skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies if I'm misreading your intention, but are you suggesting that Valve's work on Wine is somehow worse than asking game developers to target Linux/other OSes natively? As a Linux desktop enthusiast, I much prefer the Valve's approach: the library of existing Windows-only games that are unlikely to be ever ported is too vast, and the benefits of targeting a disjointed[1] platform with <2% market share[2] for new games are not at all clear. It's only thanks to Valve that I (and hopefully many other Linux users) do not need to maintain a second Windows system for fun, as the majority of games run perfectly fine on Linux and require nothing more than clicking Install then Play in the Steam client.

[1] Case in point: glibc's compatibility guarantees are weaker than what you get on Windows. (For instance, your system's glibc cannot be older than what a game is built against, which may present problems for devs using Fedora/Arch and players on Debian/LTS Ubuntu, something I've experienced first-hand for my apps.) The X11 to Wayland migration is also still underway. (Though things are getting better, the attitudes of some Wayland maintainers are a bit concerning: "I don't [care] what you think is normal behavior for games. You get certain guarantees with wayland. Deal with it. If clients decide to do exactly what they do on windows or X11 they won't work correctly." [3] I'm not sure game developers would enjoy such reception.)

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/18...
Sure? No doubt the US does similar activities and in the past more so when it comes to creating instability within regions but in more recent history I don’t think we have made very public executions on foreign soil, even more so I cannot recall us doing it in public for dissidents.
Very cool, i will try it out. I was actually kind of looking for something like that. Looks very well made.

Super OT: I just think the lastname "lieb" seems unfortunate as the ending for a subdomain of a site named itch.io...
I care because it's been increasingly impossible to say these "oddballs" are being extremely shitty people and should stop. The message they get and the message they have been getting is they are "agents of change". There has been a few terrorist events with this kind of radicalism (Audrey Hale being the worst case) but the left is still allergic to criticizing this. Just how bad do things need to get?

I agree the republican party is worse than democrats. I'm not American, I don't live in a first world country but I would vote for them. I think electing Trump was horrible.

I don't think Bernie is an antisemite, I think the people on the left who hate Bernie for having empathy for kidnapped, tortured Israelis are, of which there are many.

Gamergate and the alt right were fringe until Trump. The media and culture moved at a glacial pace before it started seeing them as a problem. Will we see the same thing happen on the left? A president that supports terrorism and violence against the "opressor" race and talks of guillotines? I think that's an improbable nightmare scenario but so was Trump at gamergate times.

Again you went from "this never happens" to "of course it sometimes happens, but it doesn't matter".

All Ivy League representatives in congress calling defending the eradication of Jews not hate speech?

No instance of antisemitism on the left at all?

This is why I'm suspicious of oddballs not mattering. They don't matter until they do and when they do they're correct and me and others are being insane.

This boundary pushing of violence and bigotry is exactly how we got Trump and I really wish there was only one group of stupid violent demogogues running around to deal with, not two.
Face ID never had this issue, it projects a dot matrix on your face and reads back the distortion. The really old Android face unlock did.
Primitive Reflexes
It would be really interesting if they had used a control for gender by also comparing results to something like 1, people of all genders who had experienced some sort of violent encounter while walking at night or 2, people who grew up in relatively violent places.

I historically have lived in relatively more dangerous places, attended a pretty violent high school and, while male and physically fit, am not an intimidating presence. I wonder what my results would look like compared to someone from the suburbs or an nfl linebacker.

The other thing they don't mention at all is that especially with walking and biking, the reality of safety is important, but so is the _perception_ of safety. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's very important in this type of work to handle that distinction explicitly. The quote "Why can’t we live in a world where women don’t have to think about these things?" doesn't really acknowledge that. Random sexual violence on the street is pretty rare compared to in someone's home, dorm room, etc. How much of this fear is driven by Law and Order SVU's cultural impact? A genuine question, not a criticism.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302045
I still don’t get it. How would you know that a human looked at it?
Nothing to do with Brexit - as you said this has been getting more difficult for decades. Post Brexit it has become easier for people from outside the EU to get some types of British visas so if anything the UK is less isolationist than when it made it very hard for anyone from outside the EU to enter.

MY biggest concern is that with any new system replacing a proven one.

The other is that right to work and right to rent checks may not work as expected. While the article says these can already be done online, not everyone doing them (the biggest problem will be landlords who own a single property) will know what they are supposed to do.
Python's ok for this as long as you need 0 third party dependencies and it's a single file. As soon as you want to split into multiple files or import something that isn't part of the standard library then it becomes a total disaster.

I think Deno is a really good option here - better than ZX. You can use third party libraries easily, it works with IDEs, and it's trivial to install.
The tower seems to be in a relatively remote field, and the tower seems pretty small (judging from [1]). Cut it down and in to pieces with a few battery-powered grinders, put in a van or two (or a small truck), and off you go. I suspect this may be easier than it appears at first sight.

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/08/us/stolen-transmitter-rad...
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302045
https://i.somethingawful.com/u/boldfrankenstein/Captain_Quac...
SDL people are working in creating some shader language in the form of SDL_gpu (not the old one), to launch in SDL3, so it could have some cross platform way to work with 3D graphics there for games. I have been looking at it closely for a little while.
This is pretty cringeworthy IMHO. Using "research shows" arguments to tell that smiling helps seems a bit out of touch with reality.

There's probably a lot of good advice here, but I'd like to add that people have different tastes, and it's just no fun to adapt yourself to make the "averaged" person love you. Better invest in a few quirky people.
Yeah.

I tried that and it's a bit of a disappointing walkthrough when you have to say: your parameters/arguments changed, because it's a new method that you created.

Have a look at intellisense suggestion to fill in the correct arguments.

And they don't know what intellisense means ( DotNet development in visual studio. Guy with 18 years "experience" )
More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302045
Switching to Linux as a daily driver. Never have to fight against my own computer serving someone else or arbitrarily changing the UX.
Long distance EV trips depend on public charging infrastructure.

Public charging also can enable EVs to operate as power sources for homes to handle extended power outages (days, even weeks).
replication to non-AWS systems.
"simple" extension
problems importing data into RDS because of your custom stuff lurking in a mysqldump

Sounds like you are walking massive edge
When I was at AWS, I watched SAs get promoted for saving customers money all the time.

AWS wants happy customers to stick around for a long time, not one month of goosed income
The argument for RDS (and other services along those lines) is "we can't do it as good, for less".

And, when factoring in all costs and considering all things the service takes care of, it seems like a reasonable assumption that in a free market a team that specializes in optimizing this entire operation will sell you a db service at a better net rate than you would be able to achieve on your own.

Which might still turn out to be false, but I don't think it's obvious why.
> The FCC also notified WJLX on Thursday morning that the station would have to go off the air because of the theft. While WJLX still has its FM transmitter and tower, it is not allowed to operate its FM transmitter while the AM station is off the air.

W.T.F.?

I've been following this story, and as a ham operator I am usually a big fan of the FCC. But I don't understand why the loss of the station's AM tower should require their FM transmissions to also be taken down.

I must be missing something here. Can anyone help me understand this?
Governments "optimizing" resource allocation to avoid "waste" tends to not actually make people's lives better. Or reduce actual waste.
Which could happen to every other website has nothing to do with GitHub.
In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare
More discussion ended up here later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302045
I have been using a paid Proton Mail plan since 2018, and I _think_ a free plan for a year or two before that. In those years, I've run into two issues worth mentioning:

* Android app sending incomplete emails. Sometimes the email would just be truncated once I checked it in my sent folder. They claim this is fixed in their Beta app, but I have not confirmed.

* A large (12-ish-GB) file repeatedly failing to download from Proton Drive, both through the web interface and their desktop app. Took many attempts before it finally worked through the web UI. So... don't use Drive for critical backups without other copies around.

Both of the above were encountered in the last year. Aside form that I've had no other problems that I can remember in all these years, so I've been generally happy with it.
We measured performance, but we also measured things like how hard it is to implement a feature or how many bugs we have to fix, and how quickly we can do so. When we jumped on React in 2013, it improved all of these metrics.
This is the better link. Original link involuntarily skips to mcafee advertisement.
The https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring posts are used for job post and job seeker.
How realistic is the theory in the article regarding it being picked up by a helicopter? I don't know how much a tower like that could weight, nor how much a typical helicopter that a private individual has access to could lift.

But if they'd be able to collect a significant value after cutting it down into pieces somewhere else and sell the pieces, maybe it makes sense (from the thief's perspective) to helicopter away the tower after detaching it from the ground.
News Corp is anti-renewable energy. No need to look for a deeper explanation than that.
I never said people should roll their own. I said code should be auditable for end users. Hundreds (or thousands) of packages isn’t auditable.

I didn’t make a suggestion, but micro-packages aren’t silver bullets.

Deep transitive dependencies are problematic for their lack of visibility, and often a signal of bloat.

> Minority of people need SSL and logging?!

Heartbleed and Log4Shell weren’t caused by the core SSL or logging code of those libraries, they were caused by code in niche features (heartbeat extension and SAMBA) that should have been plugins (or at least deactivatable by flags). that would massively decrease their impact.

Both Heartbleed and Log4Shell were caused by feature bloat and lack of auditability.
I have exactly zero problems using the same C++ code on Windows (debug and development) and then building and running it on Linux in production
This is all great, but even if you follow all these tips, most people I meet seem to be only interested in talking about themselves. They will answer your questions (sometimes to such an exhausting length that you dread any more follow-up questions), but never ask you any questions back.

I also come across decent conversationalists, of course, but in my observation more than 2/3th of the people I meet only care about talking about themselves and don't care about learning anything about me. I mostly notice this in women, but that may just be my personal experience.
Related:

Goody-2, the world's most responsible AI model

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315986
"The Grand Foray" I believe is what you are thinking.
Well... they are rewriting & upstreaming DXC to LLVM main (https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/wiki/Cont...) and want to kinda deprecate DXC. IIRC currently only compute shaders are supported but I may be very wrong.
Since neither happened, maybe there's no there there. The special counsel can say whatever he wants in the report, but it's a totally different ball game to actually put those words on the line and bring charges. The completely unprofessional statement about the President's mental acuity makes it obvious this inquiry doesn't exist for the purposes you're imagining.
Playing Halo CE on Mac M1 with wine is an abject failure. I am assuming it is because Direct3D support is implemented poorly?
Copilot in GitHub Support
You need your passport if you've only got a vignette or in-passport visa sticker.

BRP is often accepted, in lieu of driving license for bank account opening.
https://www.lloydsbank.com/legal/proof-of-identity.html

I wouldn't call it a "not valid form of ID," when you can use them to board domestic flights, prove your age at establishments, and practically use it as an ID where they'd otherwise accept a driving license for ID.

PS: I hold one too.
Operational Health Maturity Model
> temporary or permanent leave to remain.

Off-topic but non-native speakers must find this phrase so confusing the first time they see it.
Once a week food runs are common in Europe as well, going out for breakfast is a fairly rare luxury.

The difference is maybe that often times you can supplement your weekly food run with small trips to the corner store during the week.
> you can't just look at the documentation of the type

Sure you can. Option func is a constructor for option type, and constructors are auto-included above methods in the docs.

PLS completion works for them as well.
I don’t think this is actually a paradox, even though we generally associate laughter and comedy with happiness. It’s more accurate to say that happiness is akin to calmness or contentment, the lack of strong emotions.

Personally, after watching a funny comedian, I feel more emotionally exhausted than happy - which makes sense to me from this perspective.
> Don’t take the cliche advice and “just be yourself.”

> smile slower

> Repeat the last 1-3 words the person just said as a question.

Not to cherry-pick, but this sort of advice is just exhausting. I'm not saying it's ineffective, but I think I'd rather be around people where comfortable, mutually-enjoyable interactions happen organically.
Their FM station is a "translator" which listens to their AM station and rebroadcasts it. Translators are a secondary service that must only rebroadcast their primary service.
I don't believe Canadian nationals need a visa to enter Ireland.

But if you need to prove your UK residence status for whatever reason, you can log in to your UKVI account and generate a passcode that a third party can use to verify your status.

https://www.gov.uk/view-prove-immigration-status
I'm not convinced.

Most software I use today is awful, but then again it is so much more complicated. It is rare thought that I use something that had one purpose and does it well.

Interacting with a computer has never been more frustrating imo. It might be a lot of small niggly things but it feels like death by a thousand cuts.
> hard drive manufacturers are dishonest. (Bits are measured in powers of ten)

You'd have to add ISPs to that too, as network links are typically measured in decimal increments.
Practicing meditation consistently. I understood the power of now.
Making reading books a daily habit was also a good decision.
Are you talking about the mechanics? Like more than just run a migration script on boot?
For people who enjoyed this post but want to see the other side of the spectrum where self hosted is the norm I'll point to the now classic series of posts on how Stack Overflow runs its infra: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...

If anyone has newer posts like the above, please reply with links as I would love to read them.
This is pedantic to the point of being conversationally hostile.
You fake it till you make it.
I love controllers, personally. I think the actual solution is a lot closer to making controllers into hands than the other way around. For now, though? People are going to incessantly bask in the Sony-Apple approach.
Questioning your claim of

> Your biometric data never leave your device and are never shared with "some corporation".

Like I said, I never claimed my ways are 100% safe. I am questioning the claim that biometrics on phones is 100% safe.

You realize you just whatabouted again?
However, the Xbox is profitable and Metas VR division is still spending $6 billion for every $1 billion they make.

It's relatively easy to move a lot of devices if you don't care about making any money on them.
They are looking at solid walls in that tunnel picture.
Is there a better alternative? The current situation doesnt seem sustainable...
Except that your initial claim was actually:

> phisher can and absolutely will catch up to this technically

That's not you saying that "there might be future ways of breaching it". That's you saying that it will absolutely and permanently be breached. And that's not a tenable statement at all.

I already went into some detail on the probability and impact of a zero-day in the technical implementation, and you engaged with none of it, so I don't think there's much point in going to those details again.
I don't know that hydrogen was a "scam" per se - I think of fuel cells as essentially an alternative battery technology. It wasn't clear 20-30 years ago that lithium batteries would progress as much as they did, and so fuel cells were perhaps a reasonable hedge.
I make a little framework for “stupid simple HTML sites” and use it as a “starter” for most of my own work.

https://neat.joeldare.com
Not to mention the fact that there are many mundane tools that could be used to copy car keys, from the archaic hammer/forge to the modern camera/CNC mill.
> How precise

GNSS satellites orbits are between 20000km and 30000km. 20kkm is 0.06671s of c, 30kkm is 0.10007s, 5km is 0.000016678. So a very precise, that's why they have an atomic clock on board instead of cheap quartz one.

> if the two differ by 50,000 metres, you know something is going wrong

Like what your imprecise methods give you a very rough estimate where is the terminal and your legitimate customers in the nearby areas (not even doing anything for or against) are saying thanks for their shut off terminals.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Comparis...

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/light-year
> Another annoying thing is that the billing dashboards do not map clearly to what's on the pricing pages / in the contract. Good luck figuring out the extras for RUM when you have multiple orgs.

I, quite literally, was griping to my Datadog CSM about this exact thing last week. They'll email me and be, "Oh, you know you're logging volume this month put you into on-demand indexing rates, right?" and my answer is always, "No, because your monitoring platform makes it nearly impossible for me to monitor it correctly."

You can't reference your contracted volume rates when building monitors out and the units for the metrics you need to watch don't match the units you contract with them on the SKU.

Maddening.
Maybe try disabling your extensions?
> With LLMs they could eliminate spam in a much more reliable way without killing off small senders, tomorrow.

Tell me you don't understand inference costs without telling me.
I would recommend BDA3 and Stan.

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
Is Cloudflare becoming increasingly powerful?
I had a brief, but passionate fountain pen phase and it was great. I mainly used Pilot metropolitan, and found the world of inks to be fun to learn about. Then I had a pen leak a bunch of red ink on me on a plane somehow and fell out of love. I have since moved on to fineliners for my handwriting needs, but have considered going back and getting a fountain pen.
Some universities also have their own power plants. It’s also becoming more common to at least supplement power on campus with solar arrays.
I see myself, and it's scary.
And in Go you’ve got River: https://riverqueue.com/
A side question. I personally believe that RSS is a failure, and I don't know why. There are easy comments and responses to this, but I am looking for something deeper - an analysis that would show how it could be changed and adopted on a wider basis.

My context:

When Apple introduced the iPhone and it was a success almost everyone introduced an "iPhone Killer". The zune being a prime example. They were announced with much glee and anticipation. They were not products of flimsy development and thought processes, but serious failures for companies like Microsoft. No one, that I remember, was able to point compelling reasons why the new products would fail, but they inevitably did. Over and over.

How and why did these phones fail? If you have read the book "Flatland", you perhaps came away with a vision of how creatures living in two dimensions would perceive actions that used a third dimension. As I did. Things would magically appear and disappear in a way would leave the Flatlanders completely perplexed. This imaginary "missing dimension" experience reminds of how bewildered people were that the Zune and other iPhone killers failed.

What could that dimension be? My guess is the human dimension. I don't mean in trivial ways like user friendly, I rather as way for people to find it useful and helpful.

My question then, if anyone wants to try, is what would one have to do to RSS to fix it?

[Note 1] Oddly, the OPML "blog roll" example resonates with me much more than RSS ever has.

[Note 2] I have repeatedly tried to use RSS and failed. Both as a provider and subscriber.
I want to second the recommendation for Statistical Rethinking from that review, it’s one of the best books ever written on computational Bayesian inference.

However, it is R based, and therefore arguably not an alternative to the book we are discussing here.
Do you know if there's a MySQL dramatiq backend?
Most US natural gas production is from "dry" wells without petroleum production.