skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently found that more sites has Stripe code on pages that actually don't require payment. First it was a calendar site to schedule meetings, now this.

As many of you, I have a bunch of blockers installed in my web browser and I strip off the Strip code when I am opening non.io 'register' page. Unfortunately, it prevents me from registering.

I believe the code there is to build my profile and start using metrics/features about who I am. I am not sure if it is really necessary at that point.

Would you consider removing Stripe snippets on registering page?
Doubtful. The developer is really old school. Additionally he's already spent years on integrating his huge lore generator into the fabric of the game. An LLM will throw a wrench into the whole process.
How about 3 standard deviations above the mean of the non-overweight subset of the population?
This is my setup, works pretty great!
This is excellent, and I love that a mathematician has come up with an attempted solution for this! I have always thought there was a missing category of service between bus vs taxi and the 'minibus' might well be the solution.

The good news is there are also real world examples of how these services operate; in Hong Kong for example, they are ubiquitous and very often the most efficient mode of transport, especially in the rural north.

Here's how they work

- fixed route (not adaptive)

- open outcry system to disembark on that fixed route (i.e driver will continue to next stop unless you say so)

- terminal stops driver waits until capacity is full before driving. It's a 14 seater)

- fixed fees based on distance travel, honesty system when passenger boards

- minibus drivers are franchisees, not employees, and are commercially motivated. This last part is good / bad depending on whether you value safety vs speed ;-)

I love them - they really fill a niche!
Valid point, you may be right, there may be a lot of potential mods out there if you're not worried about quality.

But Reddit doesn't need shitty mods. They need good mods. Shitty mods kill communities.
It's funny that /r/therewasanattempt and /r/whatcouldgowrong are on that list but still public (or public again?)
> If some idiots start threatening people while claiming they're with you on the internet

Exercise your moderation powers and ban and/or shadowban them. Online groups have moderation tools, even 4chan has moderators who step in when Doxxers show up.

Go on, try to advocate for violence here on Hacker News. You'll get [flagged] pretty quickly. That's why moderators exist.

I get that its against your philosophy to use moderation tools on the internet. But its a necessary evil. You must enforce the cultural identity of the groups you lead, lest they turn into online hate groups rather quickly.

It happens even to the best of us. Civil Rights era protesters had to deal with it. BLM had to deal with it today. Etc. etc. Its well known.
I'm half expecting a torrent of abuse in reply to you now from whoever that was
VMware also has the best¹ 3D acceleration, which allows playing 3D games for Windows XP, like Fallout 3.

¹ actually, the only, since Virtualbox's acceleration is broken and limited, even on v7
And my counterpoint is that "old men working" is not the same as "society has failed these dull, vacant-eyed poors". I'm arguing for dignity
I posted the core idea in a comment here as I was finishing editing the post, generated interesting discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295239
Why not do what Orwell advised and call them "problems?"
It doesn’t surprise me that Apple would want to give a demo to someone who has consistently made high quality apps for their platforms, often on day 1 of a new platform.

It’s a developer conference. Yes there are media there, but it’s also to court developers.
> A lot of dog whistling with sentiments like "I'm criticizing the Chinese government, not the Chinese people." (spoiler alert: it was both)

'Dog-whistling', meaning they don't overtly say it and you infer that they mean it. If they make it overt such that it doesn't need to be inferred, they're not longer dog whistling.

How do you know your inference is correct and that is their intent? How can you be sure that wasn't just an impression given to you by [social] media? The CCP has a vested interest in conflating any criticism of itself or the PRC generally with racist criticism of all Asians. They also say that criticism of their Uyghur genocide is dog whistling anti-Asian racism. The CCP say this of anything that criticizes them, and their narratives do not stop dead at their borders. I've heard it echoed by some of my coworkers, PRC nationals working in America, and even western media that might not endorse such narratives will still give voice to consideration of those narratives.

Now allow me to be frank; during the supposed surge of anti-Asian hatred ostensibly motivated by Trump and perpetrated by white nationalists, much of anti-Asian crimes that were being reported had been perpetrated by African Americans. It was probably crime motivated by class/social/economic inequality, and insofar as it disproportionately targeted Asian Americans at all (rather than selective reporting merely creating that appearance) it probably had nothing to do with any politician's covid rhetoric and was instead was an artifact of geographic proximity and inequality in policing (Asian American neighborhoods receive less protection from the police, making Asian Americans an easier target for crime.) In this last regard, you can easily show that racism against Asian Americans played a role, but such inequalities in policing are problems that go back many generations and have little if anything to do with covid.
It stuns me why this woman isn't better known. The obstacles she had to overcome in her life are remarkable.
I love it. I hope the internet one day will move to paid models. The current state of affairs is untenable. Ads, privacy issues, the lot. One thing I have tried doing recently is using a pre-paid model + free tier. Perhaps I am in the minority, but I absolutely dislike subscriptions. They make me stay up at night wondering if I have some subscription still active I no longer need. With a pre-paid model, users can pay for usage and not have to worry until next time they come back. It can be very cheap, too

ps. text box background colors look better when they are different than main page background colors (slightly darker or brighter)
Basically, a distribution that implements a system similar to Android (which is based on the Linux kernel) for desktop or MacOS.

It will take some flexibility from the user, and might annoy the user with permission approvals, but that’s what is needed.

I’m surprised that there are so many similar distributions, yet a secure MacOS-like distribution doesn’t exist.
Semi-related, though also nearly impossible to setup these days: Windows 7 Pro supported "Windows XP Mode" using Virtual PC.

https://archive.org/details/windows-xp-mode_20200907
Same for Firefox on Android
Yea, i get your concern about fediverse and creators. I'm thinking in a similar space, though it feels like it's non-optional these days. Ie as a user i just don't want to be trapped into silos anymore.

I think i'd still like a "best we can do" implementation that supported Fedi and supported creators in this manner.
Excellent reference; I think it was Dunbar's number, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

"Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships."
Server driven interactivity became part of the Web from very early on. CGI dates back to 1993 and Web Forms were introduced with HTML 2 in 1994, before the first release of Netscape later that year. Yahoo added search in 1995.

I guess for me, first using the Web in 1997, typing into a form and getting dynamic results back was what the web was.

CGI was considered rather antiquated by the time I got my first web development job doing PHP and MySQL in the summer of 2001. By that point it was only really used for basic form2mail scripts and the like. Perl had long moved to embedding directly in Apache with mod_perl which dates back to 1996.

https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1993-cgi-scripts-and-early...

https://opensource.com/life/16/11/perl-and-birth-dynamic-web

https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search

http://marc.merlins.org/htmlearn/html2.html

https://perl.apache.org/about/history.html

https://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php
Don’t entirely understand how the author cites privacy concerns for going NoPhone, then suggests Walkie Talkies as a viable alternative.

I’m all for people ensuring their privacy and moving away from proprietary software, but the alternatives given come across as too idealist.
When the use cases for a given signal have proven to be reliably overwhelmed by the abuse cases for that same signal, the signal is no longer making a net positive contribution to freedom, causing net harm rather than help. At this point I don't think such a signal should be protected as free speech.
I'm not very skeptical on the "doing work" side of the question. (Though I do wonder about the price point.) But I am skeptical on the "doing life" side.
This is subtley different though.
1$ gets split between all upvotes a person made. So instead of posts getting a value amount directly proportional to upvotes recieved, it will be proportional to how often those users upvote.

In theory I think this would encourage higher quality posts to attract those who upvote rarely.
There may be other factors too, not just popularity and user numbers. It could be coincidental but over the years HN has not deteriorated in the same way as forums like reddit have. I strongly suspect it's in part to due with moderation as well. The hackernews approach is very straightforward and sensible. They only act if really necessary, otherwise users do the housekeeping themselves by flagging and downvoting anything that doesn't contribute in a useful way. Which works well.

Reddit is the complete opposite these days. Censorship (often arbitrary) and banning are out of control. In extreme cases they ban users for making a joke, I've seen that more than once. So when you check old threads and look at the usernames, you'll find quite a few of them don't exist anymore because they were banned. On top of that, each subreddit has their own moderators/dictators that quite literally simply remove anything they don't like.

My theory is that a significant portion of persistent trolling is caused by that. Users are or feel treated unfairly, they're bitter about it and then some of them come back with an alt account and disrupt the community. Then there's the animosity between some subreddits too, like you hinted at. A good portion of reddit these days is drama. Since it drives engagement one way or another, the admins are unlikely to crack down on it.
Yeah, since it's sending the URLs, Microsoft couldn't get to the actual images in question because they'd in a private network, behind a login, etc. If the images are hosting on a public domain or IP, that is not on Microsoft.
> weekly questions from people about how does this work

reading the spring documentation usually help :)
i wouldn't consider williams to be long-winded, though some of his plays could do with a little bit of editing - but who's couldn't (looking at you, WS)?
Well - simple thought: You are reading a random comment that has made a claim:

Claim: A plan was in place in 2016 that would have been effective for covid, but was not followed.

But right now they have absolutely zero evidence to back that claim up -

where is the plan?

Who decided it would work in 2019?

Did the plan need to be changed for reasons not foreseen (ex: expected or real supply shortages, unclear statistics/data, dissenting opinion from other groups, etc)

Did the WHO even have the ability to implement this plan? (ex: political meddling is a real thing)

---

Basically - I'll start with question #1: Show me the plan, because googling for a 2016 World health organization pandemic plan comes up essentially blank outside of some general influenza prep that was absolutely not usable for a pandemic of the scale of covid.

If this is so obvious, and this plan was so readily available... I would think a 10 minute google search would turn something up - but I have not found it (not claiming it does not exist - just that the rest of the conversation is fucking pointless without it).
Mechwarrior 2 (ATI 3D Rage Edition) is my white whale. I cannot for the life of me get that working.
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I personally do.
Ah yes, the inevitable slippery slope from sentience to polite bureaucracy.
He is promoting an "actor language" to replace JavaScript. https://www.crockford.com/misty/
Google has contributed many good things to the web, but they should always be scrutinized and challenged to prevent them taking over the platform to serve only their purposes. This is the same complaint leveled at Apple.
Having used Python and Perl professionally, I'd have to agree with really all of this. I just want to emphasize Python's niche in ML (since that's what I do with it mostly lately) - it was also helped by a large, early set of libraries specifically for ML that other languages either still don't have or are playing catch-up (Elixir), and its ease of use among academics, a lot of whom went straight from academia to industry.
Unfortunately I haven't tried that one! $6,500 is a bit out of my personal price range haha and I didn't get a chance to try all the competitors while I was at Apple.
Exactly -- in a Web 2.0 world where everything is siloed into proprietary, closed platforms like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc., Google AMP looks like an angel.

Yeah, you get corporate fingers in the cookie jar, but at least you can still recognize the cookies (i.e. webpages).

This is particularly pertinent with what is going on with Reddit. Imagine if subreddits were actually just portable HTML+CSS+JS websites built on a common framework produced by Reddit Inc, instead of bits of data in their proprietary databases.
I’ve had great results with this too, I really recommend trying, since it’s so easy.
5NF: The Missing Use Case
> they want

... the product that exists.

> VCs to continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars to run the site and never ask for an ROI

VCs are free to ask for an ROI.

They are not owed an ROI.

Only the kids think they are. Especially childish people who think people are owed money for a crap product just because they put money into a business before where the goal was growth, not necessarily profitability.
You are correct. The Arrow in fact had a long list of problems: it was extremely difficult to fly, it guzzled fuel so had limited range, it was fast as hell but had very limited maneuverability, etc. I know someone that put a lot of research into the decision, and as massive a fan of the Arrow that he was, he came to the conclusion that its cancellation was the right call in the end.
When and where does it end? It's completely arbitrary. Why is the word you find offensive OK to edit but the ones I find not? It all becomes a political thing and everything gets ruined.

We all know that controlling language is a form of power and that's the entire point of these revisions. Whoever controls the language controls the masses, it has been said. Destroy whatever was important and sacred to the culture you're colonizing and/or destroying. The first step is to change the meaning of words. And of course, it's "for the children".
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Love this! Interesting direction with real potential.
Ow when you said "2 years ago Siri..." i read it as things changed even for Siri, so I got false hopes...
DMs aren't possible, but I sure wouldn't mind an invite sent to <my_username> at hotmail.com, if you still have one free.
> I've been trying to explain to people how certain I am that doing work in headsets will become mainstream but am (understandably) met with doubt

Tech enthusiasts underestimate how much the general public hates having gear strapped to their faces and over their hair, especially more than half of women who put considerable effort into their face makeup and hair.
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In the case of self-healing CI/CD pipelines: pass all the tests and checks. So if you're an LLM having to fix a broken pipeline, better just delete all the tests :^)
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There are ways to ask a cpu to emulate a given clockspeed.

https://github.com/tomysshadow/OldCPUSimulator as a random result on the topic
As we all know, Apple would never offer products at an elevated price
The hook is that it's not run by spez, IMO.

And I'm not trying to pile on, I'm just saying there's value to people in that fact.
Fortunately there are so many cheap options nowadays for fully managed small-business websites which include all the CDN/WAF stuff for you (Squarespace, managed WordPress, etc.). The setup/maintenance time for running your own web server doesn’t make sense unless you already have an “IT” person on the payroll.
I like the name. Non.io
As a discord user the one thing that bothers me about their take on forum boards is that they aren't search engine indexable.

So is this a concern for me as a creator using your platform?
I found it very striking - it's a number that someone like me (not a physicist) can grasp.
Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground
Hmm OK according to the doucmentation they designed the GPU themselves, so there's no public information on them.
Gotta hype up LLMs every step of the way, guaranteed job security!
I maintain physical and digital notes on my coding.
Since I review them frequently, I find them helpful. The notes help me track progress or try out new ideas. Sometimes the very acting of writing reinforces my understanding of new and even old concepts.
I would recommend most developers keep a journal of some sort and review it regularly.
Those sound like basic things that politicians or even salespeople do. You sound like you went in naive, got your mind blown, and now believe anything is possible. I hate to break it to you but you haven't uncovered any shocking secrets and your 'destroy the economy so we can beat Trump even though he is defeating himself with his handling of the epidemic' theory doesn't water.
Awful, all of it.
Yeah this a corner case not a proof. Putting a hydro plant of any size in a location that is, apparently (from what I understand based on comments here only) not connected to a regional grid or even local demand for baseload doesn't make sense. In a country that has unmet demand for water, electricity, and government services the last thing they ought to be doing is converting precious finite resources (to include construction labor opportunity cost) into speculative Bitcoin.

Electricity acts like a medicine. What they ought to be doing is wiring transmission lines to the hydro plant to organic demand for power.

Now if the real purpose of the dam was flood control and water buffering, and the notional hydro gen facility is tertiary and irrelevant, OK fine. Mine your Bitcoin if they have all the electricity they need regionally already. But this is no proof of nothing for the crypto bros.
Any browser on iOS is forced to use the Safari rendering engine. Firefox on Android is very different to iOS
One of the cool benefits of federation. I've already seen a bunch of Lemmy/kbin instances instantly have a bustling, unique community because people could post to and follow communities from Mastodon.
Hang on, you can't just quote MB/s numbers for an O(n log(n)) sort. What length were these tests run at?

The code size might not end up quite as good (also requires malloc), but a branchless merge sort is a contender for a fast and lightweight sort. Just published, tiny-sort-rs[0] cites 632 bytes and looks like ~350MB/s at 1e4 elements on Zen 3. In my tests, my own pisort[1] benches a little over twice as fast as LongSort, but it uses sorting networks as the base case so it's like 5KB. It's roughly based on piposort[2] which has more complicated recursion but a simpler base case.

400 MB/s seems a bit slow for a radix sort on that hardware: I'm hitting those numbers on my i5-6200U, which has less than half the clock rate, with my own radix sort. Recommend checking ska_sort_copy from [3] as it has about the same performance.

[0] https://github.com/Voultapher/tiny-sort-rs

[1] https://github.com/mlochbaum/SingeliSort/blob/master/src/mer...

[2] https://github.com/scandum/piposort

[3] https://github.com/skarupke/ska_sort
I had to remove the reddit icon from my phone's home screen, since my fingers know how to launch the app even with without my brain telling them to :P

So far, work productivity is up, but bathroom reading/scrolling is down.
Time to upgrade from a t2.Micro to a t3.Medium, I suppose.
Did team members actually use it to develop it?
The problem isn't about typing it, it's about readability, when the length starts to interfere with reading comprehension for maintainability. With more than three or four words, the brain can't easily tokenize it into a single unit or distinguish between similar phrases, and it starts to take a lot of extra mental processing time to scan and parse it all.