skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
remember Denthor's tutorials in Turbo Pascal? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8837545

http://textfiles.com/programming/astrainer.txt

would be fun to get an old dos machine going with Pascal IDE and run through all those again
> If you want offline mode, you worry about IndexedDB

I don't understand the offline mode. If I was to make a single player offline game that runs on the browser, sure, offline mode makes sense and I want to store on client machine.

But in the space of web apps, everything data needs to be synced with server db.

Why would I want to store half of my to do list on client and other half on the server? The end goal is the customer data is stored in the cloud...
I'd describe Steam as a monolith, not a monopoly. There are several competing storefronts, and many games have been successful without releasing on Steam.

That said, the PC gaming landscape has completely warped around Steam. Epic had to offer huge incentives to get EGS exclusivity deals. Smaller games struggle without a Steam release, and even big companies with their own storefronts have decided the sales boost from Steam overrides the 30% cut Valve takes. And Steam is so entrenched at this point that it's difficult to see how a competitor could make a meaningful dent in Steam's market share.

Despite this, if we're going to have one dominant PC gaming storefront, Steam is probably the best we could hope for. Despite my many misgivings with Valve and Steam, it's difficult to imaging the situation improving if the dominant platform was run by a company like Microsoft or Epic. And it's fair to say that PC gaming wouldn't be nearly as big as it is today without the success of Steam.
This is a blog ad.
The Urbit ID thing looks fully baked now, based off ETH, but apparently it’s a separate layer from the Urbit platform (“OS”) itself, so presumably optional?

Been a while since I looked at Urbit. Seems you can build actual apps with it, but Hoon is still there and wacky as ever.
Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the ECHR covers exactly this, so the Supreme Court (and ECtHR if it came to that) would probably find in favour of Royal Mail if this were to be done without compensation.
It would be interesting to compare the Valve organizational approach to that of W.L. Gore, which has a unique and successful approach described in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" as it discusses the Rule of 150.

At Gore, it is a flat structure, but with self-organizing teams that take initiative and responsibility ("commitments") as appropriate for current goals.

https://www.gore.com/careers/working-at-gore
FBI searched homes of two Americans with ties to Russian state media
how does that work? You can just set your operating system to not use the ISP provided DNS server, even if the ISP provided router/modem is locked and cannot be changed.
John Belushi's Widow Left Behind Something of Her Own: Deeply Personal Songs
> Mostly we assume researchers are honest (which is probably true).

I'd guess the average researcher is as honest and as fallible as the average human. They aren't gods, certainly they can have personal or political motiviations, become blinded by ambition, or succumb to pressure from others, or from potential personal financial or power gains.
Yup. The Post Office, the railways, the water system, for heavens' sake!

The tories, as a matter of religious faith, see privatised => efficient, whilst being unclear on the difference between 'efficient at creating shareholder value' and 'efficient at serving the public good'. The political mood music, over the last few decades, has meant that the Labour party has repeatedly found itself obliged to say positive things about privatisation, as part of the process of Being Sensible About The Economy (there is a much longer alternative version of this comment!).

The US -- the world temple of capitalism -- seems to be oddly principled (viewed from outside) about keeping certain things such as the postal service, or USGS, as part of the service to the public realm.

The one service probably immune from privatisation is the Health Service. It's only the most frothing-at-the-mouth right-wingers, the provocateurs just one step away from a rabies injection, who'd even admit out loud to a desire to do that. A politician talking about privatising the NHS would I think be pretty much equivalent to a US libertarian politician talking about privatising the armed forces.

(there's a longer version of that comment, as well...)
Probably more and more people doing ops without apt knowledge and tests
I see this a bit differently. It’s exactly because some tasks feel like a chore that I gravitate to tools that improve the experience.

To me, keeping these tasks separate is just reinforcing the negative association those tasks have built up over time in my brain. The degree to which they continue sucking has as much to do with my own thinking about the tasks as the tasks themselves. I’d rather find ways to make the suckiest tasks even a tiny bit more palatable, and at least in my case, don’t find that this impacts the things I love about working in the terminal in any way.

At the end of the day, I’m going to have to tackle all of it eventually. Might as well make it easier on myself. YMMV.
Related The biggest diamond in over a century is found in Botswana (10 points, 8 hours ago, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41326965
> I wish the other sciences would get on board

It’s not about science it’s about politics and corruption and power plays. At the expense of being accused of posting lazily, you really have to follow the money.

2 more weeks to flatten the curve while the oligarchs pillage the economy some more.
Yes, it's in the European Convention on Human Rights, which despite the name also covers companies' rights.
My take is that the neural network is a bit of a red herring -- people poked around in brains to see what was going on and noticed a network structure with many apparently simple computing nodes. So they tried making similar structures in software and quickly discovered they could do some interesting things. But it may turn out that the neural network was just nature's best implementation for "field programmable matrix manipulation". You can implement the functionality in other ways, not resembling neural networks.
One reason I’ve heard is the stats and Achievements consolidation.

Cross play solves this somewhat but it’s not consistent.

PC is my main platform but I also have an Xbox (NHL games not available on PC), everything else is on Steam.

I wouldn’t buy a PS5 for an exclusive. TBH exclusivity is annoying and I don’t want to reward it.
That's just as terrible as making a flippant comment about the DEMOCRATIC People's Republic of Korea.

I don't know OP's reasons, but OWA's landing page says:

> We [...] have come together to advocate for the future of the open web by providing regulators, legislators and policy makers the intricate technical details that they need to understand the major anti-competitive issues in our industry and how to solve them.

Zero matches on the page for "Google" or "Chrome", whose monoculture is the greatest threat to the open web.
I noticed its AI IQ dropping this past week. I use a paid subscription via POE.COM.
No, they want installs on-demand once you select the browser, which ties into a subsequent demand that browsers be able to be downloaded directly from the source or an alternative App Store.
We use Vega lite for our web base graphs at work. We love the “export as svg” feature. It’s by the same people but with fewer options but easier to set up.

Like all graphing libraries, it’s chasing the gold standard which is R’s ggplot2. It’s as close as we’ve found in JavaScript, plus it can be interactive.

https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

They have a python version as well.
Discussion (114 points, 23 hours ago, 159 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322266
There's nothing blocking them other than their own internal policy and hubris. They want the control of everything being re-skinned Safari on iOS
It's my local, so that makes it unique. It does have a quieter vibe than some of the other branches I've been in. YMMV
Having grown up in the generation of DVDs and Blu-rays I'm cursed with the inability to ignore streaming video compression artifacts such as blocking, banding, and ringing. They alone can get me annoyed enough that it breaks my engagement with the film. Any sort of hiccup from packet loss resulting in complete distortion of the video or buffering sends me into a "fsck this sh!t" rage. It completely ruins the experience for me. That means I will never watch a film that I really care about via streaming.

I don't have a lot of time to watch films these days, so when I do I always opt for a physical disc to make sure I actually enjoy the experience. In addition I've noticed that it often costs $20 to "rent" a new release via streaming and $30 to buy an actual disc, so it doesn't make any financial sense to me at all to "rent" a crap streaming experience for 2/3 of the cost of buying a high-quality copy of the film.

But now there's another problem. I've noticed that many films being released today are streaming-only. One I looked at last week could be "rented" from a streaming service for $20, "bought" from said streaming service for $30, or bought on physical media in JULY 2025. That's right, an entire year from now.

In years past I've frequently made it a habit to head down to the local Target in the late afternoon to see what new releases they have in the electronics department. However the last time I went there the Blu-ray section had been completely removed. No doubt because studios are no longer releasing new films on Blu-ray until a motherfscking YEAR after they make it available on streaming. When I asked an associate where the films were he apologetically stammered, "Uh, yeah, sorry, we're, uh, turning down our film section. There are a few stragglers left at the end of the aisle over there."

Now there is no way for me to legally get a new release film that I can tolerate watching within a reasonable amount of time. I would garner that it's primarily an artifact (no pun intended) of the current generation having grown up with crap streaming videos, and so they are adapted to it and don't have expectations for quality like those of us from the DVD and Blu-ray generation have.

I suppose this is another way it goes to show that knowing how bad most things are and precisely how they're bad is more a curse than a blessing. As I walked out of Target empty-handed I admit I did have a feeling somewhat like wanting the Earth to be steered into the sun.

And then I jumped on VPN and pirated the film I wanted to watch.
My contribution: not starting a culture war that drove out advertisers, causing valuation to crash.
// Why do you think $9 an hour is shameful? Doesn’t that entirely depend on the cost of living? //

No. It does not depend at all on cost of living. It depends upon supply and demand, like anything else.
I get your point but its $3/mo or $18/yr. If a diagram isnt worth 1.80 to you then you probably wouldnt have bought it even with pay as you go
I’d forgotten about Peloton. Is that still a thing?
This reminds me of the current research in ML of "simplifying" models for inference (pruning, distillation, etc.). Our model of reality is so imprecise, can we be confident that all the local details are insignificant to the global context?
I'm really surprised this list doesn't contain any of the big names I'm using. In fact I've never heard of any of these sites.

I'm using many of the book sites and general torrent ones (I won't name them here), but none of these are on the list.

I also think the point is kinda moot because everyone doing torrents in Germany will already use VPN because it's only a matter of time before you get serious letters from lawyers there, demanding about 400 euro per move they've seen you download. ISPs always cooperate in giving subscriber info for each IP. Some lawyer firms actually specialise in this and go after downloaders on their own.

I wonder if they leave the big torrent sites out to provide income for these lawyers?
There were some plans to do so a while back:

>We definitely can’t open source Unreal Engine 2 or 3, because of dependencies on a large number of external closed-source middleware packages with complex licensing requirements.

>Open sourcing Unreal Engine 1 might be possible, but getting the source and dependencies into a releasable state would take a lot of cleanup effort that we just haven’t been able to find time for. I hope we can do it someday. [0]

[0] https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-1/14084/6
Funny. Haven't thought of that, probably because I'm german.

The way I pronounce it is with long vowels.

So in an extreme way it would be ruuurooocooo :)
> If they choose to return on Crew-9, the associated IVA suits do exist and would be sent up

This is SpaceX’s pitch. NASA hasn’t accepted it yet. The novel risks could favour using the Starliner suits in Dragon or no suit at all.
I am sure if you use DoT or DoH it's going to be very hard for ISP to block using your own DNS even if you rented a modem/router from them. It does need client-side support though.
As EV sales slump, Volkswagen scales back battery factories buildout
"Secret" and "German" in the same sentence makes your ears perk up
I only go when I'm passing, once every month or so. Special meal out, isn't it.
My 9-digit zip hasn't changed in at least 10 years.
From the OpenBSD perspective, I just populate /etc/hostname.wg0 on my laptop with my wg configuration ... and I can immediately `ssh router` at home or on the road :-)

IOW, why ever down the connection? Why not start your tunnel immediately when the network comes up and leave it running until the network goes down?
They've been forced to relax this policy, but only in the EU: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-b...
Vulnerabilities in Homepage Dashboard – Anvil Secure
> searching around the space of functions representable by an architecture for something that works

That’s… why we’re here?
I’ve seen my 60yr old mother struggle through four different healthcare framework shifts in like 7 years.

I fully understand the issue, and you’re selling your (grand)parents short. Keep your anger, you’re just wrong.
The Myth of Fed Political Independence [pdf]
How do you handle attachments?

In particular, if you attach a file to a note in obsidian then no other program can link to the right attachment, right?
It wasn’t gratuitous at all and the “self-promotion police” are an insufferable plague on this website.
No, I'm pretty sure this one was incompetence. It came at the same time that the government was going all-in with open data in other areas, and this was a really stupid omission.
Many millions of lives would have been saved if we didn't wait. There is good reason we wait, but it isn't perfect.
apartments in france often (if not always) do not have unit numbers. i always thought it is to preserve anonymity.
What do you mean you can't opt out? It just turns into a normal TPM if the OS doesn't use it.
> searching around the space of functions representable by an architecture for something that works

That’s… why we’re here? How else could we characterise what any learning algorithm does?
It’s any text based format, you specify the type in info.json
China Is Starting a New Trade War
What do they call it with packets, "quality of service"? FIFO.

It's a good plan but you have to make sure fairness is ensured. It's the same feeling as, if I go get a burger & fries, the guy behind me orders identically, burger and fries, and somehow gets served first. The instinct is to say, "what the heck, why does HE get fast service than me in a straightforwardly unfair manner?!?"

So you'd need the empty bus and full bus to hit the same spot at the same time, fill the empty bus as the full one unloads. But which bus leaves first? If the former empty bus leaves first, you're being unfair QoS to the people who are seated on the full bus (which, to their perspective, at their prior stop, was the first-in-order-on bus so therefore should be the first-in-order-off bus. On the other hand, if the full bus leaves first, why did you make incoming passengers board the empty one? They should have boarded the full one to get to their destination faster.

The solution, which we see in practice, is to have the empty bus wait 5 or 10 minutes and let the full one get ahead. If we are seeing rounded fairness to all parties as the priority.
Off topic but topical: Mike Lynch's yacht was named "Bayesian"
Well we don't know If microplastics are really bad. Let's just assume they are mildly toxic. Since the high amount of children on earth it will still be millions seriously affected.
On the other hand, with "99% perspiration" the water cooler is essential to prevent dehydration.
Despite innocent until proven guilty, there are innocent people in prison or on death row. I doubt that is a standard that any scientist would agree to.
This is mostly correct, but one thing that's worth pointing out is that CORS doesn't protect anything, but it 'loosens' the protection that the browser has by default. The S in CORS stands for sharing, not security.
This paper, with empirical analysis, is another feather in the cap of the growing narrative of "fiscal dominance," that is, how the Fed is less concerned about the inflationary impacts of its QE policies, and more focused on accommodating the budget agenda of the government and its ability/facility to service its debt and make interest payments
Yes. ini files are simple programming languages. The application that processes it is acting as the interpreter, its behavior changes based on what's described in the ini file.
Will the cognitive shuffle help you sleep better?
Seasonal employment is tracked separately and can be accounted for[1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/sae/seasonal-adjustment/

> Seasonal adjustment eliminates the part of the change attributable to the normal seasonal variation and makes it possible to observe the cyclical and other nonseasonal movements in CES State and Area series.
Shadcn for emails dropped, react email v3
Is it possible to use your own router/modem for Comcast? Between my last two apartments and my current one I've had Spectrum, Optimum, and RCN as ISPs in the past decade or so, and with all three of them I was able to use my own router and modem (doing a quick google ahead of setup to make sure that I found instances of people online saying the hardware I had worked for them). It definitely _shouldn't_ be something people have to do in order to be able to have unrestricted internet, but sadly it's far from the only thing that sucks about ISPs. In my current apartment, I have no other option for ISP other than Spectrum, and they seem to get outages far more often than they should (and don't "notify" me until around 20 minutes after I check their website for outages in my area and it says there aren't any).
Everyone knows how environmentally friendly shipping everything 8000 miles is. Climate policy just makes stuff nicer for people who live in rich countries because the pollution is further away from their personal bubble.
> Google tried this, notoriously dense grating and then firing basically all the managers at an all-hands. That didn’t work out well at all...

When did this happen? Sounds absurd. I’d love to read more if anyone has a postmortem or other sources.
Programming Languages 2024
The key question is whether an antitrust target is engaging in uncompetitive practices. I haven't noticed any claims of Steam/Valve using uncompetitive practices (but I could have simply missed them.)
Did they say schemas aren’t supported, or is that implied by the firebase label?
Scottish island recognised among best night skies
Why is it that so many of the PhDs and MDs out there are unable to tell when someone's lying to them about their very own areas of expertise?

Either they're not that smart or the processes aren't very good -- though no single researcher is responsible for their field's poor processes. Either way, we shouldn't assume that any one PhD or MD recipient is an expert until something changes. Degrees, on their own, don't signify expertise or credibility.
Isn’t that exactly what Steam did with the Orange Box? They just did it in the 2000s, years before anyone else.
They could block all outgoing traffic to port 53, although you could work around that by setting up a DNS server on a different port outside the network
I really need to set up my Navidrome instance. Any recommendations for cheap hosts? I would need around 200GBs of space
I was complaining about the same thing yesterday (to nobody) about the macOS System Preferences - it is irritating that when you are working on the Network Panel and want to fiddle with some other system option, you can't open two different panels in System Preferences at the same time. Isn't it the same with Linux distros too now a days who are imitating Windows and macOS UI?
AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography
SSH on something other than port 22 is not more secure, but it does massively reduce the amount of log noise. Which I find invaluable since I do not have a security team monitoring my machines.
Elon is unusual not in how much his fans adore him (and they do), but the degree to which his haters hate him. I've seen plenty of places where people simply stating facts or talking about their own experiences gets downvoted to invisibility.

Even points that you wouldn't think would be controversial, like "Tesla disrupted the EV industry that was previously only interested in building compliance cars for rich crunchy-granola city weirdos", are almost instantly shot down. Anything that isn't just outright hatred for Elon gets slammed to hell. It's almost impossible to have a balanced discussion about him or his companies.

I also don't think he's as dumb as people think. He has an eye for industries that are ripe for disruption and has actually managed to deliver at least twice so far. There is no question at all that SpaceX is the premier launch provider in the world today (I know I'm getting downvoted for saying this). Tesla sells about half of the EVs sold in the US and basically didn't exist 10 years ago. The jury is still out on the Boring company. Neuralink and Optimus are still too new to tell. Even Paypal is a good example of seeing a market gap and exploiting it. Twitter/X was the real stinker. Elon is exactly the wrong guy to be running a social media company, and worse he thinks he is winning by out-foxing Fox News. He's got that engagement algorithm brain that results when you chase bigger numbers. It is the biggest right wing black hole you could imagine and Elon himself has fallen right down the center. You couldn't ask for a more perfect radicalization system than he has built with the "pay for voice" scheme with basically no bot protection.
My main reason of returning or not listening to audiobooks, be it with Audible or competitors, has been either a) a whiny or nasal voice, or, b) a strong accent that i dislike (e.g. strong British or Australian accent).

I have found myself finding more new books by checking which other books a specific narrator has voiced, rather than finding a book I want to listen to and hoping for a good narrator.

/rant i guess
You may be confusing magnitude [1] and orders of magnitude [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitude_(mathematics)

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
Wyoming is pushing crypto payments and trying to beat the Fed to a digitaldollar