skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to believe that the Russian economy is suffering negative effects as a result of their leaders’ decision to invade Ukraine, but the authors come off as overly politically motivated. I’m also surprised by how limited even the claimed effects are.

I do appreciate, and was previously unaware, that sectors such as food and health were not targeted by sanctions in an effort to avoid undue punishment of Russian innocents.
Someone who reliably solves standard problems is a journeyman, not an expert. These terms are fairly well established in the study of skill and expertise, and it helps to use them appropriately.
It’s a really bad theory with no evidence about people engaging in a conspiracy… That makes it a conspiracy theory.
In many of the examples the underlying subject matter is altered not merely enhanced (change in color of the eyes for example). The comparison between images doesn't work under Firefox/Windows 10.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745673
If apps want to opt into cooperation then they can via other means. Unix sockets come to mind. Wayland also has established ways to opt into common cooperation demands for those apps which want to.

Cooperating via a display server seem like the wrong way for ferrying arbitrary data across processes to me.
Seriously, if any VC is reading this, get this man some funding to make it a real project. Even at double or triple what it costs, it's still cheaper than any other commercial competitor.
The build many “startups” quickly hype gives me strong get rich quick vibes.

It works for the influencers because their audience is big enough, but for everyone else it’s very unlikely to work and they will just pay for the courses and boilerplates the influencers are shilling.

Most things that create significant sustained value will take a lot of time.

It’s sad to read the blog posts of people spending so much time building crappy products no one will ever use, and still trying to sell you on their latest idea.

It’s sad that this is what indie hacking has become.
>I've run a few businesses over the years and the return of investment of self sufficiency is barely worth it in the long run.

Most people aren't looking at it from the perspective of making a killing. They just want to get away from having a boss. For whatever reason they don't fit the corporate mould. Running their own show represents freedom.

http://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html
You may notice the examples use it totally differently.

Just because a word is in the dictionary it doesn't mean you can just drop it anywhere in a phrase. Languages tend to have more rules than that.
Haha he started with some yes. Saying nos come later. Btw he was lucky his first yeses were bulls-eye.
Most of that Github post is straight up incorrect. I don't understand why it hasn't been removed, or why people keep parroting it, or even giving it a mention.
It's not the same, but there are some similarities. They have different purposes, so it's enough to say that they are not the same. I was just playing devil advocate and wanted to show that the set of arguments presented by original commenter was not that good.
Not every cool project needs to be a startup.
> Even stupider than 900p given that the screen is only 720p

Rendering and then downscaling produces better render quality in total (e.g. aliasing).
Windows has a lot of backwards compatibility it's necessary to support from a commercial POV, I can imagine the further back you go in their constant wheel-reinventing of GUI frameworks, the more difficult it is to patch in fractional scaling support. I've noticed the newer "metro" / tiles / win10+11 UIs look scaled natively at e.g. 125%, whilst Win32 programs have the blurry text but crisp buttons thing.

And it's confused greatly by the fact their own software appears to be layers of frameworks, eg windows explorer and the 1000 different settings apps they have..
Always thought the raspberry pi was missing a trick by not just dropping straight into basic. It is supposed to be a learning tool, Linux is a brick wall of a learning curve (imo!)

Anyway it's been a very long time since I used my raspberry pi, maybe this is now a feature.
One interesting thing that's not in the video: there is a real application beyond the astronomy one, a scenario where you would want to roll one object around another object, and care about how many rotations it makes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicyclic_gearing

These are used for car differentials, bicycle gear hubs, pencil sharpeners, and many other applications.
Sure, that's the colloquial understanding.

In a discussion specifically about learning -- which this is -- it would help if people are more precise with their words. Hence my suggestion to rephrase. What you have in mind are journeymen, not experts.
For me I received excellent education because my parents picked the right geography to live in. I attended what might be the best public school system in the US before it became inundated with extreme wealth.

I have found that I have gotten through life well enough by skills and intelligence alone so I never placed much consideration into academics. This has proven exceptionally disappointing as it directly determines your peer group. As such I instruct my own children to balance good grades from more challenging classes against making proper life decisions. I am quick to remind them that as high school draws to a close they are on their way towards being cut off from their parents. That reality is as equally challenging and foreign to them as it is to my spouse. Nonetheless, if you want your children to be worth anything push them to have initiative and be competitive.
> I do not want to live in a world in which opaque companies control public discourse.

I don't know of such thing as a "non opaque company".
as one of those "newer engineer", the thought of dealing with server racks and bundle of cables inside huge & gloomy server room actually scares me. I really appreciate those guys who actually knew how to setup those HWs, despite maybe clueless about latest shinier things. having the will to actually wrestle with messy to stuff to make the life of other engineer better is actually commandable. kudos to all those guys
The site basically admits it's a journalistic troll factory for far-right British oligarch in its introduction, so it's not a surprise to see it astroturfed here:

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2019/introducing-the...
I got started on a CPC with Locomotive BASIC before upgrading my system with disk drive, 256KB RAM pack, ROMS, and CP/M 2.2 and then 3.0. Sought out CP/M because of the amount of free software already available. Programmed in BASIC, BCPL, and eventually C (not a great fit for the Z80). It’s hard to express the value of this learning experience to young users today.
Closest I’ve found is manually switching the machine plugged into a TB 4/USB 4 dock (CalDigit TS4), with the cables for each computer being managed when unplugged by a magnetic cable pad[0].

It’s a bit clunky but not too bad once you have a feel for swapping cables and is less flaky than the more affordable KVMs I’ve tried. Gets me a nicer port loadout to share between machines too, and can be expanded to support as many computers as you’ve got space and patience for.

This does however assume all machines involved can handle outputting a display signal via Thunderbolt or USB C. Not too much of an issue with laptops but it’s still unusual for desktop PCs to have their GPUs hooked up to support TB/USB alt modes.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XYZFM7D
I write CGIs in Lua with OpenResty's content_by_lua_file to script stuff on my home server. It's easier than setting up the kind of environments I develop with for work and it runs with few memory and Watts.
I use Obsidian Sync.
You might find https://nelua.io interesting.
I picked BASIC in 3rd grade reading a "stolen" math book. I saw a bunch of 10 line examples in its pages and remembered that weird pc jr. cartridge that said basic. The cartridge seemed useless until that day....
You know what we had decades ago that required electricity 24/7? Steel mills, heavy industry, trains, 3-shift operated production sites and domestic appliances. You know what we have today requiring 24/7 electricity? The same list... Unless you think modern industry came into being with the internet...
> You forget that these large corporations invest heavily in REIT's.

Do they? That would surprise me. Any evidence for that?
This. So much this. It's also really cool as a 'niche' project, and felt even approachable to someone like me who hasn't ever done more soldering than his first PS1 and a modchip.
I don't revolve once every 24 hrs, the earth does.
I think both ways work. Focusing on a single product failed for me, focusing on many small bets worked.

Many small business ideas which can be built quickly are really hard to scale beyond a certain point so having many is the only way to build reasonable income. These small bets also need to require low effort to build and support (eg. think b2c with advertising income or a product with little support costs).

Of course if you can scale up a single business, good for you, you can focus all your energies there and provide a great service.
I wouldn't call it well researched. Even the wiki link mentions various, half-contradictory theories, none of which is substantiated. Some of those aren't even theories, just a minor generalization of an observation, without any deeper explanation. The page is limited in its discussion, omitting phenomena such as gender variability, BTW.
It's not "revisionist history", just a different take than yours.

I detailed in another answer that the Game and Watch and other past handheld didn't offer a console-like experience or one that you'd directly compare to a modern phone game.
Tell HN: Hacker News dataset on BigQuery hasn't been updated since Nov 2022
As you might know, there is a hackernews dataset on bigquery [1]:
"This dataset contains all stories and comments from Hacker News from its launch in 2006 to present."

I was going to do some data explorations with this data, but when I sorted the records by timestamp, I noticed the latest items belong to 2022-11-16 and the dataset hasn't been updated since then [2].

[1]: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/w8kg8CW
>It’s a shame the set up process and UI is typical OSS tier otherwise I’d be telling everyone I know to use it.

Thats why popcorn time was solo great. Too bad theres just not a comparable experience in 2023. Apparently all "rebel" Z and alpha gen kids are busy trying to make some quick buck. There's so fewer idealistic folks willing to share, compared to my generation in the 90s and 2000s.
They touch on that on the article, regarding why they didn't caught on.

Hence why we moved on to application servers built on top of Apache, IIS, Tomcat, and so on.

Basically what people end up doing to try to improve their serveless workloads, reduce their execution costs, is reinventing application servers,
poorly.

Stuff like lets put severless in containers, managed by Kubernetes, compiled into WASM, for example.
That’s kind of ridiculous, Rust deeply embraces pointers and that’s why people struggle with it. Rust is way better at pointers than C.
Usually, for efficiency, you use quantized models. Quantized models reduce the number of bits available for each parameter, saving space and reduce RAM usage.
You could say the same about memory protection and isolation, and yet, here we are.

I do somewhat sympathise with the sentiment that running untrusted apps is bad and FLOSS ecosystems are good. But even then, building a security framework around windowing does seem appropriate given the broad range of uses that Wayland will see.
Contract Amendments are a common part of business relationships when the parties want modifications while maintaining contract enforceability.
Open Letter to Marc Andreessen
KDE is mature enough to be useable and has tons of extra features I miss when I'm on Mac.

I try to setup a system with i3 or sway every once and then but then I always end up back on KDE eventually.

I do miss good window tiling though!
So, I had a look at it, very nice and tight code, relatively easy to follow even for someone who doesn't really know rust (I think I picked up more rust from your code than I did from any other source about rust).

I especially like the very clean and simple interface that abstracts away all of the complexity underneath.

Thank you for putting this out there, rust needs more projects like this, quiet and effective, showing rather than telling.
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.“

I genuinely feel that Dijkstra’s famous rant about BASIC had a big hand in killing it off. I don’t think it was the intention but it created so much bias against BASIC. If you created something in basic, or even suggested using it, someone would post that quote in the usenet thread. Like Godwin’s Law.

It’s a shame, because it was so accessible, not just because it was right there but also because it does make it very easy for beginners to understand programming in a way that structured programming doesn’t.

If there’s one language guilty of causing brain damage it’s surely JavaScript.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJjoFFTFk0g
On the contrary, standardized course plans are actually the most effective way to provide truly reliable instruction at all levels in a mass lecture/group education format. One key reason why those 100 math wizards don't all become PhD's is that math instruction at both school and university level leads to the proliferation of random gaps in learning where some content just wasn't reinforced effectively. Since math instruction generally builds on previously-learned math, once you accumulate enough of these gaps you hit a wall, and will need remedial instruction (often sought via autonomous self-teaching, of course) to make any progress. The dynamic is structurally the same between the "dummies" and the "math whizs", all that changes is the level at which the problem arises.

Focusing on a standardized course plan that the student is able to learn, memorize and ultimately repeat effortlessly makes it easy to ensure that absolutely everything was reinforced properly.
Said a very successful person who can afford to say no to almost everything.
Sounds like you are living the dream. I have multiple family members with ADHD, and my observation is that everyone's ADHD has different results. Some of my people get nothing done, despite starting a lot of projects. Some get a lot done, but only under certain circumstances. Some get a reasonable amount done, but only if they have a plethora of choices to choose from - they cannot focus their focus, so to speak.

So if you are getting incredible amounts of work done -- why fix something that isn't broken?

At the same time, if you think it might help your life, you can talk to a doc about your thoughts, maybe try it for a bit to see what it changes, and then make an informed decision whether or not to keep doing it.
It doesn’t have to be a nation to count as an infiltration. My guess would be that both the drug cartels and the weapon manufacturers are highly motivated to infiltrate the executive and law making functions of the USA.
> I doubt the research accounts for Neurodivergent folks, assuming it even correctly represents Neurotypical.

I'm curious about this, do we have more recent studies about neurodivergence/neurotypical? I'd be curious how many people are neurodivergent (to significant degrees).
> All I wanted was a way to use a keyboard shortcut to quickly switch outputs, paired with the ability to do the same by magically moving the mouse pointer between monitors.

Most KVM switches have a keyboard shortcut (mine is scroll lock, scroll lock, 1/2). Mine also supports the mouse based switching but it's unusable because to work it needs to emulate a mouse with zero acceleration. Also this doesn't switch video.

I've had the same idea tbh but the inability to switch video and the software complexity put me off. A KVM switch is better (except the cost).
You really have to question this kind of research when it concludes that hearing loss is "linked to" dementia.

Sure, it's plausible that people with dementia will have more trouble interpreting sound, as they might for any other cognitive function, but to suggest that it's a "modifiable" factor for risk of dementia is implausible. Would poor eyesight also be a modifiable factor? Or a reduction of any other sense? It seems unlikely.

Also, in the wake of Xmas excesses, I happened to look up meta-analyses for alcohol and dementia, and it appears that while heavy consumption of alcohol is a risk, light consumption appears to be protective, for example:

>"Abstinence from alcohol appears to be associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35993434/
CP/M already had compilers for BASIC, but I don't recall the name, I only owned a Timex 2068, the 128K were owned by other folks in our group.
> I'll be honest, I just took a bit of offence to the "sensible defaults" wording.

Then I have to apologize for the bad joke.

I wanted to show cute and inspiring things, that would make people smile during the holidays, not offend people with bad jokes.

> They make no sense to me. I have no idea what any of those key combos do.

It's made to evoke what the result will look like, based on the characters on the keys (like ; is a thing above the other, so it evokes vertical split)

However, I feel Ctrl-T should be the default to create tabs (since that's how anyone does in the browser, while Ctrl-Shift-T reopens) so I'm not sure about how to mix and match all that (+ my lack of use of vim splits) to select defaults that'll give a great experience.

> Maybe I'm just grumpy because I'm sick during the holiday season :(.

Then get better and let's talk about shortcuts later!

Someone who likes window splitting and care about vim shortcuts in vim could help a lot!
We've already downsized two of our main offices since we sent everyone home.

No, we're not investing in more space now we're calling everyone back...
I can walk into a shop and have a device I can be productive in 1-2 hours.

I don't think it's a huge deal, just keep your secrets backed up in multiple ways you can retrieve
Well the quote says "...to almost everything" not "everything, period".

From my experience meeting highly successful people, or whatever that means, meant deducing most of your interactions should have a straight no from you right away after listening attently, many times no eye contact is made (to make it more objectively perhaps). Then that "no" can be a blunt, almost out of place surprising no at the start "I don't like/see it", "not interested", "can't do that" etc. Which should quickly lead the conversation into solving your objections. Think of it as a figure of speech or a Socratic rhetoric. Once your petty or founded objections are resolved your "real no" may materialize as non-rhetoric. Remember, if you are the one saying yes or no it means you have some, if not all, leverage in that interaction.

Like I said, I've seen this from extremely rich, old money, people with whom I've interacted, so it's anecdotal and take it with a punch of salt. It's easier said than done anyway.
This article is nothing more than bait for people who don't use an iPhone to think it's a dark-patterned nightmare.

The "Professional Computers person" probably chose not to include screenshots because it would debunk his feigned complexity.

Since he's already claimed that his mother won't receive the messages•, - then the whole faux-drama would have been solved by simply turning off iMessage on his or his mother's device.

(• Which is false: the messages would be sent to her mac, and they'd be visible as unread to him, so he'd already see that there was an issue.)

It's also not some obscure hidden setting to choose a different delivery pathway in the Messages app: it's one button and the -only- option on the screen when choosing a recipient. It's how a normal, not-tech savvy, person chooses a different phone number for a contact that has multiple phone numbers, and iMessage will remember that choice for the future.

And if all of that is too hard, his mother could simply send him a message and the messages app will reply to her phone number, it won't auto switch to her email address. When he composes messages in the future, the Messages app will also put up that SMS pathway as the 1st choice.

This article was written to manipulate people into believing a false narrative, and judging from the comments, it worked great.
I guess that's what I mean by "uncommon". Count the examples in your list, and that's one of the very few actual counterexamples.

Furthermore, and I think this is important, he was a coach, not an athlete.

Finally, child molestation is in a different category than shitting in a bath tub, but I admit that is besides the point.
Thought this was the dude making the remote control hardware.. very similar
You don't believe that story about Torvalds writing git in a fortnight in a fit of pique do you? Have you seen Torvalds in a fit of pique? It would have been called "fuckbastardwankgibbon" rather than "git" if he had. In fact it was coded by Richard Burton the Victorian adventurer for the Babbage engine, the name "git" is a corruption of the original "Gentleman's inventory".
Thanks for the lengthy response. It is something I would consider trying but there is no way my partner ever would!
> I think even the graphics routines (like setting a pixel) may have been implemented in AMSDOS

Since I just have the CPC Intern book lying around on my desk :)

The graphics routines were not part of AMSDOS, but of the GRA ROM pack (the CPC OS was modularized into "packs" each coming with a standardized interface jump table: Kernel (KL), Machine Pack (MP), Jump/Restore (JRE), Screen Pack (SCR), Text Screen (TXT), Graphics Screen (GRA), Keyboard Manager (KM), Sound Manager (SOUND), Cassette Manager (CAS), Screen Editor (EDIT).

The book doesn't tell much about the AMSDOS ROM, only that the 16 KByte ROM is split into 8 KByte for the actual AMSDOS, and the other 8 KByte are used for a part of the LOGO interpreter coming with CP/M 2.2

PS: also important to note that not all CPC models came with the AMSDOS ROM or builtin floppy drive, so the actual operating system and BASIC interpreter couldn't be built on top of AMSDOS.
IIRC the standard full install still includes Python with an IDE and some PyGame examples, right in the start menu.
> Curiously, the study found a small drop in hospital deaths at private equity hospitals.

Maybe because the former patients died at home.
Property must be really cheap there to not even consider underground parking.
For Germany I see a draft law dated 3 November 2023 so it’s likely a couple of months out. Every country has their own legislative process to add EU regulations into local law.
"actually inventing a rocket" and "handing billions of dollars to a swarm of engineers and thier managers, and actually getting a rocket back instead of having the shirt scammed off your back" are different skills. The latter is valuable because it's rare: ESA, Jeff Bezos, the US Senate, Richard Branson (oooooh richard branson), ULA, etc all tangibly lack it.
I haven't been to the Grand Canyon, but I've been to hundreds of concerts and I assure you, there's no existing tech that will make it "like you're actually there." The same goes for owning a house in VR worlds.
If HRW has lost all credibility, then giving Meta the benefit of the doubt and ignoring this report makes sense. However, if you think there’s a chance that HRW might be telling the truth, then it’s worth examining your existing assumptions on how Meta decides what content to allow on its platform.