skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The success of a project isn't measured by how lofty the goals are multiplied by the budget it draws. The 'lack of basic project management practices' is pretty damning a statement for something which is expected to have hundreds of millions in budget.
Ask HN: Terminal RSS Reader
I'm a long time feedly user but I like to have a terminal based FOSS backup for everything. I've tried Newsboat but I've been having some issues with it. Any other ones I should try?
You know, for younger kids I can see the appeal. They might not have a device they can easily use to go on the internet, so you’d be able to do things your friends can’t and vice versa.

I’ve long mulled on the idea of some kind of game where large aspects of it are randomized/generated so that no two installations would have the same stuff, recipes, whatever. I think that’d be neat and get rid of the website issue.
Not like much would change, but this would be funny: Let's "up" the ante and make it two phones, using point-to-point ad-hoc voice connection to each other, with a battery life of a week.-

That would be quite the "footnote" somewhere ...

PS. I hate to "underestimate" our forebears, but ... at what point would they just throw their hands up in the air and start screaming "witchcraft!" burning the lot, phone samples and all, at the stake?
> Makes me wonder how functions like CryptProtectData protect against physical disk access with hex editor. The hash of the login password can be changed to anything and obviously they cannot access the actual password since it should be destroyed after hashing. So unless TPM is involved I don't see how it can be secure.

It derives a key from your password when you log in. Changing the authentication hash will only let you log in, not figure out what the key was.
Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies
Thank you for sharing this story! The story brought a smile on my face. Needed it today.
Ok. Gave a listen to the whole thing. While this is certainly a lot more musical than the other stuff I’ve heard like Trout Mask Replica, it’s still not really for me. The absurdist lyrics are a real barrier as are some of the guitar sounds. That said I like this voice a lot. Has really interesting timbre. I had heard it before but this album does a good job of putting it front and center.
You're wrong, and I don't know why you're being stubborn about this. HDP is a different class of algorithms that uses DP, but it is not DP. A basic read of wikipedia of dynamic programming reveals the key pieces of DP:

There are two key attributes that a problem must have in order for dynamic programming to be applicable: optimal substructure and overlapping sub-problems. ... Optimal substructure means that the solution to a given optimization problem can be obtained by the combination of optimal solutions to its sub-problems.

See the words optimal and optimization?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming
>Given that OS X has supported multi-button mice since 2001, I certainly believe that.

Just a joke, mate.
Singular "they" was more controversial at the time and was considered ungrammatical by some. "She" is unquestionably grammatical and yet it seems to be persistently shocking for people to read. (I would prefer "they" today, but this is from the '80s.)
>The "secret knowledge" that the author describes is no longer a thing. The game shows you all the recipes.

It does show the recipes you have unlocked (e.g. by mining a particular one that makes them), I'm glad they did that, it's much less painful for a new player and for the viewers of that new player (I like watching people play a game they've never played before).
That seems like a good idea against speculation based attacks too; predict within what is at hand, do not cause side effects.
Oh that's smart, not storing the password anywhere but using the user as an input source for it.
No, it wasn't near an LAN drops in a rather spread out factory. It's possible there were no LAN drops near it to keep others from surfing the net instead of working. (In the days before ubiquitous smartphones)
The US has been embargoing industries since its Independence. I doubt TikTok will be a remotely meaningful event in the history of the nation.
I'm purely guessing here, but also considering I read him and Linus both say "we have enough kernel developers", I think it's likely they don't want to encourage low quality contributions from new developers.
It is true. DP always deals with optimization. Just because my car has a radio, doesn't mean my car is a radio.
Overall I find the "imagination factor" as an useful tool for self-reflection and understanding others
Nah. Microsoft did a great job handling Minecraft imo.
I thought they were out of their mind paying that much money for something that I didn't think had many opportunities left to grow.

But now I think it was the perfect time for Persson and his team to give it to someone with the resources and the reach to make those opportunities. Yes, Microsoft changed some things about Minecraft the game, but overall they didn't touch the core gameplay loop. Instead they focused on expanding the minecraft universe with genre crossing spinoff games and cooperations that the old Mojang could've never done. And kids loved most of it. Stuff like Minecraft: Story Mode added a richness to the franchise that you could completely ignore if you wanted to, or dive into if it appealed to you.

Microsoft grew Minecraft because it still had a lot of growth in it. It might clash with your nostalgia, but it evolved such that it still broadly appealed to its growing core audience. And that is and always has been children. And children still love Minecraft.
>OS X is closest to a NeXTStep

This is already in the piece. Why waste time repeating it?
The modern version would be "don't severely penalize players for failures they can't prevent". I think in 1989 having to start over was considered less of a punishment, because games tended to clock in at low-single-digit hours with perfect play (assuming the game could even be finished).
It's bad design and it was annoying already back when Minecraft was still young. The article author gets this hilariously wrong. He claims that he is "obsessed" with Minecraft, but later admits that they haven't played the game much. I knew that before I even got to that paragraph...
Workbrew
Summer heat is making soda cans burst on Southwest flights, injuring attendants
Which models, specifically, said we would be under water by now?
It's a bit amusing that the article stops with the 1930s exodus and entirely ignores the 1940s exodus to the USA organized by US intelligence agencies under Operation Paperclip. It's true not many of this latter group were involved in pure mathematics, I suppose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
I’m curious about what the objective and conclusion is. Admittedly I’m in the “less technical” audience, so less focused on the “sexiness” (as I’ve heard others refer to it).
> Derivatives kill constant terms

I feel this language is more harmful than helpful when teaching beginners.

When utilizing a derivative to analyze a function the constant terms are treated the same as any other term, it’s just that the rate of change of a constant is 0, because, well, it’s constant, so goes unchanged.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_rules (See: Elementary rules of differentiation -> Constant term rule for this formulation)
Reparations were in the same order of magnitude as debt. In the end, it was 100-120B marks in debt vs 121B reparations (after reductions). Hard to find definitive numbers on debt as there are only estimations out there.

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/100933.htm
I love information density!

I collect old newspapers and back then info density was way higher (for an _amazing_ coffee table book, google "nytimes complete front pages"). So much critical info above the fold.

I think high information density === high intelligence. Getting sort priorities right is very valuable and important.

The past few years the web seemed to be going the other way. Good to see people still rowing in the other direction.

Other examples:

I designed my blog to allow one to zoom in/zoom out to see ~20 years of posts at once (https://breckyunits.com/).

I've got some stuff coming out to promote (and make it easier to build) highly information dense cheat sheets (I'm trying to get the name "Leet Sheet" to catch on - https://pldb.io/blog/leetSheets.html)
> that people from the lower class have not come in the middle class as much as they had earlier

When famous economist Chetty et. al. [1] at the Harvard Equal Opportunity project went to prove this, they were surprised to find it's not true. They obtained never before access to lifetime IRS income statements to see how people moved over time, and they found that social mobility has not changed from around 1960 on. (Other studies had already shown this to be true for the first half of the 20th century). Other studies since theirs have obtain similar results. Here's a summary article about their results [2].

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C15&q=che...

[2] https://www.cfr.org/blog/new-harvard-study-us-social-mobilit...
Ask HN: Thoughts on Tcl as a Language in 2024?
The last two items of your list are interesting. I’ve seen people exhibit all the previous items but I’ve never seen anyone exhibit the last two of your list.

I have however seen many people (online) state a “doomer” or an “optimist” view that goes like this:

> “Climate change is real but there’s nothing we can do about it”

> “Climate change is real but it’s being handled so we don’t need to worry about it”

I think those two would better fit your list of “stages of climate change denial”
"An incredibly long ramp up ..."

Agreed. We would all do well to learn about, and begin implementing, "Iceberg Articles":

https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html
> But from quick googling (I think it's Reddit), some people said Cloudflare uses bait-and-switch where at some point you will need certain features that are only available in enterprise plan or something, basically significant cost increase.

Cloudflare is only "free" for hosting websites; doing something like hosting just images or binary data and pushing hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes a month is likely to get your domain dropped from Cloudflare [0]. However, they do allow these non-website use cases (like hosting binary files, tons of images, etc) when using their third party products like R2 and/or Workers.

But, even with those stipulation, they do have a somewhat dubious sales tactic where, if you're pushing a lot of data, they:

- send you an email saying "you're using a lot of data"

- Have a line threatening you to "pay us to safeguard your website from potential suspension or restricted access"

- If you don't pay, you're in limbo on whether or not you're actually violating T&S and should make plans for being dropped by CF

Going over X0 TB/mo seems to be the threshold for getting put in this sales funnel, based on the few instances i've seen, but I can't confirm it. In some of these cases, the accounts survived, and in others they were dropped, so this isn't always a death sentence.

I would be incredibly grateful if Matthew Prince / eastdakota commented on this sales tactic, because it's obvious that some sales EVP at some point in time said "When Trust & Safety flags a customer for bandwidth reasons, we need to try to upsell them before T&S can review and make a determination for the account", which seems incredibly bad manners with how often CF speaks about their anti-"bandwidth rent seeking" philosophy[1].

0: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/the-way-you-handle-bandwi...

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress
Look at electric cars. We've had them longer than ICE cars but they've never really been viable for most cases up until recently. It's not like we just realized we could run a car on electric motors, it's that battery technology has only recently gotten good enough that we can pull a lot of power from them for a long time before they go dead. Improvements in electronics have reduced the size and inefficiency of the components necessary to charge the batteries too. Trying to charge a Tesla off a gigantic linear power supply would be ridiculous.

The people building DIY electric cars in the 90s were using lead acid batteries charged with very slow trickle chargers, not because they were ignorant, they just didn't have access to the better technology we have now. People 50 years with some sort of cold fusion battery from now will look at our crude electric cars running on chemical batteries and laugh.
I wonder how Nazi-Germany would have worked out without antisemitism.
I think such anecdotes and concepts reflect the complexity of human nature
Nobody wants to replay the portion that they’ve figured out again and again to get to the part they haven’t. It took game developers a long time to figure that one out, for some reason. Heck, they still sometimes put a checkpoint too far back, but that probably comes down to testing.

I’d say Super Meat Boy was probably a big turning point as far as that goes.
When it comes to becoming the largest company on the planet, like the Highlander, "there can only be one", and those that fail wind up with their heads chopped off, not thriving in a smaller niche.
Kind of like humans in that regard
I would assume the objective is to find an approach, or a repeatable formula that gives a good trade off between readability(visual navigability?) and visual density. More than likely it’s a search for constraints, and then determining the boundaries of those constraints.
Just enjoying life. You Americans should try it eventually.
"welfare" [1] is generally a distinct concept from "public goods" [2]

Welfare is typically ment to mean policies to alleviate the hardships of poverty. These can be wealth transfers or socialized insurance policies to reduce the variability of outcomes.

Public goods are services like roads, courts, or firemen.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)
I’ve been playing Minecraft off and on since beta, and I’ve been able to introduce each of my kids as they’ve gotten old enough to play.

It is pretty amazing, they all started in creative running around punching random things and now each one has their own way they like to play. One loves to build, another mini games, survival, parkour, mods etc. we are currently watching MCC live and it’s like the Super Bowl. They all have their favorite streamers too.

Few games turn into multi generational cultural movements like this.
Hopefully referring to the (excellent) sshuttle:

https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

... which allows you to turn any system you have an ssh login on into a VPN endpoint.
See my post above - they have ample data. The majority of people in the lowest income quintile are not there 10 years later. Also the majority of those in the top quntile do not stay there long either - for both ends there is powerful reversion to the middle.

Here's [1] plenty of data and graphs illustrating mobility over different time frames

[1] https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/eco...
The contemporary "multi-paradigm" style is influenced by the many paradigms which preceded it, but for all the elements it borrows, there are elements it leaves behind, too. Implementation inheritance is often left out of newer languages (see Rust, Go). I don't think it makes sense to view new langauges and styles as the sum of all preceding paradigms. It's an evolutionary process, rather than accretive. We keep the good bits and discard the rest.
I cannot think of any game that could approximate a full-time job as much as EVE (I am currently obsessed with factorio, which I play after working for 8 hours on production line automation systems)
The things don't stay the same outside of the US, therefore you can't expect that doing the same thing will always result in the way.

There are very few technologies where the US or EU has an edge over China. Embargoes helped a lot with that.

In fact it becomes absurd, for example the EU/US/UK wants to make the world a better place by replacing ICE cars with electric ones. China builds great cars for cheap in huge amounts and the EU/US/UK act like Gavin Belson saying "I don’t want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do". There you lose the environment claims, even if EU/US/UK have a point.

The west lost the technological edge, the Americans like to claim that EU regulated too much but in the American case it appears that not regulated billionaires didn't invest in tech but resorted into rent seeking and now they expect the politicians to protect them from the Chinese companies who allegedly received unfair support from their governments but nonetheless they made better products.

I don't know I'm not a clairvoyant or expert analyst in this stuff, I'm just pessimistic on the near future of humanity and the west will be the bigger losers because they lost the plot.
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Requires your client to run a web browser though? That's a lot different from just an ssh client?
Hardly anyone interacted with the crafting system via "discovery mode". Almost everyone consulted a wiki, or I guess had a friend tell you what to do. Stumbling upon how to make an axe without looking it up has got to be the least enjoyable part of Minecraft (note: not saying it's NOT enjoyable, it's just not high up on the list for most).
Meanwhile, lots of apps think it's just fine to have no fallback at all and only work on IPv6....
“I can’t replicate” does not disprove the behavior. Reddit blocks me from loading almost any post while logged out[0], faking that they’re NSFW. The person next to me does not have this “feature.”

I believe companies use feature flagging in this way (for years!) to avoid scrutiny of these dark patterns. You, of course, may also be right that it was coincidence.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/49dGCnX
Everyone always says this, as I pointed out already.

No, they don't.
Microsoft's stewardship of Minecraft has been fantastic.

Simplicity has never been a key element of Minecraft - redstone circuits were added years before the acquisition.

The sheer quantity of weird and delightful stuff they've added has kept Minecraft new and interesting for over a decade.
> Svelte 4 is essentially vdom

I can't speak to perf differences between 4 and 5 specifcally, but I'm pretty sure Svelte's mission has been "no vdom" from the start. Here's a 2018 article, eg:

https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
Thanks for those sources!
A smart idea. I just bumped up my Patreon monthly for Homebrew to add some power to their elbow!
If you have some evidence that this has ever happened, please show it to us.

Bonus points if it's Adobe.
These anecdotes not only humanize these brilliant minds but also offer a humorous and endearing look at the quirks that often accompany such intense intellectual focus.
These seem to be ready made products opposed to devkits. Can the FPGAs be easily reprogrammed?
Competition
Jurisdiction
Resilience
Biodiversity
> No, you don't.

Yea, we do.

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

> They claim that computer simulations conducted decades ago didn't accurately predict current warming, so the public should be wary of the predictive power of newer models

That's a neat way to twist the criticism. You're taking what is a very sensible position of "the public should be wary of published headlines which make extreme predictions" and then narrowing it into some specific claim about computer simulations, which "the public" almost certainly has no experience or knowledge of.

> Now where are you on my list:

If your goal is to inspire people to care more about the climate, I would suggest to you that this is precisely the opposite way you would best achieve it.
If it was about a data structure and how much information can be stored in a number of bytes, would a similar comment have to be a joke? Seems rather reasonable for HN. If you hate this kind of thing maybe you're on the wrong site.

I am more incredulous about the comments saying "I am happy Apple takes my freedom away in exchange for security and convenience". Of which there are plenty on certain threads. And clearly not joking.
> recall "models" telling us repeatedly we'd all be underwater by now.

> The difference between the predictions only being whether we'd all have drowned 5, 10 or 25 years ago, etc

that's very interesting, could you give a few links/DOIs?
I quite like how you extended the table scrollbar to carry extra information -- akin to a minimap in code editors. At a glance it helps orient the data on screen in context of the larger dataset.

The helix I find hard to read and not useful. These types of graphs are better suited for periodic data where the period is much shorter than the span of the dataset.

The cube made me curious, but I couldn't quite see the advantage. Usually using a 3D viz is not as effective as using three 2D equivalent graphs (here would be 3 scatter plots) -- simply because the projection from 3D to 2D distorts things and messes with our innate ability to compare locations (and a bit less so, areas). What was the effect you were after here?
I use cloudflare with ddclient for a raspberry pi weather station on t-mobile (a regular line, not TMHI). This allows ms to view it anywhere.

It just sets the AAAA every 5 minutes via cloudflare's API and their CDN proxies it automatically for the ipv4 only clients. I leave the A record blank.

EDIT: Has to he this way because ipv4 is behind CGNAT on their network where ipv6 is fully routed public addresses. The home internet product is setup differently and you can't host stuff on it.
how was she able to go on for so long? No one bothered to audit the account until after so much was solen? ? 80 cars? the fuck. people get 25+ to life for much smaller amounts. 15 years, of which she will likely only serve 9 at a minimum security prison camp, almost seems lenient. Had she taken a much smaller mount ,like a few million, and stashed it in some secret bitcoin accounts probably could have gotten away with it and be wealthy. Like most criminals, her downfall was greed.
Don’t necessarily take IPOs as a signal; the early IPO is not as attractive as it once was, for a wide variety of reasons. Companies with no product taking hundreds of millions in private funding should arguably be seen as the modern equivalent.
It seems like Americans understand just fine how much they benefited from post-war prosperity and the destruction of Europe WWII brought with it.
Please add (2023) to the title: this is old.

It could be bad news had another Waymo done this.

EDIT: would to could: the reply is correct in terms of physics!
Oh boy. Do many of your colleagues play, or at least understand your obsession? this reminds me of truckers playing trucking games in their rigs during downtime.
I imagine you'd use a common watch battery to power this. Can you comment on the battery life? Could not find it in the docs.
The idea is that it does not seem like it is written by AI. Everything that is written is based off of original thoughts of the author that were shared with the AI via a voice conversation.

I have been making many long form posts using the app and I do not say that it is written using AI and people do not notice.
Absolutely, the concept of roles and responsibilities is highly subjective
No need for violence if you can A/B test them for conversion rate.

I was going to say compete for time to render or ease of dismissal but then I remembered it should be from their reference frame.
Underrated thing Microsoft have done is allow Bedrock to cross-play between Windows, IOS, Playstation, Switch and XBox
I don't know how someone devises a scheme like this and doesn't feel paranoid constantly. Doubly so while spending $788,000 on jewelry in one month.

You think $19,500,000 in one year would be enough, but I guess not. Criminals are stupid.
TIL you can spend a quarter million on a Range Rover. Seems crazy amount of money for an English Jeep, if you ask me.