skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is that the algorithms prioritize newer pages over older pages.

They do? That would explain a lot - but ironically, I can't find a good source on this. Do you have one at hand?
Yeh that's completely insane and irresponsible, but we're getting kind of used to that sort of thing.
The core records of a cell phone company are at a cell level, which often are configured in a 120-degree sectors from a tower.

If they really want, they can see the distance from the tower because that's a requirement for the communications protocol to work (LTE at least expects to account for lightspeed delay in allocating transmission slots) and gets measured during the communications, so the operator should be able to see that distance to the granularity of something like 100m (or is it less nowadays?); but AFAIK that's usually not stored unless you're in a 911 call or perhaps with some tracing warrant.
>boat enthusiasts

Boat enthusiast here, I'm afraid even that'll be a struggle! I'm planning to move onto a sailing yacht fairly soon and carry on my job as a backend web developer, mobile internet is good enough to make this viable and things like Starlink will make it even easier in the coming years.

I suppose you can still turn off the telescreen if you want to though, if you sail out of range of mobile towers and turn everything off you can hide from the world pretty effectively.
>> If the executive branch can classify things as sensitive to the national security, and there is a state secrets exception to trial, then how on Earth are the judiciary and executive on equal footing if the executive can simply cause a default outcome of any trial against it?

This is the meat of the problem with pervasive surveillance. Until this matter is resolved in such a way that makes any surveillance without a warrant be deemed unconsitutional, the idea of 'freedom' is only a ghost in the U.S.
Who would they sue?
> Mechanical computers approximate Turing Machines

Yup, so do humans with paper and pencil.
I'd rather reduce my chances of being shot, which is a thing you can do by simply declining to purchase a firearm[1]

> Overall, Branas’s study found that people who carried guns were 4.5 times as likely to be shot and 4.2 times as likely to get killed compared with unarmed citizens. When the team looked at shootings in which victims had a chance to defend themselves, their odds of getting shot were even higher.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17922-carrying-a-gun-...
This is awesome! We should definitely move in this direction.
Likely the emissions procedures were developed with the "help" of industry (VW included) lobbyists as well.

Any remediation from Dieselgate that doesn't include structural changes like improved testing means the auto industry has won.
Outdated, they stopped this long ago.
One example close from home, Belarus and Russian governments have gone to lengths in order to limit gun ownership. It is actually very difficult, at least legally. Perhaps when you are trying to stir a revolution you might speak to the nation arming itself. Once you have taken power, peacefully or otherwise, your next steps regarding gun control are still highly illuminating.
If people don't speak out about bad conditions in the workplace, it will get swept quietly under the rug. With this, the information is out there for people to make their own judgements about it.

I'm glad they drew the dicknoses, it makes it memorable.

Legal recourse is only one avenue; a settlement usually involves hushing up. That's incompatible with warning others.
I believe it. In Seattle we've had a huge spike in crimes, as violent protesting, anti-police sentiment, and defunding have resulted in a mass exodus of police officers. Much of this crime isn't even tracked well, since a lot of it is unreported (things like fires started by vagrants, sewage dumping, public exposure, etc). There have also been increased shootings, armed robberies, and harassment on the street. It's gotten to the point where my neighborhood has flyers posted warning women to watch out for a known predator that the police can't do anything about for some reason. Female friends I know that would count themselves as staunch Democrats are all of a sudden discussing things like going to a beginner's gun class as a group, which I would have thought unthinkable just 1-2 years ago.
I’m guessing the victim was in law enforcement.
Self-sustaining solar house on wheels
>Why do you think they have a right to sovereignty?

They are sovereign over the island of Taiwan

>They lost a civil war (and wouldn't exist without US intervention)

They lost control of mainland China during the civil war; no peace treaty was signed and they still hold Taiwan

>Taiwan is a Chinese province

You can declare all you want in your constitution but de facto it is not.

If all you claimed was true then there would be no issue, but clearly that's not the case.
My first computer was a ZX81, and his machines made a profound impression on my early days in computing (and became even more remarkable once I was able to understand the hardware design tricks involved).

Good thing we have things like the Raspberry Pi to recapture some of that magic for our kids.
I think that's a false dichotomy.

You're suggesting that either ExpressVPN was a really good business with sophisticated secret sauce, strong technical chops, and capital assets probably worth $1B (validated by people with lots of money being willing to pay for it), or that I and other HN commenters are wrong about the sophistication and it's really worth peanuts because OpenVPN can be run on most routers or any Linux box.

The latter is obviously false, but the former is not necessarily true - instead, what I and other users are pointing out is that they're really selling is their users, and implying that the buyer expects to be able to extract more than $1,000,000,000.00 of value from them. As you pointed out, you see this sort of comment when a social network or many other kinds of startups with lots of users are sold.

The point is that the users are the product in this transaction.
I ran into this recently even on Facebook Messenger. A friend of mine was hunting for a short domain name and I had a list of some three character .net and .org domains I recently had found that were available.

Cut and pasted the list and the message wouldn't send.

Narrowed it down to one. Typed just the bare domain. Wouldn't go through. (It was something incredibly benign like n17.org)

Couldn't find a history on that domain name for why it would have been filtered.

At least messenger responded with 'couldn't send message' but still no clue as to why... and it took me sending each domain name individually until I found the one that was failing the entire message.
I'm not quite following, but are you saying that women are afraid for their children because of Black Lives Matter?

Have there been any documented cases of BLM indiscriminately attacking women or children? This seems weird to me.

I've taken gun safety courses run by local police, and every time they told us that it's ideal to not have a gun in your house at all because they see more accidental shootings than thwarted break-ins. This is of course, anecdotal, and I'm sure they prefer fewer citizens to have guns... so it might be BS.
The ZX Spectrum+ I grew up with still works (only had to replace the keyboard membrane). What an amazing piece of tech. I have fond memories of it, and I also keep my collection of Microhobby Magazine [1], which is effectively how my career started.

I had some earlier contact with a ZX81 but I don't remember much of it - really only playing 3D Monster Maze [2], a very early ancestor of 3D shooters.

The ZX Spectrum+ and the ZX81 are so meaningful to me, you could argue they're the focus of my book's dedication [3]. Would I be where I am today, would I be who I am today, if back in the day it wasn't as easy as PLOT 6,5?

Rest in peace, Sir Clive.

[1] https://microhobby.speccy.cz/mhforever/numero001.htm
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Monster_Maze
[3] https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/d...
I dont get it. Are you trying to shift the pain on to someone else? It wont work. Leave this dead end and focus on something constructive.

People are living in poverty in horrible situations in other countries, perhaps try to find a way to help them? For example.
Have you actually used the app? This is absolutely not how it works. You aren't shoved down rabbit holes like with YouTube.
I'm making the point that unless you can get your schedules to not overlap, you're going to have problems

It's no different than working at a FedEx warehouse from 0000-0500 and then going to drive a school bus from 0600-0900

The hours don't overlap, and the jobs aren't competing

It's at least unethical to be billing time to $COMPANY and $ELSEWHERE for the same clock hours (possibly unlawful in some (many?) jurisdictions)
Great read. If only finding a co-founder wasn't so hard. And also -- this website is great! Looks like Indie Hackers before it transformed into Product Hunt 2.0.
Unlimited PTO has the downside of having no minimum that lets you go and push back against managers who do not want you to take it/haven't set things up so you can actually use it.

I work for a company with unlimited PTO. However, if you are in a relatively niche role, it is hard to use as you block people when away. A couple colleagues have quit over it.
ah it was a bug in some screens. we think we just fixed it. where you guys on mobile, can you check again?
I had and sold at $1k/BTC. Thought I made out like a bandit considering what I paid for BTC/had mined it using free resources.

But my point stands: the idea that just because you had BTC at some point doesn’t really negate the fact that you had no prior knowledge. If you did, I bet you would have spent all your money and took out huge loans to buy more BTC at $2 or even $0.20. It’s a fallacy to think that just because you actually converted $ to BTC that somehow makes your lost opportunity cost more special than if you just held/spent $.
Site does not belong to OP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28555853
Tobacco addiction cannot be compared to something like opiates. The cost is often on the individual as smokers normally work. Opiates make people spiral out of control quickly and the dependency is so high they will literally do anything for the next pill. They often become homeless and without any health insurance. They overdose multiple times ending up in critical care/ICU.

A better legal drug to compare could be alcohol, however, your doctor wasn't marketed to give you vodka for your back pain. There was a time were doctors were giving out opiates like candy, this opiate epidemic has been created by big pharma and doctors. I was prescribed opiates for muscle strains and the first few times you take them it feels so good. However, tolerance builds really quickly and people who have a tendency to abuse substances will instantly get hooked.
"Horace Goes Skiing" was written by Fred Milgrom, co-founder of Beam Software (studio) and (I think) Melbourne House (publisher). His team also did The Hobbit. The studio is based in Melbourne, Australia.

"Knight Lore" was by Ultimate Play the Game, whicn became Rare (Banjo-Kazooie, GoldenEye 007, Donkey Kong Country etc).
> dependency rejection

That’s secretly the most powerful design strategy.
I felt a bit like that about PIA but at this point I'm just glad they're not owned by Andrew Lee anymore.
Am I alone in assuming they'll just do the Windows 10 unwanted upgrade, again, when 11 adoption rate isn't where they want it to be? Choice doesn't matter to these mega corps, so long as we use their stores and view their ads. Thank god for Gnu and Linux!
Can people not just take PTO whenever they want? Or does it breach some company policy at certain places? I don’t get why this person felt like he had to ask for time off when his wife had cancer.

edit: thanks for the responses. My question was not on PTO accrual or the optics around it, but on the practice of just scheduling time off and taking it versus asking for permission. Today I learned I am either very lucky to be working at the places I have been, or maybe my bosses have been too timid to tell me no
>And can set an explicit size to prevent layout shift

works great if you have tight coupling, but what if the guys in charge of the login page is on a different team than the marketing guys? What if the marketing guys want the ability to arbitrarily change ads without involving the login page team? I don't dispute that it could be made better, but it's very easy to build it badly, and there isn't much evidence that it's intentionally built badly.
How many revolutions has France had in contemporary times?
It's a fair point, albeit not something I'd really thought of. The main one that annoys me is the bigger, highlighted, more prominent 'most popular' option... which.. usually seems really unlikely to be true? Especially when there's a free option, it just almost certainly isn't. Obviously the free option is never the prominent most popular option.

Meta point: 'don't insult me with your' tiny blog-in-a-sidebar & massive photo-content?
I feel the same way about Facebook groups. I'd much rather create a throwaway account registered with my domain (whateverforum@mydomain.com) for every forum than create and use a Facebook or Discord account to engage with multiple communities. I don't want or need a centralized "social" account.
Not an American, but I thought Obamacare was supposed to solve this?
Expectation in different media differ even if technically they can be used in the same way. Nobody uses search on discord chat. Google doesn't index discord chats. You cannot easily link to a discord message from 10 years ago nor quote it permanently. It's ephemeral for all intents and purposes.

Meanwhile people mostly arrive at forums from google searches and link to posts without thinking about it.

It's the difference between writing a book and giving a speech. Imagine if we started burning books because people can just talk over a phone. That's what replacing forums with discord is.

Moving from forums to discord is another step in destroying everything that made open web great. It's sad that people don't even understand what they are losing.
Unlimited PTO is always a passive-aggressive lie.

Companies that start out the relationship with dishonesty are bad places to work.
The former, which is why people use it. It shows you what you want to see and will genuinely enjoy seeing.

That is why TikTok is more popular than platforms that only focus on engagement, because those platforms will show content that you will engage with even if it's in frustration.
Newer versions of VMWare work under a Hyper-V host [1]. I'm not sure if macOS runs properly in that mode though. I also had some success a while back running macOS under WSL2 using KVM [2], though it was pretty buggy and a pain to set up.

[1] https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/05/vmware-workstat...

[2] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
> Inalienable rights preceed government, they are not granted by it.

That's a nice ideal, but in reality governments can do and take away whatever they want, and a guarantee that they won't take away your "inalienable" rights is only as good as the system built around that government, and the willingness of its people to fight (physically or legally) for their rights.
The Silicon Valley wealthy have become super doomsday preppers
Failure can be a source of inspiration, after all.
Agreed. The quality is spotty and just not great, on average. Every now and then, I hear a lyric and go check Genius, but most of the time, there are no annotations at all for a given lyric. No disrespect, it's extremely challenging to get quality right for user-generated content, and even if they had, it's not obvious to me that it would have been a great business.
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Unlimited PTO is bs, just have a fixed number and pay people if they don't use them.
It really depends on what they want to accomplish. Perhaps given the choice of (1) publicly exposing the company and causing them reputational harm, and (2) in X years time getting a Y$ settlement and having to sign an NDA saying they cannot speak ill of the company in return, they prefer 1. They don't seem to be trying to go the lawsuit way and they don't mention it in their post.
Got my first Linux machine because of that, partially at least. I like an OS, for which I don't need an account, that just runs on hardware I own.
i live in the american south, where everybody owns guns. i own a gun for hunting. but for self defense, i have pepper spray and bear spray instead of guns because i don't want to kill somebody regardless of their intentions. i'd be curious to see the stats of self-defense/firearms, because it seems like self-defense gun owners are LARPing over imagined intruder situations. they're definitely not about to take up arms against the state, and if they think they would do that, then they're certainly LARPing and live in a fantasy world.

exceptions to this rule, especially in the american south, are civil rights leaders and similar political activists. Martin Luther King preached non-violent protest but owned guns for protecting his home against the very real threat of violent racists. (there's some interesting writing about this if you look it up. google something like "martin luther king guns malcolm x")

the bigger risk is accidentally killing somebody with a gun, like an "intruder" that is actually somebody you know. or a kid accidentally firing the gun and killing themselves or somebody else, or somebody intentionally killing themselves.

edit: added "but" in front of dependent clause "for self defense"
I don't have any particular interest here, as I'm quite ambivalent about guns but the 600k-2.5m is hotly debated and comes from phone surveys. The CDC cites Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence (2013)[1] when reporting that number. The source says it may actually be as low as 100k uses per year.

[1] https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3?term=defensive#15
With wg sending keep alive packets every 30 seconds it is one of the easiest protocols to block.
Quite surprised you got any connection at all.
If instead of this:

static const char nouns[][12] = {
"COPPERTONE", "JOCKEY", "TIMBERWOLF", "SAWHORSE", "PANDA", "SANDSTORM",

where the 12 was calculated to fit the longest word, you can have pointers to string literal objects, and not have to do that:

static const char *nouns[] = {
"COPPERTONE", "JOCKEY", "TIMBERWOLF", "SAWHORSE", "PANDA", "SANDSTORM",

unless we are counting cycles here and get touching about loading a pointer from a table (which would make little sense, given that we hand off these strings to sprintf).

No code changes should be necessary elsewhere; I don't see any place that depends on nouns[x] being an array.

Speaking of sprintf, I'd add a size argument and use snprintf, plus publish a recommended minimum size constant.
I agree. There's value in people getting angry enough that they prefer to attack as hard as they can, instead of getting the best outcome for themselves.
Why get a marketing co-founder instead of a business co-founder? I feel as if marketing have marketed their own profession to such a degree that people believe they have super powers.
People who eat meat and animal fat and cut out sugar report getting pregnant after years of not being able to. They also report iso-caloric weight loss, resolution of diabetes 2, thickening of hair and many other positive health heuristics. Obesity, diabetes and metabolic considerations are an absolute powder-keg of medical progress just waiting for mainstream acceptance
Hacking a Robot Vacuum to Write a Replacement App
Sir Clive Sinclair, creator of the ZX Spectrum, has passed away
I have to put up with Slack due to work, and to dismay of other people, I just use it exactly like email, by turning notifications off and only looking into it during "compiling" moments.

And for finding stuff, you are absolute right, anything deemed relevant gets archived to my Notes instead.
While I'm sure there are some legitimate grievances here, nothing about this makes the author look credible in any way. Personally, none of the claims made here seem to stand up to scrutiny.

He claims that Atlassian has illegal hiring practices because of one instance where they passed on the first candidate that just cleared the technical bar? Or that unlimited PTO is a scam because his manager had to approve time off requests (completely standard practice - unlimited PTO or not)? Sorry, my pitchfork is staying put.
Yup. It becomes a negotiation, and the company by definition has orders of magnitude more negotiating power (arm-wrestling, etc) than you do.

But hey, "freedom", yay!
I didn't watch the video, just a brief lookover at the slides.

Bitpacking is one of many memory/CPU tradeoffs. You use a little less ram, but a little more CPU power. (In contrast: padding is using a bit more RAM, but a bit less CPU-power)

The thing about modern CPUs is that they're incredibly parallel today. I think AMD Zen3 has 10 pipelines per core (and 6 of those pipelines can execute 256-bit SIMD instructions per cycle). Intel is around the same, Apple M1 focuses on more Integer-pipelines than SIMD-pipelines, but also is incredibly parallel. As such, we programmers have been given increasingly huge amounts of CPU power. Even our cell phones are capable of executing 4 to 8 instructions per clock tick per core.

In contrast: DDR3, DDR4, and DDR5 RAM may have had improvements, but no where close to the gains that CPUs have gained. So a lot of our CPU-pipelines are sitting around empty, doing nothing... just waiting for RAM to respond.

As such: more and more applications will be benefiting from +CPU usage and -RAM use tradeoffs. The CPU-power vs RAM tradeoffs are becoming incredibly lopsided: over in GPU-land, visual effect programmers are regularly using in-memory compression and decompressing the textures on the fly. There are people today who claim Zstandard in-memory compression is faster than reading/writing to RAM directly.

Spending a few bitmask / bitshift instructions to read/write bits inside of a 64-bit integer is way less CPU-power compared to using ZStandard on all your in-memory JSON / XML strings, but is basically the same effect from a strategic point of view.
11th commandment? "Everything's ok as long as you don't get caught"?
Show HN: An extension that sometimes whispers your name late at night
PDM - Python package manager with PEP 582 support
I think this pretty much sums it up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28
RIP sir Clive.
That’s what I do too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26380124

building one product at a time.
Have you looked at Tox?
I thought so, too. But nowadays I believe you actually need a product manager. Because if you have stuff that people really want/need, they will actively google for it and find you. The big issue is that your opinion of what the market wants is most certainly wrong. So you need a product manager who will interview prospective customers, analyze the market, and advise you on which product to build. Once you have a value-generating product, marketing will be easy enough that you can outsource it.
Ditto. I assembled/soldered the thing my self. Went on to using it to learning assembly language and how the internals work (buses, etc).

I've retired after a great career in IT/Systems tech and it was Clive's little computer that was the gateway drug for me!
What an incredible take. So we should never build alternative UI’s for X? It always has to be original software in every regard?

Unreal, get out of here with your bottom of the barrel thinking. Don’t trash on someone’s work because you lack creative thinking. It’s pathetic and unwanted.