skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LCDs didn't replace CRTs because they offered better quality to consumers. They were worse for all the reasons you mentioned and then some. LCDs were cheaper to make, much lighter and less frail so they cost less to ship, and they took up much less space while in transport, and while sitting in warehouses, or on store shelves. We were sold an inferior product so that other people could save money. Gradually, some of those savings made it to consumers, especially when it became possible to generate profit continuously though TVs by collecting our data and pushing ads, but it was always a shitty deal for consumers who wanted a quality picture.

I imagine that in the future, people will look back at much of the media from recent decades and think that it looks a lot worse than we remember because it was produced on bad screens or made to look good on all of our crappy screens.
Ask HN: Caring for Elderly Parents with Dementia?
I was reading the thread about the Dutch village where everyone has dementia, and I was wondering if many here have the experience of caring for an elderly parent with dementia.

I'm not sure how common my own experience is, but for me, taking care of my elderly mother, it's certainly more than just "repeat conversations".

She'd repeat conversations about perceived slights when there were none, imaginary hardships (she'd tell me she ran out of money all the time, what actually happened was she hid the money and then forgot about it. Every single time.), or basically just dunking on people for no reason.

Is this common? Why is it that when the memory is faulty, all the false memories that come up are negative ones? Why is it that she never misremember someone for being extra kind?

I'm curious if anyone else also experience this? How do you manage it? Any advice you could share?

Some days I find it to be very exhausting. It's not the repeat, that repeat I can entertain. It's what's being repeated.
Ah, right. Thanks for clarifying that
Pocket-broomball: video game, made with Godot Engine, on iOS, Android and HTML5
>Someone could’ve made the same arguments about automating horse-drawn carriages.

They can't make the same argument because the experience is first hand and can't be faked.
They watched normal desktop use and a video game loop.

I added mouse trails to verify people were actually noticing the FPS not just artifacts from the rendering pipeline.
>This has been known to be coming for quite a while

since before the acquisition closed? i thought i heard somewhere they started working on this january-ish.
I realized how long I watched YouTube videos, I don't learn any new knowledge. I can learn a little about things I already know enough, or I can grasp overview of new topics, but it's never enough to use in actual conversations.

The worst part is the false sense of improvement. IMO, Learning nothing, yet feeling a sense of improvement is worse than learning nothing at all.
It shows a countdown timer with a QR code now.
And you can't hide who you are following (even tho you can on fb), which is a big deal.
Very cool but not really relevant to what was/is available for reasonable prices.
here here. we finally have a standard starting with UHD that does not included interlacing. finally. hallelujah the chorus of angels are singing.
I hope that law makers, PH and perhaps the EFF help people see that a government database is not the appropriate means to deal with under-age access to adult or user-generated content. As mentioned previously [1][2] the right way to do this is to legislate that these sites add the RTA header to any domain/url that may have adult or user-generated content and then recognize this header in the most common web clients so that parental controls can be utilized and each parent or device owner may decide what is appropriate without putting an ID into every site.

A header is trivial to add, trivial to verify is active and the legal liability is then shifted to the parent as it is for everything else related to their child.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726509

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35762808
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Tech: Javascript anything (frameworks, flavors, engines), Python, deployment, hosting, etc forms of web development. Call it "full stack" if you want, though I've never been sure if that also covers all the devops and integration stuff we do.

I'm a member of a software engineering co-op, 508.dev LLC. We're web-environment specialized developers that as a team for previous clients have upgraded old builds to be serverless (jovono.com) and project managed, architected, and built from scratch an entire SASS frontend for a Ycombinator startup (cofactr.com).

Our site is https://508.dev. My personal resume as the founder and lead engineer is https://calebjay.com/resume.html.

We've had enough time open up to take on a new full time project, but are also happy to take a look at smaller or short-term needs, including consultancy, upgrades, or filling a dev team's gaps.

Happy to chat about work you need doing, joining our team, our somewhat unique structure as a co-op, or whatever else, at caleb@508.dev. I actually really like chatting so hit me on email about literally whatever :)
https://archive.is/yOFo6
Those terms hve been in the Red Hat enterprise license agreement for … 15? 20 years?
> Do you plug a DisplayPort and an usb cable from windows and get kvm working?

Yes. There is one upstream USB-C port on each display that is used for this purpose.

> The monitors are daisy chained?

Daisy chaining with Thunderbolt 4 (not Thunderbolt 3) is supported, but when daisy chaining the second display will only do 4K@60Hz or 6K@30Hz. For this reason, I plug both Thunderbolt 4 cables directly into my Macbook Pro M1, both on the left side of the laptop so it's a clean setup. Thankfully, the included Thunderbolt 4 cables are plenty long enough to reach across to the laptop positioned on either side. Apple's displays include such short TB cables that you'd have to buy another longer one to do this.

In addition, you may want to know that HDR mode is great but only supported with HDMI for some reason and I haven't found any DP->HDMI adapters that support it which rules out dual HDR displays with an RTX 4090 which only has 1 HDMI port. I think this is due to HDR needing HDMI 2.1. But I can have 1 monitor connected with HDMI for HDR when I need it. I just haven't bought a long HDMI cable for that yet. The KVM switching could support that setup just the same.
Citation ? as Criticals are -definitely- still in el7 lifecycle support.
No.

Some things were never meant to be, like downloading CRLs over HTTPS.
>where is the web version

... not on the iOS app store?
I don't even understand why we need TLDs. Like, I get infrastructurally why they're there, but I don't get why we need them to even exist anymore.
I am willing to take the other side of this bet.

Not because I love twitter but rather because of the following

1.Network effects are just that powerful.

2. This looks like a group chat killer rather than a Twitter killer.

So I think the blue bird will go on to live a rather long life.
a supplier for 65% of the market is already a problem. Were the any acquisitions on the way to that market position?

even if there weren't, it's still too big, break it in half. Shareholders will still own what they owned before, 65% of the market, and all the IP that is contained therein, but the companies will have to compete.
Had an Ultrasharp 27" 4k USB-C that passed the sniff test spec-wise on paper, and was a great deal, again, for the specs.. but it just had awful glare/reflections, low brightness.. backlight failed in under 2 years, warranty service was awful, and they sent me a replacement with a green pixel line.

Just an absolute clown show of warranty service.

The ROI on the replacement was negative, I'd have been better off throwing it in the trash.

If you are happy with it in practice, and not just on specs, and are not banking on warranty being fulfilled - enjoy.
What class of actually useful algorithms are limited by unordered search?
I don't understand why 'distortion' (things being rendered ± 1 pixel over on some screens vs. on others) is a problem unless your GUI frameworks and/or apps count on pixel-exact layouts for some UI elements. But why would they? Isn't the entire web built on a reflowable format that works pretty well? Shouldn't those tiny 1-pixel differences be like the easiest possible variation for a GUI system's layout engine to cope with?

Do we have lots of scalable UI elements that expect to line up with raster images a certain way on most operating systems?
With a project that could live on for many years, I’d object to this code, but only because it doesn’t really explain _why_ it’s necessary despite wasting time/memory. The humorous name is great, though. It might be explained in the VCS history, but people aren’t likely to look it up there and I’ve noticed the history tends to get lost for a lot of old projects.
Eh the `ix`/`ux` is just as short and more descriptive. D just clings to C-like design to a fault sometimes.

> Besides, they're just easier to touch type.

These two styles are equally fine for touch typing… as long as you know how to touch type (not just how to touch type on the alphabet rows).
I’ll give you a very specific example. When turning on the flashlight, I have to hold the flashlight icon for a specific period of time. If I hold too long, I get the dimmer option. If I don’t hold long enough, it doesn’t turn on. The iphone expects what feels to me like a zen-like stoner’s calm press of the button. This is absolutely infuriating to me. Every time. Just turn the damn light on when I press the button.

Did you know that you can hold the spacebar to move your cursor around on iOS? Without my friend telling me about that feature, I also found text selection in iOS to be deeply frustrating as compared to Android
This is going to be the next big legal battle. Google said in their new policy that anything you serve on the web can go into their AI data set so will be curious when this does happen, who actually starts it as the legal powerhouse. Will we see frivolous RIAA style claims or a larger battle of the massive companies.
This is a lame-duck executive. Ministers will pander to their extremist wings, because those wings are their only hope to save their careers once they are booted out next year. So I would not hold my breath on that apology.
Instagram's web version has a serious bug that when you scroll down fast enough, it constantly loads the same content again and again.

This bug has been there for months and basically renders it unusable.
At least put an author name to your propaganda
If I remember correctly I tried almost exactly that, I think it was just the bang operator I missed out (obviously essential in this case).

Cheers for letting me know though!
When I roughly know what I'm doing I use search.nixos.org; if you give it the full services.foo prefix it's usually relevant enough, e.g. for ssh you'd want "services.openssh", which you can find skimming through the results of just searching 'ssh' first:

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&from=0&siz...

For anything I'm not 100% sure will be obvious I search through a local clone of the nixpkgs repo directly, but I'll be honest and say I just never took time to search for a better tool
In the (now far away?) past I used chroot jails in Ubuntu containing binary-compatible dependencies for chip sim tools. Regressions would be run on proper RHEL though so tool vendor support wasn't impeded by anything even remotely suspect.
Browsers try to navigate you to HTTPS but no, http the protocol is still working as it always has. Both nginx and Apache will require configuration to serve HTTPS.

You might still use HTTP on an internal network in a DMZ or other trusted network.
Yes

In games, for example, games that are designed around HDDs might pack 3 copies of the same tree so that I can be loaded at the same time as other assets in the scene with limited seek time and decompression time. SSDs, having no seek time, don’t need elements to be in adjacent locations.

Granted that is for video games, but to develop for hardware is always at the expense of every other hardware
Eizo, Apple, LG, maybe a Viewsonic or Samsung..

Basically go read rtings.com for whatever size/resolution/price class you are looking for, and look at the in depth reviews for the things that matter to you.

In my case I have a bright office, so glare/reflection and backlight brightness are extremely important.

A good monitor can last you 2-3x as long as the compute you hook up to it, and your eyes are important.. I think its not the place to skimp on cost in the total home office setup.
If you are looking for solid content on Bezier curves then Freya Holmér's video on The Beauty of Bézier Curves [1] is well worth the time it takes to watch.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw&ab_channel=Freya...
More like Silo. Or maybe Tumithak of the corridors.
The worst part of incorrect refresh rates for me is on panning footage and you get those janky blocky tears in the image.

>The time between frames is tremendous from the standpoint of a video editor,

This sounds like something I've heard from people with a head full of fun stuff talking about the space between the notes. There have bee times where that absolutely makes sense, but I'm at a loss on your time between frames.
I think Crypto Twitter and Racial Insensitivity Twitter will be pretty sticky over there

between the OnlyFans models and AI bots roasting people on demand, its a bit of an amusement park!

Believe it or not, there are also group chats in the DMs
Virtual Cage Fight?
Latter refers to the item at the end of the list, i.e. that HN is the one you're done with. Prior is one of the words that's acceptable to refer to the start of the list.
> I'm looking for ways to "hack" my brain and get back into the habit of learning in my free time and wanting to figure things out

Please share anything you've found. For me:

- discovering Obsidian a year ago was a great boon. It led me to comb through millions of words of old person notes, remembering many different me's interest in different topics etc. When approaching a new topic, I now compulsively take detailed notes and then reform them into "evergreen notes" (google this term) although it's not the same effortless joy of my childhood.

- recently refinding old sites like wiki.c2.com has rekindled a great passion. The style of discussions, without marketing, status seeking, linking to blogs, medium articles etc. is also extremely pleasant and lets the content float up much better. Even modern communities which don't suffer from these problems still seem to have jaded userbases, who are just... Tired and not willing to really revel in their knowledge, but protectedly proactively avoid things.

- really calming myself down before engaging, e.g. closing my eyes for 10 mins in quiet, or just doodling on a paper, maybe stacking some 9 volt batteries into a tower and calmly approaching the topic, reading or such. In this way, reading can almost be like a reverse stream of consciousness. However life quickly knocks, taking me out of this (flow?) state. I recall some researchers discussing how children effortlessly play (so the opposite of the original topic about effortful learning...) experimenting, collecting data etc. to learn and develop their worldviews, but if you impose requirements or expectations on them, they learn slower and don't blossom.
My main usage of Nix is on non-NixOS machines, and I use Home Manager, and while it has a similar problem, just searching the options in the packages it provides configuration for is a smaller issue.

Not sure if this helps you at all or not, it really depends on your usage of Nix, but for managing user configuration I do recommend Home Manager.
That's most likely due to changes in the algorithm. Especially if you're not verified.
I have an Alienware Ryzen 9 machine. I'm not at all impressed. I only have it for games. The Intel 4790k machine that I built around 2015 with Windows 10 is more responsive. I'm not convinced that any hardware runs Windows 11 well.
Agreed. When Instagram added stories, my entire Snapchat friendlist disappeared within a month and they were all posting to Instagram instead. I think the same will happen here. But it will be lopsided toward people who are already more popular on Instagram than they are on Twitter, which is a lot of social/non-professional audiences. I expect that Twitter accounts with large followings will continue posting there, and Twitter will continue to dominate the professional niches (coding twitter, medical twitter etc.) while the more general shitposting and possibly even politics will move to Threads.

I say this as someone who is no big fan of Meta.
I never got a Bluesky invite and I've seen a couple comments mentioning "it's not ready" so I'm wondering why people keep saying that? It has been in development for a while, so I would assume it is ready at this point in time.
He’ll win. Musk is a bullshiter, Zuck is almost as good at Judo as Vladimir Putin.
I'm really interested in seeing what my Japanese friends do. I don't live in Japan but have made a bunch of friends there in my travels. They're super active on Twitter for baseball and car discussion.

Hoping they make the jump, honestly.

At least if this app is good.
How Lee Valley built a cult-like following
I couldn't disagree more. I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great, and the fact that they're heavily branding it with Instagram, using Instagram logins etc suggests to me that they're just looking for another angle to vacuum up user data. Maybe I'm unusual but the accounts I follow on Instagram and Twitter do not have a huge amount of crossover so the fact that their onboarding process tries to replicate your Instagram social graph makes me feel like this will replace Instagram posts composed of Notes screenshots rather than replace Twitter.

Not to mention, when was the last time Facebook successfully launched a new standalone social app? Remember Poke, their Snapchat clone? If you do you’re in an exclusive club. They had to pivot the entire Instagram app in order to compete with Snapchat and Twitter isn’t a big enough threat to ever justify doing that. I think it'll get merged into a "text" type of Instagram post eventually and otherwise killed off.

Side note, but:

> There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative

I actually don't think there is. Twitter always had a relatively low number of users compared to other networks. The key (and what Zuckerberg covets) is the cachet of it being where journalists and celebrities break news.
It would be interesting to find out the mean and standard deviation for various review sites, and write a browser extension that normalizes them.
*But if your input prompts are short, an OpenLLaMA finetune like this would work:

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/open-llama-13b-open-instruct...
https://archive.ph/eJq4D
Correct, this is a design problem, but no one's pointed out what the specific problem is: The "Instruction" that most people perceive is the title of this post on HackerNews.

By the time you actual visit the site you ALREADY have an idea of what it's supposed to be about, the colors draw your eyes to "Here's how you can tell your score, press here to start" and skip the fine print entirely. People MIGHT skim the "fine print" that is the actual instructions with key details, and what do you read when you skim? The first part of a paragraph/sentence to establish a subject and action. And what's the First part of that sentence? The same thing the title of this post told you.

"Oh, yeah, I already know this"

Skip to the pretty colors telling you how to score your guess and start the game.

EDIT: Also, the UI after you click through to start also assumes the user read the instructions, instead of trying to organically guide them to the same conclusions. /EDIT.

Cue so many people wondering how they could miss something laid out so clearly in front of them.
I think so, if I write it out in pseudo code it might make more sense. What I was trying to do was pretty much:

const mymap = {1: "hello", 2: "world"};

But the only thing I could find any answers for was something more like:

const mymap; mymap.put(1, "hello"); mymap.put(2, "world");
At my company I have repositories that are meant to be open source and repositories that are proprietary. We have an internal tool that ask you to type a sentence the first time you push to open source for confirmation.

But to make sure you actually type it in instead. The sentence you’re instructed to type in is lowercase. But the instructions tell you to type it in as uppercase.
History says otherwise: C was so successful it is still widely used.
The default for new Bitwarden accounts from Feb 2023 on is PDBFK2 HMAC SHA 256 setting at 600,001 iterations on the client and 100,000 on the server with the option to use Argon2id. These settings are above current OWASP recommendations. https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...
https://bitwarden.com/help/kdf-algorithms/
A bit premature. If you recall on instagram trying to kill tik tok, has not worked. I think your schadenfreude is potentially blurring your vision. I couldnt care less for either of these companies - but the demise of twitter is one of the most popular things to prognosticate about and i think its overhyped.
Snap was cloned extremely effectively within Instagram (stories). So was TikTok (reels). I'm actually surprised they aren't taking the same strategy here. Why create a new app? Why not add Threads to the existing Instagram, in the same way as Stories and Reels?
I just saw the film and thought it was very good. But yeah its a rarity for me to go to an actual theater these days when I have a giant screen at home.
You could honestly be right.
not only min, max, other "fun" ones to debug are "near", "far", "small"
Supercuts Deluxe, twitter edition:

Twitter is done. There's no question about it. BREAKING NEWS: a bombshell. Today is a turning point, today was historically bad for Twitter. A turning point. We're at a turning point here. The beginning of the end for the Twitter administration. The beginning of the end! Breaking news: we have ANOTHER bombshell! Mike Zuckerberg might have to assume the office of the Twitter. The call for impeachment. Rumblings of the word impeachment"". Breaking news, another bombshell out of the Twitter HQ. I believe this is the beginning of the end. It's really the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end. He may be feeling the walls closing in on him. All the walls closing in on him. The walls closing in. Breaking news: a new bombshell. One astrologer says says this means the beginning of the end for Twitter. The beginning of the end of the Twitter presidency. Twitter will resign. Is this the tipping point? I know we've said it over and over... you think this is the tipping point? ... and over and over... this is a tipping point... and over and over. Breaking news: Twitter off the rails. This was the beginning of the end today. The beginning of the end... Reminds me a lot of the last days of Nixon. Breaking news tonight: new bombshell. This is the beginning of the end....

and so on and so forth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VdynwAkQy8
At that point, why not just call them i/u8/16/32/64? If the sizes are fixed anyway, why come up with different names for them, especially when almost all of the times you would want to select a different integer type is specifically because of how many bits wide it is? (otherwise, surely you would just use the machine word size?)