MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2025-04-21 05:57:56+00:00
Real BASIC, the one invented at Dartmouth, was compiled to native before execution and relatively fast for the hardware.

It was fitting BASIC into 8 bit home computers limited hardware that gave fame to its slowness, given the interpreter approach.

By the 16 bit days having access to compilers was already not an issue. It was Turbo BASIC that started my journey as happy Borland customer.
by nomilk | 2025-04-21 05:58:02+00:00
The surprise here is how little of an effect it has. Deactivating facebook makes you only 1/16th of one standard deviation happier. And instagram even less. And this was measured during elections, when the effect is likely to be greatest.

Kinda crazy that the magnitude is so small! (my next [admittedly rather cynical] thought is "who funded this?")
by cyberax | 2025-04-21 05:58:29+00:00
Whitehorse is not undesirable, it's located in a beautiful valley and has a fairly mild climate. And I specifically took the worst case of price growth in YK. If you look at Watson Lake, the price there has not grown at all.

My point is that smaller cities in Canada are not experiencing runaway price growth.

This should make it clear that it's not a housing shortage problem. Otherwise, it'd be experienced equally across the board.
by patrakov | 2025-04-21 05:58:58+00:00
Works (to a degree) in Chromium, but not in Firefox. The reason is that the API to give access to a whole folder to a website is missing in Firefox.

An attempt to play a DVD rip ended up with error messages in the browser console about unaligned access. Playing one of the individual VOBs succeeded, consuming approximately one CPU core.

The usual "d" shortcut to enable deinterlacing is not supported, though.
by blahgeek | 2025-04-21 06:00:02+00:00
> What I mean by doing research is not just Google it but also asking questions, calling people and using other resources.

> It’s obvious that currently none of the SOTA models can do such tasks, agentic or not. And therefore they are NOT AGI to me.

I myself almost never do that (calling people when googling is possible). Guess I'm not general intelligence. :)
by 9x39 | 2025-04-21 06:00:32+00:00
“Technology has gone too far man. My roommate is logged out of his lightbulbs because he forgot his password”

https://x.com/fakekenty/status/1904364284823400748?s=46&t=Eu...

A lot of this tech is just half-baked. Competing standards jockeying for market share, stuff that doesn’t scale, most end user tech is still baffling to the demographics with the funds.

I stopped at Hue lights and some garage freezer thermometers. Eventually I realized I was going to have to rip the system out if I didn’t approach it from “how does my partner control these without having to think about it and without using tech skills”. I settled on a remote or two and a variety of battery-less mechanical switches at significant cost just to restore the basic functionality and reliability of a $5 light switch.

It was a reality check I needed before I plunged into a million sensors and integrations and hardware I was always going to fiddle with and only I would probably ever finesse into acting right. Even the chain of audio receiver to the TV over ARC to everything waking up when the Apple TV awakens occasionally breaks and leaves my partner unable to watch TV until I come cast the magic spells (rebooting things) and make it Just Work again. I can’t imagine how all the smart home junk ages - it probably doesn’t degrade well.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-21 06:02:01+00:00
> The oldest evidence we have of widespread metallurgy comes from the tip of South America around approximately 5000 BC. Which predates metallurgy in Eurasia by thousands of years.

There are archaeological finds in Europe dating smelting in the region back as early as 5500 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pločnik_(archaeological_site)
by trod1234 | 2025-04-21 06:02:24+00:00
TL;DR you are basically just asking for a real version of "The Purge", while neglecting the inherent inequalities between those with resources and those without, and you contradict yourself later making this post of yours entirely incoherent, and a waste of time reading.

Thoughts unshackled from objective reality trend towards delusion. People haven't survived by ignoring the reality of things.
by Phlebsy | 2025-04-21 06:02:26+00:00
The number of replies I cut & paste to my notes archive far exceeds the amount of posts I actually make. I still find it valuable to work through my own thoughts to better prepare myself to have the same conversations in more impactful circumstances, but there are some things I just don't care enough about persuading the other person - or believe the other person is actually going to consider the words as carefully as I put them together.
by anal_reactor | 2025-04-21 06:02:51+00:00
> The really important thing is to teach kids to find their joy.

As an adult, how can I find joy? I've been trying out various hobbies, but eventually, all of them became a chore. I really miss the feeling of fixating on something and getting lost in it, but it's not coming back. I'm so jealous of people who have a passion, because I just don't.
by xandrius | 2025-04-21 06:03:13+00:00
It does but one has to hold a belief for it to be eventually confirmed or denied.

Many people historically and presently see themselves as the pinnacle of a godly creation, so they put humans above everything and anything, meaning that most perspectives to validate or not are about how unique we are. It might be annoying or backwards but at least there are people out there still willing to chip at it, one study at a time.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-21 06:03:29+00:00
Cannot you stuff the snakes tail into its mouth?

I tried this for some very small decompilation projects, and it was cute at best.

Then I sent it a boot loader. I should have posted it on a ceral box for better results.

Is someone going to suggest that I check the dissembly into git hub and watch it make a tutorial?
by Renaud | 2025-04-21 06:03:38+00:00
It's not China doing this, it's manufacturers, wherever they are.

DJI happens to be a Chinese company but Samsung isn't, and they have been tracking what people watch on their TV (even if you're using HDMI and your own input) for years.

Big European, Asian and American brands are doing the same, washing machines requiring an account to access basic capabilities, cars phoning home, computers phoning home, phones phoning home, they all want it, they all do it.

Blaming China for this is deflecting the true culprit: the rampant notion that everything that could be sold has to be sold. Privacy doesn't matter, just put a red ribbon over it and force user to create an account and share their data in exchange for the priviledge of accessing what they thought they bought.

China didn't invent that, they sure love it, but they are not responsible for it alone.
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-21 06:03:42+00:00
3D requires inserting an extra device into the image path to split the projector light into polarized halves, otherwise the 3D glasses don't work. Because of how light works, half the light is thrown away. So you either have a darker picture or you jack up the light (which, according to theater owners, means more wear on the projector's light source).

Now, in an ordinary scenario, you'd just have the projectionist remove the extra polarizing step from the image path for 2D showings. Except, remember, all of these projectors have DRM specifically to control who is allowed to put things in the image path of the projector. So now management has to be called in every time a theater needs to change over from a 2D or a 3D film.

Or you follow the path of least resistance and just leave all the 3D crap on the projectors all the time, keeping it at the same brightness for 2D (to save money on maintenance), which results in everything being darker.
by toast0 | 2025-04-21 06:05:48+00:00
> It's not that easy, in my opinion. George Lucas and James Cameron have both said that their restorations were how they would have wanted to release the movie if they had had the technology/budget.

I dunno about Cameron's films (I don't think I've seen an original and an unchanged from him), but for Star Wars, the constraints helped make the film good. Yes, there's some rough bits, but all of the additions subtract rather than add.

Maybe it's not what his vision was, but we liked it as it was. If you watch ROTJ, you can already see where unconstrained technology distracts Lucas and it turns into too much of a green screen affair in parts. The prequel trilogy is so much green screen and it just feels so sterile and unbelievable; none of the characters interact with the environment at all; they're not hot in the desert or even when having a light saber duel in lava fields or whatever. They don't get cold or wet, etc. In ROTJ, the speeder bike stuff is mostly gratituous, but there's interaction with the environment.
by nine_k | 2025-04-21 06:07:07+00:00
So, ELI5 level.

People who use Facebook also may feel depression, from very strong to none at all. In the middle of this interval there's the "expected value" point, sort of an average level of feeling depressed. This point is at an equal distance from the "most depressed users" group, and from the "not depressed at all" group. Let's call this distance of depression strength a "standard deviation".

Now, the users who stopped using Facebook became slightly less depressed, by 6% of that "standard deviation" range. If you buy a small coke at a McDonald's, then take one sip, you make it about 6% smaller. It's not unnoticeable (you've made that refreshing sip), but about 15 more such sips still remain!

In other words, there is an effect which can definitely be noticed ("statistically significant"), but it's not a big deal either.
by zdc1 | 2025-04-21 06:08:05+00:00
Instagram used to be closer to this when they showed posts in chronological order. Of course, Facebook got to work and ended this by showing posts in algo-sorted order, added an explore page, and even started showing non-followed people's viral content on the main feed. So unfortunately the trend has been a slow frog-boiling march towards engagement and enshittification.

In the meantime, maybe I should just share more photos in the group chat instead...
by highwaylights | 2025-04-21 06:09:02+00:00
I’d be interested in the results of a study that cuts out all social media, but the problem I can already see with that is self-selection bias (the people that would volunteer for it are probably already eager to get away from social media so the results would likely be skewed).

Personally I’ve been mentally in a better place since getting rid of my social media accounts during COVID, but it does cause problems because Facebook has become a utility as well (schools and real-life social groups use it for co-ordinating activities).
by SantiagoVargas | 2025-04-21 06:09:09+00:00
It's aimed at indie devs/startups shipping ideas quick. Built it for ourselves while we were starting an app under the aws free tier which occasionally went down when usage spiked. Notified us to fix it quickly before losing users that could download the app but not create an account. It can be set up in 30 seconds without needing to code anything, so mainly for coders that want a quick and easy solution.

So not aiming for enterprise on this one, made the pricing quite accessible and with minimal features.

For the health endpoint as long as it only returns a 200 status code (without disclosing info like tokens or resource info/server configurations) then the risk is very minimal.
by rimeice | 2025-04-21 06:09:25+00:00
Bad time to do it during what turned out to be very emotionally charged election where traditional news turns in to social media style instantaneous reporting and is inescapable. I’d also suggest 6 weeks is not long enough to fully recover. In fact in that time frame you may still be experiencing FOMO type symptoms. Would have been interesting to see how the participants faired after a year/two years.
by chriswarbo | 2025-04-21 06:09:50+00:00
> I'd rather see this in the failure report:

> ("ldiuhuh!skdfh", "nd#lkgjdflkgdfg", "", "dc9ofugdl ifugidlugfoidufog")

I would prefer LazySmallcheck's result, which would be the following:

(_, _, "", _)

Where `_` indicates that part of the input wasn't evaluated.
by raffraffraff | 2025-04-21 06:10:52+00:00
Leads me to the conclusion that I don't know what JuryNow is for. The post says it's a game but it's not really. I think that people will use it 'fo real'. But think about a real jury. Typically you will be excused from a jury if you are an expert in a specific field that is important to the case, or if you have a conflict of interest. The jury must be a bit of a blank slate so that both prosecution and defence can give them the facts pertaining to the case, question witnesses, call experts to give testimony when pertinent and then let the jury deliberate together on the result.

If these JuryNow questions are just a snap judgement on a one-shot question, with no opportunity for depth or deliberation between members, then I can see all sorts of potential problems, including the one you pointed out. The person asking the question can also load it in such a way that it leans towards their chosen answer (somewhat like loaded surveys with leading questions). I can certainly see it being used that way in toxic online debates, like a cheap mini survey that gives credence to some opinion. Aren't Reddit "CMV" and "AITA" even a little better since the jury can deliberate with each other online, as would happen in a real case?
by ryao | 2025-04-21 06:11:21+00:00
> Must-staple has almost zero adoption. The engineering cost of supporting it for a feature that is nearly unused just isn’t there. > We did consider it.

That is unfortunate. I just deployed a web server the other day and was thrilled to deploy must-staple from Let's Encrypt, only to read that it was going away.

> As CAs prepare for post-quantum in the next few years, it will become even less practical as there is going to be pressure to cut down the number of signatures in a handshake.

Please delay the adoption of PQAs for certificate signatures at Let's Encrypt as long as possible. I understand the concern that a hypothetical quantum machine with tens of millions of qubits capable of running Shor's algorithm to break RSA and ECC keys might be constructed. However, "post-quantum" algorithms are inferior to classical cryptographic algorithms in just about every metric as long as such machines do not exist. That is why they were not even considered when the existing RSA and ECDSA algorithms were selected before Shor's algorithm was a concern. There is also a real risk that they contain undiscovered catastrophic flaws that will be found only after adoption, since we do not understand their hardness assumptions as well as we understand integer factorization and the discrete logarithm problem. This has already happened with SIKE and it is possible that similarly catastrophic flaws will eventually be found in others.

Perfect forward secrecy and short certificate expiry allow CAs to delay the adoption of PQAs for key signing until the creation of a quantum computer capable of running Shor’s algorithm on ECC/RSA key sizes is much closer. As long as certificates expire before such a machine exists, PFS ensures no risk to users, assuming key agreement algorithms are secured. Hybrid schemes are already being adopted to do that. There is no quantum moore's law that makes it a forgone conclusion that a quantum machine that can use Shor's algorithm to break modern ECC and RSA will be created. If such a machine is never made (due to sheer difficulty of constructing one), early adoption in key signature algorithms would make everyone suffer from the use of objectively inferior algorithms for no actual benefit.

If the size of key signatures with post quantum key signing had been a motivation for the decision to drop support for OCSP must-staple and my suggestion that adoption of post quantum key signing be delayed as long as possible is in any way persuasive, perhaps that could be revisited?

Finally, thank you for everything you guys do at Let's Encrypt. It is much appreciated.
by doug_durham | 2025-04-21 06:11:23+00:00
The value is that it got the details correct as you admit. That alone is worth the price of admission. Even if I need to rewrite or edit parts it has saved me time, and has raised the quality of PRs being submitted across the board. The key point with these tools is *Accountability*. As an engineer you are still accountable for your work. Using any tool doesn't take that away. If the PR tool gets it wrong, and you still submit it, that on the engineer. If you have a culture of accountability, then there is nothing to be terrified of. Any by the way the most recent tools are really, really good at PRs and commit messages.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-21 06:12:46+00:00
> Depends on what you do on Reddit.

I agree to some extent, but even highly specialised / niche topics on dedicated subs are getting slammed by the "hivemind". I guess it's more apparent for non-us users, as we're not the target audience, but the political brigading is showing even on subs like space and ML related. Reddit is now very similar to ~2015-16 reddit when the-donald and other subs really peaked, just the other way around. 10/25 posts on all are bad orange man and bad space man related. The technology sub is a mess of weaponised autism. And then you get the same political bs coming from weird subs, like the cute pics sub, or the knitting sub suddenly having political submissions w/ 3k-6k upvotes, all saying the same thing.

It doesn't help that it is still the easiest "social network" to create accounts on, and bot on. With the advances in LLMs I sometimes truly can't say if an account is real or a bot. And I work in this space...
by safety1st | 2025-04-21 06:13:23+00:00
I think this is an important and often overlooked phenomenon actually. Studies of Internet engagement are filled with these skewed distributions that follow something like a Pareto principle, or I've heard it termed the 90-9-1 distribution in engagement where 90% of users just lurk a bit, 9% contribute casually, and then 1% are contributing like half of the content on the platform.

It would follow logically that whatever kind of brain rot social media causes, would affect 1% of the population very dramatically, another 9% somewhat more noticeably, and then there would be this vast ocean of people who are only marginally aware/affected. From the perspective of online activity they appear to not even exist.

This always seems counterintuitive to the 9% or the 1% (and just by commenting we're already in one of those demogs). But there's lots of data out there supporting these skewed distributions in online activity.
by chongli | 2025-04-21 06:15:31+00:00
It’s a symptom of endless government regulation, bureaucratic overreach, and NIMBYism.

One of the worst developments in the history of government is this incessant creep of regulations and codes that specify, in excruciating detail, how residential land must be developed. How wide the streets are, how many lanes of traffic there are, how far the sidewalks are from the road, how far the front door is from the sidewalk, how much of the back yard is visible from the sidewalk, how houses must be arranged, how wide a house must be relative to the property width, how short/tall a house must be, how many separate entrances are allowed, … and on and on and on the regulations go. This has the effect of making old style neighbourhoods (with real character) impossible to build in the modern day. It also highly restricts the usage of the land and the number of structures in a way that make it impossible to have multi-family dwellings, studio apartments above houses, artists’ cottages in the back yard, coach houses, small used book stores or cafes in residential neighbourhoods, etc.

The new urbanist movement [1] talks a lot about this. They’ve argued for the return of streetcar suburbs [2] and I agree with them. These places are extremely beautiful to live in. They foster a far deeper sense of community than modern suburbia. They are wonderful spaces for humans to live in rather than places for urban planners who want to play SimCity in real life.

I don’t blame old people or any other particular group though. This is a widespread phenomenon of cultural and regulatory evolution by people who did not anticipate the final result. Now we’re stuck with this morass and the political will to fix it is still in its infancy. There’s also simply the hard problem that we can’t just bulldoze whole neighbourhoods to rebuild them the old way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism

[2] https://youtu.be/MWsGBRdK2N0?si=Xw_E04B5q7HjpV7p
by subb | 2025-04-21 06:15:44+00:00
Maybe that's a language issue, because purple and violet are color names around here.

And as such, they are both a construct of the brain, as any other colors, like... white.

What we label as "violet wavelength" is only a narrow projection of our experience outward. Case in point, we don't have such colorful (eh) names for other EM wavelength.

I say narrow because you could take this pure laser and change th surrounding and you will inevitably perceive it differently, even though the power and wavelength are the same.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-04-21 06:16:02+00:00
> This approach might conflict with the profit models of big tech social media... Personally, I would love a smaller social network where I can stay connected with my school friends

This sort of longing for a cozy social media circles exists a lot in tech adjacent circles. However, unless you can align the needs of users with the revenue goals of the company, which in other words simply means that users pay for the pay for the product, this is not gonna happen. While you may be willing to do so, I'm sure many people would simply stop communicating with you because of the additional friction caused, especially when a free alternative exists.

Additionally, the "viral content" you speak of exists for two reasons, which I'm not sure it could be entirely solved even if you had users pay for the product.

Most people (me included) have very little intellectual capacity after work and other responsibilities, and need some easily absorbed "slop" to kill their time. I've personally tried engaging in more creative pursuits, but I can't do a good job at it at with all my energy sapped. This is where viral content, such as posts from politicians and celebrities, gain their initial spread.

I would also like to note that someone may want to follow a politician or celebrity because they think what they're doing is generally useful or entertaining, respectively.

This leads me to my second point, where even if you self-opted to not interact with viral content, I'm not sure your social circles would also follow through with the same choice. This ultimately means the platform has to take specific measures to suppress some posts based on its content or not show any of your friends' activity, both of which has disadvantages. Further, the former is in itself controversial depending upon which politician is in power and the current Overton window[1].

(Re downvotes: I'd like to know what part of all of this people disagree with.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window#
by culi | 2025-04-21 06:16:27+00:00
This is common knowledge. Even the Wikipedia page states:

> There is evidence that there have been significant changes in the Amazon rainforest vegetation over the last 21,000 years through the last glacial maximum (LGM) and subsequent deglaciation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest

Also, there's this:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/10-800-years-a...