skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that they brought back the software renderer (and allowed you to disable texture filtering). There's something about that style I find charming.

I'm just waiting on my steam deck to charge so I can curl up on the couch with this for a few hours before bed.

EDIT: I tried it out on my laptop while waiting for the deck to charge, and I'm seeing some bugs in the software renderer with missing textures for semi-transparent objects like floor grilles, so I'm switching back to OpenGL for now. If anyone at Valve wants log-files or information on my setup in order to reproduce, I'm happy to provide it; my email is in my profile.
How does it compare with Height or Shortcut?
I can only state for myself that I'm putting more effort in (since I can feel the bike slow down more when I don't). Plus the ebike allows trips that because of distance I wouldn't use the regular bike for.
So glad to see 0.5 out of release candidacy! I really appreciated how async functions and event streams were handled in 0.5, and just seeing this version land will make it so much easier to justify using Rocket in production.

I still think Rocket is the most concise web framework for Rust after 5 years now of using it in projects and even newer frameworks, and also is one of the best examples of how ergonomic you can make frameworks and DSLs in-general using Rust's type system.

For those wondering what makes it so different, the "batteries included" approach really differentiates it from other web frameworks in Rust, and it reduces the total amount of boilerplate you need to setup for simple middleware, streams, and security just about everything you need to do for simple web services.
> A brain is not a Turing machine, but a Turing machine can be a brain.

At this point I regret I wasted my time explaining what's wrong with your reasoning :)

Peace!
Sure it has! They ditched their Chronography division at some point.
Eastern Europe. My sister works at ER and they are calling cyclists without helmets "organ donor wannabes". The point is that unlike bikers, many of these cyclists don't end up as organ donors and/or "fatality" in statistics. They only manage to cause permanent damage to their head/brain.
This definitely shouldn't be flagged, as edgy as it is.

IBM materially provided computers knowingly to the WWII Nazies of Germany, to identify, track, and lead to execution. This isn't some plausibly deniable fact. IBM execs did this knowing exactly what their equipment was used for.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.hig...

The serial numbers tattooed on Jews' arms from the concentration camps are IBM database primary keys.
And for those handi-capable folks, what do we do?
Time to terrorize crossfire with the glu-on gun again!
Almost 25 years ago I worked at a little startup. I started to build a network management system using ..... tcl/tk some open source HP Openview, what was the name?

Anyway, I had a neat display showing live nodes as green. I was redirected to enhance that display with graphs and charts and linking the nodes, we bought a TV to display it on... long story short, it was more important to show this awesome graphic tool to potential investors then to know whether our systems were actually down.

Some things never change.
'Star Wars' Documentary About Infamous 1978 Holiday Special Sets Release Date
Why should I be allowed to install arbitrary PC software but not extensions?

Well, we know Apple's answer to that...
Does Boeing/Airbus force contractors employed by the airlines who own their planes to jump through crazy hoops and provide all their PII?

If I had an airline as a client and I wanted to change the upholstery on a plane, I don’t think I’d need to have the changes approved by Boeing/Airbus in addition to having my personal data (home address, phone, and ID) sold and used to target me with advertising.
Google prompt results yield far more results and links to sources. Furthermore content creators gain traffic which they can monetise. What benefits does a procedural text generator such as chat gpt bring to the table by comparison? A summary of people’s content without attribution and without monetisation?
How are first person shooters on the Deck? Do you just use the analog stick to aim, or is the gyro actually helpful?
Sounds like a secure storage infrastructure problem.
A person who puts his own needs above those of his neighbors.
Hate to say that but I’d be happier if this never happened.

I think many newcomers think that Rocket is “the web framework” in Rust. And if author goes silent again they will be let down. It casts kinda bad shadow on Rust community but we have better alternatives.
No spoilers then, but the ending of Alyx does retcon the old cliffhanger.
The apple homepod is a nice, wireless speaker that can (usually) play the music you ask it to by voice command. If that's what you expect of it, it's really quite good.
Not really. 20-30% effective on income including CA's 9.4% at ~40k, plus 10-20k in property taxes, 10%+ in sales taxes, excise taxes on everything from gasoline to alcohol, and various "fees" that are really taxes including auto registration, building permit fees, DMV charges, ride share fees, motor oil and battery disposal charges. Also, some cities (e.g. NYC) have a personal income tax.

Obviously you're right that marginal != effective, but Americans really do pay a LOT in taxes, when you add it up, for a relatively middling level of services (e.g. no public healthcare, no subsidized daycares, marginal-quality public schools)
I could never put my finger on what made that game so compelling.

The game's director and writer, Shigesato Itoi, is a creative writer by trade, so he brought a fresh perspective, and frankly, is a better writer than most who work on videogames. Being an outsider, he also wasn't bogged down by common video game tropes.
Is there evidence of this happening in existing worker-owned cooperatives?
You ever been on a bus with a raving lunatic?

Wiled away the hours as the bus chugs along circuitously to a point that is not quite at your destination?

Tried to carry heavy shopping on a bus?

Walked to a bus stop through bad weather?

Taken one mode of transport that was delayed, making you miss the next leg?

Waited forever for a bus that never comes?

Public transport sucks balls. In the world's densest, biggest cities, you can make it kind-of-tolerable by throwing a ton of tax money at it, but it will never hold a candle to the most basic of cars / bikes / mopeds.
Shouldn't parking fees be dependent on area and not weight?
Show HN: GPT Of The Day – I spent the weekend building Product Hunt for GPTs
Minneapolis is an inland climate colder than Germany in winter, yet Minneapolis is (for the US) a place known for the number of people who bike year round.
Your response doesn’t address the content of the thread coherently. What else can I say? We need to actually be talking about the same things to have a discussion.
So the Apostrophe Protection Society is the apostrophe's protection society?
Hey HN! I’m Johan, a Computer Science student from Sweden.

Tired of waiting until OpenAI launches their App Store for GPTs? Me too.

That's why my friend and I spent the last days building GPT Of The Day: To help you find, publish and vote on the best GPTs of the day. Every day.

Our goal is to help you find the best new GPTs, credit creators and encourage people to build great stuff.

I hope it will be helpful for the community. Would love your feedback! :)

// Johan
Postgres and Citus and Partman, Your IoT Database
Once the dust settles we will realize yes LLMs have some applications. But no they don’t need to be integrated into everything.
Please have a thorough look at https://www.smard.de and download their data to do some statistics on it. This should give you an impression of what, when and how long is missing. Hint: It's not just two to three weeks per year. There are many such gaps. And they're not just a couple of days long.

All your ideas hinge on storage that somehow magically comes to existence. I told you the numbers and you then argue with science fiction. No one knows how to build a reliable hydrogen network of the size that would be necessary. The efficiencies for generation are abysmal, especially if you try to generate just from water and electricity and not from natural gas. I don't believe you even remotely grasp the magnitude of the challenges ahead.

Again, I would like to encourage the use of real data and math. Less science fiction and wishful thinking.
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Let’s not assume Tesla treats its workers badly though. I’ve talked to Tesla workers and they were very happy.

The union is just butthurt that Tesla is not unionized and has happy workers.

You’ll find plenty of negative media if you look, but there are reasons those stories get planted and promoted, reasons having little to do with truth.
Sweden has jet fighters, Musk has a flamethrower. Not fair
> Python, JS, C, Bash aren't even particularly great at the problems they solve

I would argue the "problem" that Python really solves is the amount of engineering effort required to read and write code for common software use cases. Ie, it's purpose is to help developers write better code faster and easier than other languages, while execution speed has usually had a lower priority. In that framing, it's great at solving the problem of development time and old code being hard to maintain, and that's why so many engineers like myself love it.
A big example of a faux pas within the past few years was some Airplane crash was being highlighted by the Twitter-algorithm as "Relevant to Airplanes", and a bunch of airlines were getting their advertising placed next to the crash.

That pissed off ... some company... and apparently Twitter promised tools to help prevent this in the future.

Those tools have been breaking this year. An advertisement's ability to generate good-will to the company is entirely dependent on context. Airplane advertisements (ie: Fly with Southwest) mean completely different things when they're next to airplane crashing news.

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Simple rules like "If you have news about an airplane crash or other such disaster, please skip my advertisement until the next cycle" are a thing in traditional media. Especially for the high-paying industries. They expect an advertising partner to help control the context in which their advertisements are shown.

EDIT: Another example is Micky Mouse or Tony the Tiger (and other such mascots) showing up next to Twitter Furry-porn. There's plenty of reasons for a company to try to control the context. In the case of furry-porn, its all legal (though uncomfortable), but it really makes animal-based mascots shown in a grossly different light and is terrible for messaging.
>fun fact about Darik of DBAN fame - he landed himself in hot water a few years ago when it was revealed he was a founding member of a white nationalist Canadian political party [1].

Based! I appreciate his hard disk nuker even more now! :^)

Also, bringing that point up is as fallacious as an ad hominem in debate and is blatantly political. You are the establishment. Darik is not. I am not.
Either work just fine, IMO. The gyro is just as good as on the Switch
Quiet I think is somewhat intrinsic, although the desirability of that is socially constructed, and changes over time. I also think people care about "quiet house" (which is to some degree a choice during construction) more than "quiet neighbourhood". The latter, after all, can be construed negatively or positively.

"Safety" perception though seems to largely be a social construction. By this I mean it seems pretty clear (US context) that a) most people have opinions, often strong ones, about safety that b) don't seem much related to any data or real science [1] and c) are quite often affected by softer things like political messaging and PR.

If I'm right about the above, there would be no reason to assume it would not change also. Of course it also implies that change could not be driven by reality either :)

[1] real science in this area seems inherently difficult, and available data of poor quality
I'm not sure what you mean, good quality CAT5e cables should easily give you 10Gbit/s under 30m. If it works, why replace it?
Converted my garage to a gym. I have squat racks, bars, dumbbells, rower, and more. My now 13yo has discovered he likes lifting which was a nice benefit too.
With all due respect, push the business forward where? Google already won everything. They are on top right now. The irrational thing here is to get the size of Google and then try to promise investors growth when you should be promising dividends. The only place for Google to go is to stagnate or to go down. "Growth" is just going to get them a more serious antitrust action.

That goes for Amazon as well imo. They are another company that won about as much as anyone can but has refused to move past the startup mentality and irrational promises of growth. It's going to get them both burned.

Microsoft is the only company that has really handled this well but that's probably got something to do with them getting in antitrust trouble back in the day, when they were behaving much more like a Google or an Amazon.
I got my first real introduction to first person shooters with Quake II. I used keyboard only, with page up/down keys for vertical look. When Half-Life came out my friend would only let me play if I looked with the mouse instead. I thought that was so dumb. Why not just use both sides of the keyboard? Why split controls across two devices? But I relented and picked up this wonky control scheme pretty quickly. Then I bought my own copy and wore it down to the nubs over the course of years. I loved mods. My favorite was Action Half-Life. I played Counterstrike a few times when Xena Warrior Princess posters were plastered around maps and scientists acted as hostages. I thought it was too derivative of other accurate combat mods.

When Half-Life 2 came out I bought the pricier version which came with HL1 and all the expansions, mods, etc on Steam. Those are my oldest purchases on the service, naturally.
Comparing Humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on Abstraction and Reasoning Tasks
> This site infuriates me sometimes at the complete and utter lack of understanding of most of the United States

Most of the US in what capacity? Square miles? Because the majority of the population lives in Cities.

I love reading comments like yours. All throughout this thread you've vehemently argued that your perspective is the right one.

It's a reminder to me that close minded people like you actually exist! You're not here to discuss, you're here to argue. That's pretty unfortunate.
What is it? I clicked the crowbar which changed my cursor and that was it.
Not all the RAM on earth would be enough to process that shit
Excuseme, what kind of content do you have with more than 100mbps bitrate?
The "use" page is missing several details, some important:

* 1 The non-ASCII apostrophe is always ’, so programs that automatically insert smart quotes do the wrong thing for apostrophes at the start of a word. Some better examples IMHO: ’tis (it is), ’nuff (enough), ’cause (because), ’em (them), ’fraid (afraid), ’n’ (and),

* 2 The "name ends with s" rule also applies to names ending with "x".

* 3 is arguably just a special case of 2 (e.g. we can say "a holiday of two weeks"), but note that this is very similar to the attributive use (7) which never† uses the plural or an apostrophe but does use a hyphen (a two-week holiday).

* 5 There are, in fact, grammatically-valid uses of "its’", when "it" is a noun rather than a pronoun. A non-derogatory example, in some variants of tag (the children's game), the its’ advantage increases over time.

* 6 Whether apostrophes are used for plurals of non-words is a matter of style, not correctness.

* 7, † Some apparent exceptions are due to words that are actually collective instead of plural for the particular use case. For example, "arms industry" is like "clothes industry". More often, people use errors and omit the required apostrophe. "farmers market" is an abomination.
I think Cortona won. /s
my understanding is that you can't sell this cloud as a service (AWS would not be able to use it)
If the money earmarked for upkeep goes to upkeep, that sounds like a nice plan. Unfortunately, PG&E has a history of collecting upkeep fees and paying them out as shareholder dividends.
Top Reasons Why Developers Love Rust
I used to use alexa for home control. Over the past 5 years or so, it got progressively smarter and more capable - and worse! It was incredibly annoying. Now I just use a locally hosted smarthome solution.
It probably feels more familiar if you are coming from the world of Python’s Django or Flask. Other than that Axum is very likely a better choice for all use cases.
au contraire, it knows where it isn't
>Like any profession, the median is a moron.

Fixed that for you. I wish when real estate comes up on HN, as it seems to weekly, that more members of this community would reflect upon the 10x programmer conversation. In any given profession, there are going to be skilled people and less skilled people, in the same way that Pareto's principle tells us that 20% of the people are doing 80% of the work. So I appreciate you making this observation.

May I ask - why did you feel like a horrible person? Sounds to me like you had a good sense of what you wanted to accomplish and you found someone who could help you reach your goals.
I was developing a fairly large web app with Rocket 0.4 (released 2018!) and it started as a good experience, but then I was burned by the lack of support for multipart forms (i.e. file uploads), poor async, no option to listen on unix socket (required by my hosting provider's proxy) and long compilation times (not fully fault of Rocket, Rust compiler team has done a lot to speed up compilation since then). In the end, I found hacky solutions for all these issues, but I learned that perhaps Rust is not the right choice to make full-stack web apps and rewrote everything to Laravel (PHP) and Vue (JS).

Past me would have loved this update. Thank you in his name!
I think it is too long.
> They steal their livelyhood, it's not a misunderstanding. Should not be legal anywhere.

If you're no longer working your job, it's no longer your livelihood. That's your right of course, but you don't own a job anymore than the company owns you.
> Half-life 3 would just be like every other FPS game now

Artistically, aesthetically, nothing quite compares to the Half Life universe in other FPS games. A lot of people would be happy with just another chapter to explore.

There are too many open world boring grinding simulations nowadays.

Black Mesa was just a remake of Half Life 1 and it was so much more fun and immersive than any recent FPS game that I have played.
Can’t blame them for trying
> you can't say the code base isn't battle-hardened

Your statement is undermined by the fact that the system has failed its sixth consecutive audit. If it's not hardened against failing an audit, I'm not really sure what it could possibly be hardened against.
I've seen people use a combination of both. The analog stick / trackpad for macro movements, and the gyro for fine tuning. I tried it once, and I think it could be fine if I practiced a tiny bit.

But I've also got a normal PC with keyboard and mouse, so I don't need to.
Simple measure-analysis suggests they are somewhat related, both are measured in currency units.
It's just a little dose of nostalgia. I think Half Life was one of the highest rated games of all time before Baldur's Gate 3 (both are 97% at PCGamer, for example). That's a pretty rare accomplishment worth celebrating, especially for those of us who grew up with the series...

I do kinda wish they incorporated the fan Black Mesa remake and improvements, though.
> Meanwhile, the banks who funded Musk's acquisition are getting antsy. More fleeing advertisers means more lost revenue and more likelihood that the bonds held by the financiers are unsellable.

This paragraph links to a related piece about CEO Yaccarino's efforts to save the company despite Musk seemingly doing his best to burn it all down:

> Yaccarino is reportedly set to meet with Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, British bank Barclays, Japanese banks MUFG and Mizuho, and French financial institutions BNP Paribas and Société Générale to discuss plans not to leave them in the lurch as the value of X's assets have plummeted by two thirds in the past year.

> With huge interest payments to those banks continuing to come due and X's value incredibly unclear - but unlikely to have appreciated - the banks might be getting impatient to see some improvement as Musk's first year of ownership draws to a close.

I'm very curious to see what happens when X ends up defaulting on these obligations, as it sure looks like it will. Musk didn't seem too concerned about ignoring other contractual obligations, like rent and its AWS bill, nor about paying required severance for laid-off workers, to the tune of $500 million, according to one recent suit.

But I imagine that he can't just skip out on his obligation to the banks without a severe reckoning. Can he?
Don't forget the bit where many cities are running in the red (existing infra costs more to maintain than it nets in taxes), but they "make it up on growth" by continually expanding
Ask HN: Where's the website that shows password requirements for other sites?
I remember reading an article some time ago that had a link to a site that listed password requirements for a variety of websites - can anyone help me find that website?
Ok, but this mentality means you are buying into a narrative of a platform which is locked down not directly for your benefit or when it matters to you, but instead as an indirect side effect of building a platform catered to developers of apps like the banking app who then have complete control to make the call on when this matters and what they consider to be invalid... and so I just need to make sure that you understand, in the context of this thread on ad blocking, that by expressing this opinion, you are also, in practice, saying you think people blocking ads shouldn't be allowed (whether the mechanism is that developers move content from the web into apps you must install or the web fully supports the same level of drm as the app platform).
I think we may be running into the weeds of pedantry here, but here goes...

(Speaking about how things are in the US. I don't know how they are elsewhere.)

Contract law is about how to interpret and adjudicate contracts when there is a dispute between the parties in the contract.

Nothing about that means that violating a contract, in and of itself, is illegal. You aren't going to suffer any criminal penalties for failing to adhere to your contractual obligations.

What you may do is suffer whatever penalties that the contract specifies will happen if the contract is violated, and the legal system is also geared to work out and enforce such things. But that's a world apart from the notion that violating a contract is "illegal".
"Revolution", lol. Maybe in the US.

They are super common in many countries including mine. It's a very neat way to travel somewhere for a weekend (leave Friday evening, return Monday morning), and it is typically fancier and more comfortable than a plane.
Are printed papers or magazines toxic?