skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That I can outpace the cursor on a windows desktop in word 365 on a 30 page document and need to stop for a good second for it to catch up with nothing else open on a 8 gb, 4 core, 3GHz machine is so outrageous I don't know how anyone still uses Windows.

Computers have gotten so unoptimized for people that a machine from the 80s has better capabilities for the average office worker than one used today. The only reason why we don't use WordPerfect 3.0 is because Microsoft has managed to force planned obsolescence on software and hardware for 30 years for no reason other than they can.
I have three friends who all have or have had hppd. I find this lax attitude of psilocybin worrying especially when nobody seems to warn about the dangers of hppd.

One friend of mine had it for 6months and was lucky that it passed away, the two others are in a living hell and will never have a normal life again.

I know its supposed to be rare, but the amount of people i read of having some form of it is too many for me to believe that there are a hidden majority of users that has gotten it and wont report for various reasons.
I'm still wondering what makes it a fundamentally different problem ?
Once you're able to have your computer translate instructions from one arch to another, what prevents you from running a whole suite of operating system binaries ?
Apple is reportedly moving iPad production out of China for the first time ever
Cellular data? just connect your phone to your own VPN (like a RaspPi) and sniff there
Where is your tent city
On the confidentiality angle, I'll also add: space is very transparent if you have means to look at it. So if ground control says, "Fire the thrusters for 174 seconds", even over undecipherable one-time pad encryption, every nation with any kind of interest in space would see (or otherwise learn about) that particular spacecraft firing its thrusters for 174 seconds at a particular time. That's true even with military payloads where they try to keep things secret; with scientific missions, trajectories are openly shared anyway.
I checked (as MS365 admin) and it's not enabled for us.

I don't know if that's the default for Europe, for everyone, or if Microsoft intend to enable it themselves later.
The reason I chose those games as examples is because those are all games in which the core gameplay is doable on lesser hardware, but an important aspect of what made them enjoyable to me were the technical improvements over Wind Waker/Twilight Princess, MGS3 and Kingdom Hearts I & II.

Breath of the Wild would not be Breath of the Wild as we know it without the subtle details, more objects in memory, more intelligent AI, graphical details, increased draw distance, made possible by the beefier hardware. The Switch isn't exactly the beefiest hardware to begin with, but there is a noticeable improvement in the gameplay compared to even just the Wii U version.

My favorite game of all time is Chrono Trigger, released in 1995 on the SNES, but part of what made Chrono Trigger special was that many of the game scenarios were hand tuned, down to the placement of enemies on screen and the ways they interacted with you. It is a fun and immersive game, and I still play it every now and then, but you can see the limitations of the original hardware in the game and how much more the all-star crew (seriously, think the Dream Team but for JRPGs, never to be replicated again) could have done with the game with just one generation more of improvements in the hardware.
Rules to one of the mentioned lotteries. [0] It looks like prize counts are fixed in advance, so any information about redemption changes odds. Blacklight also shows that the lottery website is riddled with trackers, so it is possible they are inferring redemption from advertising data.

[0] https://hoosierlottery.com/getmedia/33f6f7bf-f0e6-4265-bcbe-...
Hidden Markov Map Matching Through Noise and Sparseness (2009)
I remember one of the earliest programs I wrote as a kid was a button in a window that would jump away when you tried to click it. It seemed incredibly funny and witty at the time.
I think that this is wrong perspective. The computers that you and I are using right now on our desks does not get slower. A CPU running 3.6GHz will still be running at 3.6GHz in a few years time. The moving target is software.
Does anybody actually expose their Home Assistant installation directly on the Internet these days? Just use WireGuard!
As a big gopher user[1] I feel that Gemini was born out the frustration of gopher not having a standard SSL mechanism. There's been several attempts to weld SSL onto gopher resulting in a fractured landscape. One of the major desires is to not break legacy clients which makes implementation tricky.

I've been following the Gemini mailing list for some time now, and I am still not a fan. it feels a lot like re-inventing the wheel, instead of working with existing protocols (like gopher). It also seems to be a passion project of one person, albeit with a large community of followers.

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[1] Shameless plug: http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...
> If you personally don't want to use the NURBS pieces, then feel free to ignore them. But please don't block other people from doing so. :)

I'm not saying NURBS shouldn't be fixed/updated, I'm just debating whether "so that Blender can be a CAD/CAM package" is a reasonable motivation for it.
I think we also need to highlight that Dang is also responsible for creating the mechanisms and rules for an environment which nudges everyone to be better (manner-wise, research-wise, skill-wise) without breaking their soul. On the contrary, it's one of the most well-mannered/civilized discussion environment and, one of the handful places which improved me in many fronts.

Of course there are exceptions but, it's much better than some of the places which just punish you for being late, being a beginner, making a mistake or just thinking differently.

He might be the sole reason that I'm attached to this place like a koala defending his branch.

Thanks a lot, honestly.
250ms could easily be real time in the context of a given system.

Real time doesn't (necessarily) mean fast, it means the latency is bounded.
How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique
Looks like he's not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21930336
Notion Plants Manager Template
Hello

After several months of use and fine-tuning, the final version of my Plants Manager template on Notion is finally ready!

Thanks to it, you will be able to :

- Manage your plants with several people.
- Never forget to water your plants again. Visualize at a glance the plants that need something, in the form of a list, a calendar or a timeline. Configure the amount of water and how often you want to water each of your plants.
- Never forget to add fertilizer to your plants again.
- Never forget again which plant you need to spray.
- Set up a photo album for each of your plants to track their growth over time.
- Remember your dead plants.
- Assign a room in your house to each plant, so you know which room is where which plant is in.
- Display a scoreboard so you can see your oldest, most expensive plants, those that need the least light or water.
- Keep a journal to keep track of the most important events. If you move a plant, make a note of it: if it doesn't look good afterwards, you will remember it.

You will also have access to the documentation, the FAQ, the rodmap and the changelog.

PS: You can have the template at -50% with the code halfpricelaunch. Limited to 10 people only!
https://thomas-sanlis.com/blog/notion-plants-manager-v2/
I totally understand the Fuckers for doing this.

Tourism? Nah. They'll just take a picture, buy a soda and leave. People want to live their quiet lives. Change the name and be done.

>>Just across the border in Bavaria in Germany there is a village called Petting.

I guess they kept going from petting to f* and the other way around for centuries.
The Diary of Thomas Edison on Vacation (1885)
Yeah... great idea to hang just such a machine with credentials on an SD card in a plastic box outside your front door.

I need a video doorbell with my own remote storage. but the camera sensor part and the button needs to be the only thing on the untrusted side of the door.
That last remark was a bit uncalled for, but otherwise, you're spot on: this isn't a web API, there's no reason to assume symmetrical security measures on uplink and downlink. Keeping downlink in the open is actually pretty standard with satellites, but uplinks are almost always protected, because you don't want third parties to send commands to satellites or probes - be it adversaries or bored teenagers with a radio and a dish.

(And particularly in context of a high-profile mission like this, they definitely would want to keep telemetry open for third parties, to ensure their achievement is independently verified and recognized by the international community.)
Lately I've been feeling like computers have become fast enough. During the 1990s, the pace of improvement was staggering, and the impact of every hardware improvement was really felt. But these days, I've come to expect a 10-year life from my hardware. My previous PC, now 12 year old, worked admirably for 10 years. It ran The Witcher 2 just fine. It did everything just fine, except for the latest games; after some update, EU4 stopped running well (I kept playing for years on the last version before that performance-breaking update), and I knew I needed a new PC for The Witcher 3. But frankly, the graphics of The Witcher 2 were already stunning.

Currently that old PC has become unstable and occasionally crashes or reboots. No idea why. I'd love to get it working again, but it feels a bit pointless for such an old PC. But it feels wasteful to just chuck it out; there are tons of things it can still do. Maybe if I just upgrade the CPU?

So do we really need games to continue to demand more and more from the hardware, or should games be made to do more with less? There are excellent games that run fine on lesser hardware.

Arguably the best game of the past decades in Minecraft, and it runs fine on my son's crappy school laptop without GPU (though not at very high framerate, and not when he wants to stream). (I'd really like that laptop to last him for ages, but it turns out he needs Blender for school, and rendering Blender movies requires more GPU.)
Just from the title I knew this article would involve Gavin Harrison. He's an incredibly talented drummer, not just technically but musically as well.

His clinic videos where he explains how he came up with various rhythmic designs and how they work with what the rest of his band plays are insightful on so many levels.
A large amount of things won't work with the best of software optimizations. You won't be able to decode 4k videos on 20 year old consumer hardware. You won't be able to run games with today's 3D graphics on an N64, no matter how much you're improving the rendering engine. We absolutely do need faster hardware for a whole lot of things, especially multimedia.
I can't help to see the analogy with muscle building. Train to gain mass first, then add more repetitions to make those muscles effective.
As a martial arts practitioner when saw this title in my RSS feed I expected something completely different, alas it's not MA related.
Around here it is a mix. Macs aren't extremely popular (3 - 5 of 20 or something) and Linux have quickly become more common and seems to be eating into the Windows marketshare.
I think the opposite conclusion is correct: Hurray, we don't have to dive into the intricacies of hardware and low-level programming anymore, but instead can focus on end-user value and making programming accessible to more people. Sure, building Electron apps is incredibly wasteful and NodeJS' type system allocates way too much memory for something that C++ would be much more frugal with, but who cares? Hardware is cheap, and processing power is cheap. Computers are becoming a commodity layer that simply facilitates human requirements, rather than being the thing that humans have to understand and optimize for.

We've seen the same mind-shift happen for storage: remember the pre-gmail days when Microsoft/Yahoo/Your internal IT department gave you 2MB of email storage, and you had to optimize your mail archive to fit this constraint? Do we really want humans that are better at optimizing mail archives? Of course not, we want mail storage we don't have to think about. And the same is true for computation.
Yeah, I just cannot comprehend what is going on in this discussion. Is this the same HN that hates Facebook for all of its privacy issues? But the people in some small village somehow forfeited their right to privacy because a few hundred years ago it was named something that now sounds funny to people in a different language?

It's bizarre.
Thank you Dang, I appreciate all the work you do to keep HN awesome!
Altough marketed differently, America was founded by wealthy landowners who wanted to pay fewer taxes to uphold some empire.

If you look at who's funding today's misinformation outfits, you'll find characters from a similar background: libertarian corporatists who implicitly believe a dollar is one vote.

It's not hard to see the continuity and how the marketing works: worship of the entrepreneur, hard work, superstarism. Leading naturally into calls for small government, temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome, defining fairness along lines of economic success, etc.

It's a shame we're so unaware of the marketing. It's actually not very difficult to poke through. I think the fact that so many early settlers came for religious reasons (their home states in Europe didn't look kindly on their fundamentalism and fanaticism) set the tone in terms of a people that so easily believes in stories.
FAA fines Philadelphia drone pilot and Youtuber $184,500
The author's use case is gaming, actually retro games. While that does not benefit so significantly from faster computers, other industries would significantly benefit from computers running as fast as possible.

Simple use case of doing a compile to generate a binary. Imagine if that process was only a few milliseconds, C language could be reclassified as an interpreted language. :-)
Seeing many comments about how dang helped them get to the front-page... I guess many of us are just unlucky
How do ops/s relate to clock speed, core count and architecture (x nm) then?
> I don't know, I just don't think we can reasonably expect people to retrain on their own time... especially if they're dealing with financial stress already.

Many govt programs criticized in the article do support people through the training. It was more about people being encouraged to reskill into the wrong fields when it comes to programming (which I didn't agree with, by the way).

A "pull based" system where companies recruit people to train based on their needs does have benefits over letting people guess and run up debt on their own (the current system, which crashes and burns when people make bad predictions). The govt does this, e.g. where the military will pay for your education in return for service. But do we really want people deeply indebted to private employers? Otherwise they'd only be willing to risk training people a limited amount, since trained employees will subsequently only stay a limited duration on average. The is how it more or less already is.
> Why are there irrational numbers?

Because, a line doesn’t have any holes and a fraction just gives you a point, such that
no matter how close you are to another number there will always be gap.
Haven’t heard about generative.fm either so thanks for sharing it!
> Also, not that many techs/skills from earlier years are applicable now, it seems that there were couple of technology cycles since then

Out of curiosity, could you elaborate on that?
It's also possible to start at Kissing (200km away)
I have not yet seen scientific evidence, just some correlation which doesn't bother to account for increased driving, increased smartphone and headphone use, etc. Further there doesn't seem to be any indication of SUV sizes, nor inclusion of other large vehicles. Even article itself says it should be taken with grain of salt.

All that said there is little doubt that lower car would be safer for peds. But all I asked is some evidence and you provided some garbage.

I don't think we ought to ban trigger-vehicle-of-the-year just because you feel like it. First I totally think we should discourage driving in cities, no matter the car. Pedestrian only streets, public transport, bike lanes is 100% my vibe. If you really want smaller cars in cities - make smaller parking spots. Make it inconvenient to use them (which is already case in European cities).

So answer me - what is your fetish with SUVs in particular and why you dance around fact that there are ton of other more dangerous vehicles on the road?

p.s. again your second links are irrelevant again - one is tiny sample size, other is about trucks.
You can’t end your feedback with “Can you change that?” and then think “Boom, done in seconds”. No, we’re absolutely not done? You just asked me to commit on the spot to something I potentially haven’t thought about before you just brought it up. I haven’t had a chance to reflect or even to respond. And you think we’re already boom, done?

Edit: If you want to actually be done, you could end with something like “I would appreciate if you were mindful of this going forwards”. Then you’ve said what you need to say, and your feedback stands by itself regardless of how the other person reacts to it.
Professional moderation is expensive. Keeping HN as good as it is is literally dang's job, paid for by YCombinator (who benefit from it by using it to recruit and then promote startups).
Large parts of Minneapolis beg to differ.
Datacenters are usually operating under either I/O bottlenecks or memory bandwidth bottlenecks, it is rarely bound by compute. So I think if anything they'd just want to have more on-chip memory for the server chips, and keep them at a low TDP, which would massively safe on power and cooling.
[edit: I just realized that the original video explicitly stated that this was a Grana Padano style cheese. The C&D tries to say he's teaching people how to make counterfeit cheese ?!??!?]

The cease and desist is over the name, or more specifically using the name of the cheese when you aren't making it in the correct part of the world.

This is a guy on YouTube describing how to make that cheese, the only thing he can say he's making is that cheese. This kind of region-of-production-defines-the-allowed-name-of-identical-products idiocy is of course beyond stupid, but lets ignore that for now.

There is no way you could describe making that type of cheese without referring to it by name. The fact that they don't like people making identical cheese to them is inconsequential - it seems like this kind of usage should be trivially covered under fair use. That said he sounds Australian to me, and I have no idea how trademarks and fair use work in AU.
They can't really stop that fast, it's a lot of weight spinning around. You'd have to make the whole machine more sturdy to handle it.
I heard about this technique in relation to Amazon product announcements.

Whoever came up with it, it's great.
Currently the rom is about 120 bytes free, so I'm trying to add other things.
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Maybe because unlike MDMA, trying to find a death caused by the toxic effects of psilocybin is like looking for hens teeth:

https://thedea.org/mdma-risks-science-and-statistics-technic...
It is extremely tiring moderating a forum. PG even said it is worst than doing a Startup. And if you have done any sort of public forum moderation, you will know you could get burn out very quickly.
Trying to distill a conversation that could have far reaching ramifications into a '5 second framework' is incredibly cold, and lacking any kind of empathy and awareness of the people on your team.

I feel like I just read a training data set for an AI manager.
I believe the point of the poster you replied to was that if you have software running at speed X it won't get particularly faster if you run the same software on a 32-core CPU. Not if the original system also ran at 3.5GHz. I.e. it doesn't get magically faster by throwing more cores at it. It could get faster by better or faster caches etc, and that's valid, but the additional cores don't magically help.
Ricardo Semler
At this point an entire generation or two of people have reached adulthood since WorldWideWeb 1.0 and may have some childhood memories of the web around 1998 or 1999 or have heard tales of what the web was once like where people were naïve and put their entire life's story in pre-blog format and got to just figure shit out together in University dorm rooms, computer labs, early startups and IRC.

Some people just want to experience a little bit of what that was like, and Lynx isn't it. That's how I tend to look at projects like Gemini and Gopherspace necromancy. It's something a little bit different, a little bit cool, not subject to Eternal September, and just technical enough to scare all the suits away because the suits already have the web.

If any of these projects have any amount of commercial success, then yes, we likely would see something like what happened with the commercialization of the web happen all over again. In the mean time, it's a place to put stuff that a small niche of likeminded people might discover and read and maybe experience a little bit of that early magic of the early web themselves. You could just have a website and a blog, or you can have a gopherspace and a... uh, glog? Splog? I'll leave that one for someone else to figure out. But more importantly, you can do so without someone trying to run remote code in a client on your machine in a standard language that for some reason, every client in the world thought it was a good idea to incorporate an interpreter for.
That sounds fascinating, would you be comfortable sharing a bit more detail?
This. And if someone has full access to my internal network, then I've got bigger problems than my TV being stolen.
200km is way too long between events :)
For neighborhood burglars who pick on you for conventional reasons, it will reduce security by an infinitesimal amount because they probably won't think "oh a smart lock, let's hack that for a quieter entry."

For hackers anywhere who don't mind traveling, perhaps a few would think "hey we already got the door unlocked, maybe we can burgle the place, too."

Far fetched, but who knows.
The point really is to push workforces towards Office since that's how you would be measured. It's a BS marketing nudge.
will you pplease speak your name, screen-name,esp? bit fan, might screw it up it later anyway. please downpayment accept apology.
Last night, I got Ken Thompson's permission to combine the scanned images into a single PDF and redistribute it on the Internet. The combined PDF is available here: github.com/susam/tucl

A new HN story for the PDF: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25226598
There is a new wave of games coming which use advanced physics, think destructible voxel worlds, like minecraft but having blocks of 1cm instead of 1m. VR benefits immensely from CPU/GPU overkill and can use any cycle it can get. The status quo you see now is caused by CPU stagnation not the other way around. Once tech finds a way to afford more cycles games and applications will find ways to use them (and not just by wrapping them with Electron :).
trivially disproven