skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I think HN audience by nature of spending their free time learning about interesting techy things is more likely to be doing their own "home cooking".

I agree with the sentiment of the poster above if applied to the majority of professional software devs though.
Thanks a lot for sharing this, I would love to see an audio mute button :)
I would assume so! I remember playing on Battle.net with StarCraft back in 97 and that had messaging integrated it. It basically had its own little IRC going. 25 friend limit!
Care to have another go without intentionally being misleading about what I actually wrote. Otherwise I don’t think there’s much point in engaging with you.
Nobody own their IP, banning IPs means banning innocent people tomorrow

You should timeout IP for few days instead
Andrej Karpathy: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.
We build a Generatively Pretrained Transformer (GPT), following the paper "Attention is All You Need" and OpenAI's GPT-2 / GPT-3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
I'm pretty sure I heard something like "nennessekki" a few times when things where getting tense.
EVs still have brakes.
In addition to what others have said I’d say that your claim that unemployment did not decrease is not necessarily correct. They’re only reporting on the tenth of a percent, the rate could’ve gone from 3.78% to 3.71% for all we know based off this. With a labor force of 170 million one hundredth of a percent is still 17,000 people.
Name a few and let’s find out! The entire games industry outside of some niche outsider stuff is very commercially driven, including indie games.

When I think outside the commercial spheres its developers like increpare I think of… not From Software.
That's like step #2 from above.
"Web" in the strict sense? Not really, as the "World Wide Web" wasn't invented until ~1990, and the protocol and software weren't made public until 1993[1].
So there weren't a lot of HTTP/HTML based "web" sites between 1991-1994, and probably even fewer "forum" type sites.

BUT... in a more colloquial sense of how "web" might be used retrospectively, as sort of a loose synonym for "online", then absolutely. Going back well into the 1980's, and then into the 1990's, we had all sorts of online services, including discussion forums. There were the big services like Compuserve, The Well, AOL, Delphi, GEnie, Prodigy, etc. And then there were individual small dial-up BBS's[2] by the bushel-load.

At their peak there were many thousands of them in the US alone. There were entire magazines printed and distributed that were effectively nothing but lists of dial-up numbers for BBS's, and magazines like Computer Shopper had big sections dedicated to listing those as well.

And then there was, as you mention, Usenet.

So yeah, even back in 1991, there were plenty of forums that might not have strictly been part of "the web", but that someone in contemporary times might casually describe as a "web forum".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
Microsoft Pulls the Plug on WordPad
To be fair: this app would not have existed on the desktop. Our families don't like to sit at a desk for hours, fighting with imaginary concepts, like we do.

The mobile world brought the masses to computing in a way that desktop never could. Unfortunately, the company with the best intuitions in the space also happened to be the most closed, paranoid, and sociopathic entity in the market.
>We do not disclose data and we do not sell data.

After you pass in a tragic accident involving an escaped cyborg moose later this year, your fellows decide to leave for a new startup combining building castles in marshes with a singing school, and the company is bought by a private equity firm, will they too not disclose data and not sell data? I mean, joking aside but frankly we're now decades and decades into the digital revolution anyone around awhile has seen this film before. A lot of times. Founders and employees can be absolutely 100% pure in their intentions and genuinely stick to that, no cynicism. But they're humans, you're human, like the rest of us. The flow of time is inexorable and data stored doesn't spontaneously evaporate over time, while meanwhile the average age of companies, even established S&P500 ones not "startups", well [0,1]:

>"A recent study by McKinsey found that the average life-span of companies listed in Standard & Poor’s 500 was 61 years in 1958. Today, it is less than 18 years."

In 2003 we were all a lot younger, in the 90s lots of data really was just thrown out even objectively valuable stuff like final code/assets for media productions such as hit videogames, and some failure to predict or naivete made sense. Here in 2023 though the default assumption is that any data you gather you will keep forever, and that you as an entity will not be deciding what happens with it forever. That's something you need to address head-on, for real internally as well. "We do not disclose data and we do not sell data" simply doesn't cut it at all, anymore then saying your values are "Don't Be Evil" would. Come on.

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0: https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/disruption/articles/w...

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1259275/average-company-...
What's the most American thing ever? I don't believe the financial markets are really an American thing but a global one. At any rate the markets did not react negatively to the news.
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (UK)

Looking for games design / development and apps work primarily.

Design: UI / UX for games and apps
Development: Vanilla JS, PixiJS, HTML, CSS (vanilla, Less / Sass), PHP, Python Scikit-Learn, Processwire CMS, C# for Unity Games Projects, SQL
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Cute! Thanks for sharing!

I love the ZSA's tool for learning to type on their keyboards [0] - you might take inspiration from that. I love that they have both prose and programming modes, since you might want to improve your typing speed of non-alphanumerical characters as well.

[0] https://www.zsa.io/live-training/
I hope we never get an everything app in the west.
It’s not free, you have to include the price of the solar panels you bought excess of in the cost because you can just remove those and sell them if they’re not needed. You essentially installed greater solar capacity to fuel an EV, so not free!
Water is bad for you in doses that are trivial to acquire and consume. You've seen a pint glass before? Drink 12 of those in under 3 hours if you want to give yourself water poisoning and end up in the emergency room.

However we can also demonstrate that water is good for you in moderate doses. We have yet to demonstrate that any amount of plastic is good for you.
You're clearly not the target market.
Last I heard they were maybe going to cut towards end of 2024, so it could still happen. I am reading optimism for the US economy's 'soft landing'. Fingers crossed
I have a customer who refuses to migrate away from his Palm Pilot Desktop software Palm Desktop (Windows 7/8/10) last stable release was in 2008. No features have been added in 24 years. The Palm Pilot itself stopped working about 20 years ago. He runs the software in a Windows XP virtual machine.

He runs his entire business off the contact list in the software. Customer has over 50,000 contacts, which the software supports a max of 8k. I got around this limit by using the "Profiles" feature in the software, which allows you to configure multiple users-Each user allowed max of 8k contacts.

I created 10 profiles by dividing the English alphabet into 10 groups based on the frequency of last name first letter in his set of contacts:

Contact Group 1: A, K, T
Contact Group 2: B, L, U
Contact Group 3: C, M, V
Contact Group 4: D, N, W
Contact Group 5: E, O, X
Contact Group 6: F, P, Y
Contact Group 7: G, Q, Z
Contact Group 8: H, R
Contact Group 9: I, S
Contact Group 10: J

Of course, when he needs to search or get data from his contacts, he needs to constantly switch profiles. I can only imagine how mundane that must be, but whatever floats your boat.
Shared Albums don't count against your iCloud Storage.
A question from someone a bit younger:

What was the purpose of printing out online discussions? Was it to read them while not at the computer? Was it to physically archive them?
Anyone predicting large rate cuts is also predicting a recession. Felt like nearly everyone predicted a recession last year that never came.

More likely given the data is we end up with 2-4 small rate cuts this year as the Fed tries to stick the landing.
People keep mentioning science fiction that this type of thing has been done in. Quick reminder since no one actually watched Caprica that this is how the Cylons started. Daughter of a dude who made a digital scanning technology to create VR avatars makes it better and her avatar becomes sentient. She dies as a suicide bomber and dude discovers the avatar and tries to bring his daughter back by building it a body. It becomes the first Cylon and humanity is extinguished from that particular solar system. The second Cylon turns out to be Admiral Adama's older sister who was also killed in the same suicide bombing.

In any case, it's worth remembering that in reality people are more than what they write, speak, and otherwise ever put into language to communicate to or record for others. I imagine this particular tactic would not work well for me since I have sent single digit SMS messages in the past year and presumably nowhere near six figures as a lifetime number. You'd have to find some other source of writing, but I don't know what that would be. I'd guess at least 90% of the comments I even compose for Hacker News end up being deleted without ever posting them. Turning what I make public into a copy of me would give you a heavily censored, curated image of a fake person who is far more coherent and kind than the real me, and he would also seem to know everything since he's very good at web search. Really, I am quite surprised even reading old forum posts of mine from 20 years ago that I manage to track down, in part because of how much my personality and opinions have changed since then, but also at the impressive way I was able to digest and spew so much basically correct as far as I can tell information into coherent arguments even though I don't think I understood very much of it and remember even less.

I'd expect most Hacker News posters to buy into the obvious truism that what you see on Instagram is not real people but that is equally true of text. Doing this kind of thing at-large risks creating simulacra of perfectly curated uber-humans that would make real people supremely inadequate. We're already going through a mental health crisis exacerbated by people feeling they can't live up to social media personas.
It's hand-crafted with TailwindCSS, vanilla HTML, and JS. I've worked on it for 2 months part-time. I was hoping it would get people's attention, and so it did. :)

The component split is done by hand in Figma with regular screenshots and cropping. I also used a plugin for skewing.
As a long time Linux user these W11 threads are always so amazing to browse.
What are some of your favorite remaps?
The Biden administration is behind a few big bills:

1. The Infrastructure Investment Bill
2. The Inflation Reduction Act
3. The CHIPs Act

The name of 2 is a bit of a misnomer (extremely common in US politics to give bills misleading names to make then more popular).

Between them, he significantly increased government investment in domestic infrastructure, green energy, and the semiconductor industry.

Short term, that has probably been a big part of the magic formula that has kept unemployment low while interest rates have been high in order to combat inflation.
People sometimes get used to dashes in dates when / is an illegal character in a filename.
Now, consider a world where you are making $42,000 a year. That's 20 dollars an hour and a very common wage. How do they handle the same when there are so many competing Franklins for them?
> Shadow Dom is completely optional and you can leave it out if you don't need an encapsulated DOM at runtime. It's not at all welded to the implementation.

That is partly my point then - every time I've run into this with devs, the defaults, docs, comments, etc assume Shadow DOM is needed/important and then things like the OP bite them.
mm/dd/yyyy is the most common format in the US. When speaking, I might say December 5, 2023, and this format matches that.

dd/mm/yyyy isn't objectively better IMO. It's what you're used to, making it easier for you to read. It's not what I'm used to, making it harder for me to read.

yyyy-mm-dd is the best format because it's sortable and unambiguous and standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

yyyy/mm/dd isn't standard or commonly used AFAIK, so best to avoid it.

mm-dd-yyyy also isn't standard or commonly used AFAIK, so best to avoid it.

https://xkcd.com/1179/
But one of the hypothesized effects, with mechanistic evidence from cell cultures and animal models, is obesity.

I don’t see how one can be confident about the presence or absence of population-level effects.
Thanks that makes a lot more sense.
Very ornamental flower also. Deep blue. Simply a little big for small gardens.
>> I must be missing something.

The upcoming presidential election
The author here. Just opened HN and saw that my library is on the front page . If you have any questions, I can answer them.
> For example, I see a lot of growth in government jobs.

Where do you see this? You'll forgive me, but statements like that have the smell of a conspiracy theory ("Biden is hiring people for fake jobs to goose the numbers", something like that).

In fact this is measured and has been for a long time. Here's the FRED chart. Always go to FRED, always. Almost everything else has spin to it: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USGOVT

And it's basically on trend. There was a big downward crash in the pandemic, which has been corrected for a while. Certainly there's no data to suggest a "lot of growth in government jobs", they're growing just like the economy is.
Wow. This site is stunning in both the variety and the number of articles.

Thanks for sharing!
For those who are not familiar with semiconductor technology, epitaxial growth is one of the most important technological processes that are used in it.

Epitaxial growth means the deposition of a monocrystalline layer of some material over a substrate (i.e. a wafer) that is also a single crystal.

Most methods of layer deposition create polycrystalline layers. In order to succeed to grow a monocrystalline layer it is necessary for the deposited material and the substrate material to be compatible in certain properties and the growth must be done in certain carefully controlled conditions.

Many semiconductor materials can be used only if it is possible to grow them epitaxially, because either it is impossible to make big enough crystals by other methods, or the big crystals have various undesirable properties, for instance low thermal conductivity.

The fact that the team from Georgia Tech, together with the Chinese team from Tianjin University, have achieved epitaxial growth of graphene over a substrate with excellent properties for semiconductor device fabrication, like silicon carbide, changes completely the prospects of using graphene in practical semiconductor devices.
Month: 1-12
Day: 1-31
Year: unbounded

I come from a dd/mm/yyyy country, but you can’t say mm/dd/yyyy is completely illogical.
> In our actual world, I built it in about a week, and roughly half of that time was spent wrestling with different flavors of code-signing and identity provisioning and I don’t even know what. I burned some incense and threw some stones and the gods of Xcode allowed me to pass.

This resonated with me.

This is a major source of friction to "scratching your own itch" in modern software development. Makes it extremely painful to get started. And runs against an engineering mindset, as it's not understanding principles of computing or composing components in a sensible way to build a useful new thing. It's just banging your head spamming incantations found through Google until something finally works.
Is APFS clone files same as deduplication on other FSs?
Love this. I recently started working on two apps with this same mindset: I just want to create an app for myself (todo with limits, group chats with content limits). It feels great and is enjoyable even if it doesnt get a million users.
Another open-source SFU I've had great experience with is Livekit[0]. Great docs, modern, easy to deploy (it's a golang binary), and supports a number of egress options too if you want to record the media during a stream to an external system. With their cloud product they've also built a really cool 'mesh-based' SFU-CDN that allows peers to connect to an SFU closest to them and have their media broadcast to other SFUs internal to their network, which allows for easy scaling during broadcast-style use-cases.

[0] https://livekit.io/
When it's foods contaminating plastic then we'll really know it's bad.
That makes slightly more sense, but then why the heck do you end up needing to negate something while computing a dot product?
My point was what you wrote was very simple and does not account for nuance. Assuming robust validation of pack modules before reprovisioning as stationary storage, adequate segregation and fire walling within physical enclosures, and fire suppression systems, EOL lithium chemistry pack modules repurposed for stationary storage might be cost effective vs shipping those modules for processing at someplace like Redwood Materials.

> because nobody is going to insure a building partially made from unstable trash with unknown history, which can easily catch fire on its own + it will be considered dangerous working condition for anyone who will be working there because they will be working with essentially explosives which can go off on its own.

My links directly contradict your point that these systems are being built with repurposed modules. There is no building. These facilities are standing alone on their own land on top of concrete pads. The only risk is to the facility itself unless sited in a dense urban area, and air quality depending on how close you are to places where humans dwell downwind. If there is a fire, because there occasionally is anyway with utility scale storage [1], fire suppression will kick in, the system will isolate itself, and the fire dept is going to roll up (like they do for other energy system events, like natural gas leaks that are potentially explosive [2]).

There is always risk, it is how you measure and manage the risk, your appetite for it, etc. "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle."

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=battery+storage+fire

[2] https://www.fema.gov/fr/case-study/emerging-hazards-battery-...
I can't read. :)
CentOS 8 already reached its EOL in December 31st, 2021.
Review: Pikmin 4 and Sean Penn
A new Copilot key for Windows 11 PCs [video]
Same family, different genus (Annona and Asimina). They can't be grafted together. Are compatible at first, but grafts can't survive at long term

Cherimoya (and Atemoya, etc) are often placed among the royalty of fruits. If they are ripe, they are really good. Overripe... not so much. Develop an acrid aftertaste that is a clear warning.
About half the states in the usa the act Audio recording is privliged.
> At this point of desktop OSes, I see little need to migrate to the new OS [...] Going from text to rich UI, then PnP, security, multi-user, management, etc. were necessary evolutions, but now what, [...]

People who weren't using computers of the "IBM PC" lineage back then might underestimate how big the jump from MS-DOS and Windows 3.x to Windows 9x was. The jump to the NT kernel (Windows 9x or ME to Windows XP), while smaller, also brought many benefits to normal users. Windows Vista (and Windows XP SP2 before it) tightened the platform security. Every Windows release after that feels like incremental improvements at most.
It's easy to forget that, in the US last spring (1) there was widespread fear of a sharp recession, and (2) Signature and Silicon Valley Bank failed within 48 hours of each other. Many smart people who lived through the 2008 crisis were saying, "Here we go again." Yet here we are. Whatever strategy Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell did execute seems to be working.
Same but with Pokemon gold.

The guide was basically a bible for me at that age, and used it heavily to guide me through parts of the game I would get stuck at.

I seem to remember places like the ice skating scenes and victory road being far more challenging than they probably were in reality.
Artificial Knowledge Creation
Not going to pretend I understand, but, it’s interesting that one step in the process relies on gut microbes to create a thing. And that the result of that one microbe being missing is jaundice? Where do all these random (but deadly important) microbes even come from?
I find r/askeconomics to be a pretty good place for economic discussion since they only allow comments after the moderators who are economists review. Ask there. A lot of it is just the economists calling posters dumb basically but the good questions get interesting discussion.
There's also DepotDownloader as a more generic tool that lets you download anything from steam, including past version. https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader. Being more generic, it probably can't archive your whole library in one go.

I use this to download historical versions of a game to help with reverse engineering to archive dialogue trees from a game https://dialogue.destiny.report
One thing you will find about articles and comments regarding this issue is that there is always a 'we don't know' aspect if you look past the fear inducing 'it could be doing this horrible thing' stances.

I try to stay up to date with scholarly research regarding microplastic dangers to humans, and so far there is no conclusive evidence that they do anything harmful to us.

Just know that you are exposed to many hundreds of actually harmful chemicals in your daily life -- but remember that it is the dose, not the presence of a toxin that causes harm. Even water will kill you if you drink too much of it.

Until there is a smoking gun regarding these particles and human health, it would do good to focus on things you can control that are known to be harmful, rather than something you can't that is only scary sounding.

That said, it is a good opportunity to use this to advocate for far less single-use plastics in society. We should not be using nearly as much plastic for nearly as many things as we do, and it needs to be drastically reduced.
This is a terrific tool I used for documenting a DSL a few years ago. The developer is helpful, too!
It's great but Firefox is on life support on it. Chrome is not updated anymore, and basically all development languages and tools as well so Windows 10 is the best choice in the short/medium term.