skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, although clicking links on a page with mere pixels between them is still a PITA for many users. I was reminded of this using the super cheap mouse and acquaintance was using on a dinning table, and getting precision was possible but really frustrating. And they didn't like trackpads.

As more and more countries have aging population I'd expect these kind of accessibility issues to be more prominent. Sometimes I feel like using modes (vim style) could help, with the user getting different tradeoffs when "reading" and "manipulating", if there was an easy enough way to switch between one mode and the other.
Bug-to-Error Distance
"Direct" is not a helpful word.

In the US, the government has control over the content too, it just so happens that it mostly concerns itself with combatting certain moral vices (from prostitution to bootleg fireworks) - although to be fair, it also lightly pressured big tech into combatting political "misinformation".

In China, the same mechanisms exist, except the controls on speech are much tighter and the punishments more severe. Every other tech company operating there has a story of officials showing up with demands or threatening employees. I worked at two places where this happened. In addition, most businesses operate as formal or quasi-formal public-private partnership, where the CCP has officials within the corporate management structure. Again, ask anyone who tried to start a foreign-owned business in China.

You can make a reasonable argument that having an oppressive and geopolitically adversarial foreign government effectively in control of the most popular youth social media platform in the country is not great. Or you can make a reasonable free-trade argument. Free trade works only if all participants follow the rules; if Western social media can't operate on their market, they don't get to operate on ours.

There are things to dislike about the US government, but I really don't get the contrarian takes on TikTok. China is objectively worse and its government's legitimacy and lasting power is built in the bodies of tens of millions of victims. We're not getting along right now. This doesn't require cynicism to explain.
"It's definitely bad, please trust us in US intelligence when we say this"

(I'm sure it is; there have been plenty of people disappeared https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/china-disappea... , but I'd just like to have a little evidence rather than do an Iraq war again)
Israeli officials seize Associated Press equipment and take down live feed
> The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.

If that was the case, chinese state media ( where the chinese government actually has direct control over the content ) would be banned. But they are not banned.
They should have to publish everything required to independently reproduce the recommendations, given a user's inputs. If their code is spaghetti that makes this neigh impossible, that's their problem and they shouldn't be in business.
> for a static site generator for docs?

docs.rs has a lot more to do than just that. But also, actually building those static pages takes a lot. To do so, it has to actually build every crate, sandboxed, of course. This makes it closer to "universal CI for the entire ecosystem" than "generate a few html pages."

If you look at the dependencies, they're pretty normal for a website that does this kind of thing. It's roughly 80 dependencies, then 11 used for development only, and a couple more that are build-time only. The larger number is the sum of all transitive dependencies.
Ask HN: Why are comments here overwhelmingly critical?
Comments lauding findings or praising efforts seem to be valued less than those that find fault.
> You have defined it to mean "high brow"

Both in

- "high brow"

- niche genres

categories (which I both gave as examples) you will likely find quite some games that that are excellent, but won't make a lot of money. But don't pick too much on these categories since my central point is "Making an excellent game takes quite different skills than creating a commercially successful game".
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40416629
Maybe you're too young to remember or there's some sarcasm I'm missing, but that's literally how social media sites used to work.

Content discovery was word of mouth or a separate page dedicated to popular stuff.
They are explicitly communists. Yes they are an enemy in a way none of the other listed entities are.
If you haven't played Hardspace Shipbreakers yet, you should. I honestly wish they would make it a required play for high schoolers learning about workers rights. Its a similar story just set in space.
There are entire government departments dedicated to statistics, research and analysis. How about lawmakers avail themselves to these services, instead of relying on moneyed interests?
No, most students don’t win entrepreneurial competitions and then get suspended. I guess I’m missing the point.
They aren't "accumulating" it, they just have it. The top four, for sure, are wealthy from activities and careers prior to entering congress, often by a spouse or family.

Your rule would basically amount to "no rich people allowed to serve in government", which seems arguably even worse.
Hate to break it to you, but the pop star success formula is actually meticulously detailed and very repeatable. The producers and song writers know exactly how to do it.

It’s not about challenges in finding success, so much as, at least in music, artists don’t want to follow a formula. They want to create songs and melodies that are personal and meaningful to them and their fans.
Luck was definitely involved. In chaotic situations, such as a battlefield anything can happen. As an example here's a record[0] of Alexander almost dying:

At Granicus, Alexander was hit in the head by scimitar-wielding cavalry, causing his helmet to fly off his head. The Persians later struck the king with a missile, which went through his shield and lodged in his shoulder.

- The head hit could have given him a serious concussion, even causing him to fall unconcious making his troops think he died and plummeting morale.
- The arrow could have pierced his heart instead of his shoulder after going through his shield.

The real point is that such an accomplishment will never be due to pure luck. Skill also had to be there.

[0]: https://www.military.com/history/alexander-great-caught-luck...
> But what is rarely addressed in this conversation is why the American people should be more scared of the Chinese government owning this type of service compared to an American billionaire who is widely regarded to have some sort of personality disorder and a drug problem?

Last I checked, Elon Musk hadn't sent hundreds of Uighur women to rape camps to be "reeducated". He hasn't harvested organs from undesirables while they were still alive (for freshness) all that much either. I don't praise the United States government as saints and superheroes or anything like that, but to be unwilling to admit that there are still stark differences between the two countries probably means you wore a Che t-shirt in college and might even be wearing one now if your company permits casual dress.
Show HN: this extension tells score/rank timeline of HN posts
Hi community,

I've been working on building a full public HN dataset for some time now. The latest update is that now I'm tracking the full timeline of score and rank timeline for all HN stories.

I've created a browser extension to help display this data directly on the HN website.

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Cheers
No mention of Deluxe Paint without mentioning the legendary pixel artist Jim Sachs who used it a lot in his Commodore Amiga productions: https://amiga.lychesis.net/artists/JimSachs.html

Amazing what 320x200 pixels can achieve with 32 colors.
A lot of us have been sold the positive angle too many times to give people the benefit of the doubt.
>... all music videos are now made on VHS...

All of them?
Two children now ... both in grade school!
Any plans for LLM based agents :) ?
NPCs will be amazing. AI Dungeon is probably a good example for character setup and story snippets to weave in (so you don't get all generic "helpful assistants") :).
The "reply" button not showing up? That's an automatic feature, see https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hidden...
AI Startups Are Making Their Home in New York
Well, I did go through the entire deck at some point because the SR algo gave them to me. But with 'all' I meant the ones that were given by the algo.
The link is valid.
The price of the keyboard doesn't matter so much - I'm typing on a keyboard from Apple that cost almost $200, and many keyboard nerds have spent way more than that. I have a $3800 laptop that honestly isn't much faster (for my needs) than the $1300 refurb M1 Pro I was using before. I don't have one, and would never buy it, but Apple has a $6000 32 inch monitor.

What's important is whether it provides value (functionality, productivity, health benefits via ergonomics, etc). I have no idea if it does, but that's what I'd base the price assessment on.
The videos do the same for me!
"she didn't want to accept credit for just happening to sound like the correct voice"

Are you being serious?
speaking practically, I'd start with open source repo and (somehow) a chain-of-custody proving that this is the (only) code that gets to production.
Yes. This is exactly the argument the EFF makes. Utility-style regulation involves the government picking winners who become unresponsive monopolies. Notice how OpenAI is eager to be regulated. They know that means they win. That's the opposite of what we need the FAANGS et al. to become. And personally, I don't want the government telling me how to moderate my network.

The EFF recommendation is anti-trust enforcement to insure these services don't hold American communications hostage. We must attack their moats to enable smaller competitors to have at more level playing field.
Last I checked, HN has published it's algorithm. Probably out of date now I suppose, but it proves the premise. Slashdot also used to.
well that's exactly the point -- no such result is available for language models.
They blessed the world with the largest number of independance days
> "When you’re driving around in Google Maps"

?!

A perfect example of failure of perspective. No one is driving "in" goggle maps, their driving IRL, goggle is plotting the location.

This is certainly a more valid connection than the connection to spacewar.

The failure to recoqnize this error in perspective is a fundamental root cause of millenial disease: "the inability to understand that physical reality hosts all other 'virtual' realities"...
And now he's here! He's following you. :)
Usually when people do this, they don't care that anyone with a half a brain knows they are lying, because they focus their attention ripping off people who don't have half a brain.

I'm going to decline to wave my arms at all the Current Things, but you can fill in blanks easily .
I'm not a fan either! I prefer gaffers tape.
Apple rich text fundamentals
Part 1 on HN → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38866170

Part 2 on HN → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603087
There might actually be a The Good Place effect. The universe is filled with counter-intuitive mechanisms, but it's hard to tell just how densely filled with them because that's also counter-intuitive.
How long has it been since you used a Linux distro? Fedora has had all those things functioning out of the box for many, many years (at least 10+ for wifi, audio, video, 5+ for bluetooth), as has plenty of other distros. And if you think you have to decrapify your linux install, then you're probably using the wrong distro for you. There are plenty (most) that don't crapify.
Voice actors especially. Voice acting isn't what ScarJo is really "known for" but she's done a ton of work for animated films so her distinct voice really is a part of her livelihood.
I think about this every time I browse a web site, and the text is this tiny, 5" wide strip down the center, leaving 10" of empty, useless whitespace on both sides. Thanks, designer. I'm glad I bought a 27" monitor for this shit.
I typically respond to texts and messages!
I don't really play any games that would not need mouse. Strategies, MOBAs, and and FPS are shit without one. So a console is useless to me.
It's perfectly understandable once you read the article.
Disposable garbage cameras aside.. World population was around 3 billion in 1960s, now it is more than 8 billion.

More people means more plastic is manufactured.

Note: I dont say anything against recycling, in fact we should do it.
'The fear has properly set in': watching my home town disappear into the sea
I think they are more some kind of joke than pejorative.
Ranking has been a thing since at least Slashdot. There is simply too much stuff for most people to go back to pure chronological only.
I think it’s actually that designers as a group feel like they should not have to understand the product they are designing. This is why the modern uis are so minimal and lacking in features for people who actually use the product in a way that is deeper than trivial.

Imagine a current era designer trying to design Photoshop without just copying an existing system. It would be useless.
it’s everywhere and in everything. banning single use plastics and car tires is placebo because you will still be getting microplastics in meat, vegetables, and water for hundreds of years at this point.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/08/micropla...

there are too many people on this Earth and the population numbers are propped up by our usage of plastics.
Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy
It comes out in paperback in late July!
It makes for a more realistic proposal that is more likely to survive legal scrutiny.
I find this comment a bit myopic.

First is the belief that the essence of a person can be reduced to quantified metrics as inherited and objective as height or, in this case, the shape of one's vocal cords and the resultant pitch of their voice.
Second is using a glorified function approximator as an arbiter.
The positive outcome for OpenAI would be a classifier able to achieve high accuracy in distinguishing between the original and impersonated voice as evidence that the voices are sufficiently distinct.

In the event of an underperforming classifier, what is preventing OpenAI from claiming that the current technology is simply not adequate?
Under what grounds could one refute the claim that a future, more advanced system, very probably trained with more appropriated data, would be a better classifier and favor OpenAI?
be careful on that slope, you might slip and get hurt!
Far more interested in a list of the names and assets of the people who lobby them.
Suggested title change: "I built a game to test your knowledge of NN architectures."
You aren't altering the broadcast without permission, if you're inserting commercials into allows commercoal areas.

As well, the TV show itself is not altered.
> for any app that I use frequently, i would prefer for it to have many options that I could use to customize its behavior. For instance, Uber

The problem is that the era of zero interest rates and (mostly unprofitable) advertising-based business models means the tech industry shifted from making tools to benefit the user to "tools" that waste the user's time. Company targets are often measured in "engagement" such as screen time, DAU/MAU or pointless metrics about how many times some button was clicked.

The zero interest rate era is mostly behind us, but the mentality remains and company targets are still often based on that, so employees are not incentivized to make products more efficient for the user since doing so will reduce the DAU/MAU or whatever metric they're judged on.
That’s why these taxes and gotcha fees are so popular with voters. California specifically targets people trying to build houses, which is one reason we have a housing crisis.

It’s “only” another 4%, but if the millionaire tax ends up increasing someone’s effective tax rate from 76% to 80%, then it cuts post-tax income by almost 20% and it hits people whose average incomes are middle class.

I have no idea if things are like this in Massachusetts.
Before Roe vs Wade was overturned you might have asked if abortion is legal why do abortion rights advocates want legislation passed?

The answer is without legislation you are far more subject to whether a judge feels like changing the law.
never heard anything so stupid
Making iMessage work on Android is a non issue for most parts of the world: mobile messaging is fragmented and the US uses SMS/iMessage, while most of the rest of the world uses either whatsapp, LINE or WeChat.
The front page of a site that’s the same for everyone (more or less) is different from individualized feeds.

> How would new content discovery happen in your proposed world?

Seconding other posts—entirely fine, like it did before that kind of garbage.
You make the job more appealing to those kinds of people.

I think one of the ways to do that is to make the job less appealing to the people who currently hold it.
I don't see how any of this is difficult. Ban illegal content, period. Not that that's hard, it already is.

And leave the rest alone. Gore/graphic content -> filter with a toggle for those that want to view it. Bullying -> does it cross the line into an actual law being broken, if so, then ban it. Makes sensitive people nervous, uncomfortable and angry -> leave it be, but if you really wanna go far stick a sentiment analysis thingie on it and allow people to selectively filter it below their own threshold. There is so much that can be done simply, without breaching anyone's freedoms and without teetering into Orwellian 1984 conspiracy territory about wide-scale mind control and opinion shifting.

The problem comes when people naturally express themselves, it makes <insert group here> uncomfortable and it inconveniently bubbles up the rankings. E.g. I bet you right now that 20% of the entire american internet population simply doesn't like Biden and would mock him for his, probably innocent, old-age antics. But if that opinion were to "manifest" into some sort of catchy "Biden is old and sucks" hashtag or meme that needs reporting, well that's uncomfortable for TPTB, or the elites, or the media or whatever you wanna call it, and must be stopped. The internet is the ultimate direct-democracy tool we have right now, and it's being manipulated precisely because it breaks "representative" democracy.

Another uncomfortable topic: trans people in sports. It will absolutely blow up in one direction if people were organically allowed to organize and find others with similar viewpoints. Instead, they're banned, scared into shutting up, shadow-banned, or worse cancelled and doxxed.
These are reasons to cut off China entirely, not just lazily shutting down/forcing the sale of TikTok. But by taking on TikTok the government can pretend it did something about the threat from the Chinese government, I guess.
Let's not be naive. Despite our ongoing trade ties, the Chinese Communist Party is the enemy of Western civilization in every way short of actual shooting. We shouldn't be enabling them.

I don't think it's good that cabal of media and tech executives has so much concentrated control over public discourse. But there is a huge qualitative difference between them and a hostile foreign power.
Indeed it is: https://zeroclarkthirty.com/2024-04-21-benchmarking-erlangs-...
> It did not sit flat on my desk.

Because the battery was swollen?

> - The battery swelled.

Ah, of course.
shhh you will scare the VC bros and their dreams of doing nothing and making billions off others work.
Sad to see they are laying off staff from Pixar right after this story. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/pixar-layoffs-175-staffer...
Alot of film cameras exploded in price the last 10 years. You might realistically drop a few hundred dollars on a decent film point and shoot now.
I was really concerned about the direction Windows 11 was going in, but after trying it out, there's really not much I don't like.

I don't even have to use any of the third-party tools that remove OS functionality - just changing easily accessible settings and Group Policy is enough to get it working how I want it.

Windows 10 feels dated in comparison now.
For me at least, it's personal discipline. If I can fiddle and change stuff, I will.
I mean, to whatever extent it matters. All these outrageously rich morons still have tons of economic and social clout. They still have pages upon pages of fans foaming at the mouth for the opportunity to harass people asking basic questions. They still carry undue influence in our society and in our industry no matter how many times they are "outed."

What does being outed even mean anymore? It's just free advertising from all the outlets that feel they can derive revenue off your name being in their headlines. Nothing happens to them. SBF and Holmes being the notable exceptions, but that's because they stole from rich people.
From where do they transfer the money if their account is around zero?
There are various tapes with medical applications but that’s pretty narrow. Double sided tape is sometimes useful. Very pedestrian but Scotch/transparent tape.
I wouldn't go that far yet. There's still 2 more years before the GenSec is chosen in 2026, the Army detests the MPS, and unlike China, Vietnam is actually vulnerable to economic competition within most of ASEAN or India and leadership recognizes that. Then again, a faction of leadership might call it quits and push for a more authoritarian future because they are extremely paranoid about a Color Revolution.

But I do think GDP growth will slow to the 4-6% range over the next decade because even though VN's GDP per Capita is relatively high, the VN market is way less developed than Indonesia or Phillipines, let alone Thailand, Malaysia, or China and unlike China in the 1990s it doesn't have a MASSIVE consumer population to justify the headaches (eg. the article above).

The average VNese definitely has a lower standard of living than your average Indonesian or Pinoy based on my travels in all 3, and consumer spending is morose (it's comparable to Cambodia and Laos).

That said, if To Lam and MPS successfully control the Vietnamese Politburo, it's game over. There's no reason to invest in VN over PH, IND, TH, or IN if the technocrats we had relationships with are all in jail or trying to buy property in OC and leave.
onShape has been great
What if you have a personal MacBook *and* a professional MacBook? Well they occupy the two available seats from the “multi-point” system of the Bose QuietComfort 45 and my issue is not solved.
I also reach for OpenSCAD first when designing something for a 3d print, for a couple reasons:

1. I also didn't really have any actual 3d "design" experience before using OpenSCAD, except for in the 90s/00s when I played around with POVRay as a hobby, but OpenSCAD definitely feels a lot like writing POVRay scenes.

2. My first exposure to graphics programming was in OpenGL, and the OpenSCAD language's focus on transformations applying to children "rhymes" with that very well (they're just like a C-style if/for/while block, where you can either nest several things inside { } or else just have a single statement following the control structure and the transform applies only to that one thing, so

cube(1);
translate([1,1,1])cube(1);
translate([2,2,2])cube(1);

is equivalent to

cube(1);
translate([1,1,1]){
cube(1);
translate([1,1,1]){
cube(1);
}
}

which is in turn equivalent to

module cubechain(n) {
if (n > 0) {
cube(1);
translate([1,1,1])cubechain(n - 1);
}
}
cubechain(3);

and you can indeed make neat L-systems and such out of primitives and recursion.