skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you mention it, my kid has sometimes had problems with Steam where it has started a game and we can't easily leave the game. I presumed though that was a deliberate design so that your game has focus as that's the thing that's most interactive. Usually a pkill -f <game> is needed.

I've not noticed focus stealing outside of Steam. What is steam made from, it seems very browserish.

This topic is causing some self-reflection and wonder if I am the peculiar one who does different things and just not bumping into it, I mainly work from xterm, screen, mutt, vim and a lot of time in firefox. Perhaps this combination just doesn't start things that request focus, but when in MS Windows I noticed it a lot.

You're right about steam, but now I'm on a path of wondering...

This topic confirms that focus stealing is a thing in XFCE, I have some research to do!

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=14461
I feel the need to immediately change to an upward pointing cursor to honour Douglas Engelbart.
> As long as the government can keep a private key secure only they could make use of it.

That's a disingenuous claim since it's known they can't
> is strictly helpful.

someone mentioned that blood doping makes your blood thicker, which is dangerous (you can get clots, stroke or heart attack from it?).
What matters is the hand you use your mouse with, I'm left handed for writing and most things but use the right hand for the mouse and it doesn't feel strange.
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-digs-40-meter-deep-ho...

This guy dug 40m down from his kitchen and died.
it's cool but half the battle. To keep an eye on decoupling you need to map where the state goes. For web, what parts of the code are making using fetch / xmlhttprequest. using the URL & params, history. What's using local storage etc.
should be able to identify those browser APIs and draw them out like a dep link too.
I just had to fix a component that's was directly editing URL parameters instead of the store which updated the URL.
If part of the fuselage was intact it seems like that might show up with high enough resolution? Most things in nature aren't that smoothly curved
Few milliseconds is way off. Over fiber I get sub-milli ping to the datacenters in the same city.
Your First Business Should Be a Spreadsheet
Clearly that’s not true based on the evidence.

Acetaminophen and ibuprofen work really well for certain pain (dental) and pain related to inflammation.

But if you have bone cancer, they aren’t going to do much even if the pain isn’t “the most severe”.

Pain can actually have many modalities. Things like gabapebtin, antidepressants, antiepileptics, can be helpful for certain pain like neuralgia.

But opioids are a class of their own for certain types of pain. We continue to use them because there are no other options.
People digging holes on public beaches should fill them up again so other people don't risk getting injured.
Huge missing variable is cognitive impairment from covid. It may affect up to ~20-30% of people several months after getting it [1][2][3], but whatever the exact rate, it's an amount that is orders of magnitude more than the accident rate.

"The most frequent symptoms seem to affect memory, attention, and concentration" [4].

We generally suck at assessing our level of impairment (see drunk drivers), so if we're used to driving a certain way and no longer have the capacity to do so safely, eventually something's going to happen to some of us.

Given the magnitude of ongoing covid infections and the still very low per capita accident rate, this could be the single best explanation of an uptick in accidents. It's not a surprise it's overlooked though, as statistically we don't really track cognitive abilities except in education contexts and individually we tend to downplay or ignore any changes in how we think. Cognition is largely invisible as a measure.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/upshot/long-covid-disabil... or https://archive.ph/RnBZ2

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8715665/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8798975/

[4] https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-075387
couldn't you require the athlete to test for red blood cell count several weeks ahead of the event (randomly chosen, so they cannot dope right before the test), and then one more right on the day? If they're doping, won't you see an unusually high count compared to their previous count?
Simon Whistler is a nutcase.
Because Windows is made with poor attention to details and in a tasteless manner. For instance, when Windows XP came out, I remember clearly how some stock icons weren't properly aligned on the same baseline (it was corrected in some later SP).
Then no founder continues building their business once they near having $100M equity.

Basically it creates a cap on private business size? Maybe reasonable, maybe not.

It is a negative incentive to never try to work more to earn more. Suddenly you lose your serial entrepreneurs. Disincentives matter as much as incentives.

In New Zealand, the party suggesting a wealth tax, was going to levy it if you had more than $1 million equity.

There is no reason they wouldn't reduce the limit from $100M over time. Politicians want power, why would they want to allow anyone to have significant assets?

One fundamental strength of capitalism is that it finds compromises between competing needs - compromises that our politicians can't or won't make.
I’m not asking for PayPal to make people whole. But when their service is used as part of a scam/crime, are there legally not bound to investigate?
It notices and handles IPD adjustments immediately when the device moves between users. Even in the current rev.
This is super cool. I'm also trying to write a C compiler but in Rust and it's difficult.
I agree you’re right in that the current tech stack is bad. But the answer is to fix that, and I think (very) slowly we will.

JS was a terrible language but nowadays it is pretty good in some areas, passable in others, with some horror shows left in. The ecosystem and tooling are the real problems. I don’t understand why these issues haven’t been addressed by Google et al.

Native applications are just so much more expensive to develop and maintain. Given the nuances of different platforms, it’s also very difficult to keep different versions in sync. People expect collaboration as table stakes, which makes that task even harder.

I agree accessibility is a problem.

Ironically the Java applet had the right idea, as a compromise between our positions, but wrong time and maybe wrong language? Its Swiss cheese security didn’t help either.
Unless you’re going to put 40% down, you’ll have a day when the loan balance exceeds the value of the car.

My last car loan was at 0% (meaning the only cost of financing was the insurance company profit on the collision policy that I had to take because of the loan). No way am I putting down 40% on a 0% loan.

I could have charged the car on my credit card for the points and paid it off 45 days later; it’s not a matter of being able to afford it.
My tool doesn't directly help you in removing the background from images. It helps you obtain high-resolution, background-free images by uploading the original image and the preview image (the image with the background removed but with low-res) from PhotoRoom or other background removal services. ^^
Show HN: A more "conversational" AI assistant
What is special about this assistant is that it can leverage interfaces (web search, Python, etc) directly within its messages. For example, as it realizes that it needs to calculate 1 + 1, it might type "[PYTHON] print(1 + 1) [/PYTHON]", and the output "[OUTPUT] 2 [/OUTPUT]" gets inserted right after, before the assistant continues streaming its answer.

The seamless insertion of code and output within the conversation - as opposed to the more standard approach (ChatGPT Plus, AutoGPT) where the assistant has to classify your prompt, select appropriate actions from a menu, and then use them to prompt other external agents - turns out to produce a really useful assistant that is both surprisingly autonomous and aware of its own limitations.

Use it as you wish (and at your own risk of course). Here are a few examples of things I have successfully used Saola for in the past few days:

- I asked it why some app kept telling me to "close Chrome" after I had already closed it. Saola quickly realized that the app was seeing processes from another session.

- I asked it to help me set up a new Python package I was building. It moved files around, (after confirming that I agreed), it asked me some necessary questions and read Python files to derive dependencies for the pyproject file.

- I asked it to find and successively open a bunch of spreadsheets for me from different places, so I could do some edits and print each of them to a PDF. At every step, it would check that I saved the PDF to the right place.

- It helped me brainstorm a solution for a math problem, verified particular cases as asked, and provided ideas from the patterns it observed.
where does the data in those “published tables” come from?
> I like the enthusiasm, but you REALLY shouldn't be DIYing this.

Of course you should be, this is hacker news after all. But this guy shouldn't be because his soldering skills are atrocious.

At least he put a big fat warning on the article. I've built a 15 KW solar installation here and it's safer and better constructed than what your typical professional around here delivers. DIY electronics and working with mains are perfectly ok. I've been doing so since I was 12 or so and I really don't get this kind of alarmist attitude towards electricity, it isn't magic.
Handoff Library for Figma
Quickly organise and prepare your files for handoffs, audits, sharing context, etc - with a bunch of reusable and modular components.
> I'm not sure the best way to replicate case study discussions--which is a big part of most actual MBA programs and is probably at least somewhat important. (Also projects as opposed to just reading.)

As someone who did an MBA twenty years ago, I think this is a really important point

The value for me wasn’t the reading, it’s the discussion the exploration of different (sometime opposed) viewpoints and understanding the differences between them

Talking to friends who’ve done other Masters degrees one of the key things we all agree on is they taught us how to “think better” and not sure you’ll get that from reading a bunch of books
I would suggest that every CFO agrees some kind of secret challenge response with their staff and other execs.
Well sure, if you're lucky. Therein lies the problem, hard to tell until you try and actually find it, because we've no idea what condition it's in and where it ended up.
When mine were little I’d take them swimming, or do something real mundane that kids think is exciting - like riding a bus or a train (off peak).
One time we went to the airport just to watch planes take off and land. They loved it.
I was pretty poor back then, so I was always searching for cheap entertainment. Petting zoo’s was another thing we did, and going to orchard’s to pick our own fruit was something they enjoyed as well.
When stuck at home in the rain we used to have “best painting competitions” or dance-off’s. Also just playing good old fashioned board games is good… I never use to make them follow the rules, and would let them think they were tricking me with their sly cheating - I knew what they were up to, but it used to amuse me listening to them giggle because they thought that I was too stupid to know their tricks.
Another time we just got a massive box (big enough for me to fit inside) and we played in that together every day for weeks. I think little kids just love it if you play with them on their level - it’s not so much the activity, but just the time you spend with them.
Hide and seek was also a favourite game. My boys are 12 & 14 now and they still love hide and seek, however the game always starts a bit more spontaneously now, and often in inconvenient places, like at the mall when I’m trying to buy them new shoes or something.
And they pull elaborate pranks on me these days.
It’s a very different dynamic. I kind of miss the little kids I once had. However, I do find teenagers a bit easier to deal with, a part from gamer rage and body odour. These days our activities are things like going to the cinema or doing escape rooms, and getting fruit smoothies seems to be in vogue at the moment, all the while they roast me for being a millennial that chooses to wear skinny leg jeans.
Altitude camps, ie spending a week or two at altitude, a few weeks before targeted events is very common in cycling. The Canary Island of Tenerife, with roads up to 2300 meters is quite popular in the pre-season thanks to its great climate.

Badly timed such blocks of training, like doing it too close to the event the athlete is peaking for, is detrimental. The body needs time to recuperate.
AI tends to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames
Allied Media in Detroit is connecting wi-fi over long distances. They find say a church steeple to setup the base station. Then anyone who wants wi-fi they mount an antenna on their roof or balcony and point it at the steeple. I am not certain of the distances they get but I am sure it is at least a mile.

Here is an article on their project and they have published a book on the what they're building in Detroit. It is a charity that I personally support.

https://medium.com/read-write-participate/connecting-the-unc...
> EVs are nice, but having everything I want within walking distance is much more preferable.

Come back to Europe.. ;-)
Well Dart as language is better than C# and Flutter is way more matured. This is only interesting for Microsoft shops
Note: this is about the current mentorship onboarding a senior.

The one I mentioned in the op were previous examples in the last years to see if there's an overlap, since I'm already reflecting over the current situation with similar situations from the past.
It’s even worse - those who frequently buy hardware are small one-person companies who drive from building to building gig. They are very cost conscious and very mobile , so they are the most likely candidates to buy bigger quantities whenever the price is right. They for sure are not loyal to any brand.
After my third Baofeng handheld [1], I finally had to get a "real" receiver. But the 3B's are still useful for additional listening stations and/or for friends.

—73

[1] The volume potentiometer becomes unreliable after regular on/offs. The major concern is that after a few years, some "steps" of volume randomly mutes (with no indication, you just don't hear the incoming).
Defender of the Crown was my first PC game, played at the high school computer club, on a PC 1512.

Those "beautiful" CGA graphics were nothing like that Amiga experience.

https://youtu.be/sb_H9Nn7Z1o?si=TCsFDEh9HbLwafxG
Yeah, I think we know why we never came across aliens.

Technological civilization is inherently self-destructive.
I like to think of GA as strongly-typed matrix algebra. Instead of putting everything into one type (a matrix of numbers), it recognises and makes explicit physical concepts such as surfaces and volumes.
Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024
Always found some interesting reads like this. Looking to add to my tbr to hit my yearly goal.

I just finished the three body problem, found it fantastic. I'm most of the way through 'The will of the many', and I'm finding it amazing - one of the best fantasies I've read in a while.
I feel like this has been this way for at least two years, too?
American car companies push for large vehicles because those are exempt from strict emission standards. And the rest eventually started following because the US is the most lucrative car market in the world, even if their own country has different legislation.

Remove the loophole and everything gets back into place without any weird & local workarounds like Paris had to retreat to.
> in a headset

That's why I mentioned "much more refined devices".

To me it seems obvious that Apple made a headset only because that's the minimum amount of hardware needed, right now, for the functionality they want. What they really want is "Apple Glasses", but they're willing to set money on fire for however long it takes to get there, building out the full-featured software ecosystem along the way so that by the time the mass market likes the idea they've already completely conquered the niche.
Interesting thought. I think ground-based GPS wouldn't be too difficult though - we already have most of earth covered by GSM/3G/LTE, and with updated towers you could have something as precise, if not more, as GPS. Of course the coverage wouldn't be 100%, and navigating in ocean would be more difficult.

Planes would be replaced by trains and aquaplanes for sure. Our modern fastest trains (TGV, Maglev) are only half as slow as the fastest commercial planes. Also, you might have rocketry on such a planet, just not for orbit, and for things that right now we use jets for.

The biggest issue with be probably no detailed aerial maps, and in later stages - no space mining, so such civilisation would be limited to resources on their own planet.

Also, I'm imagining that such a civilisation would send out more signals into space to encourage someone to come and visit them, and hopefully dropship resources from orbit :D

Imagine two civilisations living like that in symbiosis - one on the orbit, able to drop things to the one that is lower, but being able to extract only information / art / mental labour / energy from below.
Atmospheric carbon negative
This rationale right here is why we are stuck with so much bloatware. "People enter the tarpits all the time and never leave. There must be something there, I'm going in"
The secret challenge exists and it is the phone number / email address / VC account of CFO. If CFO wants to order EMPLOYEE to send money, then EMPLOYEE should only do the action after making an outgoing call to CFO.
This made me furious. I would have given up long ago, which of course is what anthem wants. Congrats to the author for sticking with it.
Kaypro 10, BYE510, serial IO, and the CP/M development process (2015) [video]
Alternatively, the technique used for finding plane crashes has a 99% recall and we're just happening to talk about the 1% that slipped through. Survivorship bias is not out of the question here.
P2P Basel: academic FOSS workshop – eventually consistent offline-first P2P tech
> It’s not hard to imagine a planet where going to war would be mutually assured destruction on a species level, even for ants and microbes.

That is very hard to imagine, how do you reckon that would be possible? Does the planet only support a couple of anthills and then all resources are consumed? How would ants even appear on such a planet?
Using debased money (does the paper in the note have any value?) is already submitting to paying seignorage to the issuing authority. There's not escaping it unless you sit on the top of that food chain.
My friend and I both had Amigas in the 90s and they did feel special at the time.

A few years ago we felt nostalgic and emulated a bunch of games, and while it was nice to play them again some of that magic had been lost.

Some time later we were round at a friend's house and he had a real Amiga 500 hooked up to an Amiga monitor and a joystick. He loaded up Turrican 2.

All I can say is playing the game on real hardware was a far more satisfying experience than playing on an emulator. My friend played it for about half an hour and was hooked!

I can't really define why it is that real hardware feels better. It's probably placebo but that's not the whole story.
beh. these aren't high voltage transformers or anything. you can buy diy "mains voltage" equipment at any hardware store. no one is shouting from the rafters "you REALLY shouldn't buy that!"
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Typical store bought smart sockets are 1.5A and have a lighter relay in them than what this guy used, note how his goal was to be able to remotely switch chargers on and off. They are also 'marked appropriately' in type that I need a magnifying glass for to read. I've seen people control way heavier loads with them without being aware of what the ratings on those things are because the labeling is nothing short of confusing. I just took one off the shelf here to check and indeed it says 16/250 on the front but on the back in tiny type it says max 250W and 1.136 Amp. With a prominent CE mark between the prongs (this is from a brand with a reasonably good reputation).
I can buy coverage to repair my vehicle if it’s damaged in a collision where I’m at fault (“collision insurance”). I can buy coverage to repair my vehicle if I’m not at fault and the other driver is under-insured (“under-insured coverage”). Same for another driver at fault who is un-insured.

Those are different risks and not everyone wants coverage for all of them.
It was pretty funny and the fact you are getting offended just proves their point even more imo.
There is an excellent YouTube channel that explains the V2 rocket in detail. Almost down to the last screw. Highly recommend. https://youtube.com/@RocketPlanet?si=DdgyQ8HFnswrZgZr
I've seen that sentiment a lot, I don't buy it. Google pays for Firefox so they can claim they are not a monopoly.

I'm hopeful that if people have a choice on iOS, then Apple would invest more on their browser.
Well put. It's never not funny to me how one of the fundamental tenets of software engineering is 'separation of concerns' yet there's no shortage of people willing to say 'but it's so convenient to mix them at the start of a project...'.
I don’t have spare money to spend on a Vision Pro that I couldn’t spend somewhere better but I have this thought when I was taking a hot shower. I’m here just living normally while there are millions running for their lives from war zones like literally.

I’m more worried about the multibillionaires than anyone else, glass hole or not.
Which people's lives are they making worse?
It was still way more socialist than what California or South European left wants.

Soviet Union had socialized assigned housing, affirmative action policy and equalized wages right from the start. Still, it is largely ignored by socialist LARPers of today.
Interesting logic.

What about Java or Go? You could say they do ignore Linux as well...on the grounds of not having nice to use first-party crossplat GUI framework that can target Linux. Where are the OracleUI or GoogleGoUI?
The point of a pointer is that it should stand off against the things it points at.

A usual GUI for the most part has straight edges and certain symmetries. A cursor that is similarly symmetric will blend in more easily, and get visually lost.

Which way it tilts is secondary, the irregularity of the tilt itself against the rest of the interface is key.
This feels like every health insurance endeavor I have ever attempted.

In any other industry, this would be called "fraud."
I've used tasmota pre-flashed Athom 16A smart plugs with discrete success.
According to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FWQe4RFgY1s at least the relay is the proper one and wires seem beefy enough.

Unfortunately they tend to die prematurely for some LVDC regulator problem.
I’d expect around that percentage to not even have a driver’s license.
A bit ironic to buy "news" to "think nothing has changed in fifty years".
Here is the original source: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1753842145075818707
With an ISO install, only 1.2 is required for Win11. TPM2 ia inly required to get the update offer from 10.