skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was laserdisc based with full motion animation graphics. It looked and sounded like _nothing_ else in the arcade. The best graphics in other games at the time were things like Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac Man (i.e. cutesy low resolution pixels and beeps/bloops of sound). Dragons Lair was awe inspiring--you were _controlling_ a real cartoon, like what you might have dreamed of doing while watching cartoons on TV.

There were prompts FYI, the button you needed to press would quickly flash and you had fractions of a second to smash it. The whole point of the game was kind of to infer the right action from what was happening on screen too, i.e. if a skeleton is swinging a sword at you then you probably want to jump away from them but not into a nearby pit.
This isn’t really a conspiracy theory. Any time you see a positive puff piece listed as being written by “staff” or similarly vague term… that’s a marketing piece that is a paid placement.
That almost certainly refers to rewarding non-strikers relative to strikers after the strike has been resolved. It is not against the law to cease paying wages and providing benefits to strikers while the strike is in progress. Of course with tuition there is a pro-rata issue, i.e. the benefit should return after the strike is over.
It’s not just the technology, people have spun the narrative so now, even though human drivers cause thousands of accidents every day, a single accident by the self driving car is a disaster worthy of a media frenzy, endless litigation and political involvement.
Ex Mozilla here.

> Why does an email client need a web browser to function, and why is that the "perfect starting point"?

I'm not saying using Firefox is the best thing, but there are arguments to be made: first, Firefox is multiplatform, and good at it, and that's something Thunderbird needs as well. Then, like you said, an email client needs to display web pages, so no matter what, a web engine is needed (and it's absolutely possible to re-use Firefox core without building and including all the HTML features regular Firefox comes with). And finally, the whole TB code base is already in JS/XPCom, which would make the transition much easier.

> Hey, Mozilla, remember XUL? Before you decided to deprecate and remove it from Firefox, it was the unified UI framework that both a browser and an email client could use

That's an unnecessary snarky. There are millions of reasons why it made sense to remove XUL. Yes, on paper XUL is great, but it was based on old UI ideas, we had to make tons of hacks to work around those old ideas, and performance was not on par with what overly-optimised HTML could achieve. XBL was way to limited, and tons of features were just useless (remember RDF and templates?).

I would love to see XUL come back, but we need a modern version of it, and to be honest, this could just be an extension of HTML.

> without sharing any of their core dependencies

That's not true.

> I'm surprised Mozilla still has interest in maintaining Thunderbird

It's not Mozilla-Mozilla who's maintaining Thunderbird, but another entity.
I have been using Thunderbird for years. Every now and again I get curious about what else is out there and I start looking into alternatives like Claws or Neomutt. But then inevitably I realise that these are simply solutions in search of a problem for me, that Thunderbird continues to work absolutely fine and there is really no reason to switch. I understand others will have a different use case to me but it always blows my mind to see people having so many problems with Thunderbird when it has been just a very consistent workhorse in my experience.

I use Thunderbird for personal stuff and Outlook for work. I know it's probably not a fair comparison as my work laptop is slowed down by all the security stuff and general corporate spyware, but damn I only wish my work email could be half as snappy as my personal email.

A tip for those complaining about search, particularly about its performance: if you can, try filtering instead. It's more limited (I think it only searches sender and subject line) but it is blazingly fast for me, filtering out several GB of emails in less than a second, always.

Finally, for those wondering why an email client needs to be built on top of a web browser - this is because in 2023, most "normies" receive a lot of email that is heavy on HTML, so in order to be in any way useful to the majority of users, an email client needs to be really good at parsing HTML, which browsers are. Of course it seems like overkill if you only receive plaintext email.
If these grad students are in research-oriented programs, with an RA or TA job, the tuition might be Hollywood Accounting anyway -- a number the students might not have even seen before, nor even realize exists -- and now it's been weaponized.
Building embedded tips into your product
I didn't like routeros because it would try to connect to strange ip addresses out of the box.

I like that with openwrt, it doesn't do that, and you can configure all kinds of things just like you want. At first I would use the regular releases and install the packages I wanted. As I got more comfortable with it, I would just build it myself.

It's pretty easy:

git clone https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt
cd openwrt
./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a
make menuconfig
make -j$(nproc)

make menuconfig is where you choose how your system is configured (packages, kernel modules, config settings, etc)

my initial builds were sort of experimental, but it was kind of fun and eventually I learned to customize exactly what I wanted. For example I would use ipv4 only and strictly control the ip addresses of all my machines. (current openwrt doesn't allow it, you have to turn off ipv6 using sysctl). I configure out wifi/bluetooth from some machines that don't or shouldn't use them. I set up privoxy and some machines do updates through the proxy which whitelists what they can get to. I use vlans, and it keeps traffic segregated well. It's nice to put a weird device on a vlan and know it won't go uploading to the cloud, or update itself without your say so.
Well, you were paying for it before. Obviously it’s not a financial burden, or the company would have been unviable even before the pandemic.

If you spend 10M/annum on salaries, is your 1M/annum for an office really a big burden?
You'll find plenty of failed seats in crashes, it's a known factor and an item that has had it's share of recalls. I'm sure you can find many improperly or poorly positioned seats that also contributed to the post accident conditions.
I see ChatGPT good at creating filler rather than blur.
Businesses have public relations.

This is a bad look.
In english we call that tripe. Not very common in US cuisine. Menudo (hominy, tripe, red chile, broth) is probably the most common dish in the US (though it's generally considered mexican food). I think it --and offal dishes in general-- is more common in UK cuisine though.
It doesn’t. After a response, you can ask it for its sources, but it will just make stuff up.

Out of curiosity I asked it a microbiology question. It gave a reasonable but rather anodyne response. When I asked for the sources, it provided two plausibly sounding papers, with titles, authors, etc. neither of which actually exists.
nope, escaping is definitely worse in bash (and all shells) than real languages.
Seems like that's a consequence of the philosophical semantics of the word "know", not really a statement about the demonstrable capabilities of the LLM. In other words, why does it matter?
I'd agree with GP here - pointing with a finger is a very specific variant, that's arguably cultural in nature. More fundamentally, pointing is about communicating to the other being they should focus their attention elsewhere, and where that elsewhere is. "Looking"/"facing" and associated body language is a more common form of doing this, and humans too do it and recognize it, even if no fingers are being moved.
Well, they hired a university president out of Goldman Sachs and consulting, who wrote a book that basically argues that universities need to base their curriculum on what corporations tell them to do, so I'm not terribly surprised at the path they're taking.
There is no good reason at all for society to accept and institutionalize the sense of entitlement that unionizing workers have. You don't get any moral right to extra-contractual benefits just because you agree to an employment contract.

Almost all of the problems society has emanate from the ideological narratives of victimhood (e.g. the superficially plausible but fundamentally fallacious notion that parties with different levels wealth cannot engage in fair negotiations in the absence of a regulatory straightjacket being placed on the wealthier party) created to rationalize this sense of entitlement.

This institutionalized entitlement creates massive rent-seeking/inefficiency:

https://www.hoover.org/research/california-state-government-...

In the private sector, it guts industries, and thus harms workers at large, for the short term benefit of a select group of workers, e.g. Detroit was the richest city in the US, with the highest per capita, in 1950. 70 years later, after it was taken over by the UAW Union, it's a shadow of its former self.
Thai people are up in arms that one of their favorite dishes, Kaeng som, is #10.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

Reference - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
>Okay, you wanna look at SOFR instead?

Why would I want to look at the SOFR? That's the epitome of cherry-picked data. I just sent you a list of common economic indicators, and you're willfully avoiding them, which doesn't bode well for your argument. If anything, you should be referencing the yield curve, which is an actual economic indicator and has recently inverted. That would illustrate your point much better.
> “Any Temple employee that decides to strike forfeits their pay and complete benefits package,” explained Temple University senior vice president and chief operating officer Ken Kaiser. “Tuition remission is part of the TUGSA benefit package. Therefore, they are no longer eligible.”

Heavily implies that it's irreversible.
I work at a bigtech company, and, depending on how you look at it, either everyone in a technologist role has prod access or nobody does. You have to get peer approval to access your team's sliver of prod, and some team's take this very seriously, while others act as rubber stamps for each other.
It was an issue that he spotted and replied to multiple accounts about it, then tested it on his own account.

It's really unfortunate to see so many people here in lockstep with the Musk is Tech Hitler media corps. I thought this place was different. I think I saw someone say Musk isn't as charismatic as Jobs was. Hilariously revealing. They're both difficult bosses in the extremis, but neither are Tech Hitler.
In my opinion, there are two relatively recent events that help move more people towards using Linux as their daily driver. The first, as mentioned in this article, is the shift to online productivity suites - Microsoft 365/Google Workspace/iCloud. For the most part, you can access those platforms from any end device and be productive. The other is Steam and Proton. Proton has allowed me to play just about any game I want from Linux, with little to no performance hit.

We're getting closer to the Year of Linux on the Desktop, starting to increase the slope of that asymptotic curve!
you are not responding to my argument. if a single UPS worker has demands, sure, they will just be fired, but why cannot every single UPS worker have their own set of demands? why must they scheme and plot together? if the demands of the union is reasonably similar to what the individual feels anyway, why cant they just put up those constraints directly in the job negotiations?

if UPS can then find enough guys that truly do not care about no aircondition, or feels that the compensation is fair for services rendered(including conditions thereof), is that not fine? do delivery drivers that demands aircondition have a divine right to get their way?
Yup - a relative of mine has been an associate professor there for fourteen years. Giving out tenure is something I'm pretty sure they'll only do if they're backed into a corner.
What this shows is flaws in the test, not that ChatGPT3 has a theory of mind.

ChatGPT3 does not even have a theory of physical objects and their relations, nevermind a theory of mind.

This merely shows that an often useful synthesis of phrases statistically likely to occur in a given context and grammar-checked, will fool people some of the time, and a better statistical model will fool more people more of the time.

We can figure out from first principles that it has none of the elements of understanding or reasoning that can produce a theory of mind, any more than the Eliza program did in 1966. So, when it appears to do so, it is demonstrating a flaw in the tests or the assumptions behind the tests. Discouraging that the researchers are so eager to run in the opposite direction; if there is confusion at this level, the general populace has no hope of figuring out what is going on here.
Yes, because he's explaining all the different aspects of a "perfect" cookie and giving you options to dial in your personal version. He did 100 tests and 1,536 cookies for the article.

I get not everyone is a foodie that cares about the details and wants to tweak it, but I appreciate them.
>"This decision is intended to benefit Temple the business, not the Temple the university."

More and more it seems like academics are just a front for running a hedge fund - one that gets very favorite tax treatment. Growing the endowment is the most important thing in the minds of the leadership.
I'm sure there would be plenty of folk who would love to chow down on a Taylor Swift steak, or a Chris Hemsworth burger. Probably decent money to be made, if you can get the celebrities to agree to it.

I wonder if this would act as a "harm reduction" mechanism for celebrity-obsessed weirdos who would otherwise stalk or attempt to harm them to feel close to them, or if it would actually encourage bad behaviour...
Which is useful only if it also eventually makes EROI positive - otherwise, upping the scale and bringing prices down is only accelerating waste.
DL and space ace could demolish a pocket full of coins
Kinda loose spit balling idea but couldn't you ask Chatgpt to produce a (set of) query for a search engine that would help a given person find the information they're looking for? Wouldn't "hooking up" ultimately just be a matter of translating intent to a known set of commands?
People shit on companies for talking one way and acting another. It's simple.
Reminds me of The Titfield Thunderbolt

good cheerful movie and they had a bar wagon there as well

trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvt8Dqjdvk
I disagree. We're not comparing MJ to LBJ directly (as in, who would win if they played each other), nor are we measuring them against a fixed metric such as we can for runners (who we expect to be faster 30 years later).

Rather, we are measuring them against the other players in their time. Yes, the tech and fitness is better today than in Jordan's era, but it's better for all of LeBron's contemporaries too who he had to beat and be better than. Same thing with the game rules changing -- it's easier for LBJ to score, but it's easier for his opponents to score too.
This is a Quora type question. The short answers are very bad and no.
You have more common sense than the majority of this salivating crowd.
Sure, XDG was introduced in 2003, but why would you expect developers to start to follow its rules instantly? At best, it started to gain some traction 4 or 5 years after that, but still today, it is far from universally accepted.

But take a step further back: why should anyone care about what the XDG says in first place? This isn't a dictatorship, and things were doing just fine long before a handful of people who wrote the XDG thought their ideas were the best approach.

It's been my observation that good standards can be adopted broadly and quickly with little controversy or need for advocacy. The fact that the XDG file layout still isn't universally used suggests it doesn't have as much value as its proponents think.
Most companies in the US stay afloat even despite the incompetent, self-sabotaging geniuses at the top. Only because the employees are hard-working little bees saving the companies from themselves. We can't get fired - need health insurance and all that.
Higher education is like what they say about airline pricing: No two people on the plane paid the same price for their ticket. When I was in grad school, we referred to tuition as "funny money." The tuition level is arbitrary and simply represents a worst case maximum. What each student pays is determined by some other means.

There was also a threat to tax the tuition waiver during the Reagan administration, when I was in grad school. It caused a lot of consternation among students, but the university eventually told us that we'd be taken care of, and we didn't worry about it.
Please take it as encouragement that this is a real business and not discouragement that it's been done but there are similar products in the market. We use podscribe at my place. It's more about better targeting than discovery because we have an ad sales team but suffice to say there is an established market for this kind of thing.
Roadways have failure modes of their own, pavement fails. Vehicles have parts that fail. Pedestrians are 1/6 of all motor vehicle fatalities. Dangerous weather happens at least once a year in most of the country. People are allowed to and still enjoy riding motorcycles.

Meanwhile, excessive speed and intoxication account for more than 50% of all fatalities. You can solve this problem without having to wait for an AI car, it's probably morally justified to do even if you think those AI cars will arrive "any minute now."

Finally.. I am not looking forward to the day when a parent puts their kids in an AI car and does not accompany them to their destination. People will invent new failure modes for you.
I've launched 3 Turbo Native apps to the iOS and Android stores. I found it 80% awesome, 20% frustrating. Of that 20%, some was bugs or missing features in the frameworks, many of which have been resolved.

But mostly it was because expectations not matching reality. When I first heard about Turbo Native I read the pitch as "write all your app on web, and get native free". (Maybe that was my optimism.) In reality you really do need to think about native all the time. You can do your development in the browser, but for almost any app you'll need to at least test in the simulator, and you should test on device. Also, you will have to write native code at some point.

This is not a problem if you have native developers on your team, or if you want to learn Kotlin and Swift, or if you work with a consultant like Joe. It is a bummer if you want to make the one-person app that Rails always talks about. For me the frustrating thing was that I wasn't using these languages often - I wasn't writing native code every day. So when I did need to write/debug native code, half the time was spent remembering how Swift is different to Ruby and how to use Android Studio.

All that said, I still think Turbo Native is a game changer for B2B apps. It's much better than writing 2 native apps from scratch. It's just not a silver bullet!

I also think for a long time the governance of the native projects wasn't ideal, in the sense that it was just whoever at Basecamp had some time to work on it (mostly Jay Ohms - thanks Jay!!). It's exciting to see that Joe has been made a maintainer - well earned, and hopefully it results in some more issues being closed and PRs being shipped :)
Tips for a healthier Postgres database (2021)
Holy crap, this is amazing.

I had already lost hope of finding a civilized email client. This is what all software should look like.

Thank you.
This is not new. It has been well-known that the surefire way to get shitcanned with Musk is to utter any remote synonym of "no" or "not possible". The best thing is to just completely avoid meetings where he is present.
Wait, you mean virtual reality isn’t like the cartoon Reboot!?
Offal-based dishes seem to be frequent on this list. Could it be some US or Anglo-Saxon prejudice against offal? Tongue, liver, tripe, etc are common in many regional European cuisines (not to mention Asian ones).
Discovery of 3M-year-old stone tools sparks prehistoric whodunnit
This is going to end up in court, and I hope justice is served to Temple.
> some obscure exemption

for-profit companies do not have to pay strikers wages and benefits while they are on strike. Unions have strike funds they use for that.* When workers go on strike, they want their absence to disrupt the profit making of the business, that is their leverage; but they sacrifice to do it.

Part of the claim in this current "unionize graduate students" drive is that they do work and get paid an income to support themselves, that's why they should be allowed to unionize. I mention that because the headline "students on strike" undercuts that claim, when the grad students want to avail themselves of labor law to make it a regular worker-employer dispute.

Another point, universities are non-profits and would be better able to say "pay them with what?" if they are not working (some courts decide issues on the basis of equity, where ability to pay is factored in. ianal)

(*Did you know that most picketers you see, like next to an inflatable rat outside a real estate development or construction project, are not "employees of the site on strike", but are instead union members who happen to be unemployed from elsewhere and get paid to stand there and do it because it's some income, and helps the union.)
What kind of spec is your rig?
> Also, blowing up your pipeline just as a competitor comes on line? Whatever you think of Hersh's article, it's undeniable that Norway made a lot of money on the sabotage.

Did they though? Looking at the gas futures chart it's not obvious to me at all.
The prices suddenly spiked much higher when NS1 was suddenly shutdown.
After the explosion they actually went down slightly.
They did profit, but just from the actions from the Russian side (which were earlier in time).

As for whatever you mean with competitor coming online.
Towards Germany the flows from Norway didn't change that much after the invasion, Europipe II from Norway to Germany was already maxed out since January 2021 pretty much.
Honestly, if you are already building a 2K people office, adding a few rooms like this seems like a rounding error.

While getting everyone talking about it.
I quite liked the skyrhákarl in very small doses. When we entered the fish shop we thought they were closed and cleaning the floors, the ammonia scent was so strong.

Eating it, it had a spritz and fizz like PopRocks. Impossible to describe, but it made me want to go back for a few more pieces before I felt ill.

My daughter never got the scent out of her parka.
A new way to build with Large Language Models
Any activity that gets preferential tax treatment is going to be used as a pretext for otherwise low margin business activity because if you can run the pretext part at a break-even you can do the other activity and have an edge over everyone else. Follow the incentives...
> It isn't.

It definitely is. Go try it on godbolt.

> Awesome, there is nothing stopping you from creating your own functions which add this check.

Thanks for your amazing insight.

STL is lacking? Nothing is stopping us from writing our own functions.

STL is garbage? Nothing is stopping us from writing our own replacement.

The whole language is garbage? Nothing is stopping us from creating a new one from scratch.

Really, you've found the solution to everything.