skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google could have also licensed it to manufacturers for free and funded it Play Store and mobile search revenues.

This is an interesting point, but it now does make me ask other questions.

Mostly about historical players... Specifically, Symbian and Blackberry's OS.

Both are good cases to consider because Symbian was pretty close to your suggested model (and I'd argue, feature wise, was a benchmark for some of Android's initial state, as well as likely helping the decision for the preferred app language to be a form of Java for the sake of adoption by existing players.)

> All the non-Apple manufacturers were always going to coalesce around a single platform.

My other statements aside, I feel like Android really started stagnating/enshittifying various policies once WP was fully killed. And TBH I hope the DOJ brings up the treatment of Youtube on WP8/10 if they go ahead with antitrust action [0]. Pre-downloading maps? Here Drive (part of standard WP app suite) let you do it way before others. A polite non-nagging "you're going more than 5 over" beep? Showing speed limits whether or not I have a destination set? Still don't have those in base apps.

And wow, WP never had me deal with all of this carrier bullshit more than once per phone, vs every Android update is a new "oh hey uncheck all these boxes for crapware or try to find the way we changed the 'dismiss and do not show again (but really till the next update)' workflow".

[0] - Short version, The level of shenanigans around Google 'approving/maintaining' a youtube app meant that for a lot of my time in WPland, I could only view youtube videos through a browser. [1]

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/aug/15/...
Trust is what has been broken.

Childish.
I'm sure there are some services that work like this (whichever console has an online service called "Live" comes to mind), but Steam doesn't appear to – unless there's some fine print I've forgotten.
Take a look at the Mac editor Alpha. It is arguably emacs-in-tcl and did a very nice job of balancing cua-style keybindings with emacs-style. Better, if I remember correctly, than things like cua-mode. It’s been literally decades since I’ve used it though, and it might be impossible to square that circle in a way that’s really frictionless.
If you have GOG, good time to point out software like lgogdownloaderⁱ will let you download the offline installers for your entire library.

I suspect there are partial ways to do similar things for steam, except for the actual play-the-game part is dependent on the DRM.

[1] https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader
Sprawl happens when there is available undeveloped land. Roads are just a symptom.

People build outwards first and then upwards.
This still annoys me slightly after nearly 20 years of using Emacs.

In response to keypresses, it doesn't bother me too much, as I'm used to the Windows-style behaviour of PgUp/PgDn/etc. moving the caret, much as the Mac behaviour of not doing that is sometimes useful. But for mouse wheel scrolling, which I do a lot - precisely because on Windows this typically does not move the caret! - having point follow along has never felt right.
Thanks for the explanation! That makes it much more interesting than simply another launch
Your timeline is rearranging some things around[1]. WP Engine was banned before the security issue.

[1] https://duerrenberger.dev/blog/2024/10/08/timeline-of-the-wo...
So is it Linux with an Android emulation layer or the other way around? I was planning to buy a Fairphone but the Librem looks interesting.
Craft isn't labor though, and there are plenty of people who think that just doing a laborious task makes their art interesting. It doesn't.
And it’s still out of scope for the HackerOne bug bounty program.
>The results are based on a grand total of 25 people in the psilocybin group and 21 people in the SSRI group.

Statistical significance is based on sample size, and is independent of population size. Let that sink in, doesn't matter if your population is 100K or 8 billion, when you sample you are trying to understand the probabilities in your sample, not in the population.

Therefore, (think about the birthday paradox, doesn't matter how many people in the world, a few dozen in the room with you is an adequate sample), it should not surprise you that statistical significance is achieved through a much smaller sample size than most non-statisticians have intuition for.
I wonder what would happen if researchers en masse were to boycott a particular platform? Disclose to the companies directly and explain they won't work with X and why. Treat any attempt by the company to kick the disclosure back to platform X as a non-response.
I only heard bad things about the French and their language, but I never met a unfriendly french person.

Don't know where this prejudice comes from.
True.
In the classic form of automation, reasoning is externalized into rules. In the case of AI agents, reasoning is internalized within a language model. This is a fundamental difference. The problem is that language models are not designed to reason. They are designed to predict the next most likely word. They mimic human skills but possess no general intelligence. They are not ready to function without a human in the loop. So, what are the implications of this new form of automation that AI agents represent?
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/ai-agents-automation-eng
Is there a source for this? Is this source heavily context-dependant?
> one side of the conversation in French and one in English!

This is actually an effective way for two people to practise each others' language, and is adjustable according to aptitudes:

Easy mode: each person speaks their own L1

Hard mode: each person speaks the other's L1
Are you saying that it’s due to laziness that some $12 strategy game from Eastern Europe that might sell 1000 copies worldwide doesn’t have copies in every Best Buy?
> No space or time for juniors. Stakes are too high.

High stakes doing what? Are you working on something important like global communications networks critical to space flight operations or something like safety-critical systems that will save lives?
Originally, rail worked kind of like this in the US too. Alternating squares of land adjacent to tracks were ceded to railroads, so you'd have sections of public land and private land beside each other.

I learned about this when someone was trying to make a test case of "corner crossing" from one patch of public land to another a while back.
Sadly, this is pretty accurate and not that different a situation from linux kernel where Linus still reigns. Their vision is driving both and, thankfully for most, they have been fairly benevolent dictators.

But, and it is not a small but, even with their benevolent dictatorship in place, it can only get much worse after they are gone. The pieces to a rather bad ecosystem are all in place.
Ask HN: Why is PDF still king?
As the title suggests, why is the PDF document the go-to file when it comes to sharing documents? Why hasn't there been a widespread adoption for a document standard that's more interactive (videos, code, visualizations etc...)?
man should just handle info transparently.
> it’s so common for women to have an unrealistic picture of their prospects

You kinda did.

> I am believing people when they say they are unhappy.

Who are these unhappy women that need to lower their standards to be happy? I see two different problems: people seem to be lonely because the social fabric is being corroded away; and some people seem to think that the issue is somehow related with too many single women.
you know, my fingers are double-sided.

I wonder if people could learn to type upwards as well as downwards?
While fishing for that right dosage of SSRIs you have a person with new boughts of mania and suicidal tendencies where there's no clarity on how to stop the experiment due to the complexity of blood level accumulation.

If SSRIs started as illegal drugs, with i.e. people starting them dodging medical supervision, I think the system would be telling us they are insanely risky and well beyond many scheduled drugs.
Dude you're on fire the last couple of days with the random forest classifier.
Mind elaborating on what that reason is? Otherwise this comment just comes off as a drive-by dismissal…
It's not really that small and I don't know why people say that.

Last time I saw stats, it was five million monthly visitors. It's small as a platform. It's smaller than Reddit or Facebook, but those aren't discussion communities.

There aren't huge numbers of subreddits larger than five million people and last I looked the largest tended to be about trivial BS.

Last I checked, HN is the largest serious tech discussion board on the planet.
I would guess they still need to learn more about the behaviour during reentry. Relighting the engines or opening the payload door could mean they lose proper attitude control like in the 3rd flight, so they get less info from reentry.
Buying physical media is still renting if it uses any sort of internet validation or online check, because those servers aren't guaranteed to always be online in the immediate or far future.
Somehow that wasn't as much of an obstacle in 1920!
There are also deaths caused by road accidents and health issues caused by pollution.

Those have real economic impacts which aren’t being reflected in the true cost of cars.
The problem isn’t GPL or code, it’s a trademark and trusting issue.
A Brief Introduction to Physics for Mathematicians [pdf]
This is from 2015, but emacs still has higher typing latency than vim in 2024.

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

If you have better numbers and comparisons for emacs keypress-to-pixel latency, etc. I'd be interested.

Note classic vi started up faster than vim.

Device makes little to no difference: Raspberry Pi 5, MacBook Pro M1, ThinkPad P1, etc. - emacs is clunky on all of them. I like emacs and it's my daily driver. But it isn't fast.

see also:

"Computer latency: 1997-2017"
https://danluu.com/input-lag/

"Measuring keyboard-to-photon latency with a light sensor"
https://thume.ca/2020/05/20/making-a-latency-tester/
Strict adherence to old methods due to overly restrictive and risk-averse governing bodies in educational institutions?
Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk
What company did he found?
There is plenty of undeveloped land that people don't move to because there are no roads to get to.

We have more than a century of data showing that roads are subject to induced demand. If you build more roads, people move and sprawl (and take more trips in general) until traffic is once again unbearably bad.

If you build more lanes, more people move further out. Roads create sprawl.
I am out of the loop, what happened with Matt Mullenweg?
The reason nobody uses public transit in America is it's always packed with transients or dangerous people.

I took public transit all the time living in Melbourne since it was clean and silent nearly 98% of the time. Same in the Netherlands.
>> Doing hobbies that involve other people

This is something that doesn't really work for me. I've made a few friends through some hobbies (and we're still friends even though we don't participate in them anymore), but I think the problem is I'm not as into the hobbies as much as the other people are.

I don't want to hang out with anyone at my gym. A lot of the ____ club people are _obsessed_ with that particular thing. I have other interests than that one thing.

I find the key is being easy to talk to, and finding people who are easy to talk to.
Oh man, I just showed my kid homm3 with HD mod. I dunno what are VM options exist on Mac OS, but it may be the way.
Off grid is a win for some, but a threat for poorer families and the environment
It depends whether they are using Steam's form of DRM (AFAIR it can require at minimum some form of time-based token auth where you can still play offline so long as you have done so recently.)

PS4/PS5 as well as XBox%whatever% have a setup close to this, however based on my observations the tokens tend to 'auto-refresh' (at least on PS4/PS5) so long as you actually turn the thing on once in a while.
Wetlands do a better job of carbon sequestration than trees.

Globally, we've lost 85 percent of our wetlands since the 1700s.

Maybe we should restore them.
just consider, if it's so powerful in adjusting his brain, it's probably equally powerful in adjusting anybody's brain, and what if your brain doesn't need adjustment? there's no reason to think it's "idempotent" so to speak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application
> “L'histoire est une suite de mensonges sur lesquels on est d'accord.” —NB

("History is a bunch of lies upon which we all agree")
In Australia, petrol tax raises ~18bn.

Cost of road infrastructure is ~36bn.
just around 2 billion
Maybe people with HIV just shouldn't donate blood or organs...
I would assume that you would only create a new UUID if the content of the tagged file changed serverside.

Benefits are readability and reduced amount of data to be transferee. UUID is reasonably save to be unique for the ETag use case (I think 64 bits actually would be enough).
Well, the government owns all of the land, so by that logic you should just steal whatever land you want, right?

43 CFR 2920
The subscription is mandatory to play your games.
I submitted a comment to this article but it's unclear if it's going to be moderated or indeed published, here's what I said:

I think it's a bit discourteous to shoo Daniel away due to an out of scope
report, then cry wolf when your clients do actually feel that this warrants
a response. The fact that you made changes to your systems in response
indicates that this wasn't as benign as it first seemed.

IMO Zendesk should do the right thing and issue a reward. An issue was
reported and ultimately resolved in some fashion. Continue to encourage
researchers to bother reporting things to you. Yes, you have a little egg
on your face due to the end-run via your clients, but that's life, Zendesk
will survive.
It's possible they didn't know they were infected.
Hardware drops in price.

I reckon a fleet operator would rather pay more for better self-drive reliability. If you can't make it a million km between human interventions, or doesn't matter if you're four or low-five figures cheaper. Remember that a taxi medallion is six figures in NYC.
The main beaches for tourists in the Canary Islands (on Tenerife and Gran Canaria, at least) were built with sand imported from the Sahara. (There are black volcanic sand beaches there naturally, but those were thought to be unappealing to tourists — at least back in the 1960s, when the tourism industry was starting up.)
Sorry - this was entirely due to me also talking politics with some friends earlier in the day. Switched up SK and NK when I typed this.

Obesity in adult men in South Korea more than doubled between 09 and 19.
It doesn't predict better than even, it predicts better than the distribution probability
It’s interesting the divide we see here between particular implementation choices, and very general design principles. FWIW I think this exposes some of the tensions in Emacs’ design itself. The fact that everything is customisable is both great and the source of many problems, and it depends on which direction you want to go how you want to move that particular needle.

I’m not totally sure what I’d do. The semantics of multithreaded or async alteration of buffers are not easy and so, even though they would be great in many ways, might make simple customisation just too painful.
I am not a lawyer, but I am really curious if this would amount to tortious interference.
I like Typst, but I've had a couple issues so far:

1. The line spacing. It's not defined as baseline to baseline, but as the space inbetween two lines of text. Very difficult for an assignment with a prescribed line height since it usually refers to a baseline-baseline measure.
2. While having multiple columns is really easy, adding floating elements for the text to wrap around seems not possible. There's a reason all these CV templates have the info bar on the right instead of the left.
Note: I meant to type South Korea here, not North.
About dn42
Most of the text on the web for example is in a proportional-pitch typeface.

Does your Emacs usually use a proportional-pitch typeface? If so and you're on Linux, I'll install the font you are using.

I've tried using proportional typefaces in Emacs (on Mac), but there was something off, so I went back to monospaced. I could try again now that I have a Linux machine.

The text in my Emacs looks almost exactly like the text in my Gnome Terminal. (A slight difference in size is the only thing I notice. To be painfully precise, (window-system) evals to 'pgtk on my Emacs.)

The text in Gnome Terminal is not terrible, for sure, but text on the web is a nicer in my experience.
> No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”

There is currently no opt out button or switch on this page on their website when signed in through either my personal or business account.

Edit: Someone further down direct linked to it here https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/settings/recommenda...

No idea how they got this screen, as when I click back it gives me the same menu I saw before where this option doesn’t exist and the website design is different.
Personally, I don't really care about it being similar to Markdown. After all if someone wants Markdown they can just use that... For me the selling point is that it provides almost the same features as Latex except with a sane scripting language. This allows me to actually write my own scripts, as opposed to Latex where even understanding how basic stuff worked was a huge pain.
You can totally use it as the default search engine, all you have to do is switch to a different launcher that actually gives you the freedom to customize your search settings bases on your preferences. Eg, Nova Launcher, Lawnchair, Niagara, etc.
Also bridges and tunnels, which seem to be very expensive to maintain.
Most of the new territories is not highly developed. Kowloon and hk island are both entirely urban.
Better to use statistical significance tests to talk about what is "far more likely"
Lately? It's been that way for decades.

I'll add one more to your list: since many things are paid in USD, and most of us live outside the US, your payment goes through a currency conversion. Up until a few years ago it was possible to configure PayPal to let your bank convert using bank's own rates, although it was hidden behind dark UI patterns. Then they removed it and now force you to run conversion at PayPal rates, which are just terrible, much worse than any bank I've ever used. This was about the time I stopped using PayPal completely, so I can't say exactly how much of a price hike this caused, but it's probably around 10%.
The problem I see with that is that anyone who is legally granted the right to WFH becomes much less employable, similar to the way that young women are often passed over in favour of men now because employers don't want to risk someone getting pregnant and taking lots of time off.
The issue your parent comment raises is that this random group may not represent someone that's trying to evaluate what techniques can help them, regardless of the statistical significance within that group. It makes me sad that they introduce other random variables, as incontrovertible evidence of efficacy could help a lot of people!
Harm of WP Engine.
I just leave Ctrl where it is and press it with the knuckle of my little finger. I do it just like the guy in the pic on this page, pressing the control key with his little finger: http://xahlee.info/kbd/how_to_press_control_key.html - because that pic is of my hand. (Xah might not recommend doing this all the time, but I've been doing this for nearly 20 years now and I've had no problems.)
This analysis is too simple. Roads need to be maintained, road accidents are a burden on the national health service and air pollution has a long term negative impact on people's health
Glad I deleted my account some time ago
I'm sure it's a huge success for the few earning the profits from ServiceNow.

Like any SaaS, the more feature boxes you check, the more potential customers you can "satisfy". And the worse the UX gets for the average user (which then gets driven to purchasing more support).

Great for business (the few), terrible for users (the many). No contradiction there.
Was do you find inconsistent here? It seems pretty consistent to me, except maybe the <figure>
Why do you need to price them?

Also, there are countries out there where the average tax payer subsidizes car drivers a lot too.
> ...they violated key ethical principles by directly contacting third parties about their report prior to remediation

According to the researcher, they only contacted 3rd parties after Zendesk rejected the disclosure as out of scope, as they are free to do.

If this timeline is incorrect, Zendesk should immediately correct the record. As it stands, accusing the researcher of violating ethical principles looks very bad for Zendesk. Perhaps even libelous.

That it affected Slack was a side-effect of the original bug, and not a new, previously undisclosed bug. Zendesk fixed the original bug, after rejecting the disclosure. Given all that, Zendesk is still ethically bound to honor the bounty, 3rd party disclosures notwithstanding.
"They no longer sell any international tickets, unless it's on a train actually run by SNCF."

I booked ICE trains run by Deutsche Bahn via SNCF successfully in the past, the last time three days ago. I had them even send me Deutsche Bahn paper tickets for no additional cost. (Not because I wanted them in paper, but because DB insists on their app or paper if it is not an international train)

"The DB App has train services for the whole of Europe. It can plan a journey from Oslo to Sofia if required."

You can plan that in DB Navigator just fine, but have you ever managed to successfully book such a journey. I admit that my attempts were always in the east-west direction, but I can confidently say that the DB Navigator app bails at the last step of the funnel for these journeys every time, when I can book the same trains via SNCF Connect just fine.

What I love about SNCF connect is that it shows me exactly if a train has free seats and is bookable in the inital step, where DB-Navigator lets me happily compose a whole itinerary only to tell me in the last step before payment one of the trains is booked out. Then I have start the whole process from the beginning, manually steering DB-Navigator to avoid the trains I now know are booked out but DB-Navigator still pretends were available.
Volumetric Tesseract [Short] [video]
I've run many of the underlying emulators' software that got repurposed into cores. I loved XMB on the PS3 and PSP, and I really wish Sony didn't drop it. Retroarch's UI is a complete disaster. It is on the whole the most confusing software I have ever encountered.
Columbus' DNA suggests he was a Sephardic Jew from the western Mediterranean
It's actually 16 CCDs with a single core and 32MB each.
Copy is Ctrl+Ins, cut is Shift+Del. Looking at my ANSI keyboard, all are achievable with one hand. Though, when these were designed, GUI’s on IBM based machines weren’t really a thing and two-handed keyboard shortcuts were common-place.