skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WordPress does this sort of thing, or at least can (I don’t know, I’ve only ever been involved with a couple of WordPress sites). It’s obnoxiously awful. You end up with people accidentally relying on non-canonical URLs that subsequently change in meaning, or using links that seem to work but actually give the wrong content and you don’t notice. Both of these are very often much worse than a 404. There’s also an issue where articles can become inaccessible from their correct URLs, due to something else taking precedence in some way; I wouldn’t say that’s fundamental to the technique, but I do think that the philosophy encourages system designs where this can happen. (Then again… it’s WordPress, which is just all-round awful, technically; maybe I shouldn’t blame the philosophy.)

So no, please don’t ever do this.

But what you can do is provide a useful 404 page. Say “there’s no page at this URL, but maybe you meant _____?” Although there’s a strong custom of 404 pages being useless static fluff, you are actually allowed to make useful 404 pages. Just leave it as a 404, not a 3xx.

(Also, care about your URLs and make sure that any URL that ever worked continues to work, if the content or an analogue still exists at all. Distressingly few people even attempt this seriously, when making major changes to a site.)
Because this one makes it look like there’s a url bar with a Microsoft domain
I mean, would you allow a remote salesperson to use your camera and command you to do silly things?

Then why would you allow an AI to do the same?
Sheesh you guys are annoying.

- I do not see ads in “every nook and corner of Windows” and neither do you.

- I do not have a recorder installed on my Windows machines and neither do you.

- no one qualified to make that statement has said that Microsoft is the most secure platform.

It is so hard to listen to anyone who exaggerates at this level. If anything, it drives interest in Microsoft because these are all obviously false statements and some readers will wonder what your true motive is. You just raise suspicion in yourself.

At least you used a new account to distance yourself from any other identities you may have here. In fact I would say that was the only smart move in your entire comment.

Anyway, this is a damning revelation by the whistleblower and I hope Microsoft feels a good amount of pain because of it. NEVER make any decision with money as your sole input. It will always be a bad decision, and it’s just a matter of time until that decision bites you or someone you care about.
> If there is one thing that Steam has proven, it is that games absolutely do not have to focus on 8k assets

Totally. Thomas Was Alone is one of the best games I’ve ever played and it’s just a bunch of boxes. It’s basically high resolution Atari.

Great graphics are nice and can certainly help, but the be all end all race to always look the best is not working well.

Some kind of reckoning has got to be coming. We’re getting to the point where it’s like 5+ years between sequels to big titles just cause that’s how long it takes. Much like mega budget Hollywood movies no one‘s willing to take a risk when it costs that much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_turf

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turf
Yep, definitely possible to design and build unpleasant sun traps! But also mostly possible (even for curtain-wall apartments) to avoid it with good design.

Not much help if you buy an existing place whose builders didn't take hot summers into account though!
No I definitely want to. I was stating why I haven't thus far. I support piracy.
Oh you can thank Creative for buying Aureal and throwing it in the trash. That crippled immersive/3D game sound design for a long time, I wouldn't be surprised if that had ripple effects l the way into today.
Also there is no need to rag on ray tracing, a nicely ray traced game look wonderful. Ideally we have a feast for eyes as well as ears though.
You want to link to dream-team in lower case letters :)
It may be a joke now, but someone will probably implement it.

Has anyone proposed this to YC yet? It's about the right size for a YC startup.
Wow this website is absolutely amazing! Full of details about consoles, and with a really pleasing mixture of text, images, and even 3D models.
I feel like the only person in scifi who doesn't LOVE Ted Chiang. Don't get me wrong -- I like his writing a lot. But, I often feel like it's a little 'light' -- not sure how to describe this exactly.

I guess I'm saying he's not Philip K Dick or Stanislaw Lem, or even William Gibson, but he's awarded/discussed as much.

I will, of course, buy his next book, short or long-form. But I'd love it if he went a little higher/deeper conceptually. I think he has it in him.
Repudiation is one of the most important features of existing commerce systems and until there's a crypto system that considers that a requirement instead of a cute little non sequitur then nobody serious will ever take crypto currency seriously.

It's just a bunch of pyromaniacs repeatedly burning themselves an each other and saying, "huh, that's weird."
> Also, I think game developers balked at having to implement their own GPU in a hard-to-program unique architecture.

It would have been a library.

> I wonder how many PS3 games ignored the Cell processor and just developed for the CPU and GPU?

Essentially none.
Show HN: Take super high DPI screenshots of any part of any website
Hi HN,

I found I spent alot of time, zooming in and out of web pages to get high resolution screenshots for documentation for the apps and websites I made, so I made a Chrome Extension that makes is super simple.
Just launch the extension on any website, choose from either 5 times zoom, 10 times zoom or a fixed width or height and then just drag a box around what you want to capture and you'll then get a super high dpi screenshot.

Let me know if you find it useful or have any questions.
Also, please let me know if you find any sites where the screenshots aren't right, some sites do funny things with CSS which throws the extension off.
Zambia has had almost 100% renewable energy for a very long time. It's only recently with more extreme weather patterns that energy consistency is becoming an issue. We've been exporting electricity for decades.

Despite that the country has remained incredibly poor and continues to circle the drain.

So I'd suggest, "they don't need X they need Y", is always going to be wrong because what is really needed is a blend of everything deployed in a very specific order depending on the country.
If I recall correctly that was a stated fact. OtherOS was removed due to "security vulnerabilities".
IMO they should be required to offer the same API they use when they release an app that's using it. I don't think it has to be stable - it just has to be at the level of maturity that their internal apps are using. That does require a certain minimal level of security and inspectability - but that seems reasonable when you're selling a platform like this.
Is it wrong to write about something?
There really isn’t much to be explained. I’m using the terms somewhat interchangeably because they are essentially the same thing - deep distrust is just high magnitude distrust.

One may distrust their state, but in some regards can still trust. One with deep distrust will likely never trust, their level of distrust is much higher. This does not require a conspiratorial mindset.
It's all images of humans. Not just nude ones.
I remember a poll on Facebook where someone asked whether you tend to appreciate or are annoyed by being invited into group chats. Most people appreciated invitations.
I hear that. But I’ve been burnt by people who “coded live” real well and then couldn’t or wouldn’t do anything for months at work. IMO - any one who is going to be good will be good at coding. It’s not rocket science. Haha. Been around long enough to see language du jour change too. Python also isn’t the end all of languages (we’ve moved on to Julia where I work).

Can you think? Are you curious? Those are hard to distill in an interview and harder still in formulaic interviews.
”What's expected of us” is wonderful.

https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
Sure, but to the client hiring them, it's a cost. We'll take the basic compliance package please, no need for any of the gold tier high security features.
So software developers should be criminally liable for introducing security bugs?
Until someone decides it's enough and makes a board elsewhere paired with a browser extension that takes the X URL and creates a thread where people can comment disregarding completely the one at X. The same can be made for Youtube for example; want dubbing in a different language, or play a different music that would trigger a copyright claim? All it needs is to sync the video with an external audio source, possibly shared through p2p; also doable by a browser extension.
Highly recommend his Tower of Babylon, I think about it regularly, love his brand of sci-fi
>> maybe disintegrating a bunch of them isn't a showstopper

But it isn't about destroying a bunch of them. Cut corners on checks and you very quickly blow up all of them. Any slight increase in the failure rate of individual parts, saving a few pennies, multiplies exponentially across the entire rocket into total system failure. So the money-saving approach is actually to test test and retest, to cram down the failure rates so low that the cumulative rate become acceptable (about 1%).
I think you are making things up. Intelligent and experienced people typically think through the consequences of their actions. This is not the same thing as being completely risk adverse
This really isn't crowing but we created a dynamic site that used HyperCard as a CGI and we did that in 1984. Not kidding. Mosaic'd up to the hilt.

Still, it's a good idea.

You can further this idea (especially when the slug returns nothing) by having this page also list "Best Bets" or what people most often come to your site for (regardless of any search query, perhaps, with their referrer, or on this day of the week etc)

And additionally, put the slug (bar the dashes) into a search box so it might be ammended (but tell them that you didn't find anything and they need to try something else).
The 2017 number was a mistake by me, I wanted to look at inflation adjusted/PPP, and that was nominal. You can clearly see the massive effect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting inflation in the data. If we were looking at nominal values, the opposite is the case: Nominally GDP is rising rapidly:

Nominal:
https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gross-domestic-product-gdp.htm

PPP/Inflation adjusted not so much:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

But pretty much all countries are still well ahead of where we were in 2017. If you feel poorer than in 2017 it's because you're getting less of a larger pie, not because the economy is producing less than it did then.
IMO many of its most glaring issues could be fixed by “simply” (I know it’s probably more involved in reality) swapping out bespoke widgets for standard GTK counterparts with more standard/commonly familiar behaviors.

The poster child for this is easily the layers palette. It looks like a scrolling list widget like you’d find on any major desktop OS released in the past 30 years but doesn’t behave like one, with oddities like inability to multi-select. Instead, the user is expected to learn GIMP-specific behaviors that aren’t useful in any other program. There’s not really a good reason for this, aside for familiarity for existing users and while that’s an important thing to consider I’m not sure it’s worth impeding retention of new users.
A driver is not a static one time thing.

Once you mainline it, making improvements, supporting new devices and features become 10x slower.
Related Tom Scott

https://youtu.be/hr03xF08qoU?si=XfI-yJSQ6A28QWTm
I didn't think that it would be a feature to be charged for the consumer... only that it's a way to present it to top management
Fishjam Media Server. Supports WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, Sip
Having worked with many lawyers... for the most part, yeah. Legal wants you to behave ethically at all times, not because they necessarily have some ideological commitment to ethics (though some do), but because it keeps the company out of lawsuits.

The overwhelming goal of a company's legal department is "don't get sued", followed by "if sued, lose as little money/leverage as possible".

In general the lawyer in the room is going to be far more risk-averse than the engineers, product people, sales people, or marketers.

The trick is that outside of some limited circumstances the legal department at companies are not the final say. Many lawyers who "go in house" (i.e., quit a private outside firm and go work directly for a company) find this frustrating. They come into a room, say "don't do that", and then a few weeks/months/years later someone did it and now they have to prepare for a lawsuit.
The day macaques leave Gibraltar is the day British lose the territory (2005)
Pretty much everywhere you look is wrong, it’s deliberately wrong
Maybe I misunderstood, I was responding to your characterization of welding as a "vocational school subject" whose future practitioners wouldn't want to waste their time learning anything that isn't the direct application of various welding processes to their first job in the field. In fact, though, folks who are the best at actually doing the welding are those who are most interested in developing their craft as welders--whatever that takes be it attaining theoretical knowledge, experimenting with obsolete or rarely used processes (e.g forge welding), etc.

Analogously, computerers who are best at computering aren't the ones who just want to learn enough jquery to get that computer gig.

So what's the point of education? Is it to illuminate the path to excellence for those who choose to follow it, or is it to try to land someone a job and no other thing?
A New York Developer Binged on Trophy Properties. His Wager Is Flailing
Meh. Why should we reduce our quality of life ? We can always use AC in cars and and at home.
This article is absolutely worthless conspiracy theory nonsense.
Taking a bike when it's 110 F out may be better than walking to a bus stop and then waiting for a bus, but it's still not something that many people want to do...
Since they're using LLama with Llava, they're getting lots of Llama's baked-in understanding of the world. And I believe that Llama had multimodal training data as part of its pipeline, whether or not we get access to the heads that parse that data in the open weights.

So, I'm saying that Llama has some ability to describe / complete captions of photos, and very probably that ability comes from some multimodal training done at FB, and that using it in this way to train something new that beats benchmarks is a form of pulling out the value of that training data.

p.s. In the original comment, I meant to type 'multimodal' and didn't, or got autocorrected and didn't notice - apologies
Does it work for capturing the entire page automatically?
Good point.

Which novels would you recommend that had no filler content?
The original map doesn't have the jokes, only the modified version in TFA does.
Not at all. The tiles just consists of two layers. The main body and the dark layer on top. According to the electron microscope analysis, the two tiles were mostly the same.
I love how he's got the smartest person tick on his y-axis for an "AI researcher" [in the paper]. )) These people are narcissists of the first caliber. Can we graph that?
Looking at satellite imagery for a few minutes, I couldn't find a single lawn in Tuscon, but in Phoenix they are all over the city. I believe Phoenix has a lot more local water though. Native American civilizations had over 100 miles of canals and irrigated agriculture along the Gila, which is why American farmers settled there in the first place, reusing some of these canals even.
Actually I just noticed that the original map posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40652631 also has Porto a bit too far north :-D
“ Mousehole are the only correctly placed and named cities in the UK”

Had to smile at the ideal of household being a city!
Very Indian approach. Print a report, and call it a day. :D
BS. Most cars drive on freeways and interstates most of the time, especially the large trucks etc. traffic in residential areas is generally pretty low and it more only during mornings and evenings.

This is just war on cars.
I do NixOS-minimal. As far as I'm aware it doesn't really add any runtime overhead in comparison to Arch, the package manager is generally quite good at figuring out which changes are going to break your system, and everything is snapshotted on every rebuild so for the most part I can be fearless. Doing a full upgrade is generally as straightforward as pointing to the latest version's repo and doing something like `sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade`.

That works great for a geeky dude like me, but I don't think I'll ever be able to convince my parents on the beauty of NixOS, so having a straightforward mypackage.deb thing that they can download and click on to install stuff probably would be an easier sell.

I ran Arch for about a year, and I liked it, but I had to abuse the `snapper` tool because I was constantly breaking things with the video driver and the like. It worked but I personally think that NixOS's model is just more elegant.
I think it's largely about the marketing aspect. Imagine creating marketing for Crusader Kings 2, Mount and Blade, Terraria, and the countless other games which sold a zillion copies and are unbelievably fun, but just look pretty bland on the surface. With high end voice acting, lots of cut scenes, and so on - all of the marketing basically writes itself.

You have your actory voice intro the game, set the stage of the plot, show some brief segments of critical moments in cut scenes, and then occasionally intersperse a half second or so of actual gameplay. No idea why this gets some people fired up, but it seems to work reliably enough. I suppose it's just targeting a demographic that isn't you nor I!
Yes; but what is your point? A congested network like you describe isnt ever going to reliably carry realtime communications anyway due to latency and jitter. All you could reasonably due to 'punch through' that situation is to use dirty tricks to give your client more than its fair share of network resources.

6kbps is 10x less data to transfer than 64kbps, so for all the async aspects of Messenger or WhatsApp there is still enormous benefit to smaller data.
I wonder how it sounds compared to G.729.

I worked for a company 20 years ago that had a modified G.729 codec that could go below 8kbps but sounded decent. We used this for VoIP over dial-up Internet, talk about low bandwidth.

Turns out some of the more interesting bits were in the jitter buffer and ways to manage the buffer. Scrappy connections deliver packets when they can and there is an art to managing the difference between the network experience and the user experience. For communications, you really need to manage the user experience.
don't see it working out tbh

what HN does really well is manage pseudonyms

and its low friction of signing up invites bullies/marketers/trolls

dang and mod teams have done a fantastic job should put out some sort of "community management science"

its tough to build a community from scratch (gone are the days of registering a niche domain + phpBB). you can fake it to a certain degree.
Really wish they worked in the US.
I agree with you. I was more or less describing a negative trait of mine for why I haven't participated in seeding information thus far.

I'm definitely already on a health insurance bad persons list. My employer forwarded myself and other employees terminated over "that thing" to the FBI!
Because cost and speed. Smaller models can run on your phone for free, or on the cloud for pennies. An API call for a large LLM with a lot of context can cost orders of magnitude more and incur network latency
SMT (including that branded as Intel HTT) is something very different from multiprocessors, like the dual-CPU boards.

The concept of multiprocessors was already well understood around 1963, i.e. the multiplication of the performance of a computer by the multiplication of the CPU hardware.

On the other hand, the purpose of SMT is to enhance the throughput of a computer by ensuring that the existing execution units do not stay idle, by executing instructions from multiple program threads in order to keep them busy.

The modern use of SMT has been started by a research paper published in 1992, as a proposed improvement to the superscalar out-of-order CPUs already popularized by IBM POWER, but the name SMT (simultaneous multi-threading) has been coined only later, in 1997 (in the IEEE Micro from September/October 1997).

IBM had already used SMT in the experimental Advanced Computer System in 1968 (and they have filed for SMT patents in 1971: US 3,728,692 & US 3,771,138), but that project has been canceled and its superior architecture has been mostly forgotten for several decades.

CPUs that could execute instructions from multiple program threads, but not during the same clock cycle, like in SMT (hence the "simultaneous" of SMT), are older than the IBM ACS, for instance such a processor with fine-grained multi-threading was the peripheral processor of CDC 6600 (in 1963). SMT can exist only in superscalar CPUs, because only there multiple instructions are initiated in the same clock cycle.
I wouldn't jump to praise so quickly. Additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing) is standard in the industry and the time is dependent on the size (and to some extent the mass) of the engine.

They then further claim you don't need to do any post-manufacturing qualifications, which is absolute nonsense. So it's either misreporting or it's an indication of Indian incompetence/lying.
It doesn't actually require a config. You can set the binding on the command-line when you launch it. Anything you can represent in a config file with Tmux (set -g prefix C-o) can be expressed on the command-line.

Furthermore, in my opinion, both the defaults (C-a, C-b) are bad, as they conflict with default readline key bindings for cursor movement.
You can do this and still 404, even. There is rarely a good reason not to 404 when you don’t recognize the URL, even if you want to try to do something helpful with the 404 page.
why buy the console at all?

Putting console exclusives aside, I can build a PC that does everything I need it to do but play some new games + a console for less than it costs to build & maintain a "gaming rig". Also, my PS4 is still working after ~10yrs. I would have to upgrade my PC more frequently than that to keep up with new games.

You're also forgetting the two-point capacitive touch pad on the PS4 controller. It's OK, almost all the video game developers did too.
Also another interesting facts I noticed is that ads actually cause the price of the product to increase! I constantly come across articles that explain how a significant part of the cost of a product is dedicated for ads. I can't help but see this as a treacherous cycle.
Is it reasonable to consider a group of many thousands of people as an ethical entity at all?

Additionally, should WF no longer have any internal ethical standards because some members of the organization acted in an unethical way?
Have you ever looked at the size of losslessly compressed video? It's huge. Lossy compression is the only practical way to store and stream video, since it's typically less than 1% of the size of uncompressed video. Lossless compression typically only gets down to about 50% of the size. It's amazing how much information you can throw out from a video, and barely be able to tell the difference.
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