skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I know a good deal about old video game systems but you clearly know more about (re/de)compilers than I do, so although still skeptical I’ll defer to your expertise, while vaguely gesturing towards “lots of people would love the performance gains of static recompilation in our emulators, if it’s feasible please advance the state of the art” :)

Pretty sure you’re still going to be stymied by things like cycle-counted code to line up I/O writes with the state of the hardware, though. I don’t suppose there’s tricks for that.
Immutable here meaning that all keys need to be known ahead of time of the construction? Certainly that's been one of the nice features of our use of bloom filters - we can safely add keys over time on demand, sharding every hour and giving all callers an up-to-the-second filter when they call. We could do a ribbon/minute and send that series out, but you lose efficiency by forcing checks across eg 24*60 filters.

E: yes, self-confirming that's what's meant. This is a great low-maths explanation from downthread which helped - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27800788
I checked and it turns out that I was wrong. You are correct that iTunes did at one point in time offer the ability to download copies of songs without DRM and without (significant) contractual limitations regarding the usage of those copies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090106080722/http://www.apple....

> (xii) iTunes Plus Products do not contain security technology that limits your usage of such Products, and Usage Rules (iii) – (vi) do not apply to iTunes Plus Products. You may copy, store and burn iTunes Plus Products as reasonably necessary for personal, noncommercial use.
I had the same initial reaction, and I think conversations like this often include desperate justification of GUI workflows driven by an inferiority complex.

But the parent comment was responding to a portion of its parent that specifically said "there's no option other than scripting". It sounds like he's responding to that, not making some general claim about the GUI being a better option.
Please don't take threads on generic tangents (this story -> cave story -> pedo guy tweet -> reductio ad Muskum). Please don't post cheap flamebait to HN. Also please don't go on about downvotes or post swipes about other users. It's all very tedious and we're trying for something interesting here.

We've had to ask you before to follow the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? We'd be grateful, because we're trying to avoid the tailspin into internet dreck which has traditionally been the fate of forums like this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27795166.
Yes, the non-existent ‘he’ of a satire piece.
Seems to be using the same format as https://qifi.org/, which lists supported devices, but of course due to the lack of native QR on most Android devices it's per-app rather than per-phone.
Nifty command line date and time utils for fast date calculations and conversion
Peak Skeuomorphism: Tinder, Online Events and Virtual Offices
Yeah, a sort of bargaining form of religion does impose fewer moral conditions on the gods. Things like the Graeco-Roman gods, old folk religion, Norse mythology, Egyptian mythology, etc. seem more like rationalizations of nature and the struggles of the human condition.

Much better model. Gods don't care about your mortal life, gods are just selfish powers that you can cajole into helping you.
I'd be curious to know more about the development of Super Mario All-Stars. I've been playing both the original and All-Stars (on the Switch--if that matters) and the acceleration of Mario in SMB1 feels different. The original SMB and All-Stars were only released 8 years apart. If they didn't use the original code base they likely had access to the original dev team.
There is a reason. It’s the same reason everyone should wear racing helmets while driving their cars.
In the UK, you get the bill and you pay with a cheque. In the US you get the check and you pay with a bill.
That's unlikely. Using Cloudfront you'd only pay 8 cents per GB (once you get past the 50GB of free data tier). Or you can put Cloudflare in front of it and pay nothing.
qrencode -t utf8 'WIFI:T:WPA;S:network;P:password;;'
> If those people chose to pirate SG1, literally nothing in the equation will change: the owners will keep not getting the money.

Wrong. The owners won't get money from people who pirated content once they make their content available again.

> And the only fault lies with the people who decided to pull SG1 (and other content) from Netflix.

No. The only people responsible for pirating SG1 are the pirates. The owners of SG1 don't owe anything to Netflix viewers and they certainly didn't force the hands of anybody to pirate their content.
Perhaps we would look at the donations to see if this is likely or not?
Perhaps https://github.com/ray-lothian/Block-Site/ could be adapted to your needs.
Unless a company limits its hiring to the US, the entire country can be described as “high cost of living” in terms of the incentive I’m describing.

Imagine a company offering a simple 100k geography-agnostic salary for an engineer. They’ll get some junior-to-mid-level candidates applying from lower cost of living places in the US, sure, and they’ll also get a lot of excellent senior applicants from India, Eastern Europe, Latin America, etc. If they hire based only on merit, they likely won’t be hiring from the US at all.
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I've gotten close. One thing I have noticed is when I drop the case on the floor it's not at all uncommon for it to open and for one or both of the buds to fly out. One time this happened to me while I was in the security line at the airport and I had to awkwardly back out of the line and look around but luckily I found the errant pod.
> Funny, I’m torrenting SG1 literally right now because Netflix took the episodes down for no reason.

They had SG-1 on Netflix?! It never was available on mine Netflix (which I keep subscribed to only because, and for as long as, they have the golden-era Star Trek series, i.e. TNG-ENT).

Exclusive regional distribution rights are legacy bullshit for digital content. And the sad thing is, people responsible for maintaining those are going to make things worse, because they now figured streaming is hot, and everyone is racing to create their own exclusive streaming platform.
Setting aside that I've never once actually heard those questions asked in good faith, if someone were to ask them in good faith, pointing out that they themselves have created an unanswerable question by placing words together that don't make sense is easy.

What makes a lie a lie? Its untrueness. So if you replace the untrueness with trueness, do you still have a lie? No. Your own usage of those words is incompatible.

What makes a triangle a triangle? Having exactly 3 angles in an enclosed figure, and, therefore, three sides. So if you added a fourth angle, would you still have a triangle? No. Your own usage of those words is incompatible.

The law of noncontradiction does not restrict God. It comes from God. It is a characteristic of God.
I'm not even that old, but a pattern I noticed when I've interviewed in the past couple years is that maybe I'm applying for the wrong jobs because my would-be peers ask questions that seem irrelevant and seem confused that I don't have answers ready for "what frameworks do you use? Which languages do you like? etc.", but then I get in an interview with someone who would be above me and we have a great chat about architecture and design and things that are actually relevant.

I'm here to build a house, I want to talk about the architecture of structural design of it. I don't care what brand air nailer you guys use.
IDF deployed drone swarms in Gaza fighting
I think the biggest Steve's achievement was the non-stop flight around the globe in the plane, but balloons are also an important part of his life story.
Nothing else in the resume changed, though. Just the picture. The age was still listed truthfully, demands didn't change, and the experience was the same.

If bad leadership wanted cheap employees, that is easily filtered by hiring folks with less experience (for example) because those folks tend to be younger.
Thanks. I am very interested now.
The article does discuss the place cell example (observed in rats), but basically as old news. What seems to be new (at least going by the Quanta article - I don't have access to Cell) is seeing phase precession in humans, and hints of it being a more universal mechanism also used for sequence learning, etc.

In the place cell instance, it seems one effect of this mechanism might be for place cell firing to act as a predictive input for adjacent place cells (a pretty solid real-word prior - you can't be "here" unless you just came from somewhere adjacent!), and another might be to make prior-and-current place simultaneously available which could be used to learn direction of travel.

If this is a general (or at least widespread) mechanism, not limited to place cell firing, then it opens up all sort of learning possibilities by bringing together (in time) inputs that would otherwise be asynchronous.
Safe withdrawal rate accounts for inflation and taxation related effects, too.

If you have $1M returning 9% per year, and withdraw $90k/year, you're either going to be spending less in real money in each year -- as inflation reduces the value of $90k and the amount of tax increases each year-- or you're going to be withdrawing more each year and depleting the principal.
Reading & writing clearly

data structs & algos

slowing down to take perspective on solutions
I do too. Even the web extension APIs don’t seem to comprehend this. It’s super disappointing and it’s holding back extension development and enabling a massive malware problem.
Did you type this in from memory?!
How about you actually talk about those things, instead of just alluding to them to make the person you're replying to seem small?
If someone learned lisp (or ML) in the 80s, very little from the “cutting edge” of languages would seem new at all. Likewise, most current framework trends have been around for decades.

I think the Junior mistake is searching for a programming panacea. While lots of bad designs exist, perfect designs do not.
Sorry what an I wrong about again? NASA is funded by taxpayers, and SpaceX, Virgin, and blue origin are funded (in part) by NASA. Maybe my grammar was sloppy, I mean to say Bezos, Branson, and Musk are not the ones writing (all) the checks.
https://hnblogs.substack.com/ Only non commercial blog posts of HN, so no politics or marketing
Seems pretty solid, but very barebones. There doesn't even seem to be a way to change the interpolation curves between keyframes (unless I missed it?)

The open source world needs more tools like this, so keep it up! I'll certainly be watching this.

EDIT I just saw this:

> Supported browsers: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge

That's not good. I tried the preview in Firefox and it seemed to work fine. You do you, but if you're only targeting Chrome then count me as one potential user/customer lost.
> The law of noncontradiction does not restrict God. It comes from God. It is a characteristic of God.

And that sentence works equally well with two gods, nine gods, and even 400 million gods, of which 200 million have since died.

Stop making up stuff.
The B-52’s’ “Rock Lobster” brought John Lennon back to music (2020)
It feels different because of a one-bit screwup!

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/167/
Out of curiosity, is there anywhere I can read about the practice of ending a letter with the recipient's name? I've only ever seen this in letters from 10 Downing Street and the Royal Household.
It's pretty straightforward actually. What does a blog do?

- Show content to users

- Allow the admin to update content

So you'd really just need three functions and some storage:

- A function that takes a request for content and shows a web page

- A function that authenticates the admin and shows them an admin page

- A function that takes their admin update request and writes to storage.

The storage could be S3, of if you want to get fancy you could use DynamoDB so that you can do things like tags and have blog pages that show each tag (or just regenerate them and put them on S3 every time you make a update with a new tag).
The kids clear them up here. In my case I spent several years carrying a scooter with about 3kg of the things on the main pole back from school every day.
my uncle was a postman, when I young he used to give me as many rubber bands as I needed, from memory they were brown

I made a daisy chain of rubber bands that - when stetched, was about 400meters long (to the end of our street). When i let it go, I thought something crazy would happen (i was about 6-7)but in reality nothing really happened it just shrank fast

I was extremely disapointed, it look many days to do this, I learnt at an early age about imagination vs reality
Where's the politics in discussing which anchor screw holds the most weight in drywall?

Saying everything is political removes any meaning from the word politics.
I can understand them going after Ag and Pharma in a big way, but I'm skeptical about the Tech part. There is just too much to lose in political support from that industry for any politician to attack them too aggressively.
Reason I use scripting languages over excel: I don't want to pay for excel, or a machine that will run it.
Excel doesn't scale.

period. full stop.
One problem I see with this approach is that the two endpoints will have different heights, and therefor different orbital periods[0]. This will put a lot of strain on the cable between them. This puts a limit on the length of the elevator.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_orbit#Tangential_ve...
Regardless of growing in hydroponics or in soil cannabis growers still recommend flushing.
I get messages from recruiters based on technologies I haven't used in a decade (Android primarily). It's all generic enough that I assume the people have no specific interest in me, they are just casting a super wide net and may not even want to interview me if I responded.
Well, the fact that there is still no official modding API tells you quite a lot about how much modding there would be if the Java version didn't exist.
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"Gazing down on the expensive apartments in Tribeca where some of you live, thanks to our generous bonuses, I see bankers on video calls with cameras switched off, sipping wine."

LMAO
I read that as “memo I wish I could send”.
Young people never use the term “the internet” these days.

If they’re talking about connectivity they say wifi and if they are talking about content they use the name of the specific service out of the 12 available they are talking about. As in “I can’t get Facebook at home, our wifi is broken”

Or “the wifi cable for the box computer in the office is broken, I need it fixed so I can go on stackoverflow”

If you really find yourself outside of Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest etc. well people just say “I found this page on google that says autism causes vaccines!”

If someone older mentions “the internet” some young IT expert will jump in to correct you with “Microsoft doesn’t support that anymore, you need to switch to the Edge”
Remove the misfeature that submission titles get silently rewritten on submission.

If HN thinks it's necessary to use the "anti clickbait filter", they should at least do it like with too long titles: refuse the submission.

Rewrite the title and let the user click "submit" again.
The hypothesis is: religious countries tend to be poor.

One can read this as "religion causes people to be poor", but that's not exactly the same because when a whole country is religious, its institutions and codes will tend to be based on religion rather than science or a rationalist moral system.

With this, I hope I am making it clear that saying that religion can cause a country to be poorer than it could be otherwise is not the same as saying the same about a specific person or family.

Now, we have an extremely simplistic formula based on this hypothesis: the more religious a country's population is, the poorer the country should be.

But many factors can influence a country's wealth, including its military power (which could be a result of its priorities, not necessarily of its wealth in the first place), how much its culture/religion incentivate creativity and support new ideas (things which tend to improve technological advances which usually translate into wealth), how many natural resources it was blessed with, how honest the population is in general and so on. These are all confounding factors (they may affect the results) which can cause some countries to deviate from our original hypothesis... in a canonical scientific experiment, to know if the hypothesis is correct, you would need to find ways to remove these factors from the equation so that the only important factors that matter are those you include in your hypothesis. That can't be easily done for a study of countries because there's just not enough of them.

So the best we can do is see how well most countries fit into our hypothesis and try to understand the most important (confounding) factors that can cause countries to deviate from our hypothesis to see if the outliers can be explained away (or if they show a genuine weakness in the hypothesis) so that we can have a higher level of confidence that the hypothesis seems correct.
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Is buying a son’s painting considered a donation or not?
The problem I'm discussing here is that a lot of people who are trying to talk about abusive relationships are doing exactly what you're recommending against: bringing up non-abusive relationships. They're just doing it in a subtle (and probably not intentional) way when they make overly-general statements about all men.

And to be clear: I think it's vitally important that women need to be able to speak freely and openly about abuse they've received from men. All I would like is for that to happen without accusing all men of being abusive.
> Ignoring the NYT shady unsubscribe practices

I signed up for a student-priced NYT subscription a while back and realized I didn't really use it. I trudged through their cancellation information and got on their chat. The representative threw everything at me why I shouldn't cancel and they offered me a discounted rate of exactly what I was paying currently. So silly.
As someone familiar with this area, it is much more complicated than that.

The FDA has legal restrictions on what it can and can't regulate. At the heart of this ruling is the fact that the FDA is forbidden from regulating the practice of medicine. State law is required to regulate the practice of medicine.

from the Dissenting opinion:

>There is no dispute that the FDA has power under the statute to ban a medical device altogether—i.e., across all its potential uses. The issue in this case is whether the FDA can exercise its banning authority in a more tailored fashion: rather than ban a device across the board, can the agency ban the device for a particular intended use while allowing it for other uses?[1]

The question becomes, once a device is approved, does banning it for a specific use constitute regulating the practice of medicine.

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-caDC-20-01087/p...
Right. That's why I didn't skip that generation in my example. My hunch was that as a general rule for those earlier generations that it's not possible to emulate the immediately previous generation unless there was special support, but maybe you could go back 2 generations. This project being an exception. That's what lead to the

Wii -> GameCube (similar hardware) -> [not N64] SNES -> NES (demonstrated by this project)

example. Heck, if console manufacturers kept two separate branches "every other generation" emulation (odd/even generations) and then made sure each console generation had extra hardware to play the immediately prior generation's games (as some sometimes do), then every generation could play every other generation. That would be nice for players, but maybe not nice for the companies though.
For cars, maybe, but my org has had a long line of HP laptops with swollen battery packs within a year of use. No doubt there are companies out there that would rather have the extra hour of runtime on some journalists review fact sheet than a battery that doesn't put their customers at risk.
Also another nitpick:

> View the source code

It would be really nice if the source code in the browser (no, not the Github repo; how do I know the web server served the same thing as the Github repo?) were displayed in a human-readable format with proper tabbing, comments if applicable, and not an obfuscated, minified form.

In fact if your goal isn't specifically obfuscation, it's not necessary to minify JS in general. Web servers do a good job gzipping stuff.
1, you are now really exaggerating. 2, this analogy is really straying far from software engineering. 3, what is your point here?
Love the source code, so clean. First time I see a makefile used like that with Docker and front commands.
LOL. Imagine paying for USA Today.
Finally, they've started attacking big tech on the privacy front. The whole "monopoly" and "anti-trust" thing was going nowhere. But privacy orders like this are a step in the right direction.

And to put the nail in big tech's coffin, congress should pass a law forbidding the sharing of any personal information on any resident of the US for any commercial reason whatsoever. With draconian penalties assessed per user infraction. That would stop these tech companies in their tracks.
I've got used to relying on my “that doesn't seem right” feeling for determining whether I know stuff. In fields where I know enough to not feel ignorant, I say all sorts of things that don't feel wrong, but they actually are. (When talking about linguistics, for instance, I am confidently incoherent. I know this, and yet the next time I want to say something about linguistics, I do not know that I am speaking garbage.)
Is per-capita water a relevant metric? I doubt human consumption is a significant portion of water demand - I mean, doesn't farming typically use the vast
majority?
10% vs 30% corresponds to whatever arbitrary voltage they select but I doubt they are selecting for battery durability over all else since marketing max run time is so important.
The largest modpacks seem to be sticking to 1.12 for at least a little while longer, due to heavy code organization changes in 1.13, but you can easily play stable modpacks running on at least 1.16.5..

None of these are officially allowed mods, for that stuff you need to go to resource packs and/or data packs, which provide a sanctioned, but (AFAIK) is more limited ability to extend the game.

Look into the FTB modpacks (or darkosto’s modpacks like skyblock or sevtech) they (like most modpacks tbh) come with a launcher that selects the correct minecraft version and assembles all the mods.

I’ve been running at least two modpack launchers, and playing around 5-6 modpacks in addition to vanilla since the start of covid and it’s generally quite smooth (had to restore from backups a few times, but the backups themselves were automatically created by mods included in the pack.)

Edit:

If you want an amazing experience from caveman to rocket scientist, try Sevtech: Ages.

If you want to learn how all these techy mods work, try FTB University (maybe FTB Academy first.)

If you want to play on 1.16.5 try FTB Endeavor.

If you wanna try a large stable ungated modpack, try FTB Revelation.

(There are lots of other modpacks that are great, but these I have recent experience with.)