skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wanted to play my Sega Dreamcast online (I think the game was Phantasy Star Online), but my house had no internet at the time.

I was probably 12 or 13 and had all the time in the world, but no credit card or parental permission.

I figured out how to reverse engineer those spam AOL and NetZero signup CDs you would get in the mail to extract their dial-in credentials for new user signups. I managed to use that to get free internet access for the Dreamcast!

I think I got caught when my mom needed to make a phone call... online gaming was tough in the days of 56k dialup.
User of Obsidian here.

I don't see why that would be problematic. You can name each folder/note what ever you want.

I guess you could also write a plugin for Obsidian that would do this for you.

I don't really see the need for numbering though. Obsidian has a very robust system for tagging and linking together notes. Coupled with proper search, I can always find what I need.

I do store my notes in a hierarchical context centric way (Finances > Loans > Calculations) which also helps.
Oh. I was really hoping they made a JDK using redstone.
I use simplenote for this. It is basic text-based note keeping and free (by the Wordpress folks).
I don't blame the culture in itself. It's a byproduct of itself.. when you live with nothing, excellency == survival and better life, but when capital/marketing makes people live "softer" by doing nothing.. the incentive is removed. At least on the surface.. I don't think people are that happy binging on netflix.

That said I'm curious about how to revive this, before the potential climate collapse especially :)
r/gamedev
As others have already mentioned, in addition to the genetic cause of blue skin it can also be caused by an ingestion of silver.

There are several well-publicized cases, all of which were self-inflicted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
BBC News articles are mostly now written by AI pulling from other newsfeeds. It's only really good enough for the 80% who don't actually care about news, information, or actually learning anything.
Yes, using Qubes OS as a daily driver, and can't recommend it enough: https://qubes-os.org.
While this is a very exhaustive and eloquent argument in favor of embryo selection, it seems that (at first glance) some important risks are not really addressed.

For example, what if social dysfunctionality is a function not only of individual intelligence but also of the distribution of intelligence across the population? There may be negative consequences from an overall upwards shift. (Crude analogy: Compare the discussion on the threat of a surplus of young males in societies).

What if the reported effects are non-linear, i.e. distinct between sub-mean and above-mean intelligence?

Given our extremely lacking understanding of how societies work in general (i.e.: financial markets, social unrest, individual happiness etc.), I am really hesitant to believe that we are able to anticipate even a tiny amount of such an approach's implications.

And, of course, embryo selection would violate several fundamental humanist values - would society need to penalize people for opting out? Are we confident enough in society's self-regulating mechanisms to trust that such an instrument would be always used ethically?

Interfering with children is so terrifying because the fallout lasts a hundred years. That calls for some more humility, I think.
Heh I think the contents of the post excuses you for making that assumption. :)

For context he is mostly known for his work around Wayland/Sway but these days he also works on sr.ht which does have a web frontend but it's primary interface is the git protocol.
Someone from 1800 or earlier would call us parasites.

We work so little and own so much!

Time to go back to owning nothing and working all day every day under threat of actual violence and starvation.

Now that's performance!

(I'm afraid some rich assholes actually believe that today, of course they'd be the leaders of such a society)

There's still room for QoL improvement, and income isn't the only incentive.
re: "voodoo death", https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.52...

> Cannon stated that voodoo death resulted when all body forces were mobilized and maintained for an action
which never came.

> He felt that the death was primarily due to prolonged overstimulation of the adrenals by the sympathetic nervous system. Richter, however, felt that the demise was due to a complete "giving up," a feeling of utter hopelessness and helplessness; in effect, a parasympathetic death.

> Zoological experts have observed this in the deaths of wild animals who find themselves suddenly caged in an apparently hopeless situation.

> The thin veneer of civilized intellect covering man's primitive emotions serves as an armor to prevent vulnerability to this type of influence. It is suggested that when this armor proves too thin, modern man may also succumb, albeit less directly and more slowly, than did his less sophisticated predecessors.

This stuff is fascinating to me.

PS: I have to say I'm sorry for the sometimes aggressive tone in some of our exchanges here, this is a topic that's close to heart.
> Edit2: They also have en_it lol

I loved my old Android smartphone that had knew a en_DE locale. The English language with German date and number formatting was nice.

It's a bit strange that those custom localization settings that have existed on Windows since at least XP are not available on some modern OSs/UIs.
In later versions they have been renamed also but that isn't until Java 17 I think with them moving under the jakarta namespace.
Is the same true for Ryzen CPUs?
I don't have to tell them that, what do you think why gambling is so popular in poorer communities? Yes, everyone "knows" it's a game of chance but they secretly tell themselves it's a game of skill and that there are rules they just have to get better at recognizing. The gambler's fallacy is a prime example of that.

Trading is only different from gambling in that we don't view the belief in "skill" as a sign of addiction and instead feed into it with the mainstream news cycle. There's no practical difference between betting on stocks and betting on horse racing except the levels of complexity permitted.

The trick to winning at stock gambling is that unlike with regular gambling if you have enough money, you can effectively "be the bank". The more money you, the easier it becomes to diversify your investments and in some cases you can effectively bet on black and red at the same time and still turn a profit.

It's less about skill and more about having the wealth to feed complex financial vehicles that practically guarantee an ROI over time.

> Tell that to the sweatshop worker who made your jeans.

The sweatshop worker doesn't believe their skill at their job translates into wealth. The sweatshop worker knows they're in a deadend job barely making enough to feed their family and that they'll be cycled out if they get sick, injured or simply have a few bad days.

They might still believe their "skill" at gambling could make them money. But they probably don't have enough money to be able to "invest" in trading.
If I am to be working without monetary incentive, as many here suggest, I would still do something. But I will mostly focus on things which amuse me, and not on anything in real demand by society. Even then I will only do the most exciting part while leaving a trail of technical debt.

Would you expect anything else? People fixing obscure bugs in legacy products for you instead of reinventing the wheel, poorly?
Yes, also there are old tricks to downsize a company in creative ways, such as 1:create a new one, 2:bankrupt the old one, 3:buying back the old brand and 4:rename the new one as the old one, only without hiring back the old workforce.
ITA just bought the Alitalia brand, so we are at 3; I don't think they would keep the historical brand unused or relegate it to trivial side projects.
>Even in EU they have massive problems with even getting some minorities to attend school.

I think you're reaching a conclusion that the evidence doesn't completely support here.

I live in the EU and I was one of the people who didn't want to attend school, because school is glorified daycare and in impoverished areas it quite literally feels like prison.

I don't really know if you're right, my mum and I grew up living on income support and while it was awful I do cherish the fact that I got to spend time with her.

She now works for the government, I work in tech, we've both "done more" but the money she earns now isn't the reason for that, it's because:

1) It's BORING to sit on your arse and do nothing

2) People identify with their purpose (hippies identified with anti-war, and even hippies have had productive impacts on society with social movements, music and art)

3) When free to do anything: you do the thing you love

This last point means you can't keep treating service workers like shit, which is why it's unpopular.
The nuance is in the contrast between freedom from compulsion and the ability to compel. Most care about the former but power only grants the latter.

Do you want to enslave your partner? Compel them to live with you against their will?
He hasnt hit upon anything. Other than for himself.

Youtube etc is like throwing sugar around a gigantic ant hill and watching ants reacts. The ants dont change into anything sophisticated consuming all that sugar.

Learning takes time. Its requires the right environment and experienced guides.

There are no shortcuts. And the chimp troupe learns that lesson again and again every single time they think they have discovered one.
Hmm. I'd imagine you'd end up blocking a lot of good songs that simply have the word "fuck" in them, in a non-aggressive, non-sexual way, and may still have to endure lyrics that sound like a 13 year old bragging about how cool he is (yeah, that's mostly rap but not exclusively)
To me the ideal economy has multiple choices for regulations so that there is regulatory competition.

Decentralized regulators, and if things are open and transparent, people can pick what works best for them.
As a solo developer building a scrappy startup, should I use Git?
Had this happen to me. At first I assumed its because I block most of Google/YT tracking (pagead, things like https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/log_event?xxxx), but unblocking everything didnt fix the issue. It would sometimes not delete a comment if I manually reposted it a minute later.

I just gave up and stopped commenting on YT.
Iiuc AMD chips have more dependencies between chips, so maybe it's more difficult for them to turn one off? Or more likely wasn't worth implementing.
> but having an hour or two of straight mindlessness is not a bad thing

I am sorry, but in my mind, if it’s only an hour or two per day on average, then you’re still a robot.
Are people suffers in reading comprehension?
Some people who have not English as mother tongue suffers from reading comprehension (my perspective). It may be lack of practice, but in day to day life they encounter their mother language more often. This makes them to practice English hard.
Yes, the identity politics seeping into what was previously an anonymous, decentralised, and democratic process of software development has been both sickening and infuriating.

I echo the call to abandon such politicised projects, and also to immediately cut out those for who identity is more important than meritocracy of work.
Hi, I see you are new here, so I want to spend a minute explaining HN comments, before you get voted down to oblivion by other users...

The community tends to vote down comments that add no value to the conversation, or are simply single word responses.

The FAQ has some good pointers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Hope this helps, and welcome to HN! :)
Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence
> The economy which caps maximum income at some small value removes incentive to perform.

And yet there is no shortage of t-shirts, shoes and cheap clothing. And parasites do thrive off of the worker's back.
tl;dr: We're shipping generics in 1.18, it's a huge release so let's wait a little bit until they stabilise and they're used in production before changing our stdlib.

Good call in my book, and I'm extremely excited to have generics finally. I thought they were going to ship with 2.0, but the sooner the better!

It's cool to hate on Go, it's taken over the system programming space for a reason, like it or not, and after working full time on Elixir it's hard not to think in map/reduce and other generic constructs, which were unreasonably verbose before in Go. Now the haters will have to focus on the "if err != nil" statement to pile on the language — though to be fair I'll expect some ergonomic improvement on that aspect as well, eventually.

With generics, Go will be my new Python, but with a decent dependency and deployment story, and I'll just need Zig for my low-level manual memory management needs. What's Rust?

EDIT: indeed being a bit cheeky with HN's favourite language isn't well received in this place.
Iwantmyname.com Having Certificate Issues
Wait, you want a bulky and heavy laptop?
> Its akin to not driving your car in the redline constantly - sure you can do it, but its going to reduce engine life.

Yes, of course. That's not the issue, though.

> Some devices now try and use "machine learning" to determine max charge, for example iphones will maintain a medium charge throughout the night then do a final top up charge to reach 100% just before you wake up.

That's different and even opposite from advertising X max charge and only delivering 80% of X as the max charge. What I referred to is a bait and switch, where the manufacturer advertises one thing but provides another. Your example justification, however, is not a bait and switch but aligns the technical MVPs and marketing promises.

The situation is similar to purchasing a fridge that only operates at 80%. All food spoils more quickly, but the fridge lasts longer. If that had been disclosed, instead of the opposite implication from the marketing, then consumers would have almsot certainly made different purchasing decisions. That is why these sorts of things are generally illegal.

In your car example, if a car is advertised with 400 HP but never goes above 320 HP, that's called false advertising. Sure, the engine can get to 400 HP tested on a bench, but that's not why the car was purchased.
Why does Windows do on-battery/plugged-in performance modes on Microsoft hardware with 10th gen i7?
That site is hardly useful, the comments on the previous thread are far better.
bookofconcord.org
> But the thing about Nix is that it just adds even more complexity

It absolutely doesn't. I'm someone who is fairly fluent with Nix, and in comparison the complexities of running a non-trivial docker-compose setup gives me nightmares. Luckily I basically never have to worry about that though.
You actually think the political class is not full of thieves anywhere else?

It's a career path that attracts this kind of people, like flies to shit.
Right now software engineers are leveraging their technical knowledge to enforce [their bosses'] social values.
I'm not sure I understand, are you saying this is a good or a bad thing?

Maybe I've been living in Sweden too long and the emphasis on living your life is maybe a bit too high here but the idea of working day and night to earn "a lot more" feels like game theory.

> If I _don't_ break my back and give up my life then someone else will and I will lose out in the big picture!

We shouldn't live to work, we should work to live.

If you're not getting fulfilled in your work and/or you're giving your life to your job then you're not really living- you're a meat robot.
You’ve been able to sustain this over how many years?
Not in defense of google, but public boards and places for comments illustrate that most posters are idiots who at best post irrelevant text or at worst… well many worse types of content.

What is particularly frustrating is that tons of garbage posts live on whole a few legitimate or at least not offensive posts get removed.
I generally agree with you, but where do you draw the line on what software needs this accountability? Particularly when things change pretty quickly in the field. As an example, 30 years ago, a lot of the internet was not 'important' yet it grew to critical for most of our systems.
If you look at the original announcement article for this project, linked in a comment above, it was developed mainly for use in chess computers from the 1980s.
The phonological history of English doesn't have much to do with French. English could have had its entire vocabulary replaced by French while still being grammatically and phonologically the same.

Internal linguistic processes are much stronger than outside influences.
A λ-calculus interpreter written in C preprocessor macros
Its not just this one word. In my case it was all comments, like I was shadowbanned.
But the same is also true for rotating the bracelet isn't it?
Killing of a communist is not murder, it's destruction of state property.
Don’t hold grudges

Sadly, human memory is just so damn strong. It’s stored with emotional context, and I really wish I could turn it off without becoming completely sociopathic.
Are there any other studies outside of asthma ? emotional stress is highly coupled with lung/cardiovascular function.

When I had bad asthma, the difference between me staying at home and me going to ER was anxiety.

So even if placebo is just that, an emotional ease, it triggers somatic effects that eases the asthmatic response.
The title misspelt “managers”
This is an open ended philosophical question, not an attempt at empirical analysis
That cannot be.

The continents are made of the rocks (e.g. granite) which are lighter than the average rocks of the Earth, so they float above the mantle.

Those "blobs" are heavier than the average rocks, so unlike the continental rocks that have more aluminum and alkali metals than the average, the heavier rocks must have more iron and manganese than the average.

As others have already mentioned, the most likely hypothesis is that they are remnants of the bodies which have collided with the Earth soon after its formation.
It can't be O(1) because to just search for a memory location you need at least a binary search. Since memory lookup is implemented in hardware it is treated as constant access. Of course this is all obscured by magnitudes of the memory hierarchy. For real systems such as databases, it is a better idea to treat random memory access as O(log n), which then justifies doing batch lookups and libear scans. All of this O(1) RAM access makes people confused and they never start thinking beyond the simple undergrad abstraction of a single cpu with a single layer of RAM.
The longer lines are technically less probable, like you say - I was trying to capture the notion that a trap is more impressive if on average, moves are likely. How would you define 'sub-optimal' move in your proposal? It's a good idea -would be interesting to see it in action!
Tamil keeps me up at night.
Every single night.
Why did India birth so many languages?
Why does Mizoram have so little to do with the rest of India?
This is because poor people have to make them or starve.

If those countries had safety nets, no more t-shirts for you, since producing these, not to mention cotton farming, is not exciting at all. You just do it for money.
As long as you can sync a folder on your phone (whether with Git or any cloud service), mobile app can open it.

Of course, you may experience some conflicts, but that's why you can pay them not to worry about that. Totally worth the price for me, though I do have a permanent discount ($5/month, as does everyone that signed up before Sep 30th).
Don't presume to speak my thoughts.

I don't think the US is evil, I think people have a poor understanding of how little it would cost to help the rest of the world a lot more with vaccination and am disappointed that we are not doing it.
It is not "Library of Alexandria of video games" - I felt deceived after visiting the page. It is a Steamdeck for old games. The link should be changed especially as the HN rules suggest to edit out clickbaits, not to add them.

Compare and contrast with actual collections:

- https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames

- https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/
If I remember correctly, certain types fruit flies prefer inbreeding.
As a DF fan since the early days, it's amazing to see it come to Steam, and wow, having just seen the updated store page with the new interfaces they've been working on for the past two years, I'm so excited.

I can't wait to take a few days to myself, and start working on some silly dwarf trick, complete with cisterns, reservoirs, waterfalls, a huge forge, and a vampire bookkeeper entombed in the stairwell.
What’s the line of sticks down the middle with no fencing on it for?
Adopt OpenJDK didn't have TCK compliance - this seems to have changed with the rebranding to adoptium.
That would give you the rare meat. No one claims they were vegetarians.

But, if they killed and eate 0.5 young males per cow per year, that would make the meat available once per year per cow. They could dry it or make sausage or whatever, but that does not make it a lot.
The article somehow misses many different points, perhaps deliberately, as a satire of sorts.

The point of money creation and subsequent inflation is funding for infrastructure, real estate and public projects. There will be outsized returns to road building, city sewers systems and such. However, good luck collecting funding for them without banks issuing money. Good luck fundung any project which has large upfront costs and time to return investment of more than a decade.

The system currently exists is in place party because we historically knew how to capture positive spillover effects of such projects. Naive systems which does not even consider credit against future spillover effects will be very much like ours, but will develop slower and eventually collapse.

Credit is good. Banks printing money with credit is a feature. Opaqueness of banks is a feature.
Unless you're using a GPU optimized build!
most of it is brightness related thing and i understand there are various inner settings but I find them doing very little. So it usually doesn't bring value to the table.
Ask HN: Show us your digital garden
I keep a public "digital garden"[0] with an amalgamation of
notes/lists/cheatsheets on stuff that interests me on present or on the long term. Many of you have one also and I suspect fellow HNers would like to see "what (and how) do you plant there".

[0] https://github.com/slowernews/notebook
Actually, the article uses "open banking" correctly in this case. The author believes that if all banks used open sourced tools for exposing their data via APIs (as opposed to building everything from scratch), we'd have more connectivity - which is true.

In Europe, for example, there's 6,000 banks and there's at least thousand different interpretations of what is a PSD2-compliant API, which makes connectivity hard - you have to use an API aggregator to connect to all these APIs (unless you want to connect to each API separately). If they all just used open source libraries, we'd have less APIs to connect to, which means better connectivity.