skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an excellent and very informative story! Special thanks for how the Beziers are encoded in XML - I needed this once, but gave up for alternative way.

I recall how I rasterized sprites in my Flash games, I just did it on-the-go right after the game was loaded. I created a Vector.<BitmapData> which stored sprites’ frames, and then drew those BitmapData to the main BitmapData by copyPixels.

It’s interesting how far did you proceed with AIR way and what bugs did you encounter? It’s been nor Adobe but Harman AIR since 2019 and recently AIR50 is out. If you look for a Steam game named Shapik it’s a good example of a Flash game on Steam which was ported via AIR. I use AIR for my mobile Action Script 3 games as well, and now thinking about going to Steam
Comments like this are bizarre. If the claim is that a) is objectively true then you'd better have data to back up that claim otherwise your claim is not objective.
> "World class" health and education brings you some of the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world ...

Just to be clear, I was referring to the Nordic countries, Australia, better performing OECD countries, etc and not referring to the US.

Your links bear out my position, that US "free market | low taxes" approach doesn't deliver good outcomes for the masses.
> When you've got personal wealth in the hundreds of millions, yeah, "hollywood plots" are indeed a concern.

SBF doesn't have that, though. He lost access to FTX's funds. He doesn't have anything he can give to anyone that would motivate them to do that for him. No money, no influence, no ability to reward anyone in any way. He is poison and nobody wants anything to do with him.
In Polish friend and best friend is a different word, and the default is best friend (friend is barely a slightly closer aquietance - no point using it really). And the word for best friend (przyjaciel) is very old. Also there are examples of that kind of friendship in Illiad.

I call bullshit.
> I'm struggling to think of situations where that is the case. Usually the success of an existing company doesn't depend on writing new software.

Video games and, to a lesser extent, consumer devices.
> There is some general principle of how it works that captures this behavior,

It is statistical completion, but working at the nth order. What seems most likely to come next? An enormous number of possible responses are generated based on the prompt, and then tested for how likely it seems like everything else in its training data. A possible completion that is a fake biography of a person but which looks very much like a real biography, scores quite highly on the metric. ChatGPT has also been trained by feedback, with fake but convincing syntheses being penalised, and responses saying it doesn't know or using accurate facts being preferred. And so it also does the same testing process with the "how likely is it my trainer will like this completion?" metric. That explains the behaviour in the second session. In the first, it slipped by that metric.
Shouldn't have called it emergency is just feeding a thirsty news cycle
most apps are just UI's for websites anyways
QEMU also has a complicated multi stage build process, and using foreach was not a workaround. Each directory sets up what it wants to build in a dictionary, and then the main meson.build does all the steps.
I was in a conversation on HN the other day where I pointed out certain behavior was unconstitutional. The person replied that it was legal.

Sure, it's legal, but due to the interpretation issue you mentioned, I fully believe it's unconstitutional.

here's the link to that conversation if anyone is interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053704#34055711
> There are many apps that allow transferring files over WiFi, including to a windows computer.

And they're a lot more awkward then using a cable.

They also might not even have a speed advantage over USB 2.0 if the router is in a different room.
crypto pathic

Press [X] to doubt.
Crypto is still a solution that is searching for the problem it wants to solve.
That works if the only ethical decisions relate to the workers, but there are still ethical decisions that relate to external factors like climate change or to customers. For example, a worker-run coal mine will probably be much better at maintaining safety standards than a privately-owned coal mine, but those workers still want a job! They're not going to willingly shut down the mine just because coal-fired electricity generation needs to be phased out. You still need government oversight and regulation.

(Of course, worker co-ops are still good things, even if they're not going to solve every problem all by themselves!)
From what I can tell, v7 is Intel-only. That means when Apple sunsets Rosetta 2, it’s not going to work anymore. I’ll need to switch to something else before then, but hate Electron, and all the other options seem to use it (and now 1Password does, too).
Never heard of Niagara Falls huh?
Again, those potentially at a greater likelihood to affected won’t sit by and wait.

Approach the problem proactively or public opinion will force a solution upon it regardless.
In all seriousness, I recommend lifting weights. Once I discovered how much an 8x10 field camera, accessories, and a suitable tripod weighed, I realized I'd only be able to schlep it around if I started building muscle mass.
I sometimes wonder if someone will someday tweet just what were they thinking?!? with a Ghidra screenshot of some quick feature I wrote before a deadline.
Quite obviously there isn't anything and the handle indicating a crypto hack it's as non-credible as anything can be but some folks on HN still fall for the crypto hype.

This is your regular reminder that all crypto is scam , this is a simple mathematical fact.
What do you mean by Google? I looked at the Wikipedia article, but didn’t see Google listed.
A: 2022 is the year RSS readers died
B: 2022 is the year of RSS readers

Me: I've been using an RSS reader all this time without hiccups.
> why is this tweet on HN

Is a meme
I'm not even sure it's faster.

I flew out very early one morning and put my toothbrush, etc, in a small plastic bag and stuffed it into my duffel.

The scanner detected the liquid so they pulled me to the side. As soon as the TSA agent saw the bag with the toothbrush she made a "ugh" sound, had an annoyed look on her face, then closed everything back up and let me through.

Which tells me this is a very common occurrence.
There's bad performance hits coming from somewhere.

Very noticeable if you are like me and run an older smartphone (Galaxy S5, 2014).
Technically, there’s a difference. Practically, as a consumer / that difference doesn’t matter to me.
You have to be efficient in both program and memory space on AVRs, more than CPU time.
If your drive breaks down while you’re trying to do a restore, you’re going to want to get a spare one quickly. That may become a problem if you choose not to stay current.
The system is working, and it's working faster than normal!

First, the conspiracy theorists said SBF would never be charged or arrested. Apparently he "bribed" politicians. (But even if that was true, how would one expect a politician to be corrupt enough to be bribed, yet noble enough to stick their neck out to assist a fellow criminal who got caught?)

Then, they said he would not be extradited. Turns out he wanted to be, because being processed through the US justice system was preferable to being in jail in the Bahamas.

Now, they are saying he will somehow manage to escape, even though nobody has an incentive to help him do that, and many people involved have very strong incentives not to help him -- and if he really wanted to go into hiding, he could have done that anytime before he was arrested in the Bahamas.

Once that nonsense is over with and he shows up for his trial, people will claim that sure, SBF will be tried, but he won't be convicted! However, several of his close colleagues have just pleaded guilty to the same kind of crimes he is accused of, which is a very strong indication that they are cooperating with the prosecution and giving them all sorts of information.

If he is convicted, people will say, sure, he was found guilty, but his sentence will just be a slap on the wrist! The same was said about Elizabeth Holmes, and it was wrong.

On the other hand, the non-conspiracy-theorist mind sees the system working the way it is supposed to. Guy commits financial crime. Guy gets charged, arrested, and extradited to the US to stand trial for that crime -- in record time! It normally takes the US government a lot longer to put such a complicated prosecution together.

So, again, the system is working, and it's working faster than normal!
Blackouts happen if the power lines themselves get damaged. But rationing and rolling blackouts due to insufficient capacity are basically unheard-of.
It is when you live in a large city. Where I live the “good old German bakery” is almost extinct and and you have to either travel a lot and queue up for bread, buy cheap bread which consists mostly of some kind of corn Sirup and water or go to a hipster “sourdough” bakery where one loaf costs 8-13€.

I really don’t like to complain but it is so crazy to me that when you go to southern Germany or Austria that good bakeries are just that much more common, whereas in large northern cities they have been evicted by large bakery chains or cheap bakeries which all get their bread delivered from the same factory in the morning.
Discussed at the time:

An Unexpected Ass Kicking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342790 - Aug 2012 (196 comments)
As I understand it the bail system exists because in the US the state has no idea where you live, you don’t have to register your place of residence.

But I might be wrong about that.
It's not a luxury car, never has been. I'm not sure it's even portrayed as a luxury car, perhaps it was perceived as a bit of a luxury car before it came out with the Model 3 (buying a Model S was the first thing someone coming into money from a startup exit would commonly do in the early-mid 2010's).
Reminds me of Atlas Shrugged, when they had to resort to manual track signal switching.

"Physical men, serving as lamposts. You’ve advocated it long enough—you’ve got what you wanted’" (pp. 875-76).
PDF is a bad format unless you are printing. I worked for the US Federal Government where we had millions of stored PDFs. At one point in the Federal Judiciary we had one of the largest databases in the world. Why? PDFs. We pushed hard for a true digital format like html with a printable format, but the powers that be want a 1:1 replica for Search Warrants and Judges Orders. We can do better for sure, but as a result I was knee deep in pdf’s. It’s tiresome painful little spec. Maybe this go library can solve so many inconsistencies in the pdf world..
I'm most interested in assessing these systems for their ability to learn us something about abiogenesis (the origin of life).Can you set up a system like this in a suitable environment where the interaction with the environment somehow has the potential to accumulate complexity (or ordered structure) without any further 'engineering' intervention?
GoodsNovel – Google Play
It will most probably teach them very fast how to install a VPN on their phones.
I don’t know whether to be touched or disgusted by this. I guess any sort of shameless, money-grubbing ad designed to tug at your heartstrings would have that effect, but knowing this was created by a computer makes it worse, somehow.
She is ~6 months pregnant and the judge allowed her to give birth out of prison before serving her time, jesus christ. This is a humane accommodation for a pregnant woman; she still has to serve her time after birth.
Interestingly enough all of the examples you presented sound like they were each actually an improvement for the user (don't have to click the link, google shows me the info in the search result, don't have to go to google, safari showing me the answer in the search suggestions). If this where this is going we should celebrate, not mourn.
At the moment the flagships are being matched by the 6950xt in some benchmarks. Hopefully the ‘fine wine’ effect kicks in and the 7900xtx gains on the 4090. The gpu market desperately needs that to happen.
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I hate software bloat and thrown away milliseconds, but even then I realize that our visual cortex is really good at noticing movement, but hasn't had any experience in the last millions of years with stuff just popping up out of nowhere or teleporting. I know nothing about usability but just from knowing that, and my own experience, I can't dismiss any and all "useless" animations out of hand. There was a time when we couldn't afford them, now it depends.

Maybe this would be a useful way to look at it: if the average disorientation caused by instant change (which also depends on whether the change is predictable, makes other things change position, etc.) takes longer to recover from than the shortest animation/fade you could come up with, have a transition.

(but even then it doesn't hurt to gate all of that behind a global configuration option, IMO, and if you want to be really fancy make it a float, not a boolean)
It’s unfair that we can’t have an honest conversation about tic Tok because people chalk it up to free speech. The Chinese Government and its subsidiaries do not have first amendment rights, but there’s a handful of passages in the constitution about dealing with foreign adversaries: which China is.
Back to BASICs
You're on a site titled hacker news and you can't find a way to get past paywalled content, and you feel it's more important to ban the submissions from paywalled content, rather than find a way around it?

Why should the submissions be changed because you personally can't view them?

Edit: If you want to downvote, at least answer my question.
The parent mentioned Mercedes so that’s what I replied to.
What are the 2024 numbers for the ones you mention ?
Right.. so my point does stand. It’s fraud. Employers will catch on and some companies will start selling monitoring software to spy on you. Race to the bottom!
This is hilarious. We've had elected officials and other public figures (among them many journalists) opine for years that Twitter is not a utility and has every right to ban anyone, up to and including the President of the Fucking United States, for any reason that's palatable to the masses.

We've had cloud and infrastructure providers meta-ban applications and services for not banning the "right" people.

And now these journalists somehow think they are or should be exempt, and cry for regulation if the private owner of Twitter doesn't comply?

Pick one. Either Twitter is a public square, in which case banning users should only happen as the result of a court order, or it's just someone's website, in which case they can do whatever the hell they want.
100%. The lengths people will go to defend social media companies is ridiculous. Let alone a Chinese botnet.
I’ve almost finished reading through your entire original thread from a month ago, because I’m kind of in the same boat as you.

Why do you decline nearly every piece of advice the community here offers? It seems like each time someone makes a suggestion, you come up with a reason why their advice doesn’t work for you.

I’m just pointing this out because otherwise you seem well-spoken and eager to find work, but perhaps you are making things harder on yourself by being inflexible.

Anyways, good luck with the search, I don’t really have any tips but stop calling yourself a mediocre developer and talking poorly about yourself. You may be just as good of a developer and just as smart as anyone at some big tech company, but the other guy had opportunities you didn’t get which led to his success.
Hmm, true. Often in my country bail conditions involve a curfew usually from 9 or 10pm, and Police will turn up at your stated address at 10:01pm, and if you're not there, boom, breached, arrest warrant.

But, given the fragmented nature of policing in the US, I can see how what works here might not work there.
My work provides my phone and pays for the data plan. But I am allowed to put anything I want on it.
That’s about as effective as checking if a picture was made by DALL-E2 - for a month or two, it might work; but soon enough there will be 5 commercial ones and soon after you would be able to self host.
> And it is good for the bureaucracy to be risk adverse if it comes to my life.

Only moderately risk adverse.

Unless you'd approve of all roads having a 15-20mph speed limit? Because that's the natural conclusion of prioritizing accidents much higher than speed. And I'm not being hyperbolic or using a slippery slope argument. I'm saying that you have to admit a tradeoff to get any kind of sensible result.
I've been using CommaFeed for many years now, filled exactly the void Google Reader left behind for me.
No, this is favoring competence at the skills necessary for a different role, rather than assuming competence at one set of skills extends to another.
> drusepth is the online alias of Andrew Brown, an independent software developer from Portland, OR. He is the creator of several projects such as Tales From the Tavern, a weird solitaire game, and Quora Chrome Extension, among others. He is also a developer program member and is active on GitHub where he maintains a number of repositories.

Not terribly accurate, but I do find the murder by commas hilarious ("Tales From the Tavern, a weird solitaire game" is a single project).
To be honest I just googled "Meson dependency isystem" and any of the first few results would have given the answer (I used the third which was a bug report).

That said, using isystem for dependencies is a relatively advanced concept, not something I would do in the first hour of trying Meson.
A map of the distributed data systems landscape
I was thinking this a while back, but Google should have put a significant fraction of its advertising revenue towards the websites it directs to, similar to YouTube.

I keep hearing that the web is dying and that organic content keeps being replaced by ad farms.

Maybe if it was possible to make a living off of small site content like YouTubers do the web would be more resilient and people would use it more instead of going to wall gardens like Facebook and Instagram, and Google would have had more cash in the long run.

The current state of the web is like if every YouTube video needed to have a sponsored ad in it to make money, and Google put its own ad on top of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

You know, it was only the largest battery in the world for like 30 years...
Max Chilton is an Ex F1 driver.

The McMurtry car is the fastest in the world, faster than a F1 car.
Meh. Apple's software has silly UX deficiencies on top of the deep technical bugs. You can't even have opposite scrolling directions for mice and touchpads unless you install a third-party app. Some animations are extremely long, and on top of that can't be cancelled, resulting in atrocious UX for power user use cases. Apple no longer does subpixel antialiasing, making text look quite a bit worse than Linux on many screens. Etc.
Bacula is great software, but yes, fiddly to set up and SCSI tape drives / changers aren't really straightforward either. It will serve you well once all is set up though.

I worked for a company using Bacula quite successfully for many years with a 24 tape system. It was much better than the proprietary software the system came with.
Side note: Can somebody explain the difference between real, user, and sys? I understand that real is basically the time spent from start to finish (which can be affected by other processes), whereas user and sys consider the amount of time where the CPU was actually busy running a program (not waiting for other things like I/O).
For example, what is the meaning of user and sys from this example? [1]:

$ time wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.28/virtualbox-6.1_6.1.28-147628~Ubuntu~eoan_amd64.deb

real 0m8.515s
user 0m0.125s
sys 0m0.487s

According to [2], user + sys would be a better measurement than real for comparing Python, Cython, and C++.

[1] https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/linux-time-command

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10265162/the-meaning-of-...
Appreciate your notes
Well, let’s add that most of the projects are boring CRUD apps. They have a few pain points and over a long time will need novel extensions, but their base is basically LEGOd together, hardly comparable to the Manhattan project of CS which would be something like a high-performance JIT compiler, database, etc.
Some may not agree with this, but I think this is a golden opportunity to fix tech’s original sin, which is the majority of consumer facing tech being ad supported. In essence, our existences have been sponsored by wealthy benefactors for years now. Meanwhile consumers have been trained to expect software to be free, and to lower their expectations on it doing what they want. Many social issues involving people and the intersection of technology, eg social networks, in many ways can I’m part be argued to be 1st or 2nd ordered effects of these ad supported existences. And moreover, it has removed the expectations consumers have built that they have a voice based on where they take their business, due to the zero-sum game in each major vertical (search, social, etc…) In short, I have believed for a long time that one of the simplest things we can do as a society to removing impediments that block us from addressing the human-specific relates problems is simply paying for things.

ChatGPT is in general a really nice interface for talking to a software. I could see this essentially being the next greatest general purpose computing paradigm since excel. A lot of emphasis is put on all the things ChatGPT can do for you, all the while missing the point, which is it giving you a reasonably competent interface to help you do things for yourself. This experience could legitimately be compelling enough, I imagine, and enough people are fed-up enough with the current status quo of ad-sponsored tech that is user hostile, that it just may be able to break the vice grip that the monopolies have on computing and change the paradigm all together towards people paying for tech.

This would in effect create a more efficient feedback loop between customer and maker, perhaps bring back meaningful competition, and unlock the most important next computing interface since iPhones and excel.
Wind, solar, and hydro account for 46% of western grid (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interconnection). I can’t find similar numbers for the eastern grid, but hydro production by states, https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/hydropower/where-hydropo..., shows how hydro is more of a western thing, especially Washington state, but even Oregon and California are comparable to New York.
ChatGPT trained by current methods as a search tool might have the "spamdexing" problem too. People can still find ways, which might not be as easy as it is now, to generate content and make them be included in the training data.

But I think LLMs like GPT can be used as a great weapon against spamdexing because of their ability to "understand" text, which can help improve nowadays search engines, like Google, a lot by applying them as a filter when the spiders are crawling the web content.
i started using Grist recently as a place where i could save almost everything, movies/tv shows to watch, books to read, audiobooks, podcasts, bits of software/services to try out etc etc

being able to have a notes column is handy. i have so many things ive bookmarked but then years can't remember why!

its also let's you embed an image and a youtube video which can be useful for jogging your memory.

im only experimenting with it at the moment but i think some type of web clipper is what i need to start using this more, otherwise there's just a lot of manual work each time you want to save something

https://www.getgrist.com