skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no TV OS, that I know of, that does not suffer from one of these issues:

- Slow/laggy UI

- Ads on the home screen

- Sends a shit ton of telemetry home

This is why all of my TV are never connected to the internet and only serve as output for my Apple TV. Sadly, I gave up on the cheaper Android TV boxes, because they all have the same issues with crappy software and even started to show ads.
A lot of the old, central parts of the city (think Zizkov) is not great for kids because it's very dense and cars drive everywhere.

But the new residential developments and often even the old commie blocks are great for kids with a lot of free space, walking / no-car zones etc, plenty of playgrounds. For older kids, good public transportation and general safety are important too.
Mine was also somewhat ironic. :-)
On flat land, basements are a function of home (and land) price. In places where the frost line is not very deep, a basement is a luxury. One of the most expensive parts of the house is laying the foundation, and not building a basement is far cheaper than building a basement.

If the frost line is lower, then a basement is very little extra cost since you are digging deeper and laying more concrete anyway.

If you are building on a hill, then making a 3 story house is also very little extra cost.
Why would I think my career was something that would fail if I didn't engineer the hell out if it. Markets blame you.
In the bealearic where I lived they call it “turismo basura”. Here now the main concern is the construction of new hotels in the coast. Ironically also the issue is lack of affordable housing for locals. Many buildings are run down and sit empty in the capital. There is some truth to the message but as always the way is delivered leaves you wondering. Not to mention the negative effect the clampdown on tourism would have on the local economy. I classify this as petty noise.
1. Pay the professional board (by specialty) for access to their listserv. They will send out the email for you. Can be pricey.

2. You can host a booth at/attend a medical conference, and hand out or display QR code links to a survey with the interview questions.
Instead you end up with 20 Java microservices each taking up a gig of memory
They are a subgenre of games. Visual novels, and interactive fiction is definietly computer games. The developers of interactive fiction are also game developers.

You wouldn’t say that “platformers” are not games just because we have a name for them.
When children do do those things, people who have nothing better to do call the cops on the parents, and the cops actually respond. Many parents are afraid to let their kids out to do normal kid things and wont even let their kids walk home from the school bus stop. We've gone from a society where it was normal for kids to spend all day out and about without supervision, so one where play is highly regulated and monetized, and supervision is suffocating.
Some background: the link shows an example of a GPS track in the Swiss Alps (Engadin valley).

The web app dynamically creates 3D models from any GPS track, you can try it yourself on https://cubetrek.com

And everything is open source, of course: https://github.com/r-follador/CubeTrek
Obvious reaction: And, pray tell, why did the past need us?
I think enough people in this very comment section have brought forward good points regarding what exactly they find noteworthy, impressive or inspiring about TempleOS, while that person has left nothing but dismissive comments without substance.
Ah, yeah that makes sense. Thanks!
> recent products

> excluding retro computing and electronics hobbiest devices

Not that I know of, but I wouldn't be surprised if some washing machine or something decided to use them over arm or some microcontroller.
Meh. "The flood myth" seems to have a single, local origin, somewhere in Mesopotamia, possibly literally just the city of Shuruppak. There are plenty of other flood myths, but that just makes sense because floods in river valleys are pretty common as far as disasters go and that's where most of the early civilizations were started.
A walkable and bike-able neighborhood will necessarily have to be dense enough such that public transit also makes sense.
https://archive.ph/mxNLH
(2023) Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37687134
It may be an aside, but could you you clarify what you mean by a huge shift in American religious belief? For the benefit of those of us, who are on the internet, but not from or have been to the US?
If it sounds, however, it's still alive.
Probably special token that wasn't handled properly.
There are no best practices. “Best practices” is a marketing phrase, not an engineering one.

There are practices I like. There are practices YOU like. There are practices that are demonstrably good in certain ways for certain situations.

Instead of best practices, seek responsible practice. Develop your heuristics. Try things and learn your craft.
It amazes me how much terry latched onto that idea, even binding the "god says" functionality to the F7 key in TempleOS.
Sometimes I wonder how he would have reacted to ChatGPT and LLMs.
What books in particular would you recommend?
Nestlé is the only company (and its child companies) I’m actively trying to boycott because of their history. Many have told me to quit making it hard for myself (it’s not even hard) and that it was long time ago they acted in a hostile matter. But this shows me how they are still the same shitty company.
12 year olds do not have that freedom anymore. People will flip out seeing kids that young doing something outside without adult supervision. They’ll call CPS on you.
Often times I will "have to" commit WIP work to check out another branch (to test something, code review, urgent bug fix...). The other main option would be start but it isn't as organized as branches. I guess work trees would also work if they is your workflow.

But I would amend these WIP commits rather than just leaving them as they happen to occur.
Keep in mind that if you never raise again, YC still owns 7% so they have no reason to complain. If you're successful, 500k for 7% will have been a good deal.
Not to quibble about definitions of what "change" means, but I thought the red shift depended entirely on the relative speed of the emitting and receiving body? A laser beam for example could not be analyzed for its red shift, unless we knew the original frequency, because there would be no spectral absorption pattern to determine the shift. So we cannot tell how far laser light traveled before it reached our sensor.
Better than other places maybe, but certainly not perfect.

The rise of the SUVs and car crowded roads in the cities speak against it. And also Prague have them, last time I checked.

I am in the decision of moving from rural to city, but the cars and their danger for my children are the main reason to object.
A lot of people did.

I met Terry online in a couple OSDev forums in the early 00s, before his downward spiral. He was already quite combative, but still coherent. This was even before he named it LoseThos (he changed the name a few times after). I used and gave feedback.

Anyway: There were about a hundred people back then writing hobby operating systems. Perhaps everyone in those forums was? I was one of them. Some OSs had graphics. Some had POSIX. A few people could even run Firefox. I never got to this point. Some even had that same C64-like character of TempleOS.

Like GP, this is not to trivialize the work and dedication that went into TempleOS. But unfortunately he didn't became famous because of it at all. Most reddit people who talk about TempleOS haven't even installed the OS, and pretty much everyone that mentioned TempleOS to me in real life haven't even seen Youtube videos of it.

Which is very sad, because IMO lack of people using it is why Terry ended up becoming isolated and combative in those communities. People still care more about a cool story than a labour of love.
do you mean Katherine Maher's brain? She was head of wikipedia, and now head of NPR. She now sits on the board of Signal.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/us-news/nprs-new-ceo-katherine...

Here she says how she abandoned idea of a free and open internet

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848
To Fight 'Shrinkflation,' France Will Force Retailers to Warn Shoppers
I often to this manually, using Handbrake before uploading screen recordings.

Screen recording software trade performance for file size, so reencoding it afterwards can result in much smaller file sizes. I've personally had recordings I ~100MB reencode to ~10MB.
Rest In Peace, do not return as a philosophical zombie.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/67
Bamboozle and Digitiser were fantastic, we visited most days.
Visual novels are like choose your own adventure books with pictures. Are those books games? Is it useful to classify them as such?
And despite having extraordinary trails, almost no tourist is going in the inside of the Islands.

Imho, they should limit new tourist developements on Fuerteventura and El hierro (reserving part of fishing towns for fishermen maybe), maybe on La gomera and La Palma (i don't know those well), and leave Tenerife and Gran canaria alone (i also feel that Lanzarote has too much character to add new development)
Tried this on Firefox for Android but the table of contents takes up half the screen width ways, and I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. Plus, it froze the browser when I backed out of the page.

Also it's quite slow to load the WASM, about five seconds before it starts processing the PDF.

This is on a fairly recent mid-range Samsung phone (Galaxy A52s 5G).

Edit: turns out it's View -> Outline to remove the contents pane. There's no "fit to page" option so I still couldn't see the whole page - the 50% zoom out option wasn't sufficient to see everything corner to corner.
Lycanthropic vector.
Fasteners are very expensive from a production perspective because they take a long time to install. This is why products these days are designed to be assemble with conformal, friction, or snap fit as much as possible.

Deciding to sub in fasteners in the production line would have involved addition of at least one new position in the line to install the fasteners.
But rents are also high. High rents aren't caused by investors. Rents are caused by too many people wanting to live somewhere versus a small number of dwellings. It's the pigeon hole principle, which you can't solve by reducing investors.

Also, let's think about unintended consequences. A lot of housing starts happen only because of investor capital. Given the existence of a rental crisis, if you inadvertently reduce housing starts, it might backfire and put upwards pressure on rents.

But yes, you are right that prices would go down with your proposal, all else equal. But it is not a full solution until you also have a way to increase the number of dwellings to solve the rental crisis.
.net was also ported to windows 95 recently... https://github.com/itsmattkc/dotnet9x
Go read about geofenced warrants to learn how warrants for the data for large numers of people, most of whom obviously can't all be involved. Then get back to me.
Not of Sisyphus hopefully :-)
Yes and no. The initialism stood for Berkeley Packet Filter when the concept was first introduced in the early 90s. However in ~2013 BPF began to be extended redesigned, hence “extended BPF” (eBPF). Since then eBPF has drastically grown in functionality and subsumed BPF. Nowadays eBPF and BPF are used interchangeably but it is no longer an initialism. The BPF being discussed in the link is the “eBPF” kind. Discussions about the former design have settled “cBPF” for “classic Berkeley Packet Filter”.
What if they were called "interactive story driven games"?

The market finds simple denominations to help consumers navigate the offering, but these are not always accurate or very descriptive.

Focusing on the content as opposed to the label, why do you not think that these are games?
I'm also 25 years into my programming career, and since my children arrived, I've been getting less sleep and have become accustomed to it. I must admit that my mental capacity and productivity have plummeted, as has my overall mood. It reminds me of the time early in my programming career when I quit using weed because I noticed a significant reduction in focus and memory, especially when working on complex codebases. I wish I could return to regular sleep patterns, but after a few years, it seems extremely difficult, if not impossible, without medications, which I'd prefer to avoid.

I hope the OP can try sleeping longer and compare his productivity.
Totally agree here, we're in 2024 and still see recipes with "cups" and teaspoons where anyone who has done even half an hour of cooking class will know that they can vary wildly.

I usually try to convert the recipe to proper measurements and adjust them as I make attempts and then stick to my version.
Federal loans are not dischargeable, which are way way worse than this.
Agree wholeheartedly. I still have a big box shrink wrapped copy of Planescape: Torment on my bookcase. I'd add Arcanum to that list as well.

Those games are the reason I just finished a PhD focused on NLP. I've long been interested in giving players even more freedom to roleplay within the confines of narrative driven games.

The research platform I created based on Disco Elysium [1] has enabled some cool new research I just finished up for my dissertation that I hope to publish soon.

[1]: https://pl.aiwright.dev
Yeah, people who are rude, condescending, and uptight about licensing are a real drag, huh?
I'm not saying "because they are lazy!" but, I think it is a combination of a large portion of people wanting a large piece of land and planners just using cars to fill in the gaps on convenience. I do think that a lot of folks would prefer to have better public access to things like parks, it would mean a lot less personal maintenance. But this is a hard sell for some people that have a vision of a certain lifestyle. And for planners, they are probably working with some very tight budgets and timelines to deliver. It is just easier to produce yet another grid of McSame because they know there is an audience for it and it makes their jobs a lot easier.

I do wonder where this will lead in decades down the line but for many that is not an issue they are considering.
The US is a capitalist democracy where companies with money can choose to pay people to do stuff and if the people are annoying, stop paying them. A lot of people with choice would like to live there, hence the millions of immigrants turning up. Maybe you can find some other system where you can protest against your employers policy without problems? I'm not sure communism works well if you want to protest your leaders there either. Maybe some place like France? They have a lot of protests and make it hard to fire people.
> Side note, why were Ticketmaster hiring systems programmers writing such low level code? I grew up in the 90s/00s so missed this era of computing.

At some point in the 1970s or 1980s, Ticketmaster made the extremely unusual decision of writing their own operating system for VAX. Even back then, that was a pretty weird decision. And it wasn't Terry's idea, they started doing it before he worked there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808995

And apparently decades later their backend was still stuck on it (is it still stuck on it???), albeit now running under a software emulator instead of physical VAX hardware.

Most people on VAX ran either Unix or VMS, both of which offered migration paths to other platforms (Alpha -> Itanium -> x86 for VMS; and there were lots of alternative hardware platforms for Unix). But Ticketmaster's weird decision to write their own OS made that almost impossible.
Agreed on all your points. But I would add you can still do mixed SFH's and condos/townhomes in new developments, which is how they do it around here, but the SFH's are still fairly packed in.

The demand for SFHs will always exist - some people are willing to pay extra not to hear or smell their neighbors through the walls. We can meet that demand with new builds, and once pressure is relieved from current suburban areas, you can go back and start to incrementally redevelop those areas more efficiently as well.
It's interesting to me that some of the long-standing things are still there. For example, lots of people with an earring in only one ear, unlikely asymmetry in the shape or size of their ears, etc.
Cell phone location data or automatic number plate reading is far less personal than DNA and is (IMO, rightly) treated differently.
At age 8 I realised my Uncle looked like the guy off Bamboozle. We didnt see my Uncle anymore at that point. Now in memory my Uncle looks pixelated and yellow.
The problem with Git is that it is actually a rich man's backup solution. It lets you do very detailed snapshotting and manipulation across versions. So when working on something it can be very helpful to have many commits during the work.

But I agree that it is usually best to then "refine" those into nice, working, logical chunks before sharing with others.
> If we rank games solely because of its writing and narratives, then all games

I don’t think anyone is proposing to solely rank games by their writing. Games are multi faceted. You can (try) to rank them by many aspects. How beautifull the graphics is, how engaging the game loop, how rewarding the puzzles or the progression, how well balanced it is. How realistic a simulation, how much it teaches you new skills, or shows you different perspectives.

Most people would agree that pacman, The Last Of Us, and Pokemon Go are all masterpieces in their own right but clearly they are not exceling along the same one dimension.
Perhaps shut it down?
Nobel Prize can be shared by up to three individuals [1] so barely any modern game would qualify.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/frequently-asked-questions/#share
How to Win Friends and Influence People remains popular nearly a century after original publication for a reason.
Seems like a suburban/urban mentality to me, probably reflecting the background of the people who think this. Given my background, I think kids need neighborhoods where they can run around in the woods.
You mean like Sam Bankman Fried whose both parents are in academia?
I love dinosaur cursor!

I miss old crazy-odd-web like that :-)
here's an older file with some more detailed info on the microwave path loss to/from voyager: https://voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/Library/DeepCommo_Chapter3--14...
As schizophrenic myself i feel like Terry has became a meme but without anyone ever realizing what terrible condition he was in and he was in a terrible country that has no safety nets and basic healthcare for people like him
Will that fix the issue in the article? New immigrants presumably are some of the people that are the most free to pick anywhere in the country to move to, so they will be even more prone to going to big cities that are already growing.
Assuming it's true/accurate it seems like the kind of research you should share (for free or otherwise) with YC, because it seems like the kind of bias that they would be interested in correcting for.

Not just from an equality perspective, but also that good ideas and founders can come from anywhere. Top Schools are going to produce one type of founder and idea. People that have walked different paths, another.
> A U.S. analysis of Wi-Fi and mobile Internet usage across unique smartphones on the iOS and Android platforms reveals that 71 percent of all unique iPhones used both mobile and Wi-Fi networks to connect to the Internet, while only 32 percent of unique Android mobile phones used both types of connections. A further analysis of this pattern of behavior in the U.K. shows consistent results, as 87 percent of unique iPhones used both mobile and Wi-Fi networks for web access compared to a lower 57 percent of Android phones.

https://www.comscore.com/lat/Prensa-y-Eventos/Infographics/i...
A slight tangent but it is kind of mind melting that smartphones now do need a minimum of 1GB just to send an SMS. I mean look at any Nokia phone form the 90's and none of them probably had more than 1MB of RAM, many way below that. Yes there is a lot of quality of life and security features but the bloat is real.
Yeah and 4chan didn't help either as usual. Well, some people tried to - but on the whole people just treated him as another thing to laugh at. RIP terry.
> No need for this! They don't have a permissive license

TBH I'm split on this - they would be awesome if not for greedy big-corps that often take complete advantage of the FOSS without giving anything back :/
I agree with you on the UI, but left Fastmail and went back to Google workspace because of Fastmails poor spam filtering. 1-2 pieces of spam were hitting my inbox daily. On Workspace it's 1-2 a month.
Adults need it too. Why is locomotion considered something only a child would do? Walking should be a human right. People should be able to walk and not regress into blobs that need wheelchairs to get around.

Cars are awful. The only way to get away from them is to get a car yourself. And even then you've you too get a big one because everyone now has a bigger car than you. Oh and don't forget insanely powerful or you're never going to win your way on to a roundabout. It's a race to the bottom.

We need to take back our living places from cars. Why do people need to drive right up to their houses every day? Put car parks out of town and ban cars from towns. Imagine how much more space we'd have. Let people drive in at 15mph to drop stuff off at their houses, but it gets parked out of town. Use a bicycle to access your car when you need it.

Unfortunately you just can't take a single thing away from people. Literally everyone will tell you they hate cars. They hate the noise and the pollution. They'll tell you it's the number one reason they don't cycle anywhere. But take away their car?! Never!
The tyranny of Columbine
Terry is a bit of a hero of mine.

He's definitely a tragic character, almost Shakespearean, with all manner of flaws, and he got dealt a really rotten hand in life, but there's just something about the determination with which he pursued his unique vision through hell or high water that really appeals to me.
It is full of Medium style enshittification for sure but it is par for the course for VC. I am sure they serve the Google Crawler a nice copy without authorization though.
Culling is vital to healthy populations and balanced ecosystems.

Animals don't have medicine, so the sick or diseased amongst them can spread susceptibility to illness more readily, over time making groups more genetically or immunologically prone in a way that could lead to destabilization, become vectors for contamination (some cancers are contagious, like in dogs, and prions don't break down easily, making them true ecohazards), or end up as vectors as they contact other animal populations (HIV and swine flu were non-human origin).

Predators also encourage migration of herds, so deer won't consume an environment to depletion, including crops.

Predation is nature's free labor!
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They Enshittified too early?
This is why I think Richard Stallman had some success. His living requirement where so low that for most of the 1980's/early 90's, he only had to work 6 weeks to make all the money he needed for that year.

It opened him up to work on building/promoting GNU and FSF.

I have said for years that things like Free software would have come along eventually, he just happened to be in the right position to make it happen when it did.