skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SmartOS is still going strong with bi-weekly releases: https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...
It's ridiculous these days watching any sports content, the amount of betting related ads is outrageous. I see no other outcome than droves of new gambling addicts.
> Can it really be easier for end users to use an app that requires an extra installation step?

Yes it can, because you install it once and it's right there on your home screen, very easy to get to. The friction of typing the website name or dealing with the inherent clunkiness of a mobile site vs the app cannot be understated and it is part of why brands create apps.

Plus, don't forget the notifications they can send, for deals and promotions. That is also why I have several apps for brands installed, because I know I already want to use their products, so the free discount works in my favor. I have the willpower to resist impulsive purchases, personally speaking, but many don't. When a notification pops up announcing "50% off on this sandwich," it's tempting for people who hadn't planned to spend at all that day. They might think they're saving money by spending less than full price, not realizing that spending anything at all is more than they intended. Brands understand this psychology and optimize their strategies accordingly, targeting those who are likely to be swayed into spending when they receive a compelling offer. It is no different than offering flash sales and deals, which work extremely well in the world of marketing.
> We rotate teams and work areas quarterly to give you a breadth of experience.

I've never heard of that before, it sounds pretty interesting! There must be some challenges that come with this, like what happens if a person is a poor fit for one team/area but excels in others, or what if they don't want to switch because they are in the middle of a project?
If “All Lives Matter” is used outside of the context of BLM, then it is harmless. If it is used inside the context of BLM it is a racist dog whistle.

That said, I stand by what I said that most of the time it is being used in the latter case. Wikipedia has an article about the latter case, not the former. Searching the term in any search engine will have you scroll very far down before you see it outside the context of BLM.
Assuming you don't use Javascript, kind of.

Dillo supports XEmbed, so you can run it embedded in another X windows. This is done by Claws Mail to render emails as HTML [1].

[1]: https://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=dillo
If they can't fire her, they should assign her to teach Academic Integrity 101 every single year until it finally sticks.
This seems to be about India, so I don't know how my local conditions apply to this pill.

For rattlesnake bites the anti-venom has a 3 month shelf life and is expensive. Such snakebites are very rare (at least the local rattlesnake where I live). As such even though most rural areas have more rattlesnakes than humans, the local hospitals don't have anti-venom: most of the time it would expire unused. So if this pill has a better shelf life and gives time to air lift to the nearest large city (which may cover more than one state and likely has other ICU care that small rural hospitals can't provide) it is well worth having around even if it is just a stop gap.
I don't think anyone blames the actual NHS employees. We know you're all doing the best you can which is very hard with your hands tied.
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It’s extremely wasteful, people buying new phones because their calendar or slack app are sluggish on their 5 year old phone is insane to me. It’s so bad for the environment.
I've only seen that one used in conversation when the context is already Bay Area focused, like "Hey, we're going into the city for a night out Friday. You down?"

It's definitely a regionalism, as there are 80 something cities in the Bay Area and "The City" definitely refers to SF, but it's not something I'd hear someone say in broader contexts. One regionalism that Bay Area dwellers DO use in broader contexts is referring to the San Fransisco Bay Area as just "The Bay", which I'm sure could be unclear to somebody near a different body of water.
It would, but it's unlikely that the browser implements enough of Javascript or CSS to replace the engine for Electron and to be useful
"Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures."

"They're the same--wait, is that a cat?!"
Aum Shinrikyo
Ease of retraining/refinement is something I'm really hoping for.

There are an endless number projects to make a "cleaner, revised X", where the coding itself is rote and has already been done at some point, it's just shoved into slightly different semantics that will be a bit more optimal or secure or configurable. It's something that an LLM feels like it's "tip of the tongue" capable of, and in more trivial cases you really can tell GPT to "rewrite this from JS to Python" and it works. But it's limited by just interpolating what's in the training set, when what you want is "port all these standard libraries to my experimental language, and also make a build system for them".
This result would be a lot more believable to me if I could take my own 20-30 question quiz and see how "good" I am at picking the "more X like" images. It seems like a missed opportunity for gathering more data, even if that data would be gathered in a less controlled setting.
For anyone who lived in Europe is hard to say American Houses are high quality. Even McMansions are built with flimsy materials and require extensive and expensive maintenance. Every small accident can turn into a nightmarish repair project.
If you tear down most homes around 40 years old of course you're going to have housing crisis.
Hey! I feel like I would be a good fit but unfortunately did not pass the CV filter a few months ago, send me an email if you are interested in chatting.
Ah, yes, what a horrible, awful burden the... consults notes... top 0.4% of taxpayers in the richest country on the planet are being asked to live with.

I'll go find a tiny violin so I may weep for them.

Edit: Hang on. I was wrong, I apologise. It would be a subset of those 0.4%. Now I'll have to find an even tinier violin.

Edit 2: Investopedia says "The AMT is charged when you exercise your ISOs, hold on to your shares, and sell them after the calendar year in which they were awarded to you." OK, TimPC, can you just straight up tell me what size violin I should be aiming for?
Because when it doesn't work, they'll get an error message, and then they will try to figure out how to fix the error message.

These aren't tech savvy people. You don't hire an IT person to stand at a door scanning a thousand QR codes for 20 minutes three nights a week.
The world of low spec hardware really does need faster, lighter browsers. Too many times now have I configured an SBC, RPi, or even a laptop that’s just a few years old and been disappointed that, while everything else is wonderful and fast and smooth looking, it is browser performance that is the one thing holding me back.

I am resigned to the fact that some of my requirements really do mean I need a Ryzen 7 with 16GB of RAM. Sadly my biggest compute loads are for MS Teams and webmail.
there are many bay areas, but SF is the Bay Area.
He makes this look easy! Surprising how far you can take things with OOTB .NET.
Harvard president resigns amid claims of plagiarism and antisemitism backlash
There’s a link at the top that toggles examples and discussion.
Seems only work with those suggested? Enter some random song and it just sit there.
This is one of those cases where wikipedia is not a useful reference.
It depends. e.g. In Australia, the snake most people worry about (the eastern brown - world's second most venomous and common in cities) is native, so yes it's important to an ecosystem in the broader sense. But its numbers around cities have gone up because of mice, most of which are introduced, so it's a non-native part of the ecosystem that's pushing the numbers up. Doing something to bring the numbers back down around urban centres wouldn't seem like such a bad idea. Brown snakes aren't a threatened or endangered species and though cities are large human centres, they're not a large portion of the Australian geography. (And are largely artificially maintained ecosystems anyway - those houses and roads didn't appear naturally.) There are probably other ways for dealing with mice than having the world's second deadliest snake hanging around town.
Yeah, I was disappointed there wasn't example pairings with the result on another page or something just so I could give it a try! Every example is paired with info about how it was perturbed right next to it.
Yeah I bought this too. It still exists as a web game, by the way. It was fun but it mainly taught me I lack the fundamental strategic insight for such games.
Unfortunately, there are still some proprietary blobs:

https://illumos.org/docs/about/faq/#is-illumos-free-software...

https://illumos.org/docs/developers/build/#getting-the-close...
> However, would you really change your approach if PostgreSQL could be upgraded by a minor version without any downtime?

Dunno. I wasn't so much answering the "who wouldn't use Postgres" question, I was more answering "who could possibly care about 1 second of downtime" question.

I seriously considered Postgres, and I will reconsider that choice regularly.

There are things we have in SQLite right now that would absolutely be better in Postgres, but for the moment we've decided those benefits don't justify the overhead of two completely different database system.

> I really am not conviced that 1 second downtime to restart PostgreSQL out of 24/7/365 would make more of a dent on your companys profits

Our customers are not the people buying tickets. Our customers are the people selling tickets, and our profit is a percentage of their annual revenue. They're moderately sized companies with hundreds of staff.

Which means a single dissatisfied person, at the wrong level of management, can cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars. Downtime is inevitable and we don't claim to offer 100% uptime... but we try really really hard to be as close to that as possible. That includes encouraging people to print, on dead tree paper, a copy of their ticket sales database five minutes before they open the doors for a performance. But that copy is always out of date, since they sell tickets after opening the doors, so it's not a great backup.
When you name your company after the eye of Sauron, I think you give up the benefit of the doubt.
That's not part of secureboot's remit, but distros who do it are generally referred to as 'immutable distros'. Fedora Silverblue, CarbonOS, NixOS, GUIX, Endless OS, and Vanilla OS are a few.
Note: I was agreeing with you, not correcting you. The application I mentioned is pretty darn obscure.
I didn't know about extension repositories like https://database.dev/. What less-known extensions are people here using? I'm curious because there might be extensions that simplify common tasks in ways I'm unaware of.
I think they took a picture of a vase, and created two derivative images of the vase, one which was more cat-like and one which was more truck-like. In both cases, participants did better than average at guessing which one was the derivative image. In any case, I don't think this is explained by the bobo-kiki effect, since they were able to get the subjects to select both inorganic (truck) and organic (cat) derivatives of the same source image.
Is spanner really practical for most people? From my narrow understanding it relies on some specialized clocks and networking
Just that providers of flac are few and far between. The only reliable source of flac files are those you make yourself.
Putting comments before the conditionals made my brain parser malfunction for a moment.
Scott Adams... Oof.
OpenEmulator has fantastic monitor emulation if you want to get as close an experience as possible to the feel of the time.
I'm pretty sure I bought golded from Odinn Sorensen (yes 2 n's lol). And frontdoor. Not entirely sure though.

I pirated a lot back then because it was often simply impossible to pay for US based software from Holland. I was too young for a credit card and those hardly existed in Holland anyway in those days.
> he was administered 28 vials of antivenom intravenously at a cost of $3,400 per vial.

As someone who lives in Australia, who grew up with aggressive and deadly snakes, what the actual hell? Nobody is out of pocket in Australia following a snake bite and we have many more species and all of the geographic remoteness of the South Western US. Is this just another case of a side effect of the state of the USA healthcare system?
Ask HN: Anyone know much about adult entertainment generative systems
I think the adult entertainment sector of generative AI
will be tremendously profitable.

I spent some time today going to different sites.

I got the distinct impression that all the site I visited
are connected to the same backend servers.
I can't prove it, but they all had just about the same options,
and about similar outputs¹.

I figure different companies create their own basic UI and subscribe
to the same backend service provider.
Anyone know if that is accurate?

They may all be operating some model system backend on their own
servers instead.

Does anyone know what systems are being used out ther for this adult
segment?

They all seem to charge the same subscription fees for
premiumaccess. Around $/€ 20 or so.
(Which is what OpenAI charges for GPT4 I believe)

From what I have gleamed the big "for the public" companies will not
allow regular users to create any nude or explicit content.²
Would any of the bigger companies have B2B opportunities for generating
explicit content?

What would bust the bubble before it really gets going is if the tools
to create your own content at home (or via cheap renting GPUs in the sky)

Would the training and setup of the core model be a giant undertaking?
In so far as someone release one for free.

¹With two exceptions

²There is an application on the MacOS store that runs its own model
locally and allows you to do so but its slow and not impressive as far
as results
I am not sure if discussing this topic is somehow against rules.
I hope not. Not my intent to offend anyone)
I'm not sure if the parallel with the virtuosity of musical instruments was intended, but in any case one cannot disagree.
Another approach is to “do it right but small”, ie do an analysis of what is the smallest needed piece for it to work, the mvp, and then build it properly with good foundations and measurements in place.

I worked this way with a super strong business PM. Each iteration was small but we measured everything and made sure it had impact. Every feature was built properly, IE tested, refactored, typed etc. It made our pace more steady. If something didn’t have an impact we tried to understand why, incidents were reported and properly remedied. Still the most solid way I’ve worked.
Free users are incredible
I sometimes listen to sport's radio and sometimes - too often - it's unlistenable. Too much focus on betting and no enough on the actual sports. I cringe when the shows' hosts talking about their personal betting.
Physics, neuroscience, general engineering, or math would be most appropriate. If you need business, get a minor or do 10 more classes at an accelerated MBA school. The trick is picking the correct liberal arts college to do these programs at for undergrad. There are also grad level liberal arts programs that cover classical western tradition and contemporary philosophy, history, and literature.
This is something I would like to have working, the subtraction of the braces that is. I did have a naive solution where it would insert the braces for you if the left the opening brace off and it would assume you wanted the closing brace too. This caused problems when I would put in a continuation of an if statement like:

- else if other_condition
%span other content
- else
%span another bit of content

I pulled the broken solution completely and do plan to revisit dropping the brace requirement because not having the braces aligns with the idea/reason why you'd use Haml in the first place.
X is an un-ownable name/word.

It's the 2023 version of the artist formerly known as Prince.
That only matters if you use it for things where failure actually causes damage.
I don’t consider this to be out of element for a president.

She tried to outplay the gotcha game, which is why she did poorly.

Instead she should have come in and said “At Harvard this is what we believe - …”.

Being able to state the values of your organization is core skill for the president and leader of the school. It should be down pat, a solid set of words that ring true and inspire. If you can’t do that, then let’s find someone who can. That’s the difference between leaders and managers.
Totally - this is one of the reasons I had to learn to fix them. When you've got 3 kids, the washing machine or dryer being broken is an emergency, God forbid a couple of days of backlog laundry pile up!

At least with the dishwasher you can just switch to hand washing, doing the same with clothes is a much bigger pain.
Sure; I personally view it as a continuum of lynx..elinks..dillo..netsurf..........firefox is so. Just pointing out that netsurf is close to dillo.
>If you look at drug addicts as a group,

What makes you think you arent just looking at the extremly visible dysfunction subgroup? How many cocaine consuming banksters do you know and what does that say about the completeness of your perspective? I think there is a good argument to be made that you are over generalizing from a stereotype.
Chinese researchers can claim this, but realistically, the US is one of the only countries that has repeatedly deployed its current tanks in a war context. If you don't have experience with tanks in a war, you'll very quickly learn what matters.
Thank you for posting this link. I'll check this out and see if I can get the braces dropped.
Does that mean you get good feelings from being unselfish?
It sounds like you need to experience eight bit computing! My Commodore 64 from 1986ish still lives after a re-capping a few years ago. I grew up with Sinclair ZX80, 81 and Speccy too.

Nowadays we have such capable hardware that we can model near photorealistic stuff in real time. Not quite but not far off.

Those manic sounds and graphical effects are what you get when the hardware is very limited and some very talented people decide they want more, a lot more.

See if you can run up a simulator and get something like a Jeff Minter game running on whatever your IT gear is. You may like Attack of the Mutant Camels - the sounds are quite surreal, given the target hardware.

Consider taking a look at RetroPie or something similar.
How do we measure the Performance of a Microservice, Service, or Server?
Nice to see nix in a job posting…
We love autodidacts and passionate people! Apply away!
With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
Location: Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia (PR in both)

Remote: Yes worldwide

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: I'm a Global Product Management leader (VP, Director, CPO) who has worked on Mobile and Consumer Internet. 15+ years experience with Google, Booking Group (Agoda), Trip.com (skyscanner), SEA (Garena) and more in California and across Asia. Stanford and Berkeley educated. Specialising on User Experience and turning around fledging products.

Also open to talk about board and advisory positions.

Résumé/CV: http://www.ulfw.com/docs/CVulfw.pdf

LinkedIn Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waschbusch/

eMail: web at ulfw dot com
Probably should put "works" in quotes...
The problem with off by default is that 99% of users will never even think that is something they can turn on.
Steam Keeps on Winning
Strange that it doesn’t support SPARC. It’s like Linux only supporting ARM64 and not x86.
This is true AI! Nice work!
I would say there is a chance that there are fewer vulnerabilities in the 60k~ lines of code contained within dillo than the in the however many million lines of code it takes to do anything with firefox or chromium.

running dillo in a bubblewrap container would probably be fine and not eat all of your available resources.

[i got my 60k loc number from running tokei in the dillo repo, doing the same in the gecko repo took multiple minutes and pegged 8 cores at 100%, might be a bug in tokei or maybe 21 million lines of code is just enormous]
The Area Handbooks the author mentions sound fascinating. I see little information online about them from my cursory search but see a few used copies available. Historical accounts such as those are a treasure trove of fun reading, at least to me.
Yes, those are fun. My idea of what Jack and Stephen sound like in my mind is based on the voices Tull does for them. Although the voices he does for Indian and Chinese characters is a bit cringe.
I was gonna say the artist has a typo, but looks like it was already fixed:

https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/d23cae5f062ee41e7c866d...
As embarrassing as that sentence is, it is highly unlikely he left with a $95,000 bill, nor is it likely his insurance company actually paid anywhere near that for the vials. The prices that end up on healthcare bills may as well be in another currency, since they tend to be used as placeholders subject to all kinds of contractual math down the road.

None of which is to say that our healthcare system ISN'T a mess, it is.
I never heard anyone in the US calling for the murder of Osama Bin Laden.

What are you trying to push here? I understand it's a hypothetical, but it's not a good one. Osama bin Laden was basically the most hated individual in this country for a decade, and lots of people rejoiced when the US special forces killed him in 2011. Yet, he was killed following an order issued by the United States President. People were not demonstrating in the streets calling for the murder of Osama bin Laden. Or of known Al Qaeda terrorists for that matter, or for members of ISIS.
I think there's a reason most top Tetris players are kids. There's no way an adult could achieve the same level of hand-eye coordination, no matter how much they practice.

This is also why young players are generally better at first-person shooters, and why I'm unlikely to stay alive for more than a minute in CoD. ':)
> The thing to understand is that the Squeak VM expects to encapsulate 'high level' hardware including a bitmapped display, keyboard, mouse and a sound device.

I understand this thing I really do and to develop those capabilities I would have to do it outside of Smalltalk with C and other tools in terminal but I really want to do it with and within Smalltalk learning it more as I go and that requires it starting without sound/graphics in the first stage. This is the only choice available for me with my current limitations. I can temporarily run it to compile vm from source on other hardware but I cannot use it for longer work this way. I don’t care really about the role I am putting myself in as long as I can study it more deeply by already using it and I am simply looking for easier way then implementing it from scratch and without Smalltalk because I only can work from terminal. I would agree that there are many interesting places for starting from scratch too and it would be interesting to see if you would point to them too but in my current situation I am really looking for the intermediate step I’ve described. I simply have no other options for progress at the moment due to my limitations. In other moment I would imagine many other options and probably would not be that focused on one of them.
For bad habits, add friction. Delete the app, block the address at your router, etc. For good habits, reduce friction. If you want to eat healthy, buy healthy food at the store so when you go looking for junk food there's only healthy stuff etc. Doesn't have to be 100%, but the idea is that you make it harder to do the bad stuff and easier to do the good stuff, and eventually that starts adding up.