skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's safe to assume most want a supported version of an app, not something that's been abandoned on the Play Store. From the Lawnchair site [0]:

"Do you still support the Play Store version?

Unfortunately not. We no longer support the play store version; issues about it won't be accepted. This is done to focus development on making Lawnchair 12.1 finished and making it similar to Lawnchair 2. Also, maintaining legacy code is not a focus of the developers."

[0] https://lawnchair.app/faq/
It's odd how much press these devices get, given how poorly they sell.
>Meet Meteor Lake’s Tiles

isn't "Tile" is basically chiplet? why not just call it chiplet?
I wonder if this is related to my issue, which also started happening around September 1:

Email forwarding from my Gmail account (workspace) to another Gmail account (gmail.com) fails with a DMARC-related bounce depending on the original sender's configuration.

<<< 550-5.7.26 Unauthenticated email from aa.com is not accepted due to domain's
<<< 550-5.7.26 DMARC policy. Please contact the administrator of aa.com domain if
<<< 550-5.7.26 this was a legitimate mail. Please visit
<<< 550-5.7.26 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690 to learn about the
<<< 550 5.7.26 DMARC initiative.
Rust rule matching engine (Rete algorithm) (2020)
Unfortunately MERGE doesn't seem to have the transactional semantics that people want from an UPSERT feature (I believe in any implementation, but perhaps Oracle supports properly transactional MERGE?)
It's hard work, but not much like any of those for me, and less each time I have another go. I see a problem that needs fixing or something that needs doing and I get on and do it. There is definitely angst on the way, but no need at all for any of that level of hype and self-aggrandisment IMHO...

"Chewing glass"? Really. We're talking "first world problems" not actual lethal stuff.
> I don't see a clear ceiling in intelligence

The plateau in this case is presumably how far you can advance intelligence from the current model architectures. There seems to be diminishing returns from throwing more layers, parameters or training data at these things.

We will see improvements but for dramatic increases I think we'll need new breakthroughs. New inventions are hard to predict, pretty much by definition.
Apologies. What I wrote actually has nothing to do with today's times so removed.
https://www.submarinecablemap.com

https://submarine-cable-map-2022.telegeography.com

https://www.fiberatlantic.com

https://www.infrapedia.com (now requires LinkedIn login)
Yes thank you, that is what “reactionary” means. But the post only mentions the Romans in order to draw a comparison (albeit likely based on faulty information), and then asks how others feel about it. This isn’t support for past eras. It’s a curiosity into the current state of affairs using as comparison the only available reference: the past.

Your own difficulty in understanding the poster’s intent underlies the problem with the “reactionary” label. They could simply be misinformed. Misinformation leads to dissonance, surprise and curiosity. Which leads to posting online to settle their inner confusion/questions.
> Unity isn't close to profitable, and never has been

This isn't really true though, their core business is and was profitable if you exclude all the of acquisitions junk, stock shenanigans, and loans to pay for it they have been doing.

It just didn't have the margins expected of a public company and so they did all that other junk to pump those numbers.
#BookTok is a fairly large community. Recommendations move needles. The Barnes and Nobles near where I live has a "Recommended by TikTok" section. Most of the people that read and talk about books (for enjoyment) reference TikTok to some degree. This isn't to say they are all content creators. Simply put, that makes as much sense as me saying "I didn't think users of HN read books."
Yep, fair critique. Glad you enjoyed it.
>any hiker is instructed to carry a paper map

The best maps are cloth maps. They are amazing as you can bend those, put over a stone, rain could go over.
If you don’t believe you can do a thing before you even try, then you’re correct, right out of the gate. (insert eyeroll emoji here)

All your repeated uses of “they” points to a toxic external-locus-of-control worldview. You were always the only limit of yourself. Any other claim amounts to heretical self-dehumanization. You’re not fungible and never were, and anyone who tries to make you believe that deserves the utmost vehement pushback.
Have you checked your account settings and see if it's set to something else there...?
It's so funny how this was almost my same exact (deleted) comment.

There is a certain level of intellectual dishonesty in leaving your comment up, knowing it is mostly not your words. It would be fair to tell your comment was mostly a chatgpt authored one that I chose to delete knowing that same intellectual dishonesty you now know.

(knock it off and don't ever do it again)
> my skillset is being rapidly replaced.

Why do you have only one? Learn some trades. AI isn't going to be demolishing a bathroom and installing tile any time soon.
Then you would need to go to medical school or pilot training at age 36, which loads of people do.
Yeah, I agree. I think it would make sense to have a big disclaimer on the OpenOffice site saying "No longer maintained, please consider using these alternatives..." and link to a few other open source office suites (e.g. LibreOffice, Caligra)
> a handful of hedge funds own a majority of the shares

> institutional investors

Hedge funds are a minority of institutional investors. Most of those institutional investors are companies like Vanguard or BlackRock, who in turn just hold shares on behalf of their customers; basically, anyone who contributes to a 401k with a "Vanguard Target Retirement 2060 Fund" or whatever.

> If those hedge funds all decide they're unhappy with the "rich CEO's" decision, they can dump the shares all at once, it will tank the price, and the CEO's are no longer rich.

This is true, but the funds will also lose money (or miss out on gains in the future). Activist investors like Elliott absolutely do exist, but most AUM is managed by non-activist investors. Elliott, for example, had $71B in AUM as of last year; Vanguard alone was over 100x the size in that same year.
It's supposed to refer to a company's priorities shifting away from the customer's, "rent seeking" is instead about profiting from owning limited resources. They are different things.
This "for profit" thing seems like the wrong framing. Customer goodwill and community are extremely valuable. It seems like what we are looking at is more about short-termism and the distortive effects of suddenly (post-IPO) having to report to investors who are essentially outsiders to the business and have no knowledge or stake in the operation-as-an-entity-in-a-larger-ecosystem other than having dumped a bunch of money into it.

Sure, you can argue that said investors are treating the business as nothing but a vehicle "for profit", but that framing loses something essential. You can have profit and be a player in something mutually beneficial. In fact you need profit to be sustainable.
I hope so, to make more people aware of the phenomenon and the types of companies which practice it.
I'm in the same situation as you. Though I think the major factor is that the physicality of handwriting the notes helps me.
If even 50% of those workers perform other jobs, society as a whole will be wealthier, while having the same number of people.
Build product / service at a loss. Product becomes popular because it provides so much value so cheaply (because is being sold at loss). Maintain through continual investment and chasing "growth." Bill comes due. Investors left holding the bag and ecosystems built around assuming bubble was real have a bad time.

In many ways it's the best form of socialism, cheaper products and services provided to the people, paid for by investors who are rolling the dice on a pyramid scheme posing as a business model. Completely voluntary and works even within a capitalist system.

Now all we have to do is hope Unity goes under really quickly, then gets bought up for cheap by a business either willing to make far less as their investment was well below the cost of development for the tools... or that another sucker comes along to buy them at a higher price to either enter the market or expand their own dominance in it as they are still on their "chase growth" curve.
I agree. Everyone making that much money (as I do) can decide for themselves: Do I want to live in the Bay Area and drive a Model X, or do I want to negotiate myself to a cheaper state, drive a 10 year old Toyota (perfectly fine! More reliable than a Tesla!), and buy $250k of equities per year, thus buying their way in to the true capitalist class in half the time that real working class people have to stick to their careers?

It is your choice!
The #BookTok category in my library is my go-to for fresh reads. This year alone, I've already devoured:

* They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera

* Books #1-5 of Loise Penny's Gamache series (detective serial set in rural Montreal)

* Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

* When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Bar Hill

* Books #1-3 in Naomi Novik's Scholomance series

* Babel, R.F. Kiang

* The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd

* Books #1-2 in Olivie Blake's Atlas series

* Books #1-3 in Sylvain Neuval's Themis Files series

* The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

* Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno Garcia

and the list keeps going. I haven't read this avidly since high school (20 years ago). The recommendations coming out of BookTok are unabashedly entertaining, fun, and quick reads. Perfect for unwinding in the evening, instead of vegging out in front of the tube.

Edit: fixed typos.
For FFT:

FFT: On

Mode: Add

Trigger: Math
"Either the tech is good enough to be autonomous ..[]" - The issue is that the tech currently, categorically, is not good enough to be autonomous. There's no "self-driving" system that even claims to be a level 5 system.
I find the "Ian Knot" works fine for shoelaces, but only if there's a decent amount of excess string. When tying other things (aprons for my kids, drawstrings, etc.), I find that I often have an easier time using the "bunny goes 'round the tree" method, since it requires less excess.
Completely off-topic, but: I think the state of the art in castle design (pre modern explosives anyway) was a star/bastion[1], since that allowed defenders to have overlapping firezones, especially useful once an attacker reaches the walls. With a circular design like Apple's HQ, as attackers get closer to the walls fewer and fewer defensive positions can see them until you can only see them from right above.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_fort
What does ‘minimal’ even mean though? Code is code - either you pull it down as a dependency or you write it yourself, it all executes the same in the end.

The minimal/zero-dep solution will have have bugs that have already been fixed or avoided by battle-tested libraries, and it will very rapidly lose minimal status as you start to build something serious in it.
All of the pre-2000 Nissans my family have owned or that my friends have owned seemed to be pretty decent (I loved my 1996 sentra). I'm really only referring to some vague date shortly after 2000 where quality took a nosedive. Not sure why though.
If you drink from a river and get cholera, would you drink from that river again in the future?

It might be fine! Maybe on that particular day, somebody with cholera had just taken a shit upstream, and the bacteria are totally gone now. But it's still a useful prior, and that's the case here with whom you choose to conduct business.

I think it's a question of burden of proof. You'd ordinarily not worry too much about cholera, but after an incident you'd want the water thoroughly and repeatedly tested. You probably would not say "eh, it's been 5 or 10 years, it's most likely fine."

Similarly you'd want some concrete evidence that a company has actually changed, in a degree sufficient to offset your negative prior, before you'd consider engaging in any further business with them.

But actually doing that research is a pain in the ass, so I think it's a reasonable strategy to simply prefer companies that haven't screwed you over wherever good options exist.
A professor once gave me a demo of a printer that could erase its own work and print a new image on the same regular printer paper.

In between the two prints he let me mark the page however I wanted so I could be sure it was the same physical page coming back out.

He admitted there was no market for such a thing but it was cool to see anyways. This was in the mid 1990s
> In this scenario that would drop his TDEE to 2395 calories per day.

This is what naive calculations say, this is not what a DEXA scan says. His body is actively reducing calorie expendature well below what you would expect.

I have tried taking over his calorie counting for a week to help him, as someone who manages my own weight successfully I don't think I would overcount by a factor of 2. The chance he ate calories I was unaware of during that week is approximately zero (highly controlled environment, never left apartment)
Browser userscript (e.g. Tampermonkey) redirect:

// @match https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/*
window.location.hostname = "minecraft.wiki";

Kagi search result rewrite rule:

^https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/(.*)|https://minecraft.wiki/w/$1
> You can't seriously argue that the federal government can't control the overall rail network, when they control the medical sector.

It's not that they can't attempt to do it, it's that they can't do it efficiently. The US has some of the highest healthcare costs in the world.

> And then the whole point falls flat on it face, when you realize that both China and India are improving their rail sector very quickly.

India's population density is 1200% that of the US. To make a rail network unprofitable with that much population density would require actual malice. It's the same reason Amtrak turns a profit in the northeast.

> Even if you want more control by the states, do actually push railways forward, you need central government leadership to bring states together and start to change the approach. The states would be willing to do more if it was aligned with a federal program.

The real problem here is the attempt to treat it like a single country, as if masses of people are going to want to take a train from Miami to San Francisco. It's too much distance, people who want to go there are going to fly.

Where trains work are mostly in the places they already are. High density metro areas like New York and DC, which already have them.

There are some that don't. Houston could use a functioning subway system. But that doesn't require federal involvement. It's even more of a matter for the city than the state. The people there apparently don't want it -- oil country and they like their cars. But they're the ones who have to sit in traffic.
Can be seen as a positive or a negative:

You can still access your home country’s Netflix/streaming content. Log into websites that might geo-block (Homedepot.com blocks Europe…), log into work without security admins losing their mind about a “suspicious foreign access”.

Downside is that ads won’t localize into a language you don’t understand. I love it when that happens when travelling.
A little bit dated (probably by a year) https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230613/dq230...

The building of dwellings has outpaced immigration so that alone is unlikely a silver bullet.
> freight via train, which is cheaper and way more environmentally friendly

>.> ohio
I've been playing with one of those for the last month, made a little household dashboard thing: https://twitter.com/reillywood/status/1705373370215449033

The refresh time blows (something like 30 seconds), but otherwise I've been pretty happy with it.
I'm not saying I'd go bad either but when I go to my friend's house and they've got decorative hunting rifles they usually lack a sign instructing to "Use this on me however you wish"
Hah! This was actually one of the main algorithmic challenges of adapting DiskANN to PostgreSQL. Yes, I think it's common for these algorithms to assume you know how many results to return ahead of time. But in PostgreSQL that's not how things work -- because of things like post-index-retrieval-filtering the right interface for Postgres is one that just keeps on returning more and more results until all possible matches are exhausted. We solved this by creating a "streaming" version of the search algorithm that keep state like which nodes in the graph have been visited, which have been returned etc.

That's all to say -- Yes we've solved this, there are no arbitrary limits on the number of results returned.
Some cricket match that was on at the pub when I was visiting New Zealand had me mesmerized on the level of "judging". In baseball, there's the checked swing to consider in being considered a strike. In cricket, they have mics and listen for the strike to judge. There were other similar things that just revealed why a cricket test can last for days, and made me wish for the "speed" of a baseball game.
How have they degraded, exactly? Be extremely specific, I want to know what rights you have lost from, lets start with the one president you want to point to as the root of all evil at 1981, to now.
I switched to Firefox when Chrome started blocking/disabling ad blocker extensions. I would rather use Internet Explorer with an ad blocker than Chrome without an ad blocker. I'm really not sure what more one could want from a browser than what Firefox offers.
One reason I can think of, which I didn't see listed by skimming, is we need younger voters to help counterbalance an aging electorate.
That’s not going to come to fruition, and no amount of dreamy socialist fanfiction’ing is going to make it so. People pay for value. Produce value for others, get paid. LLM’s are tools to make humans able to produce more value, and will not replace humans, although the job market will change, and hopefully utilize humans better.

People, NOT machines, are the ultimate judgers of what is valuable and the ultimate producers of value.

“no one should have to work to eat” is the most ridiculous gen Z meme going around lately. Like, technically yes, not eating would make you unhealthy and thus unable to contribute yourself, but we also don’t want the opposite of people just sitting home all depressed about being oppressed and not utilizing their gifts while living off mysteriously-produced (paid for or labored over by whom?) gourmet sushi. How about another common meme in response? “We live in a society.”
> I wish the emotional revitalization that comes from MDMA, the healing, being able to step away from the trauma, the openness, the vulnerability - I wish that on everybody [...] If it takes broadly available MDMA to get there, then so be it.

> Completely unable to relate to other human beings, afraid of being touched, never had a girl friend or any kind of real friendship.

I'm convinced that most people identifying with this don't know how to articulate what their problem is. The magic words: you're struggling with intimacy.

Where MDMA isn't an option, intimacy coaches (not prostitutes-by-another-name, and not sexual surrogacy) specialize in this domain and can help you navigate these very issues.
I don't know how much people know or have heard about ironSource. It's kind of an open secret in Israel on how they built a company to profit by building what is essentially malware (installers disguised as OEM while they're really adding extra trackers to your computer). They always paid 25% more than most of the other tech companies, but still had issues recruiting because it takes a special kind of person to be willing to do these kinds of things

I didn't really understand the merger when it happened, but I have no doubt all these new policies are a result of the ironSource people integrating into Unity
Open source solutions are not a magical solution to every problem. Open source solutions are often, if not more so, subject to the whims of just a few people.
I pay roughly 50 pounds for 300 mbps down and 20 up. That seems pretty typical for parts of the US without gigabit availability, sans rural areas that depend on satellite connection. I think if you want to shit on a devloped country with slow and overpriced internet, Australia is still the gold standard (not that the US is perfect by any means)
In the real class war bloodbath, software engineers are Pol Pot's "anyone with glasses".
I'm fine subsidizing education of any form, as long as what I'm subsidizing meets all the same standards and burdens that the public option does for the same amount of funding. The idea that they can charge a tuition greater than the subsidized amount is tantamount to a handout.

If they want to incorporate religion and/or alternative education, it should be on top of the same requirement the public school systems follow. (i.e. They should be required to teach the standard classes without religious influence or bias. Let their religious teachings be separate classes. No student receiving a publicly funded education should be taught exclusively that the earth is only 6000 years old or supplied with publicly funded textbooks that outright reject evolution in all forms.)
Ah, your closing question could be a thread in itself.

This is tricky territory! Be wary of the treadmill where as your income rises, your sense of what's an acceptable restaurant, vacation, car, home, etc. escalates just as fast. Then you'll always be n+1 windfalls away from your goal. If you're really wanting "financial independence," which is a weirdly opaque phrase, focus at least 49% of your energy on keeping your spending rate low.
Incredible to see mozilla steal the name of this obnoxious blog[1], which constantly gets to the HN frontpage[2]. I'll take this as an opportunity to express what has always bothered me about this line: To talk about "reclaiming" the net is to adopt the territorial language of revanchist movements, which does not make sense for networks. A website is not a territory. There's no need to "reclaim" what was never yours in the first place. You can make your own website.

[1]: https://reclaimthenet.org/

[2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=reclaim+the+net&utm_source=opensea...
Not banned, just that every build platform has to be supported and not every open source project prioritizes each platform.

Godot, for example, doesn't support console builds, only working with a third party to facilitate porting to those platforms (that may change in the future now that they're getting a lot more support from the community after all this).
HDR support, I have this fancy monitor that's great for watching content on but I can't view it at full quality because of my browser.
Ask HN: Is “Distributed CI” Possible?
Is it possible to have distributed CI in the following sense:

- The “CI” is a program that checks if the code is okay (like runs a test
suite)

- Anyone can run it and get the result

- A central server/node can receive the output and SHA1 (that the code was
run on) and quickly check if the CI passed

- It takes some effort to cheat the procedure—it doesn't have to be bullet
proof (it's meant to be used “among friends”)

- No proof-of-work or something else that burns up electricity for
questionable gain

It seems that a simple plaintext script CI is not sufficient since
whatever node has run the script can just change the script: `return
true`. But if you can either encrypt the program or obfuscate it enough
(for a decompiler) then you might be able to implement something like
this:

<do tests>
if they pass: calculate the output of the CI based on the stable
success-output of the tests + a secret + the SHA1

That means that the CI program that is distributed to the nodes needs to
literally be an undecipharable blob program that in principle can do
anything to the node computer—another reason why this can only work “among
friends”.