skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brings back a lot of memories. My part time job in high school during the early 80s had me working as video arcade attendant on evenings and weekends. Unfortunately, for the arcae manager, he had not properly done the research into traffic flows and how to actually make an arcade fun to visit - So, much to his chagrin, the patronage to this arcade was pretty low.

However, this was great for me, as I had the keys to the games and could load up free credits on them to my heart's content before or after hours. We had Defender, Pac-man, Centipede, Galaga, and 8-10 others which, because traffic was so low, the manager encouraged that I play so people might be enticed to come in. Eventually, I noticed that one of the few regulars, a kid around 12 years old, had the ability to play of Galaga just to the point he would roll the high-score counter on a single quarter. Then he'd move over to Pac-Man and do the same.

Curious, I asked him to show me how he did it in exchange for free credits on the other machines. He demonstrated that there was a pattern on Galaga that, if you followed precisely, would allow you to cruise through each level. The first key step, of course, would be get your ship captured so that you could free it and double your firepower.

He also demonstrated that there was also a pattern on PacMan, and again, if you followed the pattern precisely, it would also allow you to cruise through each level, while maximizing points.

Over the course of a few days, I committed the patterns to memory. Then, with this new-found skill, I was able to go to other arcades around town and obtain the high score. (At that point in my life it was the absolute best feeling to see every line High Scores Screen filled with my initials).

Shortly afterwards, the arcade where I worked closed (I can tell you it was a sad day for me when the truck came to pick up all the games as I was hoping to buy one on the cheap). I then found a new job, which involved a lot of physical activity, which caused me to lose a bunch of weight, which suddenly made girls show an interest in me, which then made video games much less attractive to me... and so, I forgot the pattern.

(geez, I sound like an old man - I guess soon I'll be yelling at kids to get off my lawn ...)
Just call it the SHH gene. This level of detail is hardly necessary to begin with.
At least they should try to avoid the explosive instrumentation that causes your keyboard to light on fire if the ship is damaged
> Why do it?

Doing stuff like this is how you get experience in areas where your day job may not provide you the opportunity.

After all - employers don't care how you got the skills, that you have the skills.
I've been working on server side VDOM based web framework in Ruby that streams DOM-patches to the browser. It uses Haml as React uses JSX. The syntax makes it really nice to use. It's pretty fast but it needs a lot more work before it's ready to use for any real world projects. Would be cool if someone tried it out and maybe even made some improvements.

https://github.com/mayu-live/framework
This is incredibly cool. Unfortunately, I don't think it's something I would pay for. But the bit I tried out seems great! I like to live in the terminal and this seems like a nice way to keep doing so :)
Oh OK, so you want the ACLU to be a right wing org, got it.
Active Trackers: https://activetrackers.com

A fitness web app I built during the first year of COVID to track pull-ups, push-ups, etc. A couple of my family members purchased a subscription, but otherwise it hasn't gotten any traction.

I have monthly goals for push-ups and pull-ups, so I still use it every day to track my progress.

It's built with Laravel, using Spark, Jetstream, and Tailwind. Before building the app, I had only dabbled with Laravel, so building it was a great learning experience.
I think I replied to the wrong comment.
Levees break and they cost money. But this follows the same line of reasoning as:

> How much of, say, Suburban Florida remains usable if we price cars high enough to make their use unadvisable?

We'd just build the right transportation so that this doesn't matter.
I thought it was ok on the N64. I think other Rare (Ultimate in my mind) games were much better.

Conker’s Bad Fur Day and Banjo Kazooie been examples. Not forgetting Diddy Kong Racing.

GoldenEye came out when the PC FPS games were much more entertaining. They were online.
I did a lot of google searches to see if there was anything else out there, but this one never showed up.

Your design is even simpler, using just an FT245 chip. Surprisingly, that FT245 cost $4.80, only 20 cents cheaper than the Raspeberry Pico that I'm using, and the final BOM cost differs by only $2.

I love that it fits in an enclosure (at the cost of needing more space in the back.)
I'm really surprised that LF cameras haven't been added to any phones. I'd think it would be valuable for "fixing" photos and perhaps allow computation to replace the LIDAR.

Though it feels like the cameras are in a "pro" or at least "prosumer" race. Every apple camera announcement seems to tout "advances" that are mostly irrelevant to me (who, like I assume most people, pretty much only uses the camera to take pictures of people and pets).
The Nitpicks of Power, Part II: Falling Towers
There’s a black market business being run by Meta employees, selling the ability to take over these accounts from the inside for a price. They then funnel that cash back to family and friends and launder that cash through various other means.

NYT reported about it last year.
A non-academic perspective on the future of lithium-based batteries
Good overview of the battery research space, with insights of what makes it hard to go from lab prototype to commercial product and why so many research breakthroughs eventually fail to translate into innovation for the consumer.
I love the current rate of progress in generative music ml research. Riffusion model ( https://www.riffusion.com/about ) was trending here just a month ago.
Pity Google never shares the actual models, would love to hear artists go wild with it.

btw, some of you might find interesting, diffusion-based / generative concept album: https://wielu.bandcamp.com/album/vectorstep-ep
> Having your device remain owned by a vendor, who only "licenses" it for you to use opens up a whole new world of problems, some of which average person can't even imagine.

Actually, everyone experiences this right now. Macbooks are working like this. And 99% of people are fine with it. We don't have to imagine anything
I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.
Youtube and eBay make this stuff really simple. In the last year or so I swapped a side mirror on my car, fixed a leak in my washing machine, fixed a stand mixer, and probably some other stuff using ebay parts and youtube tutorials.
Making a product and shipping it.
"Boeing also agreed to pay $2.5 billion, including $1.7 billion in compensation to airlines that had purchased 737 Max planes but could not use them while the plane was grounded for 20 months after the second plane crashed. The company also agreed to pay $500 million in compensation to the families of those killed in the two Max plane crashes, and to pay a $243 million fine."

All that money should go to the families or at least the majority. I don't care some share holders lost some money but I guess this is the disgusting side of overreaching capitalism.
Ah, no I haven't disabled that. So it must be running.
The legal question seems to be whether “compensation” constitutes “purchasing the bag.”
Are there any guides for getting started with OsmAnd?
My experience is 15 years out of date, but back in those days many "big brands" insisted we only use their repair centres, and all we could do was ship stuff to them and hope for the best. Some were a little more flexible in this than others, but the flexibility was always very limited.

Especially with components like mainboards or GPUs this could be awkward, because turn-around times were often weeks or even months. We usually just replaced them without too much fuss, and then a month later we were sent back a repaired spare part that could perhaps maybe be used for a repair later. We generally accepted this as a "cost of business", but never seemed quite right to me.

While turnarounds on laptops were usually fairly decent, they could also be weeks, and replacing a €800 laptop on which we made €50 profit was kind of a non-starter. This also included stupid stuff like broken memory modules, or a broken hinge cover. The only way we could get reimbursed at all was by sending the entire laptop to them and hope it didn't take them 2 weeks to spend 5 minutes replacing a broken RAM module or something silly like that.

My point in all of this being: it's not necessarily the store's fault.
As is often said, 'Toyota volume with Ferrari margins'.
I imagine what they mean is that any time a politician speaks, they must adjust what they say to agree with core voter demographic if they want re-election. Perhaps if they spoke privately they could concede on certain topics and reach a middle ground, then plan a way for each to explain the compromise to their voters.

In a public forum people would likely view the compromise as one or both politicians "losing" and a mixture of ego and fear of not getting re-elected would prevent either party from giving ground and taking more measured approach.
Violations May Put Ski Wax Users at Risk from Illegal Perfluoroalkyl Substances [pdf]
This reminds me a lot of Ron Garret's story of the difficulties of advocating for the use of Lisp against the industry standard C for space projects. Sounds like a lot of the exact same dynamics.

https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34524552
Most of the european rail systems are at least semi-nationalized.
LA-NYC on Amtrak right now can be done for $251 in 70 hours. If you want a sleeper car it's $1500+, though you can split that with another person.
I'd love the link if you have it
Thank you for this thead!

I am currently working on a new open-source project, completely free to help enterprise manage their authorizations on a ce realized application: https://www.authz.fr/

Main benefits whereas existing projects is the simplicity of use and the frontend web UI which is generally in paid offers.

It comes with Service Development Kits in multiple languages (Go, NodeJS, PHP, Python) and more to come soon.

I hope someone could find something interesting here :)
> Are there application where the CRT is preferred? And don't say to play old nintendo games, that does not count.

There's a huge range of games where CRTs are preferred. If old NES doesn't count, maybe other old games do. Vector CRTs are really irreplacable by modern screens, rasterizing is a usable approximation, but it's not the same. CRTs are nice for new games too, although if you get higher resolution CRT TVs, some of them have digital processing with delays, like modern TVs too; it turns out it's hard to build a CRT that can do all of 240p, 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i well, and you end up wanting to massage the picture. Light gun games really need a near zero delay output to work.

It's hard to fill a hole in an arcade cabinet designed for 25" 4:3 CRT with anything else. (Sometimes you can put a 16:9 monitor oriented vertically, but not in a sit down car/tank game)

I hope that one day, large 4:3 displays are produced again.
While this is interesting for the sake of learning how Yandex works, this is also an insight into how other search giants like Google and Bing's algorithms work. Clearly they won't be identical, but currently the SEO community is having a field day. It'll be interesting to see what the Black Hat SEO community does with this, specifically, and what implications this will have for the White Hat SEO folks, and the Web at large.
Google created AI that generates music from text descriptions, won’t release it
Why Hotwire instead of Livewire if i may ask?
The Science of Sword-Swallowing (2007)
I don't actually care about any of that stuff. You are confusing technically wrong with not working. If the code works in production it doesn't matter that the code is technically wrong.

Testing via typing is very weak testing. Almost worthless. Type checking doesn't find many bugs in general.

Strongly typed languages have 2.5 times the number of bugs as dynamically typed languages per software feature.

Why would you intentationally add bugs to your code?

It doesn't make any sense to me.

Thinking using static typing in a scripting language is a good idea is pretty naive. It's like creating a version of Haskell with mutability.
> Erlang couldn't work with Conway's Law without totally converting your entire company to it, which just isn't going to happen.

I think this says more than you think it does.

I've worked in software development professionally for 20 years. I have never worked at a company that had more than 1 backend language. A large percentage of developers work at small companies.

Erlang/Elixir/BEAM isn't for the Googles of the world. And that's fine. Tech needs to stop its infatuation with these companies. Just because something is right for those companies, doesn't mean it's right for yours. Ignoring this has done a lot of damage over the years. Production complexity is a killer.

People love to talk about scaling (and here, I'm talking about scaling a company), but only ever mention one aspect: scaling up. Things also have to scale down. Technological choices tend to sacrifice one for the other.

But BEAM languages have a wider scaling band than most other technological choices. And that is in large part because of everything it offers out of the box.
I'm looking at the Discord UI now and don't see any gamer lingo except for the "welcome" messages. I can see how the UI could be overwhelming with features, and my older family members couldn't figure out how to use it the one time they tried, but Slack is even worse in that way too. And MS Teams was so bad that I couldn't figure out how to even log in.

If it weren't for the security and reliance implications, I'd run a company chat over Facebook Messenger. Simple as.
Simplified Chinese.

Because I am considering relocating to China for the foreseeable future. I enjoyed living there.

I currently speak English as well as French, it’s fun learning a tonal language
appears to be restored now
> and GPT will never be applying critical thought

Just wait. This party has just begun. 90% of humans will be like school kids in comparison to the critical thought of GPT-5.
Sounds a lot like my dad telling me to go to law school instead of getting into cs. He thought the ultimate goal of cs is to make everyone in the field obsolete... well maybe he was right in the end.
Notes on Craft
Yeah, a lot of the discussion here is lamenting the lack of any support, but I'm fascinated to know how they possibly could have gained access.

Given the suspicion that it was an inside job, these two different points have something in common, namely an attempt to access the human infrastructure behind the interface. If that suspicion proves true then people compromising accounts are having better luck accessing Instagram's internal levers for account management.
How many papers with awful notation are actually the reverse engineering of some (barely) working code, cobbled together from random libraries and coefficients?
There are plenty that average 200mph and the Chinese seem to be getting a bit higher, with one operating at 286mph.
They are working on considerably faster ones.

Surely a US train could aim to be up there with the fastest?

Even with that boost though, your point remains.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/article/worlds-fastest-trains...
Link is interesting and a good response from Cook. I was hoping it would be more of a complete rejection of the terribly destructive Friedman doctrine of shareholder supremacy.
A bit of an unfortunate naming/seo clash as GO Transit is the public transit service in Ontario Canada.

https://www.gotransit.com/en/
Perfect is the enemy of the good. It's a reasonable general purpose choice. Of course don't use it if you have stricter requirements.
I don't even politely reply. At my last job, HR sent me a "contract" offering $1 in exchange for agreeing not to work in the industry for 1 year. I archived their email and never spoke to them again :)

It would really depend on the job, of course. I didn't really care about that one, and didn't see myself ever wanting to work with that founder again, so I didn't make any effort to be "nice" in any way. If I ever left my current job, I would make sure to stay on the best of terms. I would be annoyed if they paid me $1 to not work for a year, but I also know they would never ask for that.
Honor is what separates men from animals. Each of us gets to choose which we are.
Ha, they don't even 'hire' those people, they are contractors not employees. Contractors don't get benefits, unemployment, etc. And they can be short-term contracts where you cannot get back-to-back contracts, so constant turn-over.
Father, Son and Double Helix (2015)
I don't know this person but objectively speaking, given the facts of the situation, I would say that it's more likely he sold his account and now wants it back for whatever reason. Maybe they people who bought it grifted him somehow and managed to reverse payment or something else.

I wouldn't accuse someone of lying when I have no basis to, and I'm not. I'm just saying it's the more likely scenario versus some IG employee risking their high paying career to give some nobody someone else's low value IG handle.
oh this looks promising, thank you! I'll try this out
Well, that is nice, but israeli Rafael Defense tested iron beam last year with 100kW and they have a video of the test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6eHC4JBXA

There is a longer video but I could not find it.

Despite the test, they say a production version is still a few years away
Maybe I just have better data hygiene than average, but I found that site to be absolutely hilarious. I was able to find myself, but my address was several years and several moves out of date. My phone number was decades out of date and not even really my phone number. (It was a landline phone at my mom's house, with an old pre-area code split area code.)
My 2000-era Bosch washing machine failed. I opened it up and it had a huge circuit board which was pretty easy to figure out and repair. I imagine these days it would just have a few power transistors and an inscrutable ASIC. Sigh.

BTW all my appliances from 20 years ago (washer, dryer, dishwasher, pool heater, fridge, oven, stove..) are still going strong. I've only had to fix the washer and microwave.
The amount of value I get out of your service is nuts! No better place to figure out whether a multiplayer game is worth getting... Daily users is hard metric to game or lie about.
I have, over a two year period, been rather excitedly told about Liquid Death from the most surprising people. I mention a two year period because I don't recall anything else being presented to me as this new cool thing over such a long time frame. Something about that brand, in my experience, gets people to feel like 'they found something'.
It really is quite interesting the reaction people have to it. Now what's also funny is that with one exception these half dozen people are never seen drinking LD later on.
I guess I've just never seen such a powerful branding experience with the exception of maybe Gmail or Facebook way back when when they were seen as more exclusive services and people started finding out about them.
That's exactly what is coming next for it! A fully-fledged web app. It's actually built using web tech so it's an easy port. Just need to rebuild some of the native bits for web (ohh I might get to use wasm!) but once that's done it should be good to go. Planning on pushing out in the next 2 weeks.

And yeah while I don't need to run ads on it at the moment, if the right sponsor wanted to work with me I'd be exceptionally happy to do so.
Strong concept. One of my clients does CE training and I currently have to create new PDF certificates whenever they create a new course or move info a new state. Have you thought about casting this as a simple API and charging devs like me for it? I would just pass along the cost to the client, maybe with a bit of a markup. Or maybe even better (for you), I'd instruct the client to bank $10 at a time with you (recharge their account) and maybe that would allow me to generate 100 certs (or whatever makes sense here) before they have to recharge and deposit more.
I think it has to be a lot closer to Wikepedia's level of accuracy (which is not 100%, or even close) before anyone cites it as fact.

Yesterday I asked it "what are the chords to 'A Foggy Day in London Town'": it made up a whole new Gershwin song!

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"A Foggy Day in London Town" is a song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The chords for the song are:

Verse:

C C7 F C C7 F C C7

Foggy, foggy dew, you can't see a thing

F Fm C C7 F C C7 F

The visibility is zero, and my eyes are dim

Chorus:

C C7 F C C7 F C C7

It's a foggy day in London Town

F Fm C C7 F C C7 F

The buildings look one hundred feet tall

C C7 F C C7 F C C7

It's a foggy day in London Town

F Fm C C7 F C C7 F

And the people look like ants at all

Bridge:

Am D7 G C C7 F C C7

Just like the feeling you get when you're down

Am D7 G C C7 F C C7

The sun can't break through the London Town
Early Bird Edit: https://earlybirdedit.com/

I hate scrolling through twitter, so I built a service to email me the best tweets in my feed. It's self signup and there's a discount code in the signup process if you'd like to be an Alpha user/avoid the fee.

A handful of friends are using it and for the most part it's doing what I wanted it to do.

Not sure what the future holds given the recently cancelled 3rd party apps debacle.

P.S. I adventured into writing this on the Firebase stack (Firestore and Cloud Functions). Probably wouldn't again – the cold starts are simply too slow and the mitigations they suggest haven't been effective.
Amazing resource - very applied and relevant. Thank you for this (coming from someone in Data Science).
One must be careful when hiking with OpenStreetMap (and OsmAnd) as reference. Several times I could barely find the path (maybe it was added by someone but not really official and maintained) and I had to follow the positioning to try to follow the virtual path in the high grass. (but I still rely a lot on OsmAnd).
Is this improved with the use of attributes like aria-controls and aria-expanded, or is there a deeper issue?
There is also the triage theory of aging where the idea is that when micronutrient levels are low (not low enough to cause acute symptoms but below the recommended daily allowance), they are triaged and used where needed (such as ATP production) at the expense of being used normally. The theory is that this can cause long-term problems such as neural decay, cancer, and other signs of aging.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693790/
Like rhino said above, in all likelyhood the label on the bag was most likely ripped (or it wouldn't be lost in the first place). And trying to describe a bag is... challenging.
Ask HN: What should everyone know about statistics?
my take:

base rate fallacy,
cold hit problem

Simpson's paradox,
regression toward the mean

distrust in p-values and NHST
Tanner Greer is one of the most thoughtful commentators I know, I have learned a lot from his blog.
The Passive in English (2011)
Raise your hand if you think the singularity is happening. (ie, within 5 years till AGI)
there is a market for 2k/month apps/businesses. feel free to email me if you want to sell.
The US is heavily suburban. Not only are the airports not in city centers, neither are many of the travelers.

And security is not just about hijackings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_...