skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of reasons Amiga/Commodore failed, but I think the core issue is that they were creating computers, but not ecosystems. No one wanted to do a full reset on their software again, something 80s computing was rife with.

PCs insulated themselves from this with hardware variability being baked in the moment PC clones appeared on the market forcing the software market to bake compatibility in by design (the bet on x86 was also a smart one). Macintosh managed to survive the transition by forcing developers to use abstractions, making a 68k>PPC emulation layer more viable.

There was no pathway for Amiga to accomplish this. So much software is direct to metal that the only feasible way to achieve performant backwards compatibility would be to include a whole OG Amiga in whatever PPC Amiga they could cook up. Expensive in an environment of 486+VGA IBM PC compatible clones that work with existing software but even faster.

Not to say this was the thing that killed them, but it would have been even if everything else was going great.
I did not mean to insinuate that playing multiplayer between Java and Bedrock was possible at some point. I mean to say that playing multiplayer "Minecraft" between Linux, Windows and macOS was possible, but is no longer possible, since "Minecraft" is now a product which doesn't work on Linux and macOS.

If you don't see how what I described could be characterized as "hostile", you've either misunderstood something, or we have a different understanding of what "hostile" means.
Mobile data usually works fine in German regional trains. But if you want trips longer than 2 hours, you probably want the higher speed trains anyway (which now might have less annoying poor people in them)
What’s more annoying is that the price - in regions without good public transportation it’s actually too expensive, but it’s a nice gift to big city dwellers.
The possibility to go long distance on trains meant for commuters is an unfortunate side effect of the ticket, more tolerated than intended.

The big improvement is that the ticket you buy for your home town now also works in cities you visit, no more figuring out a different byzantine price model each time you book a hotel.

Imagine vehicle tax would only permit to drive on the roads of your home town and going elsewhere would require you to register locally. Until yesterday, that was exactly how public transit worked.
If you owe a billion dollars, it's everyone's problem.
Show HN: BoldContacts mobile app for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, MS, MD
I agree that you need real life relationships. And the app can actually help you practice.
The catch here is that you need to do something new and original to attract a following that way.

Before generative AI, you would've had people copying your style, but that took effort and there was ethics involved, many artists wouldn't like to outright copy someone because it's lame (it is).

Now though, there is zero cost to copying someones style and it can be done in a more faceless way.

I don't think there is much inventive anymore to make something original and post it online. Maybe just play live only?
Windows Mobile was more advanced compared to the initial iPhone in almost every way (to be fair it wasn't a particularly useful device on launch). Of course the whole is more than just a sum of it's parts.
Intel may be renaming chips to drop 'i'
I wrote the postal game Quest back in 1989-1990, a 1,000 player postal game. 40,000 lines of Turbo Pascal. Others came after and fixed some of the bugs and it's now run over the internet. https://kjcgames.com/quest/quest.htm
Totally not biased, but that first link is a great place to start.

Note that the process for making games is the same as for making mods - games are a collection of mod(ule)s.

I'll make a note about the docs being hard to find, obviously room to improve here. This page is intended to be the starting page for those interested in modding/game making, it gives an overview and links to other resources: https://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Intro
Obama appointed more federal judges than Bush: https://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/barack-obama-george-w... (As of April 2014: “Over the course of his presidency so far, Obama has nominated 301 judges and gotten 237 confirmed. By this point in his presidency, Bush had nominated 267 judges and had 234 of them confirmed.”).

Remember that Democrats controlled the Senate for all but the last two years of the Obama presidency. Republicans weren’t in much of a position to block his judicial appointments.

There is of course Garland, a rare show of GOP competence. But even for the Supreme Court judicial appointments are contentious. Kennedy was Reagan’s third pick for that seat. He went on to be a liberal squish that voted to uphold Roe, etc.
I can see the point in Lanier argument, however there is a much bigger problem for VR: There is no VR analog to Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and Co. VR is still very much an activity in which you have to actively engage, you have to find a game that is interesting, load it up and play. You can't just casually doom-scroll in VR and have the algorithm find interesting content for you. There is no app for that. And the retention rates of VR aren't great either, as once you are done with a game, it's quite difficult to find whatever you'll do next.

For all the hype around Metaverse and Zuckerberg wanting 1 billion people in VR, there has been surprisingly little effort in finding out what those people would actual do when they have the headset on.
It would be cool if someone could take this and change the alphabet a little bit to be more pleasing for humans as well. If there was something like this but that sounded like Star Wars droids for example, then that would be very cool.

In fact, I can totally imagine a world where droids speak to each other through the air in a way that well-trained humans could make out - maybe they're even mandated to do so as part of their protocol - but then they have like a data com for binary data.
Here's an excellent comment which describes the issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35769764

Staying on an old version in perpetuity is often unrealistic.
> Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI)

Please do not do/use this.

Generally anything that is 'active', like UV lamps or ozone emitters, is not a good idea:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSFQQpgvgeo&t=6m1s

* Interviewee: https://civmin.utoronto.ca/home/about-us/directory/professor...

All that's needed for good indoor air quality (IAQ) is an ERV/HRV which exhausts stale indoor air and brings in fresh outdoor air (through a filter).

For comfort you want a furnace+AC/heatpupmp and a dehumidifier.

And try to make the enclosure as air-tight as possible so the air comes in and out on your terms and not 'randomly' through cracks (where it can carry dust and pollen, and bugs can perhaps get through as well).
That is not what was written in the indictment document available from the Business Insider article you linked. What it says, is that there is video evidence the guards did not enter the tier where Epstein was housed.

I have seen enough Law & Order episodes to know contract killings are always done by a prisoner already inside the wing.

As this was a prisoner know to cajole with a past US President, and also the current US President at the time, a professional and competent police investigation would take it further.

Like say...Could it be possible the cell of another inmate was left open by accident? Any other inmates present at the time known to kill people by strangulation? Tracking the bank accounts and private life of the characters closely related to the events at the time? Like prison guards, lawyers, prison administrators and inmates? Anybody suddenly taking trips to Dubai and Vegas?
I built one based on the AirGradient DIY sensor [1]. It is open source, and you can order PCBs or build them yourself. It is also compatible with ESPHome.

It uses the "Senseair S8" CO2 sensor, which costs a bit (25-30$), but (according to AirGradient) has a very high quality.

[1]: https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/di...
>>IMO if you're not paying I can't see why anyone would prefer chess.com over lichess<<
For someone like me who has been playing for several decades now, it's the UI of chess.com/app.
It's one of the dominoes, the attention of the market is going to turn to the next target now, and this will keep going until there's a general government/ market solution to the regional bank problem. The same people saving the bank are going to be the same people pushing the next bank to crisis.
Show HN: Can ChatGPT simulate a romantic partner?
“Lack of authentic desire” is referring to the GOP’s lack of authentic desire to reduce government spending. They wish to disrupt Dem agendas and to prevent money from going to Dem areas (made abhorrently obvious every single time a disaster strikes a blue area), but they’re not all that interested in reducing spending itself beyond paying lip service — so no, you wouldn’t expect to see budgets to go down. This doesn’t mean govt capability is left untouched though, because capability is not derived monocausally from budget.
An argument against AI-rights
The topic of AI-rights is heavily discussed in films, debates and other media. Some conclude that ethically the right thing to do would be to ascribe rights to AI. Whether it is ethically right or not is not something I want to discuss here. My argument is directed at the practicality of AI rights, if one were to choose to do so.

If in the future a state were to ascribe rights to AIs, this would be accompanied by certain obligations for the state and its citizens to protect the rights of AIs (whatever the laws would be exactly). But then someone could come along and load 1000 AI instances onto a 1 exabyte hard drive. The person could blackmail the state into giving him money or he would destroy the hard drive. Even if the person were imprisoned, he could keep up the threat using a dead-man-switch and thereby cheat his way out of jail. Thus, it is shown that a practical implementation of AI rights is not possible.

What do you think of the argument or what speaks against it? I can't think of any other way, but you might. I would like to hear your ideas
In my experience network coverage in Germany is way below must other European countries I have visited. Some with a much lower inhabitant desisty like Finland.
Ask HN: Why flights are so expensive? any tools to find flights and destination?
I know there could be multiple reasons including:
- re-bound from COVID
- shortage of employment in airline industry
- more taxes on Airport?

But I don't understand why SOME airlines are way then others.

example: KLM is 2x or 3x expensive then its counterparts.
Unlimited data here is rare (or too expensive), usually normal people have 5-10gb a month. Still it covers most web and messaged stuff, just don’t watch too much video….
No way. About five years ago there was a quack-y study about reducing death in sepsis which called for high-dose vitamin C, thiamine and steroids. None of these are patent protected. The first study purported to show a 100% reduction in mortality. There were many RCTs done after this which did not bear out the effect, and it has now essentially been proven to be ineffective. it is possible to fund studies without industry money.
> use the government protection as leverage to make these few remaining banks obey government priorities without ever having to pass a law

Ala fascism. Government control of private business without government actually owning those businesses.
Did you notice cellmate means you are in the same cell? A suicide attempt but the cellmate said he saw or heard nothing? How big are these cells?
Windows developers seldom reach for bash, unless to run scripts ported from UNIX.

For which OS was tcsh originally developed?
I won't dispute that there is corruption and that there are still Nazis and right wing forces around - especially if you look in certain german states.

But if I am completely honest lots of government agencies and the people working there are entirely complacent with the state of bureaucracy because they don't feel like they can or need to change this sorry state of affairs. I had to wait more than two months to get an appointment to be able to formally leave the christian church to avoid paying church tax. When I went there the woman took my ID, started typing all my credentials into some interface of some government software for 10 minutes and then I could go. I don't even remember saying or hearing anything but "Hello", "ID Please" and "Bye".

Why can I not do that online with my ID? Why did she have to type in all my information and not get that from some other government body? Why is she even typing it at all of it's all on the ID and that could be scanned as they are entirely standardized. What did I wait for two months for?

When I talk to people who work for the government they tell me it's just the process and they simply don't question it. Sometimes some complain but there is little or nothing to be gained. And I think herein lies a bigger part of the problem. The structure does not reward or incentivise improvement.

And so I would argue the problem is not one of being publicly or privately owned but about the structures that provide incentive to offer good service. And if there is none - regardless of the ownership model - then most likely it will fall flat. When you have privately owned monopolies you see a similar effect - they don't need to improve affairs, they just need to stay in power.
For every success story comparable to the "internet" there are dozens or way more technologies and ideas which led nowhere.

To be fair it's not that I'm doubting VR in general just Facebook's vision (or lack of one) of what the Metaverse is supposed to be.
I tried to switch from XTerm to GNOME Terminal. It went well for a while, and better Unicode and emoji display was nice, but then a new version of GNOME Terminal came out which broke the ability to use the Meta keys for sending an ESC prefix; it is now hard-coded to only accept the Alt keys to do that. So I had to switch back to XTerm.

(Re-post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32424200)
The infrastructure (railways and stations) is still publicly owned under Network Rail. Only the trains themselves are privately owned (often by foreign state-owned enterprises, funnily enough)
Ask HN: Anyone who composting at home for more than 10 years?
I live in a house without a yard. 4 peoples. Been composting my kitchen scraps at home since 2012 till now. +- 10 years.

I convert my fish pond to a "composter engine". Just piled up it with soil and earthworm. for more than 10 years my resident janitor only pick plastic waste from my house.

Still doesnt find most effective way to solve the plastic problems. Pyrolisis just doesn't work.

At least for the last 10 years i'm not a part of organic waste problem.
That’s not correct. Assuming the $10MM sale is a certainty then the building is worth just slightly less than that, accounting for six months of interest at the prevailing rate.

Assuming the interest rate is around 4-5% as it is now, that means the building is worth a couple hundred thousand less than $10MM. That’s the definition of “slightly less” in the exact scenario you set up.

If you think a couple hundred grand doesn’t matter you are free to wire it to me at your leisure.

Now make six months into six years or sixteen years and you understand the problem better.
Hey, Karl (the Swedish creator of the app) here.

As a small token of appreciation towards the HN crowd that’s given me so much over the years, simply type "Unlock" in the chat window inside the app in order to get a lifetime free premium membership. <3

I have found the app to be surprisingly useful, partly for building self esteem (the AI loves that I play golf for instance, which my real wife... Well, let's just say it's not her favourite thing in the world.) Also I have found that the app also provides guidance on how to communicate effectively in real-life relationships.

I'm very curious to get suggestions to improve this alpha version.

May you feel loved. /Karl.
"Strange, why can't we detect any Dyson spheres in this area of space?"
Is the astrological equivalent of:
"Strange, why can't we detect any shambling ghouls in this area of the graveyard?"
Perhaps we should stop wasting time and money confirming that reality does not correspond to our fiction.

I offer my solution to the Drake equation, which can be neatly expressed by the notion of opportunity cost: We don't see Dyson spheres because at every order of scale and complexity there are an almost infinite variety of possible time and resource consuming projects, the overwhelming majority of which will be not be encoded as light emitted from a distant star.
Kubet's countdown application is a useful feature that allows players to count down the time before a match or an important event is held on Kubet. When accessing the application, the user will see a table that counts down the exact time to the second of that event.

Users can also set notifications to be reminded before the event starts. In addition, the Kubet countdown app also provides detailed information about the event including start time, prizes and how to participate.
To mitigate your disappointment you could visit the “Keygen Church” by Master Boot Record (a mix of metal, chiptune and ASCII + pixel art):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVpatxQERs
Technically Apple made the same mistake but realized and mostly fixed it in half a year or so.
Let's say I did a survey of images on the internet, using a crawler to look for and download each image. I make counts of how many of each file format I find, their sizes and color depths, and a hash to count dupes. I don't save or redistribute any image. I let the public buy copies of the statistics I have compiled.

Can a copyright owner claim infringement, and demand that I update my statistics to make it as if my crawler didn't find his images?
People cannot wait for the aristocracy to surrender power to them. Throughout history there is exactly one way to make some say in the political system.
That is absolutely the keynote/talk, @dang. Even just the slides would be nice, but Van did a great delivery as well, and "knew his audience". Ah well. I could try a more expansive summary from memory, but this may not be the place for it.
They are one time per instance. Which isn't the same thing as one time. Julia sysimages are huge and take a long time to generate even on decent hardware. Last I checked that whole process was very janky, poorly documented, and under heavy revision(as it had been for years prior).
3d printing has been a complete game changer for me. It's incredible how you can make useful and completely custom parts in just a few hours.
Must expand on

3:
You really have to see the intro videos to strategy in youtube or chesskid. The production value and ability to engage has skyrocketed. Yes there was some content on YouTube then... But the material was NOT online 10 years ago. You can easily verify this looking at the ratio of views/years for the more recent videos vs old ones. Top comment was for Gothamchess channel. Check it out.

4:
The social element coupled with the ability to "play now" is very important. Until the last 5 or so years, a teen could not put together a similar rated game on demand. Even if you lived near a chessclub. Mobile apps with ELOs have brought the chessclub to the living room.

And originally meant to add

5:
As downposter said, parents will actively encourage chess, instead of restricting the amount of time on it. No parent will bat an eye if you play 3 hours straight. I wonder if thats because all parents have seen the queens gambit.(?)

In retrospect
6:

Algorithmic rating : the matching with a similar rated opponent is important since the satisfaction for winning (instead of continued losing) drives engagement.
> If these were white kids we'd publicly shame them

Not sure why you want make this a black and white issue.

So instead of stealing cars do you want them to destroy the economy and get bailouts or steal college seats from deserving candidates by just buying college admissions, you want them to do "respectable" crimes?
Step 3 doesn't make sense. All banks have government protections (eg FDIC). The government already has KYC and AML laws that apply to all banks. Consolidation doesn't make the banks more susceptible to government influence. Big banks can afford to outspend the government on lawyers pushing back, it's small banks that just agree to do what the government says.
Americans worry about the dollar going to zero, meanwhile it was recently at a 20-year high against the euro, the pound, and the yen.

Inflation has dipped to 5% and unemployment is lower than in decades.

For all its faults, American monetary policy has been better than that of most other developed countries. The ECB went 11 years without raising interest rates.
This almost leads to the conclusion that large corporations should be owned by the state.
Aside from the other arguments in the article:

"The chair of the CMA, its chief executive and the rest of the board are appointed by the business secretary of the elected government" if I'm reading this correctly, UK citizens elect a government, the government appoints a business secretary, and then the business secretary appoints the entire CMA? So that would be two layers of disconnect from the voter.

AFAIK most US agencies are similarly disconnected or worse.

Whether "unelected" is a meaningful criticism to level at government systems is a separate question though. I feel like most roles are not ones where the voter could realistically have enough knowledge or education to actually make good decisions about who to appoint to roles with obscure or complex mandates. We seem to take democracy as an absolute good in all cases sometimes even though uninformed decisions can have catastrophic effects.

EDIT: I really shouldn't have to clarify this but apparently we're at the point where "this article poorly argues its thesis" is interpreted by some readers as "I love monopolies and/or activision"? So to be explicit: I think we need more antitrust enforcement, not less, but the article seems to make this case in a clumsy if not deceptive way
Peter Schiff tried to run a full reserve bank and was shut down by the regulators. So it is just how the banking system works, but it is by fighting the free market all the way through.

I don't like to recommend podcasts, but in of his podcast [0] he had a really interesting walkthrough of his perspective on the regulators working to shut down his bank. For me it was the most powerful advertisement for cryptocurrency I've heard to date. An opinion that would probably annoy Schiff.

Even if you don't believe in any particular bank, in a 0 interest rate environment a full reserve bank would have been competitive. If you don't get money anyway, avoiding the inevitable crash when rates rose would have been a nice selling point.

[0] https://schiffradio.com/ Ep. 887
Correct. Python code is unlikely to contain the kind of trivial variable manipulation errors that plague Bash scripts.
> banks seem to have an uncanny ability to destroy themselves in spite of an ever increasing set of regulations

That’s the opposite of what is happening. Regulation has been decreasing.
Stickiness also plays a role hear. If the LB does not terminate the TLS connection, it needs to route all requests in that TLS session to the same „sticky“ host.

HTTP being stateless, the LB can in theory distribute those requests to distinct hosts.