skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Binaries are cool and all, but maybe it's better for your organizational health to have (for example) your company look something like the population they're selling to? Maybe not everyone gets the same level of boost in their education? Maybe they've overcome some adversity and that will make them a better, more resilient colleague, but it also meant their grades weren't as high? Like I said, this isn't easy stuff, and binary thinking doesn't really help.
Don't all browsers on iOS have to use Safari for rendering?
As they advertise to you for their latest fundraiser…

Do you think large corporations will donate to support Chrome developers who get paid at the level of Google employees?

People aren’t willing to donate to support Firefox. It’s funding mostly comes from Google.
Sounds like an excuse to rewatch it in HD :)
No, I'm not "retconning" it.

> Anyone who raised it was marked as being in that crowd regardless of what they said or who they were.

This reads like maybe you didn't read my comment, and were just like "oh good, an opportunity to pop off on this topic!". I said, explicitly, that lumping in regular skeptical folks with the cynical contrarians was the worst part of the mistake. You aren't expanding on a point we disagree on, you're just venting about it.

Honestly didn't read past your #1, because you're already just spouting bullshit. I saw "Bill Gates" somewhere in the rest of that, so I'm certain it only gets worse from there.

Have a good day!

Apologies to everyone else for feeding the trolls.
More young people are buying houses than 50 years ago. Getting rich is more about living below your means than anything else - of course those with more income have more means in the first place, but there are plenty of people making $500k/year living paycheck to paycheck, while others making barely more than poverty wages manage to become millionaires (generally around 60 - compound interest takes a while to work for you)
A step further, these are understood to be very pro business before you even consider "too big to fail" (which itself is a very pro business platform anyway).

As an aside, I don't think anyone realistically thinks MS is failing if you're able uninstall edge.
We’re just coming out of an international disaster.
In our current web app, users' screenshots are stored on AWS cloud. Only the essential information processed from these screenshots is sent to the OpenAI API. According to OpenAI API's public commitment, this data will not be used for any training purposes.

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> nor do we get shares/equity in our water/power consumption

Well, to be fair, most utility companies are publicly traded, so you could if you want....

And if you have a pension pot from current/prior employment, then the pension pot almost certainly has some utility shares somewhere in it, because the utilities pay reasonably reliable dividends, which is the just sort of thing you need for a pension.
> The inquiry into human uniqueness is probably just another case of human curiosity, enabled by our (seemingly) boundless capacity for understanding across domains, no?

I think it is like the Ptolemaic model of the universe. We want to be special. Same as "my home team is the best in the world."
I like using the "split tweak" method to do my curves. Converts polygons to curves. Works VERY well. Very intuitive, straightforward and ez. It's a variety of bezier.

Alg :

given polygon P.
For each vertex V in P.
Get the midpoints of the 2 segs adjacent to V. M0 M1. Add those 2 points to the polygon.
Get the midpoint of seg(M0, M1). M2. Move V to the midpoint of (V,M2).

Repeat 2 or 3 times or whatever. Each iteration increases smoothness.

And here's the code for that

https://github.com/johnalexandergreene/Geom_2D/blob/master/C...

There's a version of that for open curves too, elsewhere in that package .
I think Bosch makes the best dishwasher money can buy right now.
1. Gameplay

2. Art Style

?. Sound Design (unsure if under gameplay or on its own).

3. Graphical Fidelity

This is what people look for in a game and what sells them, atleast in my opinion.

Some of biggest mainstream games of the last decade or so are Minecraft, and Fortnite.
First, I think we should use expression count instead of pure LOC because many styles add white space but keep the expression the same. I don’t consider one style “more terse” than another. e.g.

a.map(…).reduce(…).join(…)

a.map(…)
.reduce(…)
.join(…)

If you can accept that expressions are a better metric for “terseness” then I will categorically say your statement is pretty easy to disprove. Essentially you’re saying that every 10 expressions can be rewritten as a single expression. I don’t believe that to be true, based on a cursory glance of some code bases I’m familiar with.
Pixel art or 3d... graphics are overrated.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388770/Cruelty_Squad/

(Haven't had the chance to play yet, but I've heard great things)
Interestingly all three of those options were already disabled for me. I don't recall setting any of them myself.

I'll check back in a few weeks time to check whether Google has sneakily enabled them without my intervention...
The fact that this tone-deaf comment is the top comment right now speaks volumes of the second nature of people on this website.

Modern warfare, especially that since World War 1 and the rise of deaths on the battlefront on a massive scale, requires a high amount of intelligence on all levels to be executed. You need generals who can envision new strategies such as the blitzkrieg or the paradrop. You need sergeants and master sergeants to provision and allocate adequate resources for your regiments. You need privates and conscripts to figure out where enemy mines are, or to follow orders from top to execute their complex maneuvers. Of course, you could also adopt ages-old Russian-style human steamroller doctrines and send in men after men to their deaths, just like the world did in WW1. We're already seeing that in Ukraine - 3 day operation is going strong after 500+ days.

> Maybe trying more "x's Morons" ideas isn't such a bad idea?

Perhaps the US government should enlist a number of upvoters of this comment, put them on the median national wage and force them to work for days on to refurbish creaking government IT systems? Just a thought, heh.
> Most would save in some sort of instrument that would expose them to the stock market, money market, real estate etc.

The historical returns are a aberration from a high growth world, populations are falling. They won't look like that in the coming decades.

> Central banks normally have an inflation goal of 2%

2% CPI. CPI is a political measure first and a scientific measure second, from hedonic quality adjustment, owner imputed rent and the simple fact that most households don't have teams of economists planning their budget in order to maximally limit inflation means its far from a accurate barometer for the experiences of real people in the economy.

The single income households of yore had a higher percentage of discretionary income than two income households today. CPI was unable to capture this change and finds those households are wealthier somehow.
I know someone who will never move back to PA for this reason.
It’s way off base because it’s unacceptable in civilized society to pay stalkers to harass people to make a point. Do you seriously think it is ok to hire a PI to follow someone to “make a point”? I find that horrifying.

Further this is a pro-privacy article. The author seems to have a good grasp of the situation and has communicated it well to a general audience. It even concludes with how to turn the feature off and a call to reconsider how your data is being used.
Which is especially ironic given that the install experience for Mint 10 years ago was better than Windows installation at the time (live environment, lack of product key), and far better than Windows now (opt out? Do you want a pen? What about this tracker? Don't you have a microsoft online account? Why not? please make one before continuing!).

I had to install some Windows 11 machines for work and I was honestly dumbfounded by how convoluted it was.

The "problem" is that there's only a few people selling Linux laptops and they're doing it to target a niche market.

I have to seriously wonder how much market cap there would be if people had to install Windows themselves.
The Annoyance Engine: Spam robocalls (2021)
> intelligent people can just be put into the mental equivalent of an unrecoverable flat spin

I can't recommend the article either, it's just a casually-interesting premise to which the author then attaches a trailer of the usual half-wit cries of oppression by some invisible conspiracy threatening the author's narrow comfort zone.

But in doing so, the article does illustrate the characteristics of the loud and untethered lunacy of the libertarian, petroleum-inhaling populist factions that are occupying so much space in social discourse today.
"Judge a person by their actions, not their words"

When you willingly leave your family out in the cold, thanksgiving winter; to have space to provide random passersby into your house to eat your turkey, lets talk!
> Now with the press nothing more than a rumor mill, all abuses that are happening today may never see the light of day.

The press has always been, at best, a manicured presentation of events that, even at its best, is often hemmed in by external constraints. Some might say that the trashiness of today's press is a symptom of the erosion of elite control over an official narrative. Noise and sensationalism not only sell, but they can also function as distractions.
Listened to a series of reruns on a recent trip across the U.S. Still funny.

The familiar banjo intro, some carefully crafted fan mail, and the first call.

They were in the process of doing battle with Melissa Peterson. That little twerp.
Inflation highly favors those who own a house. Their mortgage payment is fixed, your rent payment goes up every year.
We're living through the Great Enshitification.
Show HN: Which of these two wiki pages exist in the most languages?
A very simple game where you're presented two wiki (en) pages and have to guess which one exists in the most languages. It's not that easy and stringing the code together wasn't either (wikidata's sparql is a — powerful — nightmare).

repo: https://github.com/cpa/wikiguess/
A lot of modern software disregards the existence of unix sockets, probably because TCP sockets are an OS agnostic concept and perform well enough. You'd need to write Windows-specific code to handle named pipes if you didn't want to use TCP sockets.
I rented a few places that had dishwashers and boy did they vary. Good to read that I'm not completely crazy!

My anecdata:

- whirlpool gold with macerator (pre-2012!), absolute destroyer of any and all food waste.

- bosch (2010esque), no macerator, but great cleaner

- samsung (2015) might as well call it dish unwasher, made a nice drying rack

- kitchenaid (mid-2010s) generally great, filter thing sucks (have to keep it washed) and no macerator makes it get a little dirty, but dishes are clean.

If you can even get it, the macerator seems like the way to go for brainless rinse free dish washing. I imagine it's not offered anymore or something under the guise of energy saving.

My galpal has a frigidaire from early 2000s that is so loud it sounds like it is grinding the plates into dust. They come out squeaky clean and so hot you can't touch anything for the first 10 minutes after a cycle.

Dishwashers are excellent time saver, bring on the innovation!
Advertisers say that 90% of their ad spend has no results the problem is they don't know which spend that is. Graphics cards have the same problem. 90% of the pixels aren't being looked at. The problem is the card doesn't know which ones they are. This is the problem to solve.
There is a benefit to keeping the rules as simple as possible. Capping the number of flights is simpler to understand. Most of the problems with flying are fairly well correlated with number of flights.

Trying to directly cap emissions seems like a good way to make the program fail before it even starts. Do you penalize fliers who end up on an older, less efficient jet? Takeoffs burn a lot of fuel so do you penalize fliers who take flights with a layover? If a plane flies half-full, do the passengers pay more?
Not exactly what you're looking for, but your comment about abusing pings made me remember pingfs [1]. It brings an entirely new definition of cloud computing!

[1] - https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
Of course you can get rid of the "web search bar". Not sure what launcher the Pixel is using, as I have a Samsung device, but you can install a different launcher if needed.

The in-app views can be Firefox by just setting it as the default browser. Lest we forget, at least Android has an actual Firefox implementation, versus iOS which does not. Not sure what you're talking about, but if you bumped into certain cases where a Chromium web view would be better for compatibility, you can use a Chromium-based fork, like Bromite, Vivaldi, or Brave, all of which can fit the bill.

The only exception I can think of is Facebook, which comes with a highly customized web view meant for tracking users, but it's not using Chrome directly. And on Android it is the custom to also allow opening links in the external browser, and even Facebook has this option (Settings -> Preferences -> Media -> Open links in external browser).

The only edge that Chrome has is the deeper integration on the "Install app" menu option for websites that integrate with SSB/PWA. Otherwise you can safely uninstall or disable Chrome completely (which I do).

I have a Samsung S21 Ultra, with 512 GB of storage. I can download torrents straight to my phone via LibreTorrent. The other day I downloaded 3 seasons of Star Trek Picard and started playing them on my TV. But first, I used Firefox with uBlock Origin installed to navigate a Pirate Bay mirror. The entire scenario is only possible on Android.
The original design by Graydon envisioned a real GC, but one per task/actor instead of global, with limited message passing between threads.

http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf
But the only provider isn't "Google". The browser will provide this data equally to any site asking for it, i.e. all the ad networks that the site is using. Not just to Google.

If anything, it is leveling the playing field. All ad networks will get the same interest data, rather than the ones with a higher reach 3rd party cookie having more information.
The marginal cost of producing additional copies of free software is zero.
The Bartleby column is the one thing in the Economist I skip week after week without feeling I miss out on something. I am sure the woman who writes it has a tattoo of a cubicle somewhere and a RTO T-shirt.
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> The frequencies and connectors used by CGA and MDA are no longer supported by modern monitors hence it is difficult for older PCs of the 1980s era to have modern displays connected to them without external adapters.

Some CGA ran over composite, and there's plenty of modern small TVs with a composite input. It's perfectly fine to use a TV as a computer monitor. (I do!)

> This analog-to-digital conversion will also lead to an inevitable loss in video quality.

Oh, now we're splitting hairs! This is super-low resolution, super-low colorspace. CGA was (at most) 16 discrete colors. In many situations it was 4 colors with 2 pallets to chose from. The CGA port was also digital, so I don't understand where the "loss in video quality" argument comes from.

IMO: I don't "get" this. You're no longer running "vintage" hardware; yet a lot of vintage hardware has limited lifespan and may become unrepairable if/when there's degradation inside the chips themselves.

If someone is going to go through all this trouble, it makes a lot more sense to emulate the whole computer.
I interviewed at a startup in Palo Alto about ten years ago, my last round was with the CEO who had a question that sounded like it came straight out of a Car Talk puzzler. Being a regular listener, I of course solved it right away, and got an offer a few days later. (I turned them down because my would-be supervisor was talking about 60 hour weeks being standard, but of course sometimes they had to put in a little extra).
Python imports don't work like in Java.

import keras.applications.vgg16.VGG16
import keras.applications.vgg16.preprocess_input

preprocess_input(...) # ERROR
keras.applications.vgg16.preprocess_input(...) # CORRECT
Those tests do not mean anything once you clear a lower bound somewhere between 70 and 90. N N Taleb summed it up best as "IQ is a measure of unintelligence.
How could you compare the grotesque and absurd syntax complexity of c++ with C?

Do you realize those are not on the same order of magnitude. It is reasonable to write a naive C compiler alternative with few resources (even a C compiler with a few basic optimizations passes is reasonable), and totally insane, at a pathological level, for a naive c++ compiler alternative. C is not better, it is less worse and its syntax is already way too complex. The less worse compromise, for now.

If you cannot understand why many prefer to avoid using such language for those very reasons, and there are more (just browse the web), I am very sorry, I cannot do much more.
https://briefs.video/videos/is-html-a-programming-language/
How do you see it connecting to the culture war? My impression is that the division then wasn't between those avoiding service and those serving, but between those against war and those for it.

> During the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the abuses that were reported were ignored because no one cared. By then, no one had any trust in the US Gov.

I wouldn't say that no one cared, but do you have evidence of that explanation? I'd say the abuses were overlooked for multple reasons - people despaired, and especially the reactionary segment of society was (and is) opposed to anything put forward by 'liberals', no matter what it is.

> with the press nothing more than a rumor mill

Try the NY Times, Financial Times, etc. Their articles are very well-researched, based on going in-person to the events (including the front line of war), talking to large numbers of the actual people involved - the actual witnesses, reading confidential documents, etc. One way to think of it: If someone wrote a blog post like that, you'd be amazed.
billboard ads are a drop of the bucket compared to everything.
I just heard a man who bought a multi-million dollar oceanfront home why crying about sea level rise accuse other people of fraud.

If sea levels are rising, why are ocean-front homes still a sound investment?
X-ray images reveal how bees build underground nests
> You may have read stories in the tech media celebrating that Windows will finally respect the default browser setting.

As someone who hasn't daily driven Windows since Windows 7 this statement is hilarious, because back then, it did respect default browser settings.
One of the upsides to Firefox is ricing it to fit your flow. I got vertical tabs like some other browsers have and its great. People on reddit do alot crazier stuff
I’ve been reading about eye tracking and selective rendering for at least twenty years now.
The main goal of using async for me is to not have to handle all the IO wait state machines myself. It does a pretty good job of that, and as long as my program consists of a bunch of tasks concurrently waiting for IO to finish, a single thread is perfectly fine.
My property tax is 700$/year and the yearly increase is capped. I already pay less in tax than what my house is assessed at because of the cap. If I paid the assessed value my taxes would be ~800$/year.

In terms of inflation? Owning the house has already made that a lot less painful.
The Midwesterner in me really wants to argue that cutting coupons still makes sense, but I can understand if you've got a lot going on that might not be the case.
The search bar on the home screen referenced by OP is a Pixel launcher exclusive, which is the default installed launcher on Pixel devices. You can't remove it. You can install an third-party launcher however. You can also use a widget provided by a browser app to put a search bar on the homescreen (all major browsers have such an option).

For the most part, my webviews are in FF (selected as my default browser), but it depends on what app launches the webview. Sometimes it defaults to Chrome.
Yes. And Jose Chung's From Outer Space was brilliantly original, tightly constructed, and hilarious at times.
This is my dream. An interpreted language, implemented in Rust which essentially boxes all data and can do message passing to the host language. This would then give a somewhat plausible upgrade path to port the interpreted code into Rust bit by bit as required.

The interpreted language even be slower than Python, so long as the escape hatch to Rust was simple and safe enough to implement the interfaces.
Sure, some OLAP databases let you add the same metadata that a OLTP database gives you as constraints, especially enterprise ones. A lot still don't, like Clickhouse, afaik.

No OLAP database I know of would let you encode other semantic layer things like aggregations or metrics. EG defining a DAU/MAU metric as "The distinct number of users logged in that day vs the distinct number of users in the 28 days before that day."

Those types of definitions usually live in the semantic layer or bi layer, which a LLM analysis tool would need to solve for.
... does this article seem a little low quality to anyone else?

> By far the most private browsers are specialist non-tracking browsers that prioritise no tracking, such as DuckDuckGo...

wha???

> Tracking technology can arguably benefit us as well. For example, it could be helpful if an online store reminds you every three months you need a new toothbrush, or that this time last year you bought a birthday card for your mum.

Wha?! The technology google is deploying wouldn't even support that. Frankly the level of personal invasion required to achieve this...

Was this just like a bit of biting sarcasm or something? Dry wit that flew over my head?

This article seems off.
Practical Electronics for Inventors[0] is the go-to book for what you're looking for. Has the right balance of practical application without dumbing things down too much. That being said, if you need help getting familiar again, Adafruit's tutorials[1] are a fantastic resource to have a 'recipe' type project with an associated parts list

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourt...
[1] https://learn.adafruit.com
Bad Blood is easily my favourite. Rashomon-X-Files! :)