skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the "evechat" issue lol, just fixed it.

And yeah this flow sucks. We'll be looking into it ASAP, as many people already struggled with it.

Thanks!! <3
It says it's to build a community, but I don't see the source code anywhere.

If the platform is proprietary, it is oppressive - and therefore there is no community. Just prisoners sharing a cell.
> wonder if sports has a similar problem.

Not as much, because those careers have an expiration date and there is no real reselling value in performances after the first broadcast (with very rare exceptions). Players' agents make a large cut (and it's historically increasing) out of signed contracts, but the overwhelming majority of the money goes to the actual athletes (who then proceed to squander it, typically, since they often come from unprivileged background with no familiarity with long-term wealth management). There is some distortion (agents are more interested in brokering newer and larger contracts than renewing on same terms year after year, regardless of how settled the player is) but it's not really exploitation.

This said, South American and African football are plagued by "third-party ownership" arrangements: investment companies literally buy footballers when young and then take massive cuts from any contract they sign, in perpetuity, in exchange for promotion and rights management. The governing body FIFA has officially banned the practice, but it remains widespread in the poorest regions like Africa.
Careful, yes. It's not a good idea to just pop up on Reddit and buy whatever the first thing you see them recommend is. You need to do some minimum amount of critical thinking. You need to spend some time browsing a given subreddit.

The idea behind using Reddit for product recommendation is the observation that an active community of enthusiast of some niche is hard to game by marketers - such community will try to moderate away spam, as it interferes with their regular discussion, and expert community members will be able to call astroturfers on their bullshit. It's orders of magnitude more reliable a source than in-store reviews and most review sites, as they're all thoroughly gamed and/or owned by marketers. But you do need a little bit of critical thinking to evaluate what you read there.
> If the open web really depends on general purpose computers, then it's somewhat disingenuous to suggest that people should just spin up instances on some cloud provider, because that locks people into that cloud provider. The old web didn't have that property - if you used a colocation provider and wanted to switch, you drove down, picked up your hard drives, and left.

Same now, easier in fact. If I want to migrate from linode to digital ocean I simply restore my backup image. Indeed I do this automatically -- I have a site running on an AWS lightsail instance, which is backed up nightly to a linode server, and that backup is restored automatically onto linode with a minor script that changes the URLs from my production site to my test site.

It's far more accessible than running my own server in a colocation.
From TFA:

"No other fusion power plant in the world has managed to run for more than ten seconds"

WEST[1] (Formerly Tore Supra) holds the continuous operation of a fusion reactor record time at 6 minutes 30 seconds.

It's always frustrating where teams build fantastic projects but then make false claims that are propagated across the Internet. Don't get me wrong, 20 seconds for a new reactor is good, they'll do longer. After all, the French did in 2003.

[1] https://www.iter.org/proj/itermilestones#18
Apple use this themselves.
If you're lucky, perhaps you can roll the dice 10 times. With a 10% chance 10 failures wouldn't be too significant. Given a binomial distribution that's still p~=0.35.
I think there's an argument for breaking up Facebook for antitrust reasons.

I used to be fine with the "Just don't use Facebook" argument. I quit it myself several years ago.

But recently I've found myself being genuinely inconvenienced by not being on Facebook. My gym for example, uses a Facebook group as its main forum. Several sports clubs and businesses I use now have a Facebook page as their main "web site". Friends tell me that Facebook marketplace is overtaking Gumtree as the best place to buy and sell. I am missing out on participating in all of these groups.

I don't blame any of these organisations for opting to use Facebook. They're all too small to employ anyone to maintain a website. Facebook no doubt gives them a great CMS and makes everything easy.

But it seems completely wrong that I have to submit to Facebook, with its real name policy and abuse of my data, to participate in these groups.

The markets for startups in any of these areas must be hugely stifled by Facebook's monopoly. Who would be brave enough to start a business building a CMS for gyms at this point?

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see how this is different from Microsoft bundling a browser with an OS. In many ways it's worse.
Shouldn’t the onus be on the open platform to become attractive and provide services that a closed platform can’t or won’t?
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Salespeople are paid to get punched in the face. They are failing at their job most of the time, so the commission is needed to keep them motivated.
> if you dig deep enough into the problem, often the hardware is found to be at fault

Well with ZFS I've had hardware break and still not experienced any data loss. I've had cables getting lose multiple times, I've had several disks dying[1], I've had unstable SATA controllers (hello JMicron) and plenty of unexpected power losses and hard resets.

Yet ZFS has sailed through it all with my data intact. Sure ZFS ain't bulletproof. It can get messed up. But for the most part it takes a lot of beating without a dent.

[1]: As a matter of fact, I just finished resilvering a RAID-Z1 pool in my NAS after a WD Red 3TB died after almost 7 years of 24/7 operation (barring a few accidental power outages).
Thanks for the heads up on the reply.

And this is why I shouldn't critique year old blog posts before 6am, lol.

I still don't care for the way that section was phrased, but I have a rather pedantic background in telephony and serial ports.

My apologies.
> The only reason it has value is if people value it

The only reason anything has value is if people value it.
This bug actually has some security implications because you can make it seem as though an account has tweeted something when really it was another one. A casual observer might not notice the discrepancy between the name before and after the click.
Regular com programs won't run, but I'm waiting for the day the vulnerability is discovered that let's you run a specially crafted binary because of left over code from the old com launcher. Is the com extension still recognized in 64-bit windows?
> Most "Fancy" PC laptops have cellular

Yeah, I would diagnose this as a clear case of "Apple lock-in syndrome" on the author's part...

But he does have a point! I recently bought a Lenovo Ideapad Duet Chromebook as a more flexible alternative to an Android tablet, and was a bit surprised that it doesn't have GPS - which you take for granted from all but the cheapest tablets these days, but of course this is a Chromebook with a detachable keyboard, not a tablet...
Does anybody click on such articles? I'd think any subreddit I used for product recommendation would immediately delete such comment and ban the author. I'd also think content marketers would be smarter than to do that.
Such as? I would like to hear about this! (Do you have it written in a blog post somewhere?)
You can do the math yourself. Solar panels have around 150W/m^2. In Germany they produce a little more than 10% of peak output if you average over one year. The average German uses about 48000kWh per year (primary energy), so around 350m^2 per person. That's around 8% of Germany's land area, or two percentage points more than what we currently use for energy crops.

Since primary energy includes heat and transportation, both of which can be done much more efficient with electricity (e.g. a car is maybe 30% efficient, and a heat pump gets you 2-5J of heat per Joule of electricity) you can very conservatively cut that in half. I'm reasonably sure that it also includes power plant inefficiencies (another 40%?) but let's not account for those.

That gets you down to about 4%. Wind power is more efficient per m^2 than solar in Germany, and a lot can be produced offshore. That gets you down to the 2-3% range. And of course a lot of solar can be installed on rooftops and such where it doesn't consume any additional land at all.
Don't make claims about performance without measuring first. Don't push a language without measuring first. Don't push a language without comparing its performance with similar workloads. Don't make assumptions about performance based on the language.

You seem to be trying to come across as if you know and care about performance, but your comment actually proves you still have a long way to go.
My use case is that I need to build for a recent iOS device but I don't want to upgrade my Macbook to an os version that doesn't support 32bit apps.

But the 24hr thing kills it for me. I will never get 24 hours use out of it. Maybe a few hours. Why am I paying for the other 21 hours?

Maybe someone can wrap this SaaS in a other Saas and sell timeshares in a virtual Mac.
Last week a new community popped up here on HN with the story of how the creator made 5.000$ for the first month, it seemed most users where happy about it and had some nice feedback. I wouldn't pay for it but the first 100 spots were free to attract good people and solve the 2-sided marketplace egg and chicken problem.

hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25219924
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Hell, I remember as a kid in the 1990s, my dad would sometimes bring us memes... on paper. He worked in a bank, and back in those days, an e-mail chain full of jokes was common in an office environment. He'd occasionally print one out and show it to us.
I can sort of understand your point, but don't you think it's ironic to hold people responsible to NOT doing things in their power to avoid/prevent/solve troubles, only to shout at them when they do?

On a more general point of view, people enforcing the rules are the same people having both the data and the knowledge necessary to understand it. In other words, it's OK to be skeptical but don't forget you're not a scientist, and me neither, for that matter.

Being skeptical of the government and refusing to wear a mask are not part of the same discussion, unless you're in bad faith.
just curious - do you have a CS degree?
Yes, it's a subset, but you should nonetheless talk about creative computing in the landing page. And also about other stuff!
This article doesn't make any sense. It's a disguised Trump apologist piece.

Look near the end where he describes Trump helping a dictator as a good thing because "it brings the corruption out in the open". Laughably stupid defence unless you believe the deep state pizza place pedo conspiracies, then it's 4D chess.

He goes on to explain that Trump has publicly done many corrupt and terrible things that you normally don't see because "they're in the shadows". This is just the 4chan deep state crap that's been pushed by crazies ever since it turned out Obama was actually a US citizen, to everyone's surprise. It's far more likely that Trump is just corrupt and doing terrible things because that's what he does.
Yes, Apple added a CPU mode bit. From the article:

Note: writing an x86 emulator on ARM forces you to deal with this in a particularly messy way because you never know when reordering will be a problem so you typically have to insert a lot of memory barriers. Or you can follow Apple’s strategy and add a CPU mode that enforces x86/x64 memory ordering, turning that on when emulating.

I'm a little surprised+happy the ARM architectural license allowed this.
If you're into that, I can also recommend Frank Strobel's version and live recording (with full orchestra and chorus) of Prokoview's score to Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible", bringing a film-opera experience like very few other movies.

Fun fact: the first part is said to have been Stalin's favourite movie, while the second was censored
Nope, I'd like to see that claim encoded in strict legalese, along with open source code, public pentest results, and a secure way to report found security (= data breach) issues.

But the strict legalese isn't going to happen because it would only take one data breach for the company to be destroyed by lawsuits. There's always a clause in there somewhere.
To put that in perspective though, to create a sphere surface just 2 solar radii away from the center of the sun, you would need to launch ~1.3*10^16 kgs worth of Sputniks into orbit (assuming sputnik would have been enough to convert and transmit sunlight into electricity. This is just the weight of the satellites themselves - add launch vehicles and the placement vehicles, and you're looking at numbers that start to rival the weight of mountains.
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ITER's too big the fail. But again, the parameters were known. The magnets give you the field strength, the field strength tells you the radius, the radius^3 gives you the cost, and also, some measure of the construction time.

This is one of the great things about Elon Musk -- he looks at things from first principles. When it looked like he needed 1000 Gigafactories to reach his goal, he went back to the drawing board on decades of battery manufacturing, to come up with the Terafactory.

When carbon composite rockets looked to be too hard to manufacture, and have too many other detriments, despite the clear wins in strength-to-weight, he dropped it and went with stainless steel. I'm pretty sure if he was staring at the basic Tokamak equations, he would have long again saw the economic and time dependence on R, and the massive benefits to improving B, and that would have driven him to look for alternatives.

Too many researchers engage in sunk cost / dollar auctions, doubling down on obvious wrong approaches, because they've already spent so much.

This is also why DeepMind won CASP again, because rather than try to iteratively improve their 2018 result, they dropped it as a dead end and restarted with a completely new approach, even though the 2018 approach was also a revolutionary breakthrough.

What I'm getting at is, being able to let go of your previous projects if they are stalling, with huge cost over runs, and a mediocre future return, is a value we should seek in fusion research, and elsewhere.
I'm always sceptical of these proposals. There are no free lunches in economics. Less production will result in less revenue. Companies are only going compensate employees for value of their labour, so less labour will eventually mean less compensation.

Perhaps for some reason that I don't quite understand people get more (or an almost equalivent) amount of work done in four days as they do in five, but if not, this is just going to result in lower wages.
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I find the unsolved problem of Alkaloid function very interesting.
But the liquid cools the CPU/GPU. The bottleneck is there, and you can't overcome it with case fans.
I don't know how we can get people to write protocols over writing products.

Nowadays it's the natural evolution of thing, write a product from an idea, lock it down, and try to cash in as much as possible.

There is no financially viable paths for writing protocols and open source implementations of an idea. At least there is no clear path and it's far less viable.

Also seriously, who can be F'ed with RFCs.
They will provide a standard Apple VPN solution. Because they're big enough now and because they've started to be adopted by enterprises plus they don't care if the adoption is immediate, network device vendors will start following.

Then once they're ready they'll pull the plug on third party VPN solutions.
I wanted one for a dedicated zoom gizmo, so I bought the base thing. It worked OK as long as I never needed to look at a Calendar application or slack, which, as it turned out, I did. Soldered memory stick meant no way to remedy the situation. Gave it away and used a 11 year old linux box and had a much better experience.
I see no problem if more paradigms would be pushed into mainstream. Not so long ago, functional paradigm had its comeback and it improved quality of the code in i.e. JavaScript world. The thing is to not be a purist, and mix paradigms in the code to have the best possible solution.
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> Proof of work's security properties are broken for everything that isn't BTC, ETH (although this will change soon) and whatever the dominate CPU coin is

PoW secures any coin that dominates the daily issuance of all coins (efficiently) using the same hardware. So the different hardware classes are

CPUs

GPUs

SHA256 ASICs

scrypt ASICs

Equihash ASICs

X11 ASICs

etc...

and each one can secure one dominant coin.
iPad pro has a screen you can draw on, but in my opinion, a screen does not add much value. People can be intimidated by “not looking at the pen tip” but nobody thinks about the fact they already don’t look at their hand when using a mouse. After a little use, drawing while looking at the screen becomes just as natural as on paper, but I like it better since no pen or hand is blocking your view.
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ARC actually is a pulsed design, they design against handling plasmas for long periods of time and actually using shorter duration is a net win for efficiency and reliability.

Also, ITER won't demonstrate anything until 2035. By then, several smaller scale designs would have already demonstrated break even.
How do you check if two different acyclic graphs of lazy generators represent the same number?

I do not see how this can be possible. Wouldn't that amount to prove a lot of hard math theorems (e.g, riemann hypothesis)?
Ideally indefinitely many, but a few million may be a nice start.
No, like really impossible on a hardware level (most 16-bit instructions are hidden on hardware level on entering 64-bit mode) and on a software level (NTVDM is separate from Windows NT from day one (since it only works on x86 hardware and not on DEC Alpha for example) and it was an optional component since Vista but only on an x86 installation though).
You could argue that the CI service is the "one user", and it doesn't make the software available over the network, it only makes logs available over the network.

This seems like a gray area, "does running a build on your behalf constitute renting out the build environment to you" is a very hard question.
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No, Microsoft owns it's software it does not need a license to use it.
> Is mixing tech and religion appropriate?

Why wouldn't it be?
I would take a lower wage for four days of work per week.
Openness means they'd be able to communicate with someone who uses different tools, because on an open web, tools would be interoperable.

I should be able to use Messenger, Whatsapp and Slack from a common app of my choosing - or write one if it doesn't exist. But I can't, because I'm prevented by Terms of Service and technological means these services use to enforce a closed environment.
> I'm totally onboard that charging more or less for specific websites is a nasty move, but streaming systems wouldn't be nearly as workable if being able to place hardware in network POPs wasn't allowed.

Well, it isn't allowed. For most of us.

Try it. Ask a major ISP if you can install hardware in their NOC. They'll say no. Unless you are a Netflix, YouTube or Prime and can both pay and have traffic is so large that the ISP will save money allowing it. Now try to compete as a new entrant into the space when your competition has actual hardware embedded at the ISP level.
The walled gardens are using polished UIs and free hosting to win over open alternatives, and both of these costs money. From users' perspective, it's free and convenient.

To break these, we need technology and infrastructure that enables distributed decentralised hosting, and that decouples UIs from servers. But UI developers still need to be rewarded, and hosting needs to be profitable, otherwise they won't be competitive.

It would involve some form of micropayments system, cryptographic identities, and so on. If these things had been in place 20 years ago, IRC would be what whatsapp is today.

The matrix project sounds promising, but I'm guessing it underestimates what is actually needed to replace walled gardens.
Personally I’m just waiting for the software to catch and maybe the landscape to stabilise. It’s hardly irrational to wait and get the 2nd gen.
It might exist, but I couldn't find the URI of any RSS feed for this blog, but a link to their Twitter profile was easy to find, which, all together, given their open web advocacy, is odd.
The false premise that your argument relies on is that people aren't transformed by the technologies that they use. Regularly using Facebook transforms you from what you would have been without using Facebook; Using the open web transforms you into something different.

So the problem isn't 'the open web would not have attracted the kinds of people that Facebook has'. The problem is that 'Facebook has produced the kinds of people who have no interest in the open web'. And for the reason that, the open web to hell, this benefit's Facebook's bottom line.
You know, some of us work in the field that you call "hottest buzzword of the last decade", we constantly see problems that could have benefited enormously from geniuses like above.

So for people like me at least, it's not a "very weak link to the topic at hand".
What is the monetization for the platform? As soon as ads play a role, the promise is broken.
Cellular is a niche feature. I would disagree with how categorical that quoted statement was but not the general point.

Of course laptops with cellular exist but they are hard to find and it is anything but typical that you can just add that to some laptop you want to buy. You have to search them out.

Contrast that with the Apple Watch or iPads. Every Apple Watch except the lowest end model and every single iPad Apple sells offers the option to order it with cellular. For these kinds of devices it’s just obvious that this is possible. It’s a foundational, central feature, not just some add-on you can get with some models.

So, yeah. That is actually a difference that matters. PC makers have been much better at moving their PCs into this direction than Apple with their Macs, but they still suck at this (with it being relegated to a niche feature).
When you drink alcohol, your blood level can increase even after you stop drinking (alcohol is still transferred from intestines to blood). With inhalation, you have almost instantaneous response and can stop before you pass out.
Rather, a control group who does not take vitamin D supplements. Choose them randomly and you can find causation (or lack thereof).
Luckily there are still cloud services that you can use for iOS CI like Bitrise.