skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh huh, I didn't even bother looking at the README when I wrote that, because I remembered so well that it was unable to do this. In fact, that's why I went for the CapsLock rebind in the first place - I originally just wanted a solution for my Lenovo laptop having Fn in the Ctrl spot, prior to Lenovo allowing you to customize this in BIOS.

I found SharpKeys, but it wouldn't let me swap fn/ctrl. But while I was searching for how to do this, I came across some people who suggested remapping CapsLock to Ctrl, and I figured that was good enough, since it would still accomplish my original purpose, which was not to have to deal with 2 different muscle memories when using PC vs laptop.

This was back in 2009 so many versions of Windows ago, that's cool that you can do it now. Although I'm quite glad I chose to remap CapsLock as Ctrl, so I'm glad it wasn't possible back then!
Thank you for the response! That’s really helpful, makes it feel a little less vague & murky.
Given how wrong the rest of the comment was, confusing mail client and mail server seemed like small potatoes. Especially when it can be argued that mail flows through the client if you squint a bit.
This is very tastefully done, really like it.
You seem to have confused socialism and fascism. A government too entwined with a small number of corporations, to the point that it seems like it's a government for the corporations rather than the people, is generally considered a feature of fascism. A government embracing some sort of anti-corporate and free-and-open solution like OSS would resemble a socialistic policy more.

But yes, I agree, the USG (and other governments) really should embrace Linux/OSS and help contribute to the ecosystem as well (unlike North Korea, for instance, which has a government-maintained Linux distro called Red Flag, but of course doesn't contribute anything at all).
On the hand, I agree. But on the other hand, I love the innovation here, because it could lead us to a day where your phone is your computer. Plug it into a keyboard and monitor and get to work.
The explanation I’ve always heard for why New Zealand was settled by Polynesians so late is that they preferred to start their voyages against the currents when they were fresh so that they wouldn’t have to fight the currents on their way back if they weren’t able to find any new lands to rest and recharge
It took decades until they realized that people like cooperative games more than competitive games. It is so funny to me how we don't really understand humans and what makes things fun to them. Apparently pack animals likes to do things with the pack instead of against the pack.
That's a franchise, not a single title. Though with live games like Fortnite you could argue they're basically releasing new games constantly with the amount of work that goes into it...
> Trying to access the 20th element from an array of 2 elements would cause a crash in almost all languages including Objective-C

It depends on which part of objective C you’re referring to: the C part, or the objective part. ObjC has NSArray, which has safe, bounds checked accessors. But ObjC is a strict superset of C, and C has very unsafe C-style arrays. In the latter, you definitely don’t always get a simple crash for accessing out of bounds… you get UB and buffer overflow exploits, same as C.
Almost like the entire economy shouldn’t be a cutthroat competition of misery but perhaps a cooperative system designed for human flourishing?
There's an entire book on that: Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse.
It has an annoying tendency to make it a bing search, but if you ask it to either look up something or you give it a query for which no good results exists it will actually act intelligently.

ChatGPT is badly in need of a content update - too much has happend since 2021.

And naturally ChatGPT understands nothing. We created the Chinese room as software, it doesn't have to understand anything.
Some of the utility is that if you're on an IPv6-only connection that uses 464XLAT and are trying to connect to a host, DNS lookups are required for the 4-to-6 translation process.
Agreed that this is probably a software fix. It seems like it jumps to using the performance cores too readily.
My experience is the opposite - any site that's created as a "free speech absolutist" site is doomed to become a cesspit nobody wants to visit, like voat.
No. I haven't noticed any changes in the accounts that I follow.
If I can tell that your app is a Flutter app — and unless I’m stuck on an Android phone, I can always tell — your app is being uninstalled. Flutter looks wrong and behaves wrong and is just Google's modern reincarnation of Swing, which at least had its own display shape.

I will especially never use your web app if it is based on Flutter.

There's a reason that Electron apps get more grief from users of macOS than anything else, and Flutter is at least two steps worse than Electron IMO.
I think it matters. Most people still follow common sense rules with it, e.g. bellow 0 is expected beta, minor version changes don't break stuff etc.
Before I begin, I will say that I've been falling asleep listening to Ray Dalio's "Principles" on audiobook. I also have listened to recordings of quite a few of his speeches (including the recent one at All-In Summit)

My initial reaction was to reply, "I'm not paying for a service that charges me when other people lose their goods." But that's exactly what every company does, they just don't call it that.

Next, I wanted to say "I'm not paying for a service that blatantly charges me for that." But that's not right either.

I just...I don't understand this level of complexity. This may be the Dalio fever speaking, but is this what "radical transparency" means? The customer gets to know about every financial detail of the products they're casually using?

Most consumers don't want or need to know about everything that goes in the dog food. We know some of it's bad. We don't want to shop around various services for the best "insurance to profit" ratio or something. No one does that for health insurance, let alone video rental insurance.

The beauty of modern consumerism is that you see one number - a price. That can inform every decision the consumer makes. The informed consumer (i.e. the one with more free time) may dig into the details, but ultimately everyone has certain items when they really, really don't care about the company or the quality - they just want the best price.

This behavior allows the individual to shed a lot of cognitive load and stop thinking about things that they don't want to think about. It also represents a lot of what's wrong with consumerism today

You should really work on refining your idea. Consider this it's first exposure to oxygen. Maybe I'm 100% wrong too. Good luck.
I don't think so. Applications don't usually follow semantic versioning. Heck, semantic versioning wasn't really a thing back when putty started.
Had the same reaction, really like the design but at least in the central US here I've never seen any in any context, even as waste around commercial establishments.
I like winning games and competing in zero sum games.
"I should emphasize, the tragically elegant thing about "the point is to win" is that winning now is a real world goal that abased hearts do sometimes actually harbor, but it's perilous as a monogoal"

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that such "abased" hearts are the most common hearts at game night, followed closely by the hearts of those who are just looking to bond and impress each other with witty repartee
Basically IP war-dialing.
This reads like chatgpt
Huh you're right, I read the numbers on my portfolio calculator wrong. Inflation-adjusted CAGR from 1993 to 2023 is 7.09% (as calculated using Vanguard's total stock market fund, which closely tracks a broad market index).
Good for marketing now. Horrible for maintaining developer later. I was recently working on a marketing application and the it was the worst experience of my development career. There's was zero afterthought about what it would take to keep thing running once it had been launched. The only thing worse than the intractable bugs was the unwillingness to invest in its maintenance. I'm not usually fan of a complete rewrite, but in that case I wanted to nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Well, the customer also needs to futz around with scanning a WR code, and get it from the device she scanned it on to the device she wants to use the wifi on (if they ain't the same.)

Though you could route around these problems, but giving them both a scannable code, and underneath some credentials as plain text they could type.
A box lid on the corner of the desk often works.
> Real VM you can snapshot and transfer to another computer running VirtualBox, even on another OS, as VBox supports other operating systems

wsl2 is just a disk image also, you can just shutdown wsl and copy the disk image to another machine.
Is there authors who described such a system?
Little boxes on a hillside and they all look just the same.
It does not seem to be open source.
There was another thread today with the headline "If Earth Is Average, We Should Find Extraterrestrial Life Within 60 Light-Years" [0], and the grabby aliens model apparently estimates 1 billion light-years. So it seems the volume of a sphere of radius 120 million light years is at least within an order of magnitude of the space within which some models predict the emergence of life.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37696096
That QR code would only be displayed for a short time, and mostly only people sitting directly behind you could snap the picture.

It's not airtight, but better than the system it would be replacing.
Big cats obliterate boxes. I’ve seen one in a wheelbarrow before, but I think it was just a leopard.
This paper had nothing to do with product quantization.
Good for you, but most people can't tell nor do they care, given that I've shipped Flutter apps across thousands of users, both consumer and enterprise, whom we collect feedback from. Not once did anyone complain about the app visuals or performance itself, just about the lack of features that they are looking forward to. For that kind of developer experience to consumer satisfaction ratio, Flutter is unbeatable. At least Flutter compiles to machine code instead of shipping a browser per app.
Just as a reference, 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
I've never canceled a service so fast in my life.

I signed up for the trial and hop into a direct call. The other participant shared his screen, and the video looks like hot garbage. High fidelity options buried behind notices that the other user needs Nitro.

If I pay for the service, my UX should improve. It did not. No thanks.
> Don't add new features, don't enshittify existing features, don't make design changes, don't do anything. Bandcamp is done, no need for any further changes, just put it in a cabinet and let it run.

* after adding a browser player volume slider
> I’m this article, I’m going to...

https://choubey.medium.com/ contains a lot of low-quality, automatically generated content and the writing style in the book is very strange.

Maybe this should get flagged?

Also interesting to see that his Amazon page is a 404.

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What happened to Jax? Is it still alive?
> no such thing as going off the record

Hard agree. I have personal bias in this case, but it’s crazy to me that sentiment on off the record chat in these threads has been so heavily weighted towards normalizing the idea that everything should be recorded. I would be horrified if certain of my Slack DMs end up in discovery at my current job. I have to admit that sometimes I just need to blow off some steam to my teammate who sits two states over, and we communicate on Slack or Zoom, both of which are automatically recorded and preserved for at least a short time. Bob in procurement is not a literal gnome-fucking-shit-smear-artist but sometimes I do feel that way. My barber doesn’t know Bob but my teammate sat in the same meeting where we got a raw deal so we bond over the experience by saying stupid things in a Slack DM conversation. Under the developing regime this kind of casual talk on company systems is a risk for both myself and my employer if it ends up getting keyword matched during discovery. Not sure where a reasonable line is but it does seem like the grey area needs urgent attention before tech turns into finance.
> I can always tell — your app is being uninstalled.

I find this very hard to believe given how many big apps are written in flutter and life is made a lot harder without them.

Very weird hill to die on too.
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The New York Times continues to misrepresent Indian space (extended version)
Unshared time means +25% raise due to inflation. Are they doing that?
The older generation had Game Boys at that age, too.
A New Heatwave is Forecast for Western Europe as we head into October 2023
No, guy is not gender neutral.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/guy

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/guy

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/guy

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gen...

Note that wiktionary points out the fact that the female complement to "guy" is "gal". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy
e.g. M-w.com:

> 1 a
> : a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values

Average isn't well defined-- if you have to guess, people probably intend "arithmetic mean" when they say it. But if you're using it in the sense of a single number that represents the typical value of a dataset, you may want the median, mode, or midrange, or even a geometric or harmonic mean depending upon circumstance.

So it's best to use that term. And it's best to be charitable to not jump on people saying "average" when the median might be the best measure of central tendency for a task.
I like this one, https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
more of a story than a specification though.
Gnu hurd
Random adjacent anecdote: I got a Game Boy GameShark for Christmas when I was 8 years old (so ~1999) and distinctly remember my father furrowing his brow as I explained to him that the whole point of the device was to cheat at video games. He was initially skeptical as it involved "cheating" at games which he regarded as a negative behavior given his experience playing sports, but after explaining that it was basically a software hacking device designed to expand gameplay possibilities he understood and softened his stance. Emergent properties of gameplay are far more interesting than merely "winning" a game, especially when it involves using Pokemon summoned from memory that was never intended to be addressed or rooms in the dungeons of Koholint Island that were discarded halfway through development.
At my Amazon peers...

"Wallet"
Samsung DeX?

https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/dex/
Playing Overcooked with one's partner is a thing on its own.

It can be wonderful, or something you try once to never even mention it again.
that definitely sounds like a whinge. raspi is fundamentally an unfinished, everything-not-included product. most use cases require some sort of dongle, hat or other adapter. an audio jack (especially in a context where you're not using an HDMI device that you can get the audio from) is much more niche than a lot of other things that aren't included on-board, like storage or POE.

if it's a trade between a built-in audio jack or a built-in RTC, i'll take the RTC 100% of the time.
A subtlety that probably would have weakened the essay to bring up: if your goal is growth, then no, you don't want to always be the dumbest in the room. Unless, perhaps, the stronger players are fully invested in directly teaching you tutorial-style.

If there is too much of a skill gap, then the weaker players just get steamrolled and learn nothing. Exploring different options doesn't help, because the stronger players will know how to best defeat those strategies if they aren't carried out perfectly. Even if the stronger players go easy on the weaker, and even intentionally leave openings and suggest they be exploited, it takes a certain level of skill and/or experience to recognize or gain from them.
> no residency program slots for them

which is an artificial limitation. More positions can be generated easily, since there's a high demand for medical care and the costs currently are high to obtain medical care.

Until those residency programs have doctors sitting idle and twiddle their thumbs, the lack of position is just artificial in order to make it more competitive.
I merely defend the comment that claimed a perfectly scientifically valid (if far-fetched) possibility. With a sarcastic comment likening that idea (B) to creationism, you implicitly adopt A, and let me tell you—it is closer to actual creationism (C) than you might like.
This reminds me of one of the dirtiest things I've seen in this space. Saw i2c buses bridged across multiple chassis by bridging the boards with CAN transceivers. It mostly worked, but I feel like everyone who signed off on that design review should feel bad about the atrocity they created.
From what I can tell, Epic did the gutting today, and it's left to us to pick up the pieces. It doesn't make sense to me, letting everyone go before the acquisition, why not let the acquiring company figure out what to do with the employees. It stinks of internal politics.

Songtradr has done a good job with previous acquisitions, including mine. I'm no longer working on that product, but it's doing well. I don't agree with every decision being made for it, but I didn't before the acquisition, so... no big change there.
That's fun, but why not just buy a plan for one device, and then start a wifi hotspot on that device to share the connection?
Ohhh yeah true! I bet it was cropped... well, I've got a new drive (SD card) and battery in that iPod so unfortunately I don't have the videos on it anymore, or I'd check... haha
Bring a Stratus, Sentry or open source equivalent with and you can get that data for most other aircraft within line of site in real-time, along with weather, radar, pilot reports and more.
Of a similar nature, my weekend project last week:

https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

Does much the same thing, but it unpacks the zips and tracks the directories. It can run as a docker container which syncs your collection on a daily timer. The use case is to download your purchases to local directories for use with Jellyfin/Plex/etc. You can just buy music and it'll appear on your local media server automatically within a day.
Never ending summer
> It took decades until they realized that people like cooperative games more than competitive games.

People have lots of different tastes, and some like coop more than competitive, some like competitive more, and some prefer a robust mix of the two.

Also, I’m not sure who “they” are and which decades are at issue: pute cooperative board and computer games have been around for a long time, and games that mix coopeative and competitive elements either via symmetrical teams or all-against-one play are even older, or at least widely seen earlier.
I betcha a nickel I like those more than you do
In japan, they have large teaching hospitals where patients get treatment from several doctors, effectively free of charge, because you're paired with one senior doctor and several training doctors.
It gets worse if the abased hearts are playing Hearts...

"Eat it! Eat my queen of spades that you can no longer avoid! You fool!!"
I looked at that in the previous post (https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/13/Making-Gaussian-Splats-s...) and while there's some nearby correllations in positions & colors (for colors I actually (ab)use that by doing BC7 compression on that data), the rotations & scales are "pretty much random". Which makes sense; if they were not random the GS optimizer would probably have represented them as smaller amount of larger splats.
Development seems not to have dropped at all from the contributions page: https://github.com/google/jax/graphs/contributors

Don’t know about usage and uptake though.
> For most games, the real objective is learning about each other, or about the game, or about some other real or abstract thing the game is evoking.

Yes but this is incomplete, The learning usually has the purpose to overcome the challenge that a game is presenting to the player. Games are, in essence, puzzles. It isn't always obvious what the puzzle is, but the player can definitely tell when it is absent because there is no challenge, there is nothing to overcome, and therefore nothing to learn about. The best games tend to be excellent puzzles that have entertained players for many years. In Mario games it's platform puzzles, in RPG games it's finding a character build, in multiplayer games like fighting or FPS games, it's the other human player.
So yes I agree it's not about winning. It's about solving the puzzle/challenge the game presents you with.

> So remember, the play objective is not the point of play, and while you should bear it in mind, the real objective sometimes requires you to diverge from it.

I also agree with this because the game's objectives are not necessarily the puzzle the game is presenting. Usually the puzzle or challenge to solve lives on a higher abstract meta-game, usually defined by the genre.
They may not be there yet, but Amazon at least is absolutely going towards full automation: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/22/amazon-debuts-a-fully-auto...
The Go syntax is so much comfier. Never written in Go but it looks attractive, might have to give it a spin.
No, no it's a new innovation that Apple created, but already exists.
Please stop making stuff up. That product cannot exist until Apple invents it.
I know, I've seen them and I always admire their fortitude -- cars do not leave them much space when they over-take.

I said I wouldn't survive.
The moon landings were widely popular at the time, weren't they?

Even the Soviets didn't say they were dumb and wasteful.

(I tend to be a bit milder, and just say that the moon landings should be thought of as spending on entertainment, not on science. Manned space flight in general is very cost-ineffective, if you care about scientific bang for your buck.)
The fact that newer phones (Pixel at least) can use WiFi (client mode) as the WAN/uplink side of its hotspot stack (NAT, AP, etc.) is pretty neat. Not long ago, only the cell modem could serve in that capacity, as far as I'm aware. Frankly I'm surprised a single WLAN radio can pull that off. I pay the $8 on my phone and share it to my laptop and whatever devices my travel companion(s) might have.

Most laptops can't do this, right?
You’ve misunderstood. No one said that they were equivalent, only that there was no functional difference between them. They certainly allow you to access different characters, but whether you hold down shift and then type a “d” to input a capital “D” or you tap shift and then tap the “d” to get the same result is merely a software setting that you can toggle. The same is true for AltGr and compose keys. You can configure your OS to require them to be typed as chords or as dead keys, whichever you prefer.

See also the space–cadet keyboard (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#/media/Fi...>), which had no fewer than seven such keys labeled control, meta, super, hyper, shift, front, and top.