skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Used it because I didn't really care about the account and expected some shitty roundcube thing, but have been blown away.

For what it's worth, I self host a few e-mail servers and modern Roundcube is actually a pleasant experience, even if I like connecting Thunderbird directly.

Here's the mail server I like: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

I still very much rely on some cloud vendor e-mails for uptime and deliverability, though. Otherwise, with random VPSes you risk the IPs having bad reputation or having a plethora of issues (such as some providers not allowing e-mail ports).
My spouse and I chose to have kids because we could provide for them and house them in nice conditions. I would support making that a reality for more people. There are new suburbs that are slowly coming online where I live, just a little further out than what's currently available, and more of that would be great.

And we don't need to be "optimizing" like you're talking about. "Well it's only 6 years of our life, not a big deal for everyone to suffer that long!" Good lord. Just build the houses people want. And clearly some of them want the SQFT - we can meet that demand.
We’re not even talking about an independent country. Tourists could still arrive via internal flights.
Economic sustainability != Environmental sustainability
This says "high-risk AI system", which is defined here: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory.... I don't see why it would be applicable.
I had a side project that was meant to be an “IMDB of everything”. For my initial focus, I targeted YC, its companies and members. This involved looking at a lot of LinkedIn profiles and recording their alma mater because I wanted to give credit to organizations as well and not just individuals. That’s how I came to that conclusion.

The result surprised me as well but it also makes sense. Investors would be more eager to invest if the founders were already part of some of their networks. People from these schools also tend to be more inclined to be higher achievers than other places on average.

The only time where there was more educational diversity was probably only during the 1st two years of YC.

Has it changed in recent years? I would rather be wrong on this one.
Switched back to android after 3 years of iphone. User hostility drove me. Like the ability to quickly turn off wifi and have it stay off until I decide otherwise. Iphone does not have a simple on/off switch. Baffling.
I don't think it is at all funny.
Just one hundred years ago tourism was only available to a tiny elite. Like with all goods and services provisions that have been scaled exponentially in the mean time, the problem is that there is poor accounting and management of side-effects (externalities). Impacts on environment and local communities are ignored as it is simpler and more profitable to do so.

Sustainability is a complex problem facing every aspect of modern life that we have barely begun to acklowledge, let alone start really solving. E.g., the article does not discuss the interplay with the other intensive industry of the Canary islands (banana plantations) that also competes for resources and creates its own problems.

It will take major economic, political and behavioral development to transition to long term sustainable economies and its anybody's guess what the final outcome will be.
It has no benefit unless you have a guarantee of winning the block. Its most likely a mistake.
The 'blem wit' error messages: Things get terse (2008)
Unfortunately a lot of brown grain food is mostly just dyed brown :/

The food industry is evil.
Ask HN: Where can I find some good OpenCL code snippets to read?
I am looking some good OpenCL samples that I can read. (Preferebly 1.2 in OpenCL C and not C++).

Reason: AI/ML use.
Looks, maybe, but it plays very differently.
It is a beautiful place, but without tourists its basically just goats and bananas.
wxWindows?
Photos and videos for me. I don't use cloud storage - when I started to use computers, not that lont ago, software which uploaded all of my photos to a remote server would have been considered malware/spyware.
The reviews on the restaurants there are regularly people whining about how expensive everything got. People spend hundreds of dollars to fly there and live in some 5 star resort just to complain about a $20 menu.

They simply have the wrong kind of tourists.
What else can they do? Has anyone used them outside of parsing, as a way to satisfy the principle of least power?
AdGuard, no ads for me. And it’s a Safari content blocking ruleset, not a spying VPN app.
Consciousness is the most obvious mystery, one that undoubtedly warrants considerable attention.

Your point about starting with physical things is questionable, as highlighted by prominent figures like Penrose and Donald Hoffman. The fundamentalism of materialism is an axiom that lacks proof.

Perhaps to you 'saying consciousness is the result of quantum effects in microtubules explains nothing', but so does Dennett's saying 'consciousness is an illusion', which equals 'I'm not sure what it is, but I will dismiss it because I would rather ridicule the unknown than accept my ignorance.'

At least Penrose denies what is deniable to open the door for a broader perspective, something that Dennett failed at.

I bet you think an LLM can experience what the color red feels like, or it can feel the scent of a rose, if it's fed enough 1/0's about it.
Cindy Lee might be the future of music
Better design enabling rowhammer, meltdown, and the like...

But when it comes to failures I would bet things must have improved when you measure failure per operation.

Computers did not fail often 30 years ago. If they failed orders of magnitudes more nowadays we would definitely notice.

I have absolutely no numbers on reliability in any kind of metric.
“Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past.”
Am I misremembering or could you play games on Teletext? I feel like I remember playing very primitive and janky videogames on the TV as a child in the 90s, but I might be making that up.

My clearest memory of Teletext is how slooooow and unreliable it was to load anything. But I sat it out and waited. Compare that to now where if your website takes an extra second to load then you can lose like half your traffic. Everybody was much more patient with technology back then.
Being able to answer a simple question correctly is a good litmus test of how useful these AI chat services are, though.
Some video games have shown you can have incredible writing and narrative in the format (recent ones that stuck with me: Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds).

The vast majority of video games, though, and probably the most commercially-successful, are written really badly and show no particular regard to narration. The cliches are so bad, the writing either childish or more or less intentionally B-movie style.

I think games can still get a lot better on this front. In other areas, the medium has developed and experimented a lot. But, aside from indie games and a few noteworthy exceptions, I don't feel videogames focus a lot on telling good stories. At least, they don't do this as much as other media, such as literature or cinema or songwriting, have done in their history.
TSMC plans to charge customers more for chips made outside Taiwan
Someone paying for a premium phone is probably also inclined to pay for a premium mobile network.
They are part of the EU, so anyone from there can freely move and live there. You cannot restrict this. Limitations in flights would be feasible, I guess.
If you don't announce the transaction then you're the only one who can mine a block containing the transaction.
Nothing is built into ProseMirror except for the text span.

For a definition list, you’d probably want two node types: a definition list, and a definition list item.

And then create toDOM and parseDOM methods to render and parse respectively the html you want.
Plenty of monkeys will opportunistically consume things, and some groups like the baboons and mandrills are gleefully omnivorous and have been known to take down small antelopes. Take a look at those canines and wonder not.
Related: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/cindy-lee-diamond-jubil...

And the GeoCities website: https://www.geocities.ws/ccqsk/
Actually there’s almost no ads, including youtube. Basically the same experience as uBO on my PC, cause filters are the same.
For full trip down nostalgia lane, here is a full BBS that runs on Minitel (that is the same display protocol as Ceefax but bidirectional). https://minitel.retrocampus.com/

It runs on physical Minitel terminals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aJAwi0FqDo
Developer should have used jlink to get smaller distribution package, alas it would still be bigger.

OTOH - I wonder what the size of native binary would be
If it was where I lived, I'm not sure I would only like to have the richest tourists visiting. It would be nice to have some down-to-earth people as well.

Do the richest tourists contribute to the local economy the most anyway? Or is it more like they spend lots of money with multinational companies (e.g. big fashion brands) that ultimately pay tax/have suppliers elsewhere?
Psychedelia syndrome: the pixels and code of Jeff Minter's 'Psychedelia'
Paywall free: https://archive.is/0k1HP
I disagree, Think this developer is the has the most overrated worldbuilding out there. People are just willing meaning on whatever they make. Just a cheap trick where gamers, starving for actually decent storytelling in gaming are walking straight into scrapes to fill a void.

I would grade something as portal 2, or dwarf fortress as literary vehicle vastly superior
That makes a lot of sense, except for the possibility of infecting the predators. What if they end up as a stepping stone to infect humans as well?

If deer to human transmission is truly possible, then I would be worried about the possibilities here.
Mastodon is a non-profit: https://joinmastodon.org/about
I think the articles is missing out by not mentioning Visual Novel, which I think will most likely be the first of such case. The genre is very close to traditional novels.
> Also, nothing of value was lost. The new forks have all the source code.

What about the community fragmentation and the eventual rise of incompatibilities as the development will take on slightly different directions? E.g. what happened with MySQL and MariaDB.
Is this question?
And RPGs, which have probably gifted some of the best written games ever (Planescape Torment, Fallout 1-2, Disco Elysium).
In my mind video games are absolutely literature.

My personal favorite example is Sam Barlow's "Her Story". It's a video based detective games where you sift through archive clips of a woman's police interviews. The questions are all lost. You have only answers to piece together the story. Without giving too much away, the game allows you to figure out what happened and come to your own conclusions without excessive handholding or explanation. You become the detective in the truest sense. I urge anyone with an interest in mystery or detective stories to try it.

Her Story is also interesting because it doesn't require any particular technology. It could have been made in video form 20 years ago, or in text form even earlier. It is a work of pure creativity and shows how there are vast depths to explore in the world of video game story telling, away from the bright lights and big budgets of AAA titles.
Guys, penultimate means second last; not 'super ultimate'.

On topic though, I think improv and video games are going to come together over the next decade. The old standard of solid linear storytelling has been getting more and more liquid, and will soon get 'gaseous', imo.
Kiwi checking in - was a thing here as well.

Blows my mind what we all do now would have been absolute voodoo magic by comparison.

If we had gone back in a time machine and shown HDR 4k video upload, available to stream all around the world off peoples phones, live chat alongside, across devices / platforms.

I think they would have an aneurysm.
There is a lot of illegal accommodation and illegal housing. They are not able to catch that.. or they dont want to
That's right, but we have to remember it's not really useful to optimize for binary size or RAM usage for a software that does not need multiple instances on servers, it's an end user app that you only need one of.

I think Java is a nice choice for a Solitaire game. If you're looking for efficiency, take a look at my command-line Solitaire that you can play in Gitlab pages or in a terminal : https://gitlab.com/rpigab/solitaire-cli

It's written in Rust so by design, it should be blazingly fast wink wink. Well there are many ways to shrink the binary, I didn't try to yet, the WebAssembly part too is way bigger that it would need to, but still, it's smaller and there's less colors, shapes and animations to display.
They had bingo games running on Teletext in Denmark.

There were also interactive pages where you could phone in and press numbers to access a much larger set of information. You'd get your own temporary page number (that anyone could technically see), and the teletext broadcast equipment would insert your updated page into the stream when you pressed a number.
> "Move fast and break things” was supposed to mean ... not being afraid to make changes when necessary

I wonder how much of today's world of broken apps can be attributed to that unfortunate wording.

Necessity of change should be no impediment to healthy fear of the consequences.
I would like to comment on the Guardian reporting. It was always a news organization that I loved but their reporting has become so one-sided that it’s now questionable if this is really journalism at all.

Why not interview the local elected politicians or the local tourism organization? Apparently there’s a problem with those two resorts being built. Are they really that outrageous? Why not report on them even just by calling a representative?

Even if they are biased it would be a counterpoint to the other (also biased) claims in the article.
In the usage above “many of” I read to mean “smart people are significantly over-represented” at those places rather than anything stronger.
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Bamboozle%21 was one.

There was a short period where you could download games from Ceefax, although it required special hardware.
If they believe the numbers then I'm inclined to trust the United Nations and the BBC, but just in case, here's some fact checking from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/26/can-we-trust-c...

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Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, said he saw no evidence that the numbers were being manipulated.

“We have been monitoring human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip for three decades, including several rounds of hostilities. We’ve generally found the data that comes out of the ministry of health to be reliable,” he said.

“When we have done our own independent investigations around particular strikes, and we’ve compared those figures against those from the health ministry, there haven’t been major deviations.

“Their numbers generally are consistent with what we’re seeing on the ground in recent days. There have been hundreds of airstrikes per day in one of the most densely populated areas of the world.

“We’ve looked at satellite imagery. We’ve seen the number of buildings, and the numbers that are coming out are in line with what we would expect with what we’re seeing on the ground. So you put all those things together and we’re quite confident in the overall casualty numbers.”
Ok dialing in 360 for the first time in over 25 years and receiving modern F1 results was an absolute surprise. This is an incredible recreation.
They could change the laws so as to halve the tourist load, but double the money extracted per tourist.

Really just a matter of stopping unscrupulous businesses from renting out common (public) resources at rock bottom prices and externalizing the costs.

Sure it would destroy the cheap end of Canary Islands tourism, but the local government should be looking out for it's citizens interests, not the interests of outsiders who want a cut-rate vacation.
Yes, the vast majority of canary tourists are from EU. Mostly british and german.
And we can not just fly there, we can just move there, thanks to the EU. And this is good.

But that I can fly there for 20€ from germany, this is nuts. So maybe the solution is to stop subsidizing flying (taxfree kerosin etc)
Yeah, but by leaving gmail, Google's artificial "intelligence" can't randomly decide to take your digital life away from you.

Also, in most cases, the other end an email isn't a gmail user but a corporate bot. So Google may actually not have all your emails if you move away from it.
Ceefax.

I’d not thought of this before, but could it display Fax pages?

An absurdly daft retro hack, and I’m guessing it has been done several times already.
In the sense that it inconveniences you, yes.

In the sense that not having the possibility to watch video might make for a more mindful (?) environment rising the level of serendipity of engaging with other people...

(Now that I think of, banning headphones and speakers too - other than the ones of the establishment itself.)
I was thinking it’s one of the better examples because even if they’re really dumb and brains the size of peas they have personalities and there is something (even if it’s not much) going on up there.

Basically it feels like something to be a chicken, there’s a subjective chicken conscious experience.
The point isn’t whether bitcoin is legal within the country. The point is whether it is better than the official currency.

Great article on Argentina: https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/crypto-argentina-black-m...
I built a demo app based on this format, but over a phone line. Blowed if I can remember the name of the technology. Early 80s anyone?
> what reason do you have not to

For starters I don’t have a passport, I wouldn’t want to create a US company, I prefer bootstrapping and dislike unreasonable pressure on growth.

I would be interested in taking advice and networking, I wouldn’t mind signing off equity unless it’s too much hassle (US company, relocation)

Sounds like local hubs and accelerators would be a better pick for me. Unless YC has a remote & chill option?
How can you seriously be this naive?

There's a country in Europe currently being invaded in a war of conquest because the invader can for the explicit purpose of subjugating the population and seizing territory and natural resources.
> Blackberry devices can not render webpages due to https requirement out of thin air

They can still render the pages they used to render, right?

The problem is that generally such pages are no longer published.
The complexity of spoofing location with app store in iPhone : https://twitter.com/hbkirb/status/1781503147904741430

This is for the EU compliance. But it is an example for the difficulty spoofing location
Nobody was guilt-pressured into using floats. You might say some were guilt-pressured into writing accessible web sites but that is a significant destinction. Many public/government web sites were mandated by law to be accessible, so many developers had to write accessible html whether they liked it or not.

Of course for your personal Tranformers fan site you can use html tables to your hearts desire. Nobody is likely to complain.

But most web-design focused media is targeted professionals for whom it is a necesssary skill to be able to design pages which look good for most users and is accessible. During the dark age of IE6 it was necessary for developers to know and use a large array of hacks (including the abuse of floats) to achive this.
Germany's public broadcaster still offers an official website to see their current teletext: https://www.ard-text.de/
>Not to trivialise his achievement

It deserves to be talked about. The cult following and media attention that he got is really just a function of the romanticizing of mental illness and the "crazy genius" trope that people projected on him.

Writing a decent operating system is a good technical achievement but quite a few people have done so as hobby projects. The real attention came from this "temple for god" thing. Instead people should have talked about what it was, a mentally ill person that had no help for decades and it cost him his life. It's quite astonishing and telling that with all the attention he had, he ran around homeless and confused while people were treating him like a circus curiosity or fringe religious character.
What are you talking about? They include a quote from Fernando Clavijo, the regional president of the Canary islands and link to an article reporting on a statement he made to the media. Admittedly it’s in Spanish, but it’s 2024 your phone can translate that in a heartbeat.
No other car company is as overvalued on the stock market.

And an accelerator pedal stuck in full acceleration state, on a vehicle that can go from 0-100 in 3 seconds, allegedly because of an unapproved, amateuristic change on the production line, is an excellent case-in-point of how detached from reality that valuation is.

Mistakes happen, but when such a life-threatening mistake happens, yet again, because of corner cutting and because the basics of quality control of car production are not mastered, it deserves all the bad press it gets.
Development of the Domain Name System (1988)
Nitpicking but the original is from Windows 3.0 ;-)
One of my first jobs as a junior programmer in the 80's was to build a multimedia engine that would boot both on CGA and EGA (and then, later, VGA) systems, was not allowed to use any MS-DOS calls (BIOS and pure assembly only) and it had to run the same bytecode scripts for the programs being made with the engine, seemlessly.

It had a compiler for the script, a bytecode interpreter and VM, and different HAL's depending on the system in use, with the VM being used to play what were then called "multimedia" titles - graphics and text and sound, all on the same screen. This all had to be done by me, a lowly junior, and when it was finally delivered and titles were shipped, I moved on to other things .. an online version of the engine that could get its bytecode over ethernet .. and I had to write all the drivers and HAL code myself.

Sure, this was the 80's and programmers were a different breed then, but it always bugs me when Mr Special 21st Century Comp-Sci Grad comes onboard to his first ever 'real' job and yet .. has no idea how to even find the compiler on his system, let alone build one himself.

There is a deleterious effect with the computing industry, which happens whenever the New Cool Shit™ hits the scene - everyone forgets the Old Cool Shit™ as fast as they can - but, inevitably, eventually, you are gonna have to learn how to write a compiler, kids, and build a VM/ecosystem around it, at the very least. (Or just use Lua, lol...)

When I first encountered TempleOS, I wasn't as impressed as my peers - this is just how we did things in the 80's - but what was impressive was the persistence he exhibited in extending TempleOS in spite of the great personal suffering under which he clearly labored ..
Would be cool if this data coule be injected in the signal to a TV. Bring back Ceefax! :-D

In some countries it still exists though, which is pretty wild.
> cosmic ray energy has a spectrum and the changed geomag field would bend the pass through spectrum and likely allowed more high energy gamma's through

The earth magnetic field has no shielding effect on gamma rays at all (which are photons), only on charged particles (protons, electrons and their heavier variants: muons and hypothetically tau leptons but IDK if there are any of them in cosmic rays)
Then why is it frequently shared and discussed etc.? That is, frequently noted.