skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, that site lists Super Mario Bros as a 2 hour game. Do you think me as a kid beat that game in 2 hours? No, of course not, I spent hundreds of hours playing it in total and never beat it.

We had so much time, though so it wasn't a big deal how hard and tedious a game was. As a bored teenager, dropping 100 hours on a video game in 2-3 weeks was nothing. There was nothing else to do. Trying and failing at a game over and over felt entertaining.

I'm closing in on my 50s, and gaming is just different now. I recently grabbed a NES emulator and a knock-off USB NES gamepad and played through a bunch of old games from my childhood. It hits real different now that I have a life and time is precious.

Games that I remember as fun are now just time consuming and frustrating, rather than entertaining. Platformers where you needed surgical precision to land on just the right brick or you're back to the beginning of the level: irritating and very quickly my brain starts telling me: "This is not worth it." RPGs where you spend most of your time grinding between bosses who (randomly) either kill your party or go down without much of a fight, my brain says: "This is definitely not as entertaining as I remember it." And all the while, I'm watching the clock, thinking about how otherwise productive I could be being right now...
Hotels are the perfect example where they can show you a final price, as the tax paid is the local price, not the one where you reside.

We can make the argument that it is hard for Amazon to show you the price of widget X, as it changes where it gets shipped.

But for a hotel it doesn't matter whether you fly in from Alaska (no sales tax) or Los Angeles (9.25% I believe)

You pay the rate of the state and city where the hotel is at.
Thanks for the feedback. This may have not come across clearly enough on the website. The AI prioritization is an optional mechanism (toggle) to help individual users prioritize the tasks that have already been assigned to them using signals like task sentiment (how do you feel about a task), priority etc.

The priority field is not changed as part of that function. I agree that AI cannot be the primary prioritization mechanism. All it can do is augment existing processes and help individuals be more effective.
You aren't just paying for a half-hour of time, but for someone who knows where to put the X.

"The Handyman's Invoice" is apocryphal in the details, but almost certainly true in that something basically like it happens all the time.

"
The Graybeard engineer retired and a few weeks later the Big Machine broke down, which was essential to the company’s revenue.

The Manager couldn’t get the machine to work again so the company called in Graybeard as an independent consultant.

Graybeard agrees. He walks into the factory, takes a look at the Big Machine, grabs a sledge hammer, and whacks the machine once whereupon the machine starts right up.

Graybeard leaves and the company is making money again.

The next day Manager receives a bill from Graybeard for $5,000.

Manager is furious at the price and refuses to pay.

Graybeard assures him that it’s a fair price.

Manager retorts that if it’s a fair price Graybeard won’t mind itemizing the bill.

Graybeard agrees that this is a fair request and complies.

The new, itemized bill reads….

Hammer: $5
Knowing where to hit the machine with hammer: $4995
"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/
>Hopefully this will result in a more conservative approach to tech with a greater focus on immediate needs vs long-shots in the distant future which tends to result in winner-take-all for the victors.

Hopefully it doesn't, as that sounds really depressing.
> I don't think macOS users have any more or less responsibility paying for this software than Linux users

I don't think that either, it's only a hope from my side. A hope that they recognize that the binary they are using cost someone money to generate only because of restrictions put forward by Apple.
The idea was mostly limited to really bad science fiction, the kind that is really a fantasy with science–fictional set dressing.
Actually the one on McCue-Software-Solutions is the right one. I might move it there soon-ish though.

This was done as a senior project @ University of Central Florida. Using the github org made things simpler for the students to work on it. (Everyone has to learn git at some point.)
Sure, that's totally readable and meaningful.
I don’t think that’s necessary for the system to work. If topics the community find interest in can reach the front page, and “toxic” subjects are contained well enough, then the system works.

It doesn’t really matter if upvoters are honest or not. If you can cheat in a way that makes your post reach and stay on the front page, it’s very likely that people are interested in discussing the topic.

So far HN system has been working pretty good. Not for all topics of course, some result in really toxic exchanges or annoy some people. But you almost never see spam or obviously astroturfed content in the front page (at least compared to Reddit and other places).
Winner pays what #2 bid + a penny more correct? (Similar to eBay, when done correctly)

It's unclear why a penny is considered the legal adder, why not 15% more? If this is all disclosed in Google's terms of service, is it really fraud?
There's no requirement for a born-1995 codebase to still build on a 1995 system in 2023.

I work on a born-1995 codebase. We started requiring an ISO C11 plus GNU extensions¹ several years ago and are actively removing "compatibility" checks and kludges that are outdated.

[¹ to be fair - not needing to support Windows is a godsend for any C project.]
A few people doing that can make an enormous difference on a small local shop.
1. That completely ignores my first point, that engaging backend demos are inherently more difficult.

2. In nearly 20 years of doing this, I've never seen an org that got backend demos right, which to me says more about demos than it does about the organizations.

The word "demo" implies that you're going to see some live use of the thing, so while I disagree with it, I can understand what leads managers to say they don't want to see a slide presentation of graphs and charts.

No one wants to do "Power Point Presentation Driven Development", but for a lot of backend teams that's the only practical option for regular demos.
Haven't seen that many refcounted string libraries for C in recent times, most common one is probably still the one from glib.

I guess you're going to implement your from scratch, or is there some prior art you're likely to use?
IME pivoting on SQL results is a very common usecase too.
Reparability hurts profit.

Every collision with body damage fixed by an autobody shop is stealing money from our overlords.
I stopped reading the original post and the comments here as my brain stuck at PI, what the heck is that? Not all the readers are PhDs and PI is 3.14 or Raspberry to me these days.
Yeah just a little 1mm hump on one side of the plastic tongue, but yeah the 1mm would have to come from somewhere.
That's a good question. Maybe set up 1kb of shared memory and you notify the far process that it is ready via a signal? Seems a bit clunky.
I don't want "safe" AI, I want "accurate" AI. If I want a picture of NYC getting nuked, how can the AI know in which context it will be used? Maybe I'm writing a sci-fi book and looking for cover art ideas.

Who is driving this big push for "safety", anyway? Do consumers actually want safety or are a concern-trolling vocal minority pressuring AI corporations to kowtow?

I personally hate it when SV moral arbiters nanny me.
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to create a webapp to showcase my work?
Hi Hacker News,

I'm a data scientist and I'm working on a side project. I think it has potential and want to start showing it to the world and have people interact with it.

What's the easiest way to do this?

If it was a "static" website where I'm just showing screenshots, I would spin up a wordpress or squarespace.

But I want this more dynamic. I want people to be able to upload PDFs, have my models process them, and have the results appear on the website.

Is there an "easy" way to do this? My tech skills stop at Python though I'm happy to pick up new skills. Ideally though, I don't want the creation of the website to take longer/more effort than the core project.
Oof. Hopefully its just because the cert was issued recently?
Online car seller Shift will shut down and file for bankruptcy
Ip3 – Three Words for IPv4
this tool cannot be jeff'd
A random sample of logos would probably show that this effect, if it exists at all, is less striking than it appears. But even if it was a total fabrication, why is it resonating with people now?

I think it's because making disappointing products and then just rebranding every two years or so so that you have a clean reputation-slate is, unfortunately for the consumer, a viable strategy. And it's on the rise.

I wouldn't be surprised if companies that do this are affecting logo trends such that even companies who intend to maintain their brand long term are ending up with logos that feel disposable.
It assumes that what is in the best interest of the child is to affirm their feelings of gender dysphoria with a name change, and that the court can consider this and grant a name change over the parent's objections.

Why am I against this? It is against parental rights. It takes away the rights of a parent to name their child and raise them as they see fit, and hands it to the state.

I won't even get into what happens with children experiencing gender dysphoria and how the mental health profession is (mis)handling the vast majority of these by affirming the child's dysphoria, and the pressure parents receive that if they do not affirm their child's desire to transition they are putting them at mortal risk.

I don't agree with any of this for children who cannot consent to any other things, legally, until they reach the age of majority. Once they do, it's up to them how to live their lives (with, or without, their parents' support). Nor is this to say I do not believe children have rights, but I see what these family courts do and in a lot of cases how biased they are, I do not think anything good would come of this law pure and simple.
It's crazy that some places charge up to $40 for basically the same data. My goal is to make enough to cover the paid API costs while continuing to bring down the cost of the reports.
>There is room for workers wages to go up but right now the higher prices are mostly benefiting investors and owners.

Hence we're getting levels of labor action across the board not seen for generations. The system is working, albeit slowly.
I just wanted to say that the lollipop chart is amazing! Thanks for your work!
Back in 2010, studying for a PhD in the UK meant I got an EPSRC stipend of £13500 per year. I was fortunate to find rooms to rent in houses with other grad students for around £350-400 per month. I didn't go out much, cooked my own food, commuted by bike, and made use of free or low cost uni services like gym and therapy. On some weekends I drove ~100 miles to visit my girlfriend, but I was a pretty lousy partner at the time and didn't do that as much as I wish I had. Also petrol was a fair bit cheaper back then. The only time I remember coming close to worrying was when my stipend cheque got put in the wrong place and I didn't get it for a few weeks.
How come? The practical difference between AGPL and GPL is that the term "distribution" now includes distribution via network aka SaaS.

Now I can see how this might be a problem for code libraries, infrastructure system etc but the only reason to worry about AGPL in an end user application context is the desire to repackage and sell commercially. Aka do the Amazon thing.
Yes, only div sizes should be set as such. For font sizes px is the best option.
ignorance is bliss but you should learn to work all your tools well not just rely on one.
A police officer in my former city ODed on exposure to fentanyl in a drug raid. Not ingestion, exposure. It took three doses of Naloxone to keep her alive.

Now, true, there may have been a lot of fentanyl in there. She may have breathed some, not just touched it. But she didn't take any of it.
> To help eliminate that 20% between the runner-up and what the winner was willing to pay, Google gave the second-place bidder a built-in handicap to make their offer more competitive, Whinston said, citing internal emails and sealed testimony by Google finance executive Jerry Dischler earlier in the case.
This error means it failed a basic Vin check. VINs have a check digit and a few other requirements, and if it fails we return that error.

Do you have a VIN that you think is vaild? Let me know and I can check the exact issue - mail@checkanyvin.com
There is zero proof that TikTok collects more user data or uses that data any more nefariously than Meta.

US privacy laws are a joke. Singling out TikTok without addressing events like Cambridge Analytica with Facebook, is at best suspicious.
Yep, F=ma. For a given force, if mass is big then the acceleration must be small.

Also, I feel compelled to mention that to get an Earth–like gravitational field near the event horizon of a non–spinning black hole, it needs to mass more than the whole galaxy. It would be about a light–year across, iirc, and if you built a shell around it (which would not be easy) then the surface area would be so large as to beggar description.

Small black holes are not very earth–like because of the extreme tidal forces. Trying to stand on that ping–pong ball would be extremely uncomfortable.
Can you explain the static functions thing? What’s the benefit of declaring all functions static if you’re compiling them as a single translation unit anyway?
A few things: around once a month I log what I've been reading, listening to, watching, playing, and hanging out with.

For the daily journaling I try to focus on a quality of feelings and events, which we could call significance. It is pretty difficult to measure the significance that a thought or event will have in the future, but this process itself is helpful for journaling in the moment, and its most helpful for my future reader self.

That means that when I sit down to journal I no longer focus on the "material" conditions, when I do that it feels like I'm grasping at straws to capture some inner snapshot that by nature is not contained in any of those material factors.

Rather I try to focus on fragments of my inner narrative while being on the lookout for my own biases and mental patterns. It's almost like trying to guess which events for the day will resurface in your dreams, which stick to your subconscious rather than what you think is relevant in the moment that you sit down to write.
https://shift.com/
While true, this is in the context of the search monopoly trial. In which case they only sell their own inventory.
People contacted were people who made major modifications, not every single contributor. And yeah, if the contributor don't agree to the new license, you can either don't do the license change, or remove the code they wrote as they don't agree to the new license.

There is more background here: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/2376

Sometimes companies who do "FOSS" make you sign some sort of agreement that they own the code you produce and you won't have any say about re-licensing, so maybe the projects you're thinking about have done that?
That's every advertising venue ever.

The modern insight is that you should be estimating your ads results instead of looking into detailed proxy metrics. And all that they lying on their metrics means is that you'll have a hard time optimizing your ads there, and thus move into other, more friendly platforms.

But, of course, I have no idea how much of this is real (it certainly is real to some extent), and how much is propaganda created to fool people into spending more on ads (it certainly is also propaganda to some extent). On some contexts, that estimation is incredibly hard to do correctly, and I don't know if people even try it.
ProcessMaker Launches Free Text-to-Process Functionality
Cloudflare's table has a separate row for shared memory, so, who knows.
AI Process Modeler: Describe a process, and our generative AI instantly crafts a BPMN 2.0 compliant process map.
I've seen a single bitflip cause a 3% error rate on a production service
There are a few different APIs that provide basic Plate to VIN matching. No other data is provided, the rest comes from the VIN decoding itself
Make Your Own Optical Lenses (2021) [video]
I think people on Hacker News seem to commonly mistake threats to their personal privacy with threats to national security. Facebook having to turn over data to the American government can't be a threat to American national security. This isn't to say the threat to you as a person is any different compared to TikTok handing over data to the CCP, but the concern here is maintaining American strategic military and intelligence advantage, not being fair and allowing all governments equal access to personal data.
Exploring avatar ideas for user profiles
The line is a million light years from where OpenAI has positioned this.

Drawing a Batman logo can never be copyright infringement, the art belongs to the artist (or in this case, there is none because there was no artist). It would be like Hacker News prohibiting me from doing an ASCII art Batman logo in a comment on copyright grounds.
Well, if you're going to be really nitpicky, pulmonary veins also carry oxygenated blood ;)
> Long Long is ridiculous and often confusing

It might be ridiculous, but it’s hardly confusing for a C programmer. But, yeah in and ideal world ‘long’ should just be defined as 64 bits
I mean, we have 89 contributors...
What are your concerns with AGPL? The practical difference is the clause that SaaS distributions require to be licensed as AGPL as well. Would you plan to take this, add commercial features and repackage as commercial closed source system?
Which is itself the poor man's groupby.

At some point you've just got to admit you have the wrong abstraction. Strong Zalgo vibes.
>Perseverance's auto-navigation system, known as AutoNav, makes 3D maps of the terrain ahead, identifies hazards, and plans a route around any obstacles without additional direction from controllers back on Earth.

...in spite of this autonomy, Perseverence has a few major problems. It is famous for the severity of it's road rage and intolerance for human drivers, bicyclists, parked emergency vehicles, and pedestrians. Tests show a disturbing tendency toward "eliminating the human element" from it's driving environment to simplify route planning. The lengths the system will go to to achieve this were a major frustrator in early development, and initially attracting the interest of [REDACTION] for [REDACTION] due to [REDACTION] with an effective [THE REDACTION MACHINE IS BROKEN, FURTHER INQUIRIES SHOULD BE ROUTED THROUGH TOM].

Mission planners at NASA found the risk involved with deployment to the Red Planet agreeable, but note that any ongoing colonization efforts will involve having to put the system down for the safety of any eventual colonists.
The plate is matched with a VIN using DMV records, which we then decode, to get the Make, Model, etc as you described.
They legally have to ask every contributor. The exception/loophole used by big companies (but also FSF for example) is that every contributor had to sign a CLA where they legally reassign ownership of their code to the project owner.
The extent of the drought in Amazonas: now vs. July 2023
The main story has multiple endings, and also a hidden ending. It's not really that single choice. Also, there's all the characters and how they interact has some impact on the end story depending. Some side quests can similarly become available or unavailable depending on some choices. There's also the relationship with Johnny, etc. The roleplaying aspect apparently improved in Phantom Liberty. But I wouldn't say CP is worse than Skyrim! Both have their moments

I agree with you on the point it was decent even before 2.0 and that there's missing features. If you're on PC though, there's a lot of mechanics added in by mods too!
As always, "it depends" but it's very possible if you go with the understanding that you're going to live like a poor college student for the next half decade and don't want or need your expenses to go up like your peers that go into industry.

You also have to take into account that you're going to be working more hours than a traditional job and that you're going to be stuck there for half a decade, but also you get something out of it at the end which you won't get just working some other low pay job.
Emulation for preservation is a bit weird but why not. Now... CRTs are still built and sold today and you can also buy brand new CRT controller boards from China. Not "new old stock" but brand new stuff, still built today.

For anyone who has the room for it, just go buy an actual arcade cab with a CRT in it. Then put a Raspberry Pi with a "Pi2JAMMA" (not affiliated with these guys, but I like it) connector in it. You'll have thousands of games and it's basically the real thing (short of very specific cases like the game Tempest that was directly controlling the electron beam).

I'm a happy camper with one vintage arcade cab, which I own since years. A friend of mine saw it and went berzerk: he now has six arcade cabs.

If I wanted to be facetious I'd say it's arguably less work to buy a vintage arcade cab with an actual CRT and put a RPi + Pi2JAMMA adapter in it then try to get a shader working on a modern screen.

If you want the real arcade feeling you need proper arcade joysticks anyway: at that point we're probably already talking about a cab (you could have just the joysticks controller, but it's not as good as the joystick in an arcade cab).

So if you've got a cab, you may as well go with a real one (with a CRT that is) and an adapter that'll drive the CRT (like the Pi2JAMMA one).

As a bonus you'll also be able to put real vintage PCBs in your cab.
What content are you looking at? I see amazing artists on there every time I open the app.
FWIW, I would absolutely recommend learning a regular linear DAW in addition to FL Studio. I'm not an FL user, I'm a heavy Ableton Live user (entirely because of Max for Live), and it is also "non-standard". There are a lot of things that are much, much faster in DAWs from the pro-tools oriented lineage and it is well worth the few seconds it takes to copy audio from one to the other at times.
There are even YT videos about that. Not kittyng :)
that is exactly what’s going to happen.

the ones that aren’t Silicon Valley businesses currently in their “growth” phase will openly let you save off your entire collection of queries as plain text, and will ideally handle storage of this in git for you. After “growth” is “capture” where they turn free users into paid ones.

The number of people who get foaming-at-the-mouth angry over Microsoft because they did this in the 1990s and who also ignore the hundreds of companies doing this as part of the startup playbook is staggering.
It's called "The Cantillion Effect".
Yes, unless that PhD puts you on an earnings track where you can quickly make up for a few lost years of wages and saving. Otherwise, the compounding effect of having missed investing a few hundred thousand dollars _at a young age_ is substantial.
“voting” with money is going to be a lot less impactful because you simply have a lot less money than the owner class
The plate is matched with a VIN using DMV records, and then we decode the VIN to show Make, Model, Year, etc
Every single firearm should be able to be dropped and not go off, that’s standard safety, they should only fire when the trigger is pulled.