skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have Linux-on-the-Windows-Desktop. WSL, that is. For my use case, it's fucking amazing. I've come full circle.

I switched from Windows to Linux in 1999. I switched from Linux to Mac in 2003.

I've used Linux natively, it turned into a hack-fest. I spent more time trying to get things working, than getting ACTUAL work done. Using the Linux platform for development is fantastic.

It's when you want to do non-dev related productivity stuff that it got frustrating for me. You had to have workarounds galore. Or you had to have Wine, or you had to have a full Windows VM (when $APP didn't have a good nix-y equivalent).

macOS was great when the computer hardware was prioritized. Then at some point, Apple shifted focus. It was all about a cohesive experience, and integration galore. Then it shifted. Now it's all about iOS/iPadOS/watchOS/tvOS. macOS and its hardware have largely taken a back seat. See the MacBook Pro 2016-.

When Apple releases the 2019 MBP and it IMMEDIATELY goes onto the keyboard repair program... you know that in spite of all lip service to the contrary, that Apple gives no fucks about the Apple computer, like they do their gravy train products.

I needed an environment that'd let me still target Linux development, but stay-the-eff-out-of-my-way for productivity stuff. Windows it is. I know that's not what HNer's wanna hear, but the cultural shift at MS and using MS for a dev platform... it's been surprising, and amazing. Not what I'd expected in a million years. #flyingpigs #flameon

Anyone else experience a similar evolution?
"Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data."

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If Robot Odyssey really is open-ended, that would solve my problem with the Zachtronics games, which is that they aren't. SpaceChem gives you interesting goals and makes you fit your instructions inside a square. It's sort of like programming, except you have to do it in Befunge on a 4x4 (!) canvas. Or later... TWO 4x4 or 5x5 canvases. So I get frustrated that rather than the difficulty being in the programming, where I wanted it, it's in designing the spatial layout of the programming.

In Opus Magnum, there are a lot of interesting things you can do to get more parallelism going in your solution. Except that, again, "fake" difficulty is added in the form of restricted inputs. Maybe I could build the molecule faster with two sources of water, but I only have one, and one source can't produce more than one particle per two cycles. The parts with costs are unlimited -- they just count against your cost. Source and sink parts are "free", but limited in bizarre ways. So much for the parallel approach I wanted to try. :/
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That's my own preferred formulation.

Certain authorities take a different view:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...

Yes, they are synonyms, or alternate spellings.

https://grammarist.com/usage/inalienable-unalienable/
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Not just that, it actively broke and confuses existing discussions.
What function of a garden is "ruined" by having plants in it?
The alternative is government regulation eg banning mining cryptocurrencies.
The number 2 is because it doesn't fetch the posts for each user. You might be seeing posts with a delay of max. 10 min.
Casey Muratori: I did an introduction to Git on today's handmade_hero stream
If the radio was on, then it would come on the next time the car was started. If the radio was off, it would remain off until you turned it on. In the Subaru, the radio comes on regardless of its state when the car was shut off.

In every other car I've owned, if I press the volume knob to turn off the radio, the radio stays off. The next time I start the car, I have to press the volume knob again to turn the radio back on. In the Subaru, the radio turns on and starts playing when I start the car, even if I specifically pressed the volume knob to turn it off before turning off the car last time.

I encourage you to go try this in your (presumably non-Subaru) car. Start the car. Turn on the radio. Turn off the radio. Shut off the car. Start the car again. Is the radio playing audio or not?
Isn't this the problem of the viewers' own doing? Youtube would not give a shit until someone feels offended by it and complaints. So we can blame corportions all we want but we should also think how much of it is influenced by us.
Note: above only applies to the comment about violence. Infosec thing most likely is different.
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Conversely, I would gladly push a button to make such tracking technically impossible. The idea that sending me an unsolicited message entitles you to any information about my activity is absurd.
> The view of rights as being unalienable is distinctly American

That's quite a claim.

> Englishman Thomas Hobbes expounded on this and thusly planted the seeds of the American idea.

John Locke is the usual go-to figure, no?

> Such seeds didn’t take root in England at the time

Are you sure?

“17th-century English philosopher John Locke discussed natural rights in his work, identifying them as being "life, liberty, and estate (property)", and argued that such fundamental rights could not be surrendered in the social contract. In Britain in 1689, the English Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Right each made illegal a range of oppressive governmental actions.[18] Two major revolutions occurred during the 18th century, in the United States (1776) and in France (1789), leading to the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively, both of which articulated certain human rights. Additionally, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 encoded into law a number of fundamental civil rights and civil freedoms.”
> The HN guidance on commentary

Votes receive no guidance and most people don't vote for the quality and accuracy of the comment, they do it based on how that comment fits with their personal opinion. I've seen civilized and purely objective comments being seriously downvoted, especially on polarizing topics.

Many go beyond just this and after you have one unpopular comment you realize all of your comments that day just received the same exact number of downvotes at the same approximate time.

So I wouldn't really call it 50/50 between "sacred cow turned burger" and "being a jerk" downvotes but it sure is too close to trust the voting system blindly. I will read even the greyed out comments.
I have no idea what "BiaoJie" is (well, in context, I assume it's a romanization of the pronunciation of 表姐), so that name would be completely unhelpful. Whereas the current name describes the relationship such that I can understand it, even if I don't know why this particular relationship is deserving of a name.

Something like CNBiaoJie also assumes that Chinese is the only language that names this relationship, and I don't know if that's true.
Vulnerabilities don't always matter. If it's some godforsaken internal-only backend that never sees external traffic, study whether there's risk, and if there is none, let it be.

If you must fix it, the correct solution is to replace the affected software with the same (or almost the same) version of the software with the fix. No API changes, no other fixes.
https://medium.com/@hillpot/bitcoin-vs-gold-which-hurts-the-...

gold vs btc, at least BTC energy expenditure can be patched / limited to only renewables.
SpaceChem's omission is probably just oversight. The SpaceChem page itself makes a similar offer, with the same link to Zach's e-mail: http://www.zachtronics.com/spacechem/

A fun anecdote from a GDC talk (https://archive.org/details/GDC2013Barth at 21:57):

U.K. schools: We want to use SpaceChem to teach programming familiarity.

Eastern European schools: We want to use SpaceChem to teach problem solving.

U.S. schools: We want to use SpaceChem to teach chemistry.
Authoritarian Censors always have a boogeyman to point to that justifies their censorship

Your white supremacists boogeyman is just a over blown justification for massive dictatorial censorship of the internet in general and you tube more specifically

I have no respect for anyone that wants to hide behind this narrative in support of the wide and sweeping censorship of millions of hours of contents

//as a side not, HOA's and Zoning laws are also Authoritarian, as a libertarian and supporter of individual freedom I do not support censorship, nor HOA's nor Zoning laws
Right. An alternative might be retroactive reviews or jubilees.

Other forms of legislative garbage collection carry high costs and side effects.
One of the comments in the article was "They found that redistribution from workers to shareholders accounted for 54% of increased stock wealth."

I wonder if the same premise still applies with employee-owned companies? or does that turn the article's premise upside down?
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Data from people driving their own cars is much less relevant than data from your own autonomous driving system driving among real drivers in many different situations (eg urban driving). AFAIK, Waymo has much more of the latter.
It's interesting that Google had an issue with Pixie Dust. This makes no sense: more people should know this type of attack exists as many of not most home routers are vulnerable.
Yes. We absolutely want to turn it into a “numbers game”, we want to make rational policy decisions.
His recent article titles tell an interesting story:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/#39d03420b...

Why Climate Activists Threaten Endangered Species With Extinction

Why Fear of Nuclear Threatens National Security And World Peace

Top UCLA Doctor Denounces HBO's "Chernobyl" As Wrong And "Dangerous"

Why HBO's "Chernobyl" Gets Nuclear So Wrong

And my personal favourite:

We Shouldn't Be Surprised Renewables Make Energy Expensive Since That's Always Been The Greens' Goal

Note these aren't cherry picked these are literally his last few articles.

Ironic that he used to use the argument that environmentalists undermined their own argument with their strident tone, painting the IPCC as activists.
No it doesn't.

You make a static copy of all of the HTML, archive the systems that generated them as VM images, and then put a "this is archived static data" at the top of every page.

You also fire every executive who considers deleting documentation for technical products.
Which is why we need useful proof of work. There is no appropriate solution yet. But I know researchers are working on it.
Except Facebook can just write an algorithm to calculate it all for you, and then say "write 16.47 in box 18".

Facebook could even promise to cover all the taxes owed, which would give them an incentive to keep the currency value stable.
Is that such a terrible thing?

Sure, our perception of risk and regulatory responses are not statistically accurate. Commercial air travel is much safer than cars, yet regulatory resposnses to risk are stricter. Is that a bad thing? It creates a very safe mode of transport.

Going driverless is a new mode, and an opportunity to create a safer future. Why not set a standard that is much higher than human operated cars?

Also, a lot is unknown. We won't know what driveless' safety record is until it truly exists in the wild.

The economic pressures to go driverless will be immense^. Meanwhile, a high safety standard could require a some counterpressure, and the starting point will set the stage for the future.

^two kinds. It could be a huge win for consumers, with taxis prices halving or better. It is alsi an opportunity to "put capital to work," in a (current) market that is starved for such. A robo-taxi fleet is just the kind of thing a massive fund can erm.. fund.
If you're a top 1% driver, defensive, experienced etc., then putting yourself in an AV means assuming greater risk.

If you're in the latter group, you would be rightly horrified each time there's an AV accident.

(the "on average across the population it will be safer" doesn't mean anything for drivers who are already well above average)
About 10% of HN users are in the Bay Area.

Perceptions of ideological bias on HN are in the eye of the beholder. Opposite ideologues see opposite bias, I assure you.
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The amount of power may not be the same, but the economic formula hasn't changed from the start. Inputs to that formula are solely bitcoin price / hardware price / electricity price / other miners. Miners don't care about network throughput at all.

Is this market failure? I don't know... Bitcoin still works despite it.
There will be friction, but sftp and port tunneling - which are my most used fwatures besides plain ssh - should be possible?

I mean either you sftp to a shared folder that can be accessed from your regular user as well or you use a staging area with a cron job (or you load/unload the staging area manually.)
I initially thought 'F5 storm' refers to people typing "F" in the chat.
Looks like alt tags for accessibility purposes. Seems like a win win for all users. Easier to find photos and the ability for visually impaired users to get context on what their friends are sharing
Just deleted my youtube account.

Google, and all its employees, can go fuck themselves with a pointy stick.
Has anyone determined the exact six exercises used in the study?
This article mentions: "including push-ups, pull-ups, dips and reverse rows — while the end of the limb is braced."
But according to the trial registration, six exercises were used.

Does anyone know where to find the exact exercise regimen used in the trial?
Why is this so tricky to find?
Or a view. Most likely a controller.
This creates opportunities for niche driven video sites to show up, if they have not already.

For example "YouTube for infosec".

The web is going to go more towards specialisation as the "one place for all kinds of content of this format" model is becoming too big to handle. For various reasons, from searching, to moderation, to curation.
Rtx super graphics cards review – AnandTech
That was what I remember being the case years ago. I used to be tracking the progress of the blender project ans they where making some good progress on getting everything running on OpenCL because it works on all cards.
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During recent rains the creek’s water *rose a hundred feet*, forcing them to move their tents to the nearby lawn.

Oh, don't be stupid. Does anybody at The Guardian fact-check anymore? 100 feet is ten stories. The entirety of central San Jose would be underwater.

During the last actual flood in 2017, Coyote Creek floodstage was 9 feet, and a neighborhood flooded, at 9.9 feet (less than a foot over flood stage). Flooding ten times higher than that would require thousands of times as much water. It would be news worldwide.

Math isn't that hard.
This is silly, and a recurring theme among certain groups who understand neither history, humanity nor economic theory.

You confuse, for whatever reason, capitalism with greed and likely socialism/communism with altruism and generosity. There are plenty of companies who make their profits on/with open source.. As well, redistribution of assets may seem fair if you're part of the in group, but it seems much more like theft if you're not.
Don't be so pessimistic. There are still plenty of resources and places to discuss whatever you want.

Youtube is like that big commercial avenue in the city, where you can only see mainstream stuff. If you look for the bookstore that has hacking/engineering/pyscology books, you'll have to go elsewhere. But it has always been this way.
> Does this energy consumption come more from mining (i.e. finding the new bitcoins) or from transactions?

They're not different things. Mined blocks is how you add transactions to the chain (because bitcoin is PoW-based). The miner is rewarded as part of that process by embedding a coinbase transaction in the block, which lets them create a set number of new coins out of nowhere (as well as collecting transaction fees from the transactions they include in the block)
Not only is this nothing new as other commenters have observed, these tags have been used by screen readers and other accessibility services for awhile. While we can talk all we want about Facebook using their all seeing eyes for evil (which I agree they overstep a lot of boundaries), these tags are very useful for people who may require them and should not be scrutinized as an invasion of privacy.
well said. so many of these crippleocracy arguments are cropping up these days, with the poster virtue signalling.
That is extremely far from the case. These biases are in the eye of the beholder. People with opposite feelings about Google (or whatever the corp of the moment is) see exactly the opposite bias.
Nature quake paper accused of boosting accuracy by mixing training, testing data
As european i won't say theese are the biggest failures in marketing history, just "subjective failures in US marketing history".
This article was written probably just to generate content/clicks.
This stuff is in the HTML, you can see it with web inspector, or I think just by hovering your mouse over the image because that looks like it's in the title attribute for the image. This isn't it like something new was exposed inadvertently. I'm surprised The Verge wrote an article about this.
And a crackpot non-expert politician told you that the USA would go to the moon in under a decade. Just can’t trust people. Check out Peter Thiel’s take on this.
The Ramanujan Machine: Using algorithms to discover new mathematics
Interesting Problem: Self-Correcting Random Walks
Realistically, if you stop there you're gonna have information asymmetry problems so damaging that if you don't fix them the torches and pitchforks will come out.
> "Very inefficient" is an understatement too! I wonder how much energy Visa and Mastercard combined use to process their transactions. Mind you, they probably do orders of magnitude more transactions per second.

There's about 6 orders of magnitude difference in transaction cost. Mastercard/Visa would use ~2W.h per transaction, Bitcoin about 1MW.h.
`Colleague` in `CNLabelContactRelationColleauge` is spelled incorrectly.
And video version:
The Complicated Chinese Family Tree [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCFRoILS1jY]
ok, controversial counterpoint: maybe some number of deaths is worth it.

We all know that the fastest and most reliable way to find and fix bugs is to implement the thing in production and see what happens. As you point out, it exposes problems that testing and design just can't.

I see people here obsessing over how much will change if we had fleets of AVs. Maybe shaving five years off the wait time is worth N number of human lives. Especially if N < the number of lives will ultimately be saved if the technology is perfected years earlier.

Of course I wouldn't want myself or my loved ones to make that sacrifice. I don't want to die in a regular car accident either. Given the upside, speeding up AV development may be worth the risk?
[Wrong submission] Facebook outage in 2010
Alex Ionescu on this subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceQ6kT1ZMrk
Someone created Bitcoin.
It was a neat idea and people played with it. When the first pizza was bought with Bitcoin, I wonder how the creator felt? "Oh cool, real world use!"

Then Bitcoin bubbled. People panicked and jumped on board without researching, Bitcoin went up a bazillion %. I wonder how the creator felt? "Oh wow... Lots of people want this!"

Then the bubble burst, price went down, people got mad, but, most importantly, Bitcoin inspired others. I wonder how the creator felt? "Oh huh... This is really changing the world..."

Now, the problems are rearing their heads. Energy consumption, 51% attacks, scalability issues, etc. I wonder how the creator feels? "Oh dear..."

[ this is, of course, assuming the creator is still alive ]

It just boggles my mind that this weird internet currency exposed something so powerful in society: The intense desire for personal wealth that one truly owns.
the Analogy to me is the Google run YouTube, Andriod and Search.

Google, it is believed and supported by much anecdotal evidence and some leaked documents, that google manipulates search to remove the "undesirable" competition like Minds, Gab, Bitchute, and others. Twitter, Facebook, and other Authoritarian Censorship supporting Silicon Valley companies are unaffected

Then there is Android where google blocks apps from anyone unless the adopt a censorship policy mirroring that of Google
The topic is a survey about bullying. Turning that into a yet another internet gender flamewar is certainly an example of what that guideline asks you not to do. There's always some tangential point in an article that leads to one of the major tire fires via a hop or two. The guideline asks you to have the self-control not to be triggered by that, and avoid triggering others in turn.

HN is moderated. You can call that censorship if you like; that word is used in so many different ways that at this point it just expresses a feeling.
Agreed. I'm driving a 1.2L TSI Polo, although with 90 HP. It's a fine, well-rounded, affordable car that feels snappy enough. Plus, I think the UX is quite alright - it uses a touch screen, but primary functions are covered by physical buttons and controls.

I'm also hearing nothing but good things about Ford's 1.0L EcoBoost engines. So it's certainly not a question of volume/size alone.
Setting aside the fear factor, nuclear electricity generation is not economically viable. It never has been. Read this 2005 paper and many others from RMI. https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/RMI_Nuclear_Power...
> The HN guidance on commentary is clearly a large part of why HN hasn’t devolved into Slashdot

Well, there was kuro5hin! I think Slashdot didn't devolve, but perhaps fell off a cliff when it was sold; a strong correlation with Sourceforge. Acquisitions of communities are hard.
So that explains it!
Dumb article. It's the alt text.
> What if all these new age yogis with their sweating ways turned out to be able to perform their 100 surya namaskaras well past the age of 105, would it validate their form of yoga then? Do most people who practice the "traditional way" get to do it way past their 90s?

I don't think "validation" is the right language any more than "right" or "wrong". People do yoga for a reason - health, aesthetic, spiritual, whatever. The validation comes from whether they get out of it what they want. Someone hoping to discover the spiritual stuff the gurus write about may be better served by a practice that focuses on that instead of longevity. Just because someone's reached 100+ years old doesn't mean they've got out of it what they want (i.e. if they seek spiritual experiences but haven't had any they may still feel frustrated).
I guess the lesson is "don't build your house in someone else's land".
I think it's less about "look at these [creepy] things" and more about "hey guys, you saw all this text when Facebook broke, this is what it is." At least, that's how a lot of my non-tech friends seem to be taking it.
Nah, I just did a little manual pattern-matching on the bits looking for "ATARI" (morse code : "0110101000") and working backwards from there.
How does an electron decide where to go in the dual hole experiment?
Another day, another anti-bitcoin article on HN.
Without this "feature" it would be trivial to double-spend transactions. The entire concept of Nakamoto consensus (upon which Bitcoin security rides) relies upon provable waste of electricity to a degree that the average transaction is impossible (or at least financially unviable) to reverse within some widely accepted timespan.

And yes, this implicitly makes Bitcoin a bad idea, as well as blockchain in general.