skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All that comes to mind is how people who displayed deep technical knowledge online, back in the 90's, were often misanthropic, tactless stereotypes who loved hacking because they wanted power.

To the extent that people who are now in their 30's and 40's "learned computers", it was mostly to get the printer working, load a game or bypass school security. Young people today do the same things, just using slightly different mediums. If you started earlier you might have learned more about your 8-bit micro's hardware, if you started later, more about servers and 3D graphics. It's just stuff.
Ask HN: How important is a webcam for a livestream gaming session?
And what about a tutorial? Some people say it's distracting and annoying, others say that it makes the experience more personal. What do you think?
Back in the day i made it work on Edge on an xbox. This was microsofts browser +JS engine. Nowadays its just chrome though. If it has problems, i'd be highly surprised.
CP/M for OS X
I had a professor that made us answer questions about the bandwidth, latency, and reliability of a stationwagon loaded with hard drives. I never imagined I'd see a practical example of that principal at work.
Given for a text editor, find-and-replace is a feature anyways that's not natively supported by contenteditable.., you will need to build out a custom app search feature anyways. But yeah, for preview only mode, sad to see native features not work on a static document.
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It certainly claims to support many things later than SSE2, including everything up to SEE4.2, on this MacBook Air (M1):

% arch -x86_64 sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features

machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 PCLMULQDQ DTSE64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 SSE4.2 AES SEGLIM64
The sending rate on the microcontroller is currently ~3 bytes/second.
The latency is usually between 1 and 60 minutes.

That's not much, but it has value for industrial machine-to-machine communications. (That's IoT without the hype.) Like commercial air conditioning units. They can send in minimal data ("compressor 1 running, compressor 2 stopped, system OK") to a maintenance service without needing a cellular account or connection to the Internet.
The Macintosh did drag-and-drop with no hardware acceleration in 1984.
Mutualized oblivious DNS (μODNS): Hiding a tree in the wild forest
Thanks!

The "floating workspace" aspect has always driven at least as much usage as the "collaboration" aspect. That came as a complete surprise to us, but it turned out to be very important to adoption. At some point I think we determined that the average document had something like 1.1 collaborators.
> There's nothing wrong with consumption devices, but they are not computers. You are using a computer if and only if you are programming, otherwise you are using a glorified television or a glorified typewriter.

Looks at all the creation-related tools on his iPad and iPhone, none of which involve programming

You sure about that?
How does the government determine what the people need if the people do not engage with it, and vice-versa?

The government is not a foreign occupying power, and we are not its passive consumers. In the US the citizens are the government, and the government governs with their consent. With this comes the responsibility to engage and spend our time every so often to ensure that the government runs to our satisfaction.
The algorithm will likely reward whomever spends the most effort and money trying to game it.
Most of the patents on ETA movements are expired so I don't know why this is necessary.
That's.... a bizarre frame I don't think I've ever heard before.

Does this mean that my laptop undergoes some sort of miraculous transformation when I type :wq and open my browser?

What if I'm watching video in the background while coding - does my laptop then enter some superposition-state?
Stephen Hawking and the Billionaires
I am specifically not attempting to 'gate-keep'. You don't want to code? Don't. I'm not going to force it down your throat.
Some speculation here: there is a certain percentage of people who are interested in technology for its own sake in any generation and it that percentage is relatively stable. So yes, I agree that treating kids as computer wizards is an exaggeration and claiming that they are ignorant is wrong.

That being said, the "digital natives" claim really rubs me the wrong way even when it is confined to the subset of people who are genuinely interested in computers. It leaves the impression that the younger generation has little to learn from the older generation. The flow of knowledge should be going in both directions.
Story points are not a tool for duration, they are a tool for relative estimation and should never be converted to time in any capacity. _Especially_ not inter-team.

This is the current biggest mistake in the industry, imo.
Did you implement netcode? A deterministic approach or not?

I have to admit that would be quite the single feature I would be curious to learn about.

All I know about RTS netcode is that if there are N players, each players "commits" an order, in a turn by turn manner, and all the game code, physics and behavior etc is entirely deterministic, which guarantees that all clients are always synchronized and don't need to share state (well there is some hashing system to detect if there is a bad sync, and I don't know if it's possible to rewind and cancel things).

A RTS netcode doesn't seem difficult to implement, but making a deterministic RTS doesn't seem so easy, I think, especially if you have boids and other pathfinding cool things.
If the blockchain gets backed up it would take a few days to get money in/out of exchanges.
Amazing, let me find my time machine to go to 2025 and pick my stocks
Except the whole point of the article is that these people are part of Amazon.
Then don't pay the ransom and get info leaked

You think they’re bluffing? Hm what’s going to happen, so complicated
The whole selling point of bitcoin is that it's a decentralised ledger that isn't owned by anybody. If the transactions are managed by a central entity, then that's no longer true. For example, what's to stop such an entity from creating bitcoins out of nothing and thus debasing the bitcoin currency?
It's a turbine. It spins inside a housing. It has an input and an output. Modern turbines don't even have oil...they use ceramic air bearings that might need to be replaced sometime after you die.
I think there absolutely are more intellectual opportunities. On the flip side I also believe the absolute number of distractions have increased by an amount that seems to dwarf the productive activities.
I discovered a similar thought the first time in the amazing science fiction novel Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling:

"Lindsay glanced at one wall and was paralyzed at the sight of his own clan's founder, Malcolm Lindsay. As a child, the dead pioneer's face, leering in ancestral wisdom from the tops of dressers and bookshelves, had filled him with dread. Now he realized with a painful leap of insight how young the man had been. Dead at seventy. The whole habitat had been slammed up in frantic haste by people scarcely more than children. He began laughing hysterically.

'It's a joke!' he shouted. The laughter was melting his head, breaking up a logjam of thought in little stabbing pangs.

[...]

'It's a joke,' Lindsay said. His tongue was loose now and the words gushed free. 'This is unbelievable. These poor fools had no idea. How could they? They were dead before they had a chance to see! What's five years to us, what's ten, a hundred—'
"
That's odd. Airlines would kill to install a cheap device on their fleet and save 5% on fuel. If diesel is $3/gal and the semi holds 200gal, that's about $30 savings per fillup and would pay for itself quickly.
Any news on the YouTube/Susan Wojcicki front? I know that the ADL was "advising" them wrt censoring supposedly antisemitic posts (i.e., posts the ADL doesn't like). I wouldn't be surprised if we saw similar videos disappear there as well. We have precedent in both cases.
The absurdity of the original comment is that goths and emos are characteristically introspective to a fault. Grunge and goths embodied an attempt to flee from self -- the awareness of which was a necessity for that dynamic. Finally, hipsters (not the original hipsters[1], of course) were painfully self-aware, and self-mocking.

The funniest part is where it's asserted that these "fads" were "played out" by the time they gained any popularity. Which was only true of emos; they swept aside everything that made grunge and goth culture aesthetically interesting, and adopted normcore instead. Well, true of hipsters, too, but "before it was cool" was their whole thing; the played-out nature of the fad was effectively a joke on everybody who cared enough to be bothered by shat beer and silly facial hair.

But, no, I don't think you're right about furries. They aren't "animals trapped in a human's body," that's a mischaracterization used by edgelords who dunk on transgender people. Furries extremely diverse in their internal and external narratives, and I won't attempt to provide an alternative characterization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture)
Has someone actually found out what instructions do what? I assume we won't get to play with them ourselves unless they get the Microsoft treatment over the hidden APIs
He didn't say that though — he singled out women.

Also, what do you think about a person who says such a thing? Even if he had used most people I think many of us would assume that the author somehow believes that they themselves are not weak — are superior to most everyone else in the Valley.

He has also claimed that many others in the Valley see him as self-deprecating. I sure don't see it in statements like the above.
Canvas is more capable than Flash, it’s supported by everything already, it’s well sandboxed, it’s apparently faster than the alternatives, the technique in question now has the backing of a powerful industry leader, and the underlying technology is an open standard so it’s even got moral high ground.

And it’s possible we only managed to escape Flash-hell thanks to the fortuitous self-interest of Apple, so let’s not be complacent by assuming we’ll escape the next trap.

Having said all that, I actually like the idea of separating web applications from web documents and I don’t at all begrudge web application developers from doing what it takes to improve their applications. I just know it will be abused. The best I can hope for is that it leads to some re-focus on HTML as a stable and finished document language.
I'm a late millennial, born in 93. I've met a few of the vintage computing nerds in my travels, and am constantly impressed by the depth of their knowledge.

I wouldn't say that young people are bad at _using_ a computer, or even building/servicing them, but we don't understand the technology in the same way the older generation had to. "Computing" just isn't a hobby the way it used to be.
How many settlement layers exist between a PayPal transaction and the underlying money transfer protocol (SEPA, SWIFT etc)?
> If a billionaire wants to blow their money on a risky bet, why should the SEC stop it?

It's not "their money" to blow. 80% of that money was borrowed from others and he now cannot afford to pay them back. Yes, the SEC should definitely care
Okay, so I should avoid it. What is the alternative?

I see so many git repos with READMEs saying download this huge pretrained weights file from {Dropbox link, Google drive link, Baidu link, ...} and I don't think that's a very good user experience compared to LFS.

LFS itself sucks and should be transparent without having to install it, but it's slightly better than downloading stuff from Dropbox or Google Drive.
I suspect this will become a landmark case in tax law. Vitalik was airdropped 50 trillion SHIB tokens. When that happened they were as close to worthless as you can get. The IRS has no guidance on how to tax such "gains". Are they a gift? Something with a cost basis of 0 when/if you sell it? Vitalik is Canadian but as far as I can tell their tax collectors don't have clear guidance either.

Those 50 trillion SHIB tokens are "worth" one billion dollars. Does that mean that Vitalik now owes hundreds of millions of dollars in short term capital gains? Well probably not, since he donated the "money" to a charity. But that also begs another question, how will the government treat such a large donation? Will he get to write any of that off?
An algorithm can't be anything-ist, but a company can prioritize finding and fixing some bugs over finding and fixing others.
C constructs normally map 1:1 in most languages. It's rare for a modern language to not be able to do all the things that C does. And, even if it's a little weird, it's not too hard to give out an escape hatch because the features aren't that advanced.

C++ constructs--not so much.

Does your language allow overloaded functions? If not, okay, you have to map that somehow (probably name mangling).

Oh, your language has a different notion of inheritance than C++, well, now you need to map vtables somehow.

And what does your system do about exceptions? Constructors/Destructors? Does it agree with the standard library about what a String is? What about memory allocation? etc.

Even if the C++ ABI was perfectly described and standardized, mapping to it is always going to be error prone and clunky relative to the C ABI (which is just a lot simpler).

If you want a good example, look at what it takes to use Vulkan via the C API/ABI--which is an exemplary implementation of an API, in my opinion. Look at the hoops you go through with loaders, structs that have type fields in them, extension fields so that you can add functionality without breaking compatibility, etc. All of that extra "gunk" is the kind of thing that C++ hides normally that gets terribly exposed when you have to cross an ABI boundary.
I have a `.gitignore` file with `*` in it to ignore all files, so I explicitly type `dotfiles add --force`.
Freenode IRC network being takeover by evil corporate
freenode IRC network is being takeover by evil corporate.

A guy named "rasengan" wrote this in the public #freenode channel:

< rasengan> Hi Staffers - wanted to write you all a thing trying to clear up the lies going around recently, but dont want to flood, so:
< rasengan> Message regarding recent events at Freenode: https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e... and Message received from tomaw: https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/f569c5e4727d21eb939fff9...
< rasengan> Thanks for taking the time to fully understand the truth.

And some times later, this aswell:
< rasengan> As I'm sure you have taken the time now to digest the messages -- as you all know, I am the man of second, third, and infinite chances. I love this world, I love freenode and I'm going to continue doing everything I
can to stay true to who I have strived to be. This won't make me waiver. If any current or former staff wishes to talk this
< rasengan> through, don't hesitate to send me a message privately. I believe a lot of what's happened here is forgivable and I am more than willing to give second chances and move on. If you would love to keep freenode running,
we would love to have you. Please let me know!
How Voice Assistants Work
Which is a problem when you get to to work in the real world in some cases I have seen a lot of basic knowledge.

Of course its muggings here how has to perform the task of putting it all back together - the emotional labor to use a modern term.
You could easily burn five years trying to fix `contenteditable` and get nowhere. There's too much legacy and impedance mismatch. Better to start fresh at this point.
Politicians lie to get votes. Voting chooses the most convincing liar, that's all.

I would vote people into office if I could also vote them out every year if they weren't doing what they said they'd do, or reaffirm the vote if they are doing what they said they'd do.
Why would you be afraid? According to HN Apple is not a monopoly and plenty of viable alternatives exist. /s
if one side is directly inciting violence, then yeah, they will have to "take sides"
Meanwhile, crypto indexers beat Bitcoin maximalists. But, the evidence for indexing performance will never see the light of day . :)
It's a trivial step now. At no point did I say it wasn't a lot of work. But instead of having to create a web page to show off my creative works, I can focus on the work I want to do - take/edit/share pictures.

I just get annoyed when people call these devices consumption only. I could say the same thing about computers when many people only play games on them. These devices are what the person makes of them.
This is awesome, but also terrifying. The way the world is going, it is not hard to predict that in the future this kind of device will be used to tackle thought crime or "zap" you if you think of something government doesn't like.
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us: Mr. Stay-Puft."
Disney Patents Blockchain-Based Movie Distribution System to Stop Pirates
Python to Distributed Python to Airflow task in ~5 lines of code
reminds of the 'accidental glitches' after anti-Modi posts vanished in India, curiously enough shortly after India pressured social media companies into silencing dissent.

People who think of centralised social media as an empowerement of voice of minority dissent have made a grave mistake. It's only contingently supportive as long as the position of the minority voices isn't in conflict with political or economic interests of the powers that be. And big anything be it government, business and so on is always run by people who come from the same power-centres that minorities are trying to speak up against.
> Understanding a modern phone is a huge job.

I’ve tried (well maybe not phones, but other things). There’s a lot of stuff and large chunks of it are either undocumented, do not provide documentation unless you are in a contract with the company or are very superficially documented. On top I usually ended up finding I could not fully comprehend how A worked without comprehending B which required C which required D, etc.
This would pose a different kind of problem for people with aphantasia.
According to the article you should use mercurial or PlasticSCM because otherwise you might have to rewrite your history to get to some hypothetical git solution that isn't even on the roadmap.

I think I'll stick to LFS.
Obviously someone who has been working over 30 years less than someone else has significantly less money than them? Do you think the people in the 65-74 age group had the same $266,400 median when they were in the under 35 age group? Of fucking course not, that's idiotic.
I've gotten to a place where I start with a sketch of how I think my code ought to be used and then work backward into the implementation.

So far I've gotten a lot of pushback from others on my team. And, what starts as "oh, you should just have to ____" gets really messy as the implementation takes shape.
> were often misanthropic, tactless stereotypes who loved hacking because they wanted power.

It's not like the SV techbros of the 2000s and 2010s are any different from that POV. We used to complain about the power wielded by the local BOFH sysadmin, but that's nothing compared to present-day "tech" monopolies.
For critical data like that, it would make more sense to just have a modem on board. 5G should make this more possible with increased device limits.
I think the trend of rendering web apps in canvas is about to explode and it will be ironically promoted by one of the biggest defenders of HTML: Google. The reason I believe is that they no longer need to parse web apps using the DOM because instead they are/will be using Machine Vision.
Ask HN: How do you feel about having an office in Israel/China?
As more tech companies open offices in Israel and China, Western employees will be faced with the dilemma of having to work with colleagues in these states. How do you feel about that? Would it be a reason to quit?
I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand. Unless you're extraordinarily naive and have been living in the Tubbytronic Superdome, it is pretty clear that this is likely another case of BigTech censorship. It might not be, of course, but very likely given what we know.
I've found that a simple dot_files directory that is sync'd via a public git repository [0] works well for me. When I'm on a new machine all I need to do is clone the repository and run `ln -s ~/dot_files/bash/bashrc ~/.bashrc`. The bashrc file then takes care of everything else.

It might not work for every program out there, but it does for the small number that I use.

[0] https://github.com/andypea/dot_files
VMware Announces New CEO
I’m always reluctant to generalize. If I remember correctly most people from our generation (the author and myself) were pretty bad at using computer. Computer Geeks were a fairly minority.

I see the same thing in my son’s class. There’s a couple of kids who can mess around with HTML and JavaScript and programmable LEGO. But they’re all well versed in social media in the same way we could all type on a T9 keyboard.
Seeking a (non-technical) cofounder to change how we produce and consume content
I've spent the past 6 months speaking to marketers at professional services firms and elsewhere about how they go about creating content and building an application that has early traction.

I'm technical - I've built the application, but I don't have the capacity or existing skill to get the product to market as quickly as we need to.

What's the big idea?

There's a whole lot of content out there - more than we can consume. There's a lot of bad content too. It clogs up google and makes it harder to learn about what you want. What if:
a) valuable content was available in any format - a video can be text can be a set of cliff notes can be audio.. the end-consumer decides how they want to consume it
and b) searching for knowledge returned the specific parts of content that you want to know about, not (for example) a video that could or could not include what you want to know. I'm not looking to reinvent Google - I am trying to build the next layer of search that Google doesn't (and can't) do well that returns valuable knowledge over generic search results.

Who am I looking for?

I need someone non-technical who is comfortable with and has experience of sales. Building this out will start with businesses that are sharing their knowledge (vs producing content for the sake of it) and having a network of people that you can show the value of this platform to is vital. I'm looking for a US based partner ideally. If you have another job or need financial support immediately, this isn't for you. My work ethic is intense and the pace is high - you need to be able to match that. If you have a sales or marketing background and ability to consistently execute then this is for you.

My email is in my profile - if you are interested, or know someone who might be, email me telling me a little about you.
The idea is not that it would be RFID only, but to reduce the number of non-tagged objects & people so false positives happen less often. Obviously you still need a way to deal with random, unexpected obstacles, but it's a much smaller problem space when the surrounding environment is mostly properly tagged.
How can anything ad related still be growing if most people either trained their brain to ignore/close ads instantly or use adblockers?