skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A major reason why engineering teams at these sorts of companies grow so large is because of how quickly the business operates and the company's rate of growth. These factors put the engineering team in a position where they're constantly having to choose the faster, easier option in the present despite the fact that it will produce a lot more work for the team in future. When the future rolls around they're still under the same constraints so they hire more people to deal with the problems caused by their past decisions while making the same kinds of decisions in the present. Rinse and repeat for several years as the company grows into a behemoth before going public.

One interesting thing to note is that as these constraints relax (business stabilizes, growth slows) the engineering teams can make better decisions in the present, clean up the decisions of the past, and reduce their overall need for people. If the company has built a money-printing machine the redundant people are then moved to new lines of business funded by the money-printer. If there's no money-printing happening, margins are super thin, and there's an incentive for the company to cut costs... where do those people go?
Huh, for a while I've been wanting almost exactly this. I simulate it on Twitter by using a lot of (private) lists and sometimes navigating to single users, but that's clunky.
I don't think it is a finished product, hence only a landing page and the fact it's "early access".
The network uses an AI model which takes blockchain-linked data ingested through a big data network in the cloud, and then uses an IoT device inserted into the viewer's mind (think Neuralink) to determine whether or not the viewer finds the feet provocative.

The algorithm used is known as DOFFAA (Degree Of Foot Fetishization Analysis Algorithm).
US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase
A few years ago, an ST rep told me they were making one million STM32 per day (microcontroller class), and I can only assume that that's increased since then.

My impression is that the Cortex-Ms are popular because of the price, the rich sets of peripherals they tend to come with, and not least because they come with a proven, performant C compiler. I don't think it's impossible that a RISC-V core could make some dents in this markey fairly quickly, especially if Nvidia make the future of the platform look uncertain.
Dustin is also notable for starting Good Ventures (https://www.goodventures.org/about-us) which funds a lot of research and philanthropy into some great causes.
Yeah but this one is an all-in-one
notebook for creatives!
Github Docker Registry is a mess and should be avoided at all costs.

1) It is broken and unusable on Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.

2) It is flaky often returning 500 type errors.

3) It is expensive as the amount of pull bandwidth is very limited.
The problem is how you think, and all frameworks is the same, they try to visualize the tree structure. The key to understanding async is to think of functions and state propagation.
The direct ZPL deprecation was dumb. Thankfully Shippo fixes that already.

Shipping is real, and the more carriers you can support seamlessly the better.
I wish https://sdlang.org/ had more widespread use. IMO it’s the perfect mix of native types, terse syntax, and no surprises like functions in config, or significant white space, etc.
Seems to be working fine for Elon, Miyoshi Son & gang.
People play the game according to the rules they're given. In the early days when HN was more caustic, you got more points by reading the articles and posting accurate facts. But in the dang era where comments are required to be nice and calling people out is discouraged, you get more points by rushing to post something plausible-sounding and vaguely related to the headline. So people do that instead, unsurprisingly.
Same could be said about Democracy, freedom, peace, safety, equality, ... so suffice to say, I disagree.
Oh, I just see if they comment on things that are obviously revealed by the article. I don't think there's any real difference to me whether someone reads the article and then posts a statement trivially answered by the article and whether they don't read the article.
Given very similar issues with low information or misinformation voters, I am not convinced it's due to HN being a BBS with points.
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Ask HN: Clever optimizations in old video games?
Does anybody know any interesting or creative stories about how old time games (NES, game boy) were optimized to be able to fit as much content as they did?
It's my friend's. https://www.overmod.org
> We don’t need a GC because RC

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I understand what he means. He’s sorted alphabetically by author. Then has two categories. He probably doesn’t want to compare books beyond that. Their either okay, great, or his absolute favourite.
I don't want to read a novel before being able to understand what this is about. At least the article could provide a quick glimpse at what the fraud scheme is.

I kept reading for 5-6 minutes and then lost interest.
Not as far as I know, but he's really big on the "increase SNR" thing so I could ask him to write it.
If you tour Muir Woods, many redwoods feature fire damage from fires ages ago.
Show HN: Todo app that shows only one task
As a Texan, I can tell you that's exactly why that saying exists in the first place.

I'm only half joking...

https://www.aiadallas.org/v/columns-detail/Everything-Is-Big...
This is part of why it bemuses me to see web developers cling so hard to using HTML/CSS beyond the browser. I'd much sooner tangle with a proper UI SDK designed from the start to support applications than fight with a layout/painting engine that relies on a document model. The sheer inability of CSS to handle dynamic heights should be frustration enough for anyone.
NRK Beta, the tech lab of the Norwegian broadcasting corporation, make you take a quiz about the article before you are allowed to comment.

I really like that idea.
When i first joined my cycling club, i was dead last every ride. Even then i used to say "i'm faster than all the blokes who were too lazy to get out of bed". Slowly i got a bit better. Reminding my self of that was a great motivator.
Agree. Please, dang.
less is a program, why can’t you use it from nu?
Note - an L-39 is not a MiG - it was designed in Czechoslovakia by Aero Vodochody. A small point, but these kind of large errors in articles I'm supposed to be taking seriosly drive me crazy.
Thanks for the feedback. Considering having something in the browser for use on desktop & laptops too. Would that work for you?
People are lazy. Our entire economy if based on this fact.
Werner Von Braun was an actual nazi. He was also a great scientist. The world is just complicated sometimes.

The idea that all his science funding was an elaborate ruse to insulate himself from prosecution is just not a very well grounded view. His chosen method of insulation was terribly inefficient with respect to time and money. He would have gotten a much better ROI by investing in politicians directly, the fact that he chose to focus more on science than politics makes it pretty clear that he had a genuine interest/passion for it.

I don't see why he can't like science for its own sake and be a child abuser. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
You can literally go on Amazon right now and buy imitation gold foil for 1/10th the price of “real” gold foil and the only reason it’s 1/10th the price is because most of the “real” gold foil is also imitation and not food safe and all the reviews warn you it’s impossible to tell the difference without a chemistry test.
My guess it doesn't use fork, apart from spawning subprocesses use fork/exec combinations. The old fork idiom isn't exposed by Rusts standard libraries and also wouldn't be "safe" to use, since the basic expecatations of the language about how many things have access to a certain variable wouldn't hold up anymore.
The discussion is about python and the comment you’re replying to specifically (and largely incorrectly) trying to contrast lua’s require with python’s import?
Modula-2 also has native co-routines and was how Lilith did multi-tasking.

How Ada tasks work depend on the runtime configuration, one of them is just like co-routines.

Using the dot for pointer access is a common feature in the Algol linage of systems programming languages, including Modula-3, Oberon and its descendents, Component Pascal, Active Oberon.

Burroughs with ESPOL/NEWP is known for being the first OS written without any Assembly back in 1961, given that all CPU instructions were exposed as compiler intrisics.

So not all those features were BLISS only. :)
60 feet of snow is about 18 meters and one banana.
Your point that fisa courts, which are considered an unnecessary western luxury in the Chinese system and have restricted usage in the USA system somehow make the American system as bad as China? And then you mention PRISM, a system that takes and stores photographs of passports (for all I can find on the web, you don’t bother to provide your own links), as somehow worse or as worse as the Chinese system?

No, you are just incorrect here. You can’t really compare a country that doesn’t even subscribe to the ideal of rule of law as being somehow equivalent to one that does and has actual enshrined rights and an independent judiciary to back them up. Yes, the USA could be a lot better, but it doesn’t have much in common with a characteristically illiberal system.
Very interesting. This feels like a fusion of my favorite tools: OneNote and Todoist. The command line is a great feature - Todoist executes on it well, also the Outlook app but on macOS only for some reason.

This appears to solve a major gripe with OneNote: it is really hard to style and get things looking like I want them to. It also lacks formatted code display - the whole Office suite is surprisingly very behind here. It’s a shame, since I know at least in the past MS used word for their internal technical documentation, so they should be feeling this pain daily.

The competition is fierce, but the offering appears strong enough to overcome my “it’s just another note taking app, haven’t they heard of OneNote” instinct. As a user I’m hoping that OneNote and Doist will pull an Instagram and copy some or all of these features.

I love using software that inspires me with its design.
Unfortunately (?) for him, I only know him as the media-targeted spokesperson for VR in the Wired/Mondo2000 heyday before the dot-com bust. VR helmets and power-gloves were the future. Until they weren't.

Until they were again.

The fading of VR twenty years ago has made me a rather staunch skeptic of this new craze for VR.

Or has it too faded again already?
What are you even arguing???

Yes, everyone knows that.

It was horrible.

But that doesn't tell us whether he had one motivation or two motivations in donating the way he did.

I could understand if you were saying "we should focus on his horrific crimes, and not care about what his motivation was in donating". But that can't be it, because you've also been posting in-depth about what his motivation was in donating.

So why are you making this post? I really hope it's not that you're trying to make it so awkward to respond that you 'win' the argument. But I can't think of any other non-hypocritical motivation.
The insurance frauds were not really wild, just run of the mill kind, insure for more than you paid for it, crash it and claim damages. The wild element was the guy pursuing them.
You don’t need to read anything. Just parse the headline and comment with some tangential personal anecdote or a vaguely provocative statement about the likely conclusion of the text.
Thats because an awful lot of people are chewing ice.

(epistemic status: I am 100% projecting here. Maybe I'm broadly right though)

A person with an iron deficiency, will often have an urge to chew ice [1]. Ice does not have iron or help you absorb iron -- but brains are weird.

There are an awful lot of people who are lonely and want the sort of emotional and intellectual connection that they'd normally get comes from sitting by a fireside doing chores for hours. It takes effort and vulnerability to make friends with whom you can have 2-hours-long chats. It requires planning and intentionally-directing attention to maintain those relationships. Those who fail to plan and execute those actions will reach out in weird ways to try to meet that need. These will disproportionately be people who:

A. Struggle to sustain attention long enough to plan and execute what they really intend.

B. Fear that interactions with new people will end up with them assaulted, infected, or dead.

C. Feel trapped in some situation and unable to plan a way out.

D. Struggle to form an intellectual connection during opportunities for deep social interaction.

E. Have been in a situation where A-D was true and are falling into old habits.

I posit that the intellectual masturbation of people on twitter or other forums is a symptom of an unmet hunger for real intellectual connection with other humans.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/iron-deficien...
it's very individual and you may not find a "recovery template". Personally, I find that best remedies are 1) attaching yourself to a bigger goal, where even "at least I tried" and "at least I've advanced X area by a few steps" are fulfilling narratives. 2) finding something no matter how small, where you excel. Hobbies are great. Maybe your startup is a mess, but your bird dog yoga pose is pure perfection.
(1) helps deal with the shocks of failures and (2) helps refill your confidence tank to try at the problem one more time.
I'm not saying they were completely disconnected. What i'm saying is that he very clearly had a legitimate interest/passion for science. He could have acquired power and influence in much more efficient ways than funding the MIT media lab, but he chose the things he did because he liked them.

I think people here don't want to believe he legitimately liked science because they think of that as a "good" trait, and they don't want a "bad" person to have any "good" traits. And I think that way of viewing the world ends up doing more harm than good.
Makes sense they're going for the IPO at the start of the work from home era. Asana has been around awhile and my team always used it for remote team communication and project management. We never saw the need for apps like Slack or Basecamp because working with the tool is very similar to the Getting Things Done system (or Toodledo).
I really wish more languages had better handling for binary, such as in Erlang. I'm working on an implementation of a rather old networking protocol where frames are very bit oriented and writing code to to read and write individual bits feels so tedious.
Nothing against Journal in particular, but I'd happily bet a lot of money that it's going to be a subscription. 10$/month, or 100$/year, or something like that.

You should growing ARR to investors, they give you money, you grow the company, hire people, etc etc etc

Problem with note-taking: I mostly use notes. If I weren't too lazy I'd use vim or something like that.

I hate that everything is supposed to be a startup business with recurring revenue.
How to Write in Plain English
Well, yes/no. There are different ways to configure the kernel, and some distros/userlands require specific kernel features which may or may not be default. Your general point is still true, though.

They are different enough that some of the work is split, however there's significant code sharing in things like device drivers and the like.

Ultimately each being very different is usually seen as a positive. While the <n> Linux distros are spending significant hours optimizing essentially the same userland for minor differences in use cases, the different BSDs have very different goals and results. OpenBSD has an emphasis on making a lean and consistent base system with comprehensive documentation, NetBSD has excellent tooling for cross-compiling, and a comparatively more modular kernel that lends itself to experiments like rump-kernels. I'm less familiar with FreeBSD but it's tended to emphasize features like ZFS and its own robust container solution.

In some cases these features are contradictory, as OpenBSD would be (I imagine) very reluctant to merge NetBSD's in-kernel Lua module support, or NetBSD's multithreaded "high performance" implementation of the firewall pf, "npf", in favor of its own much simpler and more secure pf. OTOH NetBSD has a stronger emphasis on backwards compatibility which somewhat limits their ability to make broad changes to the userland as OpenBSD has. Then, one is much more likely to be able to run old NetBSD binaries on new kernels. :)

Each has its pros/cons, and attracts its own users and developers. The distinguishing thing about *BSDs is the base userland and kernel are deeply intertwined, giving each more freedom to deeply tie userland tools to special kernel functionality. There are pros and cons to this too, but this means that, for example, one can use "ifconfig" to connect to WPA2 WiFi networks on OpenBSD with no other tools required, as the ifconfig userland is always released alongside a matching kernel. The various net-util packages shipped for linux have suffered from having to operate as "external" tools interfacing with a range of kernel versions. (of course, now the situation is better with ip/iw, but it sure took long enough)
I believe both forms have similar effects but MK7 stays active in the body much longer.

MK4 is the common one in lots of things. MK7 is the form found in quantity in nattō which is not commonly consumed outside Japan. It can be supplemented.
Me too. I think maybe they forgot that "notebook" also has a hardware connotation.
Building a Blog with 11ty and Wordpress
Comments up thread note that lua will do the exact same thing, Perl used to do it as well (now changed).

Ruby apparently does not though (the internet shows many asking how to do it). Good for them.
World’s first Covid reinfection case confirmed in University of Hong Kong study
The ability to have people on it who don't have the time or background to read tutorials on Digital Ocean?
Monetary Policy Gone Wild: A Lost Generation of US Growth?
The high Court is the supreme court in Denmark so the difference is only in the name.
The trend is within the next year that at least in major metropolitan areas, wireless 5G providers will compete for home Internet. It's a dumb way to solve the problem, that becomes the smart way to solve it once the regulatory/protective measures around the last mile overwhelm the other inefficiencies.
I agree, with the caveat: publically-funded research.
TL;DR: Apple is prevented from revoking Epic’s developer credentials, as they have threatened to do, at least until this plays out in court. Fortnite is still off the App Store for the duration. A schedule is outline for next steps in the legal case.
You can already authorize an arbitrary third party Android app to act as an app store, the only thing stopping you is your own decision making. Can't do that with iOS. You can even build your own AOSP device from scratch if you feel like, and it would be completely compatible with everything in the Android ecosystem (assuming you did a good job). If one party is making an effort to support open software lifecycles, while another is actively trying to inhibit them, isn't it the government's job to step in and correct? If not, why do we even put up with government in the first place?
> Please elaborate, and include details of how those ways don't involve currying favor (using money and other things) with highly influential people and the institutions they are associated with.

Invest in local politicians by making dinners, hosting parties, etc..and slowly work your way up the stack. It's true that Epstein did some of this, but from a pure power perspective, he would have gotten better returns by allocating his science money/time towards politicians directly.

> The dimensions of people's lives are not as independent as you suggest which is why we have the concept of the conflict of interest.

To be clear, i'm not suggesting that acquiring power/insulation was not one of the purposes of his science funding. What I am saying is that I don't think it was his sole motivation, and that describing it that way seems to me like an over-simplification designed to other him, so that we can all feel like he's completely unlike us. People on HN like science and technology, which means he shares something in common with us, and I think that makes people uncomfortable, so they want to deny it.
Salesforce, Amgen and Honeywell added to Dow in major shake-up to the average
E. M. Forster in The Machine Stops also covers the idea of primary vs secondary research.

"First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation."
Redwoods are adapted to fire, yes, but surely there's some limit to how much they can take. Thankfully it seems this event may have been below that limit.
The amount of times I've solved something no one else could, just because I went the extra check of looking up the manufacturers documentation when the companies fell short...
I don’t think it was a mistake per se, it was part of their growth strategy. Their biggest problem is that they never really managed to capitalize on the market (and kubernetes happened), so now their plan B is to effectively reduce costs of docker hub or get some money out of the people using it.

Completely understandable imho.
This can be seen as a "sped up" version of subtraction, since a%b = a-bk = a-b-b-...-b for some k.

If you were doing it by hand you would always take (the larger)%(the smaller). You use modulo-then-swap instead, which is interesting. If a<b, then the modulo is wasted, but the swap ensures the next modulo won't be.
There is of course much they cannot talk about because it is classified, but they release a report each year the one up to 2018 are available in English here https://www.tet.dk/redegorelser/?lang=en
Well, that only happens if Apple is deemed a monopoly. A non-monopoly can do whatever it wants with its store. It will take years for anything to happen, look how long it took Microsoft back in the 90s.
It's my understanding that ZFS is backwards compatible forever; old pools are on old versions or have fewer feature flags, but they can still be used without issue.
It won't be cheap enough for a couple of years, I think, but agreed. Tech solving thorny political problems is always my favorite.
> Rule of thumb: the more steps you get away from the primary source the more corrupted everything gets.

I had to have a conversation with my wife over this yesterday. She ran into the office in tears because opposing protestors were standing off with guns as if it was the American revolution.

The reality of the situation is a couple people had paintball guns but that’s not what she saw.

What she had seen was a tweet about a tweet referencing another tweet that in turn referenced a video.

While I know this example is extreme, it really opened my eyes to just how far we have come.
It’s a standard quality measurement tactic in Internet based surveys. In the list of survey questions, you post a few question which have clear black or white answers. The answers from the survey takers will let you know to further investigate the the survey response. You can then decide to take actions accordingly. Most of the times, you discard.
This is everywhere. I have to deal with lots of jokers at work, who just suggest to use GPT-3 without understanding what it is :)
That "Epstein abused women" was not an accurate description of his behavior. I think I was plenty clear.
Epstein is not a great scientist. In fact, he's not a scientist at all.
Hotel renovations are on the rise too, according to my landlords who are interior decorators.