skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fondly remember the manuals for Homeworld 1 and Homeworld Cataclysm. More than a hundred pages each, the second contains extensive in-universe descriptions of the units, talking about dispenser jamming issues in the minelayer corvettes and the odd center of gravity on the interceptor fighter due to its offset gun. Complete fluff, of course, with zero impact on gameplay. Perfect nerd bait, like those giant books of exploded diagrams of Star Wars ships that specified the wattage and manufacturer of each turbolaser battery on the Death Star. https://www.moddb.com/games/homeworld-cataclysm/downloads/ho...

More interesting in retrospect, the first manual contained extensive descriptions of kiith clans. They go on for dozens of pages, and don't show up in the game's actual story at all. Someone spent serious effort writing them. Why? Left over from an earlier version of the game pitch where the player would have to manage relations between competing groups on the mothership? https://sierrachest.com/gfx/games/Homeworld/box/manual.pdf
Undocumented "feature" :)
As someone who wants all of the other things he's supposed to be building, I can't imagine how you would not see Twitter as an objective step back.

Every single change he has made to Twitter is exclusively to claw back income from users because he made all of the advertisers leave. Anyone competent would have just added the features they wanted without burning 80% of the company's income and staff.
You could take a look at AtlasOS[0]. It's a patchset made to be applied on top of a fresh Windows 10 22H2 installation, and aims to perform many of the optimizations you've mentioned. I've been using it for about 8 months without any issues, but I still have a fresh Windows installation in a VM on hand in case of some emergency situation.

They're also currently in the process of making it easier to configure with more granularity, but the current version still allows you to toggle a lot of the important options post-installation.

[0] https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas/
Caddy is pretty simple to configure and serve static files from.
This is a fantastic piece of work.

Are there any cycle-accurate like this for 8-bit consoles?
Shameless plug: Caddy does a great job here. Automatic HTTPS, written in Go so memory safety bugs are not a concern, has a solid file_server module.
Just guessing, but NginX probably either checks for "/foo/bar/.." and disallows it, or normalizes it to "/foo/" but "/foo/bar.." is a perfectly valid file name, so it doesn't get caught by the net checking for this.
Not to leap at defending Google or any other disproportionate OSS consumer, but the moment you apply this logic consistently, those costs add up to > revenue in most scenarios I could imagine. There is a way to make it sustainable, but it’s not likely to be a voluntary action by any individual actor.
:shrug: it works great for me lol. api is overrated. webview is the only way you'll get the full experience of all the chats
Thank you for the clarification. I've not soldered anything for a couple of decades so my knowledge is poor.
Stop using Google Analytics: Sweden’s privacy watchdog issues over $1M in fines
Alef Flying Car Video Reveals How $300k Vehicle Works
Absolutely, hell no, if you are talking about the screen itself.

The difference in crispness between the Dell UP321K (~280ppi at 7680x64280 at 31.5 inches) and this new U3224KBA (~220ppi at 6144 x 3456 at 32") is dramatic.

The new Dell 6K is about the same as the Apple 6K (the XDR Pro Display). I had that 6K Apple and the 8K Dell side-by-side on my desk for a few months (until I could find a buyer for the dramatically inferior Apple). During that time, I asked anybody who happened to stop by to look at the screens and compare them.

Almost everybody could see the difference immediately.

A few people, admittedly, said they looked pretty much the same. I think there's a certain level of eyesight required to discern the difference. Having said that, I got my first prescription glasses 2 years ago, and I can easily see the difference with glasses on or off.

I cannot see pixels on either one. But what I can see is a slight fuzz at the edges of letters on the lower res display. Moreover, I need my glasses to use the 6K for long stretches and I don't even really need to wear them with the 8K. That's what made me so attached to this monitor.

I was therefore bummed to see Dell release this 6K. I want a modern version of the 8K! Two cables sucks, it's quite a compatibility nightmare to get configured properly on Linux if you want to use cheaper monitors alongside it (because the software support for multiple displays at different scaling factors is pretty bad still on most Linux). On Mac it never worked at all, until they released the M2 chip(!).

(It has always worked fine on Windows, just plug it in.)

Having used this for a few years, I don't ever want to go back to 6K, or 5K, or 4K. I just want 8K to get cheaper so that I can rock 3 8K displays, instead of the 4K-8K-4K I suffer today.... also, 120Hz please.
I was surprised, but this calculation checks out. Wild. This really points to the scale of influence that large companies have, especially considering this is < 0.1% of typical household electricity consumption. Consider then that household electricity consumption is not the complete picture - add in cars (both ICE and electric being ~ICE/4), food production, etc, and you see both how much energy we use and how much single entities influence this amount. According to the internet, google data centers are ~1 million households (I saw 15TWh/yr), so 1% efficiency improvements are a small town worth of electricity. At they same time, they claim 3m household savings due to Nest, wow.
Amen to this. Love this attitude. Ads are the culmination of the worst parts of capitalist society.
> Humans simply can no longer digest it - we need AI to generate something more concise, more to the point, more digestible. Without the marketing, fluff and bait and filler.

I think one of the fears some have about AI/machine learning/etc is that they realize their entire advertising & marketing world could become irrelevant.
Users could get short, accurate answers without having advertisements in the way.

Kind of like how things were many years ago.
I really don’t think so. It’s been awhile since I was on there but there recommendations was the same thing you’d get anywhere (e.g. audible.)

Maybe the reviews were better, but I think in general the trend of trying to replace discussing things with people with an automated service or social network leads to a poorer result. I read a ton and have never used a recommendation tool to find them, I just read books, go to bookstores and talk to people about them.
A Roller Coaster for Roller Coaster Nerds
If someone says "credit cards" to mean things that aren't credit cards, that's not really my problem.
Seen a few “_do_not_use_or_you_will_be_fired()” functions before too.
Higher refresh rate does make a noticeable difference, if you have 60hz and 120hz or higher side by side you notice it instantly from the mouse cursor movement and scrolling websites etc, it's just buttery in comparison. Definitely not a must, just nice to have.

I don't see the benefit of going higher than 1440p or 1600p though, any higher res just means I need to increase scaling otherwise things are too small to read comfortably for me.
Is there reason to believe that breaking up Microsoft would somehow have made macOS, iOS, Linux, BSD, etc. leaner and more efficient?

I despise Windows telemetry, advertising, and bloat, but I've also noticed how macOS and Ubuntu (for example) are becoming ever larger and slower.
given a curve, how do you find the corresponding finite field? The article seems to pull it out of thin air (?)
just curious, is your system publicly available or is it internal tooling of yours ? i spent a lot of time in service orchestration domain, and it been hobby of mine ever since.
But will Zuckerberg even be there if he loses the cage match?
Librarything is partially (40%) owned by AbeBooks which is an Amazon subsidiary. Spalding has the lion's share and I'm sure this matters for the direction of the product while he holds it, but I'm skeptical about the whole thing in general. It takes just one person to change their mind and the enshittification starts.

Also, see https://www.librarything.com/privacy

> Certain content that appears in on this site comes from Amazon Services, LLC. This content is provided "as is" and is subject to change or removal at any time.

Ugh..
That's better than nothing. Hopefully it's better than the WSJ's, which appears to be restricted to subscribers yet is still pretty toxic.
Yes, there are many examples if you simply google "china imprisoned business trip".

When the Canadian government arrested a Huawei exec who was ignoring Iranian sanctions and lying to US investigators, the Chinese government arrested 2 Canadians as spies. Authoritarian governments fucking love to arrest people on "espionage" charges, since it is hard to prove and they can pretend to not be able to share because of national security.
I finally did it. I finally got rid of my Twitter account and migrated to Mastodon. I wish I had done it sooner because Mastodon is great. Particularly the Hachyderm.io server for the tech community <3
I know aligning incentives is usually something that falls under the broad category of "management" or people skills in a company, but there's a subfield of economics that studies exactly how to do this in a structured way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design). It's usually applied to things like auctions, but I've always thought applying incentive alignment in a systematic way (in which, for instance, middle management submits "bids" for metrics that they want to track and for headcount) could be a viable way to run things. Any thoughts on something like this?
High res with scaling does make text and stuff really crisp though which is nice
I think RAND was used here in the proverbial sense, not the literal sense. They generally do good work, stay away from hype while remaining relevant/timely, and focus on boring but real problems. Sort of that good spot in-between an IEEE Standards Committee and the press team for a VC/CEO/Influencer type. I think OP meant "that type of thing", rather than RAND per se.

But in any case, there is https://www.rand.org/topics/artificial-intelligence.html
Kevin, here is great marketer, covering this subject:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/heyrobk_positioning-product-m...
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550615 423 comments.
This is really not the dilemma it is often portrayed as. You can extend this problem to any instance where a man-made inanimate object kills someone, which we have centuries of precedent for. If a bridge collapses and crushes a schoolbus full of children it's not like we throw our hands up in confusion - there is a very developed legal process that will determine the whos and whats of accountability and punishment.

It isn't a new problem, it's something that every court handles on a daily basis. Rebar or autoregression, the core legal elements are the same.
1,255k EVs, but only 617k BEVs. They might sell more than Tesla for the whole year, but it’s not trending that way at the moment.
What are the odds of this, though?

I went to a state university, and I didn't meet anyone rich or famous.

My roommate peed on our carpet.
Completely anecdotal but: “views” as reported by Twitter of tweets on my private account are down roughly 80% YOY. My follower count has dropped slightly. I’ve been on Twitter since 2007. It’s been a roller coaster of fun, annoying, vaguely threatening and the company’s love/hate/begging/hate relationship with API developers has been maddening. It has the feel of every private equity takeover of a previously popular business, except that Musk and Co. failed to extract any value from the company before saddling it with untenable debt.
FWIW, I have a side project, confgen https://github.com/erikpukinskis/confgen, which tries to help with this.

Assuming it’s an app (and not a library) to get what you are describing you would run:

npx confgen@latest @app vite dist:app typescript eslint prettier react

Unlike create-react-app the idea is you can keep running that command, adding other runtimes and presets, and it will keep working. That’s the sense in which it’s “idempotent”.

It’s somewhat opinionated (vite, react only) for now. But I’d be happy to see pull requests for other stacks so long as things don’t get too complex.

It’s also pre-1.0 but I’ve used it on dozens of projects and it’s somewhat stable.
Small companies can't just give out $50k bounties, even if it would be deserved.
Thanks for the link; I played the OG Homeworld a bit, but got it IIRC from one of those game magazines with CDs, and if there was a copy of the manual there, it must have been digital, and I didn't notice.

Skimming from the dozens of pages I would love to have read back then, I think this may be the case of writers creating a detailed setting for the game early on - only fraction of it could become part of the gameplay, but presumably designers and writers were using it as a reference. And, come release time, it didn't hurt to include the world-building bits - it might just get some players to enjoy the game more (I know it would've had this effect on me), while the alternative, back then, was for those details to never see the light of day.

And/or maybe they hoped to make some follow-up games, or tie-in novels, etc. - then including those details was both important to solidify the fictional universe, and would drive some secondary sales for the game itself.
As someone who has a 240Hz 1920x1080 Dell monitor, the 60Hz is intolerably choppy and 120Hz is the budget/compromise option.

Seriously, getting at least a 120Hz monitor makes for a world of difference because it makes everything smoother. Increases in resolution beyond 1920x1080 meanwhile are going to quickly hit the point of diminishing returns, anything beyond 2160p particularly so.
Outlining education today, how it needs to change and the specifications of what may be required in a world where every child has a personal digital learning assistant
yes, exactly, the problem is not whether those are more or less nutritious, the issue is the lack of variety. It seems that gut bacteria only improves if your diet is very diverse. But modern industrially produced food is made from just a small list of commodity ingredients. If you are curious about these topics, you could check out "The omnivore's dilemma", a book by Micheal Pollan, or the video documentary "Food Inc." that is also narrated by Pollan
Belt is backed up: bottleneck in consumption/downstream production
Belt is empty: bottleneck in upstream production or delivery
Telemetry is a strong candidate for my single most hated feature in any piece of software.

The awfulness might be mitigated slightly if it were opt-in and disabled by default, but of course it never is. It is tightly bound to dark patterns.

It's discouraging when open source software becomes infected with telemetry and dark patterns, but at least then there's a chance of forking the project and removing it.
cliffhanger with sylvester stallone too.
After 78 characters on a line... right?
Yes, but that's nothing new -- we've had computers that were used to solve simulations faster than digital comuters could by setting up electronic (or hydraulic, or pneumatic) parts that simulated the terms of the differential equations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer

Is this quantum computer another iteration on the same concept, or is it solving things that are polynomially harder to simulate classically?
Just curious, did that (reading 900 books) make any significant impact in your life/thought process/mental model etc?
BW uses 100K rounds of PBKDF2 for the master password so I don't think that will be any time soon
Theoretically maybe, but 3:2 pulldown is used for playing 23.976 fps video at 29.97Hz. Since this is HN maybe someone with more knowledge about how video editors and modern TVs typically handle this can jump in here. Regardless, I think this would actually have more impact on the end user viewing experience than the job of video editing. The time between frames is tremendous from the standpoint of a video editor, and editing is usually (traditionally) done by feel: press button when the cut should happen, mark it, then arrange the timeline accordingly. Lag aside, frame rate and which frame is actually on the screen at that time matters much less than whether the software knows which frame should be on the screen at that time. Hopefully that makes sense. For this reason, resolution and color accuracy will still take priority when it comes to display hardware.
One of the new features added since Elon took over Twitter is the ability to pay to subscribe to a Twitter account, which gets you access to that account's premium/exclusive tweets among other things.[0] They are poking fun at the fact that Elon himself offers subscriptions and apparently has converted somewhat less than one in a million of his followers.

[0]: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/subscriptions
Having studied philosophy, I find myself in the philosopher camp.
It's a bit complex in my case. For smartphone, 120Hz vs 60Hz OLED is night and day, especially for scrolling. Never leave from 120Hz+. For PC monitor, 120Hz vs 60Hz LCD is distinguishable but not much benefits. Maybe due to I use Windows and non-smooth scroll mouse. It's nice for gaming but needs $$ for GPU.
> - Desire to work with the founders and other systems engineers in person

Where are you located?
Have you not been following the trends? Facebook is for old people. Younger people don’t want to be on the same platform as their grandparents.

And the regulators are not going to let FB acquire any competitors.
The collection of random voice clips for yelling at traffic jams to clear them live on in my head to this day.
Zig solves real problems no other language tackle in the same way.

We do embedded development for medical devices, and zig fits perfectly because we can use static allocators and have all the features of the language.

It works very well, we write firmware for STM32 serie of chips.

We can compile the same code to WASM and run it into a simulator, it works great for us.
Yep. It really depends what you do with your monitors. For gaming I'll never go back to anything less than 240hz. Even high end video cards struggle to render modern games at 240hz consistently at 4k. 1080p is fine.
To be fair, most of the phosphate was mined by colonial powers before independence. I think at its peak the trust had $1 billion in investments.

But, yeah the majority of that wealth was extracted by Australia before independence.

Not that any of that excuses the grossly wasteful spending.

But the money's gone, the phosphate's gone, and most of Nauru looks like that crazy bit of Madagascar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsingy_de_Bemaraha_National_Pa...
> but I guess I can also blame digital stuff (the internet); something will give. but which? and what? ....and when???

The thing that isn't in someone's "value chain" or whatever euphemism for rent seeking is popular this year.
Thanks, I quickly went through how Aurora performs IO metering. It divides IO into Read operations and Write operations, which seems suitable for OLTP services. However, for analysis purposes, there is also CPU consumption that cannot be ignored. Would it be a good idea to include Calculate operations similar to IO?
So, the ending of twitter is to switch to Threads with FB's content moderation guidelines? I don't think so. We have social media fatigue rn. Twitter is is ok to get info really fast, rarely goes down, you have access to all kind of views (from extreme left to extreme right). This is the main reason gab, truth social, etc... won't be mainstream.

Fb hasn't been original from a long time. From trying to launch a substack competitor, stealing snapchat features, creating reels, etc. Now, developer wise, is a different game. React, Pytorch, Prophet, etc... hit after hit.

Twitter can be a "cesspool" but I don't trust fb at all.
That has been a known issue in nginx for a very long time and its a common attack vector at CTFs:

https://book.hacktricks.xyz/network-services-pentesting/pent...
Those problems are already solved, with one complication. WebAuthn is built around the concept of multiple devices so I tend to have my platform authenticator along with a couple of Yubikeys. That means I have to lose my phone, watch, laptop, and multiple tokens I don’t keep on me at the same time before I have to use a recovery code.

Platform authenticators are built around the synchronization concept so it’s easy to keep multiple devices active. Unfortunately, Apple, Google, and Microsoft have committed to but not yet enabled cross-platform sync so until later this year you’d need to register both, say, your iCloud Keychain and Google Chrome keys separately.

Because each one is implemented separately you’d need to check your synchronization service of choice but note that e.g. iCloud explicitly supports recovery when you’ve lost all of your devices permanently:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213305

> How do I log in on a computer without usb access that is not connected to the same network as my phone with the keys? - this workflow is already broken with gmail 2FA process with approving in gmail/youtube app.

Your computer doesn’t need to be on the same network (it uses Bluetooth). This is also a contrived situation: if you work on a computer which has been locked down that much, you don’t want to use personal accounts there anyway.

There is a solution to that, however, along with every other one of these edge cases: you type in one of the one-time recovery code the service made you setup up when enrolling. Unlike the password reset email, that isn’t commonly exploited by attackers, too.
> Ideally, every developer in every large co would be given some budget to spread sponsorship money around as they saw fit

If I'm not mistaken, there is a ton of overhead ensuring that the money doesn't directly benefit any of the employees themselves. There are all sorts of regulations around how things like gifts and donations are accounted for, taxed and so forth. Then, you also wade into territory of graft, bribes and so on (employees of company A funneling money into open source project B, which is worked on by employees of potential customer C).
this went around recently https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/windows_xp_activation...
If C made this change, it could also make it legal to redefine u32 etc as appropriate integer types any number of times without erring.
I would also like to know why you are getting downvoted.

Even wikipedia uses a Venn diagram to explain JOIN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_(SQL) .

Not trying to use an argument from authority but just pointing out that this is not unheard of.
> there are the environmental concerns

Bingo. You don't have to agree with me but in my opinion anyone who needs a car and can afford an EV but not driving one is morally reprehensible. We needed to reduce our fossil fuel usage twenty years ago. People putting their own convenience above the environment are selfish and short-sighted.
English verbs nouns all the time
Apple Watch can only be said to be a moderate success at best, considering Apple themselves have never disclosed how many they've sold.

As for unsubsidized phones, the US is the only country that sold them on contract, and the iPhone didn't take off until Apple had AT&Tcut the price to $199 to match other flagships. The Nokia N95 for example retailed at $730 and sold millions in 2007.
Norway had successfully georgist tax policies in place for hydropower for half a century at that point. He was not fighting as much of an uphill battle as he would almost anywhere else:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/05/17/norway-the-once-and...
https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/norways-sovereign-...

(Update: This is not to detract from his achievement, but to harp on the fact that Georgism is one of the most useful, underrated tools in the economic toolboxt)