skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can sometimes be difficult to find online games with ranking systems that feel fresh and exciting. I recently came across https://basantclubb.com/ , a gaming app from Pakistan, and it caught my attention. The platform offers a variety of games, some of which are completely new and unlike anything I’ve tried before, while others bring new elements to more familiar titles. The ranking system is definitely a highlight, allowing you to test your skills against other players in a competitive setting. Plus, the ability to earn money adds an extra layer of motivation. Whether you’re a seasoned gamer or just looking to explore something different, it could be a great fit for those seeking a rewarding experience.
Aren't you concerned about whatsapp and meta owning all your messages?
nonsense. Just buy AMD from now on, then ARM.
I was on an iPhone X for six years (bought it used one year old), and had the battery replaced three times. No big deal.

The reason I upgraded was that I was wasting literal minutes per day waiting for apps to load. I live in China, and for some reason the apps here are beyond outrageous in the amount of resources they use. Showing a QR payment code in WeChat, or opening a shared bike in Meituan, frequently took on the order of 10 seconds. I assume the phone was just chewing on a terrifying amount of JavaScript.

I could only keep 2 of these monster apps open at a time. Opening a third would OOM kill one of the other two.

iPhone 16 pro and these actions are basically instant.

Fucking nauseating.
I dont know how you can read that quote and come away with anything other than "He thinks the programmers are too stupid"
You're weighing the consensus of the medical community against a single doctor who claims that saturated fat can cure AIDS?

That is not a well reasoned position to take.
Dylan Patel comes to essentially the same conclusions (and this is a better post I think):

https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/09/intel-on-the-brink-of-de...

The problem is there are two distinct objectives:

1. Maximise shareholder value

2. Maintain and extend Intel's (close to) leading-edge fab capability.

These are not necessarily consistent!

The Intel Board (bad as it is) is trying to deliver 1. and probably now doesn't care about 2. That's not what the US needs, so some sort of government intervention is inevitable if 2. is to be achieved.

And I'm not convinced that PG's IDM 2.0 strategy would have delivered either.
Personalization Is All You Need: How AI Can Unlock Enterprise Markets
ESA in Ontario, for example, allows you to do your own electrical work. Self-notification, I’m sure, is a CYA formality by them.

(1) https://esasafe.com/compliance/diy-electrical-work/
Ha was very user unfriendly when I last tried it ~3 years ago.

Yaml was necessary and it required a lot of fiddling to make z-wave work. Each blind was detected as ~5 things (2 useless or no idea what for)... Checking what was position, what power, ect was rather annoying.

I made work and something broke about a year later. I just replaced it with off the shelf stuff.
Apple's Vision Pro might add support for Playstation VR controllers
Zero-Based Regulation a Step-by-Step Guide for States
Camouflage is about clashing on your terms. This seems particularly so in the case of troop ships.
They probably mean Intel shareholders 'holding the bag' as their once-valuable stock tanks. Which is probably a lot of us through 401ks alone
Chronic complainers get validation from expressing negativity because it garners more attention.
Uninitialized variables are 90% of our bugs, or so I've been told.

I don't consider a boolean "and" or "or" of a list of bools to be automatically true or false of an empty set, my friend. To me, the specific case for a boolean function applied to an empty list of bools would have to be explicitly stated in the design.

Thanks for explaining how mathematicians and logicians treat the empty set. I have more pragmatic situations to address :-)
I agree. How to deal with deletions is a 101 of hash table implementation. Many CS majors could get it right or at least know about the caveat. It is amusing that many high-quality posts on hash tables are buried in the "new" section of HN while this half-baked toy floats to the front page, with 83 github stars at the moment. People don't know what they are upvoting for.
Discord for friends and family

Skype for my late friend Ward, and my other friend Jim

I get the occasional message when I'm logged into Facebook through the web.
Yeah for me OS9 is pretty retro - Classic Mac OS was great with some awesome apps many of which didn't make it into OSX and using the classic emulator in OSX doesn't help the experience.

The Mini is a great compact hardware platform to run them on. I have four minis that run various Mac OS generations.
Abusing Git branch names to compromise a PyPI package
Could also be construed as paying homage, though. I think the number 5 here is a reference to congruence with ECMA Script 5 rather than to imply a version of JSON.
unless that lack of (intentional) lack of foresight by my superiors endud up with us having to rewrite a particular feature several times, over several years and it still doesn't work with acceptable performance, because it had to be shoehorned in later because we were shut down every time we said "but this is gonna make X impossible later!"
> The problem is that in 2024, kids can play video games and watch stupid videos in the comfort of their own home

I always thought of Chuck E. Cheese as being aimed at hosting larger children’s gatherings, freeing parents from concerns about space or catering. The video games would just be an extension of things they already want to do, but the draw is no cleanup/planning.

Considering how curated children’s activities have become (no more "free range" children), and how expensive housing is (more renters, less likely to host a big bash), it could actually address a growing need.

Whether it’s more attractive than booking a dedicated kids venue and just ordering pizza is open to debate.
> Also why do you specifically call out Chinese parts as being shitty? Where do you think the majority of electronics come from?

OP is making a distinction between directly-sourced parts, versus those commissioned by a Western or Western-affiliated company that’s gone through the “trouble” of a CSA/UL certification. One is built to a price point, one is built to limit liability.
But, will they even realize when/where they're being surveilled?

Out of sight, out of mind. If there isn't a large video camera tracking them as they move across a shop or down the street, I'm not sure many people will even notice.
Somewhat related but a fascinating book on drugs and Germany is

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Normal Ohler

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories.

Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—including a form of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis’ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler’s investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete.
Unlike Intel, SpaceX and Tesla actually deliver (and then some) on government grants. I'm willing to give successful parties that hold their end of the deal more benefit of the doubt. All else being equal, nationalization is overall bad for commerce (see: USPS).

But Intel? They got their fucking money and dropped the fucking ball. Fool me once? Shame on you. Not again, if Intel wants further public money then I as a taxpayer want my share of Intel as collateral for that money spent. No taxation without representation.

TSMC can get away, for now: At least they are on track to open CHIPS-funded fabs soon. If they fail too, then no further funds without ownership too.
Agreed, if you haven't tested your backups recently (daily, automatic best), you don't have backups. Several of my clients (CTO Coaching) had problems in the past because they restored backups and where finding they were not complete (for various reasons).
We're looking at more senior profiles ideally but please reach out to the hiring people mentioned in the link if you think you may be a good fit
Itch.io Website Allegedly Taken Down by Funko
This! So many people don't take advantage of this fact.
Damn, thank you thank you thank you. That is ultra messed up.
Honestly those aren’t a big deal if you are using LLM assisted development.

I used to steer clear of Rust for a lot of problems because of its complexity, now I use it for almost everything and it’s great
> sources being few and somewhat reliable (traditional media)

How do we actually know they were reliable, and not just the only game in town?
I do think (1.) depends on your company size, and business model. For most, it's cheap, e.g.

https://rsync.net/pricing.html

That said I was once a CTO for a company with 10 photo studios and we had a large amount of new (raw, DSLR) photos per minute, so cost was an issue and also upload speed for offsite backups.
Analytics, marketing, etc.
The 8088 and 8080 are not binary compatible, they're mostly source compatible.
The title on HN includes „€1“, the original uses the „1€“ (which makes more sense I think, even when considering the reference to $1).
Harvard and MIT Humanist Chaplain Greg M. Epstein on Writing Tech Agnostic
The thing is that JSON was intended to be a data exchange format, not a configuration file format or anything else. IMHO Crockford's reasoning makes a lot more sense with that in mind.
Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog
It's a network problem. People will flock to the easiest to use solutions, not the most secure. Just don't share anything sensitive over the unencrypted channels.

It doesn't matter what options are out there. People aren't going to bother.
Worth noting also that dividends aren't uniquely taxed. Worst case, they're taxed the same as income, but they can also be capital gains which are taxed at a lower rate.

So any talk of incentives should include a justification of passive investment being more valuable than work for income, if someone is asking for favorable tax treatment.
"AI Powered" Brand Protection Software Brings Down Itch.io
As Portuguese living in Germany, having CP and DB so closed in a few rankings is kind of tragic, but I do acknowledge that on those points they are indeed quite close.
Oh. Well, the stock already tanked. If a stock loses 75% of its value and you barely notice, then the remaining 25% doesn’t matter either.

For most passive investors, an individual stock’s weight is a technical detail that’s handled by automatic portfolio adjustments. The total market cap of semi sector stocks is way up despite Intel, so anybody who didn’t try to actively pick winners has done well.
I keep it in cover and film on screen since except IT in my free time I like masonry and I drop my phone like 10 times a month and it is still alive after four years :D
Who hasn't had a picture taken with only them sitting in a room, labeled "X with all their friends" can cast the first stone.
Yea that might be the way
Thanks for breaking that down for me.

I guess, to me, a programmer logician not a mathematician logician, the real problem for me here is the definition of "liar" as it applies to how we parse the problem statement's facts.
Related to the Hyperreal numbers mentioned in the article is the class of Surreal numbers which have many fun properties. There's a nice book describing them authored by Don Knuth.
Saying buybacks were illegal is not accurate.

What changed in the 80’s is that a safe harbor was created. Before that companies were at risk of being charged with market manipulation - there were no clear rules on what was market manipulation and what wasn’t.

The safe harbor rule 10b-18 simply laid out requirements for buybacks fell into a “safe harbor”, presumed to not be market manipulation.

But companies could still do them before that, but it was more risky.
> the acronym stood for commutative replicated data types (eg in the paper by Shapiro et al).

https://pages.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/RR-7687.pdf: the paper clearly calls it Conflict-free Replicated Data Types, though it does also define the two styles:

• State-based Convergent Replicated Data Type (CvRDT)

• Op-based Commutative Replicated Data Type (CmRDT)
I also had to upgrade a phone for a banking app and a gov pay-your-taxes app (in a certain non-US jurisdiction).

Very hard to understand why that should be. Even the most scary conspiracy theorists would not claim that banks and govs try to force phone tech refresh... unless ... it is really about spyware bloat :)
cannabis and opium are both smokable, and accord to TFA were both present in Central Europe during the ancient times.
Why? The US government funds SpaceX by buying rocket launches. They buy a rocket launch and they get a rocket launch. You don't expect the government to get a share of Ford every time they buy an F-150 for the Forest Service, do you?

And US subsidies to Tesla are consumer subsidies. Tesla doesn't get the money directly, but they definitely benefit indirectly. The important part is that Tesla only benefits if the consumer gets an EV. Tesla is not getting money for nothing, the quid pro quo is maintained.
> You can build single-page applications with React, you cannot with HTMX.

Irrelevant to the conversation.

GP said:

HTMX is not a replacement for React -- HTMX + a backend is

So if you think that's not true because React can build SPAs and HTMX cannot, take it up with them (maybe you replied to the wrong comment?).
Type declarations can imply syntax, semantics or both.

Yes, you could represent everything as a string; in that case, the serialization format is no longer providing any assistance in verifying or enforcing syntax.

But it’s often useful to be able to verify syntax independently. And it helps avoid authoring errors (like using “1” instead of “true” etc.) that are ambiguous if your only hint is semantic.
Google Vids: AI-powered video creation for work
When a Duck Calls Out • on Duck Typing and Callables in Python
They claim to be independent and I've never gotten the sense that any specific AV product is favored in their testing. I realize they could be biased or taking money while pretending they're not, but that's a tough thing to prove one way or the other.

I can say for sure though that Defender at times has a noticeable performance impact. That's why years ago I went looking for performance comparisons in the first place.
With all the deregulation madness about to occur(Championed by the Robber Barron Think Tanks like the one linked), I guess the only way to save the environment is to be less consumer oriented and more enjoy your deep recession for the next 4 years. And so let those wallets close in response to that!

Let's give those Billionaires some less of our wallets!
Show HN: Made a Flipping Book Pages Component for Framer
Hey folks, made a flipping book pages component for framer and wanted to share.

How does it work? Long story short, every page has a 3D rotate of 180 degrees and when switching variants the page reverts back to 0 degrees. The pages are grouped together in pairs of two "left" and "right" to be able to hide the ones underneath.

I created variables for each page so you can just replace those with your own designs.

Grab it for free :)
> 6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS.

there are very few parts of that contract in all caps, but that's one of them :/
"just use something else" hasn't worked out for generics either.
I don't understand - Cloudflare forwarded the report on as usual, what would you want them to do instead?
I've used Register4Less for over a decade and I've been thrilled with them. They're slightly more expensive than the cheapest options (by a buck or two), but this is more than made up for by the fact that they're the only registrar I've ever used who have proactively reached out about minor issues. Every time I've needed to email them, I've gotten a response from somebody who can fix the problem within minutes.
Show HN: Curator, a Human in the loop platform for revising JSON data [video]
We have many military airports that nowadays also take civilian traffic, that is how they are "opening" in Europe.

Mostly based on the after effects of cold war wanning, and EU.

As things are, maybe they will invert trend and focus on military only again.
Linearity is an excellent assumption for virtually any non-overdriven modern amplifier. THD measurements make sense for speakers, but that's not getting in the way of what the author is attempting to do here.

I don't even know where to begin addressing everything that's wrong with this article, but assuming linearity isn't one of those errors.
I still do not really get this hand wringing over Intel.

The only thing I see are these institutional investors are very upset Intel is not like Nvidia. So they are complaining and these investors will eventually destroy Intel because their stock is not rising 500% per year.

So all this pressure on Intel since Nvidia became a thing is distracting Intel from focusing on their business. Causing more harm than good.
given that this is a liar the use of all may be meant to deceive, the main thing here is the use of the word conclude.

I doubt, given in what context this was written, that this is a matter of omission.
Thanks for the correction and sorry for the mistake. I skimmed the changes but apparently not very well.
I think whether you 'succeed' or 'fail' on a side project they are still valuable. No matter if you can't finish it or it turns out different to how you imagined -- you get to come away as a better version of yourself. A person who is more optimized for a new strategy. And sometimes 'failure' is a worthwhile price for that ability. Who knows, it might be exactly what prepares you for something even bigger in the future.
interesting, thanks for sharing this ^_^

I'd heard that towards the end of WW2 Hitler was getting daily shots of speed/meth administered by his doctors, who told him it was 'vitamins' but didn't know he did other stuff as well (the him being hopped on amphetamine/methamphetamine does actually make a lot of sense to me).

Looked up his Wikipedia article, it has this to say:

> Hitler began using amphetamine occasionally after 1937 and became addicted to it in late 1942...
> Prescribed 90 medications during the war years by his personal physician, Theodor Morell, Hitler took many pills each day for chronic stomach problems and other ailments. He regularly consumed amphetamine, barbiturates, opiates, and cocaine, as well as potassium bromide and atropa belladonna (the latter in the form of Doktor Koster's Antigaspills).

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There are already terrible Rust projects out there where the mention of Rust is entirely marketing fluff, such as Rustdesk.
> Since indentation is generally not used there,

Then indent your macros for readability. clang-format can do it for you if you don't want to maintain them.
The DOW Network
No they’re all encrypted in the same way Signal is.
Data interchange formats are often used for configuration. It makes sense to have a single source of truth in json if your configuration is consumed by an app.
Just to say: I wouldn't use privacy badger with uo. In my experience, broke a lot of sites.
I went again recently (less than a year ago) for the first time since the 90s and the animatronics stage was still fully functional. Apparently very few locations are left with working stages, and I was impressed that my local stage had continued operating. They also serve alcohol now or something.

It felt a bit more open, one giant room, but I might just be remembering more walls because I'm taller now than I was when I was 10. Definitely no ball pit though.
We don't have terraform right now, will be releasing it soon.

You can use our CLI which is built on our SDK written in GO.
I heard that it is not very well historically accurate and that it wastly overstates the role of drugs in Nazi Reich for the sake of sensationalism
Thank you for the great question! At this stage, softer skills like communication aren't included, primarily because they're more nuanced and often better represented on a scale rather than as binary options. However, I plan to incorporate these types of skills in the future, especially when I integrate an AI-based matcher.
Depends on how much one considers the game industry niche, where Linux hardly has a role other than game servers.
My kid recently got a second hand iPad tablet. On it, she uses YouTube Kids. I made an account for her. Now, they ask _me_ for consent, since she cannot legally give it. They throw ads at her about toys, but this is illegal in my country to target children with ads. Ads are supposed to target parents, not kids. Now, if it were one ad at start, I'd hate it, but they go further: in a 10-minute movie, the thing quits like 3 times to show my kid an ad. She barely has the attention span to watch the bloody vid! You know why they do it? Not because it is legal; because they get away with it. Law is irrelevant if it isn't uphold.
In that case one should also have a type for dates.

What I’m getting that is that a format ought to commit.
Burning Cow Dung Emits an Inordinate Amount of Air Pollution in India
I am fine just watching you implement another Rust binding every weekend until you give up.

At this point there's probably more GL bindings for Rust out there than active developers.

If you haven't figured out by now that every language has tradeoffs and compromises along the way because it has to run on x86/x87/AVX512 CPUs, then I guess you will need a couple years until we can have a rational discussion about it.

Rust is good at type safety, we get it. But there is plenty of developers that are also fine without type safety. Therefore type safety is just a scale from duck to dependent types, and in Rust, type safety is usually in the way.
See my response to that comment now—it’s actually largely incorrect. If you look at it through an operations lens, commutativity is what matters and convergence is meaningless, but if you look through a state lens, there’s no such thing as commutativity, convergence is what matters. So choosing another word that describes the overarching property, that conflicts cannot occur, is quite reasonable.
Why hasn't the bird flu pandemic started? – Science – AAAS
I agree in general but I do wonder how unusual using ‘all’ to assume existence is. For example “have you done all your homework?” What we are really asking is whether there is any homework that wasn’t done, not did you do any homework.
That only works if you control the data that gets parsed.

Imagine you’re a HTML parser library author in 1998. You’ve been happily skipping comments. Now you get complaints that your parser doesn’t see JavaScript. Turns out that everyone has agreed that these new script tags should be embedded inside comments.

Should you keep skipping comments and tell your users you’ll never support this HTML that everybody else now considers valid?
The problem with C isn't that we can't add things to make it safer. It's that we can't remove things to make it safer.