skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow - Howard's character is arguably more important to the story than Phoenix's. Was he that big of a draw back then to be able to demand so much more pay? Well - he had probably been in "Gladiator" just prior, so I guess he was a hot commodity. It looks like William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson all got paid pretty well. The movie made money despite not finding favor with critics.

> Ebert named the film the tenth worst film of 2004 and subsequently put it on his "Most Hated" list.

I dunno, I enjoyed it. I'm a simple man.
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In the article, it's pointing out that the go-to advice when someone's struggling with tech is often "you need to understand how it works." But honestly, having to know the ins and outs just to use something isn't really practical.

I mean, I personally geek out over the details, but let's be real: most folks, especially those not in software development, don't work like that. Even for us developers, you don't need to know the nitty-gritty of machine code to whip up some Python scripts. Sure, some of us love diving into that stuff, but it definitely shouldn't be a must.
In Python, loops are used to execute a block of code repeatedly until a certain condition is met. Python supports two main types of loops: for loops and while loops.
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Related/not related discussion from earlier in the week:

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179929
You're right, but I'd like to add that we do turn off flags sometimes when we think a story (a) has a good (if not high) chance at a substantive discussion and (b) hasn't had much discussion previously. If anyone notices such a case, they're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look.
Related discussion from earlier in the week:

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179929
> Why the middle class, which has mostly been taxed into not existing?

With middle class I mean the population at large.

> How about the upper class?

Again, because it simply doesn't work. Its a leftist fantasy to 'tax the billionaires' or 'tax the top 1%'.

Yes of course you can make the tax progressive and collect more from those groups. But that simply want get it done.

This is my point. Everybody has their pet peeve, their pet group or whatever. But that's simply not realistic.

The only thing that can balance the budget are either broad taxes on most of the population, or massive cuts in social spending. Yes, you might not like it, but its true anyway.

> As Warren Buffett says

Buffett can say whatever he likes, it doesn't change the numbers.

Go on the most extreme socialist tax the rich spree, eliminate billionaires take all their wealth. Have fun. Then add lots of new taxes for the Top 10%, have fun.

All of that helps, but doesn't change the fundamentals.

You simply can't have large European welfare state and not have much of the population to pay for it. And the US has such a large welfare state in terms of what they pay, even if not in the outcome.
I'd also add here that it's really not even just about the greater good. There's something obviously unique and valuable about different places remaining different, rather than creating some sort of global homogeneity. Austin coined 'Keep Austin Weird' which Portland, and a handful of other such cities, then mimicked.

Of course it failed - the attractiveness of Austin, in part because of its distinct character, left it facing widespread 'migration' of a sort that the city was unaccustomed to dealing with, and it increasingly just looks like any other city. Identical to how if Japan starts opening the flood gates there will be all these people moving there because 'wow, Japan's so weird and unique' and soon enough e.g. Tokyo will look like any other city.

It could well be "better", by some metric or another, for Austin, Tokyo, and everywhere else to be basically the same, excepting some window dressing. But it sure creates a much more bland and less interesting world.
One of my favorite aspects of pinball is finding and playing those odd machines tucked away here and there, thanks to some enthusiast at a local business, or because it’s always been there. Fond memories of an old laundromat in CNY that had a machine of similar vintage..and an equally old coke vending machine.
This is a fair criticism. I struggled with how to organize that section and I might go back and add an example of what I meant, or even pull that phrase out (it’s actually from a much earlier version of the piece when it was more experience report and less introduction to the tool). I also debated about showing various bits of log output for exactly this reason, but decided not to since there are multiple examples of it in the asciinema recordings. Also, “a bit too tired to keep reading” is indicative of the other reason: this is already a mammoth piece of writing to work through! There is room to deep dive on any of the pieces as their own standalone pieces, too, but at some point I just had to publish the dang thing.
I also haven't checked their code but it reminds me of the awful "smooth scrolling" trend that was popular on a lot of websites a few years back and implemented with unperformant synchronous JS attached to an onScroll event with no denouncing. I just assumed it was the same on that site.
Every (startup) project I've ever abandoned I've eventually regretted abandoning, over the course of my life 5 times if I'm counting right, things like "there actually was a market for that", "with what I know now [insert limitation here] wouldn't have mattered", "thing I did for someone else instead of X eventually bore no fruit but I never went back to X" etc etc etc, going all the way back to the first one in 8th/9th grade where I spent two years working on a product and gave up when I only had one sale two weeks after launch (just needed time to gain momentum, there was lots of demand but I wouldn't realize this until many years later, at which point that whole vertical wasn't really a thing anymore and it was way too late).

Github projects on the other hand, some of mine I'm definitely fine with them rotting, like my crystal lang ORM for monogo db.
Git does make a detached head sound like something is broken, but it's really just a nameless branch. Nothing broken about it. Any commits might become hidden, as all commits not in a branch are, but that's only after you move off the headless branch and git warns loudly about this.
> How is that not mmap?

The allocated storage is append only. For updates, just allocate another blob. The deleted blobs would be garbage collected later. So it is not really mmap.

> Also what is the difference between a file, an object, a blob, a filesystem and an object store?

The answer would be too long to fit here. Maybe chatgpt can help. :)

> Is all this just files indexed with sql?

Sort of yes.
> posts critical of HN/YC are going to get a log of flags

You can take this with a grain of salt as I'm obviously not the most neutral observer, but from everything I've seen (which at least is a lot!), yes they get a lot of flags, but they get even more upvotes. It's hard to say which side wins out in the tug-of-war. The tendency towards negativity that jsnell's comment describes is very real, and it's on the upvote side in these cases.

Most probably the tug of war goes one way some of the time and the other way the rest of the time. The funny thing is that as mods, we have to have a regulating influence either way. What I mean is that if a rage story hits the top of the front page, we'll downweight it (though not necessarily all the way off the front page); but if a rage story about YC gets too many flags, we'll reduce those or remove them altogether. The recent shitfest is a good example; let me dig up some links for you... Edit: oh wait, I already mentioned those links in the GP. Sorry, I'm getting a bit tired here!

Did I answer your question?
This argument bothers me. Of course digital cameras do a lot of processing on the captured sensor data. But to superimpose a canned picture of the moon on a photo of a lightbulb taken in a room is in a different league. That image was never on the sensor to start with.

I can’t quite put my finger on why this is so disturbing. What group of people sat around and decided that this moon trick would be a great feature to add to the phone? What was the thought process? Not bothered by the deceptive nature of this they shipped it. That’s just so far from my values - what other things will they add and only admit to when found out?
I initially thought the same but have come around. The problem at this point is the lack of tooling that understands and supports it. You could, quite reasonably, say they should have made a different choice based on what works best with tooling today, and that would be fair; but I think that would leave us in a bit of a local maximum. My hope is that if and as it catches on, tools will grow feature and modes to work with it—just like they did to work with Git’s index.
Take it with a grain of salt, since I don't own the hardware - but did have two points of feedback 1) you may want a more complex/interesting thumbnail- I almost scrolled by since it looked fake/computer generated. The 3rd photo on the lander (red-ish foreground, blue-ish background) looks more engaging to me. 2) The lander would be a good bit more engaging if I could click to play the videos.
Well given this is in response to the statement:

> "It’s pretty simple, don’t dump chemicals in water or on land period."

Then i still maintain anyone using that definition of chemical in the context of that statement is an utter idiot.

> Now would you like to discuss which "substances produced by chemical processes" are likely to be the most impactful upon the environment

Why? There is already a government department tasked with that, that can probably do a better job then you or i could.

If you're trying to argue that the status quo is fine and we shouldn't change anything, then you have a weird way of doing so.
That comment lined up pretty closely with one of my pet peeves. I apologize for overreacting and contributing negatively to what was already a busy day for you. Thank you for all your hard work and patience.
If you are talking about updates eventually bringing down quality for a specific software, yes I think so. I wish it would be possible to just get security updates.

Also, I think that bug-free software never existed... hopefully one day it will, not too hopeful though for it to happen in my lifetime.
> This implies that only egg-based pasta can be made at home, which is not the case.

How else would you make pasta if not with egg and flour?
I would love to learn more about that setup. Do you have it documented anywhere?
My bet is on Quantized Inertia as the model that works in the long run.
"In early 17th-century Europe, high heels were a sign of masculinity and high social status." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-heeled_shoe
Your exponential back offs were not a solution to the problem identified and named in the mid-90s. They might be valuable for some other problem.
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Impossible to tell from the slide, because such a seam only occurs at one longitude, and moves over the day.

However looking at other sources, it seems Starlink (having more satellites) actually wraps the orbital planes 360° around the Earth (vs Iridium's minimalist 180° configuration), overlapping both North-moving and South-moving satellites in the same sky simultaneously. This means the Iridium seam disappears entirely. Neat! TIL.

Another problem that vanishes simply by being "hardware rich."
Rebuilt a unit with over 7,000 wire wraps in it back in 2009 for F/A-18 flight computer testing. An electrical short had caused several runs to melt and basically run a hot knife through the internal wiring.

Had to rebuild it from original hand written point to point wrap instructions (of which there was only the original) coupled with all the changes in the 30 years since original build.

That was a hell of a project.
This is hyperbole. Search has 100% gotten so much worse. But 99% of the time, even for technical questions, I can find the correct result on the first page. If I don't, for example in cases where the names clash like the word atlas that has a ton of results, I can add a word of additional context and get the correct result
> I pay property tax to keep my car. I get a yearly bill based on the value of my car, and I pay taxes based on that. I pay property tax to keep my house. I get a yearly bill based on the value of my house and I pay taxes based on that.

In the US? This isn't common. I've heard of things like this to register your car but not to keep it.

There's no laws in the USA where they'll repossess your car if you don't pay registration fees. They just don't allow it to be on the road legally and you'll get ticketed.
How much are you willing to pay to play this Minesweeper game in order to avoid having your data collected and sold?
I'm honestly unclear, are you trying to say it's a bad thing? Where is the issue?
This is illegal, dangerous and utterly stupid. Not sure what prompted this behaviour other than showing off to an Internet audience
No. Rose-colored glasses. Back when software was purchased in shrink wrap, quality was definitely a crap shoot. It was normal to reboot your DOS machine because the memory hack you used for one program didn't work for another (himem.sys and emm386.com). FAT required regular defragmentation and integrity checks. You rebooted just about every day up to the early 2000s because any desktop OS running at the time became more and more unstable with memory leaks as the days walked on. Games were buggy but didn't get regular patches you could just download on your 2400 baud modem.

Software is more complex than ever before by a wide margin, but for every Electron bloatware there's a ton of sleek Swift-driven amazement. And speaking of Electron, as maligned as it is, those apps are still Unicode-compatible, networked, and self-updating as table stakes.

There are some amazing old programs out there (have you seen the amazing engineering behind coreutils?), but things are most definitely not worse off today.
Very little of the energy used in petroleum refining is electricity. About half of it comes from the refinery's own byproducts; and a big remainder is from natural gas or coal used to produce heat.

Indeed, I just peeked at your report and it says the same thing: "Nearly one-half the energy consumed by refineries is obtained from
by-product refinery gas and coke, and about one-third is supplied by
natural gas. "
> I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed

Another way to look at this is that the mods have the same biases you do. Depending on how you’re feeling on a given day, you could call that an echo chamber.
Oh.. right.
So we need another configuration for each and every application for something almost always system wide and can change dynamically (like wifi reconnecting) ?
No, Transformers with memory are turing complete. Like i said, the modifications are trivial.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04589
It's not the same. With git you are doing 2 operations, adding some changes to the index and then commiting. With jujutsu you do 1 operation, splitting a commit. Yes, the end result is the same, but since git has the concept of the index, it requires an extra step and is more complex to understand.
I’m optimistic it will recover relatively quickly. It sucks at the moment though 1000%
> AWS would not be possible without the contribution of hundreds of thousands of people and projects from the inception of the internet.

Quite notably, that number of people developing, distributing, supporting, and extending AWS is a few magnitudes smaller than the billions of people that live on the earth and benefit from or use AWS everyday.

So, what do you have to say about that inequality?

You can claim the man sweeping streets in Africa was quite integral to developing AWS alongside myself and thousands of engineers, but you will never make me believe it.
What they wrote is factual, if unrelated to main topic.

Invasion Day started small, hundreds of people opposed to Australia's national day of celebration on Jan 26. The public holiday started in 1994, so it's not that old. There is common sense and reason around changing the date. Support from the wider Australian community is usually about compassion and understanding.

But now in 2024, the sentiments of Invasion Day protests suddenly and forcefully have merged with pro-Palestinian causes. To the point the Palestinian flag took front position, ahead of the Aboriginal flag. The messages tweaked, the speakers at the events now including those who had no previous connections with Aboriginal causes, suddenly they're "brothers and sisters unified against Australia." Not only that but the "decolonising" rhetoric and hate as increased. There's an undoubtedly "extreme left" (for want of a better description) element that promotes an unprecedented violent resistance.

No wonder some notable Aboriginal people such as Nova Peris and Marcia Langton have distanced themselves and oppose the unified causes.
Langton said: "there is very little comparable in our respective situations, other than our humanity".
Peris said: "It is historically and morally inappropriate to raise the Palestinian cause in conjunction with 26 January."

How about children skipping school to chant Allua Akbars in the CBD and holding signs saying "resistance is not terrorism"? That happened. How about "teachers for Palestine" caught in recordings promoting pro-palestine action plans for the classroom, including mathematics classes. Yep, they are planning to bring pro palestine causes while teaching algebra. Never mind this breaches Australian Education Dept rules. The teachers openly mocked those rules on the recording.

A lot is happening lately that falls into the unprecedented zone.
Ask HN: Immersive 180-360 Video on Apple Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro can make small focal length spatial videos you can watch in front of you, but the immersive surround-screen videos are limited to 4 first episodes on Apple TV+. The soundscapes are not videos but photos with some simulated cloud and wave movement (trees don’t move with the wind you hear). What approaches are available to viewing 360 degree videos we make with our own cameras or content available on youtube? It seems app developers can build 360 viewing apps for the Vision Pro, so are there any out there we can use now? If I can’t make, view or find more immersive content, I might return the device.
What did you think he was going to say? Explain that it was in fact a big HN conspiracy?

I mean yeah it probably was just a mistake but what do you expect somebody to say?
... but only if current events actually keep escalating to the scale of a world war. If Russia/Putin loses steam and the precedent takes the winds out of China's foreign policy sails, or if China's domestic economy implodes and neuters the economic support for Putin's war, the current events will likely just fizzle out. Ten years ago I generally thought the end of the US/USD empire was inevitable. Now that the chief competitors are playing their hands in some very foolish ways (and cryptocurrency has been basically harmlessly absorbed by the incumbent financial system), I'm not so sure.
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If I understand correctly, you have three concerns here: (1) the story was downranked off the front page; (2) your comment was flagged; (3) a comment that replied to you was not flagged. I'll try to respond to these in turn:

(1) the story was downranked off the front page because the topic had already been discussed a bunch—for example in these threads, two days earlier:

Amazon's Ring to stop letting police request doorbell video from users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119387 - Jan 2024 (141 comments)

Ring steps back from sharing video with police – mostly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39120892 - Jan 2024 (15 comments)

Culling repetition from the front page is one of the most important things HN's systems need to do. Actually, it's probably the single most important thing. Certainly it's best if we can link to the previous discussions so people can know where to find them—but we can only do that some of the time. Users help out a ton by posting links to earlier threads. Ultimately we need better software support for dealing with this, but that's not done yet.

(2) Your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138481 was flagged by users. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I'm pretty sure I know why: comments that do nothing but quote from the article, or post a summary of it, are considered too formulaic by readers here. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but please do it in your own words and share your own thinking. To simply paste a quote from the article is too superficial. On HN the convention is to assume that readers are smart enough to evaluate an article for themselves.

Edit: I'm going to copy the above paragraph into a reply below, so I can link to it in the future when this comes up, without the rest of the post.

(3) The reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138536, which only said "and?", was definitely an unsubstantive comment that deserved to be flagged (and killed) even more than yours did. The reason it escaped detection was simple, albeit unsatisfying: pure randomness. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here—there's far too much. I've flagged it now.
Some stuff I found:

Dragon + Black Hole = Dragon Ball

Moonwalk + Truth = Michael Jackson

Then I don't even remember what I did to get super saiyan, but I managed to get to Super Saiyan 8192

Vegeta (I forgot how to get him or Goku) + Time Paradox = Trunks

Steamboat + TV = Steamboat Willie
You didn't answer my question. I didn't ask you whether planes flew like birds do. I asked you if planes are "mimicking" flight and if that's a statement that makes any sense at all.
I'm reminded of a similar 'dark' quote from Theo de Raadt in 2001:

"...But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching
machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia..."[0]

[0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99118909527873&w=2
Inert nuclear missile found in US man's garage
All the best scores will be 61 seconds
I think “your threatmodel is not my threatmodel” applies here. I can easily see a parental lock being relevant in certain abuse cases for example.
No, I do not make claims of such a causal relationship in particular, since there is no direct evidence which would support such a hypothesis (so far).

My thinking is, that in the past we've been able to detect industrial pollutants that are harmful to human health because they had clear detrimental effects, like asbestos which clearly causes cancer.

Newer pollutants would probably be more subtle, because we can select out those which clearly cause harm. Agents that affect the endocrine system might currently slip under the radar, as we do not fully understand how different agents interact with it, and what the long-term repercussions are.

Surely there are different aspects of our bodies that could be negatively affected by industrial pollutants, but I just have a personal hunch that the endocrine system might be one that is subtle enough that it could evade our investigations long enough that could cause accumulative harm before we really notice it. Hope that makes some sense.
Another article here specifically about favicons:

https://web.dev/articles/building/an-adaptive-favicon

Unfortunately, I tried the demo and even though it’s supposed to work in Chrome, it didn’t for me. Nor with Safari. Have you gotten it working with favicons anywhere?