skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a very popular service back at the hey-day of blogs and RSS readers. FeedBurner gave blog authors really great statistics and information about the feed, and they created a nice a static URL to point readers to, no matter where the blog was hosted. We didn't have a lot of that statistical information easily available back then (like how many people were subscribed) with the common blog platforms (like Moveable Type or Blogger). FeedBurner also provided a way to interject ads into the feed, since the person reading it wasn't seeing the ads on the normal site.

I believe you're quite right, it would be extremely unwise to use this tool at this point. I'm sure it will be vanquished with no warning.
I used to try taking notes on paper but I could never keep up. Now each meeting is a onenote page for the project and my todo's end up in asana for me to track, prioritize and assign. Benefits are when the meeting is over record keeping is done, as an added plus everything is searchable.
Some things like Slack and Microsoft Office show your initials and full name (space permitting) which isn’t as irritatingly faux-familiar.
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No - I believe he's at Northeastern University. It's humor - don't take it as anything but that.
This literally happened to us last week. IT upgraded the infra to 10Gbs but forgot to check the STP settings. The flood check was way too slow for 10Gbs ports. It all went down exactly like the story said.
Guile Emacs, last I checked, was basically working fine. I don't even remember what the open issues were, because I never encountered any.
#1 is interesting. Someone can have a dupe card sent to you and steal your mail. And the bank won't reverse the charge. That seems like "chip fraud" of a sort. Allowing the banks not to be liable for fraud on "chip cards" seems like a mistake.
He also wrote a chapter in the unix haters handbook.
This is spot on. I'm working on a blog post about a superset of this: the product IS the go-to-market. Messaging, sales/marketing strategy, pricing are just as much The Product as any feature.

Ideally you maximize value/experience for users while you figure out how to get execs to buy your thing, but the sad state of most B2B software is a testament to how insanely hard it is to be good at both.
I have seen Urbit a couple times but never really understood it. From the "Understanding Urbit" page -

>Imagine that you can login from anywhere with one name and password.

>And when you do, your entire OS appears.

>Inside is your whole digital life. All of your communities, conversations, and connections. All of your biometric data and devices. Your entire personal archive in one place that’s secure, private, and designed to last forever.

What does this mean? My whole digital life? It sounds like I'm signing in to a VPS from which I access all of my digital life. Is that it? Do I get a VPS?

That seems kind of like what I'm getting. The first line on urbit.org is "Urbit is your last computer" - but I don't see how I'm buying a computer, for a one time fee, for life, without paying a ton of money.

I see this website [1] has an Urbit "Planet" available for .04 ETH, or about 6 USD. Could I get a life long VPS for 6 dollars? If so, I'd definitely be up for it. If not, what, exactly am I getting for 6 dollars?

The page "Understanding Urbit" also says that Urbit OS "can never show you ads". What does that even mean? It can't run Chrome? The OS can't show ads? Any image or text can be an ad. I don't get it.

What I would like to see is a simple explanation of what Urbit is. Maybe a video, where someone logs in to Urbit, and interacts with it in someway, doing something that can't easily be done in some other way. I'd like to know the difference between planets, stars, and galaxies.

There has to be a better way to explain this.

1 - https://opensea.io/assets/0x6ac07b7c4601b5ce11de8dfe6335b871...
All of the complexities were because he wanted to capture screenshots, not for streaming netflix
Not OP, but I think the point here is that very few end users have a say in the tools they use. You sell the big company on your software, one or a few elites like it, and they buy thousands of licenses for all of their employees.
Reminds me a lot of simpleanalytics, but foss and self hosted. Very cool
Original NT contained an OS/2 subsystem layer too, like WSL today. It allowed running of OS/2 1.x apps.
All right, fine. I will.

I think the flag link has been disabled for my account. If you re-enable it that would be helpful in dealing with this problem.

People are rude to me all the time on HN. And the rules of HN expect me to be civil in the face of a culture that is uncivil. If you would like me to help you promote the guidelines it would be helpful if you allow me to flag others as well instead of responding in kind.
I was mistaken and had opioid lumped in with opiate.
I think the bigger point in the article is that most people including .org holders don't even know the sale is happening.
> video game art is often beautiful, cool and interesting to look at.

Is a great reason to buy art. Period.

However....

> Which makes it an attractive proposition for value collectors.

Is not a good reason to buy art. It's not really a good reason to buy anything without intrinsic value, because art's value cannot be quantified. It is subjective. Art's value is subject to the price someone is willing to pay for it. There's no real scarcity. You could say, "Original art, from the artist is scarce." Okay, yes, but that is not the value in art. The value in art is the aesthetic feeling in art. It's the reason to buy art.

Buying art to make money, cheapens art. It jeopardizes the very institution of art, because the purpose of art is to evoke feelings, not make money and we should reward art that evokes feelings, specifically aesthetic feelings in order to promote the creation of that kind of art.

That's what art is about. Art is about emotions and thoughts and awareness. Not dollars. That's the opposite of what art is about. That's what ad creative is about. That's what marketing spreads are about -- not art for your wall.
So you're going to have a nurse practitioner look after your kids rather than a pediatrician (based on some corporate hospital sponsored BS research)? Good luck with that.

The problem with this line of thought is sometimes patients arrive that look like they have routine conditions (ear infection) which turn out to be not so routine (otitis media with encephalitis or a nasopharyngeal carcinoma). Or do you think NPs know a lot about sub-speciality presentations based on their two years of training?

People forget that physicians are the actual expertise in the hospital (there's a reason its 4 years med school plus a residency plus fellowships).
it has to get its data from somewhere...
It did nothing for me either. A vaguely pleasant noise. But he won a Grammy and has a bazillion subscribers, so obviously there’s an appeal there for people who are not you or I.

There’s people who love living in Northern places who will rhapsodize endlessly about the joys of winter and snow and being all cozy and shit, I think they’re crazy but I’m glad they exist so they don’t all try to live in the places I like. Same thing. It ain’t for you, me, or the author of this post about it, and that’s fine.
Perhaps. But I'd argue they lost more. That is, next time, many of those people will go elsewhere first and then Costco as a last choice option.
I think there are certainly issues with ML in radiology (i.e. lots of publications of low power studies or overfit models validated incorrectly), but I agree with you that Marcus was being unfair. It is principle a straightforward problem to solve with deep learning. The reason biggest reasons "no actual radiologists have been replaced" are probably just political/social. Hinton cannot be blamed for those hurdles.
I was pleasantly surprised that Ars re-ran this story. It was one of my favorites to write. Also probably the most popular single article I ever did.
It is way easier to ddos a website today than back in the 2000s. Back in 2000, you could block almost every ddos simply by having gigabit. Now there are millions of more exploitable devices.

Do a search, https://www.google.com/search?q=stresser

An attack that can cripple all but the largest networks can be had for $5-10.
Stole? You need to read about Windows 95’s development history.
Now I see why microsoft is building so many Nordic data centers.
Minor nitpick: in the US, it’s two of the big parties, and a few of the small parties (so not 2-3 total). Last time (2016), there was the Libertarian Party and the Green Party on the ballot.
It has gotten better in 20 years (that's way too long to retain judgement on transportation). Not a ton better, but since most of these companies aren't moving to Dallas proper, it's moot anyways.
ARC is just reference counting, as there's nothing in reference counting that requires a runtime to do this for you (that is, just because the compiler inserts increments/decrements doesn't make it an entirely different thing).

The reason reference counting is not more common is because of its performance. Naive reference counting works in some cases (e.g. when the counts are not modified often), but doesn't work too well for most programming languages, as the reference counts will be modified frequently.

Deferred and coalesced reference counting are two techniques of improving performance, but they come at a cost: they are quite complex to implement, and require additional memory to keep track of what/when to increment/decrement. You will also end up facing similar nondeterministic behaviour and pauses, as an optimised RC collector may still need to pause the program to scan for cycles. You can handle cycles by supporting weak and strong references, but this puts the burden on the developer, and it's not always clear if cycles may appear when writing code.

Combining this with a good allocator you can achieve performance that is on par with a tracing collector (http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~steveb/pubs/papers/rcix-oopsla...), but it's not easy. If you are going down the path of implementing a complex collector, I think you're better off focusing on a real-time or concurrent collector.
Yeah, even the UX of creating a new image from clipboard with the canvas at the right dimensions. Or entering and exiting a selection. In Photoshop, Ctrl+D simply deselects my selection. In GIMP, I have to jump through hoops. Need to select a tool to transform, Ctrl+T just doesn't do it.

In fact Ctrl+D duplicating the current buffer instead of deselecting is the worst UX I have come across.
Evil empire cannot stop its crime against humanity. This is it site but that meant once again like biotech, they have a large dB to test to learn and to win. Sad isn’t it.
Companies move. HQ move all the time. This is a leverage that corporations employ to maximize tax gains all the time. Don't know why it always makes some sort of headline. Schwab and its leadership has been saying how they hate California for a long time. So not surprising. And any HQ move out of CA is often dressed as a political success story of a low tax state. Weirdly, I would never see a story that says "$1 trillion worth of new wealth created in CA, zero in Texas". I mean, this last year alone, with IPOs of Uber, Lyft, Pinterest, Slack etc. we probably had $200bn worth of wealth generated. Now taking into account the stock price inflation of Google, Apple, Facebook over the last decade, and not to forget Tesla, Netflix, Nvidia etc. Nobody ever uses those gains to comment on why a high tax state was able to generate this much new business and wealth. Over the last decade, CA companies have generated 50% of all VC capital in the US and Texas companies have generated <5%.
But then it bursts people’s political and opinion bubbles, which is something Facebook might not want.

Keeping people in bubbles is how Facebook keeps people browsing and wasting their time on Facebook. Because people like their bubbles.
I’m bad at this, sometimes I struggle to convince myself I know how to try “hard” at something. Usually I just try to “try” at something hard enough that I get frustrated enough to quit or palpably get something done.
I’m fascinated by the markets of Huaqiangbei (Shenzhen) although my only exposure have been through the YouTube channel Strange Parts. The enormity of the market is shocking and I cannot think of a better place for hardware innovation.

It’s somewhere I’d really like to travel one of these days.
The connection is more clear in this sub-link imo:
https://www.gnu.org/software/network/

It links to a Savannah page that links to gnunet.org
I'm sure it wasn't an accident, but I think it was just meant to be a convenient association with it having an inhibitory effect.

At least it's not as overloaded as SAD.
This thread brings back the memories - I was an editor at a Ziff-Davis computer magazine back in the day.

Looking back on all this, the only lasting legacy I can identify is the linux windows emulation layer (wine), which exists only because Microsoft was required to make the Windows API public so it could be used by OS/2.

Given the difficulty of getting an ancient version of Windows running on currently available hardware, linux/wine is now the only practical way to run a lot of old Microsoft Windows application software. If it weren't for wine (which was made possible by OS/2), that application software would be unusable.
California companies capture >50% of VC investment. So, there are big headline moves, but the underlying truth is California destroys every other state when it comes to growth
This qualifies for Sci-Fi I think
Here is the Nature article with a link to the study in the footnotes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w

This blog post has commentary on the study. If you are interested in the topic, consider suspending disbelief until after reading the post. It does a great job of clarifying what the evidence actually shows, and outlines one way to contextualize this intervention.

http://haidut.me/?p=546
The satellite is in L2. More details in https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05231-9
Whenever the topic of garbage collection comes up, I am reminded of the following excellent reference, https://www.memorymanagement.org/ which puts various different garbage collection (and memory management) techniques into a wider context. It perhaps doesn’t explain some of the newer tricks (eg using overlapping memory mappings to put the colour bits into the high(ish) bits of pointers and get a hardware write barrier only when necessary without needing to move lots of objects and have forwarding pointers).

The reference is provided by Ravenbrook, a consulting company formed from the ashes of Harlequin (who made lispworks, a CL implementation and IDE; MLWorks, the same for SML; and ScriptWorks, a postscript rasteriser which made them all their money). I don’t know when the reference was created.
> increment of a pointer (and that is atomic, so no thread locking needed).

Nitpick (and mostly for others reading): incrementing the address of a pointer if done locally (as in, using a local variable of sorts) may be atomic, but storing the updated pointer somewhere may not. If a bump allocator wants to support concurrent allocations, it should make sure to use the right atomic operations (typically this just a compare-and-swap of the old pointer with the locally incremented one).
> The golden dataset everyone wants is the org chart. Who reports to whom. Who is new. Who has been at the company for a while. Find a way to get this data and sell it to companies. I suspect you’ll have many takers.

Please don’t. Please. Really. Please don’t. Training my users to fend off social engineering attacks is hard enough as is. Please don’t use your talents in this way.
"He lays out two such rules in his new book, Loserthink. His first proposal, which he calls the “48-hour rule,” states that everyone should be given a grace period of a couple of days to retract any controversial statement they’ve made, no questions asked. [...] His other idea is the “20-year rule,” which states that everyone should be automatically forgiven for any mistakes they made more than two decades ago—with the exception of certain serious crimes."
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Ask HN: How to get started with game development?
I am decent programmer who always wanted to learn how to develop games, but never actually got to it. Recently I decided to dedicate a bit less on my career and more on stuff I like, thus I want to learn all there is to create a game on my own as a hobby.

What are good resources to start this journey?
Yes, I'm sure you would have noted:

1) That point is written very clearly just below the graph by the author.

2) It doesn't fundamentally change the argument. The rate of increase in the number of administrators has significantly outpaced the increase in physician numbers as costs have increased.
Are there any self-taught type of classes that utilize Wikipedia for say history?
This is basic B2B sales....
Interesting! The form of the solution can be written conveniently in base 3.
An AI winter will not happen. We are past the point of no return. The vast majority of research is net positive research.

The only risk is misappropriation of investment, but that has already been smoothed over quickly.

I’d get the complaint if AI was not doing anything useful as it wasn’t in ‘74, but it simply is.

For example, plate recognition, drones and facial recognition. These are brutally efficient technologies. To imagine any government under investing in these is a total misunderstanding of the value that AI brings to military, security, and economic dominance.

It’s a race between nations and the only danger is the computers taking over (not in a general AI way, but in a way that everything is run by algorithms no human can understand)
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Well, I had only little time to dig further but I can confirm your findings that OpenVPN alone behaves as it should while the NordVPN client acts differently. However, wireshark says I am only communicating with the NordVPN server when connected through their client. I would love to know where the difference in configuration is. I always assumed NordVPN would just call OpenVPN with the public ovpn configs. They call the OpenVPN client with a config that is shortly deleted after OpenVPN starts but can be extracted when swapping the openvpn binary. It looks unsuspicious. A management unix socket is opened to control the OpenVPN client. I would like to know how the communication is configured.
Did ISOC leave $1B on the table?
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Can you post a link to your blog ?
People leave every state. CA population is actually growing and added over 2mn in the last decade
Without it, someone will ask for confirmation that "our" really means "our", and someone else will complain about the lack of a disclaimer.
> In Urbit OS 1, a community shares a set of modules. (Think of a module like an app without the data lock-in.) One community may choose to chat and share a forum. Another may choose to chat and watch the crypto markets. And yet another may chat, share links, ebooks, and a to-do list. Anyone can develop a module, and anyone can create a community.

Sounds awesome, in theory. Website had nothing I could find describing what has been built, instead of what theoretically could be built by other people on their platform.

To paraphrase Steve Yegge's platform rant, Facebook had an awesome platform, but that wasn't worth shit without the killer app they had from day: one Facebook the website.

If I signed up for Urbit today, would I get the "ability to create" applications or would I get applications? This is supposed to replace my computer. Can it run Firefox? Microsoft Word?
it also could cause more wind damage...
Unlike Common Lisp, clojure is easier to use due to its library and more modern environments. Still cannot compete with python if you just hack a small program in iOS using pythonista. Did hack to run a script in the iOS clojure. Just not easy. And no doc.
This isn't documented anywhere I can find, but I think it should also be possible to flash the firmware from a 64-bit Ubuntu distribution. Afaik, the vcgencmd it needs is available is closed-source and only available as 32-bit binaries that also need some 32-bit shared libraries. Also, the Ubuntu PPA [1] that someone created only goes up to bionic, and I'm running the latest release, eoan. Still, with multiarch support, [2] this seems to create a working vcgencmd:

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-raspi2/ppa
$ sudo perl -pi -e 's/eoan/bionic' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-raspi2-ubuntu-ppa-eoan.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install libraspberrypi-bin:armhf

and from there it looks like you can get the firmware updater stuff to run:

$ git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom
$ cd rpi-eeprom
$ cat > from-ubuntu <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
export FIRMWARE_ROOT=$(pwd)/firmware
export FIRMWARE_RELEASE_STATUS=beta
export VCMAILBOX=/usr/bin/vcmailbox
mkdir backup
export FIRMWARE_BACKUP_DIR=$(pwd)/backup
export BOOTFS=/boot/firmware

# Seems to want the vl805 executable from within $FIRMWARE_ROOT to be in the
# path.
export PATH=$FIRMWARE_ROOT:$PATH

. $(pwd)/rpi-eeprom-update "$@"
EOF
$ sudo ./from-ubuntu -a
*** INSTALLING EEPROM UPDATES ***
BOOTLOADER: update required
CURRENT: Fri May 10 18:40:36 UTC 2019 (1557513636)
LATEST: Mon Nov 18 11:06:55 UTC 2019 (1574075215)
VL805: update required
CURRENT: 00013701
LATEST: 000137ab
EEPROM updates pending. Please reboot to apply the update.

When I reboot, I see the firmware update has actually taken.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO
Some early Amateur Radio satellites (Project OSCAR) literally did use silver-plated steel tape measures.

http://www.rfcafe.com/references/popular-electronics/oscar-3...
> The Ziff-Davis magazines were pay-to-play in editorial content and they plugged Microsoft as being the better choice all the time. And pre-Internet they were a big source of information.

Any comment on this? (from a reply below)
Does anyone know what it’s tech stack is or whether it was architected/designed well enough to build off of? It’s a cool project but it has been running a long time
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More muscles are correlated with lower incidence of cancer (and inflammation), so that goes against strength preference being a reason of aging.
Yeah Scotty at Strange Parts has shown some amazing things. There are other YouTube channels too that show some of the manufacturing in Shenzhen.

Although many of the people of these channels seemed to have left China due to the big surge is anti-western feelings (either real or made-up).
If the main leverage is oil more than export markets, it would be awesome they can tangle some sort of big environmental deal with the EU to up their negotiating position.

Putting aside the realpolitik, after the west completely bungled the post-soviet transition just about everywhere else in a fit of market-worshiping obliviousness, I'd say they owe it.
The thesis seems to “build enterprise software” because those people have a budget.

I enjoy reading people’s startup ideas. But this is a pretty uninspired list - (“Better Google Groups”, “Better Zendesk”, etc) There are thousands of solutions to these problems out there.

Not sure what makes them more ripe for a startup then bill splitting or pizza.
Fascinating. It sounds like they believe this is a part of a normal ocean pattern. I wonder what effect climate change will have on wind speed.
And having everything firing at once is a seizure. But somewhere between that and normal is unclear.

It's also possible the association is in the other direction - people with neurons that fire less might be less stressed in general (almost by definition), and maybe the effect of stress on longevity takes place elsewhere entirely.
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