skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you eat cookies and sweets all day or you ignored those and ate the normal meal as a kid provided you always had access to both?

There is no kid who choose hard learning over low hanging dopamine fruits these days. If they do the opposite they are either backed by parents or REALLY strange.
https://archive.is/zbcsS
I designed this two years ago…

https://uvspinner.com

Tried to get NYC officials to get interested — went through some channels that my friends had. Nothing.

Anyone here interested in doing it?
There was a classic sf novel that started with the discovery of a matter duplicator which is able to duplicate itself. The society in the story world evolves to bring back slavery. Now, this was totally made up, but it's not too hard to solve the puzzle of how such a response could logically happen.

You can basically always find an angle for the story you want to tell.
It's a shame Paint.NET doesn't work in Wine. Gimp can do way too much, Krita is mostly for artists, and the various lightweight MS Paint alternatives lack things like layers. Paint.NET has fulfilled my requirements for quick image editing quite nicely during my Windows days.

However, I wouldn't call it a competitor to Krita. Krita is very much oriented at artists making digital art whereas Paint.NET is much more picture editing oriented.
Don't salute Charles or do that silly allegiance pledge he asked for. You're better than that.
Cars used to have same headlights by law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2J91UG6Fn8
To be fair, they don't really want to. Lots of interest groups against it. Heaven is high and the emperor is far away, as they say.
I feel exactly the opposite-

“At some point there won't be any more suckers left. That's when banking will really collapse.”

The news every day sends the message more urgently that a global hard money that can never be debased by money printing and that is free from the whims of governments and dictators is sorely needed.
> I've been too afraid of asking on Reddit. I'd love a split keyboard with an integrated trackball (...)

I'd already be happy if there were mechanical keyboards out there that offered USB passthrough to connect things like yubikeys, a trackpad or headphones. So far the only one I'm aware that has those is the Royal Kludge rk84, but I doesn't seem to be a popular choice.
Let's just adopt an open-sourced hardware naming scheme then.
So true. The base A2000 was way over priced. All you got for the extra money was empty expansion slots!
They seem to be down. In the meantime:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230501123146/https://shop.heat...

As a kid, I remember seeing their Hero 2000 on Mr Wizard. It ignited my imagination and I ordered a catalog. Then I saw the price. I went on to get a number of other robots, mostly from Tomy, but they paled in comparison to Hero 2000. When I got a little older, I even started reading about neural networks. Shame I never went further with that!
There's a fun read that centers around this! The Cartographers is really good (if you don't mind a couple of unfilled plot holes)
Non-trivial spending includes expensive mandatory expenses, like rent/mortage, insurance, maintenance, etc.) Spending $20 on a lunch once a week (if that's what I wanted to do) is trivial, both in cost and importance.

Obviously trivial expenses are the first to be optimized away when a budget crunch occurs, because they are also trivial to remove/stop. It's hard to delay rent or a car payment withour real consequences, but there's no real consequence to not eating out lunch anymore.
No longer maintained or finished?
First, Cloudflare verification
Then, Internal Server Error

Love it!
Surprised noone has mentioned sxiv, it is brilliant in (I guess) the same way people like xterm.

Really minimalistic but at the same time quite powerful under the hood. All normal operations have quick vim-inspired shortcuts (and scroll to zoom) and if you want to get advanced you can trigger scripts to do some heavy-lifting.

Not for everyone but when it fits it is brilliant.

If sxiv isn't your thing and you want something minimalistic, maybe have a look at feh (don't know if it has scroll to zoom).
Minetest has the same problem as editors like Vim do - it has only the ingredients for what most people use as the final product, and you have to put them together yourself, with the help of plugins and addons. People will rattle off a list of thirty-odd addons ("this one for monsters, that one a different type of monsters, this one for small animals, this one has small and medium animals, this one adds villagers, this one makes them actually do something, etc."). There's also very sparse info on what addons actually work well with each other, whether the enhanced armor addon will work with this mobs addon, or whether they don't recognize each other, or if the combo will just not let the game start...

In the end, since I mostly play on mobile anyway, I went with this paid fork of this called MultiCraft, that's just install-and-play. It's less than a dollar (at least in my currency), and for someone who just wants a sandbox game to play casually, it turned out to be the much easier, less headache-inducing option. (I believe the PC version of MultiCraft is free to play too, you just have to compile it yourself.)
A cursory browse of wikipedia is my first port of call, that's what chatgpt bases their answer on as well (what the other commenter pointed out).

Yeah it's not verified etc, but it's more accessible than reading the sources it cites itself on.
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I've used those before, they have a horrifying amount of noise on the output, lots of RF noise, and a very audible high-pitch whine. They also overheat very quickly even at half the 'rated' load.
This is very interesting and I agree about all the upsides of desktop apps. However, in web3, people’s blockchain credentials could be used to interact with many different websites. This seems hard to reproduce with desktop-based apps, right?
I feel this is spot-on. From previous experience trying to get into it, trading gold or silver today feels like buying from car dealerships. If your platform delivers on its premise you may well have built the Tesla of precious metals.

2K seems like a fairly high price of entry. Are there plans for fractional trades? (I'm not even sure that's a thing).
Not directly related to the article, but I've never understood why tipping is a % of the meal price. Like yes, the service you get is loosely related to the price—I'm getting much better service at 3 star michelin than some local shop. But assuming 20% these days, is the service at a $300 vs $100 place really that much better to warrant a $40 extra in tip alone? (of course I'm using the extreme upper end example here)

It should not exist at all, but even if it does, it should be based on the staff's actual service, not the all the other things that go into the price of a plate like ingredient, chef's name value, etc
A patent monopoly on that hypothetical power generation device would have the potential do a lot of harm actually…

Bankrupt many companies, causing the loss of jobs generally around the world and a potential expanding economic shock matched to the rate of production of the new devices

Cause the complete devastation of smaller sized communities (villages and towns, very small cities) where the majority of employment is directly in an energy related resource extraction capacity or in supporting jobs maintaining equipment for or supplying services to these primary resource industries

The lack of externally needed power supply like diesel fuel or surface supplies for solar farms would enable more people to take up mobile or alternative living situations (van life, mobile homes, camping with appliances) as the need for a house to plug in appliances is one of the anchoring factors in real estate economics which could be the best thing for people in general but also another potentially large scale economic shock.
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Those scary warnings of juice jacking in airports and hotels? They’re nonsense
Thanks, I could only remember outline.
Sony has their own cloud infrastructure. They were incredibly early and bought the two largest startups in the space—Onlive and Gaikai. Sony could compete in the space, but their subscription is unappealing to consumers because it costs more and offers less.

Google has their own infrastructure and Nvidia has their own as well. I assume Amazon has their own for Luna as well.

And let’s not kid ourselves, no one is subscribing to Gamepass for cloud streaming. It just happens to be bundled in, so the argument that they have a monopoly is a bit of a farce.
Those Americans who think this is ok and therefore allow the practice to continue have the following justifications:

1. It's been this way for a while, and change is bad

2. If restaurants were forced to increase wages, prices of food would go up

3. Service workers like waiters are less-than, and don't deserve to make that much money

4. There are restaurants that pay well on top of tips: all the servers who don't like working at the bad paying restaurants can just leave their jobs and go work there

5. The only way to motivate good service is to extract it at the threat of poverty. American tipping culture thus extracts excellent service.

6. If the restaurants have to pay more, they'll instead fire workers, and make the remainders worker harder and more hours

These are points I've been told in person by actual Americans, so I don't think "strawman" is a valid accusation here. I have my personal feelings about each one:

1. changing bad things to good, is good

2. Price of food may go up, but that's ok if it means workers get paid fair wages. If the prices go too high presumably people won't go to those restaurants, and the restaurant will bring prices back down. I do personally believe though that many restaurant owners will be willing to stick to too-high prices to the death of the restaurant rather than cut their own personal profits of the place. That's also ok with me though.

3. Every person deserve a living wage.

4. There aren't enough of the magical good-paying jobs, especially not local to current ones.

5. Money is actually a poor motivator, as any sales team lead would tell you. Also, it's unethical to try to extract labor at the knife-point of poverty. Also, people are nice to me in countries that don't have tipping culture, probably because I'm nice to them, so it's not a truism that people only work hard if you dangle the carrot of a tip in front of them.

6. This is almost certainly true, but it's not a reason to not force restaurants to pay more. Other labor protections should also be implemented.
Agreed; this is akin to the "woo" applied writ large to the lucid dreaming phenomenology; or anything "metaphysical" crossing into "empirical" -- I have a fondness for the UAP topic and it's poster child for this effect. I know there's a grain of truth in the bucket but the wackery is beyond my ability to dredge.
It made no sense at all, but there was a time when major parts of the game industry was talking about cloud gaming as if it were a thing and the media was going along.

Normally we have to let lies and bullshit from corporations wash over us, all we can do is complain on forums and still have to argue with Kool Aid drinkers.

If bullshit over cloud gaming meant Microsoft couldn't get what they wanted then it is payback... Sometimes you gotta learn that actions have consequences.

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Also there is a huge amount of confusion about what "cloud" means. For instance most of Adobe Creative "Cloud" is a set of desktop applications with limited cloud integration. What is has in common with with real cloud products (Salesforce.com, Figma) is that you pay for it with a monthly subscription.

Microsoft would love to just get your money month after month so you can play Assassin's Creed Episode 4215 and Call of Duty: Battle of Bakhmut and they don't care if you as a consumer know what kind of hardware it is running on but you'd better be sure the bean counters are aware that they could sell a "gaming PC" equivalent cloud instance to somebody in Azure for a dollar an hour so the economics can't possibly add up. Yet the cloud gaming bullshit still keeps rolling, at the last keynote NVIDIA's CEO was saying kids might game from the back seat of a car but what phone company is going to invest the last 800% of costs to get cell phone coverage in the last 20% of places?
So, the author is surprised xterm can be configured to mimic most modern terminals, though it lacks some basic conveniences like text reflow.

What's the point? Why not use another terminal then? It has low latency, but it's not an order of magnitude faster than any other GPU accelerated terminal, so I don't get the point of choosing a subpar product that is 10% faster.
As a long-time user and supporter of Krita, I'm thrilled to see it mentioned here. However, I must express my concern about the choice of emphasizing "FREE" in all caps in this headline. While I understand that the cost-free nature of open-source software is certainly appealing, I feel that this particular framing could cheapen the overall value proposition of Krita.

Krita has much more to offer than just being free. It's a powerful and versatile painting program, developed by a dedicated team of professionals and volunteers who have worked tirelessly to make it an excellent tool for digital artists. The software offers a wide range of features, including an intuitive user interface, advanced brush engines, and robust layering capabilities. These strengths are what truly set Krita apart and should be the primary focus when promoting it.

By emphasizing the "FREE" aspect in all caps, the headline may inadvertently detract from these strengths and create the perception that Krita's most significant selling point is its price tag, rather than its outstanding functionality and features. I would suggest presenting Krita as a "professional open-source painting program" without the all-caps emphasis on "FREE," so that the conversation around it can focus more on its capabilities and the value it brings to the creative community.

Again, I wholeheartedly support Krita and am grateful for the fantastic work that has been put into it. I hope this critique is received in the caring and thoughtful spirit in which it was intended, as my goal is to ensure that Krita receives the recognition and appreciation it truly deserves.
Hot black coffee, no. I suspect they’re referring to coffee-flavored drinks. The kind of thing you see at Starbucks, which are more like milkshakes with a touch of coffee. But even iced coffee is generally drunk through a straw.
I enjoy Krita, especially the Android version which supports everything the desktop version supports as far as I can tell. If you've got an Android tablet with a stylus it's worth checking out, it's on par with most art software I've seen in the Play Store for most purposes I can think of.
Also a fan here, although I never had the chance to see them live. I bought a tapes (even if I don’t own a tape player) just because of the gorgeous design…!

https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com
Perhaps I should add that I do not wish to undermine the terrorism situation in India, which is very much real. Regardless, there is a paradox because at the same time the associated terrorism laws and hacking operations have been misused to target opposition, journalists, scientists, activists, and many others.
> But the current generation AI is readily accessible to everyone, either for free or very affordably priced.

I think the "accessible to everyone" rubric is more complicated than the GP described. It's more like provides similar economic benefits to everyone. ChatGPT may be "readily accessible to everyone," but if it and similar technologies allow significant automation of knowledge work it will not provide similar benefits to everyone, since it will allow the elimination of entire categories of jobs.

At least in the short-term "elimination of entire categories of jobs" benefits the ownership class and no one else. If these "AI" technologies also inhibit the ability of those masses of laid off workers to retrain an switch jobs to something with equivalently high wages, then they will make our society even more unequal in the long term.
How to design a growth loop that compounds your SaaS growth in 250 words
Yes, it is a good analogy. And you're correct that this is not chattel slavery.

However this variant of slavery requires that we sell our bodies to whom will buy them. Instead of a lifetime commitment, it's per hour. I will never get back time I sell, and no amount of money can buy back that time. Many places also try to claim the contents of our mind as well as our physical output.

And what happens if we don't engage in selling our bodies? Well, we run our money down. We miss paying bills. We get our car repo'ed. We lose our home. We resort to food banks and soup kitchens and SNAP.

And the result here is you become homeless. Unlike the slaver's whip, this is the eventuality threatened to anyone who can't or refuses to work. And naturally, the existing homeless are used as a threat and a sign to all those who would act out, as a threat to anyone wanting to upset the system.

It also explains why we have homeless in the great quantities we do. It's a trap that you cannot get out of by yourself, and lifting people out removes the societal 'sign' of this threat that it entails.

When I said that you choose your own slaver in this system, I sincerely mean it. I'm required to sell my body on threat of destitution. I just so happen to choose who I sell my body to. (The only people exempt are those born in rich families that needn't sell themselves.)
Here is a rebuttal of many of the points raised by Uber against PostgreSQL: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/thoughts-on-ubers-list-o...
OpenBikeSensor: Passing Distance Measurement for Cyclists
Because it is used by people, not cybersecurity experts. From the vendor's website[0]:

> Our position is simple: Your wallet. Your keys. Your crypto. Built-in private key encryption and a password-protected login means you’re always in complete control.

An average person that reads this wouldn't think about needing to add more protections.

[0]: https://trustwallet.com/browser-extension/
Although there was an article from the Wall Street Journal just yesterday with data showing the sales at a lot of chains are still somewhat down. I do suspect that there are a lot of people with at least midrange incomes who will continue to eat out, even if only fast food, before they'll more seriously contemplate preparing meals at home.

>Perhaps there will be a messy transition in the US when jobs have or wish to reset their compensation?

I'd bet on more automation where practical and people just doing without--or doing without as often--certain things that have a large labor component.
It's not fear, it's challenging a conclusion made by people based on their credentials. If the science stands up to scrutiny and peer review, then great, but if it doesn't then it's not true.

The quackery label comes in not from the science but from the people behind it and the monikers / titles that they applied to themselves - unrecognized and not formally tested monikers / titles.

The formal testing is so that there's a proven and traceable minimum knowledge and background behind a person's statements. Like a bachelor's degree for a software engineer vs a two week boot camp.
ICEs and some regional trains do have wifi, but it can be quite slow and unreliable. Good enough for the occasional git push though ;)
I was speaking about other cloud gaming providers not Steam. And Steam is the biggest digital distributor of Windows PC games so it makes 100% sense for Microsoft to offer their games on Steam.
I fear banking would become like government run healthcare or health insurance. I’m not quite sure what it would look like, but it wouldn’t be great.
> There was a classic sf novel that started with the discovery of a matter duplicator which is able to duplicate itself. The society in the story world evolves to bring back slavery.

What's the name of that story?
I have recently begun using Krita; being open-source, I did not necessarily have high-expectations, but it absolutely is professional-grade software.
But Microsoft’s purchase of a competitor and subsequent significant modification of an existing market is also a unilateral decision.

The thing is that the CMA is appointed by the government, which is elected.

It’s like complaining about a speeding ticket because the cop wasn’t elected.
> Honestly never understood the rationale behind jury-based trials. You're having a group of people who aren't trained in law, forcing them to rely only on the bits of evidence presented in the court, and asking them to make an unbiased decision, when they clearly have not been given any training of the sort?

this is a democracy, and the power of a democracy is ultimately on people; these people can vote, and they get to vote on your guilt.
The flaw here was in a dependency introduced by targeting WASM, and could apply to any project of any kind relying on random number generation for a cryptographic purpose. It is not a "crypto-currency" specific problem.
North Sea came on-stream at the start of the 80s. The rise in rail traffic clearly starts around the time of privatization in ~95 and the huge plunge followed by decline starts around the time of nationalization.

Certainly there were other problems: the nationalization was downstream of the socialization of the British economy between the end of ww2 and Thatcher, and as can be seen rail traffic (a general proxy for economic health) is in steady decline from then until it rebounds slightly in the 80s before taking off again once put in (mostly) private hands in the 90s.

The reason the graph seems to run a few years ahead of the changes is that actually privatizing and nationalizing something on the scale of a national railway takes a few years to implement between politicians floating the idea and the final handover of power, but the effect on people's motivations and incentives begins almost immediately.
To that extent, is there not a capital-N Natural bound even to math? I mean to say, consider the highest-order abstraction or system or whatever, and that itself is bounded by.. something - I suppose this is the ultimate philosophical question and exceeds what is pragmatic for human-sake, versus a pontificator's notions in passing.
English site: https://www.openbikesensor.org/en/

Unfortunately I noticed too late that the main domain does not automatically redirect to English based on the browser preferences. If someone can replace the link to add the /en/ at the end I would be super grateful.
https://lichess.org/player/bots

Maia is great, probably more human than the chess.com bots.
Boeing was and is a gigantic company, so they could do it and could do it easier than other manufacturers since the FAA is basically a Boeing department at this point.

They didn’t do it because of comercial reasons aka money in their pockets. Airlines were happy not having to do more training, they were happy, stock holders were happy, everyone was happy!
But for that, general population to be able (and willing!) to manage secret keys properly is sorely needed.
It reads like someone intentionally mimicked ChatGPT's style lol.