skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let us start with phone numbers as an example - at one point we gave a human operator a short codeword and number. Then we had 7 digit dialing,

It's an aside, but an interesting one: The "codeword" dialing was also 7 digit dialing, the word just encoded the first two numbers of the Exchange (the first three digits) because AT&T research showed that people were good at remembering roughly 5 +/- 2 things at a time, so 7 was the "upper limit" of digits and because 5 was the sweet spot, they used the "named exchanges" pattern for a bunch of years before they got too many exchanges to effectively name and they decided more people were comfortable enough with 7 digits.

The old exchange names are still a fascinating list and can still be used today to remember some phone numbers. Some were mnemonic like UNiversity was often given to the biggest University campus in a city. You'll still find many Universities still have lots of 7 digit numbers that start 86 (UN) (and/or neighbors 85/87). Most of the others were chosen somewhat like the NATO alphabet to encode two digits of numbers such as KLondike (55) or PEnnsylvania (73). Because these exchanges define/encode neighborhood boundaries (and you would associate the phone numbers of that part of town with that part of town) you can see neighborhoods and streets in cities throughout the US still named after these exchanges, even if they don't remember why AT&T's abstraction of the first two digits of a phone number left a lasting legacy in the very shapes and names of neighborhoods. Neighborhoods and streets named Klondike or Pennsylvania not for any relation to the regions those names but because AT&T thought those would be easy to remember phone numbers.

Perhaps to bring things back towards the topic: the interesting thing in the drop of "codeword" dialing was that it was a loss of abstraction. The bandaid was ripped off and people were expected to just learn 7 digits rather than "vaguely what neighborhood plus five digits". Levels of abstraction aren't always a "ratchet" from lower to higher. Sometimes dropping a layer happens or is important. Per Postel's law it's also a fun reminder that these things will stick around as long as they need to and compatibility will generally be maintained in some way or another. I don't know what the replacement to DNS will be, but I can imagine it will still reflect some things about DNS, even 200 years from now. You can still call Pennsylvania 6-5000 or Klondike 29401. If it is still a landline you might even still have a rough idea where it will dial on a map. In the New York City area code the one immortalized in swing music still even calls the Hotel Pennsylvania all these decades later.
Ok, I know some states have rather strict sweepstakes and lottery laws. Why the article goes on to talk about other federal laws rather then show that the case is solely built on state law is kinda confusing...
I have the QN700B. It seems almost small to me at this point. Can you get VRR to work on linux?
A popular theory on techie parts of the web is that engagement-optimizing sites create this negativity loop, but I disagree. I think negativity is naturally something that people seek no matter what the algorithm is. In an upvote based site, outrage ranks to the top. I also think text based platforms suffer from negative engagement much moreso than multimedia platforms.

Model correlation is decent here but there's certainly more to do to use its outputs predictively.
What I find strange is that I was able to search it last night no problem, but just tried and now I can't.

It's not the only change that went live today as far as I can tell though, it seems like they are also A/B testing not showing view counts on the home page based on other twitter posts.
Once upon a time I'd use the same monitor for several generations of desktop. But lately monitors feel like they're advancing more quickly and computers more slowly such that I end up replacing them after about ten years.

I personally appreciate not having to do both at the same time, but at least for me it has reduced that particular criticism against all-in-ones.
Bremsstrahlung radiation involves accelerating electric charges through non-zero electromagnetic fields. When all charged particles are accelerated by gravity in the same way by a [close to] uniform gravitational field then they are not being accelerated through non-zero electromagnetic fields because the causes of those fields are also accelerating in the same way. However, if an electron were falling into a charged, rotating black hole then I'd expect some Bremsstrahlung radiation indeed.

That said, IANAP. And when I say "accelerated by gravity" I am taking the interpretation that gravity is a force, which is a valid interpretation (see other commentary above).
> iMac features a color-matched keyboard and mouse or trackpad... These accessories now come with USB-C ports, so users can charge all of their favorite devices with just a single cable

WOW!
About 60 days ago I picked up rollerblading after never doing it (cycling and swimming was always my thing), my balance, core strength and flexibility (which started very poor) have gotten insanely better, I'm more aware of how to control very nuanced things about my posture and leg movement and which muscles I naturally favor, I had no idea how hard it was going to be and how high the skill ceiling was... and it's definitely a major cognitive boost as well, way more so than cycling even.

The strangest thing is that while I've never done yoga or other types of unloaded static movements, because I get extremely bored, it's very clear to me that rollerblading is activating all those things and an hour just blows by while skating.
> DJT get free advertising from trump's brand and endless coverage, even if he loses. This is worth a billion dollars /year alone

I don't think it's a simple as that. You can't just say "this guy is in the news a lot - that's worth $xxx". If anything, you should invest in media companies in general who do the coverage if you want to make that bet.

> The hardest part of launching any service is getting the userbase. This typically requires tons of advertising; Trump has this covered.

DJT has already launched a service. If you take them at face value, they already have a lot of users. But it's still not making any money.
it's a desperately unrelated philosophical Artwork "Photon" of a Polish artist Norman Leto with obscure Cyrillic (?) subtitles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Leto
On this case, you protect power lines by insulating them. Grounding is exactly what you don't want.

Modern lines are almost insulated enough for it not to be a problem. But there's some extra work needed.
You literally proved my point.

You spend $11500 per person, while the original statement alluded to $30k for a single adult.

Do you honestly not see the difference or are you that well off that $18500 is not a significant amount of money to you?
> Now, does GA's sample actually have significant bias?

Yes it does. Both for the adblock https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users and the consent banner https://www.advance-metrics.com/en/blog/cookie-behaviour-stu...
This is what async/await rust programmers need

They are comfortable with runtimes
Zero people on the planet do this.

The mouse port thing is like a canary in the coal mine, betraying the people who just like taking shots at Apple, but generally are very ill informed. I think Apple should keep the port on the bottom purely so we can get the shortcut to discarding people's opinions when they hoist it up to concern troll.

For actual Apple Mouse users, charging is just the least concerning thing imaginable. The battery lasts an absolute eternity. I'm using one right now that I've had for at least five or so years and I charge it once in forever, it charges super quickly, and it's just not a factor in my life at all.
I believe it’s a limitation of the memory controller on the M4 chip. It can only address 32 gb of ram. Addressing more ram would require more die space
Crazy talk! Next thing you are going to say is that realtime-focused infrastructure should have native counters to detect missing deadlines, so those pops could be preemptively detected via dashboards, instead of via customer complaints?

That's not how you live in AI age. Move fast and break things; YOLO; K8S all the things; etc..

(/s in case it's not clear)
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I find it interesting because this seems to be information asymmetry - and there is nothing wrong with that.

AutoZone, O'Reilly, Advance advertise that they do things like replace batteries, change light bulbs, add washer fluid, wiper blades.

It's arguably imperative for their brand that they offer (and advertise) these store services when compared to Amazon or Walmart (without a car center). It's even clearer when they offer 20% off codes for online ordering 12 months a year. (Also interesting because basic bulbs for tail lights and turn signals are often also sold at gas stations and grocery stores)

They're not ASE certified techs, but I'm under the impression that staff receive some training related to it.
They transitioned to a product company 5+ years ago. https://gradle.com

Gradle's complexity comes from at least two places:

1. The original vision of solving complex multi-technology/language Enterprise builds.

2. Poor early design decisions that they never recovered from.
Sure, but it was still an inconvenience to interrupt a presentation once, and another time a prod debugging session where everybody was anxiously breathing on my neck and staring at my screen.

To me the plug placement was an inconvenience, regardless of how invisible it is to you.

On top of that, it never charged in few seconds after years of use, mine would take longer just to connect to the iMac again.

I was glad to buy magic trackpad I could leave connected 24/7 and never think about it (also I liked it much more than the MM in general).
Ah. Passive income. It can indeed work out for you, but it is the fact that it can work out that makes it so tempting for scammers.

Warren Buffett claims that the best business that he was ever in was installing pinball machines in barber shops, then splitting the revenue with the barbers. See https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/19/warren-buffett-bought-a-25-p... for verification.
My first thought when I read the article was that that image must have been run through something like a contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) process.

See here, for an example: https://imagemagick.org/script/clahe.php
Curious, wouldn't doing something like this qualify as illegal:

> Google has gone through great lengths to obfuscate its involvement, funding, and control, most notably by recruiting a handful of European cloud providers, to serve as the public face of the new organization. When the group launches, Google, we understand, will likely present itself as a backseat member rather than its leader. It remains to be seen what Google offered smaller companies to join, either in terms of cash or discounts.

> Google offered CISPE’s members a combination of cash and credits amounting to an eye-popping $500 million to reject the settlement and continue pursuing litigation. Wisely, they declined.

> ... putting forward paid commentators to discredit us.

> Google pivoted to stand up its own astroturf lobbying organization. It hired a lobbying and communications agency in Europe to create and operate the organization. And it recruited several small European cloud providers to join. One of the companies approached, who ultimately declined, told us that the organization will be directed and largely funded by Google for the purpose of attacking Microsoft’s cloud computing business ... [the document] omits any mention of Google’s involvement and the actual purpose of the organization.
Thanks! Shows the same version as the installed app from the main F-Droid repository - but this one works.
> You would have to invent a system where pitch accent could be indicated for each word

Really not hard to do. A symbol on the syllable bearing the pitch accent would solve the issue

> And then there are the words with little or no pitch accent difference, only context

What's happened is that effectively a written "shorthand" has emerged that has evolved somewhat separately from how people speak. Losing kanji would mean losing this shorthand, in favor of writing more closely akin to the way people actually speak, but this is how the vast majority of written languages work. Preserving this shorthand seems like thin gruel to justify the complexity of kanji.
> In this case, I included the post title, author, date, and content. All of those factors could be relevant to the chance a story gets voted up.

> Even if the model gets extremely good at predicting final_score_if_it_hits_front_page, there’s still the inherent randomness of probability_of_hitting_front_page that is fundamentally unpredictable.

In addition to date, you might want to include three fields:

- day of week (categorical)

- is weekend/holiday (boolean)

- hour or time of the day (categorical, you can have 24 of them or morning/afternoon/etc.).

The probability of a post hitting the front page is usually affected by these things so it can really help the model.
I've done it for this blog before. It's a writing style that's "not for me" even when the topic is something I'm interested in.
We do. The argument here is that there are two equivalent interpretations but that one is more fundamental (or closer to actual reality anyways) than the other. But this is mostly a result of the starting point taken by Einstein and then everyone understandably accepting that as the more fundamental thing.

Even if no one ever finds a way to mathematically and equivalently derive GR from flat spacetime + gravity is a force first principles, it is certainly a lot easier for humans to understand gravity as being a force, and the curvature of spacetime as being other distortions on flat spacetime, not unlike the various 3D->2D projections we use for maps of Earth. Pedagogy matters.

[Notice that I'm not describing the distortions that one gets when mapping GR to flat spacetime. I want to leave that to the reader, though I might pop up and reply with a list later if someone asks.]
https://archive.is/7Ua0t
Seems stupid to assume such strong exponential growth.
That's a mobile processor with desktop-class performance. That you can't use. We're not talking about ESP32s here.
> Note that the issue of Section 230 does not come up even once in this history lesson.

To be perfectly pedantic, the history lesson ends in 1991 and the CDA was passed in 1996.

Also, I am not sure that this author really understands where things stand anymore. He calls the 3rd circuit TikTok ruling "batshit insane" and "deliberately ignores precedent". Well, it is entirely possible (likely even?) that it will get overruled. But that ruling is based on a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year (Moody vs. NetChoice). Throw your precedence out the window, the Supreme Court just changed things (or maybe we will find out that they didn't really mean it like that).

The First Amendment protects you from the consequences of your own speech (with something like 17 categories of exceptions).

Section 230 protects you from the consequences of publishing someone else's speech.

Where we are right now is deciding if the algorithm is pumping out your speech or it is pumping out someone else's speech. And the 3rd circuit TikTok ruling spends paragraphs discussing this. You can read it for yourself and decide if it makes sense.
I am working on implementing Double entry accounting system for a D2C startup. It's been a fun learning but a lot of nuances that never seem to end.
>zero control

I have had reasonable success with Youtube's built-in algorithm-massaging features. It mostly always respects "Do Not Recommend Channel", and understands "Not Interested" after a couple repetitions.
The link is to the wrong article.
Andrew Plotkin developed a rating system for adventure game cruelty that's popular within the community:

https://www.ifwiki.org/Cruelty_scale

Space Quest is rated the maximum "Cruel" under this system, as it's easy to render the game unwinnable with no feedback that you're in this state. Almost all modern adventure games are less cruel.
Totally fair, why did you ignore the low battery warning for 3 days though?
Whoops. Thanks. My phone's auto-correct "joke of the day." Just re-typing the correct link so folks can click on it. https://www.kontxt.io
Except for Planetfall, I agree puzzle solutions were non-deducible especially for a teenager. Hitchhiker's and Zork, despite their immense popularity, were impossible without the cheatbooks which were a bustling business.
There are still people writing new games, games that are playable upon the same Infocom interpreter that was used to run Zork!

I wrote a CP/M emulator specifically so that I could play a trivial adventure game I wrote in Z80 assembly on Linux/Mac systems - so I should say that I prefer the infocom games.

However my favourite text-adventure is The Hobbit, the first such game I played on the ZX Spectrum back in the early eighties. Read about it in this two part piece:

https://www.filfre.net/2012/11/the-hobbit/
https://www.filfre.net/2012/11/the-hobbit-redux/

Interviews with the author suggest I'm not the only one who got in touch, years later, to send her fan-mail. But I'm glad I did it regardless and very pleased she took the time to reply:

https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/18/hobbit_author_veronik...
According to the Interwebs, acetaldehyde's toxicity to insects is apparently less studied. Presumably these hornets can take it in stride.
Tones can be written, and all human spoken communication involves conversational cues, Chinese is not special in this respect.
So instead of however much a month for Netflix, you pay maybe a fraction of a dollar to watch a movie. Or to listen to a song on Spotify, you pay a fraction of a penny. Maybe I’d be happy to pay WSJ a few cents to read this article if it were a quick and painless user experience.

Now one has to fight against the feeling of being "nickeled-and-dimed to death". And if companies are going to set the rates such that I will probably pay about the same amount of money ("...generate the same amount of revenue"), then just bill me once a month and be done with it.
I'm applying generative AI to interactive fiction with Spellbound

https://www.tryspellbound.com/app/scenario/65821/create

(You can click on the dice at the bottom to turn on D&D mode)

I've taken the approach of starting with the #1 problem with Gen AI for this application: that it writes bland prose with not much going on by default.

From there you can layer on systems that address things like object permanence, but even with a basic engine capable of generating fun to read pages of text I think you already get a pretty fun experience
Thanks! I'm going with nuxt3 on the frontend, and just firebase for everything else. Anything in the startup/remote world. There's a few go-to job boards I go to so it would be nice to get it all into once place.
> I'm not convinced that current generative AI is a good fit for this kind of game. IMO, the heart of the text adventure game is the world model, and LLMs are notably lacking here. It's hard to believe the game is simulating a real place when it doesn't even have object permanence.

The mechanics still need to be coded; however, like the OP, I believe there's an enormous opportunity to enrich the game content with LLMs. Like procedurally generated maps in roguelikes, LLMs can be used to create an order of magnitude more unique interactions in the game than what you could provide by crafting each dialogue tree by hand. While not as good or memorable (on average) as a hand-written character, it should be more than enough for Villager A, who normally would be completely mute.
This is going to be good. He is a terrifyingly smart guy.
I went to the article expecting pollution was going to be the answer to how the "became spooky". I remember seeing a display at the cologne cathedral as a child that showed one of the new replacement parts before installation. I was shocked seeing how the replacement are a so much brighter color than the cathedral itself is now. If these buildings were brighter, I think it would be totally different. Especially the interior of the Sagrada Familia which is very bright and feels very positive is a good example here.
An epistemological issue: Why shouldn't someone write about your comment, "This ... is way off base", just as you write it about the article? What makes your writing better? How could a reader know?

I'll contribute to the answer: In the larger world, when it's serious about knowledge, the difference is evidence, primarily, and also expertise. In HN comments, how do we evaluate these different sources and claims ...?
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224015 - Oct 2022 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24905937 - Oct 2020 (33 comments)
Haha thank you Tom :)
> But in 2015 there is a stark discontinuity, where the number of stories (with text) shoots up by >10x, and the average score drops by 5x! Is this some kind of eternal September?

Based on the later analysis in the post (which I agree with), the total score of a comment is disproportionately tied to whether it hits the front page, and of course how long it stays there. Regardless of the quality of the average post starting in 2015, the sheer quantity would make it impossible for all but a few to stay on the front page for very long. Hacker News got more popular, so each story got less prime time.
Good news for homelabbers and bootstrappers.
It’s so easy to accidentally write an ORM or a database. I constantly stop and think; is this piece of code secretly a database?
I don't think I've ever heard anyone but few power users here and on some other boards to be excited by Apple Intelligence.

Just recently I've read that camera and battery are still what users looked for when buying a phone in the last 6 months, AI was not a concern to neither iOS nor Android users.

That being said I think that it's the kind of thing that many will want to have once they see a power user playing with it and achieving many things with their voice or few gestures.
Yeah. It is a very amorphous constraint. Also what does "ended up happy" mean? Does Victor Hugo count? He was celebrated by the masses, had a long-long and productive life. But he had the misfortune of outliving his spouse, and by all accounts he was quite lonely in his last years. Does that count as "ended up happy"?

Or what about Terry Pratchett? As far as I know he died surrounded by his loved ones. But he died due to Alzheimer's disease, which must have been terrifying.

But if we can't call someone as successful as Victor Hugo or Terry Pratchett "non-commercial" then maybe someone obscure? Do you need to be published to be a writer? I don't think so. My friend's dad wrote a really funny, and heartfelt story about the history of their family. Never published it, probably nobody will publish it ever. I still count him as a writer. And he died surrounded by friends and family. Does that count as "ended up happy"?