skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Communicating with other humans.

You have around 150ms of one-way latency before perceptual quality starts to nose dive (see https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.114-200305-I). This includes the capture, processing, transmission, decoding, and reproduction of signals. Throw in some acoustic propagation delay at either end in room scale systems and milliseconds count.
They had to change the term, because "User Interface" sounded like something that was primarily designed to help the user interface with the computer, where as "User Experience" is clearly something intended to help the user experience as many ads as possible in the shortest time span.
Yeah, i think most people agree about laughtracks these days. Well, i hope cause i hate it too. But i think the pun thing is mostly just culturally translated. I think if you asked most people why, some would have a vague idea that it might be more funny but i bet the number of people that could give a plausible reason would be very small. People do it in hacky comedies so that they can place a pause and a laugh track to force the audience to laugh. A lot of humor is socially constructed and our own sense of what is funny is certainly no where near the same across the globe. I think sitcom TV culture has influenced us Americans in many ways, including how we handle puns in speech.

Most people think of it as camaraderie, like I'm nudging you into the joke with me
...and that still got to lower prices than bitcoin transactions

Wild, isn't it ?
There’s a book called Orbiting the Giant Hairball which might help reframe the relationship between you and your employer. The kind of experience you’re looking for is exceedingly rare, to the point where it’s detrimental to search for it. If you’re in a good position you may be better off figuring out how to change yourself than to change what is around you.
A pocket sized art book, that’s thousand of pages, that’s the size of the average paperback book. Hmm…

I am suspicious as to whether you have ever seen a taschen brand book before. They are not trade paperback size, they are coffee table books. According to Amazon they tend to be in the 500-600 range.
Not sure I follow, isn't the reason you are excited about fibre that it implies a good connection to the "backbone". Compared to DSL, cable or wireless which are is really limiting even in the 50mbit range (in practice).

And for the distances we talk about you kind of get fibre anyway since it makes the most sense. But many do have a copper connection to their fibre, just the last stetch.
Then how are these people getting jobs but not my more competent friend? Asking for friend.
wasmCloud: Develop. Deploy. Distribute
That was the advertisement material. Only people that think it could with its pathetic transaction volume were delusional
I agree, but you have put it in opposite order in your first statement so I had to ask for clarification :)
You can display it in HTML too: https://academ.us/article/2305.17743/
> 'support' link is a link to Discord

For a FOSS project targeting people who are comfortable using FOSS this seems entirely fine...desirable even. "We don't have money for phone staff who would put you on hold and only be reading off scripted responses anyway, but you can come chat directly with the leaders and maintainers of the software by chat".
The assets are 13MB sound effects + 400kb png image files, the rest of the file size is due to platform natives and the bundled JRE.
I know it's a lot of overhead but its java.
That's just costing other side of the transaction
My favourite explanation comes from Hayek [1]. Profit is a signal for other economic actors to move into the market to provide more goods and services. If something is profitable it means people (society) sees value in it so it is right that we would want more of it to be produced. If we say no to profit, it means we extinguish a mechanism by which society can allocate resources.

On top of this, it's impossible for resource allocation for most goods and services to be organised top-down. Knowledge about wants, desires, propensity to manufacture and supply is dispersed and distributed among billions of people (and always in flux).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoTVSsxiwGc
Sure. The link above is in "hide whitespace" mode (`?w=1`), and there are still visible whitespace changes (new or removed whitespace lines).
A book's shelf life in a premodern library is 400 years then the need to copy it to a new medium preserved the copy. Fun fact.
See also [0]. Rutger argues that if you have never trusted someone like this (somewhat) blindly, you may have indeed protected yourself from some misery, but you are also overwhelmingly denying yourself the better parts of life. Because "most people are kind" (which is the original Dutch title of the book btw).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humankind:_A_Hopeful_History
Wait - it's not a joke?
…energy conservation, and other metabolic marvels
They publish the quintessential coffee table books. Pretty but shallow.
‘NTP Textbox’ Vulnerability in Zyxel’s NAS326, NAS540, and NAS542 Devices
OpenOffice vs LibreOffice?

MySQL vs MariaDB?

Glimpse vs GIMP (that one didn't go so well)
Just looking at the gameplay video, they have a bit of work to do to avoid a DMCA request from maybe both The Tetris Company (I think that’s the name) and Nintendo.

The game lifts a lot of design elements from the Game Boy version of Tetris. Clearly to evoke the nostalgia. Down to specific graphical elements like the style of the blocks and fonts used.

The Tetris Company would have a point here. The game wants you to think of a very specific version of Tetris. I forget where Nintendo exactly was involved in the game, but it’s possible they hold some rights to the Game Boy version as well.

I’d strip out all the Game Boy elements. I doubt you’d get by on a parody claim.
They added it to the UI in 2018 but you could do it via URL since 2011.

> A diff view with reduced white space has been available since 2011 by adding ?w=1 to the URL.

https://github.blog/2018-05-01-ignore-white-space-in-code-re...
Its actually not. The most recent drama was caused by the Rust Project, not the Rust Foundation, which are two completely separate entities. This seems to be a common misunderstanding which is being spread around here, including the top comment to this post.
That looks so satisfying. Which game engine did you build it with?
I find iOS and AWS share this trait. If you want something done you need Shortcuts or Lambda.

You can do this via a shortcut and that is sadly how I have handled it for years now.
99% ?

What's the 1% was used for ? I to this date haven't seen actual use case that wouldn't be either useless or "why you can't just a database, you own all of the ecosystem around it anyway".
And an ISP to host it on. As we know, if you don't self-host your ISP then you're beholden to the goodwill of a large corporation who could shut you down at any time.
I never dug into D-Bus deeply enough, but as a user, for me it caused one big problem: press PrintScreen for > 1 second, have Spectacle hang itself and take dbus with it, making the whole OS inoperable. Reboot Linux, notice post downvoted by linux fanboys.

Edit: I'm a linux user, but I don't idolize it.
My disagreement is about the appropriateness of the AA analogy to the author's point.

The author asserts "If that’s the case, the only healthy screen time is no screen time. Zero."

That is almost impossible these days. We increasingly require smart phones such that NOT having/using one is difficult, even for those who don't want one. Important information and services are moving to the internet, making a non-internet life more difficult. Yet the author wants use to consider that as a viable solution!

AA promotes abstinence, and supports people who want to maintain abstinence. As I often go for months without drinking alcohol, I know that there is still a lot one can do without drinking.

What would you do if your company required you to drink alcohol to work, your kid's school required you to drink alcohol to check on your kid's status, a restaurant required you to do a shot to get a menu, and you couldn't rent a bike without first drinking even more alcohol?

And that's why I don't like the author's use of an essentially impossible solution as the comparison.

While Weight Watcher's and other diet plans don't say "abstain from all food", which of course is impossible.

WW specifically uses a points-based system so that some foods, like "leafy greens, carrots, tomatoes, green beans, asparagus, onions, broccoli and radishes" have zero points, and can be consumed without limit. (Compare that to a calorie-based diet.)

By the WW analogy, some screen time, like logging into your bank to check on the accounts, would have zero points while others, like writing comments on HN :), would have points, setting a limit to one's daily use.

Which seems to map well to what the author is proposing ("parameters to evaluate quality, not quantity, of the time spent staring at your screens").

I also don't like "Go on, spend 4 hours on an app. Just make sure you decided to—and that you feel those 4 hours are life well spent." because if the author really believes the alcoholism analogy is true, then it's saying the author either doesn't believe any of the readers actually have a screen time problem, or believes it's okay for an alcoholic to spend 4 hours drinking at the bar with friends, so long if it feels like a life well spent. And something similar for the crack cocaine user.

P.S. In researching the Weight Watcher's/food analogy I found out that the existence of "food addition" is under debate, where the 'language of addiction' is used to explain one's feelings and provide a means of communicating distress and helplessness, rather than being an addition in the same way that drugs are addictive. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-018-0203-9 . With my daily allotment of Internet Watchers points nearly gone, I'll not research the scholarly views of "internet addition".
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One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia (2021)
> a direct result of attempting to replace human-to-human contact with technology

Anecdata and all but when did you last try ordering food via telephone?

Our "error rate" in wrong or forgotten delivery items has gone down by SO MUCH since we order online instead of giving instructions via phone. And no, it's not forgetting to say something, it's always been one person reading from a written list with the others listening in and double-checking (talking about bi-weekly board game night, they usually don't mess up if your order is 2 pizzas)
A decade ago - until the term was appropriated by the reactionary right as an insult!
The same is done for consoles with the expectation being they'll recoup their losses through software sales. The problem is that you need to offer a compelling experience first, which Meta has failed to deliver on.
Yes.
Actually if you just want to cover the whole space aperiodically, you can already do it with a simple rectangle, it's just that rectangles also allow you to do it periodically and this new tile only allows aperiodically.
Having major studios go away doesn’t make people go see new movies. You need publicly go get people in seats which has both an actual cost and requires content they might be interested in.

Movie theaters are happy to show independent films that have significant buzz. And several independent films have done so, but that’s such a small percent of total independent films as to suggest it’s hard.
At least with Go you can use "Golang" in search and get reasonable results. With Rust, I often have to write "rust programming language + [what im searching for]" which is really annoying. Not sure if anyone ever dubs Rust to "Rustlang".
Right now it's being armed, eventually it will be thinking and stating wrongspeak.

Seen this song and dance play out so many times my notebook is rusty from age.
> There is a massive difference between "unethical business" and "illegal business"

Can you explain the massive difference? For example, easy access to guns is legal in a handful of countries and illegal in most countries. Where it's legal to easily obtain guns but also illegal to buy alcohol on a Sunday, what does that imply in terms of ethics?

> As banks provide critical infrastructure,

There is no physical limitation - like a local electricity generator - that requires this "infrastructure" to be dominated by a few huge companies.

> the simple fact is that the bank doesn't know enough to make a meaningful distinction. It is simply impossible for a bank to know for a fact what a payment is for.

That's wrong. The bank reasonably knows what I'm buying from Porn Hub or the local butcher. Even if they don't know exactly what I'm buying, they do know how the local butcher generates the bulk of its profits.

What you're suggesting is that it be illegal to start a vegan credit card - only works at businesses where they don't harm animals. What we need instead is more choice, not less choice. Break up the near monopoly and reintroduce competition and you fix the actual problem - which is that a handful of payment processors can collude against a business or industry.
Omg this has to be at the top! I can't belive it!
Yes lets second guess German engineering.
> collapsed sections are super useful (as the table of contents is not visible via the sidebar)

Yes and no. On the hand some sort of table of contents is useful (but note that you could also just display it inline, the way it used to be done in previous desktop skins), on the other hand those collapsed sections break scroll position restoring when reloading the page after somebody (your browser or directly the OS) kicked it out of your RAM. This is because your (absolute) scroll position depends on which sections where expanded and which collapsed, and that information gets lost when the page reloads – all sections end up collapsed again and the scroll position your browser remembered no longer makes sense.

(There is some sort of feature that tries to restore the section state, but a) it only works within the current session, but not if the OS low memory killer kicked the whole browser out of your phone's RAM and b) even when it does work, it runs too late in relation to the browser attempting to restore the previous scroll position.)

So now that the mobile Wikipedia's full JavaScript no longer runs on e.g. older Firefoxes (e.g. one of the last pre-Webextension versions), the lack of a TOC is somewhat annoying, but other than that, somewhat ironically my browsing experience has become much, much better now that my browser can finally reliably restore my previous scroll position because now all sections are permanently expanded.
It is a de facto standard: you can tell because the author of that post suggests rolling your own simpler data format as an alternative.

There are indeed a lot of reasons not to use HDF5: if you have a lot of small records, are primarily storing strings, or you don't share your data with many colleagues, there are a lot of better alternatives. But if you just want to dump a few hundred GB into one massive file and have decent IO in a format people can figure out, it works pretty good.
let's include an entire nes emulator with it then. fceux seems to be about 8mb

displaying at high resolutions

irrelevant

sand physics

how much of binary that would add?

What's your point?

My point was to highlight how much overhead modern software adds.
Hi HN,

In my recent post I discuss how we can democratize data science by making it as accessible as a game. During a meeting with Sam Altman in Munich, I learned that OpenAI's growth is hindered by a need for more human talent. This inspired me to rethink how we interact with data.

I'm developing a prototype that uses ChatGPT technology, enabling users to explore data as if playing a text-based adventure game.

If this idea resonates with you, or you're interested in collaboration, reach out to me on Twitter @Karmedge.

Cheers,
Robert
That would be ideal, yes. But there also needs to be a bit of a culture change away from Stallmanism ("we want absolute Software Freedom now and anything even slightly short of that is unethical!) to a more pragmatic attitude and outlook.

This starts with simple things like not picking fights with the BSD projects only because they allow non-free software in ports and not alienating many lead developers of the most successful project that uses your license (Linux).
Also a big fan here, who would love to have the ability to sync bookmarks to his desktop PC. I'm usually just bookmarking while commuting (or sitting on the toilet), but prefer reading on a larger screen.
https://konstaui.com/
Can't an Apple Watch detect when you've stopped breathing and give some alert signal?
But this is just restrictive. Regardless of your own opinions you should consider all evidence.

By refusing to consider such claims you close yourself off to the possibility there may in fact be ways to verify them for yourself. Yet this won't ever be entertained due to bias. Perhaps some of those who claim god exists followed some reproducible method that convinced them. Ignoring the personal experience dimension would never uncover such information.

Even a discussion of religion as memes, while it may be true, wouldn't make one deluded to believe in God if a way to verify its existence for oneself could be found. Ie religion spreading as a meme doesn't prove God doesn't exist. It may just be that the majority of people believe without discovering it (if it exists), but that in itself doesn't preclude its existence. Perhaps it only reveals its existence under certain circumstances for example.

As to your final paragraph there seems to be a general conflation between organised religion and God. The book is the God delusion, not the organised religion delusion. It's this conflation and obvious bias that makes the book's argument weak.
Yes, you are right I think. I must have misinterpreted something that a friend who lives there said to me. Thanks for the correction.
wasmCloud is a WebAssembly platform that runs on an Erlang/OTP runtime (written in Elixir) to expose an Actor model, first of all in Rust, but where Actor implementations are compiled into Wasm compontents. It allows separation of business logic from other infrastructure through "Capabilities", which make use of the Wasm Component Model. See "Using Capabilities to Decouple Non-functional Requirements" [0].

[0] https://deploy-preview-54--dreamy-golick-5f201e.netlify.app/...
C++ has an ISO standard, for better or worse. That's a different beast. Rust is defined by the implementation. Any hope for interoperability between potential adverserially competing forks is just wishful thinking.
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn
Taschen makes a variety of different books. They do indeed have a "pocket size" line about different artists, but I think it might be discontinued now. I have one here about Mozart.
> Azure Linux is designed to be deployed in the cloud and run multiple containers

So nothing to do with linux except the kernel and some utilities.
Thanks for sharing, I also like how the queues are tweakable from the Linux perspective https://github.com/leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-...
I lost touch with my mother's half of the family when I left Facebook ten years ago. Poof, gone. It was the only thing bringing us together. For me it's worth that cost to separate from social media, but it isn't for everyone.
We are very much the same animals, biologically speaking, as we were then. With the same built in proficiencies and deficiencies.

To me that's one of the great values of these old philosophical/psychological texts. They can reveal what is essential and what is accidental in us.
I am in the "the less sigils the better" camp.

Code clarity should be seen as higher priority than terseness or typing speed.
> The author just didn't compile an executable for them, that's all

Would love to see the author's actual comment on this rather than your presumptions about it. If it's trivial to compile and run, why leave out a huge market for what you make out to be minutes of effort?

> Our browsers spend several 60MBs per day to show us ads

When I'm browsing, I run an ad blocker. As a digital nomad, I'm also regularly on 4G and hit my data caps often. I would never wait for 60MB of download for a simple game.

> yet this is no demo, and is a cross platform game

Right, I just used some examples to show how little memory a game like Tetris needs, including high quality production implementations, like the original NES version, as well as most major Tetris PC, console and handheld releases in the last 30 years.

The JS examples above are inherently cross platform. A browser based game will run on every single consumer grade device that has access to the internet.

Higher quality JS versions can be found, including the official version: https://tetris.com/play-tetris
That version is 4.9MB, 2.5MB of which are MP3 files, much of the rest of it is high-quality full-color PNG assets.

Clearly the assets should be reduced in size. No need to ship a runtime if you use JS. Another benefit is it runs in a sandboxed browser environment and I don't have to worry about running an executable locally.

Again, all this is a response to your assertion that "It's probably 10x more efficient than a possible JS implementation, tho." It doesn't run on my OS, and that's part of the reason I'm complaining about it.
Thanks.

Video applications even for tech roles are Ok with me. I got a job that way once (at least that was round 1).

But it sounded from the pitch that you are using AI to make the decision or at least kick a lot of people out at a stage, and that doesn’t sound great for either party.

My fear is this will just bias against some portion of the population. Maybe against men, maybe against certain races, or against older people. Because they didn’t on average have the same micro
facial expressions, vocal variety or hand expressions as what you are optimising for.
c. 3 commits per day from one contributor? That's dead, compared to Libreoffice that has dozens per day from multiple contributors.
We do this at https://endoflife.date API, and it works quite well.
GDC has a YouTube channel. I’m not sure how far it goes back but they put a lot of good videos on there.

https://www.youtube.com/@Gdconf/videos

They tend to post them a few years after the fact and don’t always have the date. ..
That reminds me how impressed I am that the West does not buy oil and natural gas from oppressive regimes.
But your chances get much better, especially on the ascent leg of the trip!
I can tell you that the old app (on AppleTV) was a bug farm. It was constantly crashing and hanging. I often had to force-quit it. I haven't had enough time with the new app, to see if it's better.

To be fair, many of the other apps also suck. I think it may be because Apple allows TV apps to be written in JavaScript, and some of them are almost certainly poor ports of Web apps.
TIL: The darkest color you can perceive without contrast is called Eigengrau
Coincidentally, exactly the skills required to complete a bad CAPTCHA.
"Win32" refers to typical classic Windows applications (as opposed to the Win8+ "modern" kind), no matter whether they are 32-bit or 64-bit.
American Cities Are Starting to Thrive Again. Just Not Near Office Buildings
Saving this for the next time I eat couscous.