skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it sounds like one of those things which people wish they were true but are likely not.

There are 10k fluent esperanto speakers and an order of magnitude more "active speakers".

According to http://klingon.wiki/En/FluentSpeakers there are ~30 fluent klingon speakers

My father is a fluent esperanto speaker. He's in the 10k group. I can understand the language a bit passively. I'm among 1 million people who can. There are 10 million people who have learned a bit of esperanto in their lives.

I don't think kingon numbers are nowhere close to that, but I only found a reference to the fluent klingon speakers (the 20-50 of them)
Moreover I don’t see how this is really an update on anything, they’re not saying “this is how it was done and how it will be done now”, they’re just stating things as matter of fact, which makes it difficult to know exactly what they’re changing.
Tbh adding a background pixel only needs to check its four surrounding to see if it joined seperate areas, adding a fourground is harder I expect you need Dijkstra.
People like pretty things. The tool (and the landing page) could really use some work to attract more people to this tool.
Perhaps. But I'm also a big advocate for a social safety net because people make mistakes. I was a pretty poor kid because my parents made some bad decisions. They weren't bad people, but they were immature and unlucky. Without that net, I'm not a productive professional today.

I realize this article is abou t the cultural issue, not the political one. From crypto anarchists to VCs, people want to profit of off "disruption", then fall back on the safety net of society when that goes wrong. They have all the trappings of underground with the real benefits of a structured society. I agree, but the metaphor the author is using strays closely to a world really unfortunate people inhabit either through their decisions or someone else's.
A reason I doubt their conclusions is because of the complexity and inconsistency of the underlying problem space, as well as their methodologies.

By default I think the epistemic status we should assign to such things is unknown, not the experts' beliefs are correct until proven otherwise.
If you really think Nintendo isn’t extremely petty, read up on how they deal with the Super Smash Bros competitive scene.
Why does it need separate mask images? Couldn't you use the indices in the alpha layer to do the flood-fill by looping over every pixel in the image and changing the colour if the index matches? It would save memory, right? That per-pixel loop should be fast enough, since there's just one pass and it's simple enough any JS JIT ought to be able to optimise it.
stab them with car keys.
I agree it's not an illusion.

And I agree with your first point. At least it feels like there's much less emphasis on improving people's lives. I still believe that a product has to have some perceived positive impact on a user's life to be successful. But nowadays, most of the time, that positive impact seems to be focused on instant gratification rather than long term utility. Since the widespread use of the internet became a thing, the back channel then allowed for treating the user as a commodity. I believe this may be one of the qualitative key differences between "now and then" and, if so, it may be a good answer to OP's question.

Better than "we're just getting old, it has always been that way", which I believe is not true.
I get that ads bring in money, but I think that every other unethical thing does as well, like underpaying people for their labor. I'm sure that there are a myriad of grey cases, where yes, the worker are exploited, but somehow the good is greater than that - and I do honestly mean this, I don't think the world is black and white. I detest ads however, and if I could wish them out of existence, they would already be gone. And I honestly feel that I don't mind anything that goes with it - things existed before, and will so after.
It is interesting that they have a day devoted to embedded using MicroBit v2.

The older Rust-Embedded Discovery book [0] also used Microbit but the later edition [1] suggests a STM32F3DISCOVERY. For RISC-V and Extensa fans there is also Ferrous Systems' Embedded Rust on Espressif training material [2] which has a coordinated board [3] that has been "cloned" by Wokwi [4].

0. https://docs.rust-embedded.org/discovery/microbit/index.html

1. https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/index.html

2. https://esp-rs.github.io/espressif-trainings/

3. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4FPV9FW

4. https://wokwi.com/projects/new/rust-esp32-rust-board
Just curious, what’s your definition of “orders of magnitude?” Toyota sells 8x the cars to make 2x the profit. Tesla has way better profit margins.
If I were Uber I would structure this as "we'll integrate waymo as a trial and if it's successful then we'll acquire waymo after x period of time"
People in my current industry (healthcare/biotech) often use the terminology "a software" and "these softwares." It irked me at first but eventually I got used to it.

I think it's because every piece of validated software that our company uses, however small, is assigned a unique number (e.g. "SW12345"). They're not all full-blown applications, so we can't call them that. Sometimes they're tiny programs or even just scripts.

Anyway, it's possible the person that wrote this has a background in a similar industry.
I've left Golang for a while, then when I came back it felt a bit complicated to figure out how to get started. I feel rustup.rs, really got Rust to a much better spot than Golang in such a short amount of time.
> don't replace your iPhone every year, because now it costs 50% more

This flattens down the experience curve [1], meaning the technological edge advances slower. That, in turn, exposes the entire industry to more-agile competition. This is the recipe for undermining competition behind a protectionist wall: cut costs to beat bigger competition with movement and then scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
Should Feinstein resign or stay? With AI, she can stay as long as she wants
It’s more GTD than kanban, but I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of this stack:

- radicale as a caldav server with calendars per context, like @Writing, @Chores (https://radicale.org/v3.html)

- todoman for cli tasks (https://github.com/pimutils/todoman)

- iOS reminders for mobile

Everything syncs, and because it’s standards based it’s portable if a little clunky.

There’s also Vikunja, but I didn’t like it as much when I tried it last year.
https://vikunja.io/
Even then major loss of population seems to have occurred in the southwest at various times possibly connected to climate and droughts. Even with newer technology I suspect many houses built in Phoenix are dependent on AC, rather than being designed to have AC as a supplement.

A number of years ago we had an HVAC issue at work on a sunny week. It was shocking how much harder it was to focus and work in the afternoon as the air got stuffy and hot. Our office had some options for airflow, but not many. I've been meaning to look into what ti would take to put some tints on the windows to reduce the heat in the summer.
>> Once or twice a week my wife or I will go through their text messages with them and ask questions about anything that seems off.

Holy crap.

Maybe you’re aware, but things like this are commonly cited reasons by young adults as to why they’ve never again spoken to their parents after they were able to escape them, sometimes even voluntarily becoming homeless to get away.
If you work on code that introduces threat to life, you might be prepared to own all the code, even if you don't write it all from scratch.
Archived version: https://archive.is/u7aQe
TIL that I, a member of the youth, am attracting middle aged moms.

In all seriousness, I completely disagree with your stance. My friends and I send gifs to each other almost daily.
Yep. https://www.wired.com/2001/11/flex/
Show HN: Waterhole – modern community forum software
Hey HN!

I'm the original developer of Flarum[1] - open-source forum software. In 2019 I left Flarum because of burnout[2].

Generally speaking, I think open-source is a great fit for libraries[3], but less so for products. I wanted to be able to simplify the exchange: build a great product and sell it.

It's been a few years but I'm excited to have just launched my follow-up project: Waterhole.

https://waterhole.dev

Waterhole is a modern, Laravel-powered discussion platform. It has a simple, extensible architecture; an inclusive, customisable design; and thoughtfully crafted features that streamline building healthy communities. It's made for brands, creators, and teams who want to build bespoke and tightly-integrated communities. It plays in the same space as Flarum, Discourse, and others.

Waterhole is open source[4] and free to try locally, but you must pay for a license to run it in production. This business model allows me to focus on developing and supporting a great product, and creates an opportunity for the wider Laravel ecosystem to provide hosting, customization, and consulting services.

Thanks for checking it out, feedback would be appreciated! Happy to answer any questions about the product, technical details, or anything else.

Toby

[1] https://flarum.org
[2] https://discuss.flarum.org/d/20590-farewell-and-what-s-next-...
[3] https://github.com/tobyzerner
[4] https://github.com/waterholeforum/core
> That's how you end up with misspelled packages causing viruses in production and other disasters.

For all the stories about malicious packages on PyPI and whatnot: I can't recall ever seeing a story about "misspelled packages caused us problems in production". Most of these packages have downloads in the low-hundreds at best, and I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority are from the attackers testing it and bots automatically downloading packages for archiving, analysis, etc. I've come to think it's not as much of a big deal as it's sometimes made out to be.

The closest I've seen is the whole event-stream business where the maintainer transferred it to someone else who promptly inserted some crypto-wallet stealing code, but that's a markedly different scenario (and that also seems quite rare; it was over 4 years ago).
Modern ads heavily rely on tracking, exceptions are rare.
Allergies are an over-response of the immune system.

So, yes, exposure will absolutely strengthen your immune system response. (...which in this particular case, is the wrong thing)
But that’s the thing, robots are supposed to interact with the world by default. They are supposed to integrate into society. At some level, there is a necessary distributed processing boundary, and in fact there are many - from the need to communicate with multiple internal heterogeneous processing units, multiple sensors running at different frequencies, external databases and cloud compute, remote operators or telemetry, ground stations, and even other robots. If you want them to be useful at all that is. How in the world do you integrate that system into a synchronous while loop?
> I currently use ChatGPT to provide me some exercises as I get better at the language.

That's a good idea, thanks! I'm gonna do that too
A psychiatrist reflects on Philip K. Dick’s substance abuse and mental health
> I just hope Apple figures out how to do it,

This was done with bash mimicking similar functionality.
I am guessing it will be really easy for the Apple developers to make a really nice version since it's this easy to do a hack job [1].

[1] https://github.com/realrasengan/blind.sh
This reminds me of an iOS puzzle game I really enjoyed a year or two ago called "Kami 2". Picture a canvas with geometric shapes in a few different colors. The goal is to paint the whole canvas in one color, armed with a limited number of "fill" operations. Highly recommended.
Always have been. Online ads were obnoxious since the existence of them. And in the before times, there were no ad blockers, and there were popups, then pop-unders, I had no idea WTF was going on. And the first ad blockers made browsing noticeably slower too.
don't forget that compared to france, germany has a far more distributed population density, This makes rails far harder to maintain.
Unless you import a dependency which totals several hundred thousand lines of code.
This sounds similar to Popcorn Time (now defunct). I think they open sourced and then got taken down a while back.

One major difference (I think?) is it appears Cloudstream doesn't include the "sources" by default in the core app. Maybe that will help them subvert copyright for a while if the client GUI is decoupled from the source of the pirated content.
Netflix is the one that's probably the most marginal for me these days. I don't really binge watch or drop in and out much but I should probably look with summer coming up to see if I really want it given I have other services and I watch a fairly modest amount of video.
> I paid for 4 concurrent streams and now you're reneging on your contract.

You almost certainly in fact paid for 4 concurrent streams in the same household, and you were just out of compliance on your contract the whole time.
So far it's been mostly ads for other netflix shows, but they are everywhere. Full screen ads you have to click through to even get to the catalogue, a giant ad at the top you have to scroll past, ads taking up multiple rows as you scroll through their options, the ads that play in the middle of a show if you pause the screen for more than a few seconds, the ads that play as soon as the credits start rolling (even when there's still content), etc.
Yep. This is exactly what happens. I already had a strained relationship with my parents but when they invaded my privacy - I decided to lock it down way harder and cut them out entirely from my life. I'll pickup a phone call from them every few months but that's all they get.

It's a great way to ruin relationships with your kids. Keep at it, HN know-it-alls.
Confirmed. This is weird.
Adobe's Content Aware Fill was pretty much ahead of its time, at the time. This takes it a whole lot further. What a great use of the technology.
In order to ask for that data, the US needs to obtain a warrant. Similar laws apply in the other countries.

Your quote is just saying that the parties think that any information they could get by spying on each other they could get by directly asking the person they would have spied on instead.
Toki Pona is far more elegant in its simplicity, and doesn't require the use of every diacritic ever documented...
First up, I'm more used to classical music (piano, recently more synths).

I don't think that applying half-time/double-time to melodies is a good approach. Rhythm and tempo (note lengths, really) in melodies are more fluid to get more variation and effect. When I listen to the song, most of the passages that you quoted as changing up the rhythm (except "Hey ya! Hey ya!") sound to me as if they are actually consistently starting on a 1 beat if you count 4/4 and 2/4, but not in 22/4. So you'd tear apart the structure that you claim is there. That feels like a contradiction to me.

Also, why am I discussing music on Hacker News...? I'll happily agree to respectfully disagree at this point. I respect your view.
Why does anything have to boot? What does booting do?
You have to understand where the ad is coming from. With Premium, you play YouTube to not interject extra ads. They can't really do anything with the content itself.
The world is really decoupling with China because it is so unpredictable. Xi made himself forever leader only 10 years ago and it's been a unpredictable rollercoaster of policy since then.

Stability is the foundation of every working relationship. Everyone wants to latch onto you when you are stable. You can even work with an adversary as long as they are stable. China had it for a while before Xi.

Most countries have yet to achieve long-term stability. Stability is super difficult to achieve.
Ask HN: Product Hunt launch tips for a Web3 software?
We will be launching on Product Hunt on Thursday. At least, that is when we scheduled it. Our product is godmodehq.com which is B2B and a web3 product, hence I do not have a lot of great expectations from Product Hunt launch.

However, I still wanna give it our all to have a successful one. I would love to listen to tips and recommendations here as I have been hearing a lot recently that PH algo does not really work properly and does not benefit the product much.
That is silly though. There was never an expectation that only 1 set of eyeballs would watch a stream.

Netflix tweeted in 2017 that “Love is sharing a password”. There is no other way to read that statement other than being pro sharing. Which makes sense, I pay for X concurrent streams. Let me use my streams, period.

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712
Reporting about it in media causes more of them actually so yea. They should stop reporting on them.

Our states are as big as countries so they really should be considered separately. Just because Texas had one doesn't mean a child in California is suddenly in more danger. But actually reporting on it in news media does increase the likelihood because it puts the idea into a shooter's head.

To put it another way the school district I grew up in has never had a mass shooting. Is a child in that school district actually a 0.7% risk? Statistics can be skewed in any direction.
Thank you for the visualization. I will test this out, maybe with magnet board. :)
Been a long time since I was a kid playing with Deluxe Paint, but "fill except where I missed a tiny gap" would have been exactly what I wished the fill tool would do! I don't think I've used a fill tool in earnest since :-(
I tried using Linear before switching to Obsidian Kanban. I found Linear's UX and site structure to be overly complex for my personal needs. Despite following the onboarding process, I found myself clicking too many times to figure out where things are (I acknowledge that this may have been an issue on my side). As a result, I switched to Kanban because I was already using it to store documentation for my projects. For me, it meets the spec as a project management tool and is an improvement over a text-only kanban. I can definitely recommend it.
>So now anything that was on a plane must now travel on the roads.

Tell me you know nothing about France without telling me you know nothing about France.

Or Spain, for that matter. Or Germany. Or...
Regarding your last paragraph: I agree, and that bolsters my point. Intra-household sharing is baked into their account design, so of course Netflix supports and encourages that. There'd be no need for anyone to ask their CEO if they support intra-household sharing, or him to state that they do. It's a given. That strengthens the argument that he must have been referring to sharing between households when he said "we love people sharing Netflix". Otherwise the question, and his response, would be vacuously true.
Your comment is so true it hurts. I’m a puerto rican who lived through Hurricane Maria in the island in 2017. The hurricane took out our entire power grid and multiple cell towers for months. After the hurricane the only form of communication in my area was a single radio station and my family could only listen using car radios. Cell service took months to restore in my area. I just remember hearing that lonely radio host’s voice every day for over a week with devastation in his voice as he shared the news coming in of the disaster.

For us, the hurricane was literally an apocalyptic event and I can’t imagine trying to keep my sanity if we didn’t have radios or any communication. I can’t imagine anywhere in the US going through that either.
you can say that, but the big gif hosting serve other formats with better compression by default.
No, it is will almost certainly be a thankless task.
> can’t optimize both for extreme shareholder returns and extreme wealth at the top and also pay first world good wages/living standards and have lower prices

Ignoring new entrants, sure. In a competitive market, shareholder returns entice new entrants. Flatten those and you lose that edge.

For many markets, the competition caveat is missing: this is something we can improve with policy. But pushing down profits for labor's sake is a false economy; it leaves the industry less resilient in a global context. Put another way, a solid repeatable business plan is finding a market leader suppressing shareholder returns and exploiting what they're missing from a separate jurisdiction.
> The only way these mild horrors get into children heads is, again, through social media.

I never heard a better justification for blissful ignorance and no, it's not a good thing.
From what I have heard, sponsorships are well worth for the creators. Usually bringing in at least the amount that YT otherwise gave them, and often more.
And there is an explanation for all that, partner. It's called: carrying capacity.

Nobody wants to see it but it is there.

Things are hard because they need to be hard, otherwise we would multiply out of control and devour the planet in no time.

If you give every person a house, lifetime supply of food, free education, guaranteed job, a vehicle, you would see the population going to 30 billion in 20 years. Then we would all perish.
how do you teach them what the right choices are if you don't actually see their choices? if your teenager is texting on TikTok with a 40 year old man who's asking them to send them underwear pictures,
how do you find out about that except by reading their text messages?

we don't know from the singular fact that they're reading through teenagers text messages how heavy handed that monitoring is. Maybe there's a recurrence of satanic panic, but we don't actually know that. That you had that experience with your parents is awful but it sounds like parents are more likely to be their kids DnD DM than anything else these days.
It can be a drag on work quality. An engineer that dabbles in design hobbies on the side can provide valuable UX ideas that will make the whole product excellent whereas an engineer that nerds out on the latest code trend will pitch rewriting the whole product in Rust at the 11th hour as if any user gives a shit.

I’ve worked with plenty of people like you and some of them wouldn’t know a good product if it smacked them in the face. Most products don’t need more engineering capabilities, they need people involved with excellence in multiple skills.

Apple is an embodiment of this. None of their engineering is bleeding edge but they make categorically redefining products. People that nerd out over something like Linux wouldn’t get it.
Good grief - NetWare with only IPX! Presumably you'll be installing their Y2K patches any day soon 8)

I'm pretty sure NetWare can natively tunnel IPX/SPX over TCP/IP, assuming you are not stuck on 3.12. I don't think you have to fork out for the multi protocol router thing. They will crash regularly until you get the magic combination spot on and then run forever.

A NW 6.5 box will run quite happily as a pretty tiny VM - you could scatter them around as routers to support whatever nightmare of an app you need to run over IPX. Tunnel them over IPSEC or whatever floats your boat.
If we're talking some sort of civilizational collapse scenario, you would unquestionably want firearms over food as preparation. First of all you can hunt with a gun. Secondly, you can take other people's food with a gun. Finally you can defend your own food from being taken once you've acquired it by any means necessary.
I'm sceptical. I own a Push 2 and the build quality is not terrible, but not awesome either. For example, every knob has a different resistance (how hard it is to turn) and sensitivity (how much you have to turn to change a parameter).
Yuck. When I use AI I do not want web results. I will use Bing or Google when I want web results. The combination makes not sense and is not user friendly in my experience.