skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tumblr's success was that it was an adult space that wasn't strictly pornography.

This is a common talking point here, but it just isn't historically accurate in terms of absolute numbers.

Tumblr was most successful in 2011-2012. It started getting huge in 2010 in large part due to having built-in photo and video support, at a time when Twitter didn't have these, and Instagram and Pinterest were still both tiny. Tumblr also offered built-in reblog functionality before Twitter had built-in retweeting.

For a little while there, Tumblr was a mainstream social network -- certainly a bit edgier and more liberal than most competitors, but still mainstream enough that many major brands had a Tumblr presence right alongside their Facebook and Twitter icons. Adult content was definitely present, but it was a single-digit percentage of posts at the time of Tumblr's peak historical traffic levels.

A lot of those mainstream users started to decamp to Instagram and Pinterest after that point, depending on their personal use-case.

That adult content percentage definitely rose over time, but timing-wise that coincided with total traffic decreasing, not increasing. It also scared off the brands, whose advertising dollars were sorely needed to achieve sustainability for the business. So to me, attempting to attribute Tumblr's "success" to adult content just seems way off-base.

Source: I was personally responsible for a decent chunk of Tumblr's scalability and capacity planning for several years.
Oregon has also decided that high schoolers won’t need to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing or math in order to graduate for at least five more years because "equity" or something.

So take this for what it's worth...
A slave must not secretly sell his services without giving his master a cut, therefore masters consider this unethical.
I'm an L1B visa holder that will be filing I-140, I-765, I-131, I-485 concurrently in the coming months.

How soon can I leave my current employer?

As soon as the I-140 is approved and the EAD turns up? Assuming that my employer has communicated that they would not withdraw an approved I-140.
Maybe. But it is difficult to say to was _less_ dark than either the Roman empire before or the Renaissance and modern era later. So it certainly appears to be _more_ dark. And so it is, perhaps, not that uninformed an opinion after all.
How Arm Powers Chips by Apple, Amazon, Google and More [video]
> Carpentry and construction are both also areas where you don't really have an "exact" need to be at certain measure. You can usually get away pretty well with just picking a nice round number and going from there.

This does not sound like you’ve done much of either. I spent my summer rebuilding my kitchen and, oh boy, do millimetres matter.
It's mostly going to be bound by the GPU, which would be a wildcard, but i reckon you could match the existing performance for the same power draw, but then you also have a properly fast computer to plug into a monitor in your bag.
Yes, that's a typo, but I can't edit the submission any more :)
The cake was a lie ?
In the UK at least, if you are a contractor you are legally not an employee.

If you took any employee benefits, the tax man could retroactively classify you as an employee and demand a huge tax bill from you.

So many contractors would refuse any such benefits even if they were offered. Some didn't care of course and took them anyway, but they were potentially setting themselves up for a huge legal and tax problem.
Lava doesn't cover all of Iceland anywhere near enough to regularly bury things on that timescale. There was arable land and forest when the Norse came.

There is some evidence that Irish monks were on Iceland before the Norse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iceland#Irish_monks

Were there another non-European population earlier, they would need to get there by sea. I would expect archeological evidence of sea-worthy ships, which we do for the Norse.

It is a long way from Greenland to Iceland - far greater than the ~35 km from Ellesmere Island to Greenland, which is how we think the Dorset and Thule people got to Greenland. (And that was on the other side of Greenland.)
Same. I imagine the risk of malicious USB ports is higher around military and aerospace rental hubs, like Colorado Springs and Huntsville, Alabama.
UNH stock has doubled since 2020. Someones making big money.
Valve is a private company, and therefore much less susceptible to enshittification, at least in theory. That's bound to come crashing down when GabeN retires, though.
Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
There is no way to enter the market in any meaningful way without exclusives. It's not the end of the world to have two launchers.
In math, the job of writing a comprehensive summary is usually done in other places. Some of them are even accessible for free, such as zbMATH [1], a big database of comprehensive summaries of math articles.

[1]: https://zbmath.org/about
Oh how the writer was trapped by the TikTok trap. Nothing on there is real. If you heard it on TikTok, it’s probably made up. Now comes the saddest part: an entire generation thinks it’s real, it’s true, and is being manipulated by made up sh&t like culling of cats caused the Black Death. The likes drive engagement, because it seems plausibly true, it must be right? So I’ll like it too so I don’t look dumb. (trick: you’re dumb by liking it). So in the end, it’s a giant echo chamber of bad advice and made up scenarios and dance videos (because a pole would be low class) for likes and money. There’s some legit channels, like there are on YouTube or other platforms, but that’s not what GenZ is watching. They are learning bogus history, bogus politics, bogus math, and bogus job skills, through TikTok. (Maybe even intentionally, to dumb us American’s down). Who knows. I do know that more BS has come from “I heard it on TikTok” than ever in history. Even reporters are getting their “source” from “I heard it on TikTok”. It’s ridiculous. No wonder wars are raging, people are fighting, and all while making cute videos of cats while spreading 3rd grade history plausibilities.

Kudos for calling them out that nowhere, in the histories, did any of that happen.
> Sounds like we need to replace the structure, given that it's not fit for purpose

We soundly agree. Health insurance, where risk is pooled, makes sense. Health "insurance," where payments are pooled with a bunch of needless intermediation, is unnecessary.
Is it possible in Android too?
Well I don't know about a bubble of sound, but there are "sound lasers"

https://youtu.be/aBdVfUnS-pM
It is only needing to produce 33% more frames for 40fps vs 30fps. Compare that to producing 60fps which is 100% more frames. So you are only sacrificing a small amount of performance to get 40fps but a significant amount to reach 60fps.

In practicality, most people can't tell the difference between 40fps and 60fps, or at least won't notice it in normal gameplay.

So you get nearly the same experience as 60fps but for much less processing power and therefore also better battery life, less fan noise/cooling, and you can crank graphics a little higher.

Most people are more likely to notice the difference between "Medium" and "High" very easily or "High" and "Very High", but won't notice the impact of 40fps vs 60fps. So that's why 40fps is generally a sweet spot between performance and experience.
I'm using "glue" as a stand-in for all of the measures they use to lockdown their products when there is no physical need for it.

Nonetheless, you're selling "typically dissolves in acetone" as a user friendly, easy to repair, best in the industry experience? Should we give them a special award with text that is flanked by sprigs of wheat?

You don't realize how low you are setting the bar here.
You would need work authorization to take on paid internships - and there's almost certainly no work authorization option available. There have been and will be changes to the J-1 program so depending on your area of expertise and background, the J-1 might be an option but there would be complications with this if your plan is to remain in the U.S. after the J-1 internship.
Aren’t they the founders? It did strike me that already a minute in and they were bored with what they had to say about the product, like they’d already watched their lifetime’s share of Apple demos. At least when the Segway was launched we had weeks of building OMFG!!! hype around how it was going to be the worlds most radical new transportation device. Even the presenters of the hu.ma.ne website seem like they’re riddled with ennui, as you say, or just unenthused with presenting. It in no way seemed like the launch of a game changing new device. Plus, referring to their website, has anyone in history had cause to ask an AI assistant “how much is a vintage photograph of an eclipse going for?” like seriously?? And using this device as a speaker while roller skating in a city? I couldn’t even hear my iPhone Pro Max on full volume in an environment like that. Unless this device is phenomenally good and responsive, it’s going to flop so so hard in so many ways. People’s tolerance for latency and inaccuracy is low.
One night, visiting a friend, I overheard his kid complaining about the first big Habbo raid and how these people were everywhere. I slid into one of his schoolbook's a block-printed note reading POOL'S CLOSED. He never knew it was me.
Nice! I'm going to try this out!
Nit: For me, it would be nicer if `ai` was a fixture itself.

test.describe('Calendly', ({ ai }) => {
> making assumptions

We have i18n to give context, no assumptions needed.
> It was in many ways. There were of course more enlightened spaces, but the little they had was not very evenly distributed.

Eh. The Middle Ages were hardly darker than the eras preceding them, and the contrast with the Renaissance is much less stark than what the Renaissance people would have you believe. And the era spanned almost a millennium and most of Europe, and it's incredibly simplistic to sum up such a big chunk of spacetime with any single adjective. There's very little similarity between, say, 7th century Scotland, 11th century Spain, and 15th century Venice.

If anything, you could call "dark" the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire until the early middle ages. And obviously only from a fairly narrow Western-Europe-centric viewpoint.
Before app stores existed, smartphones weren't used the way they are today. Consumer habits have shifted... you'd be missing out on a HUGE part of the market.
Surely you should ask that to your Congressman, not a lawyer...
Here's the GitHub link. Please give it a star .

https://github.com/clayrisser/integration-operator
https://archive.ph/W71a5
On Balance and the Necessary Excesses of Life (2015)
Processing is adequate but RAM is not. The 15 Max Pro only has 8GB RAM. You need 32 GB to run any decent sized LLMs. (You can quantize a smaller model but the quality of the output will be noticeably bad)

I have an M2 Pro with 16gb ram and even I can’t run any decent sized LLMs locally.
Amazing work by all involved! Thank you.
There are no perfect solutions.
My grandfather did sheet metal work at Zion. Was also proud of his work (kept the press he used in his garage after he retired). Was a different time I suppose.
Is this not an American site?
Everything is missing? That left panel as shown in the screenshot is display-only, you can't click on it to allow/disallow anything (also: it's below the rest of the interface in my version, not to the left, which requires a lot further mouse travel).

...oh, I see, I have to first go into the settings to declare myself an able-minded human. That's quite the UX failure, hiding functionality behind an unrelated toggle at an entirely different place.

Having finally found the correct mystical incantation, I can answer your question. At first glance, that UI is incredibly confusing. Why are there two columns to the right of every domain? What's the difference between making the left column red and the right grey, versus making the right column red and the left grey? What is the significance of the +'s and -'s in the various cells? That help page doesn't explain any of it.

What's really missing: uMatrix lets me see how many resources of what type were loaded from what domain. That's very helpful when finding out what needs to be unblocked: if a site doesn't work, I progessively whitelist third-party resources until basic functionality is restored. I then remove everything from the writelist that's unused. It doesn't seem like that information is available.

Also: with UBO it doesn't seem possible to enable javascript for just one third-party host, or enable everything except javascript? If I whitelist a host in the UI, it automatically enables static resources (img, css), dynamic resources (js), cross-site data (xhr) and frames. I'm not going to write manual rules every time I want to allow everything except javascript.

This is just from a cursory examination, so maybe the functionality is there, it's just unfamiliarity with the new interface. But from what I'm seeing, neither the UI itself nor the help page make a compelling reason to make the switch.
Interesting that the story of cats being persecuted in the middle ages is false. This article doesn't try to trace the origin of the story. This one : https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/11/05/were-cats-reall...
Traces it to a book by Donald Engels, but that was only written in 2001 and I've definitely heard the story before that. I think I recall it being in 'Catwatching' by Desmond Morris which was published in 93 (but it may have been some other book from that time period). I doubt if Morris originated the story either, as he's a naturalist, not a historian. So I wonder where it came from.
> You can skip type system magic, and have people just keep introducing bugs that it would prevent over and over, writing more tests trying to prevent it, never quite succeeding, but overall "feeling productive" and "being agile" along the way.

There's a middle ground, and I was specifically responding to the quoted bit: "Its type system is very powerful and allows you to encode complex invariants about your system in the type system."

Once people start "encoding complex invariants in the type system" it becomes an unholy mess only one or two people on the team understand. Usually an ad-hoc unspecified poorly thought-out type-level DSL dozens of level deep.
*facet if I may correct you.

The self-domesticated cat had and have great use to reduce vermin and medieval monastery had plenty of that as monasteries were not just spiritual places but working farms.
Thanks for inspiration! I’ve been learning x86 asm and now i’m going to put my skills to the test.
Interesting reading, but not very convincing of what seems to be an ulterior supposition. Oswald had defected to the Soviet union, so it would follow that James Angleton's paranoid counter intelligence office would have closely monitored him. The same way that the office opened the mail of American citizens.

The article seems to go a long way to hint that Oswald had the assistance of the CIA in the assassination of Kennedy. Beginning with Oliver Stone and highlighting how many of the CIA and upper government echelons loathed the President.

I almost get the impression of someone sitting on the other side of looking at me going "see !" But.. no I don't see.

There is absolutely nothing in this that even hints that the CIA knew that Oswald would kill Kennedy, or that they had a hand in it. It's entirely possible they were tracking him, but how many times have we heard that a mass shooter was "known to police/the FBI" ?

After reading this through twice, I am still convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy. That doesn't rule out that there might have been a second shooter unknown to each other, but I'm still convinced Oswald did it.

If you've not been to Daly Plaza, in Dallas, Texas, I encourage you to go. It's nothing like you see on TV.
I was referring specifically to the only thing they've done being to charge a slightly lower dev cut, while having a worse client, support and library with all the same problems (walled garden, potential of losing library due to shut down).

I can speak anecdotally to the fact that I invested in an alternative platform once (Impulse) and already had to migrate to Steam (repurchasing much of that content) once. I'm not willing to do it again without a significant benefit in doing so.
If there are no issues (that is, no criminal record and no extended absences), then it's a simple and straightforward process and we advise all our clients to handle on their applications on their own and save themselves the legal fees.
Open-Source Quality Management for AI Models
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Indeed. He only has political power through money, in a world he had no small hand in designing, and it turns out that does not really do nearly as much as he may want when he focuses it on self centered pursuits or the increase of personal power.
GoG/CD Projekt Red did it somehow. Even their own games are not exclusive to the platform.
The problem would be easily solved by:

1)Requiring the patch be posted online somewhere, not in the email message as an attachment. Criteria could be set, such as "must be via https, and something that will handle the volume of hits without becoming unreachable due to insufficient quota, server resources, or quota." Or set up a patch hosting server. Etc.

2)Dividing the kernel into major categories like every other major open source software project, and having patch lists for those categories. The main list should only be for announcements and discussions that require a broad audience.
Not too much new info here.

It's been interesting to me to watch this "fight" from a user perspective. I say fight in scare quotes because it seems to mostly be EGS whinging and splashing about and Steam just ignoring their existence entirely.

But it's interesting to me because I've always felt like Steam's moat was weird. I mean, it's PC. There's no moat in the same way that Android or iOS have. Prior to steam, people just put their items on their dang desktops, for crying out loud. Still can. Still do, for most software that's not games. And there's obviously ~0 cost to installing multiple launchers. It's what, a few bits of disk space (nothing compared to the size of even a small indie game, which will easily be 1GB nowadays) and an icon in your app tray, if you even let it run on startup.

AND people already use multiple launchers! It's not an fdroid vs playstore scenario, where grandma isn't going to install fdroid. Grandma is already installing random exe's from all over the internet. And gamers already have company-specific launchers - battlenet, EGS for fortnite, and so on. And they have an existing install base, from fortnite! Though I suspect most of their users are mobile. But it's a big leg up vs trying to crack the chicken and egg problem of no games = no installs = no games.

And yet, here we are. They can't even hardly give away games for free! They offer half the fees and frickin pay popular up and coming double-A titles for exclusivity. And yet still Steam is huge and games will release on EGS and on Steam and literally (there's a tweet with an example somewhere) games will see <1% of sales come from EGS.

So - what's Steam's moat? It's CLEARLY there. And I think it's simple that it's just brand and trust. Gamers (sorry, forgive me use of the term) are used to being jerked around and treated like crap, and they're tremendously suspicious of big game companies, since they're so good at ruining everything just to eke out more profits even if it kills the dang thing long-term.

But Steam has their trust because 1) they have a very good track record of not f'ing people over and 2) people trust Gabe because they know Valve is privately held and Gabe is in control. So there's this capitalist/shareholder capriciousness that's simply not a factor in Valve's business but is literally the entire business of EGS. Do people think Valve is here for charity? Certainly not. And yet there's absolutely this perceived difference between Valve and Epic where Valve is the "I make money by making customers happy, just like I have done for twenty years" type of money-making company and Epic is clearly driven in a much more stereotypically slimy sort of capitalist fashion.

I'll throw in one random anecdote: I'm sure everyone else saw the HN threads about the OLED Steam Deck? Where they're like, making screws easier for people to tinker with in the newer revision? That's the kind of thing I'm talking about with Valve. Gamers love Valve and Valve loves gamers loving valve (especially since it drives so much revenue).
> Font families seem like an incredible idea that I'm surprised nobody's done before

Oh this has been done for decades. Metafont (by the inimitable Don Knuth) let you describe glyphs as toolpaths in code. You could have as many parameters as you wanted; I've seen examples where a sans-serif is smoothly swept into a serif.

Metafont never got adopted as much as I would have hoped; the lack of a graphical editor and some impedance mismatch with OpenType probably prevented its wider adoption.
Ah yes, they don't own any of the venues I frequent, or any at all that I know of.

I can certainly see them being able to get away with more shenanigans in that case.
It depends what you mean by work. He or she cannot get paid of course but there's lots that he or she can do with regard to establishing the company, building the product, etc.
Engineering wise, Torx was always superior, particularly small screws that would strip easily. People hated it because of the patents, and getting good tools were extremely expensive because of the licensing.
Funnily enough, heroic games launcher - an electron app with support for multiple stores , including epic, feels faster than whatever the epic app/store is.

It's a weird world where a third party, more feature rich Linux app is more performant than the official Windows app on Windows ...
Broadly speaking I agree, but as it stands as a privately held company, they seem to be the antidote to enshittification and anti-consumer behavior brought on by publicly traded conglomerates.

Speaking of which, GoG Galaxy. Certainly hasn't gotten better.
Microsoft contractors while not getting the benefits package of an FTE, may actually make more money than the same role as an FTE.

I have known some folks getting insurance through their partner's work who passed on going FTE because it would be a pay cut.

Yes, they are not allowed access to a lot of stuff (source, telemetry, etc.).
Bandwidth issues aside, how would you sync your local data with updates and such via the browser? This isn’t 1998. You don’t just download an installer and play anymore. There’s DLC, there’s updates, there’s extras.
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not quite

I don't want to punish everyone, only those attempting to coerce me into disabling the ad-blocker
Commit Mono font does something similar and calls it “Smart kerning”. Visit https://commitmono.com/ and click on the “04 Intelligent” tab for details.

In practice this is unusable. Because the width of the letters now depends on the succeeding character, the text jumps as you write it. Super annoying.

Cool for reading. Awful for writing.
I've heard blockages in the Beijing Wudaokou office, but that was before I started working at Google (I left China in 2016 and started at google in 2020, so maybe a big gap). Maybe it changed? (or my info was wrong)
Photographer Hassan Eslaiah with grenade in hand on Oct 7:

https://x.com/amit_segal/status/1722548954246549974?s=20
Just noticed it a few hours ago.

The toggle is disabled.

This is for a video I watch often in loop mode.
the implication of your words here is that you think juniors make decisions while seniors mentor them?

I suppose for some implication is difficult to deal with so let me be explicit.

there often are no seniors. A junior mentoring has another phrase. The blind leading the blind.