skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume all trending/recommended nudges on centrally controlled platforms are psychological operations. I see the absence of them on decentralized protocols such as NOSTR or the fediverse to be a feature.
> The EU has consent elections

The EU parliament is elected every five years, and while most of the member countries elect during the EU parliament term and so it's election year somewhere in the EU every year, national elections usually have negligible impact on the European level (outside of dramatic swings like in Poland or Slovakia between dedicated notorious pro-EU and anti-EU parties).

In contrast, the US re-elects the whole House and 1/3rd of the Senate every two years which means that the House is basically only at peace to work for a year at a time (first half year is spent on getting the newbies up to speed, last half year is filled with campaigning), and if changing control over the Senate is even possible depends on if the states whose seats are up for reelection are considered swing states or not. The entire way the US Congress works is not incentivizing bipartisan legislation, and it's outright hostile to the idea that there could be more than two political parties.
> tone-deaf

Maybe. I'm not sure why that matters though. Better to be hated than not even noticed.

> and lack self-preservation

Arguments like this confuse me. Copyright infringement is everywhere. Not just among companies, but also among individuals.

Any time someone draws fan art of the Mario and posts it on this internet, this is illegal copyright infringement.

But basically nobody ever gets sued for that kind of stuff, unless you get huge and bothersome enough to be noticed.

And if you've gotten to that point, you've already basically won. And you can just fix the issue later, if they actually bother telling you to stop. But it doesn't matter, because you have already found success.
I'm doing some NNTP-related work and hadn't looked seriously at Nostr until just now. It looks like the main benefit is just that it signs events, is that right?
I use it for Documentation (when interactive), for Teams with integrated short clips, for Powerpoint Presentations when I'm doing a live demo (having a second slide with the gif as a backup, when the live demo doesn't work).

The editor is minimal and has a non existent learning curve.

AFAIK screentogif even has the gifsky encoder plus a few others.
With the recent news, I am more inclined to think this voice is forgery than it's another voice actress.
I live in north norfolk, a fairly 'young' coast in that this was all land to Europe only 6000 years ago (Doggerland), so we get loads of coastal erosion here - houses and even villages seem regularly lost to the sea.

Fascinating going for cliff side walks and seeing what has changed. Hope my house lasts...
We spend a lot of time working on the correct type system for STEP, I don't think that using an untyped format like JSON is a good idea.

I know that ISO 10303-243 uses JSON but in hindsight I think that was a mistake.
As someone who's been on several teams that have and also spent a whole lot of time digging into responsive interfaces on all sorts of hardware, my experience differs. Unless either of us get some sort of broad numbers, which is probably impossible, we're just going to have conflicting anecdata.
> And you can’t “automate” away the rare things, even the technical ones. By their nature they’re difficult to define, hence difficult to monitor, and difficult to repair without the forensic skills of a human engineer.

There are two ways to think about automating response to technical problems: a reactive way and a proactive way. Reactive automation looks to diagnose, repair, or work around system faults as they happen, within the constraints of the design of the system. The proactive approach happens early, at design or architecture time, in designing and building the system in such a way that it is resilient to rare failures and designed to be automatically fixed.

For example, think about a standard primary-failover database system with asynchronous replication. Reactive automation would monitor the primary, ensure it stayed down once it was deemed unhealthy, promote the secondary, provision a new secondary, and handle the small window of data loss. This works great for "fail stop" failures of the primary, and can often recover systems within seconds. Where it becomes much more difficult is when the primary is just slower than usual, or if there's packet loss, or if it's not clear whether it's going to come back up. Just the step of "make sure this primary doesn't come up thinking its still the primary" can be very tricky.

A more proactive approach would look at those hard problems, and try and prevent them by design. Could we design the replication protocol in such a way that the old primary is automatically fenced out? Could we balance load in a way that slower servers automatically get less traffic? Should we prefer synchronous replication or even active-active to avoid the hard question of what to do with lost data or slow primaries?

Looking through a certain lens, the answers to all those questions just add complexity to something simple. But, from another perspective, they take the hardest thing (weird at-scale failures) and turn them into something much simpler to handle. It's an explicit trade-off between system simplicity and operational simplicity. Folks without experience running actual systems tend to have poor intuition about this trade-off. The only way I've seen to help people build good intuition, and make the right decisions, is to get the same folks who are building large-scale systems deeply involved in the operations of those systems.
The "time" it would take to do a Bluetooth scan? What are you talking about? There are free apps that will instantly show Bluetooth signal when walking past.
Because that's what people go to HN for.

If I'm building something new, or launching a startup, there is not much benefit from encouragement. I don't want to hear "well done, this is so cool".

I want to know as many flaws that I might have overlooked as possible, as quickly as possible - so that in the (highly likely) event that my idea is fundamentally flawed, I can move on to smth else instead of keeping wasting time on it.
Onshape is definitely great, but it could go away or have its free version cut down (like Fusion 360) at any time. Having an open source alternative that's less of a slog than FreeCAD would be awesome.
There is no way to map Cmd+Tab to Alt+Tab in MacOS. Which makes for an extremely frustrating experience in muscle memory when alternating between your work Mac and your personal Linux/Windows machines. This was the biggest grievance to me.

But the Cmd+Tab behavior is also incapable of switching between multiple open windows of the same program. So if you have two Firefox Windows open, you can't switch between them with Cmd+Tab.

Cmd+Tab also has the annoying behavior of listing programs that are "running" but do not have any open windows. I still can't for the life of me figure out how this would be useful to someone.
To manipulate readers into realizing that industry doesn't pay their workers well?
Exactly. There's no point stopping unnecessary and wasteful practices until all other unnecessary and wasteful practises have ceased first.
This is the only reasonable point in support of Israel’s actions though it does not justify them
This has been known for more than a decade, you can bet the competition does that too
Indeed, well there are a few things I should have been told before I became a father -- e.g., how much time I'd spend near the floor of a porta potty with a five year old in a full leg cast -- it is worthwhile and fulfilling. It was not, though, a good way to increase the number of videos I create!
Purble Place: the mystery behind Gen Z's favourite forgotten video game
It's great to see others investing time and talent into open-source CAD. At Ondsel, we believe open-source CAD is incredibly important and we're thrilled to see innovation in this area.
>I love when machine learning is used to create genuinely new things* instead of trying to imitate human processes.

Machine learning is based upon human neural system so it was directly inspired by humans and all use cases so far try to mimic human behaviour e.g. vision, speech, data and information synthesis, art generation etc.
Not from here. Here's one I got from their front page. https://j.gifs.com/qjOKXp.gif

The content-type response header is image/gif.
Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows
Does it really need saying? We know it is terrible, we know there is microplastics almost everywhere.

At this point it feels like little Timmy playing with fireworks next to the forest fire. Everyone and everything involved is terrible. Timmy still needs a scolding for being a moron.
I know this is a small team and experimenting, but in my mind, this engine is already limiting the potential of games it can output.

I don’t know, but Unity is already pretty much point and click game building. I spent a few weeks building a card game with it during lockdown, and without a lot of code, I had an ugly, and basic, but totally playable game.

The hardest part to a game is building something fun yes, but it also has to meet some level of quality bar and work on any platform.
Some of it was pixel by pixel, but DP had many tools - sprites, lines, fills, etc. A skilled operator could whip something up surprisingly quickly.
> Ok, TikTok has the illusion of being content-neutral and just a fair algorithm

Does it? And what does that even mean? Are there any other "content-neutral" and "fair" algorithms that you're aware of at other social media companies?

> we have no reason to believe it is unbiased.

Not only is that not how argument works, it's a bizarre bar that only tiktok has to leap to do business. We have every reason to believe that any and all commercial algorithms for selecting and prioritizing content to display to users are not "content-neutral," nor "fair" for every possible definition of fair.
I see you work in the mobile phone industry
I wouldn't think so, as the issue mentioned doesn't have anything to do with dns.
It's strange, my mom and all her friends took thouands of photos on film. I threw away boxes and boxes of them when I cleaned out her house when she passed.

Slides/print film and processing did not used to be cost-prohibitive. But I shot a few rolls of 35mm on my old SLR a few years ago and was stunned at the costs to just have them processed and scanned to digital files.

I used to do my own (B&W) processing as a kid and paid for it with paper route and lawn-mowing money; I don't know what that costs these days but it sure seems that film photography is no longer a reasonably cheap hobby.
I am in my 40s, so certainly not too young. Depending on how you define social media, they have had sort order besides 'latest posts first' for about as long as listing sites have existed.

There is no sarcasm; does anyone genuinely only browse sites like hackernews by viewing the 'new' page? That is what the comment is advocating, that the only view should be the new page, with submissions listed by post date only.

If discovery is by a separate page dedicated to popular stuff, how is that any better? Whatever 'algorithm' is used to create that page would have the same problems that people are complaining about; why would putting it on a different page change anything? That is sort of how things are currently; you can view a feed by 'latest first' or by the 'algorithm'. You can choose either one, but most people prefer the algorithm version because it curates.

People WANT curation. You can argue with the particular type of curation, but I think the concept itself is pretty universally desired.
It’s always easier to find problems, especially from behind a keyboard.

Also remember context. The CmdrTaco of Slashdot’s infamous quick take on the iPod is always made fun of, but he lacked the perspective at the time to understand why the iPod was such an important product. In the context he had, the Creative Nomad was objectively a better product.
Nicely done! I have a feeling this will save me some time. Do you plan to add in the ability to split individual items unevenly?
Hi there! I'm the in-house AI engineer at Braindump. We've done some internal research into this and are excited to explore it in future, but we're not currently working on it at present - only so many problems we can tackle at the same time :) Looking forward to playing around with it more down the line!
Re: name. Fold and bend are indeed called fold and unfold in Haskell and traditional functional programming literature.

I wonder if bend has to do with how we manipulate the computation's interaction graph while evaluating a bend. There might be some bending of wires!

Re: code example

In the code example, x=0 is the seed value. tree = fork(0) must mean "fork off to evaluate the bend at the seed value". In that first fork, we fork twice with the value x=1, to get the left and right subtrees of the top level node. We then fork four instances of x=2, eight instances of x = 3, and finally get our balanced binary tree with eight 7s.

Note this is guesswork. I don't know what the ![a, b] syntax means, and I haven't read much of the guide.

Appendix: Notes on Fold Vs Bend

I wrote these for an earlier draft while reminding myself about these operations. I include them more for my benefit, and in case they help you or the audience.

Fold and bend are categorical duals, aka catamorphisms and anamorphisms. One takes a monadic value and reduces it into an ordinary value. The other takes an ordinary value and expands it into a comonadic value.

Fold starts with a value in an inductive data type, and then replaces its constructors with a function. For example it takes a list (1:2):3, and replaces the constructor : with the function `+`, to get (1+2)+3 = 6

Bend starts with a seed value and a function taking values into constructor expressions for a conductive data type. It then grows the seed into a potentially infinite AST. For example the seed value 1 and the function f(x:xs) = (x+1) : (x:xs) gives us the infinite lazy list [1, 2, 3, ...]
Is this really a more plausible explanation than using convenience and urgency as a profit center?

Services like Venmo and Cash App basically have no income stream without paid instant payouts.
Huh I’m glad I have AirPods, they work perfectly in this scenario. One of those Apple ecosystem things I guess.
The 'TikTok servers' are actually Oracle servers hosted in the USA.
Love that they referenced Aphex Twins ∆Mᵢ⁻¹ = −∂ ∑ Dᵢ[n] [∑ Fⱼᵢ[n−1] + F extᵢ[n⁻¹]].
> Maybe you're too young to remember

An ad hominem attack doesn't seem necessary to prove your point (speaking as someone who actually is old enough to remember).
Tako and our first integration, Perplexity
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/musk-weed-153633...:*
The Easy Button
https://archive.ph/zycY0
Wordpad was good. I don’t remember the full feature suite, but Microsoft could have expanded on it to have something like Google Docs, but native.
Your pros list being empty is the real answer. Basically you don't know the pros because you haven't taken the time to find out.

Kinda delegitimizes your cons list too. I'm not going to bother word-by-word checking your work.
> Demoing Star Wars is just asking to be picked apart by people.

I am confused as to why you think think this is a bad thing.

That's likely the best way to go viral and get traction, to have a bunch of people being upset about this tool.
"just" be paranoid? A health person's reaction to a weak response is probably to assume, with some humility, that others didn't appreciate their comment so much. We're talking here about how the social media platform _ought to behave._
I feel like this sort of idea is one of those that sounds great until you actually start to think about it.

If you publish your algorithm, you are giving interested parties the instruction manual on how to game it; spammers and propagandists can use that algorithm to make sure their content gets to the top.
That could also explain many of the other issues, such as poor battery life, slow charging, CPU throttling, etc.

In general though, I have had a terrible experience with Apple's QA as well. I've had 4 Macbooks over the years and they all had multiple (usually different) things that really sucked and drove me insane.
Wouldn't a low-density UI yield an infinitely large ratio?

Not Much Ink / Nothing else.
The eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments
Too many world-weary engineers here. We've seen Marketing announced "Pedal-powered supersonic flying cars can be pre-ordered starting next quarter!", and watched "CRITICAL SPEC: minimum flashover voltage of 125kV" vanish during an unrelated Bill of Materials edit, and noticed master AWS credentials that were posted to public repositories, and ...
Whoa! Really!? I gotta try that!
I know there are apps that simulate film photos. I wonder if there are any that don’t show the images for a week.
Plasticity was open source before it abandoned c3d in favor of Parasolid. The repo can still be found here: https://github.com/nkallen/plasticity
In rough order:

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War:

> In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/26634594

Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance:

> Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the day-to-day independence of their work, sharing a strong occupational identity rooted in a tradition of autonomy. Yet these workers increasingly find themselves under many watchful eyes. Data Driven examines how digital surveillance is upending life and work on the open road, and raises crucial questions about the role of data collection in broader systems of social control.

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60564512

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams:

> Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity. He also provides actionable steps towards getting a better night's sleep every night.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (which goes over the history semiconductors, and not just present day events):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_Wo...
It's a great read, and honestly I wish something like that (or an Ethics class) was required in order to graduate with a CompSci degree. We all have agency and the ability to say "no" to implementing bad ideas, but if you suggest that on HN, they look at you like you have antlers growing out of your head.

I've quit jobs where I believed the project I was asked to work on were unethical, and that I had no other choice at the company. My first job out of university, I was asked to write code to cheat on an industry benchmark. I was 19 years old but I still somehow conjured up the courage to tell my manager that I would not feel comfortable working on that.

But you see senior engineers here with 20 years of experience just shrugging and saying "Well, boss told me to do it so I have no choice!"
A.I.'S Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious
I am trying to look you up, but I am not sure I completely understand your organization and offering. Is Ondsel to FreeCAD the same as Codeweavers to Wine?
As digital natives, Gen Z members have grown up with access to technology and are very comfortable using it in their everyday lives. One particular technology that has undergone significant changes in recent years is the camera, and Gen Z is at the forefront of this shift.
While I don't have any insider info on the behind the scenes wrangling wrt IMO regulations, I would assume that asbestos wouldn't have been prohibited unless satisfactory alternatives weren't available. E.g. mineral wool, glass wool, and Zetex fabric are AFAIU widely used as fireproof insulation materials all over the world, presumably also in 'asbestos-free' ships.
You are correct, but I think we're lacking in things even more basic than that.

Pretty much every single responsive design I ever worked had either the mobile or desktop version as an afterthought. The mobile was just a "scaled down" version that was done last-minute, or vice versa.

Is there a sidebar? Hamburger menu it is. Is there a list? Well just put every row on top of each other.

Sure, this makes things easier for the both the designer and the developers, but putting just a bit more effort in the "secondary" version would be enough to make both versions better.
Charging adds TONS of cost. For start most small city cars are simply charged from wall socket. 2KW are absolutely fine to charge such small cars. You are comparing cost of power cable, with building dedicated circuits and charging station!

Second is the deprecation cost on car battery! Cycles add up quickly!
The AMD EPYC 4004 Is Finally Here and Intel Xeon E Needs an Overhaul
Scale AI is announcing $1B of financing at a $13.8B valuation
I can't put my finger on it, but I absolutely hate the grammar of the title.

It somehow feels misleading. I guess it's just classic clickbait that bothers me more than usual.
Its a nice exercise in photography to shoot in film. When I shoot digital I might take four shots of the same subject because why not. I take photos of every little thing potentially. I give myself a headache of 4000 photos with dozens of near identical shots to sift through in lightroom.

You’d think I’d burn hundreds on film but no. A roll might last days or weeks or even longer. Every shot is different. I spend more time framing and making sure the exposure is correct. It forces you to slow down and think. The cost becomes hardly a thing because if I start worrying about $25 a month if that on film and dev, I have bigger problems.
It should be able to run them without any changes. GW-BASIC was derived from BASICA and is functionally identical. BASICA required the cassette basic rom which shipped with IBM machines and GW-BASIC did not.
I Lived In Airbnbs For Over A Year. It Was Cheaper Than Renting (2023)
Pl_JSON – Yet another single header JSON parser
The fact that New York (a city of 8M people) has only received ~150% more funding than Mountain View (a city of 81K people) tells you all you need to know about the promise here.
Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag