skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single day I am given more reasons never to use Windows again. Glad I moved to Linux early this year. My next desktop will likely be a System76 to ensure Microsoft doesn't get a cut from my next purchase, and it supports a business that supports Linux.
I have only anecdata for this, but I have a strong suspicion that people just don't think about things on social media the same way they do physical interactions.

If someone standing outside the grocery store hands you a flyer that claims the government can control the weather and they're sending you hurricanes on purpose, you'd dismiss them as insane and continue on your way. When your high school buddy Denise posts it on Facebook, though, you're more likely to believe it. Even if you'd think Denise would be crazy if she went out and handed out flyers at the grocery store.

It's like most of us have a built-in crazy filter that works fine for in-person interactions, but it breaks down when that exact same interactions happens online.
Anyone know what the BART FOTF trains use? I’m guessing it’s IGBTs but they sound more like fixed PWM switching to pattern mode with pulse drops.
Meilisearch is great when it works, but when it breaks it's a total nightmare. I've hit multiple bugs that destroyed my search index, I've hit multiple undocumented limits, ... that all required rebuilding my index from scratch and doing a lot of work to find what was actually going on to report it. It doesn't help that some of the errors it gives are incredibly non-specific and make it quite difficult to find what's actually breaking it.

All of that said, I still use it because it has sucked less than the other search engines to run.
It's very vague about the other movies, I disagree.

Even for the subject of the post the only spoiler is the single word "chestburster".
Yes: and in this case, one of the big underlying causes is one of our two political parties—in particular its presidential candidate—aggressively spreading disinformation specifically in order to win him the presidency. (Just as they did the last two times he was trying.)

Another is....a systemic lack of education in critical thinking and how to tell mis- and disinformation from truth.

There is a decrease in people's trust in institutions, but my read on it is that it is an effect of these other phenomena, rather than a cause.

I know that HN tends to frown on partisan politics, but it's really not possible (or at least, not intellectually honest) to talk about the rise in misinformation, distrust, and conspiracy theories without talking about Trump and his role in it.
When comparing a networked service that wrote to disk (a-la magic wormhole) written in Java and in Rust, after 3 iterations of improvements on the respective implementations the throughput was the same for both, CPU utilization was comparable, but memory usage was orders of magnitude lower for Rust. I think that Java will have difficulty closing the gap until project Valhalla (value types in the JVM) is completed, but even then it'll be difficult to bring the ecosystem along to materialize all its benefits.
Did you read the post? There's a whole section talking about how they are entering into binding agreements that let communities leave (and take the domain) if they have a better option
Why are we blaming kids when elected representatives are parroting these conspiracy theories? MTG isn't seeking Gen Z approval.
> My favorite example of the latter is how the arrival of IBM computing in the 60s and 70s totally changed the definition of accounting, inventory control, and business operations. Every process that was "computerized" ultimately looked nothing at all like what was going on under those green eyeshades in accounting.

How did you arrive at that conclusion? Most of those applications were written by the businesses themselves. IBM provided you a programming environment not a set of predefined business software. Which is why COBOL jobs still exist.

What changed with the mainframe was that instead of having a bunch of disparate and disconnected processes you now had a centralized set of dependent processes and a database that provided a single source of truth.

Businesses were going to want this capability regardless of how limited humans with green eyeshades were previously.

> Much of the early internet (and still most bank and insurance) look like HTML front ends to mainframe 3270 screens.

Well, precisely, those are custom applications. If they weren't we wouldn't have this issue. You talk about automation but you seem to have not noticed that mainframes have CICS, why it exists, and why businesses still use it.

The "old school" ways are actually still exceptionally powerful.
Not really a windows user, but I had some success with: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
It’s got to be some phenomenon where people can’t understand obvious things. Fully expect some Reddit post with “It’s hinted that Anakin is Luke’s father”.

I think the publishers etc. have identified that audiences actually don’t get stuff unless browbeaten with it.

Hence movie featurettes with spoilers and book introductions that describe the plot.

They’re trying to hit a full 80% of the population and that means you have to go one standard deviation below mean IQ.

The subreddit /r/yourjokebutworse is a showcase of this phenomenon.
Call me when browsers support another language. What are we going to use? CSS?
Thanks for the detailed response.

The Playwright dev team would probably say that you should avoid using IDs as selectors and instead favour the use of selectors based on user-visible aspects, e.g. "a link including the text 'cat'" or "a button with the label 'register now'". That way your tests are immune to under-the-hood changes the user is oblivious to. The range of selector options (locators in their world) are a real strength of Playwright.
I've literally forgotten which hand I hold a hammer in. Last time I assembled some furniture, I just couldn't figure out any difference. I think I remember there used to be some slight preference earlier, but I just can't say one side would be any better at it than the other.

(I do have clear preferences for many other activities, though which activities go left and which right seems pretty arbitrary, and might just be what I got used to instead of actual dominance. Like, I hold my phone on the right hand because it's in the right pocket, but is that a preference, or just avoiding putting the phone in the same pocket as keys/flashlight/etc?)
No it isn't. There people are not clueless ignoramuses, they're paranoid assholes who have chosen to weaponize their dislike of anything 'official' for political ends. There is a market for propaganda and it is thriving, because many people want their biases reinforced.

Thinking the issue is a lack of education is a kind of procrastination, as if we can just fix this over a 20 year span. Ignorance is not the problem here, malice is. There are plenty of ignorant people who are uninformed or believe silly things without being assholes about it.

There's an unwillingness on HN to engage with the fact that the amplification effect of the broadcast/internet/social media selects for liars and propagandists and fraudsters absent countering mechanisms. That's why spamming and scamming are ubiquitous in our super high tech civilization.
undesirable yes, but it wont be life threatening.

Also as you probably already know brett, lacto and pedio are desirable sometimes.
No, Revit and other CADs are still not working.
I don't think R&T will ever ship at this point, since the browser vendors are apparently unwilling to absorb the complexity that would be required to add new primitive types with value semantics.
The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications
NYC's Film Forum is a good example of a nice well-run community and it's a great venue as well.
There is a problem with this logic though, Trump says some wild things, like the "illegal immigrants are eating your pets". This can result in real violence against those groups.

If you say extreme things that get a positive or a very negative reaction you run this risk. Wasn't one of the attempts by a registered republican?

You cannot assume the attempts were done by democrats.

What about the republican voter that drove through protesters in Charlottesville? That has happened in 2017, so within your 10 year timeframe.
I don't know your age, but as I've gotten older a consistent observation is that vices grow tend to grow with time and we tend towards becoming the older versions of the people we hang around. The social heavy drinking of our 20s becomes the solo heavy drinking of our 30s and the alcoholism of our 40s.

It's rare to see 70-80 year olds with a casual cocaine habit, and of the people I've known who have been interested in cocaine - the consequences caught up to them by the time they turned 30 with a consequence peak in their mid-20s.
Would you consider replacing the Adobe suite with other products?
Im surprised Adobe themselves dont try to help with this.

Adobe would be able to try a vertical integration play
the repo linked here is what you want
There's always been nutcases (apologies to people with actual mental illness).
The problem is that politicians (worldwide) have figured out how to utilize them for their own benefit.

I agree that at times it does seem like a very bad premonition.
It's mind boggling. And I can't even begin to explain it. We live in an age when something pretty close to the sum total of human scientific knowledge is available online, and mostly for free (especially if you count shadow libraries like Anna's Archive, LibGen, Sci-Hub, Zlib, etc). There's millions or billions of pages of high-quality scientific content, millions or billions of hours of lectures on everything from Geology to Abstract Algebra to High Energy Physics.

Anybody can use Khan Academy to get a reasonably decent education on critical aspects of math and science. Sites like Stack Exchange, (some) sub-reddits, physicsforums.com, etc. make it possible for anybody to solicit feedback and corrections on almost any technical topic.

In short, it's possible to be as educated as you want to be, and it's mostly free except for the time and effort involved. And instead a large portion of the population seem to be not only not pursuing real knowledge, but actively rejecting it and embracing obvious bullshit.

WTH people?

OK yes.. I know. Somebody is going to say it. The critical phrase above is time and effort involved. And maybe that's right. Maybe it's just laziness. But somehow that doesn't feel right. And I understand the notion that the widespread interconnectedness of the Internet allows small numbers of people with fringe beliefs to "find each other" and reinforce each other's nuttery, and that has some amplification effect on the prevalence of flat-earth thinking, etc.

And yet, I still don't think that explains what's going on with people. And the frank truth is, I don't have an explanation. Or a solution. And I wish I did. I hope sombody does. Because as @taylodl says in another thread:

These kinds of articles reinforce my idea that we're witnessing our society collapse before our very eyes.

I concur, and this troubles me deeply.
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
How many kids are reading it though?
I like to look into wacky conspiracies and where they come from.

Quite frankly, the most common reason people believe in a flat earth is because of biblical literalism. There are a few passages in the bible (which, if you ever watch a flat earth video, those almost always come out) which mention things like the earth having corners or god rolling it up like a scroll. Those verses are used as the grounding point for why the earth must be flat and all other evidence to the contrary is a lie.

This is also, consequentially, the origin of moon landing denialism. Mormons used to believe that the moon was literally a part of heaven. As a result, it'd be impossible for god to let someone fly a spaceship there. Pretty much exactly the same process happened "It couldn't have happened because our holy texts say the moon is the terrestrial kingdom... therefor it must be a hoax".
They would have thrown him in jail if they found anything. it was political theater, and essentially a coup
+1 for RegionToShare on windows. It's not perfect but it has made sharing on a 49" monitor much much easier.
They never had a stake at any point.

The connection is that 2 of the main people involved originally (jimmy & angela) had a lot of ties to wikimedia, but they were doing wikicities/wikia/fandom as their own thing, not as part of wikimedia.

Also long ago there was some minor connections. They briefly shared an office like 15 years ago i think, and they tried to jointly develop a wysiwyg editor back in like 2012 (wikimedia did most of the work i think, but wikia leant a few devs to the project at one point) which eventually became the mediawiki visual editor.

Anyways totally separare orgs.
This is why reserved seating is the best thing to happen to movies. I leave for the theatre almost at the time the movie 'starts', get my popcorn/soda, and sit down as the last trailer begins.

This failed me once where for some odd reason the movie actually started on time, but 1-2% failure rate is mostly acceptable.
I've seen some movies not knowing anything about them by avoiding trailer (this being much easier in the 1990s...) Movies seems to work better that way.

Though it can be jarring: Eg. Silence of the Lambs or Leaving Las Vegas.

The Onion had a good take on it:

https://theonion.com/wildly-popular-iron-man-trailer-to-be-a...
Why are there no class actions to take politicians to task for spreading life risking lies? It seems like a slam dunk in such a litigious society.
Maybe, but people were going like this before COVID.
Who created God then? And if not, how does that square with anything observable in the universe? Energy and matter don’t come from nothing.
This doesn't deserve downvotes because it is entirely correct. Your average Windows user doesn't know about this let alone think about it. The number of people who know and care about this are an extreme minority.
> For starters: on average, moving away from Fandom doubles the number of people editing

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who actively avoids contributing to Fandom wikis because it's effectively doing unpaid labor for a corporation that only cares about making as much money as possible off of said unpaid labor.
We'll see if that still holds true post Sony acquisition. There's still time for enshittification to be involved.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sony-pic...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40662181
The Infosphere has always been one of the best fan wikis out there, thank you for your hard work (and for not selling out to Fandom)
What they don't say is:
(1) Vehicles are heavier now, not just EV's.
(2) Regardless of the barriers you are safer in an EV because EV's don't rollover.
Reap what you sow, I guess. Call for violence enough times and you find people that are willing to use it. Like a guy who supported you but became disillusioned. A risk of riling up people is they're not guaranteed to always be for you.

> Please tell me where the highest violent protesters reside? blue or red states?

Of the top five most violent states, four of them are 'red states.'
Used as a local anesthetic there's no addiction risk. You don't get high from it, and it's not prescribed at home so you can't make a habit out of it. The only risk is medical people who have access to it stealing some.
1. It's different because the internet feeds us every bit of lunacy that happens anywhere in the country, so it looks like everyone has gone insane. (Especially in politics, where the Ds will tell you about every single stupid thing an R says anywhere in the country, and the Rs will tell you about every single stupid thing a D says.)

2. The national debt is probably a result of long-term lack of wisdom, yes. But with an economy the size of the US, there is absolutely no reason to pay it back at only $1,000,000/day. A serious attempt would be more like $1,000,000,000/day.
Oh whatever; presidents have been lying for decades now.

I remember a president whose error on "weapons of mass destruction" left my uncle nearly suicidal and killed countless Americans for nothing.

I remember a president whose DOJ wiretapped the Associated Press in 2012.

I remember a president who allowed his own Director of National Intelligence to lie to Congress about the NSA's activities before Snowden.

I can go on.
> OP is making up stuff about running code on the CPU because its a 3D engine?

I’m not sure CPU-evaluated animations are often critical performance bottlenecks of game engines.

> why mention megapixels if you think it's irrelevant?

Count of screen-space pixels is a hard upper limit of count of simultaneously visible things on the screen. Animating occluded meshes is pointless.

> many memory-safe languages and runtimes and have performant data structures

Indeed, because people who designed these memory-safe languages wanted to support arbitrarily complicated data structures implemented using safe subset of these languages.

Safe Rust supports arbitrarily complicated code, but requires unsafe to implement most non-trivial data structures.

It’s possible to hide unsafe code deep inside standard library, possible to implement safe APIs over unsafe implementations, but still, for people who actually need to create custom data structures (as opposed to consuming libraries implemented by someone else) none of that is relevant.
This has little to do with education.

It's just political polarization. Conservatives (of a certain variety) in the US are polarized against the establishment (the media, science, colleges, etc), and this is the result. Better education might save some of them, but not many. The smarter ones retain the same core beliefs without the abject silliness.
Russian propaganda doesn't actually necessary need to collude with the people who's voices they amplify to meet their goals.

(it also doesn't necessarily need to spread false information, either. The general strategy is just 'find divisive statements and/or figures and amplify them'. Making up their own isn't usually necessary)
Looking at TTB's mandatory items on labeling [1] there is nothing about any dates. Some states have different requirements, and I don't know California's, but many states do not require any kind of date coding.

[1] https://www.ttb.gov/regulated-commodities/beverage-alcohol/b...
The funny thing about this was that Rocket League was native on Linux and Psyonix removed Linux support.
I care. I use a generated email address at my domain for every account/service/website.
I store the account info in keepass, they all have generated passwords too.
I can see when email comes in who abused the email, was compromised, or sold it.
If an email starts getting spam, i block receiving to that address. if desired, I update the account to have another generated email, but usually if I'm getting spam to that email I don't want to do business with them again.
Yes, a cup without a handle is just a ball
> When that cost is too high, don’t do it.

Or just recognize that your software ideology is incorrect for the problem at hand. This guy wanted to write a single piece of software that did everything the business needed. That was clearly a mistake and no surprise that his software ended up very tightly coupled to the business itself.

This was an error in interface and component design. Most likely caused by starting to write software before fully understanding the job roles and people who would be using it.
Which are you saying - that the Muller report didn't find things, despite it clearly finding things, or that it was a coup, even though it was under the Trump admin, by DAs placed by Trump?
So glad I switched to Linux and got away from this garbage. Now I have to convince my employer to also allow Linux on their workstations.

Windows 7 was the last good OS from MSFT but even that had a bit of telemetry.
We should all be so lucky to have one.
Category:Conspiracy theories in China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories_i...

(From Category:Conspiracy theories by country)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories_b...
The complex relationship between fasting and longevity
That seems unlikely, but if we accept it's true, that's only 5% dumber for someone with an average IQ, and that doesn't seem like nearly enough to account for believing something obviously implausible like controlling hurricanes. If people had basic scientific literacy they should be able to see the amounts of energy needed would be staggering.
I've always been fascinated by conspiracy theories. The weather weapon conspiracy isn't even new. I remember hearing "they" were controlling the weather to create storms using HAARP [0] like 20 years go.

Back then you had to seek this stuff out though. It was on obscure internet forums, fringe websites, and late night talk radio.

I am not sure what to make of the current situation. Its concerning. I think there are a lot of factors at play though with a big one being we gave everyone a megaphone and then monetized the result regardless of any negative consequences.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_...
Seems like people want different things. not everyone can be happy.
I hadn't heard of this feature before, but WTF? Who thought AI parsing everything you do on your system would be a good idea?! I want zero to do with this "feature".
SharedArrayBuffer can already do data races on the web. And they can't crash the browser or computer.
Pretty sure this isn't real, it claims to be co-founded by Alfred Lin but he has never talked about it, the domain is registered by someone in Australia.

A Reddit post popped up about it with someone claiming they got 250k from "SVSX", that person also happens to reside in Australia and everyone on the Reddit post picked it up as being fake, made with the intention of promoting this site. https://www.reddit.com/r/ycombinator/comments/1g0dibn/i_rece...
Unfortunately, the lost revenue from marketing would just add cost to tickets. It's likely the theaters get a portion of that revenue if not most of it since it's time spent in their seats.
I mean, I've got a kid and love when I can take him to see a rerelease of a culturally significant movie when the content is appropriate. Spoilers in the pre-rolls are definitely an issue. Even if it's just me going, some of the movies I go to see are movies where I've seen bits and pieces here and there and cultural osmosis, but it can be a bit of a bummer to have the 5 minute rehash of the film before seeing the whole thing.

OTOH, video disc menus sometimes do this too. You've got to put some content in the menus, I suppose, but it can easily be too much. I've got a few discs that just dump you straight into the movie, which is often a better choice.
I run it on Linux everyday with Steam on Proton. It is my go to game on steamdeck and my Fedora desktop.

By default steam wants to download the old old old Linux version that doesn't allow online play, but if you enable proton it will download the Windows version and run fine. I am pretty sure it doesn't have a real anti-cheat included.
I mean, rotoscoping is still animation, but it's just one technique/tool of the trade. I thought it was used well in Undone, and I enjoyed The Case of Hana & Alice
massgrave's LTSC install has made it tolerable for me at least. The first time I booted into a standard consumer win11 install I nearly had an aneurysm
I can usually tell within the first third of a trailer whether I'd like to watch it. In those cases I don't finish the trailer. They give everything away.
What? Rocket League works fine on Proton with no weirdness. Played a bunch of competitive matches with no issues whatsoever.
Here is a related project I use to share selected content (usually single windows and my iPad) on a projector while teaching: https://github.com/benjones/presenterMode/
Well... sort of?

https://emscripten.org