skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the crawler project: https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn/ . It crawls HN and creates a database record for each submission. The page is generated by formatting the result of the sql query. A bit boring, all written in python3.

(I don't have the nerve to run the crawler and page generator on a daily basis; the page has instructions on how to install and run the script)
Presumably because some people here found it interesting. Not everything has to be about computer technology.

If it doesn't interest you, that's fine. Just move on.
You wrote about it in a school report? You couldn't write on the Odyssey from my recollection.
They won't be running them, of course, just have long term contracts with the companies that make them. Check out NuScale Power[1]. They recently had their small reactor approved in the US (approval paperwork cost $500 million dollars) and they should have some of them running soon. The reactor can be built in a factory and is small enough to be delivered in one piece via truck. This will dramatically reduce construction costs, if they can get enough orders. Why buying and deploying 1000 of these is not in the climate bill is just crazy if climate change is the huge threat people claim it to be. I think global warming is going to be a big problem; bring on the nukes.

[1]https://www.nuscalepower.com/
> Children pay attention to very small details. (...)

They do. All your examples are correct, for the first few encounters. Then they bucket these things as "leaves", "spiderwebs", etc. and stop caring. Complex does not mean interesting (see also my parallel reply here: [0]).

> A photo gallery in a smartphone is extremely dull in comparison

No, it isn't. Not only the photos in the gallery are likely to be complex, with each showing a slice of the real world, they're also likely to be varied - each one may show a completely different situation, scene, context. And they're unpredictable, surprising.

The one constant of the natural world is that what you see now is roughly the same as what you saw a second ago, or a minute ago. There's only so much of the world around you, it's persistent, and except in emergency situations, stable. Kids learn to tune it out very quickly[1]. Meanwhile, smartphones are those magic rectangles filled with varied, unpredictable, immediate reactions to input.

> and that's why they can learn to use it immediately.

Kids are smart and much more persistent than adults at figuring things out, meanwhile UX designers are assuming users are drooling idiots and designing interfaces that are more trivial than those on Fischer Price toys. It's a perfect storm, so no surprise little kids figure smartphones out very quickly.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29113029

[1] - Not being able to would be debilitating.
Right, the Pocket 2 is a diagonal inch bigger than the MicroPC. This is another diagonal inch bigger on top of that. It's definitely not going to fit in my back jeans pocket the way the MicroPC does. It crosses the line from "phone" to "tablet" size.
Chrono Trigger is an excellent game! Maybe Chrono Cross (PS1) if you want to play a sequel.

Other classics are Dragon Warrior IV for the NES, and Phantasy star IV for the Sega Genesis. No need to play the previous ones.

My other recommendation is using an emulator to give you unlimited money and experience. The gameplay is ruined, but the storytelling is more fluid, and you'll save many hours.
Crypto proponents, painting with a broad brush, believe that code should be above nation state laws and regulations.
Human ? From Kissinger ? Killing people is not human.
I didn't know they made a 2. We had the original in 1972!
Also, this:

"Passmark is the only benchmark we ran that still gave the nod to AMD's Ryzen 9 CPUs—and even there, AMD won only by a narrow margin."

The "narrow margin" being > 20% better ... :roll eyes:
That's too narrow of an assertion. Better: don't trust Mark Zuckerberg, or Facebook, period.
I like Carlin too. Here's my choice quote “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

I don't trust people to make good decisions. Admittedly incredibly paternalistic, but I've met a lot of people, and most of them are just making one bad decision after another.
They don't meet the legal standard for identifying in the US so I think it's suspect to assume they are identifying in other contexts. I know some people will try.
Ten Years of Golang (2019)
I loved my Vic-20. I had programmed on my Commodore PET 2001, but the Vic-20 opened me up to so much.
Also:

* Doesn't have any obvious gaps in education

... which will be the concern with someone self-taught.

We hired a very bright and enthusiastic guy who dropped out of college after a year to work on his own sales/marketing funnel tool. It all was going well until out of the blue he pointed at a screen and asked what "a |= b" did. Pulled on the thread and not only he had no idea what bitwise ops were, he also didn't know quite a few of other basics. That's the kind of uncertainty that formal education usually removes and the reason why self-taught people having much harder time getting to the interviews.
Blue Origin suffers grave setback as judge dismisses lawsuit against NASA
Curiouser and curiouser!
Some years ago Mozilla decided that rather than creating a browser toolkit that browser developers could build browsers a round, they would go the whole hog and combine the engine with the user interface aspects.

Even their own developers objected to the policy, but they went ahead anyway.
So do you consider positive comments that get positive engagement to be a benefit to your community? If not, I get it, and your position is basically "I just don't like throwaways regardless of their contribution". But if that's not your position, you don't seem to have much of an argument yourself.

Also, there is no "freeriding" if the throwaways are actively producing positive content. You might as well call every single user a "freerider" - what are they contributing at all? Is your forum getting paid by someone based on an estimate of "real users" or something, and throwaways screw up your numbers? It really doesn't make sense.

The idea that a static username alone has an outsized positive effect on your community doesn't seem to be provable, in the face of accounts like mine. Maybe you're just making a general rule so you can eliminate the majority of accounts used for flaming or spam, I can't tell.
intel is competing on 10nm (now called intel 7) against TMSC's 7nm process.

>If Intel has massively more efficient chip designs that they plan to use in mobile, why aren't they making use of them? They could have competitive performance without doubling the power consumption.

I'd guess they're aimed at making competitive enthusiast class desktop chips with their existing process size from foundries they already have made many many chips from so there's much less investment, and saving any smaller process capacity for laptops chips.
Or was just clumsy and communicationally ineffective while attempting to note some trends and events which are not negligible at all: yes, we are discussing matters in a cool civilized manner (in general and sufficiently) here, while elsewhere moderators banned users who objected that vaccines should be a topic at all in sections dealing with the cutesy of small cats with big eyes (Reddit), or platforms decided that no discussion can be made about vaccine toxicity (YouTube), etc.

It is refreshing that relative visibility and a better median allow us a proper environment. It's not granted.
Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find
Encyclopedias. I kind of forgot about those, but now I can remember relying on a hand-me-down encyclopedia set for answering childood questions without having to go downtown to the library.

Late '70s, and my interest in space is met with the encyclopedia's entry on the moon: "Someday, man may go to the moon."
If you want to tell the truth, write fiction.

The odds of COVID19 escaping a BSL4 facility were also pretty low but here we are.
Picked up one of these as a kid at a garage sale for a buck, mostly to take it apart and see how it worked. Internally, it was a board with maybe a dozen daughter boards, each a vertically-mounted, removable card. All transister-diode logic. The game "cartridges" were just cards with different jumper wires inside them that physically rewired the system.

In addition to the overlays, it came with dice, money, poker chips, and some other board game components you used in conjunction with the video game itself. I'm guessing everyone promptly lost all of this, which would make a complete system even more rare.

Magnavox didn't sell many of these, but made their real money patenting everything and then suing Atari and anyone else making a video game system attaching to a TV.
Achy Breaky Chart
If the telemetry-based removal of a feature would turn out to be a dealbreaker for a critical mass of users, it should be reconsidered (think of Mozilla's position in the browser market nowadays: it can't afford to piss off the "power users" and evangelists of Firefox).

And it's not like Firefox has no Nightly or Beta branch to test the waters before making a significant change. For example, during the prerelease phase of the so-called Proton UI, there was no shortage of clear feedback about it. A lot of it was legitimate criticism about accessibility (harder to distinguish inactive horizontal tabs because the separators were removed; part of the new palette did not have enough contrast; etc.) and usability (e.g. in cases of low screen estate, some menus were suddenly so huge that they'd not fit within the height of the screen).

Mozilla is slowly fixing some of these issues, which is a good sign IMO, but also sticking to some other "deliberate design decisions" that still remain controversial. I largely do not believe in design-by-committee, by the way. However, I believe that all valid feedback should be evaluated and taken into consideration if it's critical.
I think the main difference is that when buying a home or car, the person knows what they're getting and for how much money.

There is no intentional sunk cost fallacy or gambler's fallacy at play.

What you've posted would be valid if the topic of discussion were NFTs or skins where a person gets exactly what they pay for, no more or no less.

A gacha-style game operates differently from an NFT or car or house. It's not "If you pay $200 you get this digital item in the game", it's instead "If you pay $2, you get a 0.6% chance of getting the item." After you spend $100, the next chance is still 0.6%, and our human brains are really bad at realizing that. That's how it preys on us.

If the game were instead "Pay $200 and you get this digital item", I would consider it less predatory, and I bet it would also have far less profit.
amusingly, stinky tofu wasn't one of the 4 I've had.
The USB stack communicates with the device controller using a well defined interface. As long as a driver implements all of the methods in this interface, the USB stack doesn't need to know anything about the hardware.

Interface: https://github.com/Fabien-Chouteau/usb_embedded/blob/main/sr...

Implementation: https://github.com/JeremyGrosser/rp2040_hal/blob/master/src/...
Yeah, MELPA is solid. Great, even.
> ask her why she didn’t do well on her math test

That sounds like a reasonable approach for some parent-kid combinations. But as far as this discussion goes...

It was about an app that provided information like grades and that a test was coming up with the parent. It sounds like it would be a perfectly fine complement to your approach, no?

I don't see how it is some sort of replacement that is going to make everyone into helicopter parents. (And the problem with helicopter parents is not caused by some app.) In fact, I have trouble seeing how it intrudes more than the entirely nondigital approach to school-parent communication used when I was a kid - bring back this piece of paper with a parent's signature.
Taxes would apply to the shareholders of the company as described. If each shareholders share along with their other properties is below the quota there’ll be no excess on which the 5% is due. Otherwise better for the university to build non profit student housing instead to be exempt.
The virus evolved in bats, which have a much faster metabolism (to support the metabolic requirements of flight) and a constitutive (always on) immune response. This means in bats, the virus is always "on the run" from the host immune system and the host may never actually completely extinguish the infection, allowing it to continue at a low level while reducing inflammation.

The trade-offs and selective pressures are different in the bat host compared to human. Packaging more copies of the mRNA per particle implies slowing down particle production so more mRNA can be made, but in bat that may slow down the generation time so much that the virus gets extinguished by the always-on host immunity. That's just one plausible mechanism of many, including simply that the protein structure was just not as "optimized" as you expect prior to the spillover event.
I found the list interesting in the sense there was a list at all. I have my one single Sekonic light meter only to really be able to say I have one (and know how to use it). With modern digital cameras and their metering capabilities built-in, hand held light meters are kind of going the way of the DoDo. In motion, the waveform/vectorscopes are basic features included in the cheapest of monitors now. As my prior comment suggests, these scopes are actually more useful.

So in the opinion of this reader, I find it more interesting that this person didn't write up a review on a specific meter, but that he has such a collection that this list is impressive in and of itself.

There's always an edgecase to every rule/guideline
After 20+ years of HTML, CSS I started to use Tailwind for a new project.
Using web components (disabling the shadow dom unfortunately).

You guessed it right. There is no need for named selectors anymore.

And you get the advantages of standardisation.
People can share snippets of code you can reuse as is.

And when you have a problem, you are probably not the first to have it, and can quickly find a solution on youtube, stack overflow, etc.
You forgot safe browsing.
> My information is pretty old, but IIRC x87 still has specialized instructions for sin/cos/tan that are sometimes more performant than their equivalent implementations in SSE.

They absolutely are not. If you accept the same, crappy precision, you can do an estimate in just a few cycles instead of the 60+ that the instructions take.
that is antivax propaganda. The main push of the antivaxxers these days is associating the successful, effective and well proven vaccines (like the ones against polio, etc.) with the obviously failing (except for the softening of illness effect) covid vaccines. The covid vaccines are at the level of those every year flu vaccines - make sense for vulnerable population, otherwise no effect on infection and spread.
Which was owned by Viz
The tooling is much less intertwined with other tooling and therefore less likely to cause problems, and the runtime performance impact is less. That's pretty neat.
... and then get outraged at anyone wanting to avoid that dystopia.
Nah. If you want to get a good team in Genshin you will grind. You can't buy the most cumbersome progress items. The actual hours of grind are the same no matter what.

If you pay, you'll be able to farm for these items longer in a day. But it will still take the same amount of runs.

The longest grind are artifacts. To get the best artifacts for one character you will need to clear a level 2000-3000 times. That will take you 80-300 hours pretty much no matter what. Now those could be over 100 days or it could be in twenty days, but you'll have to run the level as many times.
It's not legally property. Legally you don't own it. If the network suddenly changes its rules and says it's not yours then you have no legal recourse against the developers/miners/etc. If you buy, that's a service; you're paying someone to apply their signature to a note in the distributed ledger. You don't own the note and the currency itself is nothing more than an abstract concept which has meaning only to the extend that there is consensus among the users, none of whom have any particular obligations toward you.
Honestly it's kinda crazy what's possible these days. Couple years ago you'd easily burn 30+ watts on just the memory chips to get this kind of bandwidth.
The future of Linux (2019) [video]
Looks like only one past thread:

The Magnavox Odyssey -- is it still fun today? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2908370 - Aug 2011 (17 comments)
It's as old as VisiCalc, it's how spreadsheets work.

I built a similarly reactive system for web UI binding back in 2004, running binding expressions on the back end with cached UI state to compute the minimal update to return to the front end, in the form of attributes to set on named elements.
It does cause violence against Asians. It adds fuel to the increasing hostility and violence that Asian communities have been experiencing ever since the outbreak began. This is the case regardless of whether or not any such theory is true, so that claim isn't incredibly stupid at all.
(author here)

Nice approach! The latter part of that workflow is where we are focused now, i.e. now that we can plan and recommend B-tree indexes for individual queries, how do we utilize this to recommend a set of indexes for a whole database (taking into account different predicate variations).

On open-sourcing this code: Not at this moment - we do however offer a WASM build of this logic for free use at https://pganalyze.com/index-advisor
Inside the top 10% for net worth would be my criteria for this, and I think many other Americans too. No self-aggrandisement here, I just wouldn't want to pretend to be "an ordinary guy on the street" (whatever that actually means).
Discussed at the time:

Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21085946 - Sept 2019 (37 comments)
If we want to go “there” then can I deem all nudity be censored? Your fixation on viewing things as either racist or not racist, as information or misinformation is opinionated. I think it is wrong that people can tweet pornography on the platform without any censorship. I doubt the Gay Comunity would be okay with that being censored, those are the posts I am subjected too. The point is any form of censorship will hamper someone’s freedom of speech. Why can’t everyone just block people that post what they don’t like? The way I do on twitter? Otherwise if we are going down the block what I don’t like road so will I!
the code-reuse is such a boon
why write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before that something else, maybe ws_ftp.
Yes. I'd not do it, and I am sure many other would rather look for a different job (which is not difficult) than engage in such acts. Its a personal choice to work for companies acting immorally.
Yeah, I have one too but the battery just sucks and Linux support is limited. Haven't used it much sadly...
How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented [video]
Fair counterpoint, but in my defense there really are animals that switch sex when their population is lacking one or the other, so there's not much fictional about it: the scientists were confident in their plan because they didn't know one of nature's tricks.
Don't you need to go for a pee or eat anything when you're doing those 400 mile stints?
This is always an argument when taxes on property come up. By reasoning we should make all the existing f taxes on property 0% because it’d all immediately pass through. But that’s not how it works.

In this case it doesn’t abolish rental property anyway. Your investor that thinks he can hold onto his large portfolio and just raise rents 5% is competing with a married couple who own one house they live in and one they rent and therefore isn’t subject to the tax. And against the person who owns an apartment in AMS but relocated to Rotterdam or somewhere else for a few years and is renting there so renting out their own apartment. Also competing against non profit housing charities and municipal housing (eg Vienna) and coops/companies with large portfolios by very large shareholder counts. That is this style of investor wouldn’t be sound anymore and would go away.
The national forest I live next to here in Oregon is listed as being 6,462 km2...
While I would agree that the libertarian anti-establishment cypherpunk culture was ingrained in the early stages of Bitcoins adoption, I would argue the driving motivation of BTC participants have changed.

The overwhelming culture of Bitcoin now is Number Go Up, which will be tested should US regulators fall more anti-crypto than pro-crypto.
Ask HN: Is Functional Programming the Future?
As new functional languages get made and gain wider appeal (e.g. Elm) and existing mainstream languages move in a function programming direction (e.g. records in Java), it seems that functional programming is ascendant.

But is this hype only in the HN bubble? And will functional programming achieve dominance in a way similar to OOP in the late 90s / early 2000s?
As he is likely to find out if he ever gets re-elected, he will be part of the elite soon, even if he rejects the label (which I am sure he will).
my understanding is that a number of (already deluxe expensive fancy) motherboards have add-on chips to further jack up the cost i mean add thunderbolt4 support. i haven't seen any indicators that the kick ass readily available on chip 4x 40 Gbps of connectivity that intel mobile chips offer on integrated tb4 is available on desktop.

this, to me, constrains the desktop from being a good movipe partner to the great laptops available. at least usb4 mandates host-to-host networking, but all these great laptops with desktops lagging so far behind, having such lower standards, is excessively sad, to me.

atm phones are way far behind. no usb4 (with host-to-host networkingl nor tb4 are avialbable. i have a hard time imagining phones remaining market segmented out, not participating, in the good, not meeting the new bar.
Achy Breaky Chart [video]
Rubrix – Python framework to explore, label, and monitor data for NLP projects
Here in the US, I've never seen a slip with anything other than a 120v connection. And I'm pretty sure you'd pop circuits like crazy if more than a few boats on a dock tried to draw the full amperage.

It makes more sense in Europe where you already have 240v. But the marinas here just aren't set up for this.
Which FAANG is public about using one of those?
Indeed there is!
https://techaeris.com/2015/01/29/have-i-been-blacklisted-by-...

https://www.cultofmac.com/255618/how-apples-blacklist-manipu...

> Yes, Apple maintains a press “blacklist,” a list of people in the media who are shunned and ignored — “punished,” as it were, for “disloyalty.”

>“Blacklisted” reporters, editorialists and media personalities are denied access to information, products and events.

>Once you’re on the list, it’s almost impossible to get off. (I’ve been on it for more than a decade.)

https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/07/reg_effort_to_attend_...

> It's been a number of years since an Apple PR staffer secretly admitted to one of our reporters that The Register was on a blacklist.
It matters less where the company is than where you are. I mean, sure, a company in China can refuse to honor the warranty, but they risk losing the ability to sell their goods in the US.
Breaking the Code with Derek Jacobi is a much better portrayal of Turing
As someone still sometimes building brochure-style sites, I do wish it were easier to componentize things without unnecessarily turning every site into an SPA with React et al.
the tape drives... 250+ MB years before iomega came along
I read it more as they were worried they were missing something.