skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At any given required quality level, I'd give 50-50 odds that "creating scenes from prompts" is easier/harder than "creating list of prompts from vague script idea".

So we might not buy anything.
> So what is really happening isn’t really dialogue. It’s talking into the vast nothingness for a shot of dopamine or whatever our brains use to reward voicing our opinion.

I'd say this is a dialogue though. Twitter however, seems like one way com mostly and those who are not notable shout into the void for no good reason.
That's just about adding more people to your echo chamber though isn't it?
It's news that's untrue and made up, rather than mistaken reporting. I know we can never know real truth in all circumstances, and there'll always be situations of vagueness and ambiguity. But there's still the things that did happen, to some level of veracity, and the things that people made up. The dissemination of shit people have made up while also lying and saying it's the truth does seem to present a problem.
Lawyers argued that Title 24 required that residential buildings be interconnected with the grid [0] [1], but 2022 updates to the code seem to have clarified that standalone solar PV systems with storage are OK (though they should still be meet the same standards as grid-connected systems would) [2]

In any case the small number of people who can afford to do so and want to do so seem to be doing so [3]

[0] https://www.cailaw.org/media/files/IEL/Publications/2016/gri...

[1] https://klinedinstlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/how-tit...

[2] https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/programs/build...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/solar/comments/168mlxw/possiblelega...
Phone signal? Okay. I thought we're talking about fixed broadband connections.
Go-recipes: Tools for Go projects
Interactive storytelling, while recently mainstream due to netflix, didn’t get much traction in the video context. 3d TVs famously flopped. I doubt interacting with immersive content would replace 2d films. Perhaps it would coexist as another medium.
Yup, main reason I left my previous job post-covid. Traffic was worse, and they downgraded the office to a smaller, damp room, with a really loud air-conditioner. Half the team left after I did.

Current job does 2-3 days hybrid too, but it's more like synchronised days. If you can't make it, or if you're more productive at home, nobody yells at you to. Many people love working in person, but even the most extroverted ones don't like being forced to, especially when they're also under pressure to get work done.
"It also points to a possible solution, he says: “Simple limits on retweets would constrain the spread of this information while having little effect on the vast majority of users.”

This is a good solution. I remember a while ago, I believe it was in India, WhatsApp limited the number of users you could share something with as a response to the platform being used for riling up ethnic violence. Putting an inhibitor on this cascading virality has to improve the sanity in any communication network.

Individual accounts broadcasting at the rate of major TV news stations with no scrutiny isn't a combination that was ever going to produce something approaching the truth. The entire premise of how groups produce truth is through a representative wisdom-of-the-crowds effect. 0.1% of highly correlated users swinging every discussion is extremely pathological.

Most glaring problem is of course that limiting your most viral users is complete anathema to the business incentives of any for-profit social media platform, so in particular I don't see it happening on Twitter.
I know that; and ofc I played Dungeon/Zork with that semi Non-Euclidean geometry.
But my point is mostly, by default, under inform6/inform6lib, you move in eight dirs and up/down.
That's it.
And yes, I'm aware about objects and inside/outside relations, the Inform6 flags map directly to them.
But you can't do relative moves as you could do in a MUD, for instance for combats.
Altough there was some roguelike written in Inform7 which was close.
Yes, you can implement them as grammars/objects but you would have to track the entire map at once in order to track the projectiles per turn.
I meant adage, I listened to classical music recently (more than usual)

:)

Thank you for the correction!
The biggest issue with this game is that it crashes to desktop constantly, maybe a conflict with Discord? and when it crashes it also somehow closes Discord. I havent seen a game actually crash to desktop like that, that often, in a long time. That's shockingly bad imo.
Talking about Myopia - I have it (~2 and ~3 degrees, so not particularly bad), I am in my mid 40s, and I have been considering a surgery to fix it. Let's assume that for this particular case, money is not an issue.

There's a ton of different types of surgery available [0] to fix refractive errors.

Besides Lasik, which I think is the most popular but not necessarily the best, there's at least two other options out there:

1) Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) - 1st gen

2) Laser-assisted stromal in situ keratomileuses (LASIK) - 2nd gen

3) Small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) - 3rd gen

However, I am not fully convinced that SMILE is absolutely by far the best; and it's not easy to find the right provider (outside the US).

Anyone with experience or knowledge that could help navigate this mess?

[0]: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?con...
If you're in any area that doesn't have permitless carry your contribution may buy you a CPL.
Current Xorg has Glamor, using OpenGL to accelerate the 2D ops of X11. There is also Zink, OpenGL-over-Vulkan for the rare case of Vulkan without native OpenGL.

OTOH, there are people willing to add support for old hardware that probably can't run Vulkan, or even OpenGL, and sometimes they manage to upstream that code. With your "bsder" nick, the following example seems relevant.

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/x_org_on_netbsd_the [search "PowerPC"]

Some old X11 coders still work on it, or make suggestions to improve it.

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2024-April/061644.html

https://keithp.com/x-ideas/

But such initiatives lack the "new shiny bling" factor, which seems to be a must nowadays to be a "success". It's the curse of "mostly done, mostly maintenance" projects in a world where breaking ground looks better in a CV than polishing and oiling the machinery others crafted.
Caddy sounds like the go to tool for people who care a lot about getting things done. It's time for me to try it.
This looks kind of useless. It's a normal power sucking Android phone with a slow monochrome screen, so it combines the disadvantages of a phone and an e-reader. And the screen is too small too, at 5.84". An Inkplate 10 is still on my shopping list, but I'd really want more like 14" (= full page pdf).
CVE-2015-0235? What the hell? -2015- and still unpatched? But apparently it looks like the case.

Anyway, Alpine seem to use musl instead of glibc.
Lxde and lxdm run fine in a netbook. You have both graphical tools for Youtube and for Reddit
https://old.reddit.com will run perfectly fine once you set an adblocker.
Each My Number Card is a X509 certificate signed by a government agency (JPKI) and uses two passwords for signing and for user authentication. As far as I'm aware, there are currently two concerns with the JPKI part: though the password itself is not an issue (although the password requirement of 4 digits number for signing + lowercase letter for authentication may as well be), the ward office offered a piece of paper to write these passwords down when you issue the card, and many people did & folded it together with the card itself. Another one is that requesting user authentication means you'll get all the data on the card (name, DoB, gender, current address, image data) which may be too much from a privacy standpoint.

Apart from JPKI itself, another issue of My Number Card currently is that most of online KYC using MNC is still largely done by comparing the photo printed on the card with an image data taken from a web camera. There's a published paper of a group of researchers able to pass an eKYC using a photo of MNC and Deepfake[1] (and an actual case of someone doing a SIM-swap using a photo of My Number Card[2]). The government has recently been promoting the use of JPKI for eKYC instead of doing image analysis[3] (which loops us back to the privacy issue, though there have been talks about reviewing what to include/not include in the user authentication part of the card).

[1] https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjsai/JSAI2021/0/JSAI20...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.co.jp/news/detail/e3801312bffeedcb1999...

[3] https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000946152.pdf
It was finished and congratulated 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17146451

The same author also made rough.js.

So it looks like the commenter you replied to has more context than you.
In principle yes; in practice you can tell they're not yet "anything you can do I can do [better, cheaper, faster]" by observing that most of us still have jobs.
Company promises are temporary, data is forever. And gmail is an ad service, having some paid clients doesn’t change that.
It introduces something new that tickles our curiosity. Not everything needs to be a long read. I do like short posts.
Radio 4 is particularly interesting, as it carries additional 25bps data [0] using for radio teleswitch operation [1] - a service whose days are numbered. Quite fun to receive this signal, as it's trivial to build a 198KHz receiver and to recover the data stream (+ time signal) using a signal, e.g. mix it with a 200KHz signal and process the resultant 2Khz audio tone.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1984_19

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_teleswitch
You severely underestimate what a clusterfuck of credit card abuse comes out of India. Heroku used to lose millions a year.
Let's be real here, there is no risk of losing publishers over not bending the knee to publishers over unreasonable demands (such as banning entire accounts).
Publishers have been trying to stay off Steam for much more strategic reasons, and they have always come crawling back, admitting they fail at distributing games on their own. They would never seriously consider ditching the platform over petty grievances like this.
Ditto; I don't think fiber it's available at $LOST_REMOTE_FARMLAND_VILLAGE.
Sometimes yes. It depends on how sincere or good faith a comment is, or the general atmosphere of a platform. While having lengthy discussions on HN is pretty much impossible, I still feel lots of people are showing willingness of entertaining “curious conversations”

I do think you highlight a certain skill thats advantageous to have , like knowing when something is indeed a silly argument or lost cause of an emotional drain.
4 nanoseconds spent calling high quality functions is 4 nanoseconds well spent
I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't know how it is in any English-speaking country, but when I ask my Polish friends about the word "epistemology", they just don't know it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

According to Google: the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion.

Even though they wouldn't know the term, we all learn how to figure out what's true and what's not: we learn it when watching cartoons about lying, or when interpreting texts in school and so on. But imagine you go to a doctor, and have a small talk in which you say "I was always fascinated by medicine", to which the doc responds "What is medicine?" - you probably would run away from that doctor.

And yet here we are, living in the "Information Era", and yet we're still missing the very basic techniques of figuring out the truth: if you look at the statistics of religion/atheism, no group holds over 50% of population - meaning THE MAJORITY IS WRONG - and not on a nuanced thing like the majority not being able to tell the average distance between the Earth and the Moon with 1 meter accuracy. No, on something as important and world-view defining as the existence and character of God, most of us are wrong.

The percentage of flat-earthers in America is a 2-digit number...

So the problem here isn't that Facebook doesn't have a support number. The problem is much deeper, and in a way, it's good that people suffer from their stupidity: it's like programmers suffering from errors - in the end of the day they end up with their logical thinking improved. Question is: how do we reshape the society to replace production errors with compilation errors, or how do we educate ourselves to minimize the frustrating error messages.
Midnight Trains – when the night dies
Highly fascinating story that sadly ended yesterday, of a French startup trying to launch a new night train. Full story available on their mailing list archive:

https://www.midnight-trains.com/blog-subcategories-en/confid...

Or start at the beginning:

https://www.midnight-trains.com/post/a-railway-aperitif-a-gr...
> Anything a human being can create an AI can too.

Not yet. And the more niche the longer it will take for AI to be able to do it since you have less data for it.
Even today, some people and companies choose to follow the law without being forced to. It might even be important from a business perspective to remain squeaky clean if you are in a dominant market position, when competitors are looking for leverage against you.
I grew up in rural Ireland, you’re not wrong.
That sounds like a good change?

I mean, if you don't actually know someone yet, is it really a good idea to hang on their every word the way social media does?
This calls for the classic quote: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil"

I expect the vast majority of code spends so little time in errors.Is() that trying to optimize it saves nothing. Profile first, and change it later if needed; as Go is statically typed such a change is trivial.
I would like to think HN is dialogue, even though the format isn’t suited for lengthy discussions as things move on. Especially the core tenet of “curious conversation” is very helpful.

Other platforms or certain subs on reddit? Quality differs wildly.
Didnt know there was a cern tld
I can’t predict anything.

But I recently got a Vision Pro demo and watched some 3D scenes. I thought it was amazing and clearly more entertaining than a 2D.

Then I saw SORA and thought this is amazing too.

So combine them together and we might have a new way of experiencing stories. We don’t have to watch stories on a 2D screen. We can “experience” them in our own environment. Maybe share the same experience with friends and family who also have a VR headset on.
Ah, root... every day it happens I am thankful I don't have to used a version older than 6.
In fact there are lower-frequency signals that carry more data, generally used for submarine communication - the wikipedia article says "uo tp 300bps" using VLF (30KHz or so).

Fun fact: sound cards in PC's are now fast enough that it's possible to receive many of these signals (including WWWV, DCF77 and MSF) directly with a sound card - basically connect a long wire (or tuned circuir) to the sound card input and do a bit of DSP. Sampling at 192KHz makes reception of any of these easy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines
I think there's a marked difference between seeing boosts of the people you directly follow versus an opaque algorithm that shows you content from the broader network. The former puts you in control: you choose who to follow based on if you like their content and their boosts. The latter is usually tuned towards showing you content that will keep you on the site (and looking at ads), but isn't necessarily content you want to see. As commercial social networking sites become increasingly profit driven, they'll crank the algorithm towards engagement at the cost of everything else. In contrast, a chronological feed of content created by or boosted by the people you directly follow is not "the algorithm".

On Mastodon, I discovered someone via a boost who had wrote a great blog post. I followed them but found my feed was now full of bird photography (their main hobby, and something I don't care for). I added a filter for "#BirdsOfMastodon" (or something), but there were still too many without that tag. So I unfollowed them and now I don't see any bird photos.
This is increasingly often the case. Also, don't forget that modern WISP equipment allows for 100Mbps+ speeds for a price next to nothing (Ubiquiti, MikroTik).
The most interesting thing about these old forms of armor to me is how they were developed in the first place. Did craftsmen work with warriors to test and fine-tune which designs worked and which didn’t? Or maybe it was more of an evolutionary process, whereby the winners of a conflict (which they won by having better armor) became the rulers, and therefore their designs were considered the best and copied?
Yeah... according to wikipedia they've had it since 2014, but even now a lot of their pages are on .ch
> I think of them as portable private spaces for crowded environments.

I used to enjoy opening a broadsheet newspaper while standing on a crowded tube. Nearly as much fun as stabbing fellow commuters with a brolly.

> Also great for wrapping fish and chips in.

Didn't they regulate-away the heavy metals in printer's ink, at around the same time they regulated-away selling fish 'n chips in newspaper?
Why do you immediately think of it as that violent ? ,
Not tolerating the crime, involves arresting the person, and penalizing them with fines and other consequences for a while, and then if possible work on improving their living standards and help them get a job to get out of a life of crime.

Not tolerating crime does not mean shooting people up or inflicting wounds on them, why should it be that extreme ? , either inflict wounds on people or let them go free with misdemeanor charges ?

It just kills the conversation and scope to actually fix this rise in crime mess, that is spreading everywhere.
Source code: https://github.com/root-project
> You are explaining the diferrence between error results and panics in Rust

That is indeed an example I included, yes

> In Java, C#, C++, for example, exceptions are meant for any situation where the operation you asked for can't be completed successfully, for whatever reason. The most common example is IOException: if you asked to read 200 bytes from a socket, but the connection got interrupted after 100 bytes, that's an IOException.

- Java has checked exceptions, which... ugh, I'm not going to get too much into this, but this is basically their terrible way of representing expected errors while reusing the try/catch syntax. Yes, the thing is called exceptions at the language level. Yes, they do interrupt control flow. But fundamentally I consider them mere errors.

- C++ overuses exceptions in a similar way, except they're not checked because fuck you, nothing in C++ is checked.

The relevant quote's talking about semantics, so I'm talking about errors and exceptions as something that transcends the individual programming language. Different languages are different and don't always (even usually don't) map these concepts 1:1.
> "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Everyone from Daniel Patrick Moynihan all the way through to Mike Pence.

Is there any evidence either of them believe that view to be a fact? Politicians routinely make up their own facts. In practice people are actually entitled to their own facts. There are mechanisms to mediate disagreements as best we can but we rely on a certain amount of goodwill rather than an ability to determine the truth.
DCF77 is a natural for this because it already includes a phase-modulated signal (as well as the 1bps amplitude-modulation). At the moment it's a 512-bit pseudo random sequence, but could obviously carry a data stream instead.
Also, Debian has backports, so the 'non-supported hardware' babble it's bullshit. For sure you will have the latest MESA and Kernel in backports while keeping the rest stable enough.
Generalizing over the whole nation? Hmm... Where have we seen this?..
Sorry, lead deficiency??
The checklist that chacks
Or: how to ruin hckrnews on mobile (Safari, anyway)
As far as I'm aware, he's never participated in a Lord's debate, nor voted on a motion.
Some pages do not require your services (already quite long)

https://httpscolonforwardslashforwardslashwwwdotzoltanbalazs...

https://aaaaaaaaaa.org/

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Progressive taxation to support a basic shared infrastructure with strong network effects is entirely sensible.

Actual criticism of real problems in California (which seems to be doing better than most states in most ways, but isn't perfect) gets buried under tribal political nonsense, where everything is an outrage.
> While having lengthy discussions on HN is pretty much impossible

It doesn't happen often, requiring effort from all sides, but I've found the 3rd day is about when a superannuated HN discussion starts getting interesting.

(but some email threads I'm in have lasted for years, so YMMV)
Another reason not to watch Sony Pictures movies then. Good.

What studies like them don't understand is: once you go AI one day we'll go all-in on AI. Why should I bother watching some Sony Pictures movie a writer and direction came up with if I can just AI to create one for me in the first place with the parameters I like.

If it's all fake anyway...
>As an analogy, if buses are late because roads are bumpy and drivers are lousy, fixing the bumpy road may help, even if drivers don't change their behavior

No. It will make things worse, because now lousy drivers are no longer constrained by the bumpy road, so they will become even lousier.

Case in point: software is shittier than ever, despite the 100x increase in computer performance since the 90s.
Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest
Part of their fee is for you to not go through doing it yourself, so, no.
Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
grid.slice(x,x+3)

Turns the 10x10 array into a 3x10 discarding the rows before and after the target rows.

If the second value in slice is larger than the length it slices to the end. It could be a 2x10 or 1x10 but lets pretend it is 3.

.map(g=>g.slice(y,y+3))

Does the same with each row making it into a 3x3 (or 2x3 or 1x1 etc)

.flat()

Turns the 3x3 into a flat array of up to 9 values.

.includes(num)

tests if the flat sliced array include num.