skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I had one of these and loved it so much, but then I switched to an, early-ish, iPhone, perhaps the 3G one, after playing with a couple early-ish androids. The iPhone was just so much better, generally, even if I lost the parts of the Treo that appealed to the more "nerdy" or tinkerer parts of me.

I think this was a lesson for me on how important UI is to mass-market devices. The Treo had so much going on for it, but most of the things you describe, most people would describe as awkward to use. Worse, the hardware keyboard meant the screen would always be smaller than an iPhone. I think the earliest Androids were marketed as "still has a keyboard" and that didn't really last. No one cared other than die-hards.

Downloading apps from random websites wasn't fun either. The app stores make a lot of sense in general, but moreso in mobile.

I also learned most times I'm forced to be a "tinkerer" by the industry, when most times I just want stuff to "just work" so I can choose what to tinker with. Oh, my win10 wont update to win11 because I need to redo the boot type and install a TPM chip on my old motherboard? That's not fun tinkering, that's annoying. The same way all the little things about the Treo or other less polished tech were like that. The game or novel I'm writing? That's fun tinkering.

It was also a lesson for me on how if you want to sell a mass-market product, the geeky, super-efficient, nerd-culture wisdom, etc stuff is a liability, not an asset. A lot of Apple wins is because someone said "this is too nerdy, get rid of it, abstract it away, make it easy, pretend you're a stressed out executive in a hurry." That model just gets sales and then that becomes our new default.

Apple is trying this in VR too, but Meta seems to already Apple-ized its current gen of headsets. Its a very Apple-like experience. I think that's hurting it. Ignoring the price issues, I can get "apple" from Meta already. They're several years too late. Apple, reportedly or rumored, cancelled its electric car program probably because groups like Tesla and others have already "Apple-ized" the car.

I'm not sure what areas Apple can attack now. We've all learned Apple's lesson.
It's being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159868
I'm serious and don't call me shirley.

I get messages for Katherine, who has not had this phone number in at least 15 years.
If you're in the USA, don't donate more than $200 to any political campaign. If you donate more than $200, then those contributions have to be reported to the FEC (Federal Election Commission). Those reports are publicly available, and include your email address and phone number. Other campaigns, then, harvest that information to build their own list.

$0 might be a better number, since campaigns will also sell their donor lists to other campaigns, but having your information out there in public means anyone running for dog catcher anywhere in the country can reach out to you to beg for money.
https://archive.is/NigzV
macOS and iOS publish DND/Focus states and events; it's up to Outlook/Teams/Google Workplace to do something with them.
You should really read patio11's article on KYC [0]. A relevant paragraph:

> Many people believe that the law requires a bank to see your government-issued ID in person to open a bank account. Again, this is incorrect; the law very rarely requires any particular action. The most prescriptive the US gets is that the sort of KYC information required about a customer include their true identity, including a name (not, incidentally, their “true” name because governments actually have some glimmer of understanding that that is not a thing which exists), a residential address, their date of birth, and an identifying number.

[0] https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/kyc-and-aml-beyond-th...
Yes, Tribler has completely failed as a cryptocurrency.
There are of course a lot of things I would like to change or improve, but I don't know if I share your broad pessimism on academia or research.

Science and engineering are very different endeavours, and while both should take lessons from each other, you just can't approach science in the same way that you approach engineering.
Interesting I'll have to study this. I'm curious how this fares in the face of well- resourced adversaries. Also funny that the guy complaining about crypto convos went straight into hate mode for "not quite crypto" without any research or support. Presumably y'all have thought through this.
Not even that. Those numbers just mean, "this 3D 2nm-ish process performs similar to a 2D 2nm process".

It's the same situation as when AMD started putting numbers in their Athlon XP SKUs to tell "this CPU performs just as good as intel of that frequency".

I, for one, think it makes sense. Because as I consumer I don't care about actual transited length or density, all I care about is: performance, efficiency, price. I can assume that going from TSMC N5 to TSMC N3 would result in an increase in efficiency and performance.

People that do care about those things (i.e. electrical engineers) most likely don't use marketing materials...
Different strokes I guess. I personally appreciate the straight forward approach to this style versus the normal corporate environment.
There can be a long wire between the (cheap) radio and the person operating it. You probably don't mind if you lose the radio or the drone.

This is very different to artillery which is too expensive to lose to return fire and even more expensive if you try and make it operable remotely.
>libertarians

Palmer Luckey got kicked out of Meta for funding Trump ads, I don't think you can classify him as a libertarian lol

(though there are many other self-described libertarians who are even more right-wing-authoritarian, so maybe nitpicking isn't worthwhile)
Is this like the status pages of big companies but for indie hackers or personal use?
I think the questions were scripted and intentionally specific. What do you think they were unaware of? It seems like the interviewer had a deep understanding of the works. Nothing wrong with asking a deep and detailed question,to which Powell can engage or glide past.

As an aside, I think a huge number of people think the liberal racism bit is spot on. As translated elsewhere in this thread, "erasing representation to avoid the discomfort of confronting racism" is a real phenomenon.
I think a lot of people dislike that JavaScript is a general purpose programming language, rather than being a scripting engine for browsers.
It was a little jarring to watch the promotional video. I am struggling to explain exactly how I feel, but I will try:

I think the more real impact of this will be an increase in the number wildfires, and the domino effect that causes - like gobbling up entire forests or burning up homes. I guess you can argue it's not any different compared to a flamethrower gun.

BUT..when you are remote controlling the thing that shoots fire, it could lead to a sense of dissociation or desensitization. It may feel like a game, than reality. I hope that makes sense.
I don't know about equal but Luckey has achieved some pretty impressive things by age 31. I think people are blinded by his political activity.
Sorry HN for respecting all my NDAs and staying out of prison, but I will say, as a person who has spent much of my adult life working on classified intelligence projects, I am consistently amazed by how far off the public Internet perception of our activities is, whether that be capabilities or operations, but I am also occasionally amazed to find some crackpot theory in a deadend corner of the web that is actually an entirely correct guess. Broken clock effect, I guess. Sorry to say you're probably not the one making the correct guess.

Just think of something you're a privileged insider to. How often is the public discourse abuot that something way the fuck off? It's no different when the topic is classified operations of the clandestine government. For what it's worth, the CIA is an organization I've never worked for and I have no idea what they're doing, but it's amusing nonetheless to see the first question being whether they still try to plant friendly stories in foreign press publications. This isn't even a classified activity! The Army has an entire MOS called PSYOPS where your goal is to influence foreign populations and cultural institutions in support of US military objectives. You can go apply here: https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/specialty-careers/sp.... They're giving out $50K signing bonuses. This isn't some kind of secret. It's just the public-sector version of brand marketing.
https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/014dkyf9dqfl
"Inclusive" really just means "we are going to make sure to include people we have no problem with". As Scott Alexander eloquently put it in his essay "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outrgroup", this is because people's actual outgroup isn't the ones they are being "inclusive" to. Human nature hasn't changed, sadly.
Yes and no. To melt/dry an entire driveway would be silly. But if you need to melt/dry a crack to make a repair then a propane torch will work. We have all seen them used by road crews. Million-btu torches are available on amazon for about fifty bucks.
This isn't an article for computer scientists, and I think he covers this pretty well:

"While Levy calls him a “world-class computer scientist who has authored definitive texts in the field,” he also describes Raghavan as “choosing a management track,” which definitely tracks with everything I’ve found about him."

"Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to bulldoze actual workers and replace them with toadies that would make Google more profitable and less useful to the world at large."
I do this with fastmail. The aliasing has gotten really good.
Agreed. I see really no good reason not to enable this by default.
Another win for old.reddit
The game is currently available for 8 bucks along with hundreds of other games in the latest itchio bundle:

https://itch.io/b/2321/palestinian-relief-bundle
Depends on what you mean by "machine gun"[1]. By the most common military definition, no. The recoil force would probably throw it to the ground, and even if it did not, the accuracy would be so laughable that it'd be more efficient to just load cyberdog with the same weight in high explosive fragmentation.

A SMG or autopistol . . maybe. Something like the Skorpion, firing .32 ACP, might be low recoil enough for aimed fire.

[1] There's a few categories here, and popular/legal categories differ from military ones. Legal "machine guns" include firearm capable of automatic fire, but this includes: 1) Autopistols and submachine guns (SMGs) fire pistol calibers, from .22LR (American 180) to .45 ACP (Thompson); 2) Assault Rifles, firing intermediate power cartridges like .223 and 7.62x39mm; 3) Battle Rifles are firing full power rifle cartridges - .308 Winchester and 7.62x54mm- from a box or drum magazine and can fire in full auto[a]; 4) General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs) capable of sustained belt-fed rapid fire with full-power rifle cartridges; 5) Here we're entering the realm of support weapons[b], firing Heavy Machine Gun rounds like .50 BMG, 12.7mm, 14mm, and other weapons like the Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher or the M134 Minigun (which fires .308 but a whole lot of them).

[1.a] Lots and LOTS of Internet Tough Guys will insist that the M14 or FAL on full auto is totally controllable by Real Men - i.e., it's only the sissification of our cucked armed forces that have brought on the curse of the Intermediate Cartridge. I'll leave judgement to the reader. Incidentally, the Venn Diagram of "Battle Rifle" and the older 1900s-1930s term "Light Machine Gun" is, functionally, a single large circle - it's just the advancement in materials and machining that make them any different. So why didn't LMGs take off back when men were Manly Men and could handle the POWER? Heh heh heh heh yeah. Physics wins again.

[1.b] Needless to say, a whole other category of internet moron insists that .50 BMG on autofire is controllable by a "man enough" infantryman operating singly. I'm sorry that this opinion exists, like, as a human being, but make your own judgement, as always.
Keep an eye on https://www.redditstatus.com/
Still waiting for Spotify to add this info to the Dock icon's contextual menu, like iTunes/Music has had for decades.
Saddle Up a Dictionary of Old-Time Cowboy Slang
That's not a dictatorship. It's a leader without powers to make laws. The leader makes decrees. And the leader is selected by a small council. It is akin to the monarchy in Britain.
It’s exciting to think that by this time next year, TikTok can be nothing more than a distant memory.

RIP Vine
What are your thoughts about the risks of this tool?
Does this mean the ISP loopholes of offering "fast lanes" will be blocked?
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Note that good forestry involves setting controlled burns, which this could help with.
The game goes through several phase changes as you progress.
I've saved a link to more or less every thought-provoking article I've read since the last 12 years (first in Evernote, and now Obsidian). I have two notes, one "links", the other "article notes", that's just a bare minimum note-taking system for stuff I read on the web. Both notes are huge, and undoubtedly contain many tidbits of advice, perception shifting ideas, or "subjectivity merges" (https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/books-are-subjectivity-me...).

One of my project ideas now that has been building in my mind is, 12 years on, to go back and re-read and re-evaluate many of these links, and do a short write-up on how I've been influence by this article or any explicit choices that I've made in my life that could likely be attributed to it. I think this would be fascinating from a psychological/neurological POV but also a really cool chance to reflect on how I've changed/grown as a person.
Maybe something upstream from the edge is failing in some region while others haven’t failed. My hunch is some service related to a user_id (from the exception I’m seeing) is failed in one cloud region it’s running from.

Not familiar with Reddit as I haven’t worked there.
We're in a permanent emergency now. Which is no surprise - if a mere voluntary act of declaring emergency lets the government do what they otherwise can't - why not declare it over and over?

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...

In the US we have 42 (!) ongoing national emergencies. The oldest dating back to 1979. I think most of US-based HN readers never lived in non-emergency US.
The networking was such a mystery - at school we had networked computers and knowing nothing about networking wondered why it didn't work.

Wonder if any of the ports have implemented it in terms of modern networking.
same i was replying to https://old.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1cby14y/find_existing... & it went down fast.
Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots
But it doesn't do graphics, so it shouldn't be called GPU. That's the whole point of this thread.
Pivoting away from infrastructure, why it's hard, and what we'd do differently
>> They don’t want to have kids because they believe the future is going to suck.

They dont have kids because they are spoiled, rich and selfish living in modern affluent countries and dont have real problems. Think I'm wrong. Then why is it that some of the poorest and toughest places have growing populations, and the wealthy ones have declining ones.

Your not having kids cause your living in fucking ratopia and pretending that the world is hard. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopi...
I never said they should be punished but it's an interesting thought exercise. A long-time stock holder in Boeing has indirectly profited from the death of innocent airplane passengers, I certainly wouldn't object to them losing that profit. And if punishing executives is permissible... well, those execs serve at the pleasure of the stockholders. There's surely _some_ responsibility there. But no, I'm not saying we should lock up the stockholders.
Probably you were thinking of "Knapp joints" (cove and pin) which had a currency of a decade or so (their presence is used to date furniture), but which were replaced by machine cut dovetails.

A CNC router affords a lot of new possibilities, e.g., this box which has an integrated lid:

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/as-funny-as-a-3-dollar-box...
> This is an R&D economic disparity that cannot be sustained.

AMD already has enormous scale that it can spread development costs over. Tenstorrent won’t ‘win’ vs AMD solely because it needs fewer engineers and that reduces development costs (it might win for other reasons but that’s a separate argument).

Even if it does make a cheaper product then you have to take into account the fact that you’re asking hundreds of millions of users to switch ISAs with the corresponding economic costs in return for a small reduction in the purchase price.
the investments in GPUs and datacenters is in the hundreds of billions, if the market even worked like this, that 200m would be a drop in the bucket
The power of two – fast division and modulo operations
Reddit has been down atleast once every day over the past week or so and it's getting annoying.
Congrats! We’ve been using Nango for about a year, mostly to handle oauth flows for us to about 7-8 integrations (Dropbox, google drive, etc) that our users can self-service connect in our app.

Very stable, the team is respnsibe to handling the weird corner cases (which their value prop is all about), and they seem to be able to build new integrations and functionality quickly.

I’ll be taking a closer look at their sync functionality, since our users want email in app (CRM style).
The Windows Media Player on Windows XP had this by default
What the f... woah
We should have switched to gates per mm² long ago. IMO that covers the 3D problem fine. Doesn’t cover variance in feature size by task though. If the gates for a multiplier or cache need more space per gate than a logical OR then the marketing guys still get a little victory over truth.

We could just divide total gates by surface area for the chip, but that would confuse the process efficiency with the implementation details and then we sacrifice instructions per second for a marketing number.
no, check https://reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1cby14y/find_existing_sta... isnt working either
>Status page claims all systems are OK (they are not)

Classic
And lose the profits on electoral show every 2 years? Do you know how much money can one make on an election? That's be silly to give up all that.
Nice status page. Using SQLite in your project makes it very easy to self-host.
On mobile I’m getting…lol

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I get…

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> I dread to think what our society will look like by the time I'm really old.

We strongly recommend you reserve your premium slot at the Soylent Green factory today!
Thank you for writing this, it was frustrating reading their reply stating "this has nothing to do with web components" as if I was just making things up for fun.
This is what they would say whether or not they wanted to sell. Otherwise the buyers would be operating from a position of strength
Sure they are, and the only proof offered is "I feel like they might be"
Dreamboothing MusicGen
They're not cost competitive with batteries for diurnal storage, but they are competitive for low duty cycle demand on much longer time scales (like covering Dunkelflauten).
You're right that (American) political discourse is unavoidably toxic, but the article is still covering some interesting and relevant ground.

It takes a lens of China vs. the World Health Organization. China really hampered the investigation. It appears, according to TFA, that they were trying to avoid blame for the zoonotic origin -- not something easily fixed because the "wet markets" are how a lot of Chinese survive.

But of course that just makes it look like they were covering up something even worse -- criminally irresponsible behavior by disease researchers.

So even if you disregard American political dysfunction, Chinese political dysfunction is a serious issue. It's a place where zoonotic diseases can make the leap to humans, and it's going to happen again.
You can be straight forward without being crass, rude, or aggressive. That’s a desirable professional skill.
I realized my favorite video games were (co-op) games I played with my brother, like:

- Final Fantasy

- Lost Vikings

- Final Fantasy Tactics

These days we're too busy with other stuff and living too far apart.

---

So I was trying to design a (phone) game that is played with others and encourages interaction with each other (vs. the meme where everybody is sitting at the same table, but staring at their own phone.)

Ideally: this game would be co-op, can be played together remotely but gives bonus for playing together in same physical space. Also the game should be casual, so people can have a conversation while playing this game (maybe even gameplay that encourages putting the phones down).
> It never was about ByteDance. It's the Chinese government who will decide.

This makes for a pithy statement, but is it actually true? Obviously the Chinese government has a lot of influence on Chinese companies, but do they actually dictate strategic direction like this?
There are maybe five people in the world that care about network transparency (an exaggeration, but probably not more than 2 magnitudes of order off). X11 was built for every scenario conceivable. Wayland is being built for end-user thick devices. What you decide not to do is more important than what you decide to do.

And some dedicated soul managed to get it working anyway, as a sibling comment has pointed out.
Systems run the show, not people.

"What important truth do very few people agree with you on?": I believe that nobody is running the show. The systems we have created are more complex than we understand. I think a few people individually understand a few aspects of the different systems (we are not at the complete mercy to these systems).

I also believe that we have a psycological need to know our social heirachies therefore we create stories about who we think is in control. That need creates conspiracy theories! That need creates narratives that certain people are running the world (but when you look closy at those people they are not running things - they don't understand how everything works even though they put much effort into trying to).
You cannot install Debian or Windows 11 on Wordpress.
yeah its fantastic for go and python

knowing how to trigger it properly is key though, just like all LLMs the context it has determines the quality of its output