skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid I had a 286 with VGA. However the monitor I had was black and white (64 shades of gray). It required to run a special program to map colors to shades of gray correctly. But the photos looked fantastic - in black and white of course. Much better than in 256 colors. Plus nudes in b&w look more "artistic" ;)
Nobody wants to spell empedokles at 4am. And if you're not the person who has to deal with this problem, then you are a dick to whoever does, if you name a server something like this.

"server three" actually does give you information. It's a server. Not a router. Not a firewall. Not a load balancer. Not a desktop. Not a laptop. Not your HSM. Not the telco gear. Etc... etc...

If "well I don't have any of those things", then sure, whatever. If you have three servers, then it doesn't matter.

But then you grow a bit. And now you have 20 servers, and kinda matters that you have a pattern that IS NOT "greek vs roman gods", but maybe "diskfulls" and "CPU-monsters". At a previous company we named these "db<n>" and "quick<n>". And did not reuse numbers, because then we could also infer the hardware generation (lower number means older hardware).

db<n> wasn't even running any relational database. We could have named them "storage<n>", and it wouldn't have made a difference to the fact that the name was incredibly useful.

Sometimes you can save the company your entire year's salary by reducing an outage by the few minutes not making typos or misunderstanding about "is this part of prod or not?". Communication is important, and coming up with the "funniest" name is not so funny when the site is down and you're trying to figure out the problem.
Yeah, this article really made me feel old. And I'm only 37.

My first contact with digitized smut happened around 1995 I think, when my friend showed me some porn game with short live-action clips on his Amiga (which is sadly not even mentioned in the article, even though its multimedia – and thus porn – capabilities were from another planet compared to PCs in the early 90s.)

Incidentally, I just recently wrote a PCX decoder for a retrographics project of mine (https://github.com/jdahlstrom/retrofire if anyone's interested).
Grew up in the 80s in Easter Europe under stringent economics where food was ratioed and such and yet I think out childhood was better than that of children today. There were plenty of things that sucked, especially for the parents and comparatively to today we had nothing and yet... I think something went horribly wrong despite the ‘prosperity’ we’re enjoying now.
> The quality of life available on even a modest salary nowadays is far, far better.

I really don't think this is the case. In the US, the cost of many fundamental necessities like healthcare and housing are becoming further out of reach for more and more people. In addition, the suicide rate has been increasing among youth, which shouldn't be happening in a world where modern life is incomparably better. If a "modest salary" is equivalent to the minimum wage in the US, then you're automatically spending above the generally accepted 30% rule for housing spending if you choose to live in a city, which is where the jobs are.

I think certain aspects of life have improved: entertainment has become cheaper, consumer technology is becoming more accessible (although the pandemic has really strained families that don't have access to a good internet connection, which is not a given in this country.)

I really don't think life has demonstrably improved in the US from the 80's to today, it was much easier to have a comfortable life on a lower salary back then than it is today.
Yes it does make sense.
Follow the rules, or pay the price - simples.
This particular article is exceptionally weak and fails to address substantially all of the criticisms levied by Stolfi (which is what this is really in response to). [1]

It spends a lot of the time discussing the SEC's "warning signs" / red flags that something may be a Ponzi scheme which are symptoms and not causes. Just how a traditional Ponzi scheme may manifest within the context of traditional markets like 'issues with paperwork.' Nobody is going to claim that you need to have 'issues with paperwork' to be a Ponzi scheme.

Bitcoin is best thought of an a distributed or unbundled take on a Ponzi scheme where instead of having a single centralized authority run the whole show, various parties all collude directly or via incentive structure to achieve the same fundamental results.

> Investment Returns: Not Promised

They 100% are - by every single shillfluencer account on Twitter, on Reddit, on TikTok and yeah, even here from time to time. I've been NGMI'd here at least several hundred times.

> Open Source: The Opposite of Secrecy

Everyone agrees the chain is transparent. However, that's the kind of transparency that doesn't matter at all in this context.

What makes it a Ponzi scheme isn't that 1BTC=1BTC, it's that you have shady Inspector Gadget themed Bahamian shadow banks printing un-backed ersatz dollars and pushing the price up to create the illusion of gains. You have exchange "outages" as soon as the price starts dropping - but only when it starts dropping. You have spoof orders, wash trading, tape painting - every trick in the book - to make people think they've gained when in reality, they have not.

> No Pre-Mine

Yeah, all that means is it's not a security under Howey.

> Leaderless Growth

Yes, it's an old scheme with a fresh coat of paint.

> Section Summary: Clearly Not a Ponzi Scheme

Agree to disagree. I'm with Stolfi on this one.

1. It is sold as an investment, with some mysticism around how exactly it is appreciating in value.

2. All gains paid out to previous participants come from new participants.

3. Entities (miners, exchanges) are constantly extracting welfare for self-enrichment creating a negative sum coefficient.

[1] https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-pon...
Aside from probably iTerm there are none.
Security? As secure as any javascript programmed site is.

Why? Why not? (Just don't put it in production lol)
Hmm I read him long ago, but I vaguely recollect he didn't catch the decentralization much? If he did I must reread.

Edit. Oh oops. Read the summary for Gutenberg Galaxy on wikipedia. Turns out i MUST reread.
Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.” - Nicola Tesla, 1926
People suggesting a user-based solution to this problem is like someone suggesting “well, you should just comprehensively read the terms of service and privacy policy for every website and product you use, and if you don’t agree, don’t use the site.” It’s an absurdly naive solution at best, and downright malicious solution at worst. In any case, people who believe this should be in the hands of the user don’t give a shit about the user, either actually or practically.
> company lawyers [say] they reviewed the spec and it's legal. [...] Do you really know better than the lawyers?

I'd be very surprised if anyone thought this was clearly legal after reading the law. But yeah, that would be a valid answer to the question: legal team says it's legal. If something is legal, you cannot be prosecuted for it, and you can have some reasonable confidence in lawyers reading the law and providing legal council correctly.

However, you were saying "I have implemented things that are illegal. I objected against it in meetings", so I was more thinking from the scenario where everyone knows it's illegal but the dev is asked to do it anyway. Presumably not even explicitly, just implicit "we need this feature" without ever bringing up "and we know it's illegal, but if you want to keep your healthcare..."
No they wouldn't, because it would be trivially outcompeted by current ivermectin which can be had for very, very cheaply.
Yes but Russia and India don't share a border
Honestly, this feels like stuff [name redacted] would say, but I can’t say for sure.

[name redacted] had an intense focus on love and being loved when it came to control.

He asked me to marry him after only knowing him a month, which I declined. We hadn’t even slept together at that point.

According to his own account, the “love” he shoved down my throat so hard was so he could sleep with me, which I have several texts that show his own admissions.

Also I’m a bit taken aback at the ethnic slur in the username of this account.
Taking the Leap: From Corporate Employee to Startup FinTech Founder
Show HN: Allthevaccines.org – Information about all human vaccines
Thank you for your reply, it does fit with allergens as you say (reduced immune system helped so we dont think viral or bacterial). I'll take a look at the auto immune tests - we do have a good university nearby so may be in luck :)

As for the fungal issues with Covid, I recall that was because people took massive doses of steroids depressing their immune systems, so I don't think that's the cause here.
Maybe there’s an important conversation to be had around this incident but this article is littered with biased reporting.

> The stories framed the unrest as a “a new national reckoning about racial injustice” and described the protests as “mostly peaceful” or “largely peaceful,” despite widespread violence, looting, and crime. “More than 93% of recent demonstrations connected to Black Lives Matter were peaceful,” Reuters insisted, even as rioters caused up to $2 billion in property damage across the country.

The author is clearly trying to paint BLM as responsible for the property damage, which has been widely debunked.

It goes on and on reiterating the right-wing perspective of 2020 in an attempt to defend the data scientist.

Again, there’s probably some important conversation to be had around politics in the workplace but it’s really challenging to have a constructive conversation or debate when you plant your flag on one end of the political spectrum and tell the story from that biased reference point.
Thanks for taking the time to explain... I have no doubt that prohibition, after demonstrating years of failure on a catastrophic scale, will not continue to work. However I wanting to get an idea of some of the consequences we might expect to see if cocaine were to be legalized/regulated.
Books have value, but in my experience people who are self taught from books usually have a very superficial knowledge and think they know more than they really do. In order to really learn, most students need to interact with teachers who can challenge them.
The mean ol' CEO has several orders of magnitude more resources in his control than the person that builds it, hence must be considered responsible to a greater degree.
For all its political correctness, Rust still has Fat Pointers. Which might be put to good use when doing Response Body Shaming?
Taking people's money then removing their personage reminds me of another historical European country.
Invention and technology and social change work in a more granular form than TFA supposes.

When the electric lightbulb took off it lead to so many new ways of working and studying and entertainment, the world changed a thousand times over.

But it wasn’t necessary for Edison to contemplate night clubs or Logic Pro X or alternating night shifts for the changes to happen.

Just the lightbulb was enough for one thing to lead to another.

The future wasn’t invented at Parc in the 1970s, but a lot of it escaped from there and blossomed over the next fifty years.
When I was 10 I had floppy disks with short porn loops. CGA display adapter, 8086 machine.
“When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol?
No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease?
No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten.”

― Dr. Hiriluk One Piece(Manga and Anime)
Why not "stream" an image of an actual OS (say, linux) to the browser? Has anyone pulled that off yet? (Kind of like rendering services for example, the client is just for user interaction, everything else is streamed from server where all the computation happens)
Yeah, I wouldn't have called it stupid, if that had been what you asked.
Not enough to make them change anything. Business as usual.
These are better than 99% of predictions because the author has a good eye for what will change (technology, transportation, consumer goods) and what won’t (human nature).
Never, Lol
"purging orphans"
Stars from ancient cluster found in the Milky Way
Consulting is often the quickest cash, assuming you're an engineer with a decent network. You're not on socials, but do you have people you've worked with? Contacts at businesses? Other devs?

Email everyone telling them you have a few weeks free.

You could also call tech recruiters who could potentially place you on a short gig fast. But will naturally take a cut.

Alternatively, I know others made good money doing crypto day trading, but I'd imagine you'd have to know what you're doing.
I am Sten, but not this Sten, although I might start renaming my variables after reading this story..
https://www.openssh.com/agent-restrict.html just got added to openssh
> I paid more than twice as much as I ever have for a computer so that I would NOT have to help you develop the product, do quality control, or troubleshoot it. I wanted it to be ready to use for my run-of-the-mill needs.

TBH, then I think you should have bought an Apple or Windows computer, and put up with whatever the downsides of such things are (such as the tracking you mention).

Not saying that the extremely poor performance you describe is your fault or that the manufacturer should be absolved or anything, just that this is precisely the point of paying for conventional computers and putting up with their bullshit (real or perceived).
Creator here, I also wrote a blog post with some back story about the project: https://nutcroft.com/blog/introducing-allthevaccines-org/
>start living there, all of a sudden that generosity is not so obvious, families are at each other's throats for that bushel of corn one guys grandfather stole from the other fifty years ago, random shit gets stolen, the garden is trampled, trash is thrown over your yard because the neighbor wants to "save" on trash collection fees, people cut ahead of you around in the queues,

So basically all the same petty BS that you get in the urbanized inner suburbs HN raves about without the bickering being laundered through lawyers and local officials to give it a veneer of acceptability?

Humans gonna human.
MS mcap 1996: $100B
MS mcap 2022: $2.4T
I’m saying I had no data ever, I’m saying I have none now. Unless you have big bucks GDPR is toothless for stuff like this. I firmly believe data about interviews is private, to the company.
Bividend – A Dividend Payable in Bitcoin
Note that many of the predictions which didn’t happen proved doable but were a bad idea.
The Year Ahead in Datacenter Compute
Changing the response of your HTTP server does not warrant jail time
Thinking About Things [0] is fantastic. They're also great for discovery because they link to many other sites - they've feature a lot of little-known blogs that are quite interesting.

[0] https://thinking-about-things.com/
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It's funny you say that because the next thing I pictured was Homer Simpson and realized that thousands of brilliant engineers from all walks of life may eventually have all their effort wasted because someone left their station for donut day.
...outside, speaking to a packed crowd.
And now they have come around, have bought jClarity and are an OpenJDK contributor with their own distribution.
Wow, a fellow twirler! I too strongly consider the weight distribution and "twirl-ability" of my pens. In fact, I have my favourite writing pens, but I always keep a Pilot G2 because it's been my favourite twirling pen for many years.
Thinking About Things https://thinking-about-things.com/
Thinking About Things is free https://thinking-about-things.com/
I'd think somewhere like Times Square, the strip in Vegas, or Shinjuku in Tokyo at night would be mindblowing. Then probably show her VR, and a modern action movie in 3D.

VR still blows the minds of everyone I show it to. I can't imagine what kind of reaction someone from 1922 would give.
Would the legend of the ancient Greek messenger count? They raced from the site of Marathon to Athens a distance of 26.2 miles to deliver the message of a pending invasion then collapsed and died.
What is it's a small company, perhaps even a single person company? Punishing them would have a disproportionally greater negative effect on their livelihood than it would for the people in charge of the company ordering the illegal thing to be built.
Do the details of the storage medium matter? It still stores ones and zeros - who cares how?
Ah! Thanks for this comment. It reminded me of another case where someone speaks in third person: in business settings. For example, I have seen this in code reviews when someone is disagreeing with a change in a pull request in a company: " Since <<reason>>, ABC thinks this change is unnecessary."

However, do keep in mind this is anecdotal so I don't know how much it applies to more broad settings.
Sure you can run your own internet too and incompatibly use the same addresses IANA assigns. Guess that proves IP addresses aren't centrally allocated.
Does it handle copy paste?
If you want to improve your hand, I've found fountain pens good for that - the way they work makes it easier to write well than poorly. A Pilot Metropolitan is inexpensive, handsome, pleasant to use, and steel-nibbed to hold up to inexperienced use; as a starter pen it's unmatched, and might be worth a try if you're not quite ready to give up on pens altogether.
>These are the same people who say they don't want to run Linux because they don't want to compile their sound card drivers. They are already way outside of rational territory

Not wanting to "compile their sound card drivers" sounds like a very rational argument to me...

>In their minds Linux hasn't changed a bit since 1999

It did, but other OSes are also a moving target.

Seen Linux (the vlogger) try to get a basic system running?

(And I'm an old UNIX+Linux hat with 25 years of experience).
Confirmed, even pre PC micro's as you say could achieve this feat.

I personally did a demo that I slipped onto the local computer stores machine that sat in high memory (reset resistant unless held down for few seconds more than a press) TSR kinda thing upon an Atari ST that had a selection of the finest artwork that would cycle thru the selection after a delay of a few minutes displaying a screen capture of a normal desktop. Few weeks later version two had an animated flying phallus sprite across the screen.

But for a generation that found amusement in 55378008 upon a calculator, then it was inevitable.
I would have thought depression and demoralized would have been flipped. Like one could be demoralized in an area without being depressed.

I'm completely demoralized at work and have mostly stopped caring about it. But I find enjoyment in many things outside of work. Basically, I've become a terrible employee now that I see that the company (really all companies) will not stop lying and now focus most of my energy on hobbies outside of work.
It’s not a Ponzi scheme at all.

What it is is the manifestation of the Greater Fool theory. The only reason you buy it is because of the expectation that some fool greater than yourself will pay an even higher price that you.

And if BTC is that, then NFTs are the Greater Fool theory to the second power.
Taxation doesn't mean free. It is simply taxpayer funded. The vast majority of folks will use between x and y electricity (I am not privvy to such numbers). Having electricity is a life-saving measure as it means that folks will (theoretically) be able to have heat, cooling, cooking, and refrigeration: If we switch to all-electric water heating, it'll mean hot water as well. These things cover the biggest energy uses. As a bonus, it means that folks can do things like charge a phone and run a computer.

But yes, I would charge folks for using too much.Crypto mining will put you well above the median use. You can have wide margins: 2-3 times median use for the house size and number of occupants - after offering an investigation to be sure folks aren't stealing their power. Few folks would go over this. Realistically folks are mining cryptocurrency to make a profit, making it a business, so we could just switch it over to a business account.

It isn't like the system we use is more than this. We bill people every single month and process their payments as they come in: The vast majority of this would be completely gone. Most states in the US have their own Public Utility commission with their own rules and regulations on top of what federal regulatory agencies have - in part, these agencies set rules on how utilities can bill people, rules about payment plans, and rules about when they can shut people off. So much of this wouldn't be needed either. On top of this, we have a patchwork of regulations to help poor folks with their electric bills - which could be eliminated completely.

I don't know how this is "less". I'm just proposing different, and probably simplified. I think people just get caught up on "But I don't wanna help them" or that it is "free".
There’s web vnc clients, so technically this shouldn’t be much problem. It’s much more a wrap it all together kind of thing.

I really prefer it being it local though.
Ironically they are now an OpenJDK contributor.

https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk

And Java is the only ecosystem that tends to have 1:1 parity with .NET APIs on Azure.

Maybe Google will one day come around with their Android Java flavour as well.
I like it but you still have to memorize the periodical table for this to work. And you waste more than half the address space?
Intel's Linux OS Shows the Importance of Software Optimizations
A late friend of the family was a Presbyterian pastor and an avid hiker. He'd do things like cut the covers off his palm-sized Bible to save a few grams.
I've been using Materialistic on Android for a while, but its nice to have another good client for iOS.
The fuel prices caused protests in one region. The others joined in solidarity. But after seeing how much support the protests have, more people started joining and the protest became political, demanding to change the regime.

In Almaty, the protests got violent with killings and mass looting. A few other cities saw looting and destruction of ex-president's statues, but most of Kazakhstan was peaceful, including the place where the original gas-price protests started. The violence part does not represent the sentiment of the majority, I would bet, it's something organized; I don't know by whom and for what reason.
This is false. You can (and always could) get the free OpenJDK, which is built and distributed by Oracle. It doesn't get much more "official". If you have some specific needs, you can pay for enterprise support, i.e. the Oracle JDK.

Since some months(?) you can also get the Oracle JDK for free (and use it commercially). But you have to pay for extended support. The free support given by the Oracle JDK is until a new major version is released (for non-lts versions) or one year after the next LTS version (which currently is released every two years).

https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/moving-the-jdk-to-a-two-y...