skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a z80-based CP/M machine. I got it as payment for a software project I did for someone. I used it for recreational/hobby activities.

I forget the system clock speed, but I think it was around 2 MHz. The thing was made of steel, weighed over 100lbs, and contained 4 8-inch floppy drives (combined capacity for all four was about 2.5 megs, I think, but it may have been 5). The one I had contained an insane 512 megs of RAM. If I remember correctly, the one I had was purchased new for somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000 (1979, which is about $35,000 today). This was, at the time, serious hardware. It even did high-resolution graphics that would (barely) still be considered high-resolution today.

Turning it on literally made my lights dim momentarily and sounded like a jet engine spooling up. It was glorious.

Nothing about it is practical in today's terms, of course.

I had fun doing things like writing compilers and software to use it as the coordinator for a crazy project I was engaging in at the time: I had networked 10 Kaypro IIs together with it and was using the entire combined system as a single multi-CPU computing machine.

What I mostly did with it, though, was to experiment with hardware. The System III was an S-100 bus machine, and did not even have a motherboard as we think of them these days. It had a backplane that you installed cards into to provide all functionality. This made it really fun and easy to experiment with changes that would, in a modern machine, have required altering the motherboard.
Since money represent human work and earth ressources, both finite, yes, when you make money, somebody becomes poorer. Because the total amount of human work and resources and the actual leverage they got on the world becomes diluted.
Next up? My post got 50 upvotes on Hacker News. Here’s how I did it.

In all seriousness, congrats on the milestone. I hope you can make some dough out of it.
If you read Guns, Germs and Steel or maybe Sapiens, then the term "indigenous" should start to make sense.

Wikipedia says they are known as "first peoples":

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

For the most part, that is literally true -- they were the first group of humans on that land, humans having originated in Africa.

These books make the point that agriculture is the essential difference between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. Agricultural technology enables people to get on boats and take the land of non-agricultural societies. It enables greater popular density and wealth.

This happened all over the world in the same progression, at roughly the same times.

In America, the indigenous peoples came from Asia by way Alaska more than 10,000 years ago. Then Europeans came by boat ~500 years ago.

I don't know much about the history of Japan, but it seems to have been inhabited by non-Japanese/Chinese and then the Chinese ancestors of Japanese conquered the land. If anyone knows details I'm interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period

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

China was of course one of the first agricultural societies, and this enabled them to expand their territory rapidly, on the Asian continent and beyond. There were indigenous peoples living all over the Phillipines, Polynesia, Hawaii, etc. but they look "Asian" now because of the Chinese expansion. There were two different groups of people that collided.
Well I don't want to make this into an argument about who was worse but the Russians didn't honor the Geneva convention. The last German POWs weren't released until the mid 50s.
Music! I play with a gypsy jazz band about four or five times a month here in Amsterdam, and I occasionally give guitar lessons from home.

I also make a few bucks a month from Patreon for my YouTube guitar performances.
Would you mind sharing how dropshipers ruined it?

I’m not a dropshipper myself, but I know a couple of people who have gotten into it.
I think you’re a little confused - they are not talking about immigration. Immigration is defined as the international movement of people.
Redo enhances the timestamp approach instead: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113
My practice is corporate law, yes. Everything from basic stuff like commercial contracts, incorporation and financings to complex mergers & acquisitions.
Indian Hackers can tell what Netflix Bandersnatch choices you make
I've written a couple of books that sell on Amazon and Apple iBooks - it takes zero minutes per month work for me, but brings a nice little side income. I won't get rich, but it's nice to have the money come in for doing nothing after I hit the "publish" button. Even the printed books cost nothing.

I'm about to hit publish on a photo coffee-table book from my three years around Africa, and I'll write an Africa guide book and The Road Chose Me Vol 2 in the next 12-18 months.

* The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaksa to Argentina (https://amzn.to/2vfCYvn)

Stories and lessons from two years driving my Jeep Wrangler down the Pan-American Highway

* Work Less to Live Your Dreams: A practical guide to saving money and living your dreams
(https://amzn.to/2OD6UtA)

An eBook about how exactly I can afford to take years off work to do what I want and live my dreams.

* West Africa Myths, Misconceptions and Misnomers (https://amzn.to/2veyQMt)

After driving the length of the continent, I collected a bunch of information that is extremely helpful to anyone else thinking of doing similar. The vast majority of the Western Worlds "knowledge" of West Africa is so out of date it's useless. My book is from info I learned during my drip from mid 2016 to late 2017, so it's relevant
You are coming from the socialist angle, which is a loaded word that will probably derail the conversation, but essentially you see the free market and competition as a waste of resources that harms society.

The base argument is that we don’t need 80 brands of deodorant, and the fact we have so many is a colossal waste of resources, duplication, and moral failure of society.

Whereas I see 80 brands of deodorant and think it’s a wonderful example of how hard entrepreneurs work to satisfy all manner of wants and needs, ultimately driving down the price of deodorant and giving me a range of options. A government bureaucrat managing the country’s only deodorant factory could never possibly match the range of options and preferences that the market has provided me.

This is the fundamental difference in philosophy between real socialists (aka, not “keep the market but make healthcare free” milquetoast socialists but “make the private sector illegal” socialists) and free market advocates. I prefer a world that constantly competes to satisfy my needs, and all of the “waste” you see is just the process of satisfying everyone’s needs.
I don't think lowering mass-to-orbit prices by a factor of 100 is hitting a wall! But at this point I think we're risking a semantics dispute and we agree on many of the substantive points.

(Also, fwiw, I don't think your comments should have been, downvoted since they have been thoughtful, and a good counterpoint to the SpaceX over-enthusiasm in these threads.)
In principle, you want the output of a build to always be the same if the inputs are the same. In terms of correctness, you want "sameness" to be defined in terms of the contents of the input, not their timestamp, since timestamps can be easily be changed inadvertently by things like `touch`, 3rd party tools, etc. Also, relying on timestamps could pose problems for caching/checksums/etc if they are printed into any transitive dependency of a build pipeline.
Can Buck handle Maven dependencies yet ? We don't want to vendor hundreds of jars into our repositories like before maven.
Can you make YouTube videos about it? I watch Chris Fix all the time, not for educational purpose (I don't own a car), but because they are so freaking satisfying to watch. Seeing things go from 'meh' to 'wow.'
Often the choices made by "the individual" don't account for externalities that aren't built into the price. Viz landfills, climate change, effect on those with less economic resources.
> We're trying to colonise Mars, but at the same time believe a somewhat warmer climate is an existential threat to humanity.

That’s an interesting non sequitur. How does the potential for colonization of Mars say anything about how big of a threat climate change is?
I organize a conference for developers (see: https://2018.cascadiajs.com).

Organizing events is obviously very different than programming and shipping software, but it's nice to create something that programmers enjoy and it's been awesome to meet so many industry folks whose work I really admire.
I think part of the problem is that it's so difficult to actually measure productivity in software development.
Science is on the side of exhibiting determinism and science has never once provided any evidence that people have any control in this world. Free will is an illusion with how the brain functions. Most people will never spend much time thinking about it. The social conditioning in childhood ruins the possibility to think about it and prevents being even more closer to understanding reality.
Elliptical curve based keys are now supported by all major browsers and require much less processing power and overhead compared to traditional RSA keys.
That’s a good point. Is an indigenous person still indigenous after traveling thousands of miles? Should an Alaskan native owned company still get preference in billion dollar government contracts when the owner lives in Washington DC and none of the employees are Alaskan? Seems like an incentive system designed to attract people away from the culture rather than preserve it.
Elon Musk's D.C. to Baltimore Tunnel Sounds Worse Than Pointless
The Yamato ethnicity (大和民族 Yamato minzoku), primarily descended from the Yayoi people (who are relatively recent arrivals from the mainland, i.e. first millennium CE), historically occupied Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. They're the ethnic group usually called "Japanese," and the majority. The Ainu ethnicity, primarily descended from the Jomon people (who represented an earlier wave of in-migration to the Japanese archipelago, thousands of years BCE), historically occupied Hokkaido. Hokkaido was only integrated into the main Japanese polity in the last few hundred years.

But, it's all fraught and complicated, conceptually(/politically/culturally) and empirically. (For instance, Yamato people also have Jomon heritage, and these days most Ainu also have Yayoi / Yamato heritage.) So indeed, indigeneity is complicated here, just like it is, as you say, everywhere.
It seems like once you build up a critical mass of reputation/SEO you could get people to send you their broken parts to reproduce (then start advertising that specific part too)
I moved to Germany from America precisely because of Germans' lack of hubris about their ability to take responsibility for the crimes of their nations' past - while America is, without doubt, not ready to confront its own heinous crimes, being committed in present time, as yet.

Neo-nazism doesn't scare me as much as the average American patriot, whose political cover allows many, many crimes to be committed in their name with, seemingly, no repercussion.

However, as a believer in karma, participating in such a society is not on - thus, I moved.

My only concern now is that the Germany of the future will have what it needs to address America - because it doesn't look like Americans are going to be roping in their criminal death cult any time soon ... and all signs point to an America, in the future, which will have to deal with the crimes being committed in its name, today.
> essentially you see the free market and competition as a waste of resources that harms society.

GP made no general statement of this sort. Misrepresenting other perspectives is boring.
Perhaps you misunderstand. This is an issue better approached with logic than with emotion.

I draw attention to the parent's false equivalency of Nazi Germany and 21st Century USA. I describe the Nazi regime's recognition of the morale toll on its soldiers of gunning down innocent souls. Himmler himself saw this as an "issue."

Conjecture basis the article that the Nazi German legal system is similar to the modern American system is logically fallacious and dangerous insofar as it suggests that Nazism is compatible with contemporary American political and ethical values.
I'd look into little parts for classic cars. Almost no price sensitivity, and if you find some unmet need for a popular one...

Could even be something silly, like a plastic fuse extractor tool that people will pay $50 for if it looks OEM.
Ah, you're right - I should have said just 'migration'. This completely changes the picture.
Wikipedia doesn't have the text for fear of copyright, but you can see a phonetic/romanized version here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-language-tonality-lion...

Or in a different system here: http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML

And there's a link to a reading in another comment.

While a part of the effect is that each hieroglygh is read the same, I'd say another part is that it still comes out making sense.

Seeing as modern English approaches being logographic, with its “spelled ‘Manchester’, pronounced ‘Liverpool’,” I wonder how many homophones and oronyms can be jammed into a phrase.
I think their design was such that it was supposed to. However there is the fundamental difference in that there are no curved edges in the Sacsahuayman blocks, which are straight edged.
Morals are for the individual, ethics is for the group. The level and state of each realm, defines the state of the other.
Had a Breville expresso machine I repaired multiple times for my wife. The pump was decent, but the electronics were complete garbage for a $500 machine. The main problem were unsealed switches in a humid environment.
Is that really true that the majority of people don't know what will make them happy? I mean yeah, there's a lot of tragic and unhappy people out there, but is it enough that we need to question the nature of our society?

I, and most people I know, are pretty happy. Not every choice I make turns out well, but at least it's my choice and I accept the consequences. There are a few chemically depressed people in my social circle, but it's pretty clear to me that they would be depressed no matter how you reorganize society.
I am a corporate drone and not a programmer, but anyways; I sell computer chips on the Craigslist of my home country. Mostly Intel CPUs, genuine and not engineering samples. Wherever eBay can't reach due to import tolls, there is a market. Profits are at around 30% margin. It feels fun and does not feel like work. It has helped me save up to some nice vacations. Going to Japan in the summer. This activity is somewhat inspired by threads such as these on HackerNews.
Or, rather: if it’s fixable, fix it, don’t throw it away.
>> It’s not on someone else to tell me what I should and should not want.
>> This is called advertising.

And because that's annoying we have ad-blockers and TiVo and premium streaming and no-soliciting signs. There are better ways to market that don't involve disingenuously telling someone what they want.
>There is NOT a shortage of software developers. That myth was developed by big tech, and pushed all the way up the ladder, to the top of government. The goal? Reduce labor costs.

What is the line of reasoning than goes from 'there is a shortage of developers' to 'therefore, we need to pay less.'?
Redo is an awesome replacement for make - way better in many ways, while being much simpler.

However, it doesn’t do things buck and Bazel do such as making sure only declared files are indeed used, or tracking compiler and toolset versions on its own.
> Twitter is my stream of consciousness thoughts, blog (http://hillelwayne.com ) is my heavily edited and revised thoughts

https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1119765732127072256
This is an important point that is too often left unsaid. People today have an image of the Nazis organizing the deportation and murder of the Jews in a top-down fashion while everyone who wasn't German powerlessly looked on. But, actually, the Holocaust happened at the scale that it did because people went along with it. And not just the Germans; also the people in occupied countries, and in some cases even the Jews themselves. In places where people didn't go along with it, the Holocaust was ineffective, and survival rates were much higher.

Some places where people did not go along are (famously) Denmark and (less famously) Bulgaria. These countries managed to save the vast majority of their Jewish populations (though in the case of Bulgaria, Macedonian and Thracian Jews were murdered). 75% of French Jews survived the war because the French largely protected French Jews (though stateless Jewish refugees living in France fared much worse).
It may be hard to believe but labor productivity has been increasing!

For example (and bear with me, because this is incredibly hard to believe) it is more efficient in terms of amount of food collected per hour to use a farming machine over a field of wheat than it is to chase a guanaco or some other rabbit with a bow.
Suppose I'm a plumber and you're an electrician. You need your pipes fixed, so you pay me $100. I need my wires fixed, so I pay you $100. At the end we both have the same amount of money we started with, but now your pipes are fixed and my wires are fixed.

You come out ahead as long as the value of the thing you paid for is worth more to you than what you paid for it. And if it isn't then why did you pay that much for it, instead of just not doing it?
LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core
Show HN: BepuPhysics – 3D real-time physics simulation library in C#
What is a food forest?
> The parent has suggested a number of solutions, and you have not presented a convincing argument why any of those solutions would not help.

There's a difference between "a solution" and "mitigation". All those programs that the parent mentioned do exist in so-called "welfare states" like Sweden, France or Germany. Yet, these countries have higher homelessness rates than the US.

> You started by insinuating that most homeless are incurably schizophrenic.

I actually didn't. I said that schizophrenics in particular are likely to refuse help. I didn't say all schizophrenics refuse help or that all homeless are schizophrenic.

If you can't solve the problem of getting those schizophrenics off the streets (without force), you can't have a solution to homelessness, period.

> Your repeated suggestion that there is no solution and nothing can be done has certainly not convinced me.

I didn't say nothing can be done. I particularly don't care about "convincing" some guy on HN with poor reading comprehension. Have you done anything besides complaining about my posts? Go educate yourself on the topic if you want to "prove me wrong" or something.
Chaos and the Double Pendulum
How do you handle production?
Ask HN: Nonintrusive ad service with no tracking?
If I wanted to launch a little website and put an ad at the bottom, without being part of the problem, what are some ad-embedding services I could use that are respectful of the user, including but not limited to having no tracking (obviously clicks on the ad have to be tracked, but other than that)? Surely these things must exist?
Come on, don't play the game that we are all Americans here. Americans might need to maintain ignorance about it, but most of the rest of the civilised world already knows that America is committing crimes against humanity and war crimes with its widespread extra-judicial rendition program, torture sites around the world, and the 500,000+ innocent human beings murdered in Americas illegal, criminal wars this century.

Trying to play it like America isn't the #1 cause of war and destruction in the world is just not going to work. Some of us actually care enough to pay attention and know that the stats are not in Americas' favour, when it comes to elevating ones moral principles with regards to heinous, criminal, illegal acts of war.
Satellite Constellations and Radio Astronomy
Oh, that’s my thread. It’s not written for the HN crowd; my followers on Twitter are a very different demographic. It’s written to help non-technical folks start to consider the possibilities of the technology that exists in their lives now.

They’re just getting a carefully curated peek behind the curtain. The HN crowd knows what’s behind the curtain already.

A couple things: there’s a lot more interesting stuff going on than I’m explaining in my thread. As syllogism noticed, I’m using spaCy for the NLP part of the analysis (and displaCy was the best visual way to explain that to non technical folks!). The approach I’m using to dereference relative dates could be useful for its own spaCy post on its NER, for example. Same with dereferencing last names to the full names they’re referring to. Those two things alone are immensely useful for journalists and data viz designers. Plus, I love the hell of spaCy. I’ve done a ton of interesting stuff with it that I should write about—like discovering sock puppet accounts by comparing simple grammar signatures (relative ratios of parts of speech used in their text, along with other features like where adverbs and prepositions are used).

Two more things: the flight data is the sleeping dragon of that thread. Really.

And I’ve abandoned the idea of “unredacting” with predictions. For some technical reasons, sure (the redactions, for example, actually displace or edit other text, so it’s impossible to know the correct box size)…but mostly for ethical concerns.

It’s both cool and weird to see my thread posted here! I hope my actual technical post gets a shot when I’m finished with it.
> Not when you construct factories, warehouses, office skyscrapers and shopping areas where those same goods will be manufactured, stored, marketed and sold, by thousands of competing companies. That competition leads to a lot of wasted resources in exchange for product improvements of a questionable value, like, the availability of fridges in a variety of colours. [...] Everything is deeply interconnected, and we really need to reevaluate our goals and interests as a society.

Parent poster said this plainly, I'm not sure how you could read it another way.
Scientists Didn't Find the First Molecule in the Universe
tl;dr: turns out this is a "Octa-Core 64-bit AiO Android System", running on Linux 3.4.39 (Android 5.1). It's junk unless someone can get a mainline kernel running on it. Maybe the PostmarketOS folks will be able to help.
What about any of the GPD form-factor devices?
There is a conscious and subconscious comfort in knowing that a surveillance camera and/or hot mic in your room is not on.
This looks great. I grew up playing supertux (pretty much the only computer game I had), and this brings back a lot of memories. I credit it with a lot of my interest in programming/open source; figuring out to mess with the game as I got older was an excellent experience.

Thank you Super Tux devs!
Is that unedited? Otherwise why should this be more interesting than the "official" one?
It's just not capturing anything interesting about how growth in one industry should affect other people's decisions. Consider a factory town in the Midwest. The factory closing is not good for other businesses! Their loss is not a gain for you. Or if some bank decides to put its headquarters there, that is very good for the community.

Generally speaking, being in a rich or growing area is a good location for business because your customers spend more. Similarly, a thriving economy is good for business, not bad.

You aren't going to convince people that good things are actually bad by measuring things in percentages. You're just measuring it wrong.

On the other hand, housing when there's no way to build more units is an example of something that can actually be zero sum. If you move in, that means one less place to live for anyone else.