skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how DOSEMU is still relevant today, now that we have DosBox (or rather it's various, substantially better, clones DosBox-staging and DosBox-X). I'd probably even pick a full-blown VM over DOSEMU...
The observation is cool and all, but the remedy is silly. If the observation is that some people have entrenched advantages because of their race, locking in entrenched advantages based on race is, making them official, socially accepted and broadcasting them ... it is difficult to describe how unhelpful that is.

We could try to make the problem smaller, rather than permanent.
Yeah I do my own crawling, and offer results from around 200k sites (although it's indexed 700k domains, most of which are crap).
You're totally right, we all see that happening as far as it goes. But how far does it go? I've only ever posted on controversial topics. Usually when I post, I'm prepared to be downranked, and I'm mildly surprised when I get upvotes. I try to stay away from the dang-hammer. And on code or business subjects, I only ever go deep into things I have obsessive opinions about, popular or not. And that seems to rank OK.

I do see bot/troll type attempts on this board all the time, but they usually rack up a lot of points in a short span and can't sustain because they're not real people, or not actually saying something coherent besides "look at me".

The "Show HN" aspect is fantastic. You do see some wild stuff every day. I wouldn't deprive those people of their moment of glory.

But in the long run, I don't know what the point farming points would be, and neither does anyone else. If someone with 40k points disagrees with me, it's not like I think they have a more valid opinion. This, again, is a testament to the style of moderation on this board more than anything else, because it doesn't gamify herd mentality in the way reddit or even SO does.
but uses voted with their wallets - there have been many smartphone manufacturers, but they fell one by one to user's choices to flock to the iphone (and i guess android).
>Captchas, Two-factor SMS, password rules

What would replace those?

Abusive/Maniac users are the problem too
https://jsbenchit.org/?src=cb64%2CeJztV21v2zYQ_iuEPyVIRvNIHl...
Woah, that wasn't my reading at all, I also didn't understand top-level commenter's implication, as in what went wrong and should have happened, or what's regretted; no judgement or disbelief or whatever - I just didn't understand (not denying there was one) the failing that meant the test manufacturers should join the commenter in hell.
As a request, can we stop posting deeply political content to HN? Especially anything about India turns into a flamewar here.
It is a fine balance. Sometimes you'll need to push someone, but sometimes that push will make them feel worse while not actually changing anything.

What I've learned is that there are no general easy solutions on how to deal with someone that is depressed. Even when someone says "X worked for me", you might find that it only worked because other things they did brought them to a stage where they were ready to accept X and it could work for them.

The only real advice I can give is that sometimes you'll need to listen, other you'll need to push, sometimes you'll need to listen and wait before you can push, or viceversa. But you'll never really know when to do each or how to do them. Try to get them to a therapist (this can be hard already) that knows what to do and if they need medication, but other than that just be attentive and compassionate. There's no magic solution.
That article seems like a cobbled together thesis based on radical Marxism and Tweets from random people.

And this author is a Professor of Nursing at UCSF?

This is a person teaching our next generation of healthcare workers?
>> I am sure he could train some junior people to off-load the work.

I'm sure he does, and I don't know. But that way lies every other site on the internet...
Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done
mtools...

mdir, mmd, mtype, mdel, mcopy, etc.
It would be fun if there were rankings and statistics for karma/upvotes/submissions for all users and from all available years. I'm sure there must be a web page for it somewhere :-)
BTW, I barely made it to the list in #9279 with 77 comments. I agree that we're a somewhat niche community here but there are more readers than users and most users just read/vote and rarely submit and comment.
Equal rights, Equal responsibilities.

It's not just block-headed its much worse its plainly abusive to half the human race
"Also, I'm surprised and a bit ashamed to be #415 in this list."

"humblebrag, transitive + intransitive: to make a seemingly modest, self-critical, or casual statement or reference that is meant to draw attention to one's admirable or impressive qualities or achievements" -- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humblebrag
Priti Patel, our Home Minister. The champagne socialists' biggest enemy after Boris because she doesn't behave like a brown person should.
> Novice writers use big words to hide their own lack of understanding, similar to how novice programmers use frameworks.

Maybe another good writing rule is that if you have to cut other people down to get your point across, you might not be as good of a writer as you think.
+1 for this and her youtube videos and talks
Mention of SciAm always brings back memories. It was one of the few western scientific magazines available in former Soviet Union in 80s and was issued in translated and probably censored version, but still. My father figured that it was somehow possible to get a subscription for it and we received our monthly copy for several years. That is where a learned about things like Mandelbrot fractals and Conways Game of Life and wrote my own implementations in BASIC later when I got hold of my first computer.
Sad to see things coming down so badly since then.
Yeah, that's the thing.

You can't really fight against results. Putting an annoying modal asking for an email will give you lots of email leads. Sending newsletters will give more returns to the website. Sending desktop notifications whenever there's a new article works and gives more visits. A website that takes 20 seconds to load is not an issue. Advertisements give more than zero moneys.

The reason it gives positive results is because this is "fine" for enough people. Some people are totally okay with having 5000 unread emails. The web is slow because computer/OS/ISPs are greedy. Ads? Look at television. Just blame cookie banners on the government.

Why it's fine for a segment of people, I don't know. Maybe they have no choice, maybe they don't know better, maybe they are completely fine with it. All I know is that they are the target users and I'm not, and companies are ok with either losing me or forcing me to go trough this bullshit. Or maybe they don't even have to worry, since there's no competition.
Game Boy pocket would be nice to have as well. Especially because it would be interesting to compare it to Gunpei’s original design.
I didn’t read the paper I read the journal article from the author itself and it comes across a slightly insane.
Even the press releases from the universities can often be really low-quality - written for easy regurgitation by the press to ensure maximum virality.

Actual decent articles that put the research into context for the layman and are honest about the findings and consequences of those findings is increasingly rate. Scientific American used to be very good for it but has declined. New Scientist declined even before SciAm did.

Then there's all the pop-sci websites that are a rung below even those.
Apparently available for sale from IMS: https://www.imssupply.com/catalog/general-electric/hbk-8359.... :)
The "so-called" normal distribution of "statistics"

One of the least scientific things I've ever read
I’d say lets nuke one, for science.
search.brave.com seems to be going pretty well results wise. For cloud storage, synology is a plug and play NAS for self hosted cloud that doesn't require port forwarding. Highly Recommended.
Hmm, one of my past girlfriends (we had a very long term relationship) was like this. I left her.

I think I did the right thing when I read through all the comments in this thread.
Which search engine returns good results for such a query?
Twitter, nor apparently SciAm, is suited to dealing with nuanced, multifaceted issues.

Because invariably, people in the business of replying to short snippets with short snippets, will summarize someone's lengthy work in a short snippet.

And on the basis of reading that summarization alone, someone will have an opinion (and possibly even a reasonable opinion, with no other context available), and then you're into the problem of (1) convincing someone to change their public opinion & (2) arguing from different viewpoints (if one has read the entire work & the other has not but won't admit to not having done so).
Why does the content matter? I should be able to shout anything and not be thrown to jail.

(Btw they criticized a Supreme Court decision)
>My utopian hope for the future is that we start sending rigs in orbit close to the sun.

My utopian idea is crypto fund with the sole purpose of hiring assassins and special operations squads to eliminate biggest mining data centers and holders. Every successful hit would inflate its own holdings thus fund further raids.
In the book he takes almost this example. Once a week (after doing grocery shopping for example) prepare some fruits: peel and cut them if applicable and place them in containers in your fridge. Then, when times comes to have a snack it's really easy to eat fruit vs. something else. That would be the "make it easy" rule. You could combine it with the inverse of that same rule rule for junk food: "make it hard" and don't buy junk food during grocery shopping.
Ad hominem would be using his misbehavior to attack, say, the FSF. Noting the fact he regularly made his female coworkers (and not only coworkers) uncomfortable is not an ad hominem - it's a direct criticism of his attitudes.
> But if you're buying a ticket for something that doesn't exist yet, that's an investment.

Out of curiosity, does this include concerts and events?
Said full VM being 86box or PCem right?

That has plenty of issues of its own.
Using something emulating a modern PC like QEMU does not quite work compatibly enough. Which is why both DosBox and DOSEMU and DOSEMU 2 have problems.

86box does the virtualization the oldfashioned JIT compiling way together with virtualized devices, cycle compatible as much as possible.
PCem, its precursor, is even slower and has a bit less supported virtual hardware.
Study is from March 2021, contains no data for delta or omicron.
These viruses come from animals, not humans. The probability of rural infection is probably much higher, as you said. So cut it in half, it's more like a 0.01% chance.
Yeah. And for the interested reader, this is unique power of macros.

It doesn't matter what specific combination of language features are supported. Macros mean you can implement things anyway. It doesn't really matter what the evaluation logic of the language is, a macro can create syntax that does what you want it to.

If there is a macro system available, a new operator can be implemented in any language. If there is no macro system, it depends what features the language supports.
Fully agree here: I don’t expect anything else but reliable and performant HTTP caching from a CDN like CloudFront.

Request manipulation is not the duty of a cache - even though other CDN providers mix request manipulation functionality with caching. In my opinion, they don’t need to be in the same product.

If you still need request manipulation, because you don’t control the origin or you don’t want to introduce another service between CloudFront and the origin, you would use CloudFront Functions, which is cheaper than Lambda@Edge and easy to set up.
Including the effect of lifting it up to unhealthy levels.
If you use CMake it's just a matter of setting -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=1
Those issues reported about RMS turned out to be falsehoods, miss-quotes and exaggerations (apparently, the bed he kept in his office was for pulling all-nighters at work, not for raping people.). They never survived the fact check, and Stallman is back at the FSF.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26780192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26558348

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535224
> I don't understand why the public wants to believe in the fantasy that this was deliberate action

This is gross oversimplification. The fact that some scientists may know doesn't imply that the only possibility is deliberate action.

Since there have been a lot of money poured on Coronaviruses research in the last decade, it's reasonable that, (important!) even not assuming a lab leak (/important!), scientists working on it, don't want to disclose it.

Even those who didn't work on it are disincentived to talk about it, as their reputation is on the line (in particular, because of the misguided opinion that lab leak equals bioengineerd virus). A few co-subscribers of the Lancet letter changed their mind on the topic. It doesn't surprise me that they did it only recently - precisely because their position is now less endangered.

> This pandemic was predicted for many years by scientist

It's hard to extract any value from this, especially without a very serious analysis, because at any point in time, there will be people predicting that events of any kind will happen.
Quick calculations... 2735447 total comments in that top 10k.

The top 20 percent represent 1519843 of the total comments, or just over half (55.56 percent).

Though at the top 2k, you're still writing 359 comments per year which is a lot, so I guess the real list going down to comment count = 1 might look a lot more like an 80/20 split.

Would love to know the distribution by karma as well, yeah.
> independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021

There is a lot of stealth censorship on HN that occurs behind the scenes. After I wrote a post that was critical of Stripe, all of my new posts are automatically shadow banned. This place won’t survive for much longer, I don’t think.

Edit: And before dang posts some dumb response, I will tell you that he said “the algorithm” decided that my posts were “self promotion.” Anyway, maybe this is a good way of ending my commenting on this forum — time to help those who want to create something new.
Whoa, this is the app I've been looking for. Thank you so much. Every app under the sun now requires an account, has a friends list and stores data remotely.

Please let me pay you for this app.
I was pretty homophonic when I was very young.

Then I matured, changed my stance on so many other important matters as well.

According to you everyone who has evolved in the right direction deserves to be cancelled because some time in the past they were wrong.

It's hard to wrap one's mind around such attitude. The far left will eat itself. Maybe that's how it's supposed to be.
It’s more like you realize you have no life because all your energy is spent at work. Continue beeing bored for a few years and your life will be totally different in a good way. Of course if you do that where do you get money from. So it is a luxury.
if you ever post your project on HN ...

[[sucking in air]]

...

just be sure you don't know of any way it can be hacked. It will be hacked, and that's what you'll learn from the experience. But HN is like putting out to sea in a canoe. You can't go back, and it's going to leak, so be more than ready.
I am pleasantly surprised each time these scans make it to HN. Something to look forward to each month. Who runs this?
Sounds like your partner has been good to you as you said you recognize it. After that you said you tend to be critical or blame her.

I hope you show her the appreciation to make it good :) For you both :)
The origin is irrelevant if it's found offensive. If you tell me what I'm doing offends you, I'll try to change my behavior.
At that point most politicians themselves will be heavily invested in crypto, or worse banking institutions.
You’re not even addressing the core comment.

When your anti-racism theory starts making accusations based on race I’d say you’ve got a problem.
My ratio is similar too. Spooky.
The Switch's screen is not 30hz. It's 60. It's a decent screen especially when you consider the whole device cost $300 in 2017. Do we really need 300+ PPI screens for portable gaming? Higher res screens at that size are IMO diminishing returns. Even Steam Deck is going with a 800p screen. I'm not paying $900 for a handheld console so why bother putting a 1080p or better screen the hardware will never be able to utilize except in the simplest of games?

In a phone or tablet where text is the focus and pentile OLED layouts are common the extra PPI is beneficial but for gaming? And when their OLED screen doesn't use pentile?

I'd rather pay less for fun games than more for games that aren't fun but look nice. Microsoft and Sony often forget about the "fun" aspect.
>The busses no longer accept cash in my city, you need to buy a prepaid card from a transit hub or from one of their partner retailers. So I need to get a ride to the store to get a bus pass?!?

Damn, I hate this too
https://cobie.substack.com/p/wtf-is-web3
You should contact Department of Justice’s Civil Rights division. If what you say is true and you have this on paper, you should be able to get some actual justice on this. You can start filing a report here: https://civilrights.justice.gov/

I would implore you to do this — we have unfortunately allowed this kind of thing to happen in our industry for far too long. My condolences.
Did you forget about the violent coup attempt on January 6th?

It was just about as competent and deadly as the Beer Hall Putsch.
Pretty nifty project. I'm curious what whitelist are you using, would it be possible to list allowed domains somewhere publicly.

One suggestion that I have is to remove w3schools.com from the whitelist. MDN is a much better source for information about web development.
My wish for 2022 would be that more people would care about protecting civil liberties and free speech, and that fewer people would see issues such as those as "deeply political".
The imagery is impressive but the site is buggy at least on my device. It took me a few reloads to see more than a blurry mess in place of the images.
A 1991 study by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) predicted that some 2.4 million people would eventually die from cancer as a result of atmospheric testing globally.

https://www.gcsp.ch/global-insights/75-years-later-nuclear-w...
https://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/1991/06/RadioactiveHe...
I was thinking that dang is going to be one of the most represented voices in GPT-4 and later. Hopefully you can retrieve him from the mix by nickname.
Show HN: Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds
Great article. Really enjoyed the analysis, the Ultima shoutout, and the writing in general!
I've struggled with this exact problem. A client developed a SPA and an API to go with it. Because "reasons" they wanted the API to live on api.customersite.com. Fair enough, that's their problem. Except it's not, because the developers have no idea how CORS work, only that it's a thing. So their API can't send CORS headers back, they never implemented that and apparently can't figure out how to make it work.

Instead, we now have a reverse proxy (haproxy) that "fixes" the missing CORS headers, by intercepting the OPTIONS call and return a dummy response with the correct headers included. The developer basically understand NOTHING in regards to CORS, so whenever the silly SPA breaks, the logic is always the same: "CORS is broken, fix it". At not point has it been an option to fix the API service to include the correct headers.

We could just have moved the API to /api and saved days of debugging and writing work-arounds, but no, api.customersite.com looks more professional.
Reminder: Eurozone GDP per Capita Peaked in 2008
To me signed vs. unsigned by default seems like asking which leg to cut off by default, left or right?

The correct default IMHO, is a proper numeric tower paired with a tagged pointer implementation for "small" integers (range in ~ ± 2^62 or so). As others have pointed out, this will essentially never overflow in practice, so memory traffic is the same as for 64 bit primitive integers. AFAICT, we are now good enough at optimising tagger pointer/small integer arithmetic that on modern machines, memory traffic should be the limiting factor.

I was vascillating between different options (for Objective-S, http://object.st) for a long time, because while I love C's "cheap and cheerful" use of int, but I also love Smalltalk's (and LISP etc.) "we do the right thing".

What pushed me over the edge towards the numeric tower as default position was DJB's retrospective paper in Qmail security: https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf

So while "cheap and cheerful" works really well in regular situations, it does not work well at all when you're under attack, because attackers will go 100% for the edge cases, the ones that "never happen". So we really need to, as DJB put it, "simplify integer semantics". Having those overflows just cause a small slowdown seems like a reasonable tradeoff, we don't need attacks to execute at optimal efficiency.

Given the advances we have in software and hardware, there simply is no reasonable case to be made for not having a proper numeric tower as default.

When you need better performance or specialised semantics, the primitive types should be readily available. But not the default.
As a funny (to me at least) piece of anecdata:

I've never worked at a startup that wasn't either in the middle of or planning a UI redesign.
Your moral framing depends on language manipulation which in turn depends on who is able to most successfully wield power in the public square.

Who decides who is part of an "oppressed group"? Challenge mode: your answer must not contain "we"

And chaz was hardly a "safe space" as another comment pointed out. It also was not "given"
Not really. English remains the most spoken language in our circles and it's immensely helpful because of that. What we can all do is to look for better names. Master/slave can be replaced by primary/replica, publisher/subscriber and a lot of others that offer narrower meanings and, therefore, are better names.
I think most of the problem with the statement is that it is ambiguous. If she is saying that the Gaussian distribution is used because it assumes there exists people who are the mean average representatives of humanity; then she is just failing to understand what the law of large numbers implies about the distribution of sample mean(X) regardless of the distribution of X.

If on the other hand she is saying that a problem in healthcare is that significantly different sub-populations are lumped together resulting in inappropriate benchmarks for some sub-populations, that is more palatable. Even if this latter interpretation is not true, at least it isn't false by definition.
Unregulated winner take all effects. Too many acquisitions - not enough competition. Giant companies providing market leading services at 3+ layers, increasing startup costs, enabling anti competitive behaviour.

However I believe the true reason is geopolitical. The entire digital market is simply the best espionage system. If the US govt had a better way to dominate other countries, they would use it instead, and the internet would improve.

Dark patterns in digital services are not just about greed. They give the US government greater power which translates to increased protection of its citizens.

What could be the solution? Tax loopholes to funnel money into open source code to compete at the govt's expense? Building a better geopolitical power system so they get off tech's lawn?

Realistically, it's probably to invest more in open source services and encryption tools, self hosting tools, proxies. Open source capital ownership governance model.