skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any action a human being ever takes is a strategy to meet a basic human need.

- from Nonviolent Communication

Start looking for the needs driving actions and you will gain an x-Ray vision that will give you effortless compassion.

Edit: Here’s a list of basic human needs: https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory
Not silly at all. Premise is pretty simple: why would you fund your competitor's cash flow (either directly or indirectly).

GCP and Azure successfully acquired a lot of retailers and ecommerce providers for this reason. This happens even today with medium to large size competitors of Amazon.
Just... out of curiosity as someone who learned to code in BASIC on a TRS-80... WHY ON EARTH would you ever want goto or gosub statements instead of proper loops and methods? It's not like they're faster. They certainly don't make code more readable. The last time I had to use that type of construct was gotoAndStop() in Flash, which at least had the benefit of queueing up a bunch of art and sound effects. Other than the "neat-o" factor, what's the use case or impetus behind this apparent horror?
Congratulations, you encapsulated my feelings about parent.
(here's probably too much information)

yup I wrote a lot of that, I did all the console stuff (font renderer, vt100, mouse, keyboard, fdb/adb, ui event queue etc).

Missing is all the auto config support (ability to add 3rd party drivers to the kernel in the field, something that at the time you usually couldn't do without source), fixes for large screen support, all my appletalk code is missing too. However I can see the latish floppy bug fix (there was a hardware bug found in the FDB/ADB chip where if we accessed the floppy on only some systems the keyboard froze, turned out we were spinning reading the timer while reading the disk, doing it so fast the clock to the FDB chip sped up) and the older pre-fix code in "sony.c.~8A" - that sort of places the release in time.

Given all that I'd guess that this is one of the early releases we gave to Apple that has somehow escaped - we used to fly to Oregon and copy disks to do releases to avoid California's sales taxes - UniSoft actually had an online modem based system where customers could log in and download the latest software - at the time CA tax law didn't explicitly cover electronic delivery of software, we were sued by the state and they lost setting a precedent

It's been a long time but "psn" probably stands for "Pigs in Space" - our internal code name for the project (Apple's code name "Eagle" leaked, but ours never did).

The "Cayman/brac" looks like what someone named their box, "Jasmine" was a type of hard drive, I've no idea about Milwaukee - I think Cayman used to be a company that made mac ethernet hardware, my guess would be that someone at Apple slipped them this pre-release, and then an update with some bug fixes, along with source (very naughty! AT&T would likely have sued us, ie UniSoft if they found out)

The assembly font renderer uses the 68020 only bfins bit field insert instructions, it can under certain circumstances generate a 24-bit bus write, nubus doesn't support such a thing, we got half of the first big run of mac 2 boards, they came with a schematic and PAL equations, I got to send fixed PAL equations back to Ron at Apple to make it work.

As far as "making it portable" a large part of that is just system 5 (SVR2 in this case) not so much us, though porting this code was our bread and butter - we supported a number of MMUs - 2 paging MMUs for 68020s, and a whole lot of swapping MMUs for 68010/68000s (plus 29k 88k etc) - it was never really designed to work without some form of MMU
How concerned are you about vaccine related adverse events
What Is Zero Trust? It Depends What You Want to Hear
Hopefully Go 2 won't have Goto
Thank you!

The medium post is amazingly written! I basically did the same thing - and you beat me with the data augmentation piece. I tried using nlpaug [0] but it didn't improve the model performance. I'll definitely try swapping book titles around.

[0] https://github.com/makcedward/nlpaug
this project is under constant development
$5m pre product raises!?

Where is that shit happening. I have a product with customers and can’t get 6 figures.
Oh, I do understand that was/is a motivation, I was being more rhetorical.
It's a bit strange to compare the C64 with the Atari ST : the latter was a 16-bit computer, one generation after the C64. It had much better graphics. But it didn't match the Amiga :)

The mainstream 8-bit machine with the best graphics was probably the Amstrad CPC. Here's a comparison with the Spectrum for example : https://imgur.com/a/D7Ocd

When it comes to arcade-style gameplay though, the C64 was often ahead because of its hardware accelerated sprites (and a legendary sound chip that was ahead of its time)
This is fine until you get serious about the exercise. Which happens very gradually. Then you’ll find that you easily “bonk” during high-intensity long workouts having exhausted your internal glycogen reserves. At this point (and I’m here) you have to figure out how to supply your body with sufficient calories balanced in a way that’s supportive of your development without gaining weight. I am yet to figure this out. Eating 4000 kcal of balanced food given the limitations our boys has in terms of glucose and protein absorption isn’t easy and my body appears to be especially reluctant to replenish liver glycogen instead of storing fat.
You can't just import the foreign culture without the environment that justify the culture.

In Japan, the land is scarce and fragile, humidity weather, constantly facing earth quakes, typhoons. So the house will be damaged faster than the typical western countries.

Each time we face the massive earthquakes, the house building regulation will be updated to mandate new and improved earthquake resistant structure so building built with old regulation lose market values. The same goes for all disasters like tsunami, flooding, land slide and all.

You must also consider the fact that air conditioning wasn't popular 30 years ago. The houses built before that era were optimized for the natural ventilation. it's totally inefficient for the air conditioner.

Old houses also has the Internet issues. Most of the house in Japan are massive condominium. The optical fiber was a thing after 2000s. It takes a lot of money to wire optical cable inside the existing building. So most of the buildings in Tokyo are still using VDSL.

Other infrastructures like power line, water and gas starting to rust so it must be replaced. The cost of doing that to existing house is expensive in Japan and it doesn't increase the value of house that much. Especially for old houses that need replacing because it had gotten so much damage from humidity, earthquakes, typhoons and remember, it was built before the current housing regulation for the resistance for these. So it's more reasonable to just scrap it and rebuild it.

I am living in a standalone old house in Tokyo unlike most of the people. Then, I realized the value of condominium in Tokyo. It works as a gated community, the segregation based on income. We are implicitly achieving the segregation by the condominium.
The article seems to avoid the obvious:

You have to survive the virus in order to get “natural” immunity.
newer Qemu can emulate the 68040, and even a Quadra 800. that would be the much easier route...
Ah - my original guess was one of the Chris

(how would I know who got my cubicle when I left? :-)

have a look upthread someone has discovered an early A/UX kernel source release that Apple must have slipped to someone (my guess is Cayman Systems)
The Nihilist Apocalypse
Driving to West Berlin during the DDR days
Let's Encrypt was only founded in 2014, and left beta in April 2016; they just used that cert to start with IIRC. So it's been about 5 years for LE users, not 20.
Maybe so, but sometimes that need is grounded in a completely mistaken belief - or in a misguided search for approval of a peer group - such as being the loudest person at the ballgame, or the one who gets shot breaking into the senate chamber, or the one who straps explosives to his chest. These people do make an amazing impression on normies and institutions alike, but the basic need they're trying to address is not one that reflects a deeper meaning or bears a great deal of weighty analysis as to its merits. It's the common need of Twitter. It can be reduced to "I'll make you all shut up and listen to me." It deserves no reward - and it should probably not be countered with nonviolence.
Among Silicon Valley workers maybe not but at least parts of his politics have significant sway on highly influential individuals in the valley itself. Here is, as one example, an interview with Noah Smith and Andreessen a few months ago with the latter pretty much ad verbatim taking Thiel's stanceo AI/crypto[1]. Thiel is highly influential among the the guys who have all the money, which matters quite a lot. It also is quite curious with how much stuff Thiel gets away with, like funding Republicans that basically have sworn to dismantle big tech while sitting on the board of Facebook advising Zuckerberg.

[1]https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-marc-andreessen-...
There are plenty of retail jobs. If you haven't seen the news recently, there's a record shortage and large wage increases happening in that entire sector. The reason people still work Amazon is because Amazon pays better than the competition. For example, a lot of restaurant workers have left that sector for better choices. You don't see that happening in Amazon but I would think that workers in both sectors are somewhat overlapping (unskilled labor).
Haha found a 7 degree pair!

Mitchell order -> Mun Ikjeom https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Mitchell%20ord...
Differential equations are a bugger. You get four of them, one for each mechanism group trying to adjust your weight up or down by changing intake or expenditure. Some are physiological, some psychological. If they get out of whack, you get weight gains or losses. But this is non-trivial non-linear stuff that’s pretty much impossible to keep track of even if you have the right memtal models.
Quad9 was co-created by IBM, they will bow the knee to preserve government contracts and big R&D bets in Germany

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2021/06/15/ibm-and...
That was really only in the 286-486 era. On the 8086 it was the fastest, and since the Pentium II, which introduced cacheline-sized moves, it's basically nearly the same as the huge unrolled SIMD implementations that are marginally faster in microbenchmarks.

Linus Torvalds has some good comments on that here: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=196054&curpost...
The actual risk of a merchant not receiving money for a credit card transaction is quite high. Chargebacks are enough of a business problem that many large retailers have whole teams only devoted to processing and disputing them. There are entire companies that create products and services to help merchants reduce just "friendly fraud" chargebacks—that is, chargebacks where the cardholder says the purchase wasn't authorized but they are just lying or it was a family member who made the purchase. That there are entire industries devoted to helping reduce it shows that the risk of chargebacks is definitely something that merchants take into account in how they run their businesses.

In case of a stolen credit card, it's 100% the merchant who pays (that's why they're called charge-"backs"). The only exceptions are if the transactions are indemnified by a third party partner.

All the card brands have multiple chargeback codes for fraudulent transactions, even card-present ones, so the fact that the credit card was physically present is not some kind of guarantee that the merchant would win a chargeback representment.
The article implies that delivery drivers frequently drove without seatbelts on because taking them on/off was a hassle on short distance drives. It also says seatbelts and stop signs were the most commonly flagged "incidents". Make your own conclusions from that.
I was more thinking about Robocop.

Your head just explodes after the third infraction.

I stopped buying from Amazon literally decades ago. When they were just selling books and after their privacy bate and switch.

This decision looks better by the day.
Information Theory and the Origin of Life (2014)
I disagree with @roconnor's assessment in the link provided. Just like that, I've "discredited" @roconnor.

Folks are now free to reference this link in future posts as a claim that @roconnor's post has been discredited.

See how that logic works ?
The value of all yielding assets is tied to interest rates. The risk free rate is a bench mark for measuring any type of return, so any time you change that you’re going to influence the valuation of everything.

There’s also a very clear distinction between the idea of housing and home ownership. People need a place to live, they don’t need to have a property investment. You and I need healthcare, but neither of us need to own a hospital.
Probably someone would submit a PR complaining. A lot of folks in the gemini community are strict about the spec. In my view, they would be justified in doing so — I think adherence to specs is important in any domain, not just gemini.
Perhaps the world would be a better place with an excel replacement of some sort.
I think there's another difference between the two that isn't there by definition but manifests in practice:

If we were to imagine a simplified landscape in which all tests fall on a one-dimensional axis, from "quick unit tests" on the left to "slow integration tests" on the right , fuzzing is even further off to the right.

Fuzzing is often very slow and operates on an entire black-box program, trying to understand and break it. Access to source code isn't always needed.

My understanding may be incomplete; please correct me if I missed something.
Another book that occasionally gets mentions (51 results for https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...) but appears to be missing on the site AFAICT (not related to 1984, but just came to mind):

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Unrelated to the above, but it would also be nice if the site could search by author (I don't seem to get any hits when putting in author names) or even year of publication.
Well, not entirely. Not all the drugs used to treat sleep disorders are mimics of existing biomolecules. Some inhibit or modify the reception of the signaling molecules. This article talks about directly generating the substance itself.

The pills themselves also tend to be somewhat indiscriminate with where they cause the substance release. When you release a substance that does X into the body via the stomach, or even an injection, you end up with a lot more hitting receptor sites scattered across the body. For example, SSRIs often cause nausea since they affect the serotonin receptors in your GI tract. Just having serotonin released inside the brain would totally side-step this.

That said, my point is more about addiction. A large amount of sleeping pills are also common drugs of abuse, and can be highly addictive. A brain chip would not have nearly the same abuse potential.
No worries! Yours was getting lots of votes, mine wasn't (possibly a time-of-day thing). Side note: I re-read my comment and "dang" sounded like I was annoyed. By "dang" I mean "HN moderators". :-)
I've tried "Bill Gates" to "Wuhan Institute of Virology" and I'm pleased with the results.
Drew himself threatened to block a Gemini agent that fetched /favicon.png on every page load. I tend to agree with the idea that Gemini should not be extended, as there's always HTTP+HTML for that.
We are talking about the Quran here right? I'm not so sure about the brotherly part.

https://quranx.com/5.82?Context=3

> Thou wilt find the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe (to be) the Jews and the idolaters.

https://quranx.com/2.65?Context=3

> And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated!

https://quranx.com/98.6?Context=3

> Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures.

https://quranx.com/5.51?Context=3

> O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

(I do support all efforts to make this publicly available.)
I hitchhiked that back in 1987 when I was 19. Good times!
The Invisible Hand keeping your IoT devices chugging along... interesting thought!
Launching Trento Remote: a curated batch for remote mountain living
Yep, I developed a love for coding when I'd already squandered my attempt at tertiary education, and had a young son and wife who'd developed a belief that women shouldn't work, to support.

So I wasn't able to go back to university, so I'm self-taught, although I sat (and passed) a few first year papers via correspondence. Later on I took second year papers part-time to cover gaps I'd identified in my knowledge of computer science.

But it was very hard to get an interview with no degree. I had a portfolio of code I'd written for people freelance, but even getting people to look at it was near impossible. I was rejected several times with reasons along the lines of "self-taught devs write unstructured/bad/spaghetti code", which annoyed me when they wouldn't look at my portfolio.

In the end, I got an interview via a friend of a colleague who was a stealth developer in the call centre I worked in. He was desperate to learn JS, so I taught him, and consequently he recommended me to his friend.

Who, luckily for me, worked for a company founded by a developer who was also self-taught and sans degree, so he gave me a chance to prove myself.

13 years later, my lack of degree doesn't concern anyon

But, 5 years to get an interview, and in the first 5 years, I was really worried what would happen if the company downsized and I had to find another job.

Not to mention the imposter syndrome feeling.
I had to use GOTO label, once so far, as a way to quickly exit from inside nested loops - you can do it without GOTO but the point was to be efficient(like if you work with the pixel colors of a big image , each extra instruction inside the loops will have a visible time effect).
> Product MVPs have a much higher degree of polish and companies wait much longer to launch

Translation: people are distancing themselves from the MVP concept.
This is exactly correct, and the parent's suggestion that the risk of chargebacks is something like 0.001% is WAAAAY off. Like, by orders of magnitude off. Any business that processes credit card transactions at scale, card present or card not present, is going to have a whole department of people who all they do all day long is deal with chargebacks.

It does seem like there are some people here who think they know how credit cards work but actually have no idea.
This doctrinaire approach seems sad. You can have your own identity too, you can drink tea in Seattle, you can have a beer in Italy. I’m positive people do those things in those places. Not to mention, traveling with other people for fun is... fun!
Thank you! If you send me a note at ravi@airplane.dev I'm happy to discuss a discount or I can bump up the free limit for you. We definitely don't want price to be a blocker to try it out.
Because it's exactly how the Web used to be.

Gemini supports form input, BTW, so a search engine could be built if someone wanted one.
Seriously. I think Python 3 was a big improvement but removing tuple unpacking in function arguments (while adding it elsewhere!) was a huge regression.
I've had some experience with lucid dreaming myself, but it isn't an area we're currently interested in pursuing. It's fun when you don't wake yourself up.

One anecdote from our early development. When I was using one of our early stims, I woke up when it should have held me in deep sleep. I was a bit disappointed, as I'd had good results for a few days. Then I realized, I wasn't hearing the stim, so I actually wasn't awake. That realization woke me up. :)
Given how bad most US cities are at building sufficient housing, it wouldn't actually shock me if a well-planned company town was short-term financially much better for their employees than average... at least Amazonville won't have NIMBYs complaining about new high-rise condos ruining the neighborhood.

And like it or not (not, probably), housing is 40+% of low-income worker living expense, so even fixing rent could turn a worker's life around...
It adds a tiny amount of latency, but there are more important factors than latency.

If you are on a Zoom call, tunneling through Speedify in redundant mode will give you the minimum latency of n connections, reduce jitter (latency deviation), and eliminate packet loss.
Sim Kinison solved this problem decades ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA

Just send those company towns u-hauls and luggage, so they can move to where the jobs are.
Too many 'case' repetitions for my taste.
Obligatory XKCD Horse Battery Stapler reference.

https://xkcd.com/936/

MS AD and many others certainly did a lot to prevent this sane password future.

- arbitrary and low max password lengths

- weak unsalted hashes

- mandatory short rotation (never mind your passphrase has 50 bits of entropy and cracking it from hash with state of the art would still take years)

- banning whitespace

- requiring symbols and numbers and capital letters

- instead of estimating entropy
https://www.thewikigame.com/app
The U.S., however, does not have the demographics of Western Europe.

Just like you can't compare Western Europe to Japan (it is much more violent in comparison, but again, different demographics).

The US is maybe 50% Europe, 30% Latin America, 8% Asia, 12% Africa, and if you look at the UN intentional homicide tables and take the weighted average by continent, you'll end up with an expected intentional homicide rate of about 5 per 100,000, which is right where the US is.

So stop pretending we are Western Europe - we aren't.
the c programming language stood the test of time.
Thanks for mentioning Libby. Just installed and spent 3h on it. I had no idea local libraries could be this convenient
A reminder that ARM is short for Advanced RISC Machines or previously Acorn RISC Machine[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
I came across that same paper just the other day. No, we haven't. We've done some experimentation on increasing REM, but we're pretty focused on improving SWS with our first stimulation.

There are lots of other stims in the pipeline, and lots more research to done! It's a super exciting space.
Signs you need to choose cross browser testing on the cloud
I don't understand your philosophical position. mind body problem is not about the data it's about explanation, how much data do you need? we are bombarded with data every second of our lives.
Even without the water, the fact that you are practically on the moon out in the deserts of Africa makes any sort of operation difficult enough. It's probably much less of a headache to just open a nuclear power plant on the morrocan coast than to do anything that produces a similar amount of power out in the morrocan desert, where there might not be any roads let alone a grade separated freeway and a freight rail network connected to every port on the continent, as is the case even in some of the more desolate parts of the U.S..