cheaper than fission per kWh if only due to having less of a regulatory burden and smoother permitting process.

It’s more expensive now, but in the long run it will be cheaper.
and not a gigantic amount of fusion that you have in thermonuclear weapons,

Ironically, this experiment was designed primarily to simulate the fusion you have in thermonuclear weapons. That's the NIF's purpose and the purpose of this experiment. From Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04440-7

"Herrmann acknowledges as much, saying that there are many steps on the path to laser fusion energy. “NIF was not designed to be efficient,” he says. “It was designed to be the biggest laser we could possibly build to give us the data we need for the [nuclear] stockpile research programme.”
functionally it has become. Many people move and don't switch to a local number they just bring their old one along. Now the area code isn't really indicative of where a person lives just where they got their first phone.
> Apple is saying "it is valuable and our customers value not letting random people getting it."

Well... https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/21/icloud-for-windows-corr...
>If you want to run unsigned software or extensions you will have to boot into a recovery console and change the security model. The warning dialogs will be enough to discourage most use. Th

I think all of this is implying that Apple can be the only company that iOS users trust to sign software. Its a false choice.

Making things look "scary" to discourage users from trusting others is simply FUD.
I personally know someone who consistently has 1-2k viewers. I would say $80k~$100k is more the norm for that size. $1M/year a stretch (including YT, IG, paid influencing, etc.)

> gives you a very very very comfortable life.

Monetarily, sure...but the point is that you if you suddenly take a month off, you risk that comfort.
More like why it's better to be a small fish than a big fish when the legal proceedings start.
What do you mean? I don't get the reference.
Really wish you would since the damn thing plagiarizes! https://justoutsourcing.blogspot.com/2022/03/gpts-plagiarism...
You can contract with "the little guys" to supply artisanal lumber, it can be cost effective. We ordered wood for a deck and it is hung up at the local sawmill. We see the winter coming in and think "should we just go to Home Depot and finished the job?"

Of course, in the past two years the Home Depot has been out of stock sometimes as well.
They seem to live on 30k to 50k a year so even if they double their expenses they are ok.
Yes, on Dos 5. Retry first, which never worked. Then Fail to see if the program can handle the issue, which also never worked. And if not, abort (to kill the program).
Last month, Namecheap allowed me buy¹ a .love domain name for $9.98, and then seemingly intercepted the hand-off to me in order to re-classify the domain as a "premium" domain and kindly re-offer it to me for only $1,950.

I've never experienced anything like it. I remain horrified about all the times I've recommended Namecheap in the past.

¹ By "buy", I mean that I received an email confirming the $10.16 charge (including ICANN fees) with transaction and approval IDs.
it will be cheaper to power the forge
There are bunch of modern exploration vessels going (none with a JYC level explorer or educational purpose), mostly with funding from billionaires:

- https://nautiluslive.org/
- https://www.revocean.org/
- https://oceanx.org/oceanxplorer
- https://schmidtocean.org/rv-falkor/
- https://www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/explore/ships/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Alucia
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> it'd be absurd for me to download software only through the Microsoft Store

It'd be absurd for me to download software through the Microsoft Store
I'd rather hear 'improved' than roll my eyes at 'fixed'
While people use ChatGPT for its flaws in logic,I am getting relationship advice
Me: What are the 5 most important things in a relationship ?

ChatGPT:

The most important things in a relationship are :

trust
communication
respect
compromise
commitment
Heh. Let me enumerate a few examples of inventions made in Europe:

English. You know the language we are speaking right now. Radar, Shares, Stock Markets, Democracy, the Jet Engine, the Industrial Revolution, Double Entry Book Keeping, modern Banking, most religions etc. There is a very high chance that whatever tech or culture you are thinking about was invented in Europe.

And today look at companies like ARM and ASML that dominate the chip industry. Or world class innovative companies like Airbus, Maersk, Porsche, Mercedes etc. Germany alone has thousands of world leading companies that you have never heard of but nevertheless are crucial for most products you have heard of.

And let’s talk Google, Facebook etc. They are ad companies. And the ads business has been around for a long time. So it could be argued that those companies are not at all innovative. Yes there might be cool things they have done at the operational level to support their ad serving business and get more clicks. But the computers they run on would not have the power they have today without innovative European companies like ASML.
People who want to support Tarn and Zach but don't want to buy the game can "donate" directly: http://www.bay12games.com/support.html
I’m not anti fission. But the reality is that many are and the NIMBY effect is strong. You don’t necessarily have that with fusion.

Also, there should hopefully be much less pomp and process around fusion compared to fission due to the safety/radiation profile being much safer.
I do not get your Moishe Postone reference either. What does it mean?
There seems to be a disconnect here as you missed the point of this comment. Previously people could choose between an open platform and a platform with a walled garden. In the future, the choice is likely between two open platforms. Someone who preferred the security, privacy, and simplicity of a walled garden is potentially losing that choice.
It’s not like many others haven’t tried. Microsoft, Palm, maybe they can try again.

But for whatever reason that I can’t quite explain (especially on android, on iOS I think iMessage locks people in. Maybe on Android it’s the Google suite?), others haven’t made a dent.
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