skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Z80, as well as its contemporary competitor the 6502, are still in production and found as a core in various cheap SoCs for toys and other simple consumer electronics. It's certainly more than enough processing power for a moderately complex calculator, but compare the responsiveness of a TI calculator to the regular Windows (10) calculator running on a machine with several orders of magnitude more processing power --- and the former wins.

I've noticed that programmers who have worked with constrained systems and/or started with low-level languages tend to write better code in general (smaller, faster, often both; and less buggy too) by default than those who haven't; I guess the exposure helps develop an intuition for "how much program/computer ought to be enough" to solve a problem.
Ask HN: Is HN too white and male?
I am referring to a conversation where people react to a tweet saying: "also whoever posted my tweet to the orange website, fuck you".

One of the explanation to this was that HN conversation is too white and male. What can we do about that? Is the vote system encouraging white male conversation?
I think this question misses the point. Few organisations use just S3 - they use the entire AWS ecosystem, of which S3 plays a central part.
The biggest blocker for most enterprises is probably AWS IAM integration.

With S3 I can write a bucket policy that references roles that can be assumed by instances, Lambda functions, people via SSO etc.

With R2, I now need to worry about how to securely distribute credentials to access the buckets, how to rotate those credentials, how to ensure they don't leak. It's perfectly do-able, but it means AWS are always going to have the upper hand.

I'm excited to see some real competition in this space, but switching to R2 has some significant blockers at present. If I was working for Cloudflare on this product, I'd be focusing my effort on how to make integrating R2 with AWS services as simple as possible. I definitely think it's do-able, but it's going to need a team all of its own.
The future for web browsers looks pretty dark
Mexican government charges against academics criticized
It has been reverted.
> When and how do you think Mozilla will ever do anything to help the web?

Personally, it's not that Mozilla is so great, it's that they're the lesser of the available evils.
Looks like someone thinks they can make more money as a Fox News guest than as a doctor.
Here's a much weirder example of using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0
Had a discussion with a buddy and his doc wife Monday. She pointed out that the immune system might learn some weird protein on the variant X particle. Which leaves you open to variant Y which doesn’t have that protein. But the spike protein the current generation of vaxes target is common to all of the variants.
Chrome is advertising based and is not very interested in external contributions, so we'll ignore that.

Firefox is developed completely in the open and accepts external contributions, but it's deliberately focussed on end-users, not contributors.

WebKit is not a browser, but you can build a browser on top of it, and many people have. I don't think Apple is very interested in individual contributions, but I believe that (for example) the GTK+ port is part of the official source tree and that's not Apple code. Of course, it'd be very difficult to change anything about the core code in a way that Apple didn't like.

Then you've got the True Open Source web browsers - things like NetSurf, Dillo, elinks, w3m, lynx. Completely open-source, open to contributions, and generally only work on static documentation pages, not everyday browsing. That seems to be as good as it gets without the financial backing of a multinational corporation.
Merit and effort can beat being a genetic lottery winner.
Is that worse than spending time on Reddit, HN, Youtube, etc.? What about watching TV or movies?

You could make the argument that the content is worse in some way but even that is debatable since depending on who you follow on FB (groups, etc.) really changes what the content is.
What's your beef with pokimane? She's a gamer.
The entire benefit is depending on how much you value autonomy. I feel like there was no real argument from pragmatics (I mean there was the NHS claims for dupes) but really it was „what is independence worth to you?”

For the lead Brexiteers it’s alpha and omega and no suffering will dissuade them.
A Bitcoin Mining Operation Started a Secret Power Plant, It Did Not Go as Plannd
It's nothing like pocket ads. They send everything you type and the item you click on. Take a look at the "What data is shared if you enable contextual suggestions?" section.
This is pretty much the same problem as Email spam. There needs to be a service/collaborative project to filter these, instead of each app hacking up an ad-hoc way of doing it.
He was poking fun at your annoying prose, lol
eww in emacs can do this. Open desired page, then create a split / new window. It defaults to the same buffer you already had open. Scroll one, and the other stays where it is. If you change the web page, they will both change.
They're not though. Theu talk about deploying multiple times. They also talk about problems with drift which means the infrastructure is probably changing outside of IaC. The problem is the process at ops company not IaC.
Or when countries like Denmark and Sweden halt moderna for under 30's citing inflammation reactions. As much as there is a crusade to dismiss the VAERS database it does pretty obviously suggest that there is quite a bit more risk here than in traditional vaccines.
I really wish we could get away from enforcing this type of crap
Studying human diet is notoriously difficult. Randomizing people who want to lose weight to 'keep doing everything how you have been' is not going to be a study that anyone enrolls in, so I think this study's methodology was thoughtful and realistic.

The only genuine methodological critique I'm aware of for this study is its sample size.
There are plenty of good arguments for requiring people to use their actual identities on social media. You may think the downsides outweigh the advantages, but it’s absurd to say there is “no legitimate reason”
My comments are my own and don't represent my employer.

Almost every new service built inside Amazon uses CDK. I too am surprised that more people aren't aware of it. And you're right once you get good at it you can spin up infrastructure incredibly quickly with minimal guess work.
> The opening paragraph is an apology. Other parts of the post undo any goodwill that might have been garnered from the apology itself.

This is also recognizable as “I’m sorry, but” or “I’m sorry it made you feel that way”. Both of which have meaningful applications in very specific circumstances but neither of which belong in a public apology.
You can’t have tiny surface mount components packed onto the PCBs in phones without trade offs in repaiability. No one[a] is going to buy a game console made of discrete logic and through hole passives when the PS5, X Box, and Switch do a much better job at giving consumers what they want with 0402 (or smaller) passives.

I applaud Valve for doing this video. They’re admitting that the device is too complex for the average user and that they shouldn’t mess with it, but they also are going to provide replacement parts and a teardown guide should you know what you’re doing. That’s a step in the right direction.

[a]: yes, I’m sure some would want this (especially if you asked on here), but I’d bet that the majority of non-tech people don’t care
I'm partial to Forth, but I think "get rid of C" is a bit of an extreme opinion...
check out the press release from "The Case Busters"

https://secureservercdn.net/166.62.114.250/g9q.07b.myftpuplo...
> if you believe

That's the problem, that's why I said unless we have a very good explanation.

It's easy to fit some model over any data to explain it, but that doesn't make it a very good explanation.

So what we would need is very strong evidence that the surprising data we see is the result of some inherent cause, and not that of a sub-optimal system. Until then, the possibility that the system is sub-optimal remains, and the data continues to be surprising.
Reddit used to be really great for this type of community when subreddits could customize stuff and even have a dedicated Wiki. It's really gone the opposite direction in the last few years. They still can have these things but the tools are literally 10+ years behind.
Man, I was _not_ expecting it to be stored procedures lmao.
What about companies with large market caps that are losing money?
How have you found moving from a default transaction isolation level of read committed on Postgres to serializable-only on CockroachDB? I know of some somewhat-standard usage patterns that lean heavily on more lax isolation levels for acceptable performance(and may just deadlock otherwise).

I'm also curious how you have found dealing with legacy schemas and queries that might cause a lot of data shuffling due to poor data locality. Was it necessary to put a lot of time into the sharding strategy? Have you experienced new query hotspots?
One reason for this was that GOTO was a main control structure in TI-BASIC (since it lacked user-definable functions), and AFAIK on hitting a GOTO, the interpreter scanned the program from top to bottom to find the corresponding Label. So it was very easy to write loops than ran in O(program size). This was strong motivation to learn how to use While and For loops.
Nobody quits that website. I've tried a few times. Meanwhile I was able to quit FB in one evening and haven't been back.
>[...] Anytime a topic about race, gender, etc comes up this website turns into a shithole.

because people are actually racist/sexist, or they're not progressive enough?
Looks like you can set browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored to false to remove sponsored suggestions. Searching about:config for "sponsor" brings up a few items.
Your common sense. No one can be an "expert" on Corona. They don't even know what it is! Certainly this was true by the first lockdown.
I've some sort of stock graphics library in my mind.

For example, I cannot visualize the apple I have in my hand, even if I consciously study it for a few minutes and note out the shape and colouration before closing my eyes. However, I can visualize "an apple", I even get a choice between clipart version or realistic stock photo version of a red delicious or an granny smith. I cannot conjure up the faces of people I know, or even my own face, but I can bring up "young adult asian male" "elderly white female" etc.

When I looked up aphantasia, one of the test was "can you visualize waves hitting the beach" and I was wondering if the Toei logo because I can rewatch that anytime I want, but I can't visualize a generic beach with waves.
Presumably referring to this tweet?

https://twitter.com/ladyaeva/status/1445920324906885123
Please no. No more Mozilla junk. There are plenty of VPN products and equally as many Password Managers. It’s focusing on junk like Lockwise instead of Firefox that is causing Mozilla to consistently get worse.
their credentials are listed at end of this doc

https://secureservercdn.net/166.62.114.250/g9q.07b.myftpuplo...
This doesn't even include one of the most useful features of CDK: truly modular components. I can create a module used 100 times and all you have to worry about is the constructor and inputs instead of the nightmarish lack of reusability in other IaC.
>Did they get caught trying to start the extinguish phase of EEE?

Effectively, yes, and a bunch of people are surprised about it.
I honestly found it borderline impossible to read or follow. It's a bunch of disjointed speculation and 'did you know you can get any barcode to equal 666'-levels of rambling.
I think the British people who voted for Brexit can really go fuck themselves with their visas. I'm happy there is scant uptake.

As a Pole who spent in the UK seven years being bullied for the audacity of keeping a job there and being likened to vermin I really truly have had it with their attitude towards foreigners. That said, I had a thick skin and I put up with the abuse for way longer than I should have. But the day my son was born I noped out of that place for good. I pictured the abuse and bullying he was going to face purely on the account of his last name and I said, fuck it - no amount of money can compensate for such a toxic environment.

C'mon Brits, you wanted no foreign workers - you got your wish granted, quit complaining! Brexit mean brexit, sleep in the bed you made.
It's okay. Instead of watching a streamer called 420blazeit, they can watch Amouranth sucking on a microphone.
Calling instrumental pieces "songs" does exist in real-life common usage even if it's not "technically" correct. After all, the ancestor post did just that.

Depends how prescriptive you want to be.
Can workers in a building (or cloud, as things currently are) really be so clearly binned?
Since when does a song require singing..?
Mozilla doesn’t need donations. The $450 million it gets from Google each year is enough for a browser.

It’s enough to the point that the CEO is having their seven figure salary doubled in the last five years.

Any money you want to give to Mozilla is just going to be a waste: there are plenty of other open source projects worth supporting instead.
OS/2 was my gateway to Free Software. Eberhard Mattes' amazing emx system enabled ports of many Free Software packages to OS/2, including the GNU toolchain and TeX. My first first Free Software patch was to use OS/2 REXX as an extension language for GDB. Thank you, Eberhard, for my 25+ year career in FOSS that all started on OS/2! http://cd.textfiles.com/hobbesos29411/LIB/EMX/GNU/PATCHES/GD...
Firefox, please ask on first launch — as you do for telemetry — if the user is ok with ads. The default being opt-out and later on a “sorry, we hear you, this was a mistake” doesn’t sound good.

Mozilla Corporation, please figure out a way for users to directly donate to support Firefox. Not everybody realizes or knows that the donations on mozilla.org go to Mozilla Foundation and not to Mozilla Corporation. Not everybody knows that Firefox is primarily funded by a search partnership agreement with Google. The direct donations to Firefox may not be a lot, but I’m sure it could pay for at least one programmer a month, if not more.

Mozilla Corporation, expand the availability of Mozilla VPN to all the countries that Mullvad offers its services in. Keeping it restricted isn’t helping anyone much.
I wouldn’t assume that.
In the US, the FCC has made it clear in recent years that “warranty void if removed” stickers are illegal. Manufacturers can only void the warranty if they can show that any defects are caused by your tinkering.
QtWebEngine uses code from the Chromium project but doesn’t just copy it.

https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine

The browser is developed in the open, accepts community contributions, and doesn’t have any potential financial conflicts that could work against users. It could benefit a lot from more contributions, especially to the Windows and Mac versions, and there are no mobile versions yet. It’s a very capable browser as it is, but if more people joined the project, it could be the best.

Would it be necessary to remove any Chromium code to stay fully open? I wouldn’t say so, but some might disagree.
That’s crazy. How could essentially half of the pairing age population be unpaired? I’m in favor of the procrasturbation theory:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex...
And exactly one German one in 'is_profanity'
Good times!
While memory hungry, it featured really great preemptive multi-threading.

I happily ran 2 DOS apps and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter at the same time. One of the DOS apps was a BBS node that happily exchanged data when someone called it while I was blasting Tie-Fighters.
They aren’t really off duty though. They on duty for hire but the tax payer still pays for their injuries pension and lawsuits. Also they still get get all the protections of someone who is acting on behalf of the state while acting on behalf of a private party
One of the main reasons is tree style tabbing[0]. I don't know how people live with an endless row of little peaks that are barely clickable...

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Someone in another thread mentioned that these might be part of corpus generation for an ML model. That would make more sense to me.
I believe that advertising could be used maliciously but I don't believe advertising is inherently malicious.
Yes, but that does not prevent them from spending it on some other 'priority', pet project, administration or whatever else might cross their mind other than Firefox Development.

IDK what are their actual intentions, and they might be 100% focused on FF dev, but nothing in the tax law keeps them on that focus.
It seems NVIDIAMINER could be controversial.
I think there were indeed some 3rd-party zip disks. I had several drives, thought they were really cool at the time.
“Just quit” seems to be a much broader response of people to ill feelings about employment and not distinctive to tech workers. An example is the broad cultural impact of David Allen Coe’s “Take this Job and Shove It” [0] which went on to be recorded in diverse genre’s (country, punk, rap), a movie, Simpsons plot and a snowclone.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_This_Job_and_Shove_It
This is a good list of concerns to be aware of, but I think they need deeper inspection and should be balanced by comparison with the list of concerns about Firefox and Mozilla from bejelentkezni who you replied to. I think what it really comes down to is that every single one of them, including Firefox, has it's issues and you just have to pick your poison.

For Chrome, you can disable linking browser sign ins to web page sign ins and you can disable FLOC. For mobile - If you don't trust Google, you should probably be on an iPhone IMO. There I use Adguard with Safari and that works just as well as uBlock Origin and better than Firefox on iOS.

I use Chrome all day on desktop systems, but I don't sign in at all and because of that, I just don't do syncing. If I really wanted to do basic bookmark syncing though, I could do that with an extension like xBrowserSync, EverSync, etc. (or even my own). Of course those probably wouldn't sync to iPhone/Safari with some hackey procedure. I don't know if Manifest v3 will stop uBlock Origin because the maintainers have been steadily working on ways to implement the extension with it.

I don't entirely distrust Brave since they've been quick to apologize, explain and/or revert their mistaken behavior. I think they deserve some consideration for the level of innovation they're trying to achieve. For now, Brave is my backup plan for desktop at least, if Manifest v3 breaks everything completely.

Good for me that I pack lightly and I can move to another browser easily or use a mix of them if I wish to.
I still cant help but think about how wasteful cars are.
We basically have these giant energy hungry machines who just sit idle and take up space 95% of the time, and when they are utilized, it's mostly for a single passenger with almost zero luggage.
That's a bold claim.
I was pedantic about it in the good old days too, it's goatse.cx and not goatse

you need the domain to make the goat-sex joke work
I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.
Hardcoded database creds in code. Saw a post earlier with credentials to an rds instance. It said there were more examples.

EDIT Found it again: https://sizeof.cat/post/twitch-leaks/#secrets-exposed
I was an OS/2 evangelist among my university friends. We would install and try to run the DOS games and it worked flawlessly, and I even run a BBS on it, on 1995.

Unfortunately, we've all migrated to NT 4.0 as it did the same things but it has better hardware support because of drivers.

Since then, it was a painful decline and I believe the only production system running OS/2 nowadays are IBM mainframe consoles, as IBM migrated away desktop enterprise machines to Linux.
My understanding from talking to {current,former} {Amazon,Twitch} employees is that Twitch has retained a decent amount of engineering independence. For better or worse, it's unlikely that some rando at Amazon ended up with this particular PHP file on their desk.
I myself am vaccinated and don't have a strong opinion on the matter but what I do have a strong opinion of is those who interject themselves into discussions with useless, politically charged comments.

An abundance of comments like yours is why I no longer use Reddit, please reconsider the next time you decide to make a statement on a divisive topic, especially if that statement is here on HN.
I was mistaken. Here's the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsgoLc_fzI
How is this different from [1] deepnote? I have been using them for quite a while and it is a joy collaborating on notebooks real-time.

[1] https://deepnote.com/
Exactly they should not get qualified immunity when working for a private party
This is not just banks but (nearly) all companies who deal with payment data will not delete anything related to payment for many many years. In India this use to be 10 years. USA I think it is 5 years.
I guess it's authoritarian in the same like that governments enforcing minimum wage or workplace safety are forcing companies to give up autonomy for someone else's benefit - but, of course, that benefit is usually in the name of human rights/not dying on the job/not exploiting workers.
I’ve read something different, which is that natural immunity likely comes with recognition of multiple markers, not just the spike protein, and therefore gives you the ability to respond to a wider range of variants. Now I’m not sure what to believe. But in the absence of definitive and absolute evidence, I lean in favor of individual freedoms and civil liberties rather than mandates.
Is this backed by actual evidence? It seems like you can come up with plausible sounding reasons for both sides (edit: see sibling comment), so your anecdote isn't really convincing.
Felix Mendelssohn wrote a collection of pieces called Songs without Words for the piano. This might suggest that the term "song" can be more nuanced than simply whether or not there are vocals.
That's a beautiful swear. Far from naughty, I feel enriched having learned this.
You mean something like Cluster? Our family has used it for years.

https://cluster.co/
That is nonsensical. For that argument to be sound, you'd have to assume simultaneously: (a) that not all COVID variants have spike proteins so they don't all induce antibodies to it; and (b) that all COVID variants have spike proteins so the antibodies from the mRNA vaccines are widely applicable.
Also mine. Have gone long stretches between relapses during which time I've felt noticeably better. What typically happens is I'll rationalize its use after a spell, but will find I'll want to watch the next day, and the next. Particularly if sleep suffers, just to get some deliverance.

From what I've learned, large sustained dopamine hits lead to deficits in baseline levels. I could intuit early on that some of my negative experience (including sleep) was linked to consumption, but managed to convince myself each time that I "just need to better manage it". Even if the truth stares you in the face it's hard. I like to think of it as a "mild" addiction owing to frequency (it wasn't always) but still an addiction, which is like playing with fire. It can always get worse.

I've been enjoying Huberman's videos on the topic of dopamine and other things - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU
> deletion of their account from within the app.

Can't the app be reset to a state as if it was just installed ?
Zoning laws, probably a ton of stuff in agriculture
Evolution and Darwinism might have a differing opinion though…