skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been trying to cut down on salt and I realized how many recipes are handwaving when it come to the amount of salt. Yes, experience helps, but it can also cause you do add way more than needed, if that's what you've always done. Oftentimes you can halve it without affecting the taste.
Zuckerberg almost always refers to one specific person; Cuban is a last name of an investor and also describes things related to the nation of Cuba.
Some of the vendors in the space are absolutely going in on OTel. DD seems to be working actively against it.
Definitely Google is better off serving exactly the ads a user will click, including no ads for the user who will never ever click any ad, even one from their favorite sneaker brand. But I think a lot fewer people are actually in the never ever camp than they think. And even though I know I click ads on occasion, I still run an ad blocker.
It's not about tech, it's about human psychology, monetisation and business planning.

A YouTube user with an AdBlock is highly unlikely to click on any ads making them pretty much useless. So why keep bothering them?
If you crawl back up to the top level of this thread, it's someone pointing out that emulating it on PC is a lot nicer. Nintendo only needs enough emulation to match the Switch 1's performance on their new hardware; anything they get over its original performance is gravy. Plus they have the option of zipping into the games they really care about and putting in special cases for the most performance-intensive stuff.

The Steam Deck, AIUI, more or less at least matches the Switch 1 in emulation. Haven't done anything with it myself.

I don't think emulation is even remotely impossible, and every year it gets easier for them.
Why? Unless it's fixed, this act would be the cause of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The most rational and likely outcome would be to add EU exclusions until and unless Open Source liability under the act is sorted.
No this is Hollywood making you think that. Car crashes and small plane crashes result in metal debris, not exploding balls of fire like Hollywood likes to depict.

In general the concept of starting a fire and a crashing small plane are orthogonal concepts. What happened with that plane is not arson at all.
Considering Amazon can literally just erase e-books that you supposedly "own", like they literally did with 1984[0], very much yes.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...
If you listen to the individual tracks it just sounds like people "normally" making noises https://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/

Maybe intent plays a part in the perceived musicality of the result, considering that even 4chan and other forums can make up more coherent virtual choirs, under equally poor recording conditions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_SRSB9pdA&list=PLlsIiu-R8a...

Edit: or perhaps the Mechanical Turk performance is more like a haka than the original song in effect - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI851yJUQQw
> You prevent theft by putting theives in jail.

This is such an incredible naive view of the world.

Whether or not crimes are committed is a complicated interplay of cost/benefit.

You say that the city is acting as if thieves are some force of nature. And to a certain extent they are. If it is easy enough to commit a crime and the reward is high enough a crime will be committed. As an example if you leave gold bars littered on your front yard people will pick them up. No amount of "putting thieves in jail" will save you.

Obviously increasing the chance of getting caught acts as a deterrent. But it is not cost free. Investigating and prosecuting car thieves cost hard money. If there are too many thieves of opportunity created by sub-par security arrangements the police/justice system becomes overwhelmed. The city can and should increase their police force of course, but at a certain point it is like trying to stop a tide with a rake. If you can prevent crime before it happens, for example by following sane and cost-efficient security practices that saves money and aggravation for everyone involved.

What prevents crime is multiple overlapping layers of our society engineered such that crime is maintained at a certain level. "putting thieves in jail" is just one of those layers. And if you think you can simply policeman yourself out of any situation then you haven't thought about the problem to a sufficient depth yet
On the flip side:

It's their site, they pay for the resources, provide the work, if they want to block people who block their ads, they have that right.

You are not entitled to my website because I put it up.
I have a good friend who I met when she was cashiering at a noodle shop chain. She left it years ago but she took an interest in a conversation I was having about a theater in town. She left the noodle shop many years ago but we still catch up and get a beer occasionally.

She at one point was really into coffee and almost went into B2B coffee sales of green and roasted coffee products. Like had a mentor and hourly wage close.

And she didn't. She ended up going back into the retail restauarant space because she liked how much socializing and small talk there was.

Don't assume, from a stereotype, that you know better than someone else.
Yes. We need more of those little tutorials demystifying things we take for granted.
> Same thing happened with Goldeneye. I can’t believe this was tolerable way back when. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

I played dozens of hours of Goldeneye back in the day (a friend had it, and I spent a lot of time at his house) but it very nearly wasn't tolerable to PC gamers. Its sole redeeming feature was that it was far more social than PC shooters. Playing it felt like going backwards 5-10 years in graphics, level design, gameplay, et c., plus the controls were astonishingly terrible (unless played in dual-controller mode, but that was no good for multiplayer). About the only feature it had going on that was up-to-date for the time were the multiple hit-zones on enemies (different animations and amount of damage depending on where you hit them).

Perfect Dark was a huge improvement in every way (and in many ways is still unsurpassed), and with modern controls on the XBox 360 port, I still play it to this day. Going back to Goldeneye from Perfect Dark, though? Oof. Even at the time, Perfect Dark's release seemed like it straight-up obsoleted Goldeneye, aided by the fact that it included renamed clones of some of the best Goldeneye multiplayer levels and many of the weapons (though, why would you play with them when you have Perfect Dark weapons available? They're so bland)
That's just blatantly false. Truck drivers, taxi drivers, and pizza delivery guys are all still hourly employees. The gig work in those industries are things that hourly employees never did.

Zero-hours employment contracts and gig work both fall outside of the traditional employment paradigm, but in very different ways. The major aspect of gig work which is being discussed here, ie that the time spent waiting around for gigs brings the average hourly rate below minimum wage, is not present. Zero-hour contract employees are still required to be paid at least minimum wage for all time that they are required to be present, even if there is no work to do. Further, zero-hour contract employees are required to be on call despite not being scheduled and with few restrictions on when they might be called in, putting them totally at the mercy of the employer scheduling them; conversely the gig worker is never on call and has total freedom over what hours they're willing to work. The whole appeal of gig work is that people don't want to be committed to working some standard block of time regularly, so they can maintain their personal flexibility.
Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically
Totally agree. And Zelda is maybe the best example of this? The graphic style of the two recent games are distinctive and effective but are a long way from realistic by modern standards.
Define desire - in anorexia, for example, is the victim choosing his desire to not eat, or is he not eating despite desiring it, or something else
It's almost as if "crypto bros" are not a hive mind, but are ordinary people who hold unique and conflicting sets of beliefs.
Shocking that this kind of knee-jerk anti-innovation sentiment seems to be the dominant mood on Hacker News these days. Whatever legitimate criticisms of SV startups there are, this is mere contentless anti-tech sniping.
Like, per video on the server stitch in ads to the video file before serving it up? You'd still have to have specific behaviours encoded to specific segments of that video file (i.e. clicking on the video during ad should link somewhere different than clicking on the video during the video), and that would probably be detectable.
Did not expect full frontal Mipha.
Probably the most underrated feature of zstd (likely because it's so unusual) is the ability to create a separate compression dictionary. This allows you to develop customized and highly efficient dictionaries that are highly specific to a type of data AND allow you to compress elements of that data without including an entire separate dictionary in every compression output.

So for example take logfiles. You can train up a dictionary on some sample log data. Then you can compress individual log rows, and all it actually stores is a diff of the compression dictionary (if any new entries were added) and the compressed data. So you get very efficient compression of small amounts of data which are part of a collection that may be very self-similar, but with the option of decompressing any individual element at will. (Of course, you'd need to hold onto the original trained dictionary for both compression and decompression, for any row you want to be able to decompress in the future. And you might want to retrain the dictionary every so often for slowly-changing types of data, which might prevent "drift" of the efficiency towards less-efficient over time)

I believe Postgres already uses this under the hood for some columnar data. It wouldn't take much to index it before compressing it and just decompress it at will. Or maybe it just got added? https://devm.io/databases/postgresql-release
I endured reading this entire 2500-word article hoping it might eventually meander its way toward answering the question in its own headline, only to be left disappointed, like a diner who orders a bowl of ramen and discovers not a single noodle beneath the beansprouts.
> the game is much more enjoyable when played on PC with an emulated copy

Neophyte question here, but what's the 3d engine used for this game? can you just change a parameter to make the game more realistic if the hardware supports it?
Except ad-blocker is literally just stealing bandwidth. Just because it's legal (under the current law), it doesn't mean it's morally right. Why should Youtube or any hosting service serves a user when they refuses to view the ads? YouTube is not a public service.
Neat test, I'm sure a lot of people will be consulting this benchmark. You've probably saved a lot of dev time. Hopefully the AWS teams review this as well.

What I have been curious about is the speed of cloudflare's fast edge workers calling into AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure because CF still doesn't have a database of their own.

Cloudflare seems to have the most optimized cold starts via their TS/JS v8 isolates, but the latency of calling into an external provider that has it's own database probably kills that benefit (CF's "durable objects" not withstanding)
The Second Phase of the Biden Presidency
https://archive.ph/cPvlw
I am sorry but I don't buy this. If switch can be 100% emulated on x86 hardware if given enough computing power (and in fact greatly improved with all that residual power unused), it can be run anywhere fast enough. Ie latest Snapdragon must be more than 10x faster in raw cpu power, not even going into graphics. And once you have your hands directly on hardware you can cut a lot of processing middlemen layers. Heck there could be some 'compatibility' chip just for this, literally nobody cares.

People obviously want this and would pay for this.

Its a really strange company, able to produce amazing software but horrible, terrible outdated hardware (ie joycon durability saga) that they stubbornly consider OK in 2023. Its not so much graphics details themselves, they have chosen graphic style well in this case, but ie overall responsiveness of device, FPS etc. We are talking about very well optimized phone thats 10 years old. More and more not so much up to current standards, ie low PFS puts too much strain on eyes.
Because people are willing to pay it. I also think it's worth looking at the lifespan of an Apple device compared. Lots of chatter on these threads about iPads getting release updates for years following release, where Pixels get 18 months if they're lucky. I am content spending 2x the price on a device if I can keep it for 2x+ years.
I wish we stopped using the word "recall" when talking about over-the-air software update, unless the vehicle must be physically present in a service center.
PCI isn’t a law. It’s a standard that the free market decided upon by itself. You’re making the exact opposite point than the one you are intending to make.
I get that...and honestly thats why I do still look forward to going into the office once a week, but thats only when I know I can have real interactions with great people :)
Heaven forbid. I'd go to jail for such a blasphemous transgression of common law, wouldn't I? Thank you kind stranger for reminding me of the legislation.
> The GameCube was the weakest hardware-wise between the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Dreamcast.

It might have been weak, but definitely was comparable (sometimes even stronger) in power to PS2 and definitely not weaker than Dreamcast [0].

> The Nintendo 64 was weaker than the PlayStation or Sega Saturn.

What? No, no, no. PlayStation was definitely weaker. N64 was crippled down by using cartridges instead of CD.

---

Despite the raw power, both N64 and GC were crushed by PS1 and PS2 in sales.

[0]: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~meesh/cmsc411/website/proj01/main/co...
How do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.
Style and fashion are 80% personality, 20% clothing. You can be well dressed, but if you have the personality of a cardboard cutout, no one is going to remember you, or that you were dressed fashionably when they met you.

Also, just because you aren't wearing a t-shirt doesn't mean that what you are wearing is stylish. This 'tip' is just phrased in an annoyingly paternalistic way.
> I didn't mention face unlock. Any fingerprint sensor that is trivial defeated is fundamentally broken.

I know you didn't. The point is that your phone can be accessed by those who are not you.

and the standards should be around safety
How does it compare perfomance-wise to Intel ISA-L?
https://github.com/intel/isa-l
What? You download a blocklist. What gets sent back to ublock?
I would like to see this research.
If the developer's extension store account were compromised or sold, they'd push an update to you that stole your data before you could react.
"motivating" employees by negging them is apparently in the amazon managerial playbook. And they normalize the behavior by saying "Well... Amazon is a place smart people go to feel bad about themselves."
On Firefox mobile, I get some element overflow blocking the speech bubble. Maybe a flex wrap gone wrong?

Just a heads up incase Julia is reading :)
"Big Questions Mnotation"

The retcon is that it's not "APL"+1, but "APL"+Fibonacci.
At least they didnt have to watch 2 unskippable ads to post the comment.
It is unrelated. They approved the budget that is causing the debt ceiling to be breached already. By tying it to future spending they are trying to conflate the issues when they are not related.

The place to discuss future spending is during the appropriations process, by requiring it to happen now because of the debt ceiling is precisely holding the credit of the US hostage.
The standard response when discovered is always: well of course that….
This is what we want, though, right? The alternatives would be a paywall, or charge per view. (Or, I guess, pay to "own", like a Kindle ebook, but seems like a mismatch for most of their content.)
Well, not as pure as the PDP-11, sure, but it was actually nicer to program and use.
Miami being a legit startup city all started from Keith Rabois pretending so.

Which is really about at the same level as Jim Cramer telling you Lehman Brother's risk management team is top tier.
Its common to most of Christianity (excluding the Baptist, Anabaptist and other “believer’s baptism” denominations) but has different cultural attachments; its quite plausible that, in a local area in parts of the US, the Catholic community would be the only one where it is both practiced and the kind of event for which gift-giving would be associated.
Good to get some other perspectives from OoT fans. I played it multiple times as a kid. No other video game came close in terms of the connection. It was the perfect game IMO.

My interest in video games declined greatly as the trend in the video game industry shifted toward heavy violence and more realistic graphics. Fast forward to last year, I decided to pick up the Switch as I found one for a really good deal. I wanted to try the new (to me) Zelda. I felt pretty unimpressed, decent not great. As it turned out, I had mistaken the much hyped BoTW release with the Zelda release that I bought. I was playing Skyward Sword.

Once I realized my error, I picked up BoTW and took it for spin. I now think the hype is totally justified. I got all the feelings I felt with OoT. It's been wonderful so far. I'm only about halfway through and stocked for Tears of the Kingdom.
I totally agree. I think if we got better at holding organizations liable for their failure they would be a stronger incentive for them to weight responsible behavior more appropriately.

I think this would be greatly improve our society.
Show HN: Snag – schedule tasks to minimise carbon emissions
Hello HN - my first submission here, and first piece of OSS :) The National Grid in the UK has a great API (https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk) that provides a 48h ahead forecast of the carbon intensity (ie, gCO2 per kWh) of the electricity supply.

snag is a little script that lets you schedule your non-interactive tasks to take advantage of times where the intensity is lowest. You provide the time you need it to complete by (and, optionally, the task length) and snag will start the task to meet the deadline at a time when the intensity is lowest.

For example, you might want to put on a compute job when you go home to work on the results in the morning. It doesn't matter to your workflow if it starts now (at HIGH intensity), or at 0230 in the morning (at LOW intensity), so snag will run it at 0230. Or use it to schedule your weekly backup, a big download, etc etc...

These are real savings, rather than carbon offsets, and it provides a summary of the carbon saving, which you can use directly for reporting purposes (of course, you would have to link task->power usage directly to get an absolute figure).

It will work in the UK only (it would be great if other countries provided a similar service), but if you want to be Sherlock Holmes to try it out, your routing code would be `NW1`.

Would love to hear anyone's thoughts and feedback, and hope you get some use out of it. TIA.
Julia's posts are always so informative; DNS being one of those topics which I presume so many developers are like myself and have "just enough knowledge to be dangerous" :-)
To be honest, I don't see why these workers should have to sacrifice themselves at the alter of the stock market or private investment. Why do they have to subsidize someone else's pension plans?
I love this. DNS is something that, if you're online and visiting websites or even sshing into boxes a lot of the time, you're using, unless of course you carry around a list of IP addresses like the olden times. It is one of the many things that underpin the modern web and we take it for granted.
Okay, I feel that my first response was too snarky. I'm sorry. In its place, I'll say:

You wouldn't go outside without pants. You shouldn't use a variable without quotes. Put pants on all variables. Also, you shouldn't use () with 'function' it "works" in Bash but it's not standard:

ccm() {
tar c "${1}" | pigz > "${1}.tar.gz"
}

You could further improve it with a loop to accept multiple files:

ccm() {
for i in $@; do
tar c "${i}" | pigz > "${i}.tar.gz"
done
}

Now you can run it like: `ccm file1 file2 file3`

See: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes

See: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/CompoundCommands#Funct...
One of the things I get a kick out of in the clip of HAL singing Daisy is just how much the physical modules being removed look like hard drives being pulled out of a NAS. I could easily think of a much larger version of my Synchrony NAS looking just like that.

BUT: When I first watched 2001 sometime in the early 1990s, I had only seen a 5.25" hard drive, and not on a slider / rails. I thought the inside of HAL was just tacky scifi from the 1960s.

It's only later as I've seen the predictions come true that I've realized just how forward-looking 2001 is. Like the scene with watching news reports on the tablets at breakfast. It wasn't until I watched a video, on my phone, in the late 2010s, that I realized that prediction in the move was 100% spot-on.

BTW, the 4k Ultra-HD bluray of 2001 is awesome.
I haven't watched the video yet so take this with a grain of salt.

dd for a human amirite? Maybe one atom at a time, but you'd have to make sure you get all the bacteria that helps control your personality as well right?[1] Then you need to simulate the changes in that system, based on how you interact with the rest of a virtual world, including relationships with other people[2], so you'd have to have an accurate copy of that too. What do you do if your virtual self needs to interact with a still living, breathing human? How do you simulate the changes to your micro-biome that occur there? How do you simulate what your copied human "eats" and how it processes that food?[3] Having a copy of all your atoms is a start but you also need to simulate all of those processes accurately if you want it to be truly "you."

Then what you end up with is -- assuming we know everything that makes up a human being and how it behaves -- a perfect copy of you along with a perfect copy of your world.

[1] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/08/116526/do-gut-bacteria-rul...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37298-9

[3] http://www.wormbook.org/chapters/www_intermetabolism/interme...
> The forecast says 44 degrees next week.

Where? In the forecasts that I could find, the maximum doesn't even touch 40 in the next two weeks.
I vividly remember how sad I was when IBM chose the 8088, should have been 68K.
It's also worth noting that creators get paid more for YT Premium views than ad-based views. YouTube, for all its problems, has far better revenue-sharing than pretty much any other "user generate content" platform.
> features that PostgreSQL provides like [...] logical replication

MySQL has offered logical replication for considerably longer than Postgres, and it's a substantially more configurable and mature implementation. MySQL's built-in replication has always been logical replication. It's a feature MySQL has had for 23 years -- built-in logical replication is literally one of the top reasons why all the biggest MySQL users chose MySQL originally!
Yes, why have any nuance in our speech. Should just go all the way though and say Google is Hitler. No reason to stop at evil if we are being hyperbolic.