skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very impressive UI work with Rust. As @rvdca pointed out the author had a great presentation. Definitely recommend it.

I notice that there is a bug when I open the console with cmd-option-J: a note will be triggered and stay there forever.

The audio worklet uses postMessages (https://makepad.nl/makepad/platform/src/os/web_browser/audio...), which is not GC free.

For those are interested, I am maintaining https://glicol.org/ which is also an Rust/WASM audio app in browsers.
Why is it ecologically better in manufacturing? A regular bulb is tungsten & glass, and LED is what?

Unlike regular bulbs it's hard to find out manufacturing details for LED, but they usually seem plasticky (= oil and all that) and I guess a lot depends on the kind of phosphorus used etc.
Vietnam bans Barbie movie over South China Sea map showing ‘nine-dash line’
> Yeah, it sucks that RH doesn't want to make life easy for rebuilders. But ultimately building your entire business model on copying the work of some other company verbatim is not a great idea.

It's an amazing idea - copying RH meant no work had to be put into actually supporting the Linux community and keeping all the profits. Massive margins were made.

It's just that the angry HNers think that RH should continue to just give things away to repackagers for free and let them profiteer off their work.
Those first two points are pretty wild assertions that are offered without much compelling evidence.

The final two points are more plausible, although the last one is sort of tautological since any risk is by definition something we aren't certain won't happen. However part of their plausibility as risks is because the first two points are not anywhere near our current state, and therefore it's unclear to us how to clearly evaluate risks that are based on unknown and possibly fictional contexts.
I have a 32" monitor with 4k resolution. With macOS, it's unusable at 100% scaling. It's far too dense. Sure, you can change fonts in many applications, but not all.
> 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 ...

> 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.

No, you just said the web site is responsible for publishing the header, which means they have legal liability.

Does HackerNews have "user-generated content"? Does it have to publish the same header as Pornhub?

And as you later write:

"In terms of bypassing, teens will bypass it but they can just visit sites that a database would never be enforced on in the first place."

Exactly. That's also from the article:

"In its Twitter statement, Pornhub alleged that a major problem with these laws is that states "are not regulating enforcement." This means that major platforms like Pornhub will likely comply with the laws voluntarily—or else risk fines of up to $1 million annually, the FSC estimated—while users seeking to avoid age verification will simply migrate over to seedier platforms that don't require ID and often pose security and privacy risks to users."

IOW, it wouldn't work and would just be a way to go after mainstream websites that ran afoul of a politician.
It's a challenge and it'll force you to ask what and why are you doing this for.

There's "real life navigation" - these things matter at high and low latitudes, and near massive iron deposits such as Kursk, not so much elsewhere - although orienteering with magnetic compass only requires understanding of local deviations.

There's also "teaching geodesy" - which might allow you to simulate changes of location etc.

All of this, of course, goes beyond a simple exercise in inferface design and angles.

I threw it in there in case you're looking for further coding exercises.

I guess the remaining question is .. analog clock directions?
Does the most recent generation need to be reminded to watch their six o'clock?

[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_Magnetic_Anomaly
Convert to F and also buy measuring cups/spoons and glare angrily from the recipe to my trusty scale, which stands unused in the corner, I guess.

Measuring by weight is the one cooking-related hill that I will die on.

(Recently, I had a recipe ask for four cups of lettuce, which could've been anything from 0.5x to 4x of what I finally went with, depending on how much I packed the cups. It's lunacy)
Live in China. Immerse yourself.
You install autocad, reboot. You install something that uses the camera, reboot, you install an antivirus, reboot, you uninstall any of these things, reboot. Worse is the restore points that never seem to actually restore anything. Often they just make it work because now you're in a weird state where something that was supposed to be there isn't there anymore.
> In 2005, Congress decided that a new series of dollar coins should be minted to engage the public. These coins would bear the likeness of every former president, starting with George Washington. There would be a new one every quarter. So, far, the Mint has produced coins through the 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant.

Oh no, we're on course to make a coin with Trump's face on it.
ᴿC or ᴿF ?
Redoing one paper from ReScience C back on 2020
Interesting robot. But would it be efficient in actually reducing the amount of flies in a significant way? I am thinking that trees can be high and it seems not being able to reach much higher than a human would. Perhaps some kind of climbing robot could work here? Or a drone on a leach?
`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's that and a very special kind of controlled chaos that's incredibly addicting.
std::regex also depends on locale, which is reason enough to avoid it, regardless of performance.
Musk has been accused of bringing anti-Muslim content to the attention of his millions of followers (like Amy Mek's tweets about the France riots and other things[0]) and I'm sure that wouldn't sit well with Saudi Arabia.

I understand worries of Musk supporting the right, but your interpretation is a unique one that seems highly unlikely.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671397462043512833
Yes, and sorry if it’s harsh. It just appears to be a generic blogging clone.

The page I land on needs to make it immediately clear why the site is useful. No explanations or hand waving.
> Forget 4K, 6K, or 8K. Pixel density is the spec when considering any display.

I'm not really sure what you're refuting, if anything. Either I personally find 220ppi now rather unimpressive, or I found the 2015 MacBook display to have been especially impressive, but I am not sure which; all I was really saying is that they do indeed have quite similar pixel densities.
After experiencing 120Hz it ruined 60Hz monitors for me
Schools of education have a very poor reputation for a reason.

There's analysis done on the "teacher quality" (based on student results) and the amount of teacher training (at these schools). There's basically zero difference between an emergency qualified teacher with no education qualifications, and someone with a masters or PhD of education.

Quote - https://caldercenter.org/sites/default/files/1001059_Teacher...

> Our results suggest that
only two of the forms of teacher training we study influence productivity. First,
content-focused teacher professional development is positively associated with
productivity in middle and high school math. Second, more experienced teachers
appear more effective in teaching elementary math and reading and middle school
math. There is no evidence that either pre-service (undergraduate) training or the
scholastic aptitude of teachers influences their ability to increase student
achievement.

The evidence is that teachers learn literally nothing (or overall nothing - maybe they learn some good things and some harmful myths) in teacher college. They might learn a bit of math, which helps them teach math. IIRC it's also found that doing a PhD in education can be helpful in teaching classes with a heavy essay writing focus.

It's not surprising, since a lot of what gets taught in teacher college is junk psychology from the 1930s, and the essays of the kind of people who do a PhD in education. Here's a few of the biases that they tend to have (IMO):

* Education experts did OK at school, and think that the fundamentals are boring because their white upper-middle-class parents helped them learn phonics and the times tables.

* Education experts are often not actually good at much other than essay writing and year 10 math, and don't see the point of hard sciences like pyschology.

* There's plenty of smart people who go into education, but they do it because they want to teach, not be a researcher.

I could go through some of the poor content in education degrees (like the hero of education experts Vygotsky, who I'm not convinced many have even read other than through n-th hand sources where people write "the student is thus about to construct knowledge through scaffolded tasks in the zone of proximal development (Vygoskly, 1930something)", but you'd be lucky to find many teachers who agree on what any of that means (other than be common sense "don't make it too hard to follow").

Is it really a wonder that Cletus, who got a job in rural school in Alabama with no more qualifications than being able to write his name correctly teaches just as well (according to research) as someone with a PhD in education?

The good research is in psychology departments - people who study the science of learning are generally pretty well informed on it.
Im using caddy, it's great!
Because angry HNers who downvote you demand free (as in beer) software and are pissed that someone actually wants to pay their employees for Linux development.
I don't think so. From where I'm sitting, I can see the rainbow effects of antialiasing on my 4k 32" monitor. The easiest way to observe this is some skinny light text on a dark background.

Other than that, I'm quite happy with my screen real-estate. So, I would indeed love it to have a higher resolution. I could probably use a somewhat bigger screen, a bit further away, that would do a better job as a TV the rare times I use it as such (don't have an actual TV). But all in all, I just want smaller pixels.

Others are talking about higher refresh rates, but for my use case it wouldn't be as useful since I rarely drag things around (I use a TWM) and don't use smooth scrolling in apps.
If this new app support Web platform perfectly as well like twitter, It could be a bomb. Can't deny that, Previous Twitter devs built the Twitter Web app at a really high level in some way (eg. whatever the PWA tech or UX/UI details). But backwards to today, this previous creature is dying for some reason or someone's reason.
Just a reminder: Red Hat is owned by IBM, though they say that this is an independent subsidiary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
This is an interesting find and explains why “ravenstine” has sort of disappeared from this thread, having asserted that this use of steroids is simply down to men wanting to impress women (then doubling down in it, and sprinkling in some anti-trans stuff in to boot)
Hopefully not. I'd like to see them require a paid account just to access the site and see any tweets. Even better, make it per-use: instead of a flat monthly fee, charge $X for viewing Y tweets, and $A for writing $B tweets. On top of this, (paying) readers should be forced to view ads, with their accounts locked if an ad-blocker is detected, with an extra unlocking fee to be paid to get access to their account again.

Overall, I think Elon is doing okay with the changes to Twitter, but I think there's a lot more he could be doing to improve profitability, such as my proposals above.
I've been watching this "crisis" unfold since the original announcement from Red Hat and I think most people are. Not giving Red Hat carte blanche here but fundamentally they are one of the largest contributors to open source, they're not violating the GPL (yet), and they're unhappy with Oracle and VC funded rebuilders using Red Hat's brand value for a free ride. Anyone with a foot in the business world at least kind of understands their position.

What seems to have happened is "influencers," including many who have no skin in the game and shallow takes, have seen an opportunity in this topic to make a few bucks by churning out populist clickbait. It's a discussion about business and licensing which has been perverted into a culture war. As usual all the nuance is lost and the loudest personalities have ended up dominating. /barf
I'm convinced that there are two kinds of learning - conscious and subconscious. Most people think of learning as a purely conscious effort but I would point out that becoming fluent in a new language is almost entirely a subconscious effort.

Conscious effortful study can help you pick up new vocabulary and grammar, but our brains have to process language at speeds too fast for the conscious mind to keep up. It has to be learned subconsciously. Most of us don't even notice the effort needed to read this paragraph of text because it's all subconsciously processed before out conscious minds get to it. While conscious learning requires short bursts of focused attention, subconscious learning is done almost 24/7 in the background in a relaxed state (no effort is needed, and I'm not even sure if it makes a difference).

[1] None of this is backed up, I essentially pulled it out my ass. It's my theory on why language classes don't work, but children pick up languages so effortlessly.
i don't mean to be harsh. But it seems like everyone thinks they can easily become a programmer no matter their background. We don't have these kinds of beliefs for doctors/lawyers or enginners but we falsely believe anyone can become a programmer in a couple of months. If you are homeless, learn programming. If you're just out of Jail, learn programming. If you drop out of middle school and is afraid of math, learn programming. Programmers belittle their own professions. Perhaps it is because programming is permissionless , so people believe it is easier. But just because everyone can start a youtube channel doesn't mean you can easily become an influencer. Same for programmers.
can I ride this wave?

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True but there's still the issue that you won't see objects of certain colors when illuminated by sodium lamps. That could be a traffic hazard. With full spectrum light that's only the case for full black objects.

Colour rendering doesn't have to be perfect for this use but having full spectrum coverage does have its advantages.
Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (2020)
Like Nextdoor? That has already brought the usual internet toxicity to the local neighborhood. The inverse square law seems to apply equally to passive-aggressive behavior and gravity.
Copying my reply from Mastodon:

> I honestly don’t know. Maybe this is a bug in the monitor’s firmware and it does use some version of DSC after all? Or you’re right regarding lack of DSC support and it uses more than 8 Gbps but displays it incorrectly? Not sure. But something is definitely different about the monitor’s link when a MacBook is connected…

Then I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36581855, which points out 24 bit colors vs. 30 bit colors. The MacBook links up with 24-bit colors indeed. Maybe that’s the difference?
Yeah idk. I don’t want to be snarky but “we had a cross compiler for ARM with a few tweaks” that had already had hardware shipping for half a decade doesn’t sound all that impressive.
The second, more or less.

The advice is certainly applicable in other domains, however the explanations and examples used in the book are heavily focused on software that will be executing repetitive code in a frequency-controlled loop, that loops over arrays of arrays. This also applies to simulation software.

There are some key characteristics on this kind of software that may or may not be present in other domains. Once deeply inside game development, these characteristics are like the oxygen you breath, and become intrinsically ingrained in how you think. This is the case with this book and author: I have the impression he thought gamedev-focused examples were general and not specific.

As I said, I was really positively influenced by this book, and I tend to go back to it from time to time. Always worth it. Just be aware of what it is focused on.
I agree about the color - I just wanted to be fair about the advantages of LEDs.

In my city the main streets (commercial mostly) are white LEDs and the side streets (residential) are sodium, and I like it that way.

I linked the thread because it's old, and has exactly this topic.
Haha, well played! Don't forget to throw in some more meaningless crap, like "dog-fooding."
> When the only other viable option is an incredibly expensive machine that comes with a different OS or a free version of an OS that relies on contributions and donations to maintain

I feel like you just threw mud at Linux distros for the way that they fund themselves, but I don't understand why.
When I was taking algebra 1 in middle school I learned that all non-parallel lines had to intersect and this made me realize that the temperature scales must intersect, so I calculated their intersection point. I thought it was the single greatest discovery anyone had ever made and told literally every adult in my life about it. -40 C/F has always held a very special place in my heart haha
Many processing units can offset this via superscaler methods, that is tricks to have more than one instruction processing at the same time. pipelining, speculative execution, smt, etc.

The article does not go into great depth about it, but does say that the 1 ipc ratio number is based off more gut feel than anything else. I assume the idea is that the superscaler bits(greater than 1 ipc ratio) help compensate for the slow bits(less than 1 ipc ratio) normalizing out at around a 1 ipc ratio when your code is good.
You are very balanced :-) . Of course, there is valid criticisms of the hype and the way LLMs are, and will be, used but my annoyance at what I perceive as ignorant, self-interested and progress-hostile attitudes from my own industry sometimes gets the better of me.

When the dust settles, and the consensus concludes the obvious namely that: "yes, this thing actually does possess intelligence and knowledge, on an unprecedented level with vastly greater future potential" then maybe we can concentrate on steering education and professions into directions that will make the tech controllable and even more useful, and avoid the real pitfalls and dangers that lie ahead.

As long as we're stuck on the understanding that this is "just a hallucinating, stochastic parrot" and everything else is pure hype then we're not getting the right things done I'm afraid.
I'll make a guess it's because of the think-act-observe(read) loop.
Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer’ App Is Coming
I was responding to PP's comment that

> Microsoft has been skimming processing power for year through spying and it's just that simple.

PP seems to be suggesting that breaking up MS would have somehow resulted in improved OS and application performance and better privacy, but that seems unlikely when we consider how most other platforms have evolved.
history of the nine-dash line is super interesting - essentially a US cartographic invention, dividing up the maritime areas previously taken over by Imperial Japan. China - then under control (more or less) of the nationalists - were a classic US protege regime and given the bulk of the territory, as the safest bet amongst all other claimants, all of whom were undergoing nationalist insurgencies against the restoration of European colonial control. The US did not anticipate, I guess, that the CPC would defeat the Nationalists and drive them to the island of Taiwan, and so here we are
Most of my use of degrees is either in cooking or weather. Having a larger scale means more accuracy, seeing as we don't use decimals in either.

I'm not saying it makes a ton of sense, but my only real defense of it.

That said, I find negative units rather silly in most measurements, so we should really be using K I think.
It's a very rare object that reflects nothing in the yellow-orange of sodium lamps. You'll just see a kind of black and white (except in yellow) version of the object.

Also, they have high pressure sodium bulbs that widen the color, and then I don't think there are any objects you won't see.
Nos.today: A NOSTR search engine, with an example “Instagram+threads”
It was a hard problem that could have had a much simpler solution than CORBA. There is no need for a Grand Unified Thingy that is so complicated nobody actually understands it.

Even back then you probably could use something as simple as xmlrpc and get the job done at 1/100 of cost of an CORBA solution.
It's something else in the kernel, there we have the permission system which we rely on.

If you are serving files to web from the folder, the web framework should handle not taversing the public root folder it was tasked to serve. If are rolling your own, well now you have to consider all kinds of stuff, including this.
I don't think so. No Twitter clone, or Twitter consept is going to replace Twitter.

What made Twitter big, what made Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, big is that they all brought something new on the table. Blueskye, mastodon etc. don't. It's just the same.

People that are active on Twitter have spent years to make a following, and there are no reason to go over to another app and create that same following again. Why spend the time and effort when Twitter still is a thing.

Plus people have been talking about leaving Twitter for a year now, but few people actually have.
> Why is it ecologically better?

The significant reduction in energy use as well as the long lifespan of the lamps more than makes up for the metals used in the manufacture of the lamps.

If this genuinely interests you there is plenty of research available from reputable sources.
There is an Android app in the pipes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram....
I like this bit

> Specifically, it means that a user is free to run the program, study and change the program, and redistribute the program with or without changes.

if one user bought a copy, the license allows them (encourages them even) to redistribute it however they see fit, including say selling it for one cent less than the original, or simply giving it away for free. All the license requires is a single seminal user, and from that point onwards, “free as in free beer” is enabled by “free as in free speech.”

What a weird cosmology that leads to - you create a product, which everyone wants, and you carefully evaluate what the maximum price you can receive for it is - which is paid to you, by the luckiest person alive, who in turn distributes it to absolutely everyone for free, for the good of all.

This is feeling real worldbuildy.
The twitter I used was way more text than media, I had Tweetbot set to small thumbnails as well. For me at least, Twitter started as text only and ended as text mostly.
does anyone know why this is an Instagram app, and not just an mobile optimised FB with its timeline restored to pre-Cambridge Analytica level of engagement?
> Problem 2 — Paper Folding

> It is difficult to fold a piece of paper more than 8 or 10 times.

They really were wizards back then.