skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are we gonna put in them?

Edit: I'm not wealthy, and I'm pretty sure building a huge bank like Scrooge McDuck isn't going to just magically fill itself and make me wealthy.

Rivers and the "source" of many reservoirs are drying up...

Utah has PLENTY of reservoirs like Lake Powell -- which is so low this year they've found a number of shipwrecks.
The Sega Saturn was ridiculous. "Chip salad" is a good way to start characterizing it, but I feel the need to drive it home.

* Two SH-2s. These CPUs occupied different places on the buses (plural) and were generally running different code to perform different tasks. It is incorrect to think of the two CPUs on the Saturn as being equivalent to x86 SMP; (or dual core, for that matter) the two CPUs were not interchangeable.

* An SH-1. This controlled the CD-ROM, and was only able to run code baked into ROM.

* The VDP1. (video display processor #1) It drew sprites and polygons.

* and VDP2, which drew backgrounds.

* A bus controller. The two SH-2s were hard pressed to deliver the computation needed for geometry transforms, so the bus controller contained a DSP which was often used to calculate geometry.

* A 68000. The Amiga, Macintosh, and Sega Genesis (and lots of others) used a 68000 as a CPU. This was generally given control of the...

* FM synthesizer. It was based on the YMF262, aka the OPL3, which drove the Sound Blaster 16.

I think that one of the SH-2s was tied more tightly to VDP1 and the bus controller DSP, and the other was tied more tightly to VDP2. I think I remember reading that a general common architecture was for game logic and VDP2 control to run on one SH-2, and the other SH-2 would feed geometry into the DSP which would feed into VDP1.

The VDP1 was a strange beast. Basically every hardware graphics accelerator you've ever heard of has used polygons as its basic primitive, but not the Saturn. The Saturn used quadrilaterals. It's not incorrect to think of the VDP1 as being a super duper sprite engine that was fast enough to build 3D stuff with sprites.

The VDP1 was not powerful enough to draw the whole screen. If a 3D Saturn game was to look good, significant parts of the screen would have to be drawn by the VDP2. It was mostly up to the task; it could display something like 7 layers of background, with two layers having full perspective control and 5 more with decreasing levels of scaling/translation. (SNES Mode 7 gave 2 layers, one with partial perspective control (I'm forgetting the technical term) and another with just translation) A good looking level/game required incorporating the VDP2's perspective background layer into the level. But since the VDP2 took different parameters than the VDP1 did, lots of games matched the VDP2's background very poorly with the VDP1's foreground.

That system was wild.
>Your link shows that 48 out of 50 states don't require sprinklers.

Partial Mandate: NY, Mass
Full Mandate: CA, Maryland

Those are 2 big states in there. By population the four are ~73 million, or a fifth of America.
How is this not flagged to death? What are we supposed to do? Have a civilized discussion about the most divisive topic in the entirety of American politics right now? Is there any timeline where these comments produce anything valuable? In what way is this topic intellectually interesting?
It does get confusing when someone writes a potentially interesting comment that also includes something many people could vehemently disagree with. I see it a lot on cryptocurrency posts, for example. Is it grey because it’s totally and completely wrong or is it grey because people disagree? ‘Tis a mystery!
JS has / had the same problem, which is why a common tip is to add "MDN" to the keywords to get a higher quality reference style result from MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/
Some of the Covid-19 vaccines are the traditional type, but he mRNA vaccines are pretty new.
> Big Tech could literally object to all LGBT content on their platform and because of Section 230, your case would be dismissed.

I don't see how Section 230 is relevant there at all. Section 230 is about content that appears on your site, not content that does not appear on your site.
Yes, saw this.

Q–1: How is virtual currency treated for federal tax purposes?

A–1: For federal tax purposes, virtual currency is treated as property. General tax principles applicable to property transactions apply to transactions using virtual currency.

Q–2: Is virtual currency treated as currency for purposes of determining whether a transaction results in foreign currency gain or loss under U.S. federal tax laws?

A–2: No. Under currently applicable law, virtual currency is not treated as currency that could generate foreign currency gain or loss for U.S. federal tax purposes.
Competition need not be from another country. The incumbents should be made to allow smaller Canadian entities to offer better packages for consumers. The CRTC is currently discussing such changes.
Especially since they were footing the bill for cell data with the early devices, it's hard to imagine they'd really want you to use it for Web surfing for sure. But the device also isn't very well suited to that.
I use a ReMarkable for essentially this. It works really well for me. I'm not a teacher or a student, I just like keeping my notes by hand. Also any time I need to fill out and sign a doc I put the PDF on the ReMarkable, mark it up, and send it back.
Change what your autopilot does. Get habits which result in active reading and deep thinking. Go, get a piece of paper, and write down the following instructions for yourself, "I will get up an hour earlier tomorrow morning. During that time I will read something. After I read it I will take notes on it. After I take notes on it I will reflect on all my notes. I will then repeat this process for the next thirty days."

Congratulations, if you do that, because you've solved your active reading and deep thinking problem. Habitually, you will read actively and think deeply. Keep in mind, you'll still have your other bad habits. You'll still read mindlessly and procrastinate during other times. However, you won't always be doing that. You're going to have a better base to work from.

Later you can read books like Miracle Morning to improve your morning habits, Bullet Journal to create short notes for yourself to work from later, and How To Take Smarter Notes to get a deeper dive on the topic of active reading than anyone in the other comments has had time to go into.
State Department to list 80% of countries as 'Do Not Travel'
Seeing the new colored icons reminds of me of the debacle when Visual Studio 2012 was released. They decided to replace almost all of the icons with a monochrome version, effectively removing the color-cues that developers were used to using for quickly finding an icon.

They eventually relented on this and started moving color back into the development environment. Now they're just tweaking the icon appearance and leaving the colors intact.
" no-one in the UK thinks that this is a major national security issue."

Citation needed
I think the concept of rule of law is interesting and important enough for a good discussion.

Especially when there are violent mobs of civilians demanding punishment for people outside of our legal system. And US representatives like Waters are inciting them to be "more confrontational".
> SO suffers from hostile moderation and a generally unwelcoming culture, perhaps even worse than Wikipedia. This has a profound chilling effect on positive, substantial contributions, particularly from new contributors.

This rings very true to me. The GP's comment made me consider that I very rarely go to Stackoverflow anymore, no longer contribute and what stuff I do find there useful is from well before the cultural shift in moderation, back when questions could be a little more open and answers a little more freewheeling.
You're basically correct. Everything in Rust is value-typed by default. A Box<> puts a value type on the heap (makes it a reference type). The difference from a normal reference type is that a Box is owned (in Rust ownership terms), where other references aren't. Both normal references and boxes can be typed as dyn Trait which means they dynamic-dispatch method calls based on some trait, instead of statically dispatching them to the concrete type.
This same effect can be seen in Japanese games from that era—I didn’t watch much anime, but I was absolutely consumed by Japanese RPGs. Xenogears changed my life.
Google Docs app has this built in as well, at least on Android. If you hit + to add a new doc one of the options is Scan.
I have been using the Google Group RSS view from the mozilla.announce mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/mozilla.announce/msgs/r...

... which has been awesome, but I note I didn't get an item for this new version - looks like as of a couple weeks ago they have moved to a new mailing list system so this feed is gone.

The new Google Group is https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/announce but after a few minutes of guessing I haven't figured out how to get an RSS view.
Ask HN: I'd like to start a company, where should I begin?
I'd like to start a company but I don't know where to begin.

I'm a programmer in my mid-30s with a decade of experience. I've got a communication degree, and speak three languages. Dual US/EU citizenship. Single with no financial obligations. Only a year's worth of expenses in savings.

My only business experience so far is being a member of FBLA in high school, doing some freelance programming, an attempt at a drop shipping store, and designing a card game that hasn't gotten past the prototype stage.

There isn't a specific business idea or opportunity that I'm ready to start right now. I'd probably want to start something in a year or two, and there's no shortage of ideas. But when I say "start a company" I mean a startup with a team that is working on something innovative together. I don't mean being a freelancer, or starting an agency.

The only thing is that I don't know where to start. What kind of reading/studying should I do beforehand? How would I build a team? How would I get to a point where I could get initial funding to start something? What other questions should I be asking?
I think it's important to understand what someone is feeling behind to. Am I feeling behind to my neighbor? Who cares. Am I feeling behind in what I know I can do, now that's different.

At the end of the day this is all rooted in our ego. We want enough ego that pushes us to get better, but at the same time be able to check that same ego when it gets in the way.

I've related many HN items to Jiu-Jitsu and here is another. First, there is always someone better than you. And in some ways it's worse because the person who kicks your ass might be younger, smaller, older or a different gender. It takes an ego to step on to the mat and find out. Then after getting your ass gets kicked it takes checking your ego to learn what happened and go again. Like a lot of life, it's the personal journey that matters.
it's that shoelace site. i first heard of that site via youtuber mathloger.
Is it easy to do a tight Ian's Secure Knot? The only place I would need a more secure knot is when skiing and then I also need to tie the laces very tight. Keeping the laces tight while creating the loops seems slightly difficult.
What if someone creates a browser extension to change now Facebook looks? How is that any different from these apps? Why is it Facebook’s business what I do with their HTTP data that they send to me? For example social book post manager (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...) lets you bulk delete your Facebook history, or at least it used to before Facebook’s repeated updates broke it. Isn’t that a “third party app” basically?
Python documentation is a static Sphinx site with no need for JS to render content. That's the easiest possible design for search engines to index. It's Google's fault that their algorithm can be gamed by low quality seo sites.
Communication matters. Grammar doesn't. Brilliant advice.
Yes, obviously 'they think it's worth that' in present terms because that's why they are investing in it at that amount.

They're not going to invest at some number largely different from 'what they believe it's worth'.

But your statement misses my implication that the risk profile is 'out of sync' for this kind of investment, at this stage.

Normally, when companies get into the 'multibillion dollar range' - they have established business operations and they can make crude, ballpark assessments with respect to outcomes. Companies with multi-billion dollar valuation tend not to fail - so the 'valuation' process would be a calculation of 'present value of cash flows' for the giant market the company is in, what the market will bear etc.. It's a giant guess, but an informed one.

Clubhouse is at 'seed stage' in terms of operations - this means, that unlike regular B-round companies with $4B valuations - they're still a total crapshoot. Stripe, when it was at $4B had a growing business. Clubhouse has mostly just a lot of hype, no revenues, no business model, no celebrity backing, and I'm going to imagine not much of a daily-active user base. (Obviously AZ has access to internal metrics and we don't know what those are).

So when you consider Stripe at $4B valuation has a 90% chance of surviving as a business, and Clubhouse at $4B probably a 33% chance of surviving as a business - that says a lot. It effectively means that before the failure risk adjustment, the belief is that Clubhouse would be substantially bigger business.

At these giant valuations AZ is putting in quite a lot of money, they actually cannot afford to take risks that big, there's some weird dynamics going on with this. There's definitely a 'new game' being played with monster valuations that's a crazy poker hand with a lot of chips in the pile.
First thing I thought of was 88, as in 1488. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

I'm not into cryptocurrency enough to have any idea of whether that's the real origin.
Haha, that's an awesome compilation. Nice work!
Predicting the future is obviously imperfect, but there's no particular reason to rule out investors realizing one day that stocks in all the "normal" companies are actually worth only half of what they were selling for the day before. It has been a long time since there was a major downturn in the market, but it is almost guaranteed that there will be another sooner or later.
This sounds like the age old "Do the right thing" vs "Worse is better".
MIT (vs Princeton)
Stanford (vs Berkeley)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
For reMarkable, I also wrote a Telegram bot to convert http url into ePub and send to reMarkable directly: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub

(if you don't like telegram or don't use reMarkable, it also comes with a public rest API to generate epub out of urls)
In fact it seems this discussion has lead to a furry of updates. In fact many of the links on the README now direct to this discussion which is oddly meta.
Someone made a billion dollars selling their startup in this identity verification niche today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867448
just out of interest, how many active users are on hn?
Hard disagree with your disagree.

A detailed 3D model could make it possible to zoom down to the gate level and show states propagating as the processor works - optionally with timed animations showing actual physical propagation, as opposed to an idealised logical model.

And then up to module and board level. And so on.

It would be hugely more informative than a physical panel of blinkenlights and switches.
Cmd+K menus are amazing. I would love to see adoption in Gimp or Inkskape instead of having 90s style dropdown menus.
Salt Dreams is a book about the history of the Colorado River and water usage in the American Southwest, especially Southern California. It's a great read.

My recollection is California had drought for several years recently and the reservoirs were empty. Then record breaking deadly storms helped fill them back up.

Not to dismiss the issue. It's a serious issue and there is a lot of room for improvement in US water policy and practices.
I have 2 working original PS3 (the ones with the physical PS2 ASIC support). I have had 2 die over the years and kept them for parts, buying a new working systems on eBay. I have had to use a few parts on the current ones. There are just some great games the family likes to play on them (Portal!!). We also use them as DVD/BR players. I want to buy a PS5 with the BR but they are near impossible to find. Oh well.
I always find posts/content like this unbearable, it always ends up being a variant of the ubiquitous "you are where you are supposed to be" platitude that really does not in any way help.
The most interesting stuff is toward the bottom. I found this fascinating and unintuitive:

> Downranking of Tutorials

> HN submissions which are tutorials are downranked by moderators, as they gratify intellectual curiosity less.
Why no technical interview?
I've spent much of my career in the auto industry (Tier 1 supplier), and I couldn't agree more. I'm even a "car guy," but I could care less about exotic cars, which most of what appears on autonews.io.
The whole point of UI/UX is to provide a good experience for users. Users know when they are having a good experience and part of the role of a UI/UX practitioner is to collect and synthesise this feedback.

A practitioner who ignores feedback and says "who's the UX professional here?" is not a very good one.
Shouod make them sign a EULA styke agrement where you could loose what you bought at any time without getting your money or data back.
It's a wasteland now. Legitimate, perfectly answerable questions get hostile comments and close votes.

The other sites in the Stackexchange network aren't nearly as bad, fortunately. English Language Learners and Math/MathOverflow are very positive places. Software Engineering is pretty good, too.
This. TFA is too long and doesn't show even a glimpse of getting to the point.
I don't think it's about them failing.

I think it's more about Tesla and Elon Musk not being truthful.
I’ve said this kind of thing before, usually it’s because the code I’m not releasing has a number of dependencies that are pre-installed on my machine. For something like a Node.js server, this isn’t usually a problem since everything is in package.json. But for more complicated stuff, I often have to write an installation guide, which takes time (you really have to test an installation guide on another machine or you _will_ leave out something critical and non-obvious).

This may sound like perfectionism, but if you have incomplete installation instructions, many of the people currently complaining about lack of code will complain about that instead.
After reading this website that does such a deep dive into an every day thing I rarely think about, I feel insufficient for just about everything else. I wish I as much about any subject as this fellow does about granny knots.
Transflective displays are different from e-ink though, I believe the term usually refers to liquid crystal displays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
Mumble rap.
As a software guy I have to feel that APIs are too general. How about REST or even JSON?
The r/cars subreddit is great for this and has a massive/very active community.
I long for the crisp pixel-based icons of old. They take more work and experience to design, and nowadays you'd have to create them in multiple sizes to cover different DPI, but they were so much better than today's vector-based icon graphics.

And I wonder why they turned the floppy icon upside down. Maybe to make it consistent with their floppy emoji? ;)
> The purpose of misinformation is not really to bury the truth forever, as the truth will eventually come out, but to achieve short term goals like getting a desired reaction from people

In some cases. In others the purpose is to flood the zone with so much crap that people mistrust almost everything.
for something more recent, I'd def recommend Keep Your Hands of Eizouken; it's basically a love letter to animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj7sZlNQB7w

(also affirming all the kon and yuuasa recommendations)
They're addressed, not solved. The problems still exist.
My first password is always secure. The second one less so, but by the third time you make me change my password it turns into easily predictable dictionary words.
I use this as well and it generally works great, but I did recently have the county recorder's office reject filing some paperwork for my deed over the image quality, though. Had to go to Kinko's and find a real scanner.
i much prefer seximal/heximal.
Fixing a noisy copper phone line [video]
Not sure why you are downvoted. In many ways we are all Sisyphus. We get up every day, workout, go to work, reach a goal and then repeat .Do that enough and then we die. If we don't figure out how to find joy and happiness in the process, then life is going to be pretty miserable.
There haven't been very many good places to invest capital during the pandemic, so most of the money floating around has gone into the stock market. As the economy opens up, there will be more and better opportunities to invest huge sums of capital outside of the market. That will naturally lead to devaluation in the market, and, potentially, a rather large "correction."
Not all PC is nonsense. Language is indeed sometimes used as a weapon, and disadvantaged groups are often the least able to defend themselves.

Asserting that all PC is nonsense is just the kind of violation of the curious-not-dogmatic ethos that prevails here that will attract downvotes. If you have difficulties understanding why some might consider the GP post on the edge, you maybe don't understand this culture and should perhaps spend some time reading dang's moderation comments.
But that's not really true, for example reddit has a massive amount of porn and yet none of the reddit apps get banned.
> people should quit trying to pressure them into acting like charities

You keep saying "pressure" as if it's a magic word. How can you pressure a business to do something against what it believes to be its own (or its shareholders') interest? All kinds of people lobby companies and government to do literally everything under the sun. Companies don't listen to all of them. They only listen to the ones they think are good for them. And if they choose wrong, the market will punish them. Right?

On a separate note "companies shouldn't be woke" people also tend to be among the most ardent worshippers of the free market. Somehow their faith is shaken when companies do something they personally disagree with - then they fall back to "they're just giving in to activist pressure". I'm not saying you're like that. Just pointing out the irony.

Re: more expensive cars hurting the poor in North America, I'm honestly skeptical. If anything more expensive cars will be a forcing function towards developing more affordable housing close to work and better public transportation systems. Kind of an inverse Jevon's paradox. This will save the poor money in the long term.
There's a bit more detail in his book but this first resonated with me when I read Scott Adams' "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life".

Here are some of his blog posts on it:

https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/

https://www.scottadamssays.com/2014/01/21/goals-are-for-lose...

Personally, I don't really think of it as goals and habits being mutually exclusive. Specifically, I wholeheartedly agree with your comment, "The only way to know which habits to cultivate (or rely on) is to have a desired result in mind."
Was VS 2012 the first release with the menu bar THAT SCREAMED AT YOU for no good reason?

The first thing I did was track down a registry tweak to make the menu bar not be in all capital letters.
Such a great article / tutorial. It is this type of posts that really teach people beyond surface level. It goes into decision making, and we need more of these.