skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. I’m 46 and just staring to lose my close vision, so I understand.

I did my best to collapse margins on small screens, though there’s still a thin bit of margin around the animations. I think I constrained the max width to keep the text from being harder to read, that’s probably what you’re running into.

As for pixelation, I did all the animations in canvas with 2x subsampling (for retina support) so it should hold up well to zooming as you found.

Glad you found it helpful!
A hot dog is a sandwich. The only reason people say it isn’t is that they are embarrassed that they had to be told the obvious.

When it was suggested to me that a hot dog is a sandwich, my reaction was “oh, huh. I guess it technically is.” But I guess some people bring Wittgenstein back from the dead.
I like that there's some competition in this space. I wish it was someone else because I will never have a Facebook-controlled app on any of my devices again. I simply don't trust them. If it's available on the web and it gains traction, maybe I will use it.
>The question is how much insanity we're willing to tolerate as a result.

Given our elected representatives, I don't think that's a problem. No offense to any party or person. But we've consistently proven that we can tolerate and welcome way more insanity than seems reasonable.
For a while, at a blog titled "the morning paper", Adrian Colyer, senior technical staff member at IBM, wrote over 1000 "short summaries of important, influential, topical or otherwise interesting papers in the field of computer science". I found the articles on Mergeable Replicated Data Types to be fascinating.

https://blog.acolyer.org/tag/distributed-systems/
Man AND the ruler isnt the same size every time.

I kept getting wrong answer after wrong answer despite the fact that I was CONVINCED I was triangulating properly.....

But no! The size of the ruler kept changing!! I was using a constant 80px for it, and it was changing by as much as 30px as you zoomed in and out.

What a waste of time.

However I did get within 7mi once despite this terrible UX, because I saw a pic and was like "goddamn if that's not in non-Chicago Illinois" so I was within 200mi on my first guess and knew how to constrain my further guesses.
Erewhon
Buying Twitter at the price he bought it at made no sense once the market turned. It would have made financial sense to structure the deal in a way that it was easy for him to get out of, but he didn’t. Twitter has also now been saddled with additional debt with interest that needs to be paid on a regular basis since it was a leveraged buyout. I’ve been thinking about the deal since it happened and it certainly doesn’t seem to make financial sense to me.
I think you have to scale very big before that starts to matter.
This is what I’m hoping I can do at some point in the next few years. I’m feeling pretty burnt out and I’m thinking the free time would be well worth less pay at this point. Was it hard to find a 3 day/week type situation?
Cost always goes to cost:benefit. Of course for investors in LPT the only benefit here is upside value of their investment in the property.

The thing is, both "cost" and "benefit" have other dimensions. The socialised cost of emptying out the cities, the upside benefits for local small traders if people move back in, where once were office workers.

If you read stuff about small trader economic woes, and the amounts of support local authorities have to pump in to make things like "detroit" scale defaults not happen, $500 sq ft isn't such a bad price to pay. There's jobs, there's downstream supply chain profit and jobs, there's re-activation of the city.

Its also "cost" is "investment" -investment is a nice word for a city.

I have a great kids book called "unbuilding" which is about a fictional de-construction of the empire state building. If we don't re-purpose these edifices, then thats probably a future cost/risk decision.

Empty buildings are not an asset.
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Theres a hill people are willing to die on. Resolution matters for me, I don't care about refresh rate.

I'm constantly switching between my M1 Air and work M2 16 Pro and refresh rate has never bothered me.
Isn’t effortful an actual word? Also let’s try not to pick on things that are beside the point. Especially if you look at the author’s site and he’s a non-native speaker. We’d probably make similar mistakes if we were to try Italian.

On a tangential note, what does it mean to be “effective” in a class?
As a child, I was able to simply read through things (history books, forum discussions about motors and cars, wiki.c2.com...) barely understanding them - but half way words would begin making sense. I could then reread the same things with understanding and keep reading through until bored - which seemingly implied understanding.

Nowadays, I need comprehensible input the whole time, hooks to actually understand what's going on. I'm not sure if it's an issue with brain plasticity or growing impatience, perhaps a learned discomfort of not understanding things. Perhaps the internet has since trained me to google things instead of stopping to think or just soldier through, learned helplessness resorting to the hivemind's omniscience if you will.

I suspect this refusal to engage with the material and just flee to the search is this very lack of effort, which has caused me to stagnate. Alas...
I'm shocked that group 2 exists at all. Just wave your mouse around and watch the cursor. Or open up quake and turn around while keeping your eye focused on a stationary object.
The article didn't mention permissions, would this still work if the nginx user is denied permissions on things like `/var/log`? I suspect it wouldn't but isn't the most common cause of security flaws going to be unchecked assumptions?

As an aside, I didn't know Github code search accepted regex.
> rarely goes down

This would be the site that has been effectively largely down for the last three days?
> Perhaps you could educate me

Doesn't seem to be taking. The issue is that there are not a couple of watts there. There are a couple here, and that's all.

> I don't think anyone has asserted that there's "huge amount"s to be won from the simplified hardware?

They did. In this thread you are participating in even. Perhaps you didn't really read the post of mine that you first replied to, or its context?
Great, another social media platform that won't have any form of support team.

Twitter at least had one you could actually talk to before Elon took over, but Instagram has lacked support contact methods for years at this point.

Using a platform where you have no recourse or even method of reaching out if something goes awry is always a dangerous game to play :(
> I learned more things from entertainment than any textbook or classroom ever taught me.

This statement is abstract enough that it can be both true and false depending on what one means when saying that. Can you be more specific? Have you watched movies and listening to music that gave you the skills to have the job or career you have? Did YouTube videos give you the knowledge to work in a scientific lab or start your own company?

Do you have any example?

There's a lot of educational content out there that's probably better to consume than dumb silly content, but skills and deep knowledge can only be acquired with practice, distraction-free studying, and similar activities.
By definition, all Atari 2600/VCS emulators are cycle accurate.

That machine required very precise timing of the CPU to drive the video output.

There are a number of other cycle-accurate emulators, including some you woudln't expect, like a cycle-accurate emulator for the C64 floppy disk (needed for anti-piracy and some high-end demos that use the floppy like a co-processor).
Creativity is for startups. If you run the 8th or so most valuable company on the planet, your competitive advantage is mostly your scale. You should mostly be using that to maximize return on proven stuff (either by buying or copying proven things), not pissing away billions of dollars on stuff that a startup can iterate on for a tiny fraction of that price.
History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes
My thoughts (published by CIQ on their blog page) on the recent Red Hat changes in source code availability.
From 17 to 20 years old, I was obsessed with learning how to get into a loving relationship. Still enjoying the fruits of that when I noticed I mastered enough of the skill at age 20. I remember at age 16 thinking: shit, I won’t ever be with a girlfriend. In hindsight, I was probably right. I was really passive and scared for rejection. I learned how to put myself out there and meet the world. Meet enough people and you’ll find someone that matches well with you. I’ve approached thousands of people in general. For the first 2 years it felt soul crushing and painful. After that it became a lot of fun!

That was my best investment. I’m 30+ now.
Yeah in Australia anything under a 5 out 5 may seem like grounds for a defamation lawsuit.

It's a complete farce.
I dropped nginx because it was really fiddly to configure and misconfiguration has potentially bad consequences.
Quantum computing has been 10 years away for the last 30 years.
"Toxic" is not an adjective that makes sense to apply to a descriptive response to an asked question. It only makes sense if you get some sort of troll answer that you didn't ask for.

If you offered someone on the street a reasonable amount of money to say racial slurs, they would. If you said to them "here's $500, I will ask you some questions, give me some mean spirited answers" they would.

LLMs are bound to say what you ask of them.
I came across a smaller platform recently called Qwurty.

https://qwurty.com
Drug cartels? No!

We're just talking about a situation where some existing large interests have a lucrative business peddling some pretty addictive stuff, and they want to make sure nobody else encroaches on their turf. To that end, they're willing to spend a lot of money to "make the problem go away". Sometimes that means bringing the upstarts into the fold!

Not at all like drug cartels.
I think the comparison is between a lovely Dutch village in which the residents live comfortable fulfilling lives and whatever the hell it is that’s happening in US elder care facilities. Like an awful lot of things, it seems like the Dutch are getting a heck of a lot more for their money than we are.
The parents are the ones with money to spend, which means they're the ones advertisers want.
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Twitter will take a big hit from this.. given the current situation, will reddit take a big hit as well? it's definitely an interesting time where both blue bird and reddit users are looking for alternatives. Meta has a good track record of running social app, this can be a really successful product with the launch timing if the app fulfil the mass requirements from both sides
It's not specific to curved ones, I have a flat S2721SQ that does it as much as the curved S3221QS.

I believe this is why it's not a problem for you:

[...] both and connect through a CalDigit TS4
> But hooooly crap does it underscore how much of a catastrophe Musk’s actions are

I think that pretty much nails it. This is Zuckerberg's life - social media & nearby segments - and he's still in his prime (very active, attentive to threats / paranoid) as a competitor in the business sphere. If you give him an opening to cripple Twitter opportunistically, he's going to take a shot.

Did Musk think Twitter actually had a moat (thus he didn't have to be overly concerned with his actions promptly sinking the ship)? It would be hilariously delusional if so.
No, I'm serious when I say that formal education taught me nowhere near what the rest of life did.

Oregon Trail taught me more about American history than textbooks ever did, likewise Age of Empires II than textbooks ever did concerning medieval history. One of those Carmen Sandiego games did a better job teaching me English than any textbooks or classes ever did.

And god damn RPG Maker (read: computer programming) taught me more about math than any textbooks or classes ever did. To say nothing of all the games that demanded I learn how to do complex arithmetic in my head on the spot.

Looking back, the core lesson I took away is that you need to find the subject matter fun or meaningful to be able to learn it. No amount of "effort" is going to help if you simply don't, or worse can't, give a damn about the subject matter or the way it's presented.
There are also people who can't really focus on moving objects very well. They generally look extremely blurry to me even if moving relatively slow.

A few years ago e.g. the Simpsons began to use these computer aided 3-d pans which hurt my eyes to watch. Pausing, they are all in normal resolution but when watching them the screen turns into a mush for me and I can just see color blobs.
Twitter is positively inundating me with "ads" from people boosting their twitter profiles, all dedicated to crypto, health "hacks", finance gurus, yoga teachers etc etc. I feel like Apple ads were the ones I saw most and now I've not seen an Apple ad in over a week. It really feels like advertisers are all pulling out
Assets and Libraries. I remember including the Firebase Libraries in your react native app more than double its size because of gRPC or something. Not a lot of places care about size optimization anymore (looking at MW Warzone and every electron apps)
You forgot to mention how valuable they are as bargaining chips for mutual releases of prisoners.

Case in point, the American basketball player Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia on accusations of having a cannabis vape pen - and was exchanged for the world's most notorious arms dealer, Victor Bout.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/brittney-grine...
This was exactly what I realized lately. I was like the author (and still am to some extent) that I'd scratch an itch but only in a superficial way and then drop it when my energy could not hold.

These superficial learnings essentially become my escape from real world: family responsibility, work and others. I guess I need to grow up and somehow indulge myself with real life but heck I refuse to do that even at 40+.
The quota is temporary. I agree with you that latest changes have been crazy,but it 's not the end of the world. I much rather prefer Twitter than give Zuckerberg more power.

Now, I see them winning if they go Twitter's route and nuke their content moderation guidelines but since that won't happen, I doubt you'll see mass migration from the freedom fighters, hehe.

Reality is they need each other. Conflict is what gets Twitter going. That and memes.
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Get off my lawn, ya punk. I’m 60 and still coding. I use Github Copilot every day.
It’s almost certainly dependent on age. I see the same youthful development in my own children that I no longer have.
The big obstacle is that people worked really hard to get their followers and some of Twitter's best accounts only have 1k-50k followers, which will be hard for them to get back on Threads. Elon will no doubt make it extremely difficult for people to share their Thread's handles on Twitter. Celebrities can build followings immediately and won't care.
Yeah I love my 4K 24" monitor but nobody seems to be making them anymore :'( especially at this price point ($250). It's the minimum DPI I'd consider HiDPI. Really worried about it breaking at some point. I wish I had bought two.

27" 4K just won't cut it. And I don't want a monitor that big anyway.
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Deliberate practice is a well studied phenomenon. My favourite talk in the subject is this one from Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eW6Eagr9XA
This is absolutely right. I built Wavefront's telemetry store and entity store directly on top of it and for all these reasons you can do magical things using it natively. These are also the reasons I recommended it for Snowflake's metadata store. Finally, it is why I invested in the company. FDB is insanely good if you take advantage of it.
FWIW gixy (nginx configuration checker) catches this:
https://github.com/yandex/gixy/blob/master/docs/en/plugins/a...

(and nixos automatically runs gixy on a configuration generated through it, so the system refuses to build <3)
Well, I said rarely, not never, hehe.
That’s an incredibly depressing way to run a world. What on earth is a billion dollars for if not doing something interesting?
I wonder how their logged out web experience will be. I think Twitter has historically (until recently) been very permissive about letting anyone view and embed content from the site and I think that’s helped it become more socially pervasive. Instagram is really popular but has typically locked down the web experience unless you log in.
lol good thing they don't matter is the least. Most of them will reverse trend instantly once they start losing users over this issue.
I hope Threads won't exhibit the same hostility towards the users as IG does.

(What's up with IG and its hostile UX? Videos can't be fast forwarded or tracked at all, profile pictures can't be zoomed, clicking on it brings you to stories, images can't be copied easily, etc.)
I suspect it's this:

> Businesses that knowingly employ unauthorized workers could have their licenses suspended

It is illegal to discriminate on national origin, as long as someone is authorized to work. How carefully are you allowed to probe that authorization? What are the on-the-ground rules around "knowingly"? Now that penalties have been stiffened, I wouldn't care to be a test case.

eg you have a candidate with a plausible, but also plausibly fake, id. What is your exposure on both sides of the hire/refuse to hire?
What’s your reading speed like? I can easily read 2 books a day if I’ve got nothing better to do.

Averaging just 2 per week hits 3k books in 29 years which doesn’t sound far fetched to me. Call it ~14 hours a week reading, plenty of people spend more than that playing video games or watching Netflix etc.
Demystifying GPT Self-Repair for Code Generation
What I thought particularly interesting

"....With this evaluation strategy, we find that the effectiveness of self-repair is only seen in GPT-4. We also observe that self-repair is bottlenecked by the feedback stage; using GPT-4 to give feedback on the programs generated by GPT-3.5 and using expert human programmers to give feedback on the programs generated by GPT-4, we unlock significant performance gains."
But that was the most notable thing about my roommate.
Making it harder to share Thread's Handles will only make people... want to share them.
That’s great. Yeah, I am aware it’s not complete. Listed a few I am aware off because my mom helped organising them. Haven’t kept up-to-date with since she passed away
Agreed. I think this succeeds or fails based on the ability to follow different kinds of things from users separately. If I can follow someone's Threads and not their Reels, I'd be glad to have such an easy migration path off of Twitter (I'm having a lot of fun on bluesky, but it's not ready). I'm not optimistic about that though, because you already can't choose to not follow reels separately from pictures.
I feel the same. I think it's mostly "impatience" or the fear of losing time. We get older and busier and the "price" we pay to spend hours on a book gets more and more expensive.

Learning is an investment, and as my salary increases and life gets more comfortable, my brain doesn't feel the urge to learn and prefers leisure.

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. When I have kids I hope they will be curious and I'll learn with them.
Looks good and clean. I'll probably use it over Twitter/Reddit.
> Looking back, the core lesson I took away is that you need to find the subject matter fun or meaningful to be able to learn it. No amount of "effort" is going to help if you simply don't, or worse can't, give a damn about the subject matter or the way it's presented.

While there are plenty of folks for whom this is true (myself included at times), it’s not a universal experience. I am good friends with folks who find joy in learning no matter how it is presented.
This is complete bullshit. I have the exact same experience Parent has, my feed used to be full of interesting people from tech, science, and journalism. Now it's ~80% meme feeds sprinkled with a small helping of what I actually care about. How is that my fault, as a user that had a perfectly good curated feed prior to For You existing?
I have a feeling it'll have the intellectual quality of the Instagram comment section, which is worse than the Facebook comment section, which is 10x worse than Twitter.

But I agree if there is heavy integration with the rest of Meta's products I'll be less happy.
Where do you think the debt came from?!
I can confirm this is true. Both that Twitter is running on a skeleton crew and that engineers are asking ex-engineers for help.
Elon has chased off all the biggest advertisers, turned into an abrasive online personality that elevates insane conspiracy theories, and now you can only view 800 tweets a day. That doesn't sound like an "excellent job." I had some hope for when he took over Twitter, because Twitter was not well run...but he's made the previous CEO (who was not a good CEO) look like a genius. He even failed to lure Donald Trump back...I mean. The only reason people are still on Twitter is because there is no alternative, and there are still very valuable voices on Twitter. Once or if they leave, it's all over.
In other news an LLM mind virus is sweeping across the Midwest, face book has instituted a post delay queue and free Disney+