skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says:

> Owners of Roald Dahl ebooks ...

> Readers who bought electronic versions ...

It has been proven to us (members of the general populace) time and again that we're not actually "buying" and we don't "own" digital media: whether ebooks, digital movies, music, or games. We are licensing or renting them. And apparently the terms of the license often include altering the contents or removing access (e.g. the Kindle 1984 fiasco) at the whim of the licensor. To be honest, I'm not really sure if the license explicitly allows that or not -- I'm not reading multi-page terms and conditions every time I make a digital purchase, even though I know I should -- but it has certainly happened on multiple occasions.

It's odd to me that we've accepted this for digital purchases. Can you imagine checking out at a grocery store and being presented with a hundred page amalgamation of terms of use for every item you're buying?

I know government regulation is a non-starter for many, but I personally would not mind if the government established some sort of digital version of the first sale doctrine and stopped businesses from using terms like "buy", "purchase", or "own" for practices that did not meet those criteria. Sure, let Amazon license you ebooks that can be edited or revoked at the whim of Amazon or the publisher, but let's "call a fig a fig and a trough a trough".
Plus, that’s not really Doom.
Interestingly enough with a Macbook I always only used one external monitor instead of 2 as I am used to. IMO the controls were kinda weird (for me) so it felt less painful just sticking to one.
And flies in a G650 [1], although I think that's almost necessary for a business mogul of his caliber.

1- https://rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=442742
So much this. Many (most?) oldstyle forums suffered from a pretty strict no-duplicate rule even in “free talk” sections. This led to few oldtime gatekeepers dominating these places, new post anxiety and general stagnation, because new users had no way to learn occasionally or talk about things. When I started to visit HN, it was so relieving to see that well-separated duplicates don’t get moderated away or even discouraged. It simply means that you can eventually learn what you don’t know yet or missed for some reason, can participate/discuss it from a today’s point of view and renew your understanding.

Repetition may be seen as a visitor’s expense, but appreciating it creates a huge net profit over time, cause it helps a community to stay fit and alive.
Basically there are few design choices where it's substantially different to QEMU.

Performance-wise:

- Instead of a static translate-and-run flow like in QEMU, RVVM has an interpret-trace-run execution loop which is remotely similar to JVM, and allows to collect some data like branch probabilities and hot loops, and optimize better

- Using a hardware host FPU instead of softfp emulation. This is like, 10x faster with some synthetic FPU benchmarks

- Conscious decisions for beneficial trade-offs, like fast-path JIT trace cache, JIT IR is more streamlined to "Big ISA Triad" (RISC-V, ARM64, x86-64), etc

Infrastructure-wise:

- A public library API for a lot of things: Machine management (Construct and run 'em in any program), device integration, registering new CPU instructions, userspace emulation

- Subjectively, a more lean and clean codebase, in places where it wasn't harmed by either 1) performance decisions to copy-paste or restructure things 2) complexity of related things like JIT backend arches

- Portability. RVVM officially runs in WASM, runs on Haiku, SerenityOS, KolibriOS, even DOS!

So yeah, while I can't say for sure it's the fastest RISC-V VM, but if we had a bunch more contributors and a bit more popularity it could definitely take a part of the QEMU crown (For things like distro building and god knows what else).

There are a few other differences here & there, but they aren't as much worth mentioning. Do you believe I should make some kind of QEMU/RVVM comparison anywhere in the repo? It seems kind of selfish to present it like that...
Is this really a common issue now for kids?
It's not even running Doom? It looks like a single arena like room with a few enemies from Doom and you are able to shoot... Not really playing Doom.
SaaS startups will have to care about productivity again
You must be American because in Europe the iPhone is the odd lot and in Eastern Europe it's even odd-er.

And having a Samsung is actually considered high-status, let alone one of the S-series :)

Xiaomi is very popular since it used to offer about the same hardware power as a Samsung at half the price if not lower, so owning a Xiaomi flagship, albeit costing half the price of a Samsung S-series is still viewed with admiration. Meaning it's a good phone with decent performance, although it has it's shares of bug like all Chinese made stuff. But you tell to yourself "well at least I paid half price".

And then there's the Xiaomi mid range which also has decent performance although ,guaranteed, with a lot more annoying bugs like: switching the camera from photo to video takes 10-20 seconds so if you wanna film evidence of Bigfoot, make sure you anticipate it's brief appearance by at least half a minute in advance. And updating the software is only guaranteed to break even more stuff while almost surely doing nothing for the existing bugs if not making them worse.

But then Xiaomi mid range is still flagship level of performance and reliability compared to the phones owned by the a lot of people, often adults with not so great jobs and / or their children, who are happy to at least have a phone, compared to a vast number of kids (usually smaller age) who have none of their own and look in admiration and envy at the ones showing a Chinese clone with the strangest names ("FreeYond", "Bobbary" etc).

I actually had a period when I tried to see what's the lowest cost one can pay for a phone or tablet and still be able to use it. Noticed there's an abrupt exponential degradation from the price of a Xiaomi mid-range although the prices enter saturation region quickly. Just cannot manufacture them cheaper, so all you pay is the hardware essentially, but then God-help us with whatever software runs on them and the compatibility with the hardware. One tablet I bought for less than $100 had some 12 nasty bugs right of the bat and eventually at some point the battery exploded (for real!).

So Samsung S20? That's so high-status around here that people mostly assume you're showing off when you buy that :)
The first result of a "simply static wordpress" search seems to correspond to what you're asking for :
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/
CSS Color Functions in 2023 – Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
You might have used CSS to change the color of an element on a web page, but have you ever heard of CSS color functions? If not, tighten your seat belts because you're about to learn something new and super useful!
> anyone ever got fluent with this.

I think they didn't. It is a mix of colloquialisms of different origins (one farthing is "one fourth-ing" said too many times) but some might have been localized versions, etc or just used in specific situations.

So I'm pretty sure most people knew some of those but not all of them.

But if you think about it penny/nickel/dime etc is also confusing. Less confusing but still. Just tell me I'm 15 cents short or something like that.
Clues to the U.S.-Dutch-Japanese Semiconductor Export Controls Deal
I wonder if there's a way to write a DEB to RPM conversion script with automated testing etc, so Fedora gets to snarf up all existing DEBs :-)
See my nearby post on this thread, hope it'll explain stuff
Because it's from 11 years ago when SD wasn't around.
Praise duarte indeed :)

I think the whole r/acj thing was a reaction to Google handling Android like a random engineering project with no thought about consumers until this guys showed up.
I think the technology might be more portable if you use a somehow-worn camera looking at the screen. The screen could display a calibration pattern and the camera could analyse it. Maybe a phone app would work. I think on phones it might be possible to retrieve the intrinsic values of the camera.
Interesting. Does this involve OpenAI (or any other LLM) to process data?
I really think the specifics matter a lot here. Is this just friend group being a little mean+him inconvenienced by apple ecosystem lockout or is he being targeted as bullying prey?
I was bullied relentlessly as a kid. I was an easy and fun target, incredibly maladjusted, social skills of a rock and had no friends. I got beat up in bathrooms, manipulated and was told in a sincere way to kill myself almost weekly.

If he is a target of general serious bullying, you should try to coach to build a layer of social skills and emotional defense, they will find something else, telling authority figures or buying phone will not fix this, it will make worse. The sad truth is people aren’t bullied in serious/ chronic ways for no reason. The reason may only be that they different. But with difference comes a necessity to defend oneself, socially, physically, emotionally.

I hope this is just a somewhat regular friend group and they are giving him a hard time for group chat incapability or cheapshot dogging on android,
then perhaps get him a used iPhone and make him sit through some more of your side loading type technical talks as repayment. Try to encourage him to not react emotionally to friend group teasing and to tease back in a smooth way.
When I read the title, I was hoping for something related to static images that look different than they are.

Like, bouncing objects on grey surfaces, or dots that aren't there

I would love to see these illusions explored more and used to enrich UIs in some way.
You just made me to get my MacBook out of closet :) (I stopped using it two months ago and moved to X1 carbon right before pandemic)

The ergonomic of \{X} is exactly the same on it as on my carbon x1, my keychron tls and four other keyboards I happen to have in my drawer.

Are You using modified Apple II like Rebecca Heineman or some kind of super small keyboard that looks like someone forgot to put all the keys in :) ?

Either way its on you not Java.

(Dont take this wrong way - this is an honest question - here in Poland almost all keyboard are backslash friendly and I would live to knowe where this is not the case)
This seems like the kind of thing the FaceID sensors in iPad and iPhones could achieve. I’ve been impressed with its use for face painting in Procreate for example.
Hectares are metric, 1ha = 100m × 100m = 10000m².
> You also seriously underestimate the political landscape about the archaeology of the Pyramids.

Are you perhaps referring to the famous Zahi Hawass?

I read that he claimed the 2016 study "did not discover anything new" but now that he's in charge of it, he predicts that treasures might be found.
oh yeah, maybe they'll put electrodes on your fingers! JK - this doesn't seem like a viable approach.
Great product! I think with the updates and deletes it will be applicable to many more scenarios. HTAP is really getting important now that many more apps have user-facing analytics. In our case, we use plain PostgreSQL at the moment but I'm always on the lookout for PostgreSQL extensions. With Citus, Timescale and now Hydra this space is exciting!

I noticed by reading the documentation that the fact this is built on top of a Citus columnar fork is a bit hidden (mentioned only in a blog post). Why did you choose to fork rather than contribute to the Citus columnar project directly? AFAIK they also want to add update and deletes and vectorized execution.
meanwhile, I bully my friends who use iphones because their expensive high end phone can't send a file using bluetooth.
Civilizations don't last long in historical time, so chances to find something are probably low. But maybe something emerges after technology, a kind of new matter with unusual property?
People can accustom themselves to all kinds of unpleasantness and even grow fond of it, but the truth is that it is mental overload which might cause unnecessary errors.
Recommendation and Engagement
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I guess the issue is that it could be running for a million years to complete training, all the while "only" consuming 1mW.
This is the perfect example of a really cool solution desperately looking for a problem
My bad. I was refering to "buying" digital copies, not libraries like Netflix.

For libraries though, I think a similar law should force any provider to notice X months in advance (like 3 months) before some content will be pulled, and prevent them from pulling any earlier, giving enough time for subscribers to access/watch uncensored/original content.
Doom was released 30 years ago 1993. The minimum system requirement was a 66 Hz 486 processor running at 3.50 Watts.

3500X increase in power efficiency, equal to over 30% annual increase in power efficiency.
Other slang terms (more commonly used in London):

- “Nugget” - £1

- “Reds” - £50 (usually only used in the plural e.g. a stack of reds)

- “Bill” - £100

- “Monkey” - £500

- “Grand” - £1000

- “Bag” - £1000 (from cockney “bag of sand” rhyming with “grand”)
Judging from the date on the exchange rates quoted, the UK was still (just) in the EU when it was written. Regardless, the rest of the content is still current either way you interpret it.
It seems dirty to use parser combinators and a tokenizer generator for lisp instead of just... writing the parser. That's part of the beauty of lisp.

Maybe a different syntax would have fit this sort of post better.
It does not really work on mobile browsers. On a desktop you'd see a control area on the left, that can be hidden by pressing enter or you change the alpha value. And behind this there's the canvas with representing the spiral and some arcs, as you define them on the right. Pressing "ESC" starts the animation (there's also a checkbox on the top). The parameters will change the spiral in real-time.
Because investors value their time very highly and using a single platform makes it easier for them to aggregate data and stack-rank the companies.
If you watched the link, you'd see the 3d effect, so is it looking for a problem when 3d is the holy grail of av entertainment problem?
The joy of mediocrity: we need hobbies, even if we’re bad at them
No, I do not. I just put my 13 inch laptop on the desk. So far I have never felt any neck or back pain. I am 38 if that matters.
To some extent this is a hill I’m willing to die on. Singular they is pretty entrenched usage now, and as it implies nothing about its referent’s gender, I don’t see how someone could legitimately object to being referred to in that way.

However, if someone tells me that they don’t want me to refer to them using singular they (something which has never once actually happened to me outside of arguments on the internet!), then I would respect their wishes.

If you live in an English speaking country, listen closely for a week or two. You’ll probably find that people around you are already (without conscious intention) using singular they to refer to individuals of known gender.

I also wonder if you might not be undermining your own line of argument elsewhere in the thread. If you get to be fussy about being referred to using singular they (which is certainly unobjectionable from a grammatical and semantic point of view in modern English), then presumably everyone else gets to be picky about their pronouns too.
Contact the authorities. Try to get these bullies removed from the school. Tough actions is the only long term solution we have as society.
I'm a Brit who's lived in Finland (with the Euro) for 10+ years - I occasionally say quid instead of euro. Mostly when referring to an approximate amount - such and such cost a few quid, rather than a few euro.
Not bad, but I’m a bigger fan of the AR portals we’ve seen all over Reddit and Instagram for the past year, the most recent of which featured a virtual portal on the beach that you could walk inside and explore. I’m pretty sure everyone here has already seen it. This would allow you to devote a spare room in your house, for example, for the virtual space (or storefront). Why we don’t already have this is very frustrating.
Nope, not at all. It may or may not be bad for my health in the long run but I feel zero pain from it while working.
I'd really like to see this combined with photogrammetry, so that in video chat you could see the other person with this kind of 3D effect (and maybe also adjusting the eyes a little bit to allow for eye contact). Could be great for work meetings and online tutoring.
"Should people of x be allowed to attend college".
It's also illustrated with the £1 coin that was withdrawn 5½ years ago, and banknotes that are also all withdrawn years ago.

It's also incorrect to say visitors won't deal with £50 notes. They're rarely in ATMs but they are common when exchanging cash abroad.
For the first puzzle, code that determines if a value has one bit high, without any if/while/for, here's what I got:

!(x & (x-1)) && x

Was there a "best" solution somewhere? I couldnt get the code window to work.
I use PageDown/Space + a bookmarklet that marks where the bottom of the page was after scrolling: [Scroll Better with the Space-Bar]. (I modified mine to darken the entire old area instead of just a red line.)

[Scroll Better with the Space-Bar]: https://www.ph-uhl.com/0010-Bookmarklets/#:~:text=Scroll%20B...
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I agree. Gaming is an obvious use case, as the article mentions. Head tracking is a great and simple way to increase immersion, without requiring VR and bulky headsets.

I'm surprised more games haven't experimented with this. On PC, a barrier might be knowing the camera parameters and screen dimensions, but those can be easily calibrated, as the article shows.

On consoles, however, we've had cameras for two generations now, and the technology has been mostly underutilized for gimmicky features. The only game I know that did something really interesting is Alien: Isolation on PS4. With the PS Camera, it could do head tracking and noise detection, for some very cool interactions.

The microphone is also severely underutilized. There are many neat applications, especially today with AI voice recognition.
> The fact that’s they’re third party apps is friction enough

Clearly not enough friction for the rest of the world.

> The fact that you don’t need an android to use them is enough

But you need an iPhone for FaceTime and iMessage, and iPhones are non-trivial expenditures in many parts of the world.

> The fact that this takes place in America so I doesn’t matter what other countries use is enough

There are a lot of things wrong with the US, and this strange submission to megacorpos is amongst them.

> Nearby Share will never be superior to Airdrop since not every android comes with it

I concede Airdrop is very useful. But most people I know also use Telegram to share files.

> Here’s a little known social media secret for telegram: it’s notoriously used for porn

Hmmm...

> little-known

> notorious

A bit of a logical disconnect there, but anyway: who cares that it's used for porn? Like another commenter said, if people look for it, they will find it. Reddit has porn on it too; so does (did?) Tumblr and Twitter.
Thanks. I always forget about graphic novels. I should buy more.

Last one I bought was years ago, about Jimi Hendrix. Still available but I don't know if you get the audio CD with it containing his solo acoustic home recordings. Very nicely illustrated:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42100.Voodoo_Child
Moving to WhatsApp takes out the Apple restriction, which is a step up as I can use WhatsApp on Windows and Linux too.

The drawback is the phone number requirement, but this is true of all the other chat apps. If there was one that was functionality equivalent but accounts didn't require a number then I would switch.
I don't think we'll be seeing a move away from minimalism for the foreseeable future. The style itself will continue to evolve (hey, we just got rounded corners back!), but it'll within the confine of CSS so that no graphical/svg assets will need to be created.

We'll have minimalism until a browser maker decides to make background: golfstream-leather('brown') and felt-cloth('green') work in CSS.
While it's a funny quote it couldn't be further from the truth.

All mammals will do this, modern society is just significantly more successful at it.
> a few KMs wide.

The kilometre (SI symbol: km; /ˈkɪləmiːtər/ or /kɪˈlɒmətər/), spelt kilometer in American English and Philippine English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for 1000).

Not KM.
Ask HN: Which Python or Rust-based static site generators to use as of 2023?
I recently bought a domain to create my personal website, and have hooked up Github Pages to display a "Hello World" message at my custom domain (yay!).

I want to learn some Python or Rust by setting up a static site generator, a deploying mechanism and some CI tests. I've done some research on available options, but would love to know what HN recommends I use.

Any and all pointers are welcome! Thank you.
I guess you could say that, it leaves room for resistance. And its become so intolerable to the vast majority of people that almost nobody seriously considers adopting it as a political system. Meanwhile, childhood suicide rates might be sky-rocketing, there might be vast sexual dissatisfaction and income inequality, not to mention the degradation of the natural world itself, but people will still say its the "best system we have", sounding like a prisoner who has given up on getting out. I don't think the future is some authoritarian system that they have in China, its basically the same over there (if not worse), but why have we given up on building a better society? The spread of Nihlism disgusts me.

I will admit aging population might be contributing to these problems, but at least the US is not projected to lose any population in the next 30 years because of immigration. For the nation states in the world, however...well, there isn't going to be much "nation" left in them if they want to survive the next few decades.
A recent trend seems to be to combine minimalism, tackyness and deliberate inconsistencies in order to feel more playful and friendly. IMO these designs are also clear, because they allow themselves to let things pop out and have very strong accents and contrast.
In a lighter way: https://youtu.be/a546lxxJIhE

I hope breakthroughs can be made here.

I've been dealing with the fallout of a messed up childhood combined with late diagnosed ADHD. A lifetime of anxiety and depression haunt me.

So yea, I'm tentatively excited.
Wow, super neat. I could imagine doing something like that as a joke and have it launch unexpectedly out of control. I applaud the decision to come clean, I don't know if it was done to prove a point but it did make a statement
Many European countries have this notion of moral rights of an author that persist even if she sells the copyright, including the right not to have their work altered. The problem here is the estate who represent the author after death are doing the altering, in defiance of Dahl’s explicit wishes when he was still alive. Authors should definitely put clauses in their wills to prevent this in the future and possibly legislation passed to make this the default.
Those don’t sound like people who are changing their preferred pronouns daily, unless I’m misunderstanding. You’re just talking about people who use non-standard or difficult-to-guess pronouns.

The more times I read through your story the less there is to it. Someone introduced themselves, said their pronouns, and you didn’t remember their name. Ok, so what?

Neopronouns are an interesting case, but my previous comment about ‘they’ applies. It’s gender neutral, so use ‘they’ if you forget which more specific pronoun is applicable.