skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Products targeted to non-experts" bears emphasizing: prior to the early 2000s, "using computers" (for any purpose) was a very niche activity, not a mainstream thing that everyone did all the time every day.

Either you were a highly trained professional using a computer for serious work, or else you were a dedicated hobbyist. Either way, you expected to put in significant time to learn and understand how this magically complex machine worked before you could actually accomplish anything. "Normal people" without strong motivation to study the computer simply did not use computers much during that era.

Fast forward to the smartphone era, and "using computers" has become a casual everyday activity for normal people. Companies are now incentivized to produce software for a mass audience with UIs that require as close to zero thought, study, or technical skill as possible.

All the computer nerds were shocked when Google came out with just a single bare text input as its primary UI. Surely we needed the Baroque masterpiece that was AltaVista's UI to ever gain useful work from a search engine; there are so many parameters the user might wish to vary! But no; as it turns out, the new Eternal September mass computer user audience strongly prefers slightly less control in favor of less time spent thinking.
Except that most languages have significant amounts of drama. Rust drama is just more interesting to people because it's newer.
[Un]intended consequence: "AI is too dangerous for you little guys. Leave it to we the FAANGs" - rubber stamped with legislation.
I wonder if Epic/Fortnite have much exploration going in this area or if they're too limited by a fear of harming their cashcow? They have fantastic visuals/engine, a huge young audience, creative environments and established commercial relationships.
Power-performance-area is not a metric. Power and area are a function of the node, performance is not an unified metric, and design and implementation are two very different aspects of CPUs.

It’s like saying that the better architecture is the one with available CPUs manufactured on the smaller node and with the higher CoreMark score.

> Won’t know what hit them

This is still a extremely naive take.

Qualcomm and Apple are not going to ditch ARM any time soon, and there is no market where RISC-V currently has a meaningful share. Hell, there are more x86 SBC out there than RISC-V by a double digit factor.

What I’m saying is that RISC-V is a hypothetical contender until manufacturers adopt it.

Of course, I will eat my hat if we get competitive RISC-V cores across the market in less than five years, but I’m confident that will not be the case.
One good thing about these pointless forks is, they help reduce the number of people who are in it for the drama and get emotionally turbulent for every disagreement. Eventually people who actually care for the language and invested in its long term success remain. I wish the crab people well and hope they never decide to come back to Rust.

PS: Can't help but chuckle reading people's comments on wanting to either abandon Rust or not try it. Used to be that languages were picked based on use case/fit. Then it turned to hype cycle. And now it's going to be based on people drama ?
Good. So why require the user to add up the values? Some alternatives:

* Click all the dice with value 5.

* Click all the pictures with a roll of 4 and 5. (each picture shows a pair of dice).

If you test for pattern recognizing the number of dots on the top of the dice, then you can just verify only that. No need to make a human user to do a task that a computer can easily do.

I can imagine a bunch of users pulling out their phone calculator app to do the addition, which should tell how stupid this captcha is.
That's almost nothing compared to the rich people spending far more money at shops in the first place, which pays the fixed costs that makes it affordable to even sell to the poor people.
Forcing companies to neutrally process all transactions is in itself a decision around ethics. You're not ignoring ethics. You're pushing for your own ethics around payment processing.\

> I don't think multinational corporations should be unilaterally deciding on questions of law,

They aren't really. Deciding to refuse a payment is not jail time. The business can also accept cash.
I don't understand this "be my true friend or screw you" advice that is repeatedly given here. I have people in my life like a guy from Barcelona I used to work with 20 years ago, or a cool couple I've met in Istanbul. They are not my BFFs at all, but it's very nice to see what they are up to, what their life is like in those cities, occasionally like and comment, and hang out in person once I return to those cities. Is that bad? Am I supposed to call them on the phone to get a verbal update on their life, or they are not my "true friends"? Have 1:1 sessions in Signal to discuss what exactly? Their Facebook photos?

Spoken by someone who is extremely repulsed by the current Facebook/Insta, but it was a very unique and useful tool in my life.
It isn't though until they say it is discontinued.

You also missed that OpenOffice made a new release and they were even bothered enough to make a post about it. Hardly a trait of dead software.

As much as you would love to say it is dead:

It officially isn't and it is still maintained.
The OP point was, that no matter how many chambers you have if one party wins majority in all of them and forms also the government (which usually happens), it will decide pretty much all it wants and go forward full steam with the opposition hopelessly running along barking. It's by design. The only chance is with coalitions as there will be more internal friction, but it's a very minor improvement indeed.
Bricks of Dune is a silly name I just thought up. On second thought, it reminds me of sand art in glass jars, just more dynamic.
What does this even mean? OK, it's a priority. Not a high one, but still... somewhere in between coral bleaching and BPA, I guess?
I keep seeing almost this exact comment from different people when phoenix is mentioned. It is quite a learning curve I might try again one day.

What makes this better than say a traditional ruby/rails or django app with maybe some htmx to save doing the JS side of things?
Brute-Forcing a Fingerprint Reader
And who do you think pays for that cashback?
It's not really a problem because they don't want people joining the tracker in general. It's about accountability, exclusivity and the quality of the user base. Invites being for sale means any random person could join, hindering the exclusivity and likely the quality of the userbase (a good user is already in other trackers and could join with other means). And of course, it also means that the user who bought the invite is more likely to break the golden rules because them getting tree banned is of no concern to them.

From the staff's POV it is very much a problem and some trackers are famous to drop the hammer at the slightest violation of the golden rules.
It's not on YouTube (yet) but this springs to mind: https://logisticsartproject.com/

Running time 857 hours.
I don’t have any direct insight into this but I’ve read elsewhere that removal of first party content from streaming services could also be because contracts with actors/writers/other crew give them a cut each time it’s shown. By removing the content from streaming it’s no longer getting shown and generating income for those involved.
I recommend The Conquest of Everest it's a documentary with footage from Hillary and Tenzing's climb. It's on Netflix (where I live at least).
Rust is pretty stable and clearly past the point of being immature and volatile. A few issues that the internet has blown up lately doesn't change that.
Amen.

I'm always amazed by how malleable the BEAM and the patterns built on it can be. I don't think anyone predicted Erlang to (IMO) reign supreme in frontend development. I say this having written tens of thousands of lines of React and Svelte in production, on top of all the hobby projects over the years.
> usury

I think you are conflating processor fees (2.9% + $.30) with bank loans (20+% for carrying a balance).

These are different companies in the system.
If it takes 5.5 years to try all combinations, on average it will take half that to find the correct one, because you can stop looking once you found it.
technologies to make information less accessible seem to be in high demand (drm anyone?)
I don't think you're in disagreement. Parent is saying that it is customary nowadays to have crap commit history. You're saying that crap commit history is problematic from a s/w engineering perspective. Both are true.
The problem with law enforcement in pretty much any country and with the intelligence services in particular is that they tend to see everyone as a suspect and the group think perspective is that the means justify the end.

And most of the time oversight of these agencies is a joke. Unless a director and its subordinates actually do jail time for what they did, just maybe firing them is a slap in the face of the victims.
Heh, until the UK logging requirements ensure some component of the token that can be decoded later gets left in the server logs, then Oops, we know exactly who was on the porn server.
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I never experienced the CAPTCHA across four different devices and on at least one, I didn't even have to log in again.
I've done professional rust development and know many others who do. A spec hasn't been an issue for us.
Who is still using the io.js fork? Nobody?

That is my point.
The new one is notably worse
Presumably this would follow the pattern other big open source projects take, where other companies (who are experts on the software) host and/or support the software for a cost.
I agree with you on the current generations of models. With more feedback loops like executing code and adapting based on the results the scope of capabilities will get a lot wider.
Tenzing saved life to Ed, maybe more than once, but specifically once Ed made a careless jump over crevasse in lower parts of the mountains and started falling into it. If you saw photo of both together you must see Ed was almost twice the weight of Tenzing, so quite an effort to catch and save him.

There were some less-than-stellar reactions in media and politics, west mostly ignored Tenzing, in India Ed was ignored completely. You are right, they both needed each other and I think after coming down they knew pretty well how much luck they had to just survive this (ie climbing Hillary steps barely 100m below summit, must have been extreme... now there are permanent ladders installed by Chinese expedition, often a choke point where people get frostbites from long waiting to pass up or down)
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The conclusion is that the OP author doesn't know what they are talking about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36121331
Taiwan's “Lost and Found” Stories
>our demand for electricity will be too high

In a way, but I am pointing out how many new things now require electricity/power where in the past they did not. There are many items that were manual, another example(s) are kitchen items, like powered can openers, knife sharpeners, food processors, etc. Moving back to manual items for these is like getting low hanging fruit. Will help a bit when matched against the number of people using them.

For climate change we need to change our habits, but many people cannot even walk/bike to the store that is a half a mile (~1km) away, instead they drive.

Based upon that alone, unless we are forced to change, we never will until cities are under water.

I think one way to force a change is to get gas prices high. But even doing that, with high rents in the cities, many people cannot afford to live in a walkable area. So in essence, our children, grandchildren are pretty much screwed.

But at least there are some easy changes people can make.
Haha, Microsoft is really pushing copilot everywhere.
It would be quite fitting adding it to MS Flight Simulator (pun intended).

On a different note, the problem about centralizing virtually all open source projects at Microsoft does come with its problems and questions. There are alternatives - use them! Especially if you share the concerns about Microsoft. Even self-hosting isn't that complex nor expensive, if you are worried that Gitlab or SourceHut are problematic also.
This fork isn't even new, nor is it interesting. It's a meme at this point.
Your podcast app doesn't support importing a folder as a podcast?
I have not seen the GitHub's landing page since I have signed up. I can open it but I am not going to notice what has redesigned and what has not.
Packard Bell Navigator 3.5
No, improve the FBI and do proper oversight. You need an institution like the FBI but it needs to be kept as sharply focused as possible.
Coral bleaching, nuclear war, and pandemics.
My favourite website that was designed "mobile first" is the English Cities Fund site[1]. Why? Because the site is supposed to be the primary site for a Government-supported fund distributing millions of £££ to English towns and cities to help them regenerate (or "level up" in today's political Jargonese). The primary audience for such a site should - one assumes - be people who want to gain access to that funding: town planners, local authority CFO staff, etc[2]. People who are most likely to access the site while at work, viewing the site on their out-of-date workstations or non-touchscreen laptops.

Maybe some out-of-work UXRs would like to offer views on how to fix the site?

[1] - https://englishcitiesfund.co.uk/ - though when I just revisited, it appears to be broken for both mobile and desktop.

[2] - my (very personal) view is that the site was in fact designed to showcase work done, so it could be referenced in the Annual Reports of the Fund's partner companies, allowing them to check whatever corporate checkboxes they needed to check that year during their AGMs. Though people tell me that I am too cynical so I could be wrong.
> How do you know it's for human trafficking?

It's a thought experiment. There are surely cases in life in which you know for sure that crime is being committed. What you're asking for though is that due criminal process be a part of denying a payment. Which seems extremely heavy handed.

If my payment processing company doesn't want to help sell guns, or help with human trafficking, or hell, doesn't want to support the meat industry, then I should be able to run my business according to those ethical choices. My company isn't sending someone to jail. They are just refusing to accept a payment. There is no need for due criminal process to refuse a payment.

Should it be illegal to start a vegan payment processing company?
You can significantly improve privacy without harming scalability (in fact improving scalability at the same time) [1]. Admittedly you still lose full supply auditability [2].

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart

[2] https://phyro.github.io/grinvestigation/why_grin.html
An issue with this analogy is that io.js addressed major problems that the community was aligned with. That isn't the case with this repo, which is just a replacement of the word 'rust' with 'crab'.
I had no idea who David Peter was but drilled in and saw "sharkdp" and was like, YES! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I love the work he has done and glad I clicked into this even though I never learned his real name.
I appreciate the VGL link. Very handy for building a list of games to emulate.
Slightly underwhelming a statement, but surely that's just me.
I was just making a commentary on the traps some of our end-customers fall into, when they upgrade the connection to fiber thinking it will improve their network speeds when the protocol is in fact the limiting factor.
I asked ChatGPT to code in Python/Pandas for me. Was it any good?
That's overstating it, for example basically all university PR departments wildly distort local results in their attempts to hype them up. And especially in nutrition its a freaking wild west out there, so many completely contradictory results being put forward as certain every year, no way she's the worst.

You might find a specific section of science communication where she is worst, but the general competition is very fierce.
ok but that's a terrible point
Some would argue that with Qatargate and the ensuring mass genocide of Yemenis perpetuated by Qatar as shown to the US Committee on Foreign Affairs https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115hhrg26427/html/C..., Qatar would be considered an equal if not bigger threat!

Lest I bring in Qatar's active antisemitism and support for Hamas and Al qaeda for killings of dozens of innocent Israeli folks?
Thanks for this.

It’s interesting how many people wrongly assumed that a Japanese jazz bar (jazz kissa) with recorded music was the same as a Western smoky jazz bar with live music.

Assumption is such a weirdly human anti-pattern.

1. It’s surprising we as humans don’t walk right into a Lemmings like disaster and massacre ourselves.

2. I highly doubt that HN is more or less enlightened but I do wonder if HN is more or less likely to have dissenting, informative, fact checking voices compared to let’s say a boar hunting forum
The EAs put it above climate change
What’s the replacement?
Very cool game mechanics. You could probably make some good money if you get this into an app store.
> In that case who is the payment processor to decide that they are "not good"?

Should it be illegal to start a vegan payment processing company that won't allow butchers to be paid through them? If so, then why should it be illegal?
It seems to be a PR related statement. For example, OpenAI's Sam Altman has signed it but is as far as I can understand very resistant to actual measures to deal with possible risks.
It's even older than that: Amazon began doing this in the 90s.

Their initial idea was to synchronize warehouse inventory with the online store in realtime, so that users would never buy anything out of stock. That proved logistically difficult and expensive, so they decided that the frontend would merely checkpoint inventory levels at intervals. When someone inevitably ordered something that was no longer in stock, they simply sent a robo-apology note and refunded the order.

Mitigating the hit to customer satisfaction was deemed cheaper than the very expensive proposition of synchronizing distributed warehouse inventory levels in realtime over unreliable networks.
If you can't resolve that conflict of interest then you have absolutely no business being near the seats of power for a project such as Rust. Rust needs to be perceived as a safe bet, not as the next Ruby, if it is to achieve the goals that have been put forward by those that advocated for the language's adoption.
I don't know in which country you practice but here in Switzerland no board will ever give a decision of malpractice short of the doctor sticking a pitchfork in your eye. Theory is all nice but current practice makes this medical responsibility a joke.
A statement and weirdly a who’s who as well.
Phoenix LiveView new release 0.19
>> "Also unlike Microsoft Bob, PB Navigator uses bit mapped images whereas MS-Bob uses scalable vector graphics. This means PB Navigator will only fill the entire display when run at 640*480."

I wonder how well this would work with DLSS and similar upscaling tech
> The macro solution send you down the path of having to memorize context specific commands and say a whole lot of words to get a small effect.

The macros that I'm talking about are exactly the opposite - you say a small number of words to produce a large effect (or, however much effect you programmed into them), e.g. when you define an Emacs function. What macros are you talking about?

> btw, small pushback. The way we use tools and programs is not abnormal.

The vast majority of people do not use speech interfaces to tools and programs, so this use is abnormal by definition - abnormal means "outside of the norm" and this is very much outside of the norm.

> Your comment shows just how much judgment people have when a user violates a designers UI vision or perceived physical norms.

No, it does not. "Abnormal" is not a judgement or a negative term - it literally just means "several standard deviations from the mean" (for some value of "several") - you can describe someone having "abnormal intelligence" (and the connotation with that phrase is almost universally positive). Don't read negative meaning into other peoples' comments where it doesn't exist.

> If a user can't make use of the UI provided, it's not the users fault, that belong squarely on the UI developer.

I'm not assigning fault to the user. You're assuming things here also.
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I'm not sure on the specifics, but the entire point of Verify as a technology was to ensure there was no government database about people. The UK has very distributed technology for government services, there is no one big database, and people have pushed back hard on this many times over the years so the government is pretty paranoid about doing it.

Each agency holds only the data they need for the time they need it. There are no national ID cards. And in the case of Verify, the verification was purposefully outsourced to private companies that already had this data due to their business (e.g. your bank, PayPal, Amazon who have a trustworthy address history, Experian, and so on).
It'd be so much more convincing if each of the signatories actually articulated why he/she sees a reisk in there.

Without that, it pretty much looks like a list of invites to a VIP club...
> It's the risk of belief in algorithmically derived information, and deployment of autonomous, unsupervised systems.

And Sam Altman, head of one of the largest entities posing this exact risk, is one of the signatories. We can't take it too seriously, can we?
It's not like humankind is doing much to stop coral bleaching... despite corals being the living ground for 80% of marine species.
It's a whitelabel copy based on policy disagreements, not unlike the "Iceweasel" (now Debian Firefox-ESR)[0] fork of Firefox. Just dawned on me after I wrote the first sentence that both actions targeted Mozilla offspring.

[0] https://wiki.parabola.nu/IceWeasel_History
This isn't what the op is talking about. They're talking about a net new feature that would span 5k lines. Your change is trivial compared to it, and frankly would earn approvals immediately without much thought (assuming the changes were already planned and talked about)
Do others share the sentiment that your reply is quite, sad to say that, arrogant?

What are you exactly trying to achieve by comparing the guy's "I'm busy, this is long" with yours or anybody elses? Moreover, what on earth has his job to do with the topic?

Bad day...?
I mean, I don't play GTA, so there's that? And if I did play GTA I would... I don't know... play GTA, rather than playing a less interesting version of GTA.
This will go nowhere. That's sure.

It has exactly zero technical advantages over the original. It has not even the plan to add any improvements over the original… The plan is just to merge upstream.

It has no funding. (And a project of this sized needs a lot of funding, just to get the day to day maintenance going.)

This whole thing is completely pointless. I'm wondering why it gets so much attention.
Would the probability of guessing all the possible combinations be higher than brute-forcing from 000000 to 999999?
I also have to touch Ruby code from time to time, so when I found out I don't quite understand what "@" and "@@" mean (other parts, even blocks, were kinda more or less apparent), I... went and read the docs. Took me an hour or two but now I know what "@" and "@@" mean and actually think they're a pretty ingenious solution.