skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any recommendations of games or apps that helped you most?
Lol "Sunset your product today on... Horizon"
> employee-preferred

More like Congress-imposed (through tax incentives)
Billions in Tokyo real estate lure activist hedge funds
If you don't understand geopolitics, then no
Dragonfly Mission to Titan
> It isn't.

Well __I__ can visually distinguish a username more easily with @ in front of it. Just the same way as I, and many others, use various typographical marks to indicate various things. It does also make a *manual* thread search easier.

I feel reasonably confident that the vast majority of people doing this are not expecting @dang to be pinged, but are just using it either due to habit and/or a visual indicator. Either way, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal and worth more than a single exchange. Potentially someone doesn't know, it is okay to inform them, but after "I know" or "I didn't know" there is no more to be said.
Original title "buried the lede" and was too long for HN, so I edited it.

It may be useful to see how others linked to this news - the original place I found this was at Engadget, which had this title: "Some Amazon and Max cartoons may have been partially animated in North Korea" https://www.engadget.com/some-amazon-and-max-cartoons-may-ha...

Which linked to Reuters: "North Koreans may have helped create Western cartoons, report says" : https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-koreans-may...

I linked the original report, which makes no mention of animation, but is the obvious focus of the article. The point isn't who did the outsourcing, but what was done, IMO.

The length limit on HN titles sometimes makes nuance difficult - maybe I should have added "may have been outsourced" instead. I was not going for clickbait/misrepresentation.
good game :) I just initiated the warp system but had no time to play more.
Opening the article by talking about match-throwing by a pro athlete seems like a misstep--the real problem with legalized gambling, as the article eventually gets to, is the fact that modern sports gambling is a seriously regressive wealth transfer from low-income people with gambling addictions to tech-savvy software companies.

DraftKings ads on busses, billboards, and podcasts should be just as unacceptable as Marlboro ads.
Who owns the mailing list? Who owns the blog? This random guy who built this tool, or the actual creator who made the content?

The problem with this thought process is that the creator has been taken out of the equation without actually talking to them about it, and when that question gets raised, there just seems to be lots of pushback, likely in part because it touches on the primary complication of LLMs (that a whole bunch of copyrighted content is getting siphoned without considering the people who made that information).

In this particular case, this is literally taking the information from that content and presenting it in a format the creator did not agree to, lowering the potential value of the video to end users. It is much closer to violating the creator’s copyright than generative AI often is.

Instead of pushing back, we need to bring the creators into the discussion to ensure this is something they’re OK with.
its partly in the article. Companies like Xbox and Lenovo want different experiences for their clients. This allows them to share the basic platform but specialise for their customer segments, eg professional or Xbox owners or whatever. Architects and civil engineers and doctors might not want normal game controllers and the default resolution. Cheap devices used in developing countries can have a lower resolution and no hand tracking. Meta wins because they can’t build 100 versions themselves, all they care about is growth of the market. Nothing is locked up yet, think of a market 100x bigger.
I've wondered if this type of backlash will ever result in re-regulating the gambling industry. With how much money is involved, I suspect that it would be met with a lot of resistance.

If you could short some of these sports betting companies (DraftKings/ MGM/ etc) at the right time with respect to theoretical regulations, I feel like you could make a nice return.
one of my fav creations. me + my homies having a good time, drinking some wine, and philosophizing.

would really appreciate if you left some feedback/advice. maybe it's the pacing. maybe the color sucks. whatever you would change - lmk

thanks. love you :)
Best/worst. I worked at an e-learning company that, thanks to ancient e-learning standards, really tried hard to figure out when a user is leaving a web-page to handle session exits gracefully.

sendBeacon was dead on arrival, for that purpose at least; iirc it's blocked by most ad blockers. (Or was, who knows with Manifest v3.)

Similarly we're unlikely to see sendBeacon truly replace tracking redirects, unfortunately. This isn't an area where tech firms are happy to see fine user controls.
I have read the entire article, I don't understand your point.
I've added a credit in the comic for Joe Ossanna's contributions to the Multics and Unix development. Thank you!
Wheb I implemented an in-house analytics system, I had to revert to using a normal fetch request, as by default any usage of the beacon API was blocked.
I don't think it really makes a difference for big providers with well-known blacklisted domains, but for custom implementations, it does
Looking into this a little bit more: it seems that there are actually some Z80 (actual Z80, not Z180, etc.) chips that will remain active. For example, the Z8401510FEG chip is not listed on the end of life notification, and is still listed as "active" at Digikey.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/zilog/Z8401510FEG...

Now the thing is, this chip is a different package than what most people probably expect when they think "Z80" chips. It's QFP, not DIP. So not a "drop in replacement" for many situations. But you can probably use a QFP to DIP adapter or breakout board and use these in many places you'd want a traditional Z80. And if you're designing your own ad-hoc retrocomputer around a Z80, this should work fine, albeit with the constraint that you have to work with QFP chips.
Related:

To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40051597
This seems kind of interesting to me, it's a shame it's from Meta so I'll likely never touch it because of the toxicity of their core products, but I'm glad to see this, as it seems like it could stimulate some competition.
Ahhh that makes sense, I think I was imagining just a breath freshener since that's the most common form of "thing you spritz in your mouth". Definitely worth including on the site that it's for brushing with, not just spray and go.
Then replace insider dealing by day traders. Same point. You can even argue that of most food.
Most North Koreans face starvation on a regular basis, and being excited about the prospect of having a cowed population that serves you is either sociopathic or psychopathic, or both. Seek some help.

All of that being said that when those in power think you made a single mistake, you're dead.
Do it on the client side?

Do it in a sandbox and have aggressive timeouts.
> if a human were to read as much as an LLM, they would be world experts at everything

It would take a human more than one lifetime to read everything most LLMs have read. I often have trouble remembering specifics of something I read an hour ago, never mind a decade ago. I can't imagine a human being an expert in something they read 300 years ago.
When I was a kid we had vinyl records. And then there were cassette tapes. And then there were CDs. And then there was streaming. And now we're back to vinyl (and cassettes, too, apparently).

Sure, there have been medical advances, but often times it's the insurance companies that limit their use because they won't pay.

Cars: generally better. They generally last longer than they did in the 70s and get better mileage, but some of that is negated by them being much larger than they were 30 years ago - ie we could have even more efficient vehicles if they were sized like they were in the 90s. Also, I think peak reliability was probably in the 90s, especially Japanese cars from that era (I still drive a late 90s Honda - it's very simple compared to more recent models which means it's cheap to fix and there's less to go wrong).

We do have a better selection of tastier apples now, so there's that.

And no, I don't think social media has improved anything.
Related:

Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863298
Endianness etc is a feature of the encoding. Most JSON implementations I’ve used require the raw bytes to first be decoded as such.
I like your take, but what are the data points that lead you to the optimistic side of where things are going? Do you have a rubric or framework for thinking about "given improvements in X, Y, and Z, we are much better off now than a generation ago".
What makes you think that if apple paid "fair" prices, that it won't get siphoned off to pay management/shareholders?
I've tried few things, even written script to show all possible configurations.

But once, I seen tetris style symbol on sector illuminated by red color.

I remembered symbol and check consoles until found red console, and enter there shape....
I think I've only seen it once before and that too was on a politically contentious thread. Definitely is rare and I don't blame anyone for being suspicious given that the spam started quite quickly after this post was created (and how all comments got initially downvoted). Who is definitely within question, but without a doubt the HN sight is under attack and is getting significant traffic that is slowing it down.
Thanks for checking out the content!
A fixed set of images makes sense for many cases. However, for cases where maintaining images from a specific list is infeasible, a mirror is a good way to go about this. Another issue is going to be image updates / maintenance though this can be worked around nicely using a pull-through cache when there is internal control.
This is broadly consistent with the prevailing theory that the Voynich Manuscript was made as a pseudo-occult/alchemical book. I don't think there are any real secrets to be uncovered, but this is interesting research about what specifically the author might have been riffing on.
Financial markets for their participants are at worst, a zero-sum game, and at best, a positive sum game. (Blah, blah, efficient allocation of capital, blah, blah, hedging, blah, blah, futures, blah, blah, interest rate swaps, and so on and so forth - they all serve a useful purpose. [1])

Gambling is a negative-sum game.

We don't need more negative-sum games.

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[1] You can argue over whether those industries are too big, have too much fraud in them, etc, but it's completely disingenuous to say that the stock market's the same thing as betting on whether the quarterback of the Maple Leafs is going to stop three goals this week.
There is a QFP package Z80 chip that appears to still be active.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/zilog/Z8401510FEG...
Tip for New Zealand bird feeding - native birds feed on nectar (sugar/honey water) and not seeds which are primarily consumed by introduced / invasive species.
Feds have 99+% conviction rate and infinite money and time, meanwhile you sit in cage and deal with frozen accounts while trying to pay your attorney. They imprisoned weev for doing arithmetic on wget'ing a public website.

Worst sin is angering the gods. I would imagine most the time theyll probably just ask nicely for you to stop, then bury you if you don't, but for political or convenient targets they seem fine going straight for the throat.
Now this is really interesting! I've been a fan of M5stack for a few years and promote them here often. Up to now, the products have been mostly great but sometimes the documentation has been a bit lacking. Expressif does a fantastic job on documentation and if they can lift M5stack's game here it would be a big step forward.
Can't up-to-date on-premises installs have Graph API enabled?
Thank you for the feedback and wise counsel.

I have one last question: the various things you state above in the form of facts, do you actually consider them to be exactly that, or have you been speaking casually/colloquially this whole time (as is the style of the era we are in)?
Coincidence or the fact that he already had the insider connections to make the second deal happen?
Don’t they actually have classes to attend?
The author is taking a very weird stance by flexing about their own gambling exploits before it was legal. And is weirdly defensive of bookies? Not sure what their point is anymore - it should be illegal except for the class of smart and clever people who know how to circumvent the rules?

> Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, founding editor of Jacobin, and author of The Socialist Manifesto

Ah, got it. The proletariat need to be protected from themselves by a different set of rules.

Listen, as someone who has actually never sports gambled, I can clutch my pearls as much as the next person about the glut of legalized gambling, but I will also admit that you could make the same case of ending any prohibition. And in this brave new world people are not being murdered over gambling losses, addicts can seek help without fear of repercussions, and leagues are being incentivized to fervently protect their integrity. It's an "anti-fragile" equilibrium and it's not going away anytime soon.
Don’t outsource.

If you outsource, have boots on the ground ensuring working conditions and no re outsourcing.

Pick one. Pretty straightforward.
There's something very beautiful about Voyager's journey so far.

I hope one day when we're a true interstellar species we'll still keep tabs on it. The data may not be useful anymore, but it would be cool to imagine a year 3000 society with a little "Look at where Voyager is now :)" tool that you can see its path and where humans have colonized by comparison.
BTW just for fun, my perl script:

perl -e 'for ($num = 0; $num <256; $num++) { $width = 8; printf("%*b\n", $width, $num) }'
yep

so was legalizing advertising of prescription drugs

So was legalization of drugs in oregon

"experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
I switched to Neovim from Sublime Text after trying copilot in Sublime, feeling sad, and then watching The Primeagen and his glorious mustache for too long.

Ostensibly I wanted to be able to code on the production server like a miscreant with the same tools as my laptop.

However I just wanted to regain command of my dev environment after years not coding.

I also reorganized the furniture in my office and got weirder lighting to make it hacker friendly. I bought a new desk to solder electronics.

Most people know me as a partnerships marketer or product manager but I am a compsci at heart. This made me happy.
That was the end (as far as I can tell).
This is an interesting use of an LLM. What prompt(s) are generating these alternate timelines?
That's the point though. Manufacturing, logistics, payroll, research, advertising, legal services, ... -- outsourcing certain functions to specialist, often (but not always) cheaper or more efficient companies is a typical business practice. The term is broadly applicable and used where ever this is the case. Since there are well-known business and organizational risks associated with outsourcing, it is conspicuous that we "migrate to the cloud" instead.
> guess good wine would be cheaper than soda

Joke on you. Wine in Europe often is cheaper than soda or even water.
Deriving the read/write behaviour from the instruction definition is so far superior to the gcc approach that I wonder how we ended up here. That is a very good call by the D toolchain.
Exactly, the files my users submit are rarely spec compliant. I have to process them properly regardless of correctness.
That's not a case for rule-free bans, but for writing better rules-- including, if necessary, rules that are broad, flexible, require substantial interpretation, etc.

And that doesn't address the entire first part here:

> The moderation team is disempowered to ban people for driving away many more contributors worth of time than they have contributed themselves

The contributor-hour estimation doesn't exist. (I struggle to imagine how it even could.) It's a rationalization which has come up because the most prominent person they want to ban is a consistent, prolific, long-time contributor and they need to say something to make it seem like his participation is a loss for the community as a whole.

It seems like what they really want is arbitrary bans of political opponents.
"Inlining is actually pretty evil".

No it's not. Except if you __force_inline__ everything, of course.

Inlining reduces the number of instructions in a lot of cases. Especially when things are abstracted and factored with lot of indirections into small functions that calls other small functions and so on. Consider a 'isEmpty' function, which dissolves to 1 cpu instruction once inlined, compared with a call/save reg/compare/return. Highly dynamic code (with most functions being virtual) tend to result in a fest of chained calls, jumping into functions doing very little work. Yes the stack is usually hot and fast, but spending 80% of the instructions doing stack management is still a big waste.

Compilers already have good heuristics about when they should be inlining, chances are they are a lot better at it than you. They don't always inline, and that's not possible anyway.

My experience is that compiler do marvels with inlining decisions when there are lots of small functions they _can_ inline if they want to. It gives the compiler a lot of freedom. Lambdas are great for that as well.

Make sure you make the most possible compile-time information available to the compiler, factor your code, don't have huge functions, and let the compiler do its magic. As a plus, you can have high level abstractions, deep hierarchies, and still get excellent performances.
It wouldn't be a vulnerability if we can request it to show its output in a legible theme, none that I can see, what am I missing?
More based on the whims of a prosecutor. Many small companies violate sanctions (usually unknowingly) and don't get prosecuted. But stick out too much, and you'll likely get hammered.
Wouldn't the US government banning tiktok be unconstitutional?[1] I'm genuinely asking.

What kind of forum would tiktok be categorized as?[2] Nonpublic forum? In which case, it's legal for the government to ban it?

"in a nonpublic forum, the Government may restrict contents of a speech, as long as the restriction is reasonable and the restriction does not discriminate based on speakers’ viewpoints."

[1]https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
[2]https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/forums
can you deadhead but just leave them all in one spot in the yard for the birds to find?
> Voyager might make it to 2027.

With some amount of luck, Voyager might last ten more years beyond that:

"Even if science data won't likely be collected after 2025, engineering data could continue to be returned for several more years. The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network through about 2036, depending on how much power the spacecraft still have to transmit a signal back to Earth."

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/

(And then, 15,000 years later, maybe this happens: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football )
Just in the last week the main page has been changed to aggressively default to "card" size instead of "compact" which blows everything up so that ads can be big videos that get forced on people. Very clear at this point that advertisers are the customers and not the users who generate content in return for points. Still sometimes worth looking through, but less so all the time.
Sorry for the double post. One of my comments was moved here from a different submission so now there are two top level comments from me, and I can't edit or delete them because the edit window has closed.
presumably daily
Ask HN: Any calory-tracking app without the need for an account?
Hello there.

I need to lose some weight because I'm beginning to have back problems due to the lack of exercise and extra weight I have.

For this, I'd like to start tracking my calory intake. I tried the top 50 apps on the Android Play store.

Every. Single. One of them require a 15min long quizz, and an account to some website (probably to spam you with tons of ads). Why? I just need to keep track of an integer...

Do any of you know about a bullsh*t-free app, or have any tips? Or should I write this app myself? :P

Also, any tip on losing weight beyond the obvious "eat healthier, exercise" are welcome :)
I doubt this was popular to begin with but rather a huge lobbying effort from the gambling industry. I have friends spend literally 100% of their disposable income on sports gambling and it’s depressing to watch.
And dragging HN down along with it!
You forgot Canada!

South Ontario wine ftw!

https://winecountryontario.ca/
I don't think this is a good example, because the regex does just that: it doesn't try to filter out bad input, it specifically only accepts known good input. If the regex did what it was meant to do, only allowing strings composed of ascii letters and numbers, and space, than the code would have not been exploitable.
I don’t think it’s fair to say integer division is an error, it’s more so a lack of an abstraction of “number” over floats and ints.
I'm back working on my lighting desk [0]. Got the new boards manufactured and each has basic code on. Now looking at swapping out the i2c communications the main controller was using for CAN-bus that the new boards use. Hoping to get the system turning lights on and off in a month or so.

I realised most of my motivation problems were depression-related, and getting treatment for that made it possible for me to get back to work on this project

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737795
> Much of Reddit seems to be a link farm for Twitter.

And not even just re-publishing of the Tweet text, or links to the tweet, but often it's pictures of Tweets which is the worst of all worlds (searchability, accessibility, language translation, respect for custom text sizes, bandwidth). The only reason I could think of to post an image of a Tweet is if you think the Tweet is going to be taken down later, but you can just copy/paste the text in that case. "Images of Tweets" is such a stupid trend.
I'm trying to beat level 19 in terminator dash: https://www.atarimania.com/pgesoft.awp?version=37332
Have you seen any work that Parker Ziegler has worked on? He has a couple of projects for automatic wrangling of visuals when it comes to charting data.

Seems related, but also different approach to this area.

https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2023/supporting-data-journali...
It's not that big of a deal, the main problem with it is people assume this is actually a way to get moderator attention for something. It's great that you don't but plenty of users don't know that nor are they aware of the reliable method of emailing hn@ycombinator.com.

The other, probably more important reason not to do it is that it gums up threads with pointless meta which runs against the site conventions. If a comment starts with @dang, it probably doesn't belong in the thread. Just like that meeting, it could have been an email.
The death of a company is when it’s acquired by Google/Microsoft/Apple. Founders get the golden parachute, investors get their 100X exit.

Whoever is left after the acquisition is left to babysit the dinosaurs. Maybe leadership decides to shelve the IP, kill the project and any active development. Move promising assets to other teams or transfer them as backfill.

After dust settles. The “dead weight” is killed off.