skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It says the number is a measure of users who posted their first comment or submission in 2023. So that, at least, is the correct way to read the graph.

That is interesting! Especially considering the true number of signups would be higher based on users who signed up but have never posted anything. Although we dont know how many are spam accounts that signed up, posted, and got banned.
Language quotas are not meant to be the solution, they're meant to be part of the solution. Canada is a completely different scenario given its proximity and relationship to the US. Speaking as a former music journalist in a country with domestic music quotas of varying degrees, I can tell you these things help.
Your post confuses me, because sand500's comment is a perfectly good reply to either interpretation.
> keeping the web from contesting the role of app stores.

The purpose of app-stores is to sell apps.
How would the 'web" take on that role, of
selling access to an app in return for a
price.
What would it take to have a third Mobile Platform is one question I had in my mind at least since 2017. ( The moment when I think Apple has really changed ) And the immediate answer to that was almost always, you cant, because you dont have an App ecosystem. A la Windows Mobile.

I knew Apps were important, and I sometimes look up the most popular Apps on the two platform. But it never occur to me to check my own App usage or at least it wasn't obvious how to check it. Until all of a sudden I remember you could look at battery usage of Apps in the past 10 days on iOS.

It turns out 60% of my usage was between a Game I played, and Safari, both being 30% each. The others were Youtube, Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, News/ forum App. These few apps together were 35%. The other 5% was a long tail of other things, but mostly Uber, Food Delivery, and Banking Apps.

Not only were the amount of Apps I used much much smaller than I thought. Most of them could be a Web App, and do offer an Online, Web version.

I am not the usual one to be optimistic on HN. The task is still easily tens of billions of investment. But may be, just may be it isn't as impossible as it seems. At least Microsoft could take a shot. Not saying they will simply because the strategic vision of Nadella is laser focus on Cloud.
Small but related:

Well-mannered OOP design (Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850209 - Sept 2022 (3 comments)

Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148782 - July 2016 (2 comments)
Even the VT100 didn't have a "spec" per se. The user manual [1] is a helpful reference, but is rather vague on the details. (In particular, some important details of how and when line wrapping occurs are not described in the manual.)

[1]: https://vt100.net/docs/vt100-ug/
It meets people where they already are. I and (everyone I know) have an inbox, I don't have an rss client.
I think a look at the organizational and project management structure of organizations that elect to use Teams would reveal a lot, also.
If it's a big problem, can you ask the DAO to mail you a check instead?
ChatGPT is actually just Sam Altman

https://twitter.com/sama
> I don’t get the relevance those seem to be security related?

And?

> My main point consistently has been that GPT4 can be an invaluable resource specifically for learning math subjects.

This can also be true. I use it a lot. Don't confuse openly discussing limitations with calling it a pile of shit. No need to have only two extremes.

> I am not aware of any papers, studying people using it as a conversational tutor for learning math and having problems with hallucinations.

Very bad faith requirement. Unless you have good evidence that GPT hallucinates in many domains (as exemplified by said security report) and NOT math tutoring. If you have this really strong evidence that math tutoring is specifically unique then I suggest writing a paper. I'll help if you really can do it and be happy to give you first author and be proven wrong. But a much easier explanation is that math tutoring is not unique to GPT with regards of generating hallucinations. If you truly believe you do need a extremely specific example, you may need to pull the wool off your eyes. But I'm hoping you don't and are just arguing.
Given the environment geothermalhydro is in and thus the equipment has to operate in, does it require more maintenance of the infrastructure? Presumably the steam would have different kinds of particles that could deposit accumulate and affect equipment (scaling)? Could be very manageable or could incur significant money to maintain. I don’t know, just asking.
I worked on a mining project years ago where we had to dewater the mine of 90 degree Celsius water at 700L/s.

Always wondered whether we can use it for energy….
They tried experiments fracking into hot rock in australia and went bankrupt proving the concept. Bit of a shame. More money got pumped into CCS which is demonstrably bloody useless, works for gas well life extension but not sequestration
I think it just leads to a false sense of security for most "normie" users. E.g. Snapchat, people think it must give a screenshot notification or whatever, so it is "safe" for nudes.

Well it is quite trivial to save the photos, either by network interception or patching the app etc. , which ordinary users may not even consider.

Not quite related, but I think "deleting messages" falls into a similar problem. It makes end users think they are "safe" or whatever, but the reality is that if a message was delivered to the other parties phone, they could easily have the original text despite any deletions, e.g. a cached notification or similar.
But it has a good chunk of market share which is was being talked about.
I bought Red Hat at the same time, for around the same price, probably the same release, though I don’t recall which one it was specifically. I bought it because I wanted to start learning a Unix-like OS (OSS was not a driving principle for me in those days, though I have always respected and appreciated the movement) and, most crucially for me, I wanted paid support.

The first time I called with a question, the support agent suggested that I maybe check the man pages? At this point, I’m an unreformed Windows user and I’m just trying to set up my system, I have no idea what a man page is! As I recall, I was just trying to get into the GUI - not sure why they couldn’t have just said “startx”.

Second time I called with a question (by this point, I had learned enough to know to ask the question “how do I create a non-root user account?”), they suggested I hop onto their IRC channel and ask the community. I logged on to IRC and … promptly got booted for being logged into my local system as root. Strike 2, I was out. A few years after that, OS X because semi-usable (10.2?) and I didn’t have much use for Linux for the next decade and a half.

Now I run a couple server-ish boxes on Debian and quite like it - there’s not a whole lot I know how to do, but in those narrow domains that I semi-understand, it works very well for me. But even with as much progress as it has actually made in the last few years, I’m not sure the year of Linux on the desktop is imminent for me any time soon.
Oddly enough if you enable it as a "quick action", when you run it, Finder creates a file in the same directory as the image containing the OCRed text (and named according to the first line of OCRed text).

I went back into my shortcut and Shortcuts added a pseudo-action "Stop and output <copy to clipboard>; if there's nowhere to output: <Do Nothing>", and I would think that "Do Nothing" would mean don't create a file, but I guess Quick Actions has some kind of special meaning given that all the other ones seem to be intransitive actions, implying that the user wants a file as the output.
It's a 2D game with one axis of movement. Technically correct and all that.
I wonder more and more why we even go down that path. "Like meat" is hitting the consistency more and more and you can create the flavor artificially. See thought emporium for "chicken flavored soup" on that.

Recipe for diy https://youtu.be/sR8M4zARBXY?t=740
Why Unix's lseek() has that name instead of 'seek()'
I love Astro. It’s let me combine what I think are two of the most powerful things on the web: the TypeScript and React ecosystem, and a high-quality static site compiler. I’ve never seen anything like it. Kudos to the Astro team and I hope they keep building great software for us to enjoy.
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Was anyone else shocked to be reminded that a few of these top stories happened in 2023 and not years earlier?

I thought the Silicon Valley Bank failure was 2022. It feels like so long ago. Crazy how long 2023 felt like (at least for me).

Also interesting is that the number of Twitter posts were cut almost in half this year. Despite what a certain CEO claims, all indicators seem to affirm that the popularity of that platform has decreased significantly in 2023.
HN has had dozens if not hundreds of threads about this topic over the years, including a megathread a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38795308, and this megathread before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531104. No one is being "silenced". It's one of the most discussed topics on the site!

It's just standard moderation not to allow a comment beginning "so-and-so is frankly a moron" at the top of a HN thread.
The Best Performing Stocks of 2023
I doubt it's to reduce the number of calls to free. After all, there must be exactly one call to free() for every call to malloc().

It looks more like a coding habit this particular programmer uses to avoid forgetting to call free(). He puts it as close to the call to malloc() as possible, which reduces the changes of forgetting.

It's interesting code to look at, if you are a C programmer. As you noted, his heroic efforts to always call free fails if line 580 gets executed. It never will of course, so him adding 580 reveals a certain paranoia. Perfectly understandable in a C programmer, but for most line 578 would be enough to assuage the paranoia. Others (me, for instance) would make 578 an assert, and get rid of 580. At the 1000ft level the result is the presumably the same in both cases: the program exits after printing an error on stderr, but the error message will be different. The assert makes it plain it's an internal failure, but the current method may be mistaken for a externally triggered error. Or he could have sidestepped the overflow checks and free() by using salloc() - but maybe it doesn't exist on platforms he ports to.

I would do a lot of other things differently too. I guess it just shows the way old C programmers deal with the repeated beatings inflicted by the language varies a lot.
This is part 1.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743456

Just use Ukrainian VPN. You may rent any of the Ukrainian VPS or purchase a commercial VPN. It seems YouTube does not target advertising to Ukrainians.
The funny experiment: you may surf YouTube from Ukraine, then turn on a European VPN, and whoops!.. Non-stop advertising!
Maybe it's just cause I want to stick to a certain width, but I can't remember the last time I disagreed with the autoformatter.
I think the thought was the other direction - it wouldn't be impressive today, but for its time it is impressive.
Thanks, definitely appreciate this. I tried the line plus many variations without luck. Perhaps my video card is just too old (GTX 1050)
Having the Suika effect right now.
> Whether they are antisemitic or just indifferent to the plight of Jews is hard to say.

Of course the premise is that the answer must be one of the two, but you need to establish that premise. It's the claim of a heavily polarized group (which doesn't make it false, but I'm not taking it at face value either).

Is there evidence of it? In all the claims I've seen, I haven't seen evidence.
While there’s likely more than one cause. There’s a bunch of research that shows rising smart phone adoption from roughly 2010 onwards correlates to rising levels of anxiety and depression in teenage girls especially.

This roughly aligns with when first and second gen iPhone owners started to upgrade and pass their older phones to their children, creating the first generation of smart phone owning teens.
To me it sounds like the solution is "We have detected you're using an unsupported browser, iOS does not allow websites to properly access device orientation and therefore this app cannot function"
The standard "explanation" is some hand-waving about social media, but I suspect that the root causes are to be found in the profound cultural disintegration that started long before the Internet became a thing, and whose ultimate effects are only now beginning to manifest.
Australia misplaces Iraq War decision records
Reads like a weak paper.

Instead, here's an obligatory PSA to eat your lifestyle and social responsibility "vegetables": industrial meat agriculture is undesirable for 6 factual reasons.

0. Opportunity cost: It's an inefficient use of capital and resources that could be more effectively spent producing a greater volume of calories and nutrition as crops.

1. Pandemic evolution at the agricultural worker<-->CAFO<-->wildlife interface.

2. Antibiotic resistance evolution of harmful pathogens.

3. GHG emissions driving a large fraction of anthropogenic climate change.

4. Vast amounts of air, water, and soil pollution. (Ever seen or smelled a hog farm spraying liquid shit into the air over a waste lake?)

5. Meat agribusinesses from farms to meat processing plants exploit undocumented people, including children too young to legally work, in dangerous and sometimes slavery-adjacent conditions. In fact, meat processing plants advertise salaries in Central and South American newspapers precisely to increase the number of workers they can hire illegally and exploit. Undocumented children are exploited in foster care by being put to work illegally (too many hours, too young) where foster parents take some or all of their wages, or accept kickbacks.

(It's a terrible reason to list animal cruelty because no one cares as evidenced by their actions as most people are willing to pretend animal suffering doesn't exist if they don't see it and they get their tasty Big Mac out of it. And too many people will violently argue "MEAT is required for life" and will often present a cacophony of tired, false, dogmatic nonsense to justify their high-consumption lifestyle choices.)
is this really lisp like?
I thought mame is the only one doing IIc emulation
I personally haven’t done the calculation. I have rented colo space before and they are usually quite stingy on power. The other issue is, there’s a certain element to having GPUs around 24/7/365 to play with that I feel is fundamentally different than running it on a Cloud Provider. You’re not stressing out about every hour it’s running. I think in the long run (2yr+) it will be cheaper, and then you can swap in the latest and greatest GPU without any additional infrastructure cost.
Gas prices fall under 3 bucks a gallon at majority of U.S. stations
Having the leverage to negotiate high compensation means you also have the leverage to negotiate limited downside. If they were the kind of person who wasn't savvy enough to negotiate well for themselves, would you want them negotiating on behalf of the company?
Looks a lot like Elixir and reminds me of Swift. Cool!
"At about 80,000 of the 120,000 gas stations around the country, give or take, gas is selling right now below $3 a gallon," Gross told CBS MoneyWatch.
For companies selling hardware with software it does matter. Look at Apple. An iPhone has way less memory than an android and the profit margins are higher for Apple. Apps are running faster on lower hardware. I’d argue that this is a reason why people want iPhone. Good enough is often not good enough.
This is dope as heck.

A cool game mechanic would be, when the screen warps the players near eachother if they could exchange items, or attack the other - or kite a monster through the warp at the other player... especially cool if you had to travel far away on the map from the other player to grab the monster to fling at your opponent (without being killed by monster) (or maybe you have to get to a BFG first and frag 'em... through running in opposite directions to your bfg base, ang fighting monsters, and flinging then through the warp until you reach the bfg, which is the only thing which can shoot through the warp...

your side arm is a gun and a tractor whip with a heavy cool down to entangle a monster to throw through the warp, so use it strategically. whomever gets to their bfg firt - now play it on a large square screen, with four players, one per quadrant running to the bfg and flinging monsters through the warps - the center picks a player at random when flung into.
> Nobody, on either side of this conflict, is being careful with their words.

I don't know for sure, but Hamas and Netanyahu's coalition have been masters of public communication. I think they are very careful and strategic, and know what they're doing. I think it's like saying an experienced, highly expert developer isn't being careful with their code.
NEAT? An added bonus of the evolutionary neural search is that you can still explore the solution space with small networks, which isnt really true of backpropogation without evolution. You run out of states.
Back when the iPhone app store first happened many developers (including me) asked Apple why they needed to gatekeep software installs. Of course now we know it was because Apple wanted that 30% revenue stream, but at the time Apple said -- repeatedly -- that it was because they needed to "protect the integrity of the cell phone networks."

Some developers knew this was horseshit because they knew the baseband processor was a separate chip that was easily isolatable from the main CPU. We complained but there were not enough of us to rattle Apple's cage sufficiently.

Here's the proof that Apple was lying about this: The iPod Touch (remember that thing?) had exactly the same App Store lockdown mechanism and it didn't have a baseband processor at all. IOW it wasn't protecting the cell phone networks because it couldn't even participate in the cell phone networks. The iPod touch was just a plain desktop computer that happened to fit in your pocket, but we let Apple become the arbiter of what software we could install on it. And now Apple wants very much to make this true on the Mac as well.

I can't believe we fell for this shit. It's not too late to stop it.
With the benefit of hindsight, yes.

If I were working at Mozilla it wouldn't affect how I'd act in the future though. Yes this turned out very poorly. But you can't predict these things. And principles are worthwhile to speak out for. And we don't even know if he'd have done a better job (though this is admittedly not hard)

Eich wouldn't have made a change to prop 8, no. But the culture at and image of Mozilla would have changed.
My problem is that when designing my own language, I decided on GC, lambda syntax, async/await, weak typing, and... oops, it's basically just Javascript. Sure it'd have tons of smaller differences vs JS, but it's too demotivating.
I think you could accomplish a similar effect by adjusting the MVP matrix for objects farther from the player. It looks like fairly normal ortho projection near the sphere. Gradually zoom out as you render squares farther away.

Vaguely related, if you haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqUv2JO2BCs
I would expect Mojo to perform better in these settings.
I think it makes perfect sense that money would be flowing from powerful entities in a way that cripples Mozilla. The CEO is getting rewarded for their lack of performance as a competitor to Google Chrome. Controlled opposition and so on.
That is a risk, just like you are at risk of being arrested if circumvent emissions standards...

Oh right, only the engineers were charged in that one.

Also luckily for David, it was a 6 month suspended sentence. Meaning that he would have never had to serve any time that was overturned on appeal.
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Yup. It's slow buggy. Tends to go into infinite loops. Sad really that it slows corporates so much.
Mojo is on the list and performed well. Have a look
There's a difference between negotiating well and being extremely greedy. The latter is not something you'd want at a company with a respectable image.
Pretty much. The iPhone browser api only exposes compass data in one dimension, around the z-axis. So there is indeed gimbal lock-like behavior near the axis. Which is crazy since the magnetometer is 3 dimensional.
It’s incredibly widely used in some countries (where the local currency sucks).

A fun example is how a fair few money exchangers in such countries will take USDT or BTC and give you the local currency at a better than official rate.

Also used for remittances without high fees and bullshit issues among some diasporas now.

Just because you don’t have a usecase for it beyond “number go up” doesn’t mean it’s worthless to everyone else lol.
PHP results: I was stupid enough to write some scientific code in PHP once so know how slow it can be - mostly around array access and manipulation. But if your going to try, use the HHVM interpreter. It's much faster and is a drop in replacement for the PHP interpreter. Hack (https://hacklang.org/) uses that under the hood by default.
To be fair, the taycan is also a 4 door sedan. But yeah, the price is double (or more?) a Plaid model S… and Tesla isn’t exactly standing still either.
Clickspring's recent video goes into some detail on at least one of the clever tools used to achieve this incredible precision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4xy7TFkxsg
Clearly it's not been realized, I'm saying we should put in place and enforce harsh penalties for false DMCA notices, so such systems become realized. As an example - I want you flag photos with dogs in a set of many photos. It's a hard problem to find EVERY such photo in the set with perfect accuracy. It's not that hard to find SOME photos that definitely contain dogs.

The copyright/DMCA notice system currently has a lot of Type 1 (false positive) errors, because it costs rights-holders nothing to send a notice. Lots of legitimate and non-infringing videos/content/urls/sites are getting taken down because of absolute bullshit.

I'm suggesting the world would be better if we moved to a system with more Type 2 (false negative) errors; where occasionally an infringing piece of media is left up, but we see fewer false positives.
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You must be mistaken about "all transactions". Cause that would apply to every single movement of money between your own regular bank accounts too. And every mortgage and loan payment of >$10k.