skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super awesome!

Feature request: up-arrow support (like bash shell has). IE: I want to reply the last command, or fix something in it (because I typed it wrong). Being able to up-arrow through my command history is something I use regularly on my normal command line, and would be cool to have here.
> If instead of requiring people to pay for the perpetual right to occupy and exclude others, you allow them to pay for that right for only one year or one month at a time, well, that’s what renting already is.

No, that's what property taxes are -- and they're already paid out little bits at a time. (Here, twice yearly). Rent vs buy has nothing to do with the "right to occupy", the taxes do, and renters and owners both pay their property taxes in full (renters taxes are rolled up into their monthly rent, but same thing).

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Every benefit a landlord offers is a lie -- it's a benefit the renter setup, and the landlord is stealing credit for. A landlord does not "maintain" any property (the renter does, the renter pays money that gets spent on a property management service that does the work). A landlord does not pay any taxes for the land (the renter does, through monthly rents). A landlord did not build the structure on the property (a construction firm did, using money exclusively paid for by current and future renters). A landlord does not protect the property from risk or damage (the homeowners insurance / property insurance company does that, paid for entirely from monthly rents from the renter tenant).

You could potentially argue that the landlord is a bank, a form of financing to get money upfront and paid back later -- except they don't do that either, the Federal Government does that through a mortgage that the landlord just gets to hold for no reason, so the landlord usually isn't even risking any finances there either. A default doesn't leave a landlord high-and-dry, it leaves the general public (through the Federal Government) holding the bag.

The landlord doesn't even take on any opportunity cost risk in the US, because the US soft-mandates (though fiscal policy) that property values continuously rise on average, and passes this cost on to citizens. So, even if hypothetically all renters abandon the property in a few years, the landlord will be able to 'cash out' (sell) the property, nearly always for more than they paid for it (using appreciation paid for by past renters).

A landlords choice is literally "do I do nothing and get free money forever for no labour" or "do I cash out now, and dump the money into some other place, for the chance at more free money for no labour". That's the only "opportunity cost" they ever have to weigh.

The landlord *literally* *does* *nothing*, they provide *literally* *zero* value. They exist solely to skim money from people. It's a political choice to let these people exist and take the bulk of earned value from a given area, not some kind of need-based response to anything.
Very cool. What about support for the metric system in measurements for weight, size etc? Perhaps specify both formats in the ouput.
Well it's easy to say "don't build your castle in other people's kingdom", but when 95% of people live in someone else's kingdom and like it there it's much harder to actually pull that off.

The author laments content creators trying to bring viewers into their discord or twitter instead of personal website but conveniently ignores the fact that people are much more willing to go to and likely to return to sites they already visit.

I don't think content creators are especially happy to be reliant on youtube, or twitch, or whatever other site they're on. But the reality is that's where the people are. When creators have left those platforms they've consistently lost the vast majority of their viewers, because the reality is that there are plenty of other creators on the platform for viewers to migrate to.
> Make fun of the rich guy buying $7000 status watches, god knows I will

I'm going off-topic, but just a heads up, there's a fairly large watch community out there (https://www.watchuseek.com/forums/) that have a passion for watches and treat it as a hobby like any other. They're probably one of the friendliest online communities I've come across. I haven't bought any thousand dollar watches, but I've spent a decent amount of time reading about watches and releases, and I know there's a lot of people out there that save up their money for years, decades, or life, to buy a $7,000 grail watch they've dreamed of owning. They might look like rich guys wearing a dumb Rolex status watch to an outsider, but sometimes that couldn't be further from the truth.
My wild guess is that GP comment was meant to "provoke" thoughtful comments in defence of FP. And regardless of GP's intend, it really succeeded in that regard - just looking at some of the responses.
Ask HN: How often do we get free awards on Reddit?
I just got a free wholesome award which expires in 24 hours do we get these kinds of awards often?
Exactly - try new things, experiment.

The existing funding streams are calcified, and we've gotten to a point with the monster projects that they basically turn into drag out career builders.

Things like James Webb, TMT etc. At some point we have to try new things.

If you look into TMT closely, the actual optics package etc - $3B is a ridiculous price. It's just totally crazy. If we pulled pricing apart we'd find out that an incredible amount is going into overheads of various sorts.

ASML makes machines with 100,000+ parts, the precision needed is absolutely mind blowing. 4 747's and 40 containers to ship it. $200 - $500M tops.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/12/chip-machine-maker-asml-will...

I'm serious, the precision of mirrors in these machines absolutely rivals or crushes astro precision. "The mirrors are polished to a smoothness of less than one atom’s thickness. To put that in perspective, if the mirrors were the size of Germany, the tallest ‘mountain’ would be just 1 mm high."
Addendum: 6/8, etc might be under 10% of music, but it's played by well over 90% of musicians.

The freaking Fur Elise is 3/8, and it's the Stairway to Heaven of keyboardists.

This is a rather strange limitation for a DAW.
A similar one to Flash of Genius, which I didn't include on my motivational list because it is also a cautionary tale, but which also deserves mention is Tucker: the man and his dream (1988).
> Ketosis has lots of downsides for normally healthy people.

I've been considering trying ketosis but all I've heard are good things, what are the downsides?
OK, fair enough. I don't think that's one I saw, then.

I do recall netbooks with 1024×600 screens, which were a bit of a pain. E.g. in Ubuntu Netbook Edition, LibreOffice dialog boxes wouldn't fit on the screen -- they extended off the bottom. Meaning you couldn't reach the "OK" or "Cancel" buttons. >_<

Another fun exercise was configuring an old Dell PowerEdge server I had, connected to a very old mono VGA monitor. *Really* VGA: it maxed out at 640×480 -- but sitting on top of the server, it fit under my table and it didn't draw much power.

Every allegedly text-only server Linux distro I tried -- I remember Ubuntu Server & Debian, but probably more -- had an 800×600 graphical splash screen, which sent my monitor into conniptions so that I then couldn't complete the setup process.

This was a problem with Windows Server 2008, too. It assumed you had unaccelerated SVGA graphics and couldn't and wouldn't do actual VGA mode. I had to identify my motherboard GPU, find a Vista driver for it, install it, accept a compatibility warning, and then I could forcibly choose the monitor type and pick IBM PS/2 VGA. Then Windows believed me and displayed a 640×480 mode that my screen could show.
Nor I. I've emailed the librarian who wrote the article to ask if this is an error or if the emails are not meant to be publicly readable.

Edit: got this response - quoting with permission:

You are not seeing an error, we only display certain information from email collections online (including the names of correspondents, email header information, and extracted entities) to protect the privacy of third party correspondents contained in the archive. Normally you would be able to access the full email collection in our reading room in Green Library on the Stanford Campus, but unfortunately we are only open to Stanford students, staff, and faculty right now due to our COVID restrictions - we're hoping to open up to the general public soon, but we're not there yet!

If you would be interested, I could send specific messages to you via email if you know which ones you would like to read. We would ask you to sign and submit our standard user agreement before receiving the messages and I can send that to you if you would be interested.
There is a good video by Veritasium on this topic titled - "Why life seems to speed up as we age"

https://youtu.be/aIx2N-viNwY
I think time speeds up as we grow older because we constantly and subconsciously make predictions. If we subjectively measure time by the flow of unexpected events, as we age, fewer of our predictions are wrong, so there are fewer such events, which speeds up time. New experiences and places slow it down again.
(obligatory not a doctor, not your doctor)

Apparently yes:

https://eyewiki.aao.org/Strabismus_Surgery,_Horizontal
Quiet Riot: A Scalable AWS Enumeration and Footprinting Tool
Wasn’t there drama regarding archive.is being removed by some TLD operator?
Cost is not the only factor, the other one is time.

Merely getting an old, broken vehicle back on the road is lot of work. Completely restoring a vehicle to like-new is an order of magnitude more work. Adding in an equipment swap from one version of a model to another (maybe auto->manual swap, or V6-V8 swap) is again so much more work.

Complete conversions like this take an insane amount of time. Probably months of time working on it full time. Part time, you're looking at a multi-year project. There is going to be a lot of trailblazing going on here, and there might only be 3 people in the world who can help you answer your problem.
I could have been more clear. The comparison to firearms was more to say it's really hard to stop people from doing things they like and want to do, even if they come at a cost to society. At least cars add to productivity and quality of life, while firearms don't (imo).
They hopefully imagine moving out of that platform once a certain size has been reached.
> At its most fundamental level, I think biology can be thought of as an information processing system, albeit an extraordinarily complex and dynamic one. Taking this perspective implies there may be a common underlying structure between biology and information science - an isomorphic mapping between the two - hence the name of the company
I would say the opposite.

Whenever I have started a serious side project it changed my life in 18 months or so. It goes from "not getting called back" to recruiters (not from Amazon) contacting me.

Usually my side projects involve finding some use of a new technology that other people aren't doing that doesn't seem that hard. Some examples are

* In the late 1990s I made a Java applet that knocked off Apple's Quicktime VR

* I built a web site that had an XML-based back end the week XML 1.0 was finalized and got a deal to write a chapter in a book

* I made a web site of animal pictures, went on to make sites about cars and New York City, then made a list of topics from DBpedia and attached over a million images with near perfect accuracy

* I made a workflow system for handling job applications and classifying job listings with machine learning that got me the first job I applied for

Right now I have three side projects that form a series

* a system for making "three-sided cards" that have a photo or art reproduction on the front, a description and QR code on the back, an associated web site as well as installations of the cards that have "digital twins" like

https://gen5.info/$/XQ*42RXF-TLY:$B.8/

that one is nearly wrapped up.

* a persistence-of-vision display that mounts on the passenger side of my car (I need to have it perfectly debugged before I drive with it so I invented an error-correcting communication protocol to send graphical data back to my computer)

* I want to do a sketch comedy act with a video game character projected like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

which is a "moon shot" for me because it involves software, hardware, being funny, finding a venue, etc.

If I were looking for a new web-based project I'd use WebGL to give people a videogame-like experience. You can't make an AAA game but maybe you can make something like the trailer for an AAA game. In general I am seeing videogame interfaces (say the Pokédex or other "guides" you find in a game) as an inspiration for mobile interfaces.
This is the typical explanation, and it meshes very well with everyone's day to day experiences.

Vacations to unique places last forever. Never been? Spend 2 weeks in Japan and you'll remember it just as vividly as the best summer from your childhood. Every moment of every day will be long and filled with memories.

Debugging code every day? Yeah of course that's not memorable. Your brain is just tossing away repetitive data.

Feeling like life is going by way too quick? Have a kid. Every day with a baby is unique.

People with large families will have lived 200 subjective years by the time they are 70!

Other advice: Stop doing stuff you are good at. Every few years try to take a new job that you are specifically not good at. Companies that hire people who have succeeded at a lot of different things but not necessarily the thing they are hiring for are likely to be very good places to work. (FWIW my current workplace doesn't hire based on language or tools or background, we hire good people and assume they can pick up what we are doing).
Yeah but what if you don't have a kingdom? What if you don't need a catle?
It could be that autoimmune activity/genetics, even if it doesn't result in a specific disease, contributes to certain aspects of dementia.

Take Celiac disease as an example. It only affects ~1% of the population, but ~30% of the population has the two genes (HLA-DQ2 and DQ8) that are most strongly associated with it and those genes are also associated with other autoimmune diseases.

There are similar thoughts with respect to the hygiene hypothesis and autoimmune/immune-related disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis#Overview

Other diseases, like Parkinson's, are also associated with autoimmune diseases. I suspect that there's some trade-off with respect to the effectiveness of the immune system/how well it deals with infections/cancer and the incidence of certain diseases/pathologies, but it's not something that's as straightforward as we would like it to be.
How does Rust compare to Go in terms of performance? I know that Rust supposedly should be more secure at handling memory than Go. Does Rust have the same mature libraries that Go has? Building a RESTful API, or an HTTP(s) server or for that matter any kind of server (UDP/TCP) should be quite easy to do in Go, due to the awesome net standard packages (libraries) included with the language. Does the same apply to Rust, are the net packages of Rust mature enough?
I am just asking out of curiosity :)
Stored procedures and the integration database have come back for our users in a big way. It would be great to hear examples of how others are applying this pattern with other databases and APIs.
>I was saying that it is very impractical to drive without a smartphone

Dude, I think you should really question this. I've been smartphone free for over a year. It's... easy. In fact, easier than having a smartphone in many ways!

So strange how quickly our society became psychologically chained to these blipping bleeping distracting infernal machines.
Yeah that’s a weird attitude to have, the only reason there are users who feel personally hurt by the attitude Mozilla has been taking for the past few years is because they know things could be going way better.

No one is arguing that telemetry can be helpful but forcing users into it while acting holier than though is not just shady, but very much scammy.

The whole structuring difference between the foundation and the corporation sounds a lot like a tactic to push for some things under the non profit front and others under the company front, aka scammy.

All this turns on alarms in people’s heads… in a way I don’t find it weird that you guys still don’t see it, this is a sinking ship, and you’re going to think everything is going well until the last breath.
Creating small task lists seem to be the way to go.

Does anyone know what app the author is using to create nested tasks for 'lightweight sprint'?
Just wanted to chime in and say that I think this is a beautiful piece of software: fast, responsive, and intuitive. It's a pleasure to use, and your tutorial did a great job walking me through it. Congratulations!

I've already tossed this into our DnD Discord, and our DM may use it in the next session.
The “Ultimate” ThinkPad
yes - but those are completely optional
You're making a framing error but I see I could have been more clear. The term opt-in is used to describe the entire scheme as a UX concept. The setting value itself (opt in versus opt out) is a concept at a different level.

To be more clear I should have said "the default setting value is opt out"… fixed; thank you.
Would love a TLDR after all that analysis: it's still a lot to digest (pun intended).
Where would you plug it in?
Adding more logical registers is compatibility breaking. And, since you have to encode the register specifier in the instruction it means larger instructions (hence the compatibility breaking) which makes reading and decoding instructions slower.

And, regardless of how many logical registers you have you need to have more physical registers. These are needed for out-of-order (OOO) execution and speculative execution. An OOO super-scalar speculative CPU can have hundreds of instructions in flight and these instructions all need physical registers to work on. If you don't have excess physical registers you can't do OOO or speculative execution.
EUV ASML mirrors and mirrors for astronomical observation have nothing in common: size, reflectivity, precision, lifetime, actuation are all *completely* different as they have completely different purposes. This is a ridiculous comparison.
It was also their meanest trick. We used angular 1.x and when that was sunsetted, it took so much effort to get everyone to understand that v2 was a completely different framework, and that it might not even be able to do what we needed it to do.

It couldn’t, and we went with React instead. We were able to replace the whole UI layer, and aside from some 3rd-party components we had to swap out (like data grids), no one could tell the difference.
Judge friendly to patent trolls failed to recuse 138 cases of financial conflict
That's a common argument. Veritasium explores this and IMO the alternative arguments are more compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIx2N-viNwY
The First Fruits of CentOS Stream: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Beta
Good news and ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’
1. Which age range do you fall under? 20's

2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y

3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 5 years

4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily

5. Do you contribute to the website? every now and then

6. Rate the usability of the current website. 10

7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

Moderation, deeper and more in-depth content and comments

8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Keep up-to-date in my fields and learn from what the community has to offer. Yes

9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

I like how few features there are, it does one job and does it well

10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

A rare, quality public online community
A kind of "web3 substack" app just launched their NFTs, doing exactly what it sounds like you're interested in doing. Their NFTs will provide utility (premium features) in their app - no equity or future token or anything.

https://www.explorerguild.io

My thoughts:

Are you sure your target customer would be interested in buying your NFT? From a quick glance, there doesn't seem to be much overlap between crypto/NFTs and your startup. The space for new NFT drops is so saturated - there are new projects every single day, often with 10,000 NFTs for sale. Most of them do not sell out. To execute on this well, you need to build community around your NFTs and create hype, and then deliver a good result. It's not easy, even though it might look like "easy money".
‘Tis the Season for the Wayward Package Phish
This seems baroque but I quite like the idea, seems similar in spirit to having a shared LISP environment where you can live code and snapshot images with minimal hassle. I also see as an improvement over the usual Excel mess, in particular there’s some version control and automatic propagation of changes.
Drivetrain labor is a huge cost. If your transmission goes out you are likely to get a refurbed transmission rather than fixing the one you have. It’s much cheaper to rebuild them ahead of time and ship them around than to do it on demand.

It’s very likely you will see a disproportionate number of conversions being done for vehicles that are experiencing transmission or engine failure, because then you are comparing the cost of conversion against a $4-5k repair bill.
That helps, no question. But the causality is the wrong way around. Norway had that fund in the first place because they are a sensible country that made good decisions. Their government clearly functions at a level the US today can only dream of - where they can barely agree on not shutting down every time they near the debt limit. Here in Canada we're maybe a little better off, but not close to Norway.
You can't tell me not to fear it. I have a HUGE eye phobia; I can't even open my eyes under water. It doesn't matter what anyone says, it isn't a rational thing.
Indeed. Our brains are good at 'compressing' similar experiences.
This doesn't provide an actual mechanism though. You'd need evidence that our perception of time is dependent on that ratio and then show us a mechanism for it. On the other hand, the article gives a possible mechanism for a different theory.
Thank you!

1. Thats exactly the reason we have native connectors for Facebook and Google Ads (we didn't use ones from Airbyte and Singer). Jitsu can pull any combination from FB/GAds — it's almost like SQL! Airbyte/Singer just can't do that. Later we're going to vet other connectors too and decide if we need to re-implement them

2. We have functions too! https://jitsu.com/blog/javascript-transform