skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I'd consider myself pretty jaded about C64 demo effects. I've seen many impressive ones over the years, but it's extremely rare to see one this original, that isn't "just" a stepwise refinement of known effects but a massive leap.

At the same time it's a massive "d'oh" moment given the technique of having the CPU generate the video signal on 8-bit computers is much older than the C64, and running code on the 1541 is also well established.

[same approach on the C64 itself to do multi-monitor effects, anyone? Wire up the user port, tape and/or serial port.... Resolution would suffer, of course - but it'd be fun to see attempts...]

Given how heavily people have hacked it, both in terms of software and hardware it's amazing that it's been overlooked (and impressive to think of it). Then to get the idea, and not just leave it at a proof of concept but producing something this high quality...
>>> If there is a more famous function in computer science

Maybe fizzbuzz?

Let's try to auto generate some fizzbuzz code, see what we get :D
Circles, Tangents and Geometric Inversions
Description of geometric inversions and its applications to circles.
Is that need for confirmation still true after the removal of term limits? I saw that as essentially instilling him as dictator and turning the process into a mere formality for appearances but maybe that’s just my ignorant take.

I’m not deeply familiar with the inner workings and organization of the CCP. Any leads on how best to learn more?
From https://archive.is/J1jQ6

> One of his projects achieved particular notoriety: a 4-foot map detailing the entire financial system, including the repo market and so-called shadow banks. Pinned to the wall of a briefing room, the map gave regulators a literal picture of the networks within which banks, asset managers, insurers and hedge funds operate.

PDF of the 4-foot map of the Shadow Banking system, https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/2013/0713adri.html
Yes, in principle you could special case all the verifiers, although that's an open set, the logs are public.
> 1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

Not only it wasn't a fork, it probably wouldn't have gotten that far without those big pockets.
Why the downvotes here? This is objectively true and, in my experience, very very useful.

Screen readers are scrapers too. "Scraper" does not mean "user agent I don't like".
Indeed, it is generally good for analytics to have a conceptual data model that is reasonably efficient both on the technical side (to quickly get answers for queries), and also on the logical side (to quickly translate questions to queries).

This model doesn't need to be OLAP cubes, but it's also not that easy to find something better.
1. People are more likely to recognize they're wrong if you don't also call them crazy.

2. Uh, okay.

3. You've significantly adjusted your statement from "it adds the necessity to cause unnecessary environmental pollution", which remains incorrect.

> (please provide proof for your statement regarding just "how much" mining is renewable-based)

I don't need to provide proof for things I didn't say.

Keep in mind that proof of stake as a trustless consensus mechanism is largely hypothetical at this point. All the major "live" implementations (Polkadot, Cardano, Tezos) have large numbers of trusted validators.

We agree that carbon emissions and other pollution are a problem. What we don't agree on is the solution to that problem.

> [R]enewable energy is removed from the market and thus can't be used to power other consumers, which then must use fossil-fuel based energy sources. It's not like there's not enough demand for energy in the world, especially of the renewable kind.

Wrong. The energy that's cheap enough to make mining profitable is cheap because nobody else wants it. In extreme cases, electricity produced in ghost cities in China will literally be dumped into the ground if it's not used by miners. It takes very little competition from consumers to make mining unprofitable.
How do services like this handle the copyright/malware/child porn problem? That is, I thought the whole reason send.firefox.com shut down was that it became a hub for sharing illegal content and there wasn't a good way to filter that out. If Mozilla couldn't solve that issue for a free service, how can anyone else?
Nah I think that dream has passed!
This could nicely supplement my GitHub automation that emails feed digests https://github.com/mhitza/subscriptions-digest

Similarly to my repository, I think I would suggest the option to fetch the configuration file from an external resource defined via an action secret. For my automation I'm using a Gist (not sure if Gitlab has same thing; also private but publicly accessible snippets).

At least that way you can keep your own feed configuration while allowing those that fork the repository to not have to manually fix conflicts within the feeds.toml config.
Unfortunately this is something large corps like AWS have been getting away with for a while now. Releasing half-baked product clones as GA when in fact they're still clunky and are probably beta at max.
My favorite comment is at the very end: "I do quite a bit of traveling in the States...This is a good chance to get in close contact with some of my former opponents. I am very close friends now with Colonel Hub Zemke; and it was his wing that shot off my thumb (5th Fighter Group), and we know exactly who got me. It was Joseph Powers. I have a lot of friends over there."

Surprising that former enemies could become such close friends but I suppose their experience as fighter pilots in WWII gives them a lot in common!
> It's a lot easier to get things done on a bad day when you don't have to think about things much: just wake up, do your bed, and start your morning routine.

The routine stuff is the 'easiest' part in some ways. It's "not having fun" that can really create a drag over the long term:

> Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure.[1] While earlier definitions emphasized the inability to experience pleasure, anhedonia is currently used by researchers to refer to reduced motivation, reduced anticipatory pleasure (wanting), reduced consummatory pleasure (liking), and deficits in reinforcement learning.[2][3][4]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhedonia
While technically correct I would (reasonably) expect the captain to only exercise this in extreme circumstances. Asserting control in an ambiguous situation can be a difficult decision.
Not one that can be verified by looking at the chain.

I encourage you to read the first paper I linked, instead of continuing to respond to parts of my posts out of context.
When a hypothetical 128-core single socket comes out, will there be no workload that prefers to use a 2x128-core dual socket instead?

AMD CPUs remain largely dual-socket compatible. Today's 64-core EPYCs can be dual-socketed into 2x64-core beasts.

It just seems silly to me that if you're building say 200 computers in 10x racks (20-computers per 10x 40U racks) that you'd prefer single socket over dual-socket. If you're scaling up and out so much, what exactly is the problem with dual socket? Its not costs: dual socket remains cost-effective on a per-core basis over single-socket. Dual-sockets cuts the number of computers you need to work with in half. Etc. etc.
Absolutely! It’s so good for your well-being
Here's a couple pages I've found on drug repurposing for COVID

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-020-00007-6

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7474498/
Moneygram and Western Union have been 'banking the unbanked' for decades. They actually deliver what crypto promises.

With MG and WU, they are deeply embedded in the countries they operate in; they develop relationships with the banks so customers can get their money without hassle, even if they don't have accounts there. If you send money in Country A, it's available in Country B within 10 minutes, which is approx. the amount of time it would take a human to look up that transaction and verify the customer's ID. Your recipient walks out with cash.

Meanwhile, transferring crypto peer-to-peer isn't even free, and transactions are nowhere near instantaneous. And even if your recipient understands crypto, they still have an extra step of converting these bytes into actual legal tender.
RustViz: Generates Visualizations of Rust Lifetime and Borrowing Mechanism
"RustViz: Interactively Visualizing Ownership and Borrowing"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09012
In my experience, most USB controllers use an 8051 to implement the USB protocol at the level in between the link and URBs.
> This project is a tool to generate synthetic 3d scenes for toying with bricks registration.

I'm out of the lego brick scanning loop. What is "bricks registration"?
Ironic, considering the opposite is true for planes. Although I do believe only one is typically in control/“pilot” at any given time. Not to mention autopilot and flying vs shipping conditions
I think the author's simply referencing the fact that it's a common chip used in many usb controllers and make it easy to build peripherals that work with USB standards.
Dask itself (and its commercial entity Coiled) seems to be investing heavily in the PyData/ml library ecosystem. I feel like it's about time until they reach feature parity, which would be a huge win for existing users of the PyData stack.
Wikipedia says guanfacine and clonidine too. And bupropion and modafinil off label.
Not everyone who’s code ends up on GitHub has agreed to this set of terms
"Better to have a corrupt government than no government at all"
Alas, Audacity is free.
What's the use?

I do have a GitHub account with code that it's supposed to be "open source"... but in all honesty no one will ever use it (left aside collaborate and open PRs). So, I was thinking: why do I need to publish my code in GitHub/GitLab/sr.ht/etc? What's the use? I came to realise that it's just hype. Pushing code to GitHub/GitLab make sense only for those few developers who actually produce useful stuff; for the rest of us it's just a fad.
Contribute what?

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
One could also see this differently.

The medical industry has to deal with the general population. Just like the food industry does. Now for both I do agree with you that I personally want the details, the numbers and make up my own mind. So give me those numbers. I want to know, this side effect happened to 1/100 people and this other one happened to 1/1000000. I want to know that 100g of this food contains 4mg of iron. I don't even want % of RDA as RDA is both a moving target and an assessment/decision someone made based on stuff I might not fit into. I.e. I'm male and not pregnant, my RDA is different from a pregnant woman's RDA.

I think it is still very important to have something that is easily understandable by the general population though. I.e. I'm totally for saying "this is rare" and "this is common". Food wise, I think it does make sense to have something like that color system some countries have "This contains a high amount of sugar". As long as you put the actual numbers on there too!
Is there someplace I can read more about this idea? Any aspect of it. I'm one of the less technically literate members of HN, but I'm a co-owner of a blind dev group.

Please and thank you.
There is a way which is ugly as hell, but has already used these times. Some countries are forcing the big companies to be involved in local laws by coercion to open an official representation in their countries. That meens nothing good for citizen because good parts of American law are prohibited by local ones and vice versa.

BTW, I would like to figure out what companies can be called "social media" and what ones can not. Because HN also might be considered as social media but it is so different that I have nothing to hate about it.
GPL explicitly forbids re-licensing under more restrictive terms.

So either the added terms are not more restrictive, which basically means they are unnecessary and have no real effect; or they are more restrictive, which is incompatible with the GPL.

You can't have things go both ways. It seems that your argument is "we're not adding restrictions, we're just saying what we think Copyright law / the GPL should actually be like." But unfortunately you can't "clarify" Copyright Law or "clarify" the GPL by adding terms. Ultimately courts decide that.

(Of course, if somehow your "clarification" happens to align with a court decision, then maybe it will work after all. But in theory your "clarification" is still not necessary and has no additional effect....)
This! is! hacking! Making something new, out of the technology you have at your hands. Probably he did not even had to use any JavaScript.
I think the whole swirling discussion is a little confused because there are potentially two "ends" where infringement could happen, and different people are talking about each. And the article covers both.

One end is GitHub's, at the input: Copilot's "database" was initialized from code that GitHub does not have copyright to. The contention at this end is that they are ignoring the licenses that would grant them the right to use that code.* The article, GitHub, and others assert that there's no copyright issue for creating a database of this kind (a machine learning model).

The other end is the the developer taking Copilot's output. The article seems to take the (absurd IMO) position that there's also no copyright implications here, because the output is not copyrightable at all.

*And personally this is the side that concerns me most.
That feels like it would just turn into some type of toxic popularity contest where prominent posters that get a lot of engagement get boosted to the top, irregardless of the actual quality of said engagement. In addition it may also create some type of gatekeeping effect, though in my opinion that's not exactly a bad thing for niche communities such as this.
In my early 20s my primary goal was to make big bucks with a startup.
After that startup failed and caused me to experience depression, I spent a couple of years contracting and partying.

I realised over those two years that money is not everything, time is. I also decided I was tired of the partying bachelor lifestyle and had two babies, while enjoying some chilling time being an employee in a medium sized company with paternity leave and easy deadlines (which is nothing effort wise compared to starting a business or contracting).

My goal then shifted to build passive income streams, so that I have more time to spend on myself and with the family and on projects directed by me, instead of working for someone else trying to make profits above everything else.

After achieving that and getting the freedom I longed for, I don't really have a major life goal, just a bunch of things I would like to do.
At the same time, I don't feel like I would regret not doing these things if I were to die tomorrow.
The article text "In total, 77 percent of households do not have enough food" doesn't match the headline.

Eating "not enough food" will mean you starve, but death by starvation can take a long time.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-a-pe...

> Unlike total starvation, near-total starvation with continued hydration has occurred frequently, both in history and in patients under medical supervision. Survival for many months to years is common in concentration camps and during famines, but the unknown caloric intake during these times makes it impossible to predict survival.
I contribute to open source software but I don't use it to spy on people. I don't want software to spy on me either.
What commercial activity doesn’t “favor the well-funded”? That’s a rather moot point, wouldn’t you say?

Staking coins just means clicking a button and receiving a financial yield proportionate to your initial investment. Simply showing up with money on day one is enough to earn money on your money.

People financially invested in staking frequently pretend like button-clicking auto-yield is the exact same thing as A) procuring powerful computers which rapidly become obsolete year after year, and B) paying for electricity and hosting facilities for those computers over a long period of time. But the difference between the two scenarios is night and day, and no amount of waxing poetic over “commerce favoring the well-funded” will change that fact.

To act as if staking has exactly the same economic properties as mining is false equivalence.
The Dr Who novelisations were loved in part because they were the only way pre-video for the show's decades of output to be experienced. (And still are for some lost episodes.) I'd hardly ever seen an episode (as a late 70's 10 year old) but had read all the books I could find in the local library.

(I suspect they also inspired many kids to read for similar reasons.)
For those curious, the list of books that cover the geopolitics of the Suez Canal (way before the current one) is extensive and include:

Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace

The Suez Crisis: The History of the Suez Canal’s Nationalization by Egypt and the War that Followed

1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
Do these prescriptive advisors know what they are doing wrong and improve their style? OR do they often think they are doing great?
To add to the "simplicity" aspect, I'd add: They were tiny.

You could read the entire OS ("KERNAL") and BASIC disassembly start to finish (there were books listing them, with comments added). You could systematically test what changing registers would do - I remember pestering my parents at work by calling them to let them hear what sounds I managed to make by randomly POKE'ing things into the sound registers just to experiment.

And of course the manuals. While I agree with you books were hard to get, the C64 manual was fantastic.
> Its a fantasy to believe that anybody would install such and absurd amount of access wind and solar

Fantasy becomes reality:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190327-the-tiny-islands...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-56279...
BTW: I thought I'd seen your name before. You are also the one who claimed the other day that:

> Female programmers have had to fight against a constant discouragement from pretty much everyone in their lives, while male programmers have had nothing but encouragement.

Based on that and this one it seems fair to say that you have a tendency to make up facts as you need them.

Please stop doing that. It might be a nice party trick when one is young but it soon get really annoying for anyone who argues in good faith.
>> This is just FIRE without the money.

> I love how you framed this as a bad thing.

No, not at all. I'm a Star Trek fan.

But for the 21st century it's a complete fantasy to think it's realistic.

You need money to do this. To just skip that step is disconnected from reality.

Or to put another way: You can't just take. In Star Trek you can, because food replicators, and extreme abundance.

In Star Trek people would give away a house because they can just get a new one.

We're hundreds of years away from that.

FIRE is about really intensifying your production (your "giving"), in order to then get back your fair share as others give back to you.

If you create a world where nobody has to "give", but everyone is allowed to "take", what exactly do you think will happen?

> That assumption has been disproved time and again.

Oh? How, where? I don't think we're talking about the same thing.

Yes, some wealthy people in history have used their time to make great things. But the vast VAST majority, like 99.9999%, have not.

Just look at royalty. The only productive thing they do is through their wealth and power. Who actually contributed, as opposed to have their wealth contribute?
Oh, but we do know. It is because the age of the universe and the speed of light are both finite. (We knew that back in 2002 as well; the page you linked seems to be written the way it is mostly for pedagogical reasons.)
There are other medications that work differently.
Yes, with enough practice you can get an onion chopped in less than a minute, and for what it’s worth I do it more or less the way you describe.

But we have the same problem again: chopping an onion for one minute takes more than one minute. I probably need to spend a few minutes clearing some space, because my kitchen is small and tends to be in less than perfect order. Do I have a clean chopping board to use? No, then I need to clean one. Is my preferred knife for chopping onions clean? Same thing. What about the onions, what type of onion was I supposed to use, and how many? Better check the recipe again. Then I need to check the onions I have, pick which ones to use, do they look ok or did they start to spoil? And sometimes they’re just terribly hard to peel. Then after I’m done I need to collect all the little peels and other leftover bits and put them in the composter - which is getting full so I should probably change it.

Add this up, consider that I needed to chop more than one onion and that my technique is less than perfect, and it easily takes 5–10 minutes.
Most popular Linux distros are in many ways more vulnerable than Windows. Microsoft employs actual security engineers for Windows. To give one example, X11 is still in wide use.

The secure Linux distros are all of the locked down kind, like Chrome OS and Android.

The reason why we aren't seeing widespread desktop Linux malware campaigns is because almost nobody uses desktop Linux. The year of the Linux desktop, whenever it will be, will be followed by the year of the Linux desktop malware.

I love open source and free software, but it's not inherently more secure.
Please, never ever do kids if you barely think it’s an unpleasant thing. Don’t break under the social pressure of what is correct and what is not.

Don’t get me wrong : I have a kid and it’s the most beautiful thing that happened to me. I never ever had any regret. But o boy I think it must be hard to have kids if you did not want them.

What regularly break my heart is hearing parents yelling at their kids for mostly nothing, only because of the stress.

However, if you are ok with the idea to have this little alive thing be more important than yourself, go for it, it’s full happiness from day one and it rapidly goes from exhausting to a lot of fun. My 4yo make me laugh every single day.
It's not obvious that Microsoft is violating copyright yet. The main concern is whether the product makes others liable.

So it could be that the executives really wanted to do it, and the lawyers thought "OK, technically we're not violating anything...."
I am not the subject matter expert but have spent first few year of my career doing data warehousing. I think OLAP cubes are falling out of fashion because traditional BI and reporting in general is falling out of fashion.

With self-service BI tools like looker and other tools, Business folks are running more adhoc queries than traditionally piped data through ETL processes.
Kaseya ransomware attackers demand $70M
In the evenings, usually every day. However starting out, it was more like every second or third day, until the feet became stronger and I had learned gradually to run with more finesse, exact landing, and less peak impact with each stride.

When I go out to run, there's no set goal or any pressure. I have a route in mind, but the idea is to just take it easy and bounce along at whatever speed I feel like going. It's like when I used to cross-country ski just for fun.
RULF: Rust Library Fuzzing via API Dependency Graph Traversal