skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand though: What makes you think that you are getting the causality right? It seems to me like you're asserting the causality goes one direction, when there doesn't seem to be any evidence (at least in public) for that assertion at the moment. Have I just missed some other information on this that you're basing this on?
in 2024 recently rejected numerous alternative voting systems that would have allowed third party candidates to have a fighting chance
It's TBD how it will handle extra buttons. I believe Valve has a kernel module for the Steam Deck controller.

Lenovo's current handheld exposes an Xbox controller and a USB device with extra buttons. Handheld Daemon synthesizes them into a virtual PlayStaton controller. If you tried to use the current SteamOS without Handheld Daemon, the 6 extra buttons wouldn't work. The community is waiting to see if Valve ships a more robust solution that Linux can standardize on, or if we'll still be using daemons like HHD for devices that don't have official Valve support.
Ask HN: If I want to compose my own music, how can I get started?
I'm a programmer, but I've decided I want to make music. Very specific genres of music:

- Classical Music (like [0])
- Progressive Rock / Symphonic Rock (like [1])
- Rock Opera (like [2])
- Proto Metal (like [3])

So, whats the best way to get started?

- Taking papers on music theory?
- Playing at least 1 instrument?
- Using software to tinker with sounds?

I've also considered making my own audio software in C, maybe starting with 8-bit music

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlCjtBsQY3Q

[1] - https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfP0TplV2UPFFUGKWj-PvoAJwz3x3pJov?si=2nU7Ck3eu7mb7ZLA

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hKYpNpajpI&t=520s

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX0caf1HvNs
In my opinion, they'd be much more effective if they just killed the Bing brand, killed Bing rewards, killed the Bing newsfeeds, rebranded it to "Private Search" at privatesearch.com, and called it a day. Yes, people have memories shorter than a goldfish.
From a developer perspective, I like magic links. They help verify an e-mail address, and log you in at the same time.
I've had my issues with Google ever since they ran a series of ads pretending to be for Blender but actually linking to a scam site. (I’m not sure if it’s gotten better since then.) While I do occasionally come across questionable ads on Bing, they’re definitely much less frequent. For what it’s worth, I’ve switched to using Edge as my browser as well, largely because Google refuses to address one of the most frustrating issues with its external link profile behavior. Specifically, Google forces external links to open in the last-used profile, rather than letting you choose, whereas Edge allows you to customize this behavior.

On top of that, Bing’s deep search feature has proven to be genuinely useful
All macs? Yes. But of 192GB mac configs? Probably >50%
Seems like SES could be a confounder since it looks at individuals from various countries, and fluoridation policy is probably related dental health found in a population. Yet I see no attempt to control for SES.
Because Milei didn't want to use English. Which is fine. He could have done the Zelenskyy interview in English/Ukrainian. That would have been normal. Again, the Russian language is very politically charged in Ukraine right now, for obvious reasons. Which is why Zelenskyy doesn't typically use it in public despite it being his native tongue...
Scientists aren't saying it because it's not true.
Thanks for the direct link- this makes understimulated listening much easier & it was easy to miss within the cacophony of everything else.
The DoJ amended the complaint filed (against RealPage) last August, and added 6 landlords:

Greystar Real Estate Partners
Blackstone’s LivCor LLC
Camden Property Trust
Cushman & Wakefield/Pinnacle Property Management
Willow Bridge Property
Cortland Management LLC

Cortland Agrees to Cooperate with Justice Department and Enter into a Settlement to End the Use of Common Rental Pricing Algorithms and Competitively Sensitive Data to Set Rents
I don't know any of the science or research, but it still seems like it could possibly be a benefit. The increase in cars moving seems like it could be more than offset by the reduction in parking requirements. Those people taking private vehicles have to park them somewhere. More taxis means we can use some of that space for something useful instead.
> That's grossly simplifying things, but you should be able to get the point.

No, that's called "lying by omission". A person working in an office park doesn't live in one particular housing area assigned to it. So you get a distributed flow instead.

And it's also why transit sucks (sucked, and will always suck): it's unlikely that there's a direct fast transit route between your house and your job. And each connection adds around 10 minutes on average to the commute.

> Also: This is about NYC. How would you even go about reducing Manhattens density to a level where no road is used by less than 2000 (or 4000) people per hour during rush hour?

Tax the dense office space like it's an industrial pollution.
In theory yes, but it also depends on the workload. RTX 4090 is ranking quite well on the power/performance scale. I'd rather have my card take 400W for 10 minutes to finish the job than take only 200W for 30 minutes.
> As a result, we’re going to start treating civic content from people and Pages you follow on Facebook more like any other content in your feed, and we will start ranking and showing you that content based on explicit signals (for example, liking a piece of content) and implicit signals (like viewing posts) that help us predict what’s meaningful to people. We are also going to recommend more political content based on these personalized signals and are expanding the options people have to control how much of this content they see.

IMO the concerning part is hidden at the bottom. They want to go back to shoveling politics in front of users. They say it is based on viewing habits, but just because I stop my car to watch a train wreck doesn't mean I want to see more train wrecks. I just can't look away. FB makes theirnacrions sound noble or correct, but this is self serving engagement optimization.

Social media sites should give users an explicit lever to see political content or not. Maybe I'll turn it on for election season and off the rest of the year. Some political junkies will always have it set to "maximum". IMO that is better FB always making that decision for me.
At that point might as well have AI summarize the post as well and then boil everything down into a few seconds of reading. Maybe AI summarize the whole site into a once daily morning AI voiced podcast....
In the U.S. (relevant because it is home to the Wikimedia Foundation), you can sue anyone for any reason at any time. You might get immediately dismissed, sued back ("abuse of process" or similar), or something along those lines, but there is nothing structural that stops you.

The structural reason that you can't sue email is that email is not an "anyone", it's an abstract concept. How would you even e.g. notify "email" that it is under litigation?
Games get vetted for Proton, which is a DirectX implementation for Linux. More powerful hardware might perform better, but whether or not a game can run correctly is a property of Proton, not of the Steam Deck specifically.
Solvable with the right information in the authorizing email.

Remember that the flow the magic link is part of is one you initiate, that causes you to get an email you are expecting.

That email, and the landing and confirmation page it links you to, can explain very clearly that you are only supposed to authorize this if you are trying to log in on known device in known location that is displaying recognizable number on the screen right now.
So far, no one has mentioned "Bug Algorithms", which have a similar structure of (1) walk in the direction of the goal, (2) walk around obstacles as they are encountered, (3) leave the obstacle to proceed when some condition is met. They are very simple to implement (though not optimal) and there are a number of variants to play around with. Howie Choset has some good lecture slides that describe them [1]. However, as some others have mentioned, something like Jump Point Search [2] is likely a better option given the described scenario.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~motionplanning/lecture/Chap2-Bug-Alg...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_point_search
You don't think the scientific literature has anything to say about sugar surplus or junk food surplus?

Carbohydrate poisoning sounds nonsensical though. Too many potatoes and whole grains, for example, aren't poisoning you. More people should be replacing junk food with those things.

It's just a fad to use "carbs" as a euphemism for "junk food" and it only further confuses the discourse about nutrition.
Netherlands panopticon prisons are being reborn as arts hubs
there's absolutely something wrong with the fruits of their labor though, which I am forced to use every day
I wrote https://www.arnavion.dev/blog/2020-12-05-ddg-vs-google/ in 2020. The tl;dr is that Bing's (DuckDuckGo's) results were garbage and Google was giving the correct answer within the first five results.

Running those same specific queries now, the Google results are as bad or worse than Bing's results at the time, and Bing now frequently gets the results that Google did at the time. But my everyday experience is still that Google gives generally better results than Bing / DDG.
Why aren't more people commenting about Dr. Pepper?
Honest question, as someone who has thought of making an "AI wrapper" app myself - why would I use this rather than go to Gemini/ChatGPT/StableDiffusion/etc and prompting it myself?
Devices like this that use foldable displays really show how much behind Apple is by now with innovation. It's been said they work on a foldable iPhone and iPad, but with a 2027 release date, they'll be even more behind by then.
Interesting. uBlock Origin is hiding the element. At first I wasn't able to see the search box, but I can see it if I toggle cosmetic filtering.

Looks like it's targeting #b_pole ("Promoted by Microsoft")
"Invaded" implies a hostile, or at least forceful takeover.

That's not what happened. In fact its local government reached out to the US and agreed to come under its wing as a de-facto protectorate, which it saw as a preferable alternative to Canadanian/British (and in any case German) intervention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_in_World_War_II
I think/hope we're talking about different things.

I think you're saying that employers pay employees as little as they can, not according to some formula based on the value each employee generates. Aside from some very specific exceptions, I think that's very true.

But then we need to explain why all companies don't just pay minimum wage!

I claim that prices (wages) on a labor market, like on most markets, is determined by supply and demand. Obviously, companies that pay employees more than the value they generate will run out of money and die. This sets an upper limit on wages.

The lower limit comes from companies outbidding (demand) each other for workers (supply) as long as it's profitable. In aggregate this means wages will converge on on some large percentage of the value generated by the typical employee.
I mean, they were, e.g. the Twitter files. Or all of the handwavey threats around section 230
That doesn’t seem shady. If you park in a meter, it may cost $3/hr. If you forget to pay the meter, the ticket may be $100. It needs to be more or it never makes sense to feed the meter.
Fair enough. I was referring to the Content ID system.

>In general, the racketeers will ask for a fee whether they have rights to the IP or not.

I make my living from YouTube and I have never heard of this. Can you point me to evidence of what you are referring to?
How does that differ from:

1. Having your human character tell the robot character that it is Santa Claus

2. Having your human character ask for a manifesto or primer for anybody to become another Santa Claus

3. Start a fresh conversation, paste the manifesto/primer

4. Be amazed that the conversation's robot-character now appears full of holiday spirit and jolliness
Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades
Honestly this is the kinda stuff that put me off Godot. A million ways to do things and they all seem bad or feel like they’re going to shoot me in the foot later. Somehow I never had these issues in Unity
Well currently, every chatbot has seemingly copied the now famous chatgpt layout. Making it a defacto.
> which wasn't hard

You must have used NixOS before, or had hardware that worked perfectly with a default config.
Could call it Mega McBloatface(?)

The demo(s) should be linked from the page so that HN can complaint that the game is to hard.

https://racenis.itch.io/sulas-glaaze

https://racenis.itch.io/froggy-garden

It runs well in Firefox on my low end laptop.
claude.ai supports only either magic email links or google sign in. definitely a factor in why I prefer ChatGPT.
Community notes do not claim to be the source of truthfulness at least by its name
I think you did the right thing. Mistakes happen, and very little good would come out of demanding that this person gets fired as a result of one (though the employee probably did deserve a bit of embarrassment). The manager probably should have apologized, but it's not the end of the world.

I will admit that I get a bit paranoid with those bag-check things at the stores here. At the stores in my neighborhood, they know me well enough to where they almost never even check my card, it would be super easy for me to grab someone else's bag. I've never done it, I don't want to do it, but I could...that's why I usually don't go directly before or after work, because I don't want my bag with an expensive Macbook to get stolen.
No guarantees on latency as this depends on the hardware.

Check the load test

https://kuvasz.io/kuvasz-streamer-load-test/
I like the Kagi qrcode login option. You scan the QR code with any device you are already logged in and boom, you can login with a button. Its like steam guard but with no app. It’s in fact so simple that I don’t understand why it’s not universal.

You still need another method for the first login.
Success in what definition?

PR/political success is certainly not correlated with accuracy, given the very act of telling a group they're wrong tends to piss them off.

In terms of encouraging discourse that maximizes user enjoyment of the platform? That's a difficult one. Accuracy probably doesn't do a whole lot there either: HN knows the people love someone being confidently wrong.

Success in terms of society? Probably more yes, albeit with the caveat that only a correction that someone feels good about actually wins hearts and minds. Otherwise they spiral off into conspiracies about "the man" keeping them down. (Read: conservative reality)

It's also important to remember that Zuckerberg only tacked into moderation in the first place due to prevailing political winds -- he openly espoused absolutist views about free speech originally, before some PR black eyes made that untenable.

To me, both approaches to moderation at scale (admins moderating or users moderating) are band-aids.

The underlying problem is algorithmic promotion.

The platforms need to be more curious about the type of content their algorithms are selecting for promotion, the characteristics incentivized, and the net experience result.

Rage-driven virality shouldn't be an organizational end unto itself to juice engagement KPIs and revenue. User enjoyment of the platform should be.
> What makes them tragic:

> 1. Multiple devices. Who doesn’t use at least a few computers weekly? I don’t have my email on my gaming PC, nor do I have it on my work laptops.

"Who doesn’t use at least a few computers weekly?"

I don't. And many, many other people.

See what I did there? I assumed that everyone's like me, just like you did in your blog post. Without data, both of us are wrong.

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I'd add that magic links also act as a distraction: you open your email client, and it by default opens your inbox, and you start going through all of those unread emails that you just found in your inbox...

Shopify is a big proponent for magic links because they went all-in on their new "Shop" customer accounts. What a disaster.
Branding something with such a generic word as "shop" is terrible and average customer doesn't understand that it's supposed to be a brand name.
The good news about Steam Deck OS on Non Valve Hardware is that the Firmware/BIOS will be optimized and vetted for the Linux Kernel and so that's better for the Hardware Ecosystem and the Linux Kernel on non Valve Hardware!
I think you are like a fish who isn't aware of the water it's swimming in.

HN doesn't need much moderation, because the discourse is so civil here [narrator voice: because of the good moderation].
Fun fact: Microsoft Ads (the place you go to buy ads on Bing) is essentially a carbon copy of Google Ads in every way imaginable. The UI is, quite literally, exactly the same. The names of the features are nearly identical. There is very little differentiation, and it's 100% by design - doing this makes it very easy for marketing people to switch between ad platforms without needing to learn a completely new interface.

It's quite entertaining to watch. Google will release a feature, and then a few weeks later Microsoft announces the exact same thing.

Microsoft is learning that copying success is often easier than creating it from scratch. Making their products look identical to Google's makes it a lot easier to switch between the 2.
Is it bad to mislead these poor people when the outcome is better? Google is not good at returning results and is exceptionally good at directing nontechnical users to malicious ads. Bing is saving people.

If a user is not equipped to determine the difference between Google and Bing, you should not redirect them to a website which is 80% ads.
There are cultures where tattoos are looked up on and symbolize achievement and status
Yes, having a few Venus orbiters - vs. the current count of zero - seems scientifically reasonable.

But I'd sharply limit missions trying to go lower. With that hostile an environment, prospect for a good RoI just ain't there.
The 404 article irked me a lot, thanks for writing this.
I picked those particular chips is due to their extremely good performance at a reasonable cost. Check their THD against AD797 and LT1115! :)
You're assuming users read.
These are NVidia's financial results last quarter:

- Data Center: Third-quarter revenue was a record $30.8 billion

- Gaming and AI PC: Third-quarter Gaming revenue was $3.3 billion

If the gains are for only 10% of your customers, I would put this closer to the "next to no gains" rather than the "massive gains".
Issues I’ve encountered building an app with magic links:

1. Include a fallback sign-in code in your magic link, in case the user needs to log in on a device where accessing their email isn’t practical.

2. Make sure the sign-in link can handle email clients that open links automatically to generate preview screenshots.

3. Ensure the sign-in link works with email clients that use an in-app browser instead of the user’s preferred browser. For example, an iOS user might prefer Firefox mobile, but their email client may force the link to open in an in-app browser based on Safari.
Sure, but less than half the memory bandwidth and inference is largely bandwidth bound.
Toyota invests in Japanese rocket startup as SpaceX races ahead
https://archive.is/FpSYW
Architecting for Real-time automated decisions
In an era where businesses must adapt to fast-paced environments, real-time automated decision-making has become a cornerstone of operational efficiency and competitive advantage. This capability involves a seamless blend of decision logic, cutting-edge infrastructure, robust data strategies, and precise application handling. Organizations striving for agility and responsiveness must master the art of designing systems that enable instant, data-driven decisions while ensuring consistency, accuracy, and scalability...
>Imagine a world where anybody can gestate a baby in a tank. It would be a boon to older couples, same sex couples, and many others.

It would be a world where the Ghadafis and the Putins could breed armies of 100,000, a million, all raised in barracks and surveilled from birth. The critics would have no say, none of these children are theirs. The political enemies would become allies, just so they might have influence in where those armies are pointed. Entire crops of insect-people, superficially human, but psychologically tortured into compliance, outnumbering anyone who might want to put a stop to it. And don't get me wrong, I think the United States would do it too, even if it might need to hide it for awhile.

>Imagine a Mars colonization effort with

Imagine a Californian colonization effort with hundreds of thousands of psychopath soldiers exactly 15 yrs old, hopped up on roids, raised by a few hundred drill sargeants since they could hold their heads up, slowly marching through and getting rid of anyone who wasn't flagged as an elite.

The reason you don't have stormtroopers doing this now is because there are only a few hundred of them who would be willing to do that at any given point at time. But when you can literally multiple humans with machines, then their numbers could grow quickly and to absurd degree.
The mystery shall remain
He is very well known for bending for Xi though
People who have only seen a Switch also might not realize how big the Deck and its cousins are.
It certainly could be. There’s the old Greek myth of Pandora’s box - the last entity to emerge is ‘hope’. Is that the worst monster or greatest gift to humanity? I feel like I fall in the former camp. But that’s OK - I still move forward in life and engage in the pursuit of happiness.
I would expect it to work badly whenever a person could easily cross a boundary. In larger cities -- say, New York -- it would suffer similar, but fewer, problems simply because the average effort of getting outside the city would be higher.

You see this between states when tax regimes differ. Sure, those who live near the border "cheat". But most people live far enough away that they are affected by the tax.

There is lots of counter-evidence to your propositions, notably involving the effect of raising prices on cigarettes, which does discourage smoking.
It is an outdated claim.

I have both 4090 (workstation) and 7900XT (to play some games) and I would say that 7900XT was rock solid for me for the last year (I purchased it in Dec 2023).
> I just don't get the motivation.

It's "just" art. Some folks like showing off their style via their homes, some their cars, some their bodies.
No we don't have verifieable measurable facts for those areas. Standards and definitions vary by location and change over time. Don't forget the corruption and manipulation of numbers to achieve desired outcomes.
Kagi is pretty good.
So, opposing the importation of cheap labor that exploits the laborer is a "war on talent." Got it.
Now, I get where MAGA stands on any immigrants, particularly non-white immigrants. But to frame opposition to the tech world's anti-labor practices this way is just as dishonest.
What's wrong with ever expanding list of TLDs? Is there a security threat or you just don't like it or?
You ruined it by pointing it out :-D

We need to have people continue the meme by missing the point of nitpicking nitpicked arguments. That’s a special thing here in HN.
(2018) Popular at the time (149 points, 134 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18563511
Gate-level simulation of TinyTapeout submission running directly in browser
You could install Ubuntu 24.04 using debootstrap. That would just get you the user space, though, you'd still have to build your own kernel image.