skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Botany Manor is a game I played not too long ago that has such motion sickness accessibility settings. It's a great way to allow those to experience the game who otherwise might find it difficult to do so.
Here is a video where Martin Piper uses a C64 debug tools to figure out how Nine was created: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1vsMM2EuY .
Luckily .NET is not married to Windows and MS ecosystems at all for good 9 years already. I'd be long gone and using something else if it did :) (very happy I've stayed though)

Agree with your worries and hope they find their engineering excellence again, because while DevDiv teams working on .NET are isolated from problematic influence, it would be a shame for MS troubles to affect them. It's just too big of a project to continue without significant funding and there is probably not enough community goodwill and traction in absolute numbers (which are wasted on worse languages like Go) to carry the torch.
Do Chinese or Russians have any such qualms? No or course not. They're diving head first into it.

Only in the United States do we have the privilege to pretend like we can ignore it.
I kind of share your view, but on a lower order of magnitude: I prefer vim, but now that I'm getting older, _neovim_ has come out. And of course it has all this fancy horseshit that essentially makes it look like an IDE. Things like git integration "zen mode", and what-have-you. But every time I've tried to use these "cool" plugins, they never fucking work! Like, if you show these cool screenshots, and represent that if I install them, I get zen mode, git integration, catpuccin color theme, then I expect it to just fucking work. I'm not going to sit there and PLAY with it (i.e. a toy) till I get what was shown to me. I want to crack open the tool and use it.

Another thing that always gets lost in these dev env debates is what language and use-case. I do mostly C++, and most of my time is spent going between 2 or so buffers. I'm not doing something that requires zipping across several unique files per minute. Even if I do need to change files, having a slower mechanism to get there causes me to think more carefully about what I actually need to do there. So the extra 5-10 seconds aren't fully lost.
> There is no corresponding popular replacement for C that's more minimalist than Rust and memory safe.

There is Objective-C, it fits your definition of memory safety.
Don’t worry; the current wave is going to hit hope source hard. Likely with Facts.
That's true to an extent. But we can also reduce the incidence of opioid addiction by prescribing them only for really severe pain, and in smaller quantities. This is already happening. Back in 2007 an oral surgeon gave me a prescription (which I never filled) after a minor procedure but today that probably wouldn't happen.
They did the calculations for Hetzner themselves and came to $4258.33/mo.
Nice. Price?
If this doesn't all make perfect sense and square with your observations you're not jaded enough.
That's an interesting approach so you chat first, making sure the model understands what you want and then you switch it to write mode? I must try that approach on more complex stuff. That is kind of how you get Claude to reason in a way, no?
I'm not sure the FBI will even exist in four years. It only takes an Elon Musk investigation leaking to Twitter and his minions can just defund the police.
I’d argue the base layer is money. The men with guns need to be paid so they can feed their families.
This is incredible! Wikipedia has abundance of interesting stuff and this is a great way to discover it, using a popular UX at the moment. Great idea.

A bug report: When open the Wikipedia links on mobile, it shows the desktop view. I guess because the links are like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=5635437

This deserves a proper domain! I will be glad to gift you the $ to buy one for a year. Let me know! https://wikitok.app/ seems available.
Ya go poke people with nukes and see how that works out
The reason beavers build dams is because that's what beavers do.
How frequently is the app checking for new emails?
Subtitle: A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
Really? You see a narrow contextual restriction for irrelevant information in a grant/hiring packet to be worse than compelled speech?
Do you see nothing wrong with the same company that makes YouTube Kids making killer AI? I think creating weapons is often evil. I think companies that have consumer brands should never make weapons, at the very least it's white washing what's really going on. At worst, they can leverage their media properties for propaganda purposes, spy on your Gmail and Maps usage and act as a vector for the most nefarious cyber terrorism imaginable.
I've seen citizens trap racoons and release them further from their property. My mom got an annoying feral cat in her car and also dropped it off many km away and it showed up again a week later.
Wrecked how? Fixed how? Can you describe either or are you just saying words?
The swizzling is pretty cool, rather special purpose but it makes sense that Ginger Bill wanted this and it's Ginger Bill's language.

Odin's "standard library" stuff is very silly, it still feels like we were just copy-pasted the lead developer's "useful stuff" directory. Bill doesn't feel there's a value to actual standard libraries, so instead here's... whatever. He insists that's not what's going on here, but that doesn't change how it feels.
This sentiment ignores the reality on the ground in favor of performative ideological purity - civilians are already getting blown up all the time by systems that do not even attempt to make any distinction between civilians and soldiers: artillery shells, mortars, landmines, rockets, etc.
Diversity statements were used to facilitate race-based grant approvals. They should never have been legal.
No we don't. They get small arms. Fighter jets, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and the like are commanded by much older and experienced people. An M16 is not "billions in military hardware."
Depends if next years gun gets up and shoots you in the head on its own accord.
>That's a kind of lottery-mentality that Europe doesn't want to attract anyway.

the problem with the European thinking you describe is not lottery vs sure-thing, it's the idea that everybody within a geography should should think the same way and not all mentalities "belong".
Is editing code really the endpoint for llms?

I suspect we'll be getting to a point where the "code" is just instructions, codified in a special markup file, and llms just write the worst possible, kiss code you can think of - but is extremely secure because it's just like direct database access with all the security constraints you define, but always applied correctly. In other words think of the actual code as a non-committed artifact, and it's just emitted if the descriptors change.

The long term of llms writing code isn't to give us human quality code, it's to give us what we'd think of assembly but rigorously output to all auth requirements.
Plenty of US companies not named Google haven't had qualms about weapons development in decades. It's not about US vs China/Russia, it's about Google's culture.

Additionally, the US has been vociferous about limiting access to foreign tech companies with "military links" in China, so perhaps Google should be placed in that category by all non-Five-Eyes countries.
Is there a leading self-hosted OSS option in this space?
Problem is US is stalled on modernising and far behind the rest of the world and has been for decades.

https://www.montrealgazette.com/business/article267028.html

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107917
Wowza a new Beej guide!
> This algorithm is much more efficient than typical ray tracing acceleration methods that rely on hierarchical acceleration structures with logarithmic query complexity.

!?

This is a wild claim to just slip in. Can anyone expand?
Is a pledge till the $$$ shows up
In that case they'd have to cut out parts of the images and articles and sell them as "DLC"
Antitrust laws to prevent companies from abusing their market position.

The US Department of Justice is currently suing Apple for violating those antitrust laws [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/24107581/doj-v-apple-antitrust-mono...
Oh I just don't like the tendency of tech folks to reach for technological solutions before they consider social/organizational ones.
7 years to estimate the impact? I'm guessing it would take a professional an afternoon.
We would all be covered in bruises from getting slapped all day long.
because they can take loans against their paper wealth and spend that as income. and as a bonus they get to write any interest payments off of their taxes.
The real U.S. In these people's minds, the federal government and its millions of employees are a parasite sucking the blood of the real U.S., not a part of it. I will leave analogies as an exercise to the reader.
Care to explain how an atomic bomb is not a nuke?
Skip the bullets and hope they don’t go for blood.
I tend to agree, but having met some of the people who pursued this dream, they are very very inventive. They're smart. If that energy chasing a dream could be redirected, they'd be doing amazing things. Mostly, they wind up realizing that the goal is illusive, and re-pivot to a saner outcome but by that time they are fully vested in "america" as a plan.

The bounty here, is the people on the cusp of realizing its not going to pan out but who are both very smart, and smart enough to realize they need to pivot. It would be almost a given they are consciously walking away from IPO manna. I guess if you include it in the pre-sort on applicants, you get to winnow out the people still glued to money-is-the-prize.

BTW the EU would welcome more IPR inside the EU. Some amount of bonus may have to lie in the packaging, to get to where the EU wants to be on IPR. Novo Nordisk style.
"The trouble with market research is that people don't think what they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say."
> here are over 30 models and theories of consciousness (MoCs and ToCs) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, which already include some important pieces of the solution to the challenge of consciousness.

I wonder what kinds of things they're including in this statement.
The president just threatened Greenland with military action. That is absolutely fucking unprecedented in living memory, and well before.

And that passed without much more than an exasperated sigh.

No, I think the populace will go along with whatever these folks deem acceptable. It’s like a bad movie.
> Except it doesn't?

See how I introduced your case later with "Alternatively"? You saw it since you quoted me.

Fine, your email app works well in fetch mode. It took you three roundtrips to mention your actual setup despite having been asked about it quite early and despite it being a critical element in this discussion. Omitting to mention that doing this choice, your notifications are delayed.

Fetch mode is totally a valid choice, email doesn't need to be real time for every one. It will actually save battery life from what I can read: you don't need constant polling. Of course, push notifications are for real time stuff. What costs battery life or requires a push notification service on current widespread mobile devices is timely notifications. I can't help you if you fail to see how this can be useful, even if you don't personally need this or are against the idea.

Despite a thread that started well (yeah, notifications via emails, a decentralized, open standard, why not? It's terrible for many reasons including deliverability and the fact that you need to be notified of new mails so it's a bit of a chicken and egg issue, but sure, let's discuss), you don't seem actually curious or interested in the topic at hand, preferring to stick to your original point of view, to ignore the answers from all of us and to ultimately show contempt and spite to people discussing with you here. By the way, frankly, loose the scare quotes, they are ridiculous. Of course Apple Mail's fetch mode will be reliable on iOS but that doesn't make the topic trivially solved and yes, the problem exists despite what you are stating.

You are calling something over engineered without stopping to wonder why the complexity, assuming it's useless.
What "competence"? What "efficiency"? What "innovation"? What "accountability"?

There is no accountability or efficiency in unelected technocrats blowing up what was working without a plan or subject matter expertise.
Ofcourse it would. Capitalism is all about dealing with shortages in exchange for money.

So clearly someone just doesn't want to pay up.
That's anachronistic: it was called JavaScript long before the ECMA specification and the ECMAScript name appeared. That the JavaScript name is dumb is pretty much universally agreed on.
I’m more cynical. Dating apps are easy, and entertaining. Finding a good person to spend your life (or a prolonged period) with is hard. I’m not sure there is an external solution to this in the world we live in - it’s like getting fit. People need to suck it up and put in the work if they want results.
I remember the CEO of Zoom last year or something saying that AI would go to meetings for you.

If the AI is doing all the work, why do you have a job again?
Two things that come to mind although I have no idea what I think about this overall:

1. Presumably there's a bias in who gets which cases

2. She might be incompetent but not a murderer?
I would like all my push notifications to not rely on Google so this seems good to me.

Signal sending me an email to tell me I have a new message would be a bad system.
For business plans the old Outlook is still supported until "at least 2029" [1]. That's four more years to switch. And Microsoft hasn't even committed to stopping support at that date, they just don't want to promise more. I fully expect them to extend it because some large customers won't have switched.

What is unusual is how pushy Microsoft is in trying to get people to switch now instead of in the last second. And of course the quick murder of the consumer email thingy

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/outlook/new-outlook...
hacker hugged
> it’s more like an intern, pair programmer or rubber duck. None of which make you worse.

Are you sure? I've definitely had cases where an inexperienced pair programmer made my code worse.
how do you get the percentile ranking for the men to do the matching with?
Zig’s comptime feature gives a lot of the power of C++ templates. This makes it easier to implement a lot of libraries which are just a pain to do in plain C. Even seemingly simple things like a generic vector are annoying to do in C, unless you abandon type safety and just start passing pointers to void.

I believe Zig even has some libraries for doing more exotic things easily, such as converting between an array of structs and a struct of arrays (and back).
Most of the early research into computers was funded for military applications. There is a reason why the silicon valley became a hub for technological development.
Unfortunately, the only way to keep things "fair" and "equitable" so nobody revolts is to reduce everything to the lowest common denominator.

In other words, everything would be terrible, but at least it'd be terrible for everyone.

Until we realized we could sacrifice some for the betterment of the rest, find a way to rationalize it, and then we throw it all out the window.
More like Americans repeatedly vote for change, because the change they got four years earlier was too bad. It reminds me of Chile, which keeps oscillating between socialist and conservative presidents every four years.
Hostless App Musings
Had a random thought today. I can't find or don't know of any mobile/smartphone app that is hostless other than using the SMS protocol.

The obvious reason for this is that a host is still required to manage data due to the size of it.

I had a thought today about how this could be overcome if one wanted to make a social app, by making use of the SMS protocol for managing and sending data from one user to another.

Your first thought maybe that there isn't a strong enough compression algorithm in the world to do this, but what if the app used a defined coded language whereby shorthand values and numerics translate to identifiers, words, phrases or even commands.

These shorthand values are then sent together in an SMS for transmitting and reading data between users, for all manner of reasons.

Text based data is cheap enough to store in an apps storage, and with a complete dictionary of words and highly popular phrases for a user's language.

Imagine a given agreed format of something like follows:

- U[NUMERIC] A shorthand value to identify a user's contact number
- W[NUMERIC] A shorthand value to identify a word
- P[NUMERIC] A shorthand value to identify a phrase
- E[NUMERIC] An emoji identifier

By making use of an in-app database, the app could send messages or issue commands, polls etc by translating identifiers.

For example a message like U+123456789W1P1E1 would tell the app to send a message to that number with the word with a numeric id of 1, phrase of 1 and emoji of 1. This could for example translate to "Hello how are you today?"

It could go into much more depth if a user wants to still send paragraphs of text.

This also could be done for image data by compressing and converting to ASCII the image and then sending as SMS, so this almost could work for a messaging app that supports messages, images, emojis, links and commands like creating polls etc.

This in theory could work for all kinds of apps that provide user connections. Messaging, internal work communications, social networking and more.

In Summary:

The medium required for a hostless structure has always existed in the SMS protocol, the issue was that no compression algorithm was strong enough to reduce the data. Rather than compression, use a defined coded language to translate shorthand numerical values to words, phrases, commands etc.
I would say it's natural. Their one and only incentive isn't as they are trying to tell you "make a word better place" or similiar awkward corpo charade but to make a profit. That's a purpose why companies are created and they are always following it.
It wouldn't take much of that to completely destroy the U.S. food supply chain. Those 9 meals separating us all from anarchy will go by quick.
>The question then is, why is the demand for drugs so high?

Because they (at least opioids) make people feel great. Better than sex, better than achieving a lifelong goal, better than a lot of things. The second half of the story is after 5 or so years, the effect isn't nearly as strong. After 10 years you don't get the high, you just don't feel like shit. That along with a likely police record, takes people completely out of society.

I remember the crack epidemic in the 80s, and it was pretty much over by the late 1990s. I've heard it's because people saw what crack did to other people and didn't want that to happen to them. That's honest marketing.

Nothing wrong with some honest marketing about what drugs really are. Nothing like DARE, just make some good, honest commercials and play them. Drugs are great to start with, but this is what will happen. You think it won't happen to you, but it probably will.
Good luck getting 500k+ grants in other countries. If you leave there won't be a shortage of postdocs looking for a new tenure track position.
Organizational Charts (2011)
According to "Leave It to Beavers" (2018) PBS Nature [53m], beavers are attracted to the sound of running water played back from a cassette tape. [1]

[1] https://g.co/kgs/5yA9R5
Their argument isn't that it's not "exactly the same" (they were being polite), it's that it's functionally the opposite. And when you imagine a variation in which it's functionally the same, your argument clearly falls apart.

As far as deflation in the 1800s, are you referring to in 1818 after a credit collapse cratered England's economy and then spread to the US and put it into a recession; or maybe the Panic of 1837 which triggered a depression until the mid 1840s?; or do you mean the Panic of 1873 which triggered the Long Depression that lasted until 1899?

Which one of those are good examples we should look to?
CA, AU, and some EU countries are about to elect conservative governments
And indiscriminate has a cost that can slow people from using them.

Imagine you have a weapon that can find and kill all the 'bad guys'. Would you not be in a morally compromised position if you didn't use it? You're letting innocents die every moment you don't.

* warning definitions of bad guys may differ leading to further conflict.
Minimado – Minimalist task management tool with CLI functionality
I thought that we all made a sacred agreement that we should only hire on the basis of merit.
Yeah, in Germany the rich stay rich.
From E.T. Jaynes, "Clearing Up Mysteries -- The Original Goal"

>From his reply to EPR, we find that Bohr's position was like this: "You may decide, of your own free will, which experiment to do. If you do experiment E1 you will get result R1. If you do E2 you will get R2. Since it is fundamentally impossible to do both on the same system, and the present theory correctly predicts the results of either, how can you say that the theory is incomplete? What more can one ask of a theory?"

>While it is easy to understand and agree with this on the epistemological level, the answer that I and many others would give is that we expect a physical theory to do more than merely predict experimental results in the manner of an empirical equation; we want to come down to Einstein's ontological level and understand what is happening when an atom emits light, when a spin enters a
Stern-Gerlach magnet, etc. The Copenhagen theory, having no answer to any question of the form: "What is really happening when - - - ?", forbids us to ask such questions and tries to persuade us that it is philosophically naive to want to know what is happening. But I do want to know, and I do not think this is naive; and so for me QM is not a physical theory at all, only an empty
mathematical shell in which a future theory may, perhaps, be built.

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/cmystery.pdf
I support scientific research of course but to play devils advocate, how can the USA afford this? They run a deficit and have an enormous debt. I dont understand how this can continously be ignored. Of course nobody wants cuts but how can it go on? Same with the foreign aid, isnt that something a country running a surplus should be worried about?
Mollik is the great sense-maker. Whatever he says is usually wrong
Is ,,Oracle not controlling JavaScript'' really a good argument?

Who wants Oracle to start controlling it?

We're mostly better off leaving it a gray area maybe until Oracle gets more aggressive with it.
Poppy was onto something when she came up with 'dinner party' for Mythic Quest.
Google is a company that relies to a large extent on users to trust them with their data and for advertisers to want to be associated with them. Hence they have a stronger incentive to avoid being seen as an evil corp then some other companies. This is also important for recruitment, as many engineers do not want to (be seen to) work at a privacy invading evil corp, so it is important that google creates plausible deniability for those engineers as well.