skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said in another comment, the industry deliberately or otherwise basically polluted the mobile gaming space and made it effectively impossible to sell a conventional $20-60 one-and-done game. There's a few, but you can nearly list them on your fingers and I'm sure you can list the successful ones on one hand easily.

I'd actually love to peer into the alternate universe where the Apple app store tried harder to establish that applications aren't universally disposable cups-of-coffee price level apps. Would the mobile game space still be the cesspool it is in our universe? There are certainly some forces pulling it towards cheap diversions and the resulting methods of extracting money, but might they have a robust non-cesspool gaming community?

When phones first came out everyone was sure having a console in your pocket was going to destroy the rest of the gaming industry. While I've always thought the opinion underestimated the pains of having a touchscreen-only interface, I also blame the monetization techniques. I don't even look to cell phones for games anymore because I don't have the energy to pour over the details of how they want to hook up gambling mechanics to my credit card to see if I'm interested. I hope the mobile gaming industry enjoys being beholden to their whales because I bailed out years and years ago.

Nintendo dipped in, and probably they shouldn't have, but to my eye they haven't particularly enjoyed it either and are getting out it. It would be better if they had never done it at all, but considering everyone else in the industry has simply jumped into the pool with gusto, they at least seem to be course correcting.

And if that constitutes "drinking the Nintendo flavor-aid" to you, well, screw you too.
1. “Climate scientists are claiming that all changes from climate change will be bad!” is quite the strawman. No scientist really believes this, but almost all agree that the average change will be very bad for humans.

2. Climate change does not mean “increasing CO2”. It means changes in global climate as a result of human activity - things like dumping waste in the ocean count too. CO2 isn’t causing the Anthropocene, Humans are.

3. Arguing in poor faith against climate change because the idea of global catastrophes scares you is a poor evolutionary strategy and you should reconsider your outlook.
I'm curious how many people here on HN have never heard of this program before. There are dozens (hundreds?) more that, if fully revealed and understood, would plausibly be the basis for a revolution in this country (though realistically I don't see anyone raising a finger over any revelation, only rolling their eyes and saying "I figured they were doing something like this -- I don't trust them" and then continuing to doom-scroll on social media).
> Developers these days get paid 2-3x as much as lawyer

hhahahahahha

Not all of us live in the bay ;)

Also my bay layer was $450 an hour, have never met a developer that cost me that.

> The days of regulatory arbitrage as a viable business model are over. There will be no more Ubers and AirBnBs. Governments have caught up to that scam and are significantly more willing to crack down on that now.

that is pretty good too. Keep up the comments, this is a riot.
> I'd bet 99.99% of homeless people would extremely prefer not to be.

I’m curious what /u/explaininjs would have to say about this given he/she claims to be homeless.
App in Google Play turns malicious and sends mic recordings every 15 minutes
Your logic is flawless, the problem is that you're using it to come up with a reason why not to clean up the yard/neighborhood/etc.

This means things don't improve!
> Mucus feeling at the back of my throat

This is a textbook GERD symptom for me... took me a long time to recognize it as such, because I thought it was just a post-nasal drip, but it was so bad it would wake me up in the middle of the night.

Drinking a couple sips of Alka-seltzer always fixes that choking feeling and lets me fall back asleep.
Show HN: Awesome Prompt Playground Built with Streamlit
Providing a playground to interact with gpt-3.5
using the great collection of prompts at https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts
Across the ages, government has applied a disproportionate level of scrutiny to groups and people perceived as dissidents, minorities, and anyone else who could potentially be conceived as a threat to institutional power regardless of the magnitude of the threat or if that threat is true or false. Historically this is a bipartisan issue, for decades the FBI vigorously attacked anti-war groups, black civil rights groups, and various left wing groups via COINTELPRO. I guess to summarize, the way I think of it is that the government is coming for anyone they see as a potential threat and it doesn't matter what the politics of that group are.
> when food scarcity has never been the problem?

food scarcity in America is not a problem.
Then you have logistical challenge to transfer this food to other region and efficiently distribute it. Then you have financial problem who will pay for all of this.
None of those are painful or expensive though?

Leaded petroleum was such an easy, local problem that solving it just happened at the national level, no need for binding international agreements.

I actually think the smart approach to serious action to prevent global warming would be similar to that taken for Nuclear non-proliferation: The big, strong countries force the others to accept they cannot have emissions and anyone who doesn't agree gets (at least) sanctioned into poverty or maybe "liberated"...

But most countries are much more interested in cheap energy (and meat and construction and other CO2e sources) than they ever were in nukes. Most citizens don't personally care if their leaders have nukes, but they care if they can afford meat and electricity.

And of course, for this to work, we would need those strong countries to ALSO give up their CO2e, something no world power has done and which the US and China are actively headed in the OPPOSITE direction of.

The ban on whaling is also a good example of a few bad actors ignoring the consensus and making the whole thing much less efficient. And that's (again) only for "whale meat", hardly as interesting a product as <almost everything that causes climate change>...
And don't forget wage theft! Which yes, is a problem; and no, does not justify wanton violence and theft.
Because presumably you don't always know the length of the data when you start with hashing. Like if you hash a file you're reading, it could get appended to while you're reading it. Or imagine hashing a video stream as you are recording it.

The solution newer algorithms seem to have settled on is to instead get fancier in the finalization step, for example by having internal state that doesn't make it into the final hash but would be required to compute the longer hash (just like using SHA512/256 to avoid length extension attacks).
We get "please provide the logged IP addresses of user X" subpoenas on a weekly if not daily basis. Which law school did you go to so I can tell our corp counsel they've been doing it wrong and stop asking?
The world of tape backup was (is?) absolutely filled with all sorts of vendor-lock in projects and tools. It's a complete mess.

And even various versions of tar aren't compatible, and that's not even starting with star and friends.
OpenAI/ChatGPT retrieval plugin and PostgreSQL on Azure
Checkout Skaffold and kustomize as well
> With Supreme Court, I assume good faith. I haven't seen anything to the contrary

Really? You haven't seen anything to the contrary? You haven't seen a supreme court justice being literally bribed for decades? You didn't see three recent supreme court appointees lie to congress?
Woz: Draft code edits with natural language
Maybe apex predator is the problem. I imagine sentient tool using rabbits wouldn’t do this sort of stuff.
I'd like something like this for media, but for whatever campaign the media is currently cycling at the moment. right now on a daily basis I'm reading about "bud light" and I don't know or care anything about it.
I use Barrier across Windows (when I have to), Mac OS, and Linux, since my multi-monitor setup is actually multiple-computer. Works great!
It definitely feels like there's still room for something different.

For instances, there's a service called Clean Email [1] that makes it much quicker and easier to burn through an inbox with thousands+ of messages. But it operates as its own SaaS instead of saying integrating into the Gmail site directly.

Their pricing is interesting as well: $10/mo or $30/yr for 1 account (I'm guessing their churn rate is really high). But then they also offer a lifetime plan that's "$199" but then after you cancel, they offer it to you for half that price.

[1]: https://clean.email/
This brings back (unpleasant) memories. I remember trying to get those tape drives working with FreeBSD back in 1999, and it going nowhere.
Barrier is amazing for cross-platform (MacBook on a desk beside a Windows/Linux workstation). Does Mouse Without Borders work cross-platform?
From my experience some manpages glaringly miss examples or explanations. Hint: all manpages that you don't need to move down for more contents probably fall into this catalog.

I completely agree that they are only useful if you know what you are looking for, and nothing else.

Although I'm still a newbie, but I'll never tell a complete newbie to RTFM, considering there is not many high quality manual out there. Actually most hottie open source tools we happened to introduce into our workflow have half-assed doc at most. I'll just teach him to Google stuffs efficiently and let himself figure out the rest. Sometimes it's surprisingly difficult to know what exactly to put into that search box.

I'm not a hacker. I'll never be even close to Ritchie, Carmack, whoever write state of art malwares. I know the pain.
OP didn't worry about any of that stuff, which is why they got a first mover launch and quick revenue.
The length may not be known ahead of time. Hashing algorithms generally work on streaming data. For example, suppose you wanted to hash compressed data while it's being compressed, you can't reliably predict the size of the compressed data.
Oh, finally. There's plenty of GNSS/GIS folks lurking around the OpenStreetMap wiki and I've heard their telegram too but never explored it. There's some GNSS-but-not-GIS folks on the Time-Nuts mailing list. Galmon has its own little handful. There doesn't seem to be a good RTKLIB forum, which is weird.

I hope this takes off and unites a whole bunch of little communities.
Tags and Postgres Arrays, a Purrrfect Combination
> So I am left wondering who is right.

They're both right.

However, "sitting in a chair staring at a screen for 8-10 hours a day" in this conversation stands in for "classic HN programming job". In that context, it still gives you a choice to take bodyweight exercise breaks in brief moments during the day and over noontime lunch (if you follow Huberman Lab's "don't start eating until 2 pm" advice), and working out afterwards.

The other part overlooked in this thread about manual labor beyond the over-exertion already touched upon is many people build overtime into their assumed lifestyle and pay expectations. It is part of the culture, and it accelerates the wear and tear on bodies. Also perniciously schedule traps people into not enough time to work out even assuming they had the energy to do so.

Also, in many industries it is still somewhat uncommon to find employers and employees who take PPE seriously. Welding is notorious for such a culture if you find yourself in a shop that specializes in welding (independents get to set their own standards, but a distressingly high number of them still don't take it seriously). There is even a perverse machismo associated with cavalier PPE attitudes in some shops.

You can work manual labor, get paid a lot, and not wreck your body. In both cases, you have to be very discerning about what to accept is "normal" for your industry and yourself, and accordingly set your boundaries.
> doubt this law should affect them much - their target is probably to "fix" private jets and very short trips rather than intercities

Airbus is (perhaps intentionally) untouched. It's the space below them, which is being aggressively pursued by start-ups, that's being cut off at the knees by Paris.
A big mission to watch out for is Dragonfly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)

Scheduled to launch 2027. If successful we'll have a flying craft on the surface of Titan which should provide a lot of very interesting data. I personally can't wait.

Another important mission to watch is JUICE which just launched this a little over a month ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Explorer
In The Singularity Is Near (2005) Ray Kurzweil discussed an idea for the “Document Image and Storage Invention”, or DAISI for short, but concluded it wouldn't work out. I interviewed him a few years later about this and here's what he said:

The big challenge, which I think is actually important almost philosophical challenge — it might sound like a dull issue, like how do you format a database, so you can retrieve information, that sounds pretty technical. The real key issue is that software formats are constantly changing.

People say, “well, gee, if we could backup our brains,” and I talk about how that will be feasible some decades from now. Then the digital version of you could be immortal, but software doesn’t live forever, in fact it doesn’t live very long at all if you don’t care about it if you don’t continually update it to new formats.

Try going back 20 years to some old formats, some old programming language. Try resuscitating some information on some PDP1 magnetic tapes. I mean even if you could get the hardware to work, the software formats are completely alien and [using] a different operating system and nobody is there to support these formats anymore. And that continues. There is this continual change in how that information is formatted.

I think this is actually fundamentally a philosophical issue. I don’t think there’s any technical solution to it. Information actually will die if you don’t continually update it. Which means, it will die if you don’t care about it. ...

We do use standard formats, and the standard formats are continually changed, and the formats are not always backwards compatible. It’s a nice goal, but it actually doesn’t work.

I have in fact electronic information that in fact goes back through many different computer systems. Some of it now I cannot access. In theory I could, or with enough effort, find people to decipher it, but it’s not readily accessible. The more backwards you go, the more of a challenge it becomes.

And despite the goal of maintaining standards, or maintaining forward compatibility, or backwards compatibility, it doesn’t really work out that way. Maybe we will improve that. Hard documents are actually the easiest to access. Fairly crude technologies like microfilm or microfiche which basically has documents are very easy to access.

So ironically, the most primitive formats are the ones that are easiest.
"Conversely, I have also worked for organisations and clients that did have consequential news that should have made headlines but never did."

Consequential things more often than not have serious consequences. It's always been that way but it is nice knowing more people are becoming fully aware the media is not so much about the altruism for us folks out here.
For "soft" paywalls (where, for example, a certain number of articles a day/week/month are available for free), the extension convinces the server that this user is unique and hasn't seen any other articles yet.
Yes it does. Especially when the class of people you are referring to are fleeing their countries as a result of imperialsm, state led terrorism and ridiculous policies the US itself has instituted throughout the americas. The US is responsible, in many cases, for destabilizing these countries, creating the war on drugs and using adversarial and predatory economics to destabilize these countries for the private ends of capital. Just because you can “choose” to flee does not preclude you from being a victim. Your reading of being a the equivalent of a forced laborer essentially disregards the entirety of history surrounding war, conflict, instability and being a refugee in that context. If the question is about being “forced into working” you’ve already over looked the entire forced labor market that exists at the border and fits your definition of “brutality” quite well.
I do a fair number of those flights - and as you say it is all because I live 4 hours drive from a major hub, and so I'm connecting anyway. If I want to go to the city where the hub is I'll just drive. (I live in the US so there is no train option) By the time I get to the airport an hour early, then get from the destination airport to where I'm going: driving and flying is about the same time, but by driving I have use of my car while I'm there. If I'm traveling with family driving is a lot cheaper as well.
How did you get access? I have access to plugins, but not code interpreter
> I would personally like to see a federal privacy statute that preempted these various and sometimes inconsistent state and local privacy laws.

It would have to be under the auspices of Interstate Commerce (to be legal under enumerated powers) but even then can Congress override State and local law?
I left myself some wiggle room in the phrase "where they depart" for that reason. It won't all be a straight line out of the rocket motor or whatever is pushing, because in the first fractions of a second the gasses and the particles can interact and bash each other into slightly different orbits.

However, that will dissipate quickly and you'll certainly be looking at a set of orbits that all pass through something relatively close to the origin. They're not going to be interacting for the first time a quarter of the way through the orbit and bouncing around a lot there.
Tina Turner, Queen of Rock and Roll, Dead at 83
dude... haha it's a random person on the internet who is doing it for free.
The user helps free the Internet by using archive.is as an openly accessible backup platform.
After googling lisaann, I have to say she deserves some respect for parodying Sarah Palin.
New York's skyscrapers are causing it to sink – what can be done about it?
it look like you can use this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWSh4ZxAr7E&t=1578s

This talk is what convinced me to move to Rust definitely. The audience is the perfect representation of the C++ community.
I really want to see Titan's lake before I die. It's the only stable, landable liquid in solar system (besides Earth), how it is not a priority?!
I remember January 2000 very clearly. After the Y2K panic ended (with a whimper) sales dropped, stocks crashed, and we spiraled into a recession with layoffs and consolidation to follow. It seems we are entering a similar pattern now with the Pandemic panic over, sales drying up, stocks tanking, layoffs and a recession.
I don’t see anything conflicting in what they said.

They can feel that way, and comply.
You have no reason to believe that charging 4% more would have the same level of sales.
Some people tip a lot. Others tip 0.
You never seen a case where a slow terminal would throttle the app running because it couldn't render output fast enough ?

I use JetBrains IDEs and honestly their built in terminal emulators are embarrassingly slow. VSCode is buttery smooth in comparison. Sad state of things.
Related. Others?

The Ground Speed Check – Tales from the Blackbird - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030304 - May 2023 (1 comment)

SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25733807 - Jan 2021 (12 comments)

SR-71 Blackbird 'Speed Check' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18101839 - Sept 2018 (1 comment)

SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Trolls Arrogant Fighter Pilot with Ground Speed Check - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902209 - Jan 2016 (3 comments)
My company is considered 'late moving' ; we like stability, no stress, high profits, healthy growth (no growth is better than unhealthy growth) etc. We are at almost 2 decades of profit (and a lot of profit at that), no VC capital or other capital for that matter.

We have been adding LLMs to our products in a little test for clients who want to try it. It's not a fad as far as I got the feedback; it saves people are lot of work and allows juniors at our clients to do far more. I believe it retains clients and will pick up new ones. So when the fads with LLMs die out, the products that have marketshare and add them (b2b anyway), will benefit a lot.
10 000 hours is the number observed among elite performers (Olympic athletes, chess grandmasters, concert level musicians and the like) - I don't think most people complaining about the difficulty of contemporary dating are aiming to be in the top 1%.
It would be far better and more secure for archive.is to publish a public key on its site and then sign requests from its private key, which sites could optionally verify.
Silent downvotes, suuure.
I would say, ultrasound is perfect FPGA application. One ultrasound channel can be replicated many times. FPGA size is the limit. Especially now when Raspberry Pis are unobtainium.
Not time to give up, for sure.

But brace for impact, probably.

The impact on the global economy could be severe, and we might all have to rethink our lives and our plans.

The concern to me is that if we manage to break the current stable climate, the impact could be extreme. It looks tens of thousands of years to get the extra 5 degrees to make earth livable, and now we might add an extra 5 degrees in the coming decades. It will be very hard to rollback. And we might extinct so many species in the process, that will not come back.
Becuat they like getting paid more via tips.
We all get on really well but they are better people than can be attributed to my parenting.

FWIW there's a rule in play that success is kids'; failure is parents'. I can't do their hard work of growing up but I could surely sabotage it.
It's moreso that nobody is in a position to start dictating to someone else what they can or can't do on account of emissions. That would be a dystopia and a bunch of bureacrats citing "collective survival" to ban things and stunt everyone else while they recline in luxury. That is what history shows.

What does removing emissions devices on your personal vehicles have to do with whether or not someone wants to fly? Advocate for better devices and less invasive devices that do not add costs. That's a separate concern and subject from whether or not someone can fly.

All your argument would do is just justify The Next Ban with flimsy justifications.
I have found the browser extension StopTheMadness to be invaluable to browsing the web in 2023. https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/

It even works on Chrome: https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/support-chrome.html
That is a negative about China - they are building their high speed rail stations out in the middle of nowhere instead of the city center.

Airports because of noise and the space runways needed are best located far from the city. Train stations are best located in downtown.
> This is how we get monstrosities like the Git documentation, that are only of any use to someone who already knows how it works and just needs a bit of a reminder.

Preach.
> Subpoenas require an officer of the court

That's not entirely true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_subpoena

Local organizations have come up with equivalents, although there is less (no?) statutory support for that.
Sure, the per-capita emissions are higher, but the capita is also like what a million times less?
I learned Unix by reading the FreeBSD handbook.
Why can they not just license the thing under CC0? Won't someone contributing implicitly understand that their contribution will also be licensed under CC0? This feels like it's more complicated than it needs to be.