skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool. I didn't expect much on mobile (hey it's Simcity), but this page actually froze Firefox for me, on Android. Had to kill the process. That happens rarely.

BTW, here's a little game that I ported to the browser. Getting it to run was very straightforward (Emscripten+SDL2 is a great combo), but honestly making it fully playable on a phone took the most effort: https://play.neverball.org/
The fundamental issue with Bitcoin remains the same as it has always been --- stability.

It's primarily a speculative instrument, not a currency. The price fluctuations are primarily a reflection of speculative interest and blatant market manipulation.

There is no other logical basis to justify the price. A close analog in the stock market is probably GameStop.
Depth Anything V2
Better would be to just subtly change the output...

Like do a +1 on the byte every 7 bytes. Bonus to do it only on every 7 printable chars.

And you can even do A/B testing on the constant 7.
It looks like their V2 GitHub page is returning a 404 for the time being, but the paper itself is finished.

Previous version:

Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39091981 - Jan 2024 (20 comments)

Depth Anything: Unleashing the power of large-scale unlabeled data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39361077 - Feb 2024 (2 comments)

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EDIT: Just found that this project DepthFlow is using some of the V2 components, at least looking a the source code,

https://github.com/BrokenSource/DepthFlow
I think it's reasonable to disallow peanuts in shared public spaces that people with allergies cannot realistically avoid. Certain people can have life-threatening allergic reactions to even the scent of peanuts.
SIMD-accelerated distance functions for SQLite
And was remarkably successful at it — the entire crew of the Endurance came back alive.
> likely that Stellar Elements [] drove them into the ground due to poor management

Why make up stories unless you know the cause? I imagine it is just as likely BNR was doing poorly, sold out, and continued to do poorly.
This is only normal and a good thing. Both are adopted as main stream now and they start to age and fail in large numbers, as one would expect. People are disappointed, as one would expect. This will drive the quality up. I don't think there's any intention to malign green transportation. I think there's no return form EVs anymore.

Ebikes are a bit ahead of EVs in certain aspects. They had a quick boom, a lot of new brands came up with different models and designs but now most of them are going bankrupt because the sales are slowing down. The main reason is not people don't buy ebikes anymore, but they already bought one! What I find stupid is there are only 3-4 companies producing motors or electronics for ebikes. These parts, as the article points out, are not sourced to customers for repairs. This has to change for more sustainability.
This is why I can never take their current alleged passion for privacy fully seriously. Sure, I do appreciate some of the features they're coming out with, but I don't trust them to not eventually drop this marketing angle and pull rugs when it's no longer profitable
The best is of course subjective but I'd rate C.S.Lewis up there too.
See also:

Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms, Stalked by Men (nytimes.com) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influe...

3 months ago | 23 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476721
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> Despite these improvements, absolute carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from solar PV manufacturing have almost quadrupled worldwide since 2011 as production in China has expanded.

That would be bad except:

a) production has increased by more than 10x in the same time period.

b) solar panels added to the energy mix pull down the average carbon and quickly pay back their manufacture

which means it's just a sensible investment in an incredibly low carbon and cheap energy source which has gotten even more incredibly low carbon and cheap over time.
Theodore Parker and Martin Luther King Jr.: The Arc of the Moral Universe
Open up any young female "influencer" video on YouTube. Look at the graph of which parts of the video are most played (hover over the playback bar and it pops up). Notice how the spikes in viewership line up with any nudity/bikini/suggestive angles.

Literally 90% or more of the viewers are just there to look at half-naked bodies. Exactly what the article is talking about.

I don't think anyone could pretend that "I just run a fashion channel" or "I just post videos from my kids gymnastics sessions" doesn't know who's really putting views on their videos. It should be blatantly clear to anyone, especially the creator who has more in-depth tools to monitor their audience. These people 100% know what they're doing and they're willing to keep going.
Lol legitimate. As legitimate as door to door salesmen. OP just put up a proverbial "no soliciting" sign.
> And nothing happens.

Good luck. Some people have different experiences.
Respected by who?
Why can't it be both? On the one hand, well intentioned
economically mobile people are not practising healthy sleep habits. On the other, our societal structures do not facilitate or encourage healthy sleeping patterns.

The reason to prefer the indivualistic framing is because one has far more control over one's own behaviour.
I don’t know anyone who got good solely from Duolingo but it could be a reasonable supplementary tool alongside others more effective for specific goals; I god a good start learning with Pimsleur (focus on speaking and listening) and Duolingo just helped add more vocabulary and some grammatical instruction alongside it.
I think it's just because EVs (and PEVs) are relatively new and promising. I recently purchased an electric scooter, and that sort of form factor can be very difficult to fit an ICE into. Not like it can't or hasn't been done, but the instant torque I get from dual hub motors is far superior to any combustion engine.
I'm less optimistic about the current state of affairs than the person you're conversing with, but I think more than you.

The LCOE values I've seen place batteries+PV at ~ nuclear… but nuclear is more expensive than almost anything else.

I anticipate further reductions in the price of batteries from the learning curve and demand driven by electric cars where they're already cheap enough to replace ICEs, such that the cost of batteries for electricity time-shifting will be OK fairly soon (as in: 5-10 years)but that's a forecast and not a guarantee.

There's also the possibility of a global power grid — the maths works out just fine, few hundred billion USD and a year or two of global aluminium production, we have to spend more than that on upgrading the last (hundred) miles even if we never build the global interconnects — but basically only China has both the interest and the capabilities to attempt something like that as part of a future belt-and-road initiative, everyone else will definitely not get past the "talking about it" stage.
I hope there's no return from EVs, but this "some ebikes had problems" sort of thing is only useful for maligning ebikes, as it doesn't really do much for either owners or prospective buyers.

It's true about parts, I'd hope that, given how simple ebikes are, there would be a tendency to use easily-replaceable, off-the-shelf components, but I guess companies do want to design custom parts, as that's where they provide value.
American society is not “collapsing.” Compared to the civil rights era, the past few decades have been a blip.

What you’re seeing is American society dealing with the fallout of a new gilded age and a minor political realignment - something that has happened before, and will happen again.

We’re still spending money on military supremacy because at the end of the day, only boots on the ground can control territory and every one of our adversaries knows it. That’s why they’re using the information warfare tactics to begin with.
If you _must_ use I2C, then look at SMBUS if its an option for the parts. I2C's biggest failing is that there is no protocol level timeout, so one stuck device can block your entire bus unless you have a reset line for all the peripherals on it.
https://www.analog.com/en/resources/design-notes/guide-to-co...
I fully intend to make it support mobile! And I already fixed one bug that prevented it from running on Firefox on Ubuntu, thanks to a well written bug report that included a stack trace. Give it another try, maybe it works now, and if not, please report the bug and include a stack trace and any information about your platform.

https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/issues/1

I wanted to release this as soon as possible so other people could run it, instead of waiting until it was finished and perfect, so there's a lot more work to do on the user interface, robustness, cross platform support, mobile, etc.

But once I got the simulator and tile renderer working, I threw together a minimalistic zooming panning + keyboard control interface, and a little window with hints that you can close by clicking the "+" button in the upper right corner.

What I'm really looking forward to doing is integrating it with visual programming languages like Snap! so you can live code it and write plug-in zones, robots, monitoring and control systems, data visualization and export (i.e. Grafana dashboards, etc), and alternative interfaces via visual programming, instead of raw non-interactive JavaScript or TypeScript!

Edit for parasti: You can use a USB cable to attach an Android phone to a Mac or PC, or an iPhone to a Mac, and then use the Chrome (or Safari on Mac) browser's debugger to attach to the phone and remotely see the console messages, debug, and even live code it! It might even work over Wifi if you can get all the stars to align, if Google hasn't canceled that feature, or if Apple hasn't forbidden it in the first place.
How do you like the scooter? I have an ICE motorcycle, and I hate how loud and dirty it is. I'd like an electric one, but they're very expensive, and with electric scooters/ebikes I worry that they'll get stolen (as with a good bike).
Ebikes have a lot of easily-replaceable, off-the-shelf components, those shelves just aren't available to consumers. Obviously, this needs to change.
Even a person born into wealth may occassionally be genuinely talented. Not every artist/author is a struggling youth living in a cardboard box.

There is also a load of trust fund babies that no one has ever heard about.
I see ~1000 unique IP addresses hitting SSH every day.
You're not an "influencer" if you're female and the audience is 92% men. You're just a porn star.

> At one point, she offered Instagram subscriptions to users willing to pay a monthly fee for extra photos and videos.

How more obvious can it be?

This article is clearly the result of trying to justify selling your daughter as a porn star. They'll take the money, but oh how they wish it didn't have to be like this (it doesn't, but I guess the alternatives involve actually working to do something useful).
That is a very narrow definition of better it seems.
> From “Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies,” Lafferty’s alternate history, published in 1978, of television:

There seemed to be several meetings in this room superimposed on one another, and they cannot be sorted out. To sort them out would have been to destroy their effect, however, for they achieved syntheses of their several aspects and became the true meeting that never really took place but which contained all the other meetings in one theatrical unity.

> ..On first read, yes, it’s nonsense, but this is the experience of experiencing Lafferty. He doesn’t make any sense, until you decide, and you must decide, that he does. Then, suddenly, he becomes a genius. Read the paragraph again. What’s he talking about? Today, you might realize he’s predicting Zoom: a main meeting full of individual nonmeetings taking place in chats and side slacks that together constitute a constant and overarching supermeeting! Tomorrow, it’ll sound like something else entirely.
Good job! Now we need a Age of Empires and Empire Earth port!
If you look at https://github.com/ventoy then longpanda is ventoy and they're very likely from China:

> It would be much appreciated if you want to make a small donation to support my work!
> Alipay, WeChat Pay, PayPal and Bitcoin are available for donation. You can choose any of them.
> Electric cars inherently have much less of a maintenance burden because there are way fewer moving parts in a motor versus an engine

They sell you battery packs for $20,000 around every 8-10 years.
Game Developer: Team Can't Add Dating Feature, No "Real Life" Romance Experience
This claim appears blatantly false.

If being unpopular makes a law more likely to pass, then surely the French government tars and feathers all French children every other week.

No, they don't, since the voters would prevent that by voting for a different government.
If you refactor and structure your code in the right way, you can get it to perform pretty well. What will kill you is stacking up layers of emulation, so you're feeding browser input into a Windows or Mac emulation layer, and even an x86 instruction set emulator, plus a useless obsolete operating system "middle ware", because the way input and animation works on old desktop guis is a lot different and much less efficient that how it works in the browser.

It's certainly possible to run the original version of Mac or Windows SimCity in the browser inside a Mac or Windows emulator inside a WebAssembly module, but not only is the user interface itself terrible, klunky, and awkward, it's extremely slow and flakey because it's emulating all that obsolete operating system crap and instruction set underneath all the web browser crap between your mouse clicks and the game engine.

Since the web browser is so much better and more flexible at user interface and graphics stuff, you want to totally strip all of the user interface and graphics and sound out of the game, implement an efficient API and callback mechanism (that doesn't spend a lot of time thunking and marshalling and unmarshalling parameters, and pass simple primitive data types, sending what you need all at once, instead of ping-ponging back and forth with proxy objects), and implement all of the UI in the browser (especially the animation timers and input handlers), calling back to the simulator only when necessary.

One thing I did was to use shared memory between the WebAssembly module and the WebGL tile renderer, and write a custom shader that understands the native 16 bit unsigned int column major SimCity tile format, so WebGL only has to draw two triangles, and there is zero copying to draw the tiles.
Anthony Burgess was prolific and both nominated and shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1973).

His opening sentence in Earthly Powers is arguably the most Catholic sentence ever written.

Oh. Yeah. Clockwork Orange.
yeah I'm not doing the maths twice. and the references, they practically sort themselves out, I just type prose with \citet{soandso2024} and forget about it.
In industrial IO, including robotics, the norm these days is 3 port switches embedded into devices, specifically to support daisy chaining.

Hubs are no-no because of various performance issues, including how more and more gear supports gigabit on the daisy chaining.
Original title:

‘GAME DEVELOPER SAYS TEAM CAN’T ADD DATING FEATURE BECAUSE TEAM HAS NO "REAL LIFE" ROMANCE EXPERIENCE’

(Had to nest double quotes in single quotes, out of habit)
A list of search engines I haven't known before:

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/search-engines
Haveibeenpwned paints a pretty good picture. Breaches, breaches everywhere. The average piece of software cannot be trusted with keeping any data secure for any notable amount of time.

It's funny that password managers and random generated single use passwords are so popular now, because the greatest risk to one's credentials isn't direct attacks, but having them leaked by someone's half assed backend. It gets even funnier when the service that gets breached has some arcane password security rules with two symbols or whatever, the ultimate hypocrisy.
A Third of My Online College Students Are AI-Powered Spambots. Now What?
Because ICE continue to sell well, because most serious makes have sorted most issues (a cheap car having issues isn't news for anybody), everybody knows ICE isn't green, etc...

Another proof that conspiracy theories aren't exclusive to the right, try some of Occam's razor.
https://archive.is/vD5WF
Maybe I'm too used to C++ and Rust but I don't find it tricky at all.
Its very clearly defined when a destructor (or fn drop) is called as well as the order (inverse allocation order).

What I would like to see would be some way of forcing users to manually call the dtor/drop.
So when I use a type like that I have to manually decide when it gets destroyed, and have actual compile checks that I do destroy the object in every code path.
DNA: The data companies, countries and cops all want – 60 Minutes [video]
2.5gbit is quite common and cheap.
That's awesome, looking forward to it. Would love to report more, but this is on Android - I wouldn't even know how to go about getting a stack trace. Being on Android, I can't even see the developer console.
Well, what's wrong with code being incomplete at some point of time?

Is it not waterfall enough? Is it too much learning from customers? Is it too small PRs of duration less than 1-6 months? Is it not enough premature optimization?
With or without the swords?
No, those are just the next cost to decimate. And from a technical point of view rather low hanging fruit.

Here in Germany the government recently approved incentives for balcony solar. These are cheap panels that you hang (zip ties) from your balcony railing and then plug into a wall socket. No need for approval. These things are exempt from rules intended to protect the look of buildings.

The idea is that that puts a little bit of power on the wires in your home and that that is enough for things like your fridge to run off. It partially runs of your solar instead of grid power and lowers your bills a bit. Even a few hundred wh of capacity can already make a difference. You can level up the experience with a portable battery. Of course don't expect miracles from setups like this but if the cost is low enough, why not?

Why do I mention this: no professional installers involved at all. You order these things on Amazon or wherever, plug them, in and done. You can get a battery to go with them as well. A friend of mine got himself some panels and he's definitely not an electrician. His balcony is tiny and partially in the shade. I doubt it's very effective. But it didn't cost him an arm and a leg.

There's no good technical reason for bigger solar setups to be much more difficult. You can get setups for your garden shed, country house, boat, etc. and it's all relatively easy and straightforward DIY stuff. It's only when these things get connected to the electrical grid and installed on roofs that a lot of rules start applying and a lot of bureaucracy kicks in. Often for good reason like fire safety. But it's gotten way out of hand in a few countries and the cost bares no relationship to the complexity of the problem.
I guess guns and worries about abuse of ones children goes hand in hand. Both are low trust society issues.
Why classic full-fat fast-ethernet (base-tx) instead of single-pair ethernet (base-t1 or t1l/t1s) if you are targeting embedded use?
Maybe it’s just that ICEs don’t have these issues because the kinks have been sufficiently worked out.

There’s really a lot to criticize about the current state of electric. Flimsy range numbers, build quality from most manufacturers, reliability issues, charging time, hidden costs around outfitting your house, no real solution to the drivetrain having a severely limited shelf life.

I definitely think electric is the future, and I’m glad for it, but they are _not there_ from a “replace ICE wholesale” standpoint. They need more of their kinks worked out. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t continue to work on them or adopt them for their limited efficacy. Most people don’t need all of the benefits ICE cars offer and for them, electric right now is ideal.
An ostinato themes in Dispo is cycles vs lines; today I'm not so surprised to reencounter Ms Thompson*, but was pleasantly surprised by the following cycle:

(1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

(1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0

(1978) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjXLzapT4-Q

(1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6fs26i4BA

now time for me to listen to The Meters, and get some prehistory? (then again, a basic problem is once you hit New Orleans, everyone has influenced everyone)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvuPuOrYMlg

* the "escalating terrorism" mentioned in her en.WP article probably refers to things like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing ?
The 286's internal registers (2022)
That is very different from what "economics" is today.
Coming soon to a Costco near you: all-inclusive in vitro fertilization, from egg to Ivy League!

(Note: Ivy League Guarantee is for Costco Executive members only and requires the CRISPY genetic engineering package. While supplies last. In order to redeem the guarantee in case of defect, child must be brought to your nearest Costco Organ Center).
I'm not really seeing the argument. I've never had a derailleur break, if anything, this sounds like some supreme yak shaving. Granted, I don't ride bikes for a living, but I ride a bike every day and durability isn't even remotely as big of an issue as you make it out to be.
If you replace "WALL" "IS" "STOP" with icons/images, it's not that interesting anymore imho.

At the very least, Captain Blood would come to mind.

https://www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_galeries....

You have sequences of symbols, with attached mechanics. Arrange the blocks in different order, to get different outcomes.

Maybe I'm just grumpy today, I don't see how the game is "profound".

edit: I guess what I have in mind is if anything, the fact we can create meaning out of any collection of symbols, and decide waht it means, shows that language is really empty and intelligence is completely outside of language. Language is just a tool.
Would be cool to have a "don't scan me bro" list of IP's that engage in this that we could share - is there such a thing?
Think they'll do 'dream of the fisherman's wife' next?
Some examples from 1 minute with Algolia:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479651

“All decent C compilers have compilation options so that at run-time any undefined actions, including integer overflow and out-of-bounds accesses, will be trapped.”

“Despite the hype, by default Rust is not safer than C compiled with the right options, because the default for Rust releases is also to omit many run-time checks.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922430

Upthread someone asks for a “-safe” flag which makes C a safe language. The reply is “It's called AddressSanitizer. You enable it with the compiler flag -fsanitize=address.” Several replies ensue pointing out how wrong this is.
Interesting to know. For the moment, several months, I still have no login attempts but so that means my server didn't get picked up by any port scanner.
If you think that "companies will promote articles that malign competing products" and "9/11 was an inside job" are the same level of conspiracy theory, I don't think any fruitful conversation can result.
"In a healthy city..."

Speaking of things which are (evidently) "tricky to achieve"...
Google had zero courage and went fully under Putin and helped him to silence Russian opposition (Navalny) during the crucial pre-election time.

Telegram did the same, btw.
check out https://openarena.live

its open arena running on humblenet which does take advantage of webrtc/p2p