skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Andreas,

I just watched a couple of your video on participating in Open Source - like https://youtu.be/GU_ISkNml-A - and just read a ton of really nice things about you below and read your story.

And honestly I really have no idea how SerenityOS would relate to me or my company – but I do know that everything under the hood of our hosting and our clouds is Open Source.

So for sure I can say for just being an Open Source champion and an all around nice guy, for the next year at least, count on me personally at $100 a month (just did it in Github) and my company InMotion Hosting for another $100 month (just did it on Patreon).

Open Source constantly struggles with needing super talented professional but also struggles on how to make sure they make a good living. I know $200/mo isn't a lot when it comes to life, but hopefully it helps you know others out here believe in this kind of work and taking this kind of chance!
Wow quite eerie levels of astroturfing considering how recent the post was made.
Sure, I'm not a non-technical user but I feel like setting up a build environment and building from scratch is more than the time investment I'm willing to make to evaluate this project.

Just want a disk image to plop in Qemu or VirtualBox or Hyper-V to see what this feels like before I delve in the code.
Theranos was lying and faking demos. Also the founder had little knowledge in the field.
Indeed. And it's also worth noting that the culture of individualism tends to hold everybody back, even the individuals who get furthest "ahead". In general, individuals benefit more when everybody is collaborating and supporting their peers rather than trying to beat them.
I'm guessing no one technical vetted them? Seems more like YC growing pains than anything else. YC, the organization, should have prevented this with a set process and requirements like "have someone technical with gaming experience vet potential gaming investments".
> to Governments as sales tax

Does Twitter circumvent taxes from ad revenue ?
Isn't a negative income tax that turns into a flat tax just a
progressive tax scheme???

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I spent a couple weeks in Krakow and one thing I noticed was how intensely people maintained eye contact when speaking to you. It seemed to be uniquely Polish, as I didn't notice it in Ukraine, Hungary, Germany, etc. Wondering if anyone else has noticed that or if it was just an anomaly.
I'd hesitate to put a time estimate like that on their lead in anything. They've had a "decade-long" lead on a lot of things for over a decade. The rest of the market (unfortunately) acts like it's decided not to actually compete directly with them at all, and to chase other segments instead, putting out products that might look kind-of similar but aren't really serious alternatives to most people considering the Apple version of whatever-it-is.
Elder Scrolls Online is primarily content led
That could be very good news in terms of power consumption for a given amount of computing capacity.
I don't think anyone is looking over $35 venmo payments and denying your mortgage application because you sent someone a payment for "vegan beard & motor oil"
When Canada's premiere was asked for the reasons behind not discussing ivermectin he boiled it down to 2 answers: (1) vaccines, (2) thank you for the rain.
https://twitter.com/AL_Maplewood/status/1397733921102598146?
Bizarre! But have't run across good answers except it competes with more expensive solutions (profit motive).
vs. the "huge, bloated" bureaucracy that has to exist to implement salaried & contract work? You actually believe that more people work in the government on redistribution than in companies?

Also, people pay other people for goods & services that the people with the money want to pay for. The nature of my life should not be determined by the preferences of the people who've managed (frequently via heredity) to hoover up outsize chunks of wealth and power within the economy. As a human being, I do not exist to satisfy the wants of the rich (though I might choose to pursue doing so as means of making a living). The options available as a way to make a living should not be controlled by those who have already been successful.
Dang — we need a title change on this one. The article itself discusses the scam accusation but never makes that assertion itself, but the title here is heavily editorialized.

(I have no known affiliation with the game or anyone involved with it)
The real reason is that American smile is relatively new phenomenon that appeared about 100 years ago with the emergence of Hollywood, everyone wanted to act like famous actors and it became a part of the culture. Also the smile in US is a sign of hope, dream, prosperity and individualism. In socialist countries the collective well-being is above the needs of individual so there is no reason to smile all the time.
Aside from the whole grossness of working for the military-industrial complex, there is another issue for those of us who care about rigor: the whole system of clearances in the US relies heavily on the inaccurate and pseudoscientific polygraph test, which does not test or prove any measurable thing.

The interpretations of this pseudoscience can have devastating effects on your career, and not being based on facts or anything truly measurable, you have effectively zero recourse against such destruction, whether willful or otherwise, because it's elevated to the status of "evidence", simply because "the machine said it!"

https://antipolygraph.org/pubs.shtml

What's worse is that the failings of this pseudoscientific nonsense are well known to the USG, and yet this continues for decades to be central to the system of ostensible "trust" in those who keep government secrets. It's abusive. (Imagine if your government health insurance only covered crystal healers.)
Money laundering laws emerged after criminals started getting organized about managing their wealth. Before Prohibition and Meyer Lansky, they were all small timers.
"government can't do it" is dogma.

Not being currently politically feasible doesn't mean it's against the laws of nature.
> select instead for ideology and party loyalty.

Already being done, but not yet at the student level: https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...

Not officially, at least. The kind of organization that requires a political pledge as condition of employment, was not bias-free the day before the requirement became official.
Yes, exactly that. I'm much more happy about the potential for power savings than the possibility to further extend the miniaturization, the latter has a lot of other hurdles that need to be overcome than just in-the-lab process size. Spend enough money and you can already have features that small (and much smaller) in the lab, but the power saving potential here is massive.
Circles were a way to organize contacts and had nothing to do with posts. It allowed you to share posts with a subset of your contacts, but offered no control to those users about which of your posts they see.
Are not alphas expected to be broken?
Pro tip: make something that is useful without any data. If I can use the tool just my own data, then I’ll be more encouraged to contribute my own data. At some point you have enough data to produce something more useful for new users.
I always associated these with key logging prevention. What drives me nuts however, is websites/apps that allow me to type my password but not paste it. Like they want to force that a keylogger can grab it?

Another favorite of mine are password conposition rules, which do nothing but reduce security and are everywhere :(
I didn't think I would like the Apple Watch as much as I do. I swear, add a camera, and I'll leave my phone at home.

I know, it's not a mobile browser, not really much as a mobile messaging device — but that's fine. One one hand, I'm not your stereotypical phone user that is always engrossed in the black mirror but furthermore, the Apple Watch means I am even less inclined.
To compare judges to kings in this case is so absurd as to barely be worth refuting. The court is working within within a legal framework, not wielding supreme executive power granted by divine right and inherited through a dynasty.
Pebble IMO was and still is the best wearable watch. I don’t think anything worked better largely due to the long battery life and generally the e-ink design. Had they added different wrist bands with smart tech in it, it would have gone even further.

I don’t really think apple has a decade lead, what they do have is minimal innovation they’re competing with. AND more importantly, a brand and ecosystem. That being said if Samsung came out with a decent watch similar to pebble and bundled it with their phones I think they’d be outselling Apple.
I bounce back and forth between if I would quit or if I would keep working. If I keep working, then I can save a few thousand for the family and have health insurance to protect against some bills. What's a few months of happiness worth? It's not like I'll be creating memories that I can look back on.
Forth is not new and not very expressive...

I'm unable to find Oberon or Oberon 2 MS-DOS compiler binaries anywhere.

Can you help me locate such compiler? Free Oberon project looks like DOS, but it's Windows version in reality.
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> Government-provided food is still bought from somebody, by the government, and typically this is seen as a superfluous and inefficient extra step.

Why is this seen as superfluous? We all have to eat; so why not bulk buy food for the population, this could even replace subsidies for farmers; just buy from your own farmers in preference to importing. After all, one of the reasons for providing subsidies to farmers is to ensure that you can grow food for your population in a time of need; perhaps we should do that all of the time.

During the second world war, many were bombed out of their homes and couldn't prepare food. The British government set up British Restaurants [1] to provide nutritious meals; we could do that now, without all of the overhead of fighting a world war. This would also help to feed those children who are going hungry, as many now are [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant

2. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/03/exclusive-fi...
As it was explained to me by one American: it signals confidence.
Around 10 years ago I wrote a Linux driver for the OCZ Nia, a super cheap EMG device. The Nia was actually a $10k medical device for paralyzed people to control computers with their face and tongue repurposed as a gaming input and sold for $120.

While I'm certain the technology has advanced, what surprises me most is how basic these finger reading devices seem. They're basically some electrodes on your skin near major nerve centers and a little bit of signal processing, like barely any signal processing.

It's about time this technology entered the mainstream. I was waiting for VR with occular/vagus nerve sensing for depth of field emulation but I guess hand sensors are the next best thing.
And let's hope it stays that way, because it's the one thing that's keeping the world from going up in flames.

If I were the supreme commander of a nuclear power, I wouldn't even want to know where the enemy subs are. I'd make sure the military isn't trying too hard to find them. That's because A in MAD stands for "assured". Nuke-carriyng submarines are often billed as first-strike weapons, but arguably their main role is being a backup - an assurance that, no matter how effective your first strike is, you are going to be glassed in retaliation. So, your submarines check the enemy, enemy submarines check you, and the standoff continues.

If you can credibly threaten to detect enemy nuclear-armed submarines, then the enemy has a strong incentive to launch a first strike immediately, before you've completely neutered their subs.
This was hilariously fun to play. Thank you! :)
I'm not. For my use-case the disadvantages (worse performance, hell debugging, no modularity) outweighed the advantages (theoretical increase in performance)
This speaks to a wider trend where tons of local software, especially mobile, is now assuming always-on network and syncing, transmitting data, demanding account creation/PII, and spying on your usage and memory contents (uploading crash dumps, system information, et c).

Very little software these days simply just runs locally and does the thing it's supposed to do on your own device without transmitting your private information to a datacenter (usually owned by a giant US corporation). This is a problem for all of society (especially those companies and users outside of the US), not just runners on secret bases or students in missile sites.
If someone says "I wish X had feature Y", answering "then X isn't for you" does not contribute to the discussion. Products can change and feature requests shouldn't be dismissed on the grounds that the feature doesn't exist yet.

In this case it certainly could, and is almost already implemented (in the form of both the "hashtags" and "topics").
Pwned passwords, open source in the .NET foundation and working with the FBI
Maybe less but still a concern. My mental capacity has greatly declined over the decade of my career.
The 50 MHz limit had to do with spreading a synchronous clock across the longest dimension of a motherboard. By splitting the on-chip and off-chip clocks out we managed to get much higher clockrates (across much shorter distances). It's often the details that matter a lot with such statements and if a metric is presented without context then you can easily stray into territory where such statements are no longer necessarily valid, even though in principle they carry a core of truth.

In practice the only real fundamental limit to how fast you can clock a processor has to do with the gate rise and fall times, which are in turn intimately coupled to how large those gates are (the main factor in determining their capacitance) and the resistance in the charging circuitry for the gate. This is essentially an RLC network where all of the dominant factors are parasitic. What the real practical limits are is as of yet unknown but you always have to keep in mind is that this is tech at the cutting edge and that what is impossible today may very well a breakthrough away from being common.
This makes sense. Forza Horizon 4 with all the money and servers Microsoft can throw at it only supports 79 live humans in the same session. It seems like a small number but with all the real-time variables from cars and liveries to backgrounds and driving behavior, it's an enormous amount of state to manage.
>Inflation takes years to fully emerge

Evidence?

>printing money exacerbates wealth inequality

No, the method of distribution exacerbates inequality

Important distinction.
You can go into your profile, then set "showdead" to "yes". Once you look at bellingcat's domain submissions, you'll see they're mostly "dead" and that makes them hidden from unlogged and most logged users, so it's like they're automatically taken out of the pool of articles available to receive votes. Only once someone "vouches" for a dead post can it be voted on again.

Usually posts go dead when downvoted enough, but it seems posts from that domain are automatically set to dead, and a few of them are resurrected.

Btw, the best place to find dead posts is the newest page, as they are uncommon in other places.

Edit: sorry if I sounded condescending, I might have misread that as you not understanding what "dead" meant, rather than "why would that be an issue".
I don’t get why battery life is important beyond 24h. I just put the watch on its charger at night. Only downside is during traveling, one more thing to carry and possibly the watch won’t make it through excruciating international travel.

So it won’t matter to me if the watch lasts a day or a week, it’s off my wrist when I sleep and goes on it’s charger.
Improved contact resistance may translate most significantly to speed. The drive strength of a fet is significantly hampered by high output resistance - especially for small gates.

It isn't quite clear why they are developing 2D. Planar fets must leak terribly at these sizes.
Configuring the Windows desktop to look like Windows NT makes me feel 20 years younger!
Thanks! I thought I remembered something about that, and indeed they have:

Russia in color, a century ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491766 - Sept 2012 (187 comments)

Russia in color a century ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1621517 - Aug 2010 (25 comments)

There may have been other threads too...
I used to compile Gcc 1.x on my 16 MHz 68010-based Apple SE/30 -- first with Apple's compiler, and later previous versions of itself. Enough was enough. Any machine you can build today will be retro 30 years from now.

But what is more fun than artifical retro is programming microcontrollers. A project that needs a hundred or a thousand microcontrollers puts an upper bound on their cost and complexity, and so real, practical limits on their individual absolute capacity. At the end you get something you built yourself that you probably couldn't buy at any price.

You can program microcontrollers in C++20, and use all the most powerful features of the language, which mostly happen at compile time on your host/development machine, downloading the resulting binary into your microcontrollers. You can debug on your host with gdb, talking bit-serial to a tiny gdb stub you have included in the code running on your microcontroller.

If you want to use a newer language, Rust or Zig are probably not much harder to get generating code for microcontrollers.
These use color syntactically.
This is a cool post, and I really appreciate the link/references to other content. At one point I played around with parametrizing procedural generation of mazes to produce a desired length/complexity balance (https://sigopt.com/blog/building-better-multicriteria-bayesi...). Would love to try that out on a more complicated situation like the one you're working on. Thanks for the content.
The interesting point is how fractal it is.

You can keep going and the 0.00001% will be clobbering the rest of the 0.001%. It's a structural thing we're seeing.

That means it'a a fair question, to ask 'is that useful in any sense?'. It's not 'points' we are awarding or measuring, this is the means by which humans interact and survive. It is more of a zero sum game when it's captured by individuals as a way of keeping score. That's non-optimal.
This is a bit like defunctionalization:

https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/12/30/defunctionalization-ever...

It's basically replacing a function pointer with an enum. The kernel version is particularly simple, because the enum values don't have fields, they are a pure discriminant.

Although I think the integritized function pointers aren't enum values or indices into the jump table, they're pointers into it. I think they could be indices; I'm not sure if there's a reason this is a bad idea.
It's an interesting solution which I wasn't aware of (thanks for sharing), but requiring a weekly reinstall and a free developer account (and a computer to automate the process) doesn't seem to be something most people would use. It's also not comparable to what all other mainstream OS allow you to do.

When I install an apk on Android, it works until something breaks. Same on Windows, macOS or Linux. I also don't have to ask Google, Microsoft or Canonical for a free key so I can sign an app created by someone else.

I'm sure this is enough and acceptable for some users, just not for me.
If you want to track your sleep that doesn't work so well
I would just rather the people be represented than decided for. As such, I don’t like that Roe v. Wade was decided for the US by nine dipshits and I don’t like that nine new dipshits may strike it down in the near future, none of whom were even indirectly elected.

Why do you consider my argument well-poisoning?
Indeed, we’re in private beta atm experimenting with pricing and product. Don’t want to mislead or turn away people until we finalize it.
https://www.livescience.com/10569-human-lifespans-constant-2...
> TL;DR: If all russians would play poker, the world would be broke.

Njet, Teddy Kgb didn't win.
Encryption: Its Past, Present, and Future
Sounds a lot like the "CEO" is a just sales rep for your company who did a great sales pitch to get you into YC, but who didn't even commit enough to the company to want to do it fulltime unless the person could get majority ownership.

As others have mentioned, you might want to try to pull the business out of the company and get a better sales rep, with a more appropriate single digit or less equity.

This kind of ego trip happens all the time in companies, when a sales rep closes a deal for X$ and they believe they just made the company X$ profit, fully ignoring not just all costs, but also every single contribution from everyone else at the company that put them in a position to even try to sell whatever was pitched, and everything that will be needed to deliver it.

That's perfectly fine mentality for a sales rep, but no for a CEO. Which seems obvious.
Reading this after GP called it reverse engineering makes me feel he should've use different terminology.
Google put a ton of R&D effort into gesture sensing with short range radar (Soli) but it doesn't seem to have gone much of anywhere as yet. I don't think this type of interface is as important as the author claims.

https://atap.google.com/soli/
Calling unsafe libraries automatically makes the calling code unsafe by definition. You cannot have a 100% safe language that also interacts with its (unsafe) environment in any way.

The language needs a way to express the lack of safety of an external library in order to clearly isolate it from the safe code sections. In Rust that's the unsafe block.
Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
There is currently no real competition for TSMC, many wealthy corporations are trying and failing. Many economies depend on chips that come from there.

Historically, wars were often fought about some resource with limited access.
And maybe no "you're back home" feature, undoing my preference about the order I want to see content every 7 days?
TSMC's fabrication leadership has never been greater, regardless of the marketing speak they are at the forefront. All the more amazing given for a "renegade province" that has thrived despite continual attempts to economically isolate it by the empire next door.
Past a certain point what you want has nothing to do with it
Google+ had this concept and I really liked it.
macOS now has System Integrity Protection which requires manual Full Disk Access perms to read chat.db so any random app cannot touch it.
...that's what malicious people say! ;)
About 10 years ago, I wrote an app for reading, searching, and exporting iPhone texts based on the sqlite files in a backup.

I don't think it works any longer on the latest iOS, but I open sourced the code if anyone wants to pick it up:

http://www.allyourtexts.com/
> How much food and what quality?

As much as you like; grown in your country by your farmers instead of subsidising them; just guarantee a purchase of their crops.

> Do I get to ask for tomahawk steaks every meal and an extra one to bring home to my dog?

No, you'd be lucky to get any meat as it is inefficient and would be considered a luxury that you can purchase yourself. If you want that, get a job.

> Is everyone entitled to an avocado or just those that live close to an avocado farm?

If you grow avocados in your country, then sure; you can have an avocado as part of a balanced meal.

> There is no easy answer to this and you bet a government mandated system would be heavily lobbied to include/exclude certain things.

Much like existing farming subsidies then.