skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole thing is mad, students protested segregation and Apartheid, but these days, even they would be shunned it seems. Their university fees are being invested in arms companies in Israel that's perpetrated an apartheid policy before its current genocide. Why are politicians and people in power degrading democratic rights for a fascist government?

Also, it's not anti-Israel; it's anti-genocide and anti-Apartheid.
https://app.meshy.ai/preview?web=018f8ef6-e562-7e19-b0d7-5f6...

https://app.meshy.ai/preview?web=018f4d04-6a56-701e-9abc-62a...

IANAL, but I think Blizzard and Marvel would beg to differ that these are kosher for commercial use.

They're also very poor quality models but that's a separate issue.
(Yes, I know about the Spartacus thing. In the bigger picture - he is a great individual hero. Though having your military idealize somebody whose uprising was brutally crushed in just 2 years might fail to encourage a victory-oriented mindset.)

From a few quick searches, I'm not getting anything about Soviet views on Sparta - just crap about the US-based "Sparta vs. Athens" Cold War analogy, or Soviet takes on (modern) Greek communism, or Eastern Orthodox ties between Greece and Russia, or Imperial Russian views on the Greek War of Independence, or ...

This being HN - there is probably someone who either knows, or is fluent in Russian to be able to effectively search on the topic.
Rereading the article, which throws out a lot of misleading numbers, it sounds like their estimate was actually pretty close. So yeah I guess that seems reasonable
oh, shit. I don't need another keyboard but I do need that. it's like the ThinkPad of my dreams just stepped out of 2003.
Agreed, the Amethyst team is doing saintly work over there.
That's true, in certain situations, companies can use the system to make it painfully risky to attempt to take action against them.

There's a very different business culture in the UK when it comes to legal threats and I suspect the fact the loser pays both sides plays a big part in that. As a business owner, I'm happy to avoid more commonplace legal nonsense, even if it means there's potential for huge companies to abuse it.
Let's not forget that the one doesn't preclude the other. There can be external pressure from customers, and internal pressure from cogs less and less enthusiastic about dark patterns. And at some point maybe maybe some regulation would step in, it's not unheard of.
What's your definition of "good" ? In the past, the right for women to vote, to get an abortion, for gays to be married, for blacks to vote without fear of harm, were all "unpopular-to-power opinions" and deemed "bad." It only becomes "good" when you personally believe it to be.
> there is objectively speaking absolutely no reason for a developer to work on a Surface device or Windows.

So uuh... where are you shipping software then?
VSCO photo app is now profitable and has amassed a user base of 200M
Freedom of information acts are for shedding light on government acts and activities. What your neighbour is doing is neither, so the request wouldn't be granted.

For the city hall member, if you could show that they were doing city business on a city device, you would have a case for why the FOIA request should be granted because that would be a government activity.
Provide a build without ChatGPT integration
Mac apps are just so beautiful when built by devs who build fully on the platform.
How does that gel with the idea that it's just the marketing thing?
This might be true in fact, if asbestos use is limited to applications where it's the obvious best choice.

But it's uncomfortable to run a simple utilitarian calculus when, as in this case, the groups it benefits (sailors) and those it harms (shipbreakers) are disjoint. Leads one to want to find a solution which is more straightforwardly positive-sum.
If I go to Google Scholar and search for things like "nano micro plastics", "cytotoxicity", "oxidative stress", "immunotoxicity", "inflammation response", etc., I get back an enormous amount of (very) recent studies with conclusions I personally find concerning. It's hard to quantify the actual impact in the general population. At the same time everyone is looking for explanations for the raise of early onset cancers.
I miss the days of Flash.

I used to be able to make a game in a few weeks from my dorm, add Mochi ads, upload it to Newgrounds, and then it would spread to thousands of sites and get played by hundreds of thousands of people.
Interesting suggestion! My favorite subject is History and this fits right in, in the broader sense of being a historically significant novel.

On the list!
>> I'd honestly struggle to find any good games (right for their time and audience) that failed because of a lack of suitable marketing.

> I'll offer Flappy Bird as an example.

Flappy Bird is a bizarre exception: it was a massive viral hit before it was voluntarily withdrawn by the developer feeling guilty over its success. It was then cloned a lot.
Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model
Ken Segall has a similar Steve Jobs story, he emails Jobs that the Apple legal team have just thrown a spanner in the works days before Ken's agency is set to launch Apple's big ad campaign and what should he do?

Jobs responds minutes later... "Fuck the lawyers."
Monbiot's _Regenesis_, which investigates ways in which it might be possible to make global food production both sustainable and affordable, seemed very well written to me.

Finally finished the last _Discworld_ book. The whole series is great, of course.
I’m not familiar with Massachusetts tax law.

Does this also hit people with large amounts of accumulated wealth, or is it mostly aimed at the middle class?

I ask because, in California, when people cash out after an IPO, they often find that they pay over 50% marginal tax. This happens even though their average earnings over the time period where they earned the stock were nowhere near the top tax bracket.

On the other hand, ultra wealthy people involved in the same IPO have all sorts of mechanisms at their disposal that make it easy to avoid the big tax hit. (Most of the strategies involve taking on positive expectation risks with $100K’s of downside, which you should not do unless you’re a multi-millionaire)

Anyway, the people in the former group are sometimes called HENRYs (high earner not rich yet), and I get the impression that one group pays a much higher percentage of their earnings in tax than any other group. When these millionaire taxes are proposed, they usually target Henry’s, but not people that are wealthier than that.
PlasticList Project
The article is suggesting the opposite has happened and that the tax revenues are a bit higher than expected
I don't disagree, that is basically what it is.

I suspect the same thing goes for the corruption perceptions index. People conveniently drop the perceptions part, and they get their corruption reputation from last year's headline.
Thanks for this wonderful game. The UI is neat and it helps understand the concepts well.
what if... we could scrolljack.... the terminal

rips bong
It's glorious. I got mine with Cherry MX Reds and it's a wonderful typing experience. They're so cheap that I'm tempted to buy a second one as my backup trackpoint.
More and more I find myself wondering about the use cases companies imagine when developing websites and apps. My bank is trying to implement a new UI for their online banking and they are trying to mimic the UI of their mobile app.

The issue I have is that the mobile app is already so dumbed down that it's pointless and I don't use it. When you have limited screen space you need to decide what to show first. For my bank it's the status of a MasterCard credit card I don't own on the first screen of the mobile app. Next is some pointless overview of my accounts. I say pointless, because all context has been removed, in favor of massive amounts of white space.

Now they want to replicate this interface, but for larger screens. Most of the screen is white space and you have to click on everything to get details, details that would fit perfectly well, even on a small laptop screen. Also nothing is obviously click-able, because why would you add visual clues that just taints their beautiful white space.

For the most part I think that companies would love to ignore desktops and large screens. In some sense they may also be afraid of presenting users with details overviews, either is to make everything seem more friendly, or to discourage usage.
Slightly OT: seeing those screenshots of Bloomberg Terminal makes me wonder why they haven't picked a better (more readable) monospace font.
I don’t understand the draw of fusion. Even if the fusion reactor itself was free, the cost of harvesting the heat and transforming into electricity is quite expensive and complicated to the point that it’s its very non competitive with solar or other renewables. It also has the same ramp up and down problems of nuclear.

Besides being a cool physics problem is not actually an economically viable source of electricity.
FWIW, it seems pretty likely the same multi-NFA algorithm described in the article could be applied to other backtracking scenarios (and therefore to back references and lookaround). Since I’m just speculating, I’ll hazard a guess that it would result in a meaningfully more complex implementation to derive each state machine, and potentially much slower (while still “linear” complexity).
> This historical interpretation would be stronger without all that emotion.

I'm not sure I agree. If you believe something is destroying civil society, you're going to have a strong emotional reaction. That should come through when you write about it. Otherwise readers won't get the full impact of what you're trying to say.
There's a couple of problems with his writing for a general audience. One is that he's very pedantic and will spend significant time on things that aren't the main point. The other is that he's a historian and will spend significant time on sources. Personally I appreciate these but yeah they don't lead to as concise an article as could be written
It may still be a good idea because of battery but basically no one cares. Contra early days of smartphones when there near altercations with passengers responding to one last email after the doors closed.
I actually want the app though. Some music is not on Spotify that I have from iTunes music store back in the day. If you can believe it, several Black Sabbath albums aren't on Spotify.
> Projects like this give me a little hope that blogging can make a comeback.

From nostr site: "If all the relays that you have used in the past go offline, all your posts will be unretrievable." https://nostr.com/relays

Nostr doesn't solve the archival problem
The bar is truly low is we're congratulating the media that.
“Team behind schedule” usually means that some manager promised an arbitrary date based on an imaginary timeline.

Every team needs slack. Bad managers hate slack. Good managers hide slack.
> What a positively Buldakian statement!

Does anyone know what "Buldakian" means? "Buldak" is a spicy Korean dish, literally "fire chicken", but that doesn't seem relevant.
I did not, that was another poster. I specifically talked about Gazans.

> As I said the bulk of statements from Israeli military, politicians, and government, in Hebrew and in English say that the war in Gaza is not against civilians but against Hamas. If you insist on cherry picking some statements and building your story on those then I would respectfully ask that you reconsider.

They say they are not fighting against the civilians through one corner of their mouth, and say the civilians are bitter monsters that cheered as Israelis were slaughtered (as you are claiming as well) through the other corner of their mouth. In the meantime, their hands are busy destroying hospitals, schools, universities, killing journalists, killing aid workers, killing doctors and nurses, killing children, preventing aid of any kind from entering the country, and so on.

Not to mention, for every video of one Palestinian or Gazan cheering on the Hamas crimes of October 7th you find, I'll find a similar video of an Israeli citizen or soldier cheering when a school is destroyed or a "terrorist" killed. Both are heinous, but a lot of people, like yourself apparently, pretend only Gaza has monsters that take pleasure in the killing of civilians.

And still it must be remembered that Gazans are being actively occupied by Israel, a state which has no intention whatsoever as recognizing them as an independent nation, nor allowing those of them that wish to to return to the homes they had to abandon in the fighting of only a few decades ago. I personally cut oppressed people some small amount of slack when they feel vindicated for their oppressors feeling some amount of the oppression they feel every day, as bad as it is to think like that (note that more than 200 Gazan civilians were being killed per year even before the current slaughter began).
If you played the old sierra adventures you could literally feel there is something wrong with their corporate culture. And the programmers seemed to have a laugh.
I start my year by rereading _Colorful_ by Eto Mori.

This is the sort of coming of age story that I wish we had in the US.
I hate it if I need to scroll horizontally just because the content only occupies a third of the page in the middle with great white spaces to the left and to the right of it.

I have a wide display for a reason.
FYI: code in github, see https://github.com/GRBurst/hnjobs
> You are less attractive, "odd" or "strange" if you are not there. There is huge social pressure

Other people's thoughts of you are not under your control. That people feel pressured to be on these platforms says more about the company they keep than anything else.
Personally, I read digital copies now so that I don't have to stop to find the definition. On the Koreader application, it has a dictionary function which makes it really nice to read with.
How do you work with an organization that is explicitly dedicated to destroying your state and killing your people?

Do you just hope they didn't mean the things they wrote in their charter?
Yeah, some tools are built for complex, niche workflows and as a result need to have information and control density. You can't design away the learning curve in these cases and probably shouldn't try to or you'll harm the pro-end of the userbase's UX, meaning someone can't do their job quickly/efficiently enough.
Now I don't know how stuff works in the States, but what's the government's job if the municipality does this with their own funding? Aren't they free to burn their own money as they please (or, their community pleases) be it cantaloupe contests, marching bands clubs or broadband internet?
Hollow by Brian Catling

Wild ride of a book, highly entertaining

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56212878-hollow
Found Deluxe Paint running in browser (via JS port of DosBox?) https://www.dpaint.org/

Another one via DosBox https://classicreload.com/dosx-deluxe-paint-animation.html
At least Windows had the decency to make their ridiculous straight-to-LinkedIn keyboard shortcut obscure. Applications auto-launching should not be a thing unless the user set them up to do so or they’re essential to the system’s functioning.
Yeah, this was one of those "Republic of Gamers" laptops, which on paper was pretty decent with a nice AMD processor and GPU, but the actual build quality was garbage.

I had this idea that I was going to have "one computer to rule them all", so something I could edit video on and play games and all that fun stuff. Since then I've come to realize that I would much rather just have some dedicated hardware (e.g. a dedicated mini desktop with a decent GPU) for intensive stuff and keep my laptop a bit more utilitarian, and primarily focus on something with decent battery life and solid Linux driver support.

I'm a little disappointed at how bad the 2019-era Macbooks are with Linux, and it's a little frustrating that the Macbook Linux for the M[1|2|3] is substantially nicer and easier to set up than something with an Intel CPU and an AMD GPU. As it stands, I managed to get NixOS installed on my Macbook and it's almost fine, but suspend doesn't work at all, and the audio quality from the speakers is awful, which is a dealbreaker for me right now.

I'm hoping that once Apple stops providing updates to Intel Macs, there will be a huge push to fix the kernel on the T2 hardware.
Regular I doesn't need that much power, maybe we could just use that instead?
Which one is the last? There are so many!

I personally like the copper stories the best.
Every Apple user has this complaint at some point with some feature, and either buckles and just accepts the Apple way or, very very rarely, will go to the effort of installing something to deal with it.

Apple's foundational ethos is that they pick a single implementation and run with it, only making it configurable if held at gunpoint.
That would be opposite
> Can you show that railroads can realistically handle 250% of current freight traffic, and 100000% of current passenger traffic? My gut feel is that they can't. If you have evidence that they can, then let's see it.

The system that has barley seen any investment for 100+ years and is disadvantaged by every possible regulatory and legal mechanism can't currently do it, therefore it is unworkable.

Of course if you don't invest in a capability your not gone have it. The highway system has seen an absurd amount of investment and thus is currently handling these things.

Nobody claims that you can't change it tomorrow. But the question is what is possible if you do things like proper land use and transportation planning.

And we have very good evidence that highways are inefficient and unhealthy.
Thank you, I appreciate it! For v2, I'd like to add more NNs and a little explanation for each one.
My last gig I built a campaign management interface. The designer kept coming back with something that showed 10 lines per "screen". I kept showing them the excel spreadsheet we were replacing that had been configured with 8pt fonts so it showed dozens per screen. It's really hard to switch design patterns from consumer/prosumer to professional.

Knowledge workers who "live" in the tool want as much data as possible, as quickly as possible.
That's sort of the point of survivorship bias. Name one unsuccessful would-be entrepreneur. It's hard because chances are, anyone that's recognizable was successful in some way.

For games, I'll give an example: Aegis Defenders. Great game, no traction.
Also that iOS decides to default to Apple Music. Every time I connect my phone to my car for example it defaults to Apple Music. Even though I have used Spotify AND Overcast to play audio lately but almost never Apple Music.

At least I could still buy "A a a a a a very good song" in iTunes Music Store still so it won't alphabetically run Anno Mundi (or for my wife whatever is the lexiographically first track of that U2 record they pushed on everyone)
V13 by Emmanuel Carrère. It's a non-fiction about the trial following the attacks on Bataclan in Paris on Friday, 13 Nov. 2015 (V13 is Friday 13). It can't fulfill all its promises, but it does provide an insight in the role of law and justice in a state following such outrageous deeds, in particular on the human side.
You can, but you may lose the ability to reliably play anything on your car over lightning. At least I do.

(I also have to have downloaded music... thankfully I got that U2 album ages ago, ha.)
A large amount of income above $1m/year is going to be capital gains, which is difficult to predict, even under an unchanging tax system.

Also, if people are going to move to avoid higher taxes, they may not move all at once, and predicting that is likely hard, too.

Better to underpromise and over deliver with tax revenues, anyway.
RPM? You think the ink rotates?
I think there's also a bunch of people where it's not exactly showing off, it's just they have so much disposable income they don't care if it's worth it or not, it's the official thing and they don't want to do any research so they just buy it
37% of the marginal tax rate for a high income is going to be federal.

In MA you tack on 5%; and now an additional 4% for income over $1M
Fisker Tells Ocean Owners They No Longer Have Roadside Assistance
I've used to excuse such behaviors, saying that Apple has better integration between their products, cares about UI design more than anybody else, or that such integrations are new and don't have proper APIs yet.

However, years have passed, and Apple has been systematically giving preferential treatment to their apps and services, while dragging their feet on APIs for 3rd parties.

They keep using genuinely useful aspects of the App Store as a shield for anti-competitive abuse and petty rules (only in Apple's imagination allowing apps to mention other platforms is the same thing as allowing malware).

They've been spreading FUD and presenting false dichotomies that it's either exactly Apple's way, or chaos and malware. Instead of creating safe and efficient APIs for 3rd party browser engines, they chose not to have competition for Safari instead. Instead of creating APIs for easy centralized subscription management, they conveniently kept it exclusive to their own subscriptions, with pricing that can only be sustained in a duopoly.

Apple had plenty of time, and lots of chances to ease off their worst anti-competitive behaviors to keep regulators away, but instead they've doubled down on owning the platform and their users, and are now throwing tamper tantrums and malicious compliance.
This does not strike me as the comment of somebody who actually read any of Satoshi's writing. From what I've seen, neither "arrogant" nor "rambling" actually applied to him, which Justice Mellor's ruling also reflects upon.
While I primarily read fiction, I've been reading through the first book in Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Lyndon_Johnson) and have been quite engaged given the interest I have in the topic (history as a whole isn't generally the genre I leap for, but Caro has a way to make it interesting).
The blog post about it seems to imply you have to do an extra swipe down to put it in the clipboard manager for every copy...
Yes, that's what I was talking about. As a small competitor of Netflix, ISPs will laugh me out of the room if I suggest they install one (let alone many) servers in their buildings.
> If they didn’t think they needed permission, why ask for permission multiple times and then yank it when she noticed?

One very easy explanation is that they trained Sky using another voice (this is the claim and no reason to doubt it is true) wanting to replicate the stye of the voice in "Her", but would have preferred to use SJ's real voice for the PR impact that could have.

Yanking it could also easily be a pre-emptive response to avoid further PR drama.

You will obvious decide you don't believe those explanations, but to many of us they're quite plausible, in fact I'd even suggest likely.

(And none of this precludes Sam Altman and OpenAI being dodgy anyway)
Exploring the Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models on Dense Text
As others have mentioned below, a lot of sites and applications don't support embedded video, so GIF is the only way to go.

I love using ScreenToGif to embed little videos into my email responses when I'm doing technical support. It's so much easier to show someone the process than describe everything in click by click detail.

I've been doing this for years, and people are always amazed at the videos.
I have a pair of LG 24" 4K monitors. It's a limitation of Apple Silicon that limits one to being driven at 30Hz (but the other runs at 60 just fine).