skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DYK is a notorious part of Wikipedia from an editing POV and is rife with long-term accounts who all they do is curate it.
What is this? A scifi novel?

By the time your dude downloads the database half the hotels on your imaginary website have changed status.
Really? Don't all those predator drones have to stream high-quality video?

Also I bet aircraft carriers at sea need a good data connection too.
You don't really understand the current landscape of Wikipedia.
I arbitrarily selected the month of September 2022 and found that on only 5 out of the 30 days of the month was there an entry related to Ukraine or Ukrainians in the "Did you know" section. Of those 5, only 1 was related to the war. I disagree that 5/30 constitutes "nearly every day".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/202......

Furthermore, I don't see what's inherently wrong with including information in that section that relates to a topic people are likely to be interested in at the moment.

Additionally, the "Did you know section" isn't really for current events. That would be the "In the news" section.
Then read the title as "here some reasons why Discord is likely not ideal for use as a Q&A forum for you." Less punchy though.
> How could you possibly call the largest encyclopedia in human history, freely accessible to all, and correct nearly all of the time irrelevant?

I didn't - I called the other stuff the Wikimedia Foundation does, the stuff that it spends the vast majority of its immense donation income on, irrelevant.

> There are imperfections to Wikipedia and the Foundation of course, but, what more can you reasonably expect?

I expected policies that better reflected what most users and contributors wanted, or that helped make something better. Almost everyone was against the notability rules (and, while it's a minor thing really, almost everyone was in favour of spoiler warnings; they may have had theoretical problems but they worked well in practice). All the measures to make it harder for new users to edit were based on a false assumption - actually new users are no more likely to be vandals or politically biased than anyone else.
> Most apparent experts insist that letting algorithmic money vacuums operate is "good for liquidity,"

You do realize those "apparent experts" are mainly those ones making money from it (or are closely associated with them)?

I also think the best policy national is for everyone to pay me $10 daily. And I can give you hundreds of pages in support as to why that is. And after I've made a few tens of millions of that, I can buy you an army of "apparent experts" that will agree with it.

And for starters, by ensuring that money is moving daily (to my pocket), regardless of if a person is sitting on the couch at home watching tv all day, "greatly increases liquidity".
Lossless compression _is_ a scorecard for lossy compression. Thanks to the ideas from arithmetic coding.
The name is literally a modification of "encyclopedia". It's an encyclopedia in wiki form.
Are you able to point to any concrete examples?

I know that new user experience is awful now. Can’t even correct misinformation because my whole range of available dynamically assigned IP addresses from my ISP (the largest in the country) are blocked and I can’t find any way to sign up for an account that’s navigable compared to the benefit of a huge body of errata on a wide range of topics. That’s my example.

Beyond that, a bureaucracy has arisen and much like the nomenklatura they exhibit many of the problems of the system they sought to replace.

Wikipedia is still great.

But the new stuff is not as fun. The user added photographs from 20 years ago pleasantly surprise me a lot more than the new stuff. But I don’t keep a file on hand.
Why doesn't Microsoft just add SQLite to Excel, so your formulas can query it?
> new UI project

It’s incredible to me how many people choose VS Code because of its aesthetics, so it is by all means the right thing to focus on.
Yeah, the solution to using a Discord is host random shit yourself that someone _might_ maybe need. That's a hard pass. The very reason why I am on Discord is that I don't need to host my own shit. Been there, done that, I have better things to do.
There also is a productivity boost within this approach.

When you have a local DB as an integration point, you could just upload it to ChatGPT Code Interpreter for building extra reports and running analysis on it.

Alternatively, upload the schema to ChatGPT and “write these few methods with unit tests for me, please”.

I’m not saying that this approach is universal, but it saves me an hour of time now and then.
This surprised me but I randomly checked three days and none of them had anything relating to Ukraine in "Did You Know?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20220715144903/https://en.m.wiki...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220819171715/https://en.m.wiki...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220902170516/https://en.m.wiki...

(by chance one of the Featured Articles was "Confirmation Bias")
For now. Just remember who owns Github these days and what their track record is with technology.
I'd like to see other sources that they don't pay for subcontractors. I don't think 9to5 and its comments are good sources for semiconductor manufacturing.

At the same time, Japan's TSMC fab (JASM), building is on schedule and don't see such problems. Maybe lower salary and similar work culture contribute flawless building.
AKA "config directory".

See https://jmmv.dev/2020/08/config-files-vs-directories.html
Public Beta for ScummVM on iOS
I like to use the Lindy effect as an everyday heuristic, quite often for choosing what books to read. That is: if a book has been highly relevant, say, for the past 20 years, it may have considerable relevance 20 years from today as well. Conclusion: I will think about buying that physical book for my home library, so my children would have a carefully-filtered collection of "classics" from many eras by the time they reach young adulthood.

As a result, I almost never buy (or often even read) current-day bestsellers. Usually, one is not in a hurry with reading a book; also, new books can be really well marketed these days, which always makes me cautious. It seems to make more sense to read a book 5-10 years after it was first released.

The Lindy effect does seem to hold true when I think about e.g. SICP, K&R's C book -- or Kernighan et al's 1988 AWK book for which the authors release a second edition in October this year! [1]

Not to mention classic books in fiction or philosophy. Or cultural memes and ideas -- as a rough heuristic, the Lindy effect does often seem to hold true with these as well. It is a fun and extremely useful thinking tool for longer-term everyday prognostics.

1: https://www.awk.dev/
Seems this one's phone was broken. Seems very like a certain Hollywood alien to me.
That’s like saying if the product is good it will stand on its own. So far the theory. As most founders here know it’s not so easy.
"Apple users" means a handful of Twitter users according to nypost.

iPhone 15 pro is now same weight as old iphone 6s plus, which is impressive considering the screen is bigger, camera bigger, battery bigger (2750 > 3650 mAh).

Action button is on right track in terms of customisation. I think more can be done, perhaps even a second action button, or custom LED light for notifications. I just want to glance at phone on table to see if I have message from specific contacts.
Being more verbose and sounding like soulless corpo speak doesn't make you better than a human. Maybe syntactically, but spell check has been effective for decades
The second part is easy to judge across companies; the first part is harder.

For example, I won't work for a company whose health insurance only has religiously-affiliated hospitals. That's almost 1/5 of US hospitals, and it generally means that they put their religious goals above my choices.
Yeah, nothing like finding some old dusty phpBB that has been completely over run with bots spamming NSFW stuff. 5/5 much better than Discord. Very industrious.
Not to mention that you might get scurvy during on the job training (especially if you're a pirate), whereas it would be nigh impossible to do the same during orange juice time.
Everything you said is wrong
> Noob consumers may click ads, but after a while they program their brain to filter them out automatically.

Ads are not just about clicks. Half of all spending is brand advertising.

Noobs don’t click random SMB ads, and yet that’s like 40% of spending on mobile.

There are people who are “superclickers” and also super buyers. They’re just a really expensive audience to target, obviously.

Anyway, you’re extrapolating from your sole experience with ads. It is a super big ecosystem with a lot of rationality, as ridiculous as that sounds. It is growing a lot still, digital ad spending grows like $130b a year around now, which is the highest it’s ever been. So I don’t know, you’re not saying stuff that is substantiated in truth.
> Interesting - if you play the universe in reverse (reversing entropy) you wind up at the Big Bang, which is the final boss of compressing everything, into a singularity.

Only if you believe that running the universe forward did not add any extra information. Ie everything is deterministic, and no randomness occurs.

(That's actually a reasonable stance to take. Quantum mechanics is probabilistic in the Copenhagen interpretation, but completely deterministic in the Many World interpretation.)
I am a little confused, why not just create a CNAME and point it to that server?!
It'll be funny if a flash exporter gets created and starts working in the meantime.

That Ruffle project (for playing flash animations) seems to have developed good traction and is going well too.

Might be a good future possibility for Godot web playback. :)
https://trac.syr.edu/tracirs/latest/682/
I think the parent poster is arguing that we should normalize this behavior not that there's no excuse for not calling the number back given the reality we have today.

You're saying it's natural for people not to want to call back and wade through a million menus, and I agree.

But the conclusion from this is that companies should change their processes so that calling back is easy, precisely because otherwise people won't do it.

And the more people that do it despite the costs, the more normalized it'll be, and the more companies will be incentivized to make it easier.
Then I guess it’s better to take out the billionaires now while we still can?
Agree on the downsides, although communities are a great way to exchange and discuss a project.
Instead, why don‘t we just keep the benefits of discord and build tools around it to manage its knowledge?
We can publish it, we can use it for AI assistant, basically anything is possible.

Disclaimer: I‘m the founder of awesomeqa.xyz
Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
I'm still not sure why Facebook doesn't have the "show all comments in chronological order" option as the default for comments on things. Recently there was the worldcup in Blood Bowl, and it was such a nightmare to follow the event on Facebook because every time I wanted to look for updates I needed to first sort the group feed by new and then on every thread I had to click on "show all comments". Not just once, but every time I visited the group.

I wonder why GitHub would ever consider going in that direction, but the developers of these things surely can't be using them themselves.
Then it'd probably need to be "book an appointment with your nearest Apple store to arrange the update".

"Free iPhone 15's" is unlikely the direction Apple would take. ;)
Definitely worth noting, but +3 games does not make an engine "rather popular".
You could get help automating support with tools like awesomeqa or kapa.ai
"Where your audience is, go you must"
- Master Yoda, probably
Recently I hit 200k ARR with my SaaS for Microsoft Teams -> https://perfectwiki.com

Basically it's a knowledge-base fully integrated with Microsoft Teams.

- I'm working on it alone for the last 3 years

- I don’t raise any investments

- I achieved this number only by organic growth

To get more details on how I achieved it you could read my AMA on r/SaaS. https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/15tnt60/i_built_micro...

P.S Small self promotion -> I created a Telegram channel where I share tips & tricks on how to build SaaS for Microsoft Teams. Join me here -> https://t.me/teams_development
It's difficult to relate this to modern perspectives on software design and architecture because the running example is hard to comprehend. It seems to be an interface to a data structure that may have been useful in certain applications in the context of hardware constraints 50 years ago. It would be great if somebody published an implementation of this example with the variations in C for illustration.
Well I like it better that way. Before, my "feed" was full of useless "X forked Y" messages and now it's empty. Less noise == a happier johncoltrane.
New World, an MMORPG game by Amazon Game Studios, have recently shut down their forums and migrated completely to Discord. It has been a complete disaster, including all the forum posts that show up in Google search are now just 404. Reporting bugs is a crap shoot into the void.
> He has previously suggested young people cannot afford homes because they spend too much on avocado toast.

Ah that guy. Glad to see some consistency in the world, with stupid ideas/statement coming from same person.

Not really HN worthy post though, flagging.
And both are offered as a free plug-in, not a dedicated IDE or Idea Ultimate offering.
> Unity is an ad company, not a tech company

I'm not sure that's true, their Ads business(es) is made up of other companies which they acquired over the years and is/was somewhat isolated from the engine/tech part of the company.
Oh, pflog interfaces are a special device that's known by tcpdump. Interesting.
too long; but read
No, they should just be treated like the criminals that they are. Subject to arrest and prosecution to the full extent of the law should their engineers, managers, executives, owners, and financial backers even think of setting a foot outside Israel.
Of course, yet another way for the new generation of programmers to relearn the hard way the lessons of the older generation, like happens a lot in software.

When I started out, it was pretty clear to me that to solve problems, first read the error message clearly and try understand it, then search the relevant forum or google for someone in the past who experienced the same error. Finally, if unable to solve, post a message describing the problem clearly and what you have tried to do and still failed.

Well, good luck finding any thread from discord on Google. The chat interface also wants you to post one liner chats without taking the time to properly describe the scenario.

Chat platforms can exist but should not be the official support channels.
> it will eventually come

It might also never come.

Sometimes packages just disappear in transit.

Maybe it lost its label.

Maybe it got broken.

Maybe someone stole it.

Etc.

My experience with packages goes like:

- Most often things I order in my own country or from a neighbouring country arrive exactly on the expected day, or at least the next business day after that. This makes sense because shorter travel has less opportunity for things to go wrong.

- Things from far away have their estimate set for like 60 days from now, because no one knows what boat it will end up etc. Sometimes these things show up quickly. Most of the time it takes a while, but still it arrives before the long estimate date. Sometimes they show up a bit late.

- If they are very delayed then in both cases it means the package is just gone and will never arrive. So I inform the platform that the package was lost in transit and they refund the purchase.
There are other modes with a chat UI and no need to select a region. That's very convenient. An example: gptel which can also send a region. However it doesn't do translations.
So many project subreddits are just dead and sterile. And Discord is a much more engaging place to just shoot the breeze.

TBH a Reddit isn't much of a "threat" unless its a really popular subject and the original forum is really bad.
These are broken out as standard entitlements in Xcode now and require standard approval process.

Private features are a standard practice pretty much everywhere you look around. Don’t believe me? Ask big google or facebook advertisers
And people wonder why XHTML was a thing.

(Is still a thing, but W3C recommends against it)
If you ever need to extract important information buried somewhere in a Discord server, I am having luck with Discord History Tracker [1] (browser-only version). It lets you download all messages in a json file, which then you can read with [2] (works offline too).

[1] https://dht.chylex.com/

[2] https://dht.chylex.com/browser-only/build/viewer.htm
1) person says they want a fast boat.

2) person puts stones as flooring on said boat.

3) that proves wealth does not scale with intelligence?
You can hardly write anything in any mainstream Lisp without using macros.
What's the comparison of this approach VS directus, which auto creates an api layer on top of dB
Love it :) Sublime Text is exactly the type of company I can support. Honest business, making a good and honest product. Unfortunately it's not _quite_ good enough for me :(

I wish there was a viable alternative to VSCode. For a clue as to where that's headed, take a look at any free tool with heavy investment by a large corporation. Chrome is good case-study.

VSCodium is ... I can't put my finger on it, but it doesn't cut it. Maybe death by a thousand cuts, many small things that don't quite work as cleanly as they should.
The causation for this might run along the lines of having plenty (in absolute terms) of well educated smart folks but pretty low wages.

Most of the really smart people in Europe and the US for example already have high paying jobs and thus less time for these relatively low paying competitions.
You also named professions where you’re typically an independent contractor.

So you have no choice than to buy your own tools & it directly affects your ability to earn.

In tech, that’s not typically the case.
I don't understand why they sum the size of the compressor with the combined compressed file and decompressor. I think the compressed file and decompressor would make an ungameable challenge on their own. Their FAQ section 'Why is Compressor Length superior to other Regularizations?' is satisfied equally well by the decompressor length.
Crosspass – a simple way to send passwords and encryption keys
> RustRover is too easy to misspell to RustLover. Which is too close to LustLover!

Uuh… sure, buddy. Just make sure to never mention it to anyone outside internet, ok?
European Rails dev here, working for a startup with a cozy atmosphere, friendly team, not job hopping or playing the Leetcode and 100+ interviews game, I’m looking at something like $50k, which is very nice in my country, but sometimes the numbers getting thrown around here make me feel kind of uncomfortable.
> There's no way to disable Lazy Loading on […] Android Firefox.

about:config

dom.image-lazy-loading.enabled
> around 10MB with an empty project

I wonder if one could fit the active parts of a entire game inside an X3D CPU's 96MB of L3.

Think of the performance!
By what metric?

The Lindy effect is concerned with survival, which is affected to a large degree by, in this case, memetic fitness, which these books have in spades.
In Europe? Don't you mean "in that specific hotel, on that specific day, with that specific employee"? Do you really think everyone follows the rules to the letter when they're making front desk wages? That job is 100% replaceable.

Sometimes workers get tired of dealing with persistent people who absolutely insist that they are correct (which in this case they were), and realize that they don't get paid analyst wages, they get paid front desk wages, and they say "Okay, this looks right to me. Here you go."
Also worth noting is that in many countries Pharmacists can prescribe certain classes of medicines, again excluding most stimulants and opioids. But need some ciprofloxacin? Just rock up to your pharmacy and ask.
> Unreal-style revshare where you just give them a small % is super reasonable in comparison

The per install fee is still going to be significantly lower for everyone making > $2 per user than what Unreal charges. And I assume Unity's best paying customers are doing that. A rev share model would have been much more likely to scare them off. It almost feels that killing the low revenue per user F2P developer user-base might have been a conscious calculated choice (I'm probably giving too much credit to their upper management though).
Would the emulation penalty still occur if Go routines aren't used at all? I have many small domain-specific libraries that I am planning to port to wasm. These libraries only allocate dynamic memory and differ anonymous functions.
You can't FT 70b with 48gb of vram (2x 3090) either.
> He flies everything from helicopters to float planes to multi-engine jets to get from his home base in San Antonio to his work in south Texas. “I’m probably flying a helicopter three days a week and a plane five.”

Combating "climate change" by taxing the common people to the Moon and back (especially here in Europe) is a joke, has always been a joke. At least this yacht of this guy from the article is using "green" energy for transportation.
FWIW when I say Excel, I mean one of the big spreadsheet tools.

Excel is like Python: the second best tool for a lot of problems. There are problems which take five minutes to solve in the shell or in a text editor (maybe less now when LLMs can straight produce certain solutions with a simple prompt) and they take 10 seconds in a spreadsheet including copy and paste. I really recommend spending some time with Excel just as I recommend reading the table of contents of your primary DBMS’ manual.

I’d actually argue that being able to solve a problem quick and dirty in excel and in then in a more proper way in pandas is a good thing.
It's the subway where you are that's not designed for apps.

On Korean subways I stream video at max res throughout the ride.
Been a paid user and happy customer since 2009. I have paid for every paid upgrade it asked. I've stopped coding for quite a while and now uses it to write mostly Markdown, and some others here and there. Sublimetext is worth it and (I believe), it is not even yearly but you pay once every 4th year (current license model).

I tend to open directories/folders of projects and Sublime text is the only one that I can zip around while still being visually informative and beautiful.

Thank you Sublimetext.
I've had my cable company call me directly about an account issue and told them I couldn't validate it was them and the person got somewhat irate with my response, insisting there was no one I could call to verify them and that it has to be handled on that call. Turns out it was just a sales call (up selling a product) - which probably speaks to the level of talent they hire for that.
> Doctypes and namespaces are horrendous additions to the language, for instance.

I basically completely disagree with this, especially namespaces: the ability to combine elements and attributes from multiple document types without ambiguity is extremely powerful and pays dividends when designing a query language like XPath
I'm sorry that is insane. That approach wouldn't pass the first sniff test of any sensible technical design review.
def __main__():
said = input("say something\r\n")
print(said)

Now there may well be an exploit in the interpreter itself, but I'd say that's a very different thing.
Unlikely. At least less likely compared to discord and reddit!
It isn't though, in the context of a f2p mobile game. Under one model, only paying customers cost you. In the other you're paying for every drive by (re)download.