skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the spirit of National Geographic magazine was carried forward into their Adventure magazine, which was sadly under-advertised.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Adventur...

It ran from 1999 - 2009, and put out exactly the National Geographic content you'd expect.

Expedition-focused, with interesting stories and details about places around the world.

Sadly, I can't find an archive of their articles. They seem to be scrubbed from the main Nat Geo site?

But here's a general gist of the type of publication it was: https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/17

Edit: A peek at an anthology: https://books.google.com/books?id=Pb8_ASogrbsC&printsec=fron...
Which apps would that be?
I hear you. I think OKRs suffer from having a lot of literature covering the surface (benefits of OKRs, general definitions, success stories...) but not a lot of content providing a prescriptive approach.

To me it feels a bit like structuring a JS/TS app. You've got powerful tools, but it can quickly become a mess without a good structure around it.

My general recommendation: no one should have more than 7 KRs to track on a weekly basis. And an OKR plan should be a 3x4 matrix: 3 Objectives and 4 KRs/Objective.
> Hmm, I wonder if this is just an experiment, a bug, or something permanent.

Twitter appointed a new CEO earlier this month. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the new policy from the new leader.

Ars Technica ran a story yesterday detailing her plans, which include full-screen video ads with sound.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/linda-yaccarinos...
For people who care about sports and celebrities, it's gotten better. Those people will tell you they haven't noticed a thing, and they're glad the whiny mods are getting kicked.

For people who care about anything else, the quality has dropped off a cliff.

A lot of the cool people have left. Many more will be leaving today once Apollo and RIF are finally murdered. I don't think they'll be coming back very often.
Amazing. They threw the AI Explain in there as kind of a bonus and didn't even mention it. Maybe didn't want to distract from the core goal of the playground.

On this page that links to the playground, the examples only show HTML. This is often useless for understanding what the code is doing without the CSS and/or JS.
The use of UBI to gather sources is maddening to me. It actively inhibits opportunities we have to get the UBI package set expanded, something I'm working on for my industry. Their use of UBI for this purpose is getting in the way of enabling officially provided and unencumbered containerized RHEL for public consumption.
In the US I strongly recommend Athletic Brewing Co
I just want to add if you do try external monitors, the experience is subpar.

You can't select which audio output to use, there's no clamshell mode, there are no real mouse settings for scrolling or secondary buttons, and some apps don't allow you to go full screen on a larger display.

Even apps you'd expect to work great like the Affinity suite just sort of don't function on a monitor.
As the article points out we already have such systems, like google's "safe browsing" that most people use without thinking about it.

As long as these things can easily be bypassed by someone who wants to do so, it's not so bad in principle.

Speaking of "in principle": in principle a government list is more accountable than a list from some private corporation.

I'm not advocating this vchip proposal, just pointing out more nuance than appears in most of these comments.
GPT4 summary:

Limitations of self-improvement: The author uses the example of a self-improving computer program, CompilerOne, which can optimize its own source code to create a more efficient version, CompilerTwo. However, when CompilerTwo is fed the same source code, it can only replicate itself, not create a more advanced CompilerThree. This illustrates the inherent limitations of self-improvement in machines.

The role of human civilization: The author suggests that recursive self-improvement is more applicable to human civilization as a whole, rather than individual intelligence. Over time, humans have developed a wide range of cognitive and physical tools, which have enabled us to invent even more powerful tools. This collective progress is different from an individual machine's ability to improve itself.

The importance of collaboration: The author argues that major breakthroughs often come from many people drawing inspiration from one another, rather than a single individual or machine working in isolation. This suggests that a single AI, even if it could improve itself, would not be as effective as a collaborative network of individuals.

The challenge of optimizing for generality: The author questions the extent to which a system can be optimized for every possible situation, including those it has never encountered before. While some improvement may be possible, the author argues that the idea of an intelligence explosion implies virtually limitless optimization, which is a strong and potentially unfounded claim.

The role of human decision-making: The author concludes that for the foreseeable future, technological progress will be driven by humans using previously invented tools to invent new ones. The fate of our species will depend on human decision-making, rather than the actions of a superhumanly intelligent AI.
My iPad is my favorite computer to use by far. It's five years old now and I'd buy a new one if I could find some reason to do so. My problem isn't that it does so little but rather that it does everything I want it to do.

Articles like this one never feel very genuine to me. It would be like buying a Honda Civic and then complaining that you can't really carry 4x8 sheets of plywood with it.
If it’s not enough to learn on the job, how did you and your coworkers learn? Do you only hire grad students with specific focus?
What next? Are you going to complain about Windows not supporting more than 8.3 character filenames until 1995?
I’ve done so much experimentation with GFW pre pandemic while staying in China for extended period of times. I was always amazed at how quickly they would catch up on my shadowsocks, random ssh tunnels…etc. 48 hours top before I had to rotate IPs. This report seems to indicate this is now instant?

Fwiw My most reliable trick ended up piggie-backing off of a physical line going into Hong Kong from Shenzhen, and when roaming around China, using a vpn to get to that shenzhen gateway. As far as I can recall, that always worked. This led me to believe that most of the vpn traffic analysis (and blocking)was done at the edge of the GFW and not inside of it. Again, this could be outdated by now.
That's not "upstream first".

They are going upstream because of a zero day patch that RedHat have, and is also upstreamed.
Hence why they are going upstream, to get the upstreamed patch that CentOS has not merged yet. So your entire argument appears to be that RedHat are doing upstream first.
That's not a counter example:

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*sojK...

Kotlin would be likely still nowhere without Google and Android.
There are entire sites that I won’t visit on mobile - since in 2023 I can’t install a working ad blocker (despite there being a few on the App Store).

Mobile experience with ads is the most user hostile experience in tech.
Zelda's not the best example of this-- their mainline releases are fantastic as ever.
I don't see the connection.

But if I'm trying to interpret, no, I disagree with the right to shoot people just because they're trespassing.
18-35 year old men is a demographic that is extremely valuable to advertisers. Unfortunately, it also seems to be quite a slippery bunch who shy away from most forms of advertising. They definitely love Steam sales though!
Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller
Wonderful, I've been looking resources like this.
It seems to me its difficult to find project ideas for students/new beginners who want to get into the field.

most of the advice I got along the lines of "get an arduino...." or "Here is some device write this complex thing for it". There wasnt any in between tutorials.

much appreciated.
In italy the real
estate agent can be sidestepped if you know directly the seller, as a consequence the ads they put up are comically balanced to trigger your curiosity but not too much revealing to let you figure out where the place is.

Such a terrible experience as a buyer, i’m baffled this whole charade hasn’t been disrupted by tech already.
So it’s not common to have a building or area dedicated to renting a small square, setting up shop, with dozens to maybe even hundreds of others to sell your things?

In America we also have car boot sales, although “jumble sales” are called rummage sales here.

And yeah, whatever ya call them it’s always fun exploring and buying other people’s stuff. I especially love crystal glass bowls and jars. That and other shiny things bring out the corvid in me.
I'm looking for an apartment at the moment, and I already amassed quite a collection of such photos.

My favourite is an attic divided by a wall of plasterboard, where on one side you have a full bathroom, on the other a bed. Floor panels everywhere, especially next to the tub. Only one window - on the side of the bathroom.
Wavelength, right?
that's an interesting question, but not one I feel we need to decide now. I'd be happy to hear your suggestions, but obviously "0" wouldn't be a workable one

e.g. it should be at least 1 dollar, so we can start with 1 dollar without needing to decide the upper limit

indeed, it seems like a question intended to stop the action entirely, rather than one intended to discover the right magnitude of action

as for when everyone can stop talking about racial identity: the racism ongoing today itself is an example of this, so when racists stop doing so first, anti-racists can, second
I think people should be held responsible for their loans.

I also think adults who take advantage of children’s ignorance should be held responsible.

For me, having signed on for a bunch of loans, on the magnitude of thousands of dollars, at the age of eighteen, when I had never held more than $20 cash in my life let alone a checking, savings, loan or credit account, well it seems like there should have been mechanisms in place to intervene. Does that mean I deserve loan forgiveness? I don’t know. I’d probably prefer to keep my debts and see the people who profited off of me locked up. But I hope painting a picture of individual situations gives us a better vantage point for judging not what people should do, in an idealized world of uniform opportunity, but how real people become stuck in situations they never understood or knew they had a choice about.
Yes, I agree. I think it's incredibly stupid not to wear a seat belt. I refuse to go in a car where not everybody is wearing it.
Are all those things indeed decreasing quality, or are we all getting old and missing those "old times"? As teenagers we definitely had different expectations from newspapers, music, life in general... maybe we are just not their target anymore.
Is there one that exists that has 12 hour battery life and not parts of the interface that still goes back to a desktop OS released in 1995?
If this is the case than I do seriously apologize. I assumed you were arguing for prohibition and a return to tendencies in this direction that are only just now, finally being reevaluated in favor of at least debating legalization. To me that essential prohibitionist stance is disgusting, and especially so after so many years of abject failure.

I agree, a holistic approach is a good idea, but at least in my assessment, it absolutely needs to include a serious move towards practical legalization while investing in support for addiction problems among users. The latter is important, but the formar is the very major missing piece. Multinational drug trafficking organizations will diversify, but without that huge central source of revenue, they'll be walking on a much weaker path in their attempts to dominate entire regions and national governments.
It's certainly a consequence of interest rates going up. In the words of buffet, Reddit has no pants.

They should have improved their platform and lock useful features behind a paywall, like video and image hosting. They could have made money on their core appeal - hosting communities for people.

Instead, they've bloated their site into an adware riddled clusterfuck, ignored useful features that people actually wanted, and just turned into a hilariously useless company in general, making their site worse with every change instead of better.

We desperately need regulation that kills the network effect that feeds these companies, because it's clear their users aren't the priority.
There's just something about Japanese culture that leans towards amazing aesthetics.
if I were on the board I would be voting to fire him asap. you've successfully fomented a site wide revolt in the year you're trying to IPO. unacceptable.
Good. It absolutely would reduce innovation.

Adobe have already canned XD, which was a poor alternative to Figma, but Adobe had to at least pretend to compete.

Problem is, even though Figma have captured a large proportion of the digital design market, they took on so much funding that their only real options are a purchase or IPO.

I don’t believe that subscriptions alone would bring in enough for the kind of returns the VCs are looking for, especially as it’s almost free for individual designers.

And so the enshittification begins.
I think that is intended by Tolstoy. He gives the following extreme example

> A drunken man is ashamed of none of these things, and therefore if a man wishes to do something his conscience condemns he stupefies himself.

Stupefies is a negative term because he is against alcohol but socialising is easier because of exact same reason. It removes the filter and we could do things which we are "ashamed" of, even if there is nothing to be ashamed of. e.g. I am ashamed of talking to stranger or discussing details of my life when sober.
The American DoD did no such thing.

M-Disc PR released details of a DoD China Lake test that showed M-Disc was more durable than regular DVDs. They are, that’s not up for debate, though not by much & not all (as I’ll explain later)

The 1000 year claim is, however, utterly unsubstantiated.

The French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing (LNE) did actual aggressive testing. M-Disc performance was low compared to other long term storage & comparable to regular organic DVD-Rs from Verbatim.

In fact it performed worse than regular organic DVD+R’s from MPO.
About 10 years ago, me and my wife took LSD on a vacation, and the sheer uselessness of a real estate agent appeared to us.

What does a real estate agent do? They unlock doors.

Who are real estate agents? We can all think of a few real estate agents, none of them are top performers. They are usually on their ~4th career before the age of 30. They are the type of person to wear a suit in public to pretend that it makes them important.

I know an exception to the rule, except he sells multi-family real estate, and owns ~10 single family homes himself. I'd hardly call him a real estate agent at this point, he is a landlord.
The main difference to me was that I could see the "trending" tweets and additional "recommended" tweets after the comments on the one that I was reading. That started post Elon. There was also the login popup that was trivial to X out that seemed to appear more frequently after Elon took over.
Working fine for me atm
It's all money. They don't want you keeping a phone for 5 years.

Yes.

Hardware vendors love Open Source. It essentially cedes all control of the market to them.

They spend minimal time/money/effort on software development and updates because surprise, surprise --- it doesn't produce profits, it consumes them. Hardware is where they make all their money.

The only realistic way to get long term software support on Android is from Open Source. This means installing a replacement, 3rd party Open Source ROM. This is the first thing I do when I buy a new phone --- and I won't buy a phone that doesn't have good 3rd party support.

I have a Moto G4 Play from 2016 that gets regular software updates running e/OS. The last update was May 14th. This is my backup phone (I have a backup for everything that is considered "essential").

My primary phone is a Moto One 5G Ace (2021) which also has excellent support from e/OS and it's currently cheap as dirt considering the hardware specs. Only $129 from Amazon with 6GB RAM, 128GB storage, Snapdragon 765 processor, 2 day battery and microSD expansion.

If I accidentally leave it in an Uber or drop it in a toilet, it's sad but no big deal. I just switch to the backup until the replacement arrives. Try that with your $1000 iPhone.
This seems like the problem with capitalism. You start with a company that is providing a great service using 25 people. But it does well so throwing money at it can make it better (and worth more), right?

But not everything has to be worth a lot of money. You could just keep being a great community and double digit employees.
I sometimes wonder what CPU designers think when building such weird instructions? They must have some programs in mind that could be run faster with them, or else the additional transistors are just lost weight. But then compilers and language runtimes might or might not use those instructions. Add to that the fact that modern CPUs are basically their own compilers (going from "machine code" to microcode) and you have weirdness atop of more weirdness. But perhaps this is just for business sake; adding more instruction sets to provide a barrier to the competition, because programs using this run faster but are no longer portable to competitors' CPUs.
APPL $3T valuation isn’t far off – but no thanks to Vision Pro, argues Bloomberg
Or you want a 14 hour battery life, doesn’t sound like a 747 when you open a few Chrome tabs.

Not to mention the fact that a Mac laptop won’t fry your nuts when you put it on your lap.
> but only after I dropped it 12 feet onto a concrete floor

My brain went right to old Nokia phones and I thinking "Thank fuck it was a Motorola, back in the day you would have to had the foundations checked over if it had been an Nokia"

But yeah, Always been happy with Motorola G phones (bar the cvamera, but I'm not really a photo person anyway), I still have an old 2014 Moto G to test apps on old devices/Android.
I don’t think you’ve understood the difference between what you can do with wolfram vs. python.

Have a read of https://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/3rd... and play with some examples maybe?

The tldr; is “yes, but…” and the “but” is that, no, generating/invoking python functions from an LLM is no where even remotely near the capabilities exposed by their online systems.

Yeah yeah, “but there’s a python library for that…”, no really. Have a play with it. There isn’t, for lots of the stuff it can do.
Our country just came out from a brutal war on drugs, nothing good came out of it but only low level street soldiers are being killed. Some masterminds came from the government or cops.
I tried to setup a shadowsocks server to bypass the GFW about 2 weeks ago. Server was hosted on my local network in Australia (with public IP), client was connecting from China (using the server IP).

It was blocked immediately and the client could not connect. I had several unknown IPs try to connect prior to the attempted connection.

I was stunned at how water tight the GFW is, it's really unfortunate as I would love to work/travel through China but cannot due to needing an active internet connection.
GPT-4 can be much better for complex things but as far as "some degree of logic" 3.5 can definitely handle "some degree".

If it's just trying to tweak a specific example it will probably be quite useful.
Given that the reason there were protest was that reddit wanted to monetize a part of their platform that was not generating ad revenue those two things could be completely related.

if reddit cannot monetize their users, either as a product to sell to advertisers or by converting them to paying customers it's might not be viable as a profitable business.
https://archive.is/gvhkG
Broadly agree, but:

> This is before we get into the comical evolution from "You just need the touchscreen" to "Actually physical keys are good for long typing" iPad and a keyboard case, to "oh actually a cursor would be useful to do real work" to full blown iPad + trackpad case awkward laptop form factor.

I don't find it surprising; the windows tablets before the iPad suffered from so much software presuming there was a keyboard and a mouse pointer that they were bad user experiences the moment you tried to do without.

The iPad… I remember some of the rumour mills putting out an idea of what it would look like in advance, where it was straight up running macOS X. If it had done that, it would've sucked for all the same reasons: fat fingers on UI that presumed the fine control of a mouse pointer, or that presumed context menus were easy with a right click (or command + left click; I'm not sure how rapidly or when single-button mice disappeared from the Apple world).

It still feels like it has some problems with apps that assume iPhones are the only thing that matters.
> On the bright side with the failure of the military to recruit, we know things are completely hopeless economically/emotionally/socially for gen Z.

I don't know why that would be the bright side, but I draw the opposite conclusion. As you say, you joined because it was an escape hatch (from a worse option, I assume) and declining recruitment suggests that gen Z has better alternatives.
You assume that they know who and where the operator is for starters.
Kernighan is a national treasure and a world treasure!
As aeropress user for many years, I don't think there's noticeable amount of microplastics coming from it, paper filter would also help with filtering out ANY debris. But, now microplastics are even in air you breathe, coming from anyone using artifical fibers near you.
For National Geographic, I wonder if there is another dimension that isn’t talked about: Nudity

For a significant portion of time, National Geographic was the only culturally acceptable and accessible place in the United States one could see photographs of nude women (and men).

I would guess there were millions of boys across multiple generations in the United States who saw their fist photo of a nude woman in National Geographic.

Even in the otherwise prudish Bible Belt of the United States, where Playboy would be completely verboten, even the church pastor would have an entire bookshelf devoted to National Geographic.

Then with evolving social mores, Nation Geographic had to cut down on the nudity. In addition, nudity became very, very accessible because of the Internet. These two trends cut down on one of the hidden reasons people purchased National Geographic.
> The FP4 is top notch.

I think find the camera poor though. It takes passable pictures in good conditions. Do you have a better camera app that does a better job?
I don't always have good days and I love that there are things like this. Some of those quotes have me rolling.
This seems focused on their review system which is fine of them to focus on. They sell books (through Amazon/Kindle) so I don't expect their own reviews to be great.

Unrelated to the reviews the app is slow and crashes often. They use dark-ish patterns to remove support for logging in with Google and completely removed it from the mobile app so I deleted the mobile app (which can't be used offline anyway) and only use the site on my phone.

All that said, I still like it more than other ones I've tried and the social element is nice too. I enjoy seeing what Internet friends are reading and I've found some good books from it. For that I wish more folks would use it. You can find my Goodreads in my HN profile.