skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier to not be evil when you're small.

I saw someone here put it in the context of a life cycle, and that rhymes with reality to me.
They're choosing to use machines to maintain their mental health by creating a product that impacts the mental health of their customers who get to deal with their revenue streams being cut off entirely, arbitrarily, often with no know reason or recourse. This argument makes the engineers look monstrous, not just mildly shitty.
Raycasting Engine in Factorio 1.0
I remember setting it up on a 386SX laptop with 3 megs RAM, back in late 93 or so. I could barely get X to load. Massive amounts of swapping. Fortunately I got a 486 a few months later.
Treat every computer like it's connected to the internet.

Probably by actually connecting it to the internet. Since the idea that you can keep people out of your network is probably more dangerous in the long term.
You had to choose those three movies as movies that only seemed great as a teenager? I'd argue they've aged better than a lot of movies from that time period and I'm pretty sure I don't hold the minority opinion there.

Hell, I got tired of adults making nonstop jokes and references to watching Die Hard as a Christmas movie on Facebook just a month ago.

Here's what I would consider a better list:

https://screenrant.com/80s-action-movies-notoriously-bad-goo...
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

"Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial."

"Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system."

"The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi."

"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."

"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."

"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world."

"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace."

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control."

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
If you totally ignore the context of a text and read it in a way almost no one ever read it, you can give it any meaning you want
But... Spanish does have a difference between "libre" and "gratis", and the translated title is using the correct one. I guess they are also trying to catch synonyms and doing a terrible job at it.
shouldn't have moved from Netflix then, not my issue anymore
Agreed. This particular fragment really stood out for me:

'Oh, wait … King made that speech at Grosse Pointe High School, where Michigan’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives recently passed an anti-CRT bill making it illegal to teach that the “United States is a fundamentally racist country”.

Never mind.'

It is a weird opinion piece, because its arguments are just loosely connected pieces of information ( in the fragment above, geography ). Then again, Guardian political stance is at least very consistent.
At least sending spam is basically free for them, so any returns at all are gravy.

In your snail mail you're probably getting mostly paper advertising which goes straight into your recycling bin, and those people have to pay something even if it's "not much". And it's still apparently profitable, or else they wouldn't keep doing it.

Just hang out on NextDoor and you'll see how dumb some email users are. And then if you consider all the ones who are too dumb to even get on NextDoor, and you've got a target-rich environment there.
If he put it in in June when it was 31k, he'd have increased it 30% now, double if he sold in November. Not too bad
So, how am I "served" by being denied actually useful apps, while I am still offered a vast array of malware and crap?
Diceware is designed to make passwords against dictionary attacks. Estimates of diceware entropy begin with the assumption that an attacker has the dictionary. A dictionary with 6^5 entries would take 6^5^N guesses to exhaust (assuming the entries are randomly chosen). 6^5^4 = 2^52.
This is sadly true. Sorry to see this downvoted.
> That's true of literally every resource acquisition, including malloc and fopen. It's all bits in memory.

Hard disagree. Taking an action that causes a finite resource (fds, memory, ports, etc.) to be allocated and used up is fundamentally different from just flipping a bit in a resource that already exists. The lock doesn't come into being when you "acquire" it, the lock already existed. Nothing was allocated when you acquired it. There's no new resource. There's no "oops I don't have enough {RAM/fd/whatever} to lock the lock for you" if the lock exists already.

> And IMO, the defer model is forcing a conceptual baggage because of it's strict definition of when it fires.

Is automatic storage and block scopes conceptual baggage too then? I think that is only true if you reject the execution model that implies a stack. Even if C isn't a perfect model of what happens under the hood, it's a a reasonably thin veneer over how your machine executes the code. Forcing an object model is strictly adding new concepts that do not exist at the level of the bare CPU (or the abstract machine as defined in the C spec, for that matter). It's also not required for programming. In that respect it is superfluous and if you don't want or need it, I think it's fair to call it conceptual baggage. Again, I don't need objects, and my CPU doesn't need objects, we just need a function call (or just a bare expression) to manipulate some state. There's no need to add to that.
A similar idea:

http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-proble...

See discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100807
> Wow, imagine hating your boss so much you go to so much creative and illegal lengths (that can backfire against you) to track him, instead of using same skills legally to finding a better job.

I’ve mentored a lot of juniors. It’s not uncommon for young people, especially those with less developed social skills, to have an undeserved fear of their boss or anyone else with authority. It’s common with young people who have debilitating anxiety and a tendency toward rumination. They think that as long as they avoid the authority figure, they can avoid any negative social interactions (which are largely imagined).

It’s possible that the boss was bad, of course, but I kind of doubt it given that his response to this situation was to let the person off easy.
the problem is no one will sell to them.
> Is Porsche electrifying their cars?

They have been producing the Taycan EV for a few years now.

It is expensive and range is OK but not great. Probably an amazing driving experience.

Porsche is way out of my price range, Model 3 LR was a stretch but I have been very happy with the car.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_Taycan
Courage is said to be grace under pressure. As we look around our society today, who has the grace, with the enormous hatred, division, despair, and deceit, to lead and speak to such high ideals - and with concrete strategy, effort, and success? Remember that Dr. King did not know the end of the story; it all could have been a waste of time, a horribly demoralizing defeat. If I recall correctly, King's popularity was underwater when that speech was given - not a national hero like today. What hope did Dr. King have? We can look back on the civil rights successes and MLK, King looked back on no such thing - no such thing had ever happened. They were pushing against centuries of slavery, segregation and lynchings - still ongoing - and yet they stood up against that tide and fought - not with despair, hatred, and violence, but under that incredible, unrelenting pressure they envisioned such incredible grace and held firm to it - and they won. When I feel overwhelmed by today's struggles, when I feel the pressure to compromise my values to despair and demoralization, I remember that courage.
Linus is a Swedish-Finn. Don’t know if that explains anything.
That's how I remembered it from back in early days. There was some pl/sql you had to execute, and you'd have some extensions. I don't think it's like that anymore
This seems the right answer to me. Thank you very much!
You’re right. The description on this report is faulty, but I think the gist is pretty apparent.

Google tells the website owner that the winning bid was smaller in value than what it really was, thus paying the owner less money.

Google tells the advertisement auction that the winning bid was higher (than what the agreement required), but they only pay the website owner the smaller value. They are paid by the higher bidder and they (Google) keep the difference.

Google can use that excess money however they choose. In this case, they seem to be using it to pump up the value of the second-highest bids (it’s an auction), so that they can receive an even greater difference in the next auction.
OK, I'll grant you all that, but not the rules of play. Do you think that would be enough to figure out how to fill out a scoresheet correctly, without operational observations (i.e. without having previously watched a number of games or being told how it is played?) (As I don't play or watch the game myself, I am not certain it would not be possible, but I feel doing this would be difficult for almost any game.)
>work somewhere dysfunctional

>bellmar.medium.com

I did a double-take to ensure it wasn't "ballmer.medium.com" :D
The other thing we find with our 3 year old is that he can have his tablet and watch movies or shows on Netflix/VLC, etc. and it's pretty much all positive.

But he always prefers YouTube and when he's using YouTube, he mostly watches 3-5 minutes of something before getting enticed by another thumbnail.

At times when he's had free reign to YT, it really seems to drastically affect his general attention, patience, temperament and even ability to sleep (he wakes up super early asking for his tablet).

Once we cut it off hard, he goes back to normal.

We don't really believe in complete abstinence of those sorts of things (I think it will just make him even more sensitive to those algorithms in the future) but being aware of the effect, reducing YT and prioritizing actual movies/series has made a noticeable difference.
The problem is by the time the message is deemed to be spam it's too late to reject the mail.

Ie. The first step verifies the from/to addresses, then the message body is sent. So, if the message body is clearly spam and you reject the message body all you've done is confirmed to the spammer that they are sending to a legit email address and they need to change their message so it no longer is rejected as spam.

As bad as the current system is it leaves spammers with uncertainty over whether their message made it through the spam filter.
What are the serious potential side effects?
Listening to this speech and copying it out by hand with pen and paper will teach you more about storytelling and narrative than 100 startup marketing guides.
Cf. Robert Anton Wilson, specifically his writing regarding "reality tunnels".

In brief, what you're describing is the default state of humanity. In colorful language, human civilization is "the war between gangs of hypnotists".
HM is a bubble with bias against Google. People here seem to believe that bashing this company publicly will somehow change how they operate.

Interestingly enough, back in the day Google used to be a darling of HN community. I suspect folks might be disappointed to see how things turned out at the end.
Yes please. Where is RPi's answer to Padauk's 3 cent MCU?
Uncharted Waters
Tulip garbage? Tulip Mania lasted like 6 months, Bitcoin has been running for over 13 years. Don’t get me wrong tho, I do agree anything not being Bitcoin is garbage.
To follow-up in that: as affluent urban professionals have become more progressive, “brown washing” of political issues has become a real problem. I think they realize that mostly white upper middle class professionals aren’t politically sympathetic blocs. So they project issues they disproportionately care about (urbanism, student loan debt relief, climate change) onto “brown people.”

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign did this extensively. Her voters on Super Tuesday were almost 80% white, out of an electorate (mostly southern and southwestern) that’s majority minority. But Warren tried to insert a racial angle into every issue.
While that's true, in many ways huge chunks of the fine art market exist purely as objects in warehouses, normally in freeports such as those in Switzerland, that are simply traded back and forth, often never seeing the light of day.

The art market is really weird in many ways. Both the Freakonomics podcast and Malcome Gladwell's Revisionist Histories have done episodes in the last year or so on the market.
It isn't that difficult to optimize relational SQL databases. I've dealt with databases with billions of rows in hundreds of tables and the company's initial thought was to flatten the schema due to perf. complaints.

We got queries down from 30+ seconds to 5 ms simply by properly indexing, defragmentation, analyzing query plans, SQL Stored Procedures, etc.

I see a lot of complaints from developers claiming they have to join a "million row table to million row table" and reports are slow, and this gets blamed on the DB. These should not be slow outside of how much bandwidth is being pushed over the wire, which is often exactly what the problem is. They just didn't see it.
My personal email address has been gmail since it launched. I find occasionally a spam email gets into my inbox. It's very rare, maybe 4 or 5 per year. I don't remember the last time a legitimate email got marked as spam, I'm not sure it has ever happened to me.
If I knew that I’d be trading it :)

But there’s a fairly active BTC derivatives market (depending on what passport you carry), so you could hedge against him getting/staying rich by getting a little creative with long-dated DOOM stuff.

Depends on how annoying he is I guess ;)
Show HN: My First Game on Steam (Steampowered.com)
Ask HN: My left hand hurt more than my right hand while typing, why?
I've noticed that after a long day of coding or email writing my left hand hurts considerably more than my right hand. Why is that? What can I do to fix it?

Is this something that have to do with the keyboard setup, or my style of typing?

I'm using an Apple magic keyboard.
On number 2, why?

If your program is abusive, have the abuser remove the function until it's no longer abusive. The entire we cant tell you does seem like crap.
I know most rules that exist but don't always remember them off the top of my head so I look them up. That being said, I was not actually aware of :not
Interesting I'd have thought tourism is the economic engine of Hawaii.
I agree. If I had to pick 2, it would be HBO and Apple TV+.

If I had to pick 1...probably HBO because their movie rotation generally has great classics.
The relevant part from the article:

> Hughes has spent years challenging the Victorian roots of brown Windsor soup—“I keep trying to correct the Wikipedia page, but I’ve given up”—and has faced considerable fury for his efforts.

Once Wikipedia decides something is a fact, it can be hard to alter it; no matter the sources you bring. If something stood there in an article for over a decade and the article is guarded by a certain type of editor, just give up.
A few months back I went through my watch history on the app after thinking I hadn't seen a good Netflix series in awhile and comparing 2018/2019 to 2020/2021 Netflix put out 5X less content I was interested in. There was a period where almost every weekend there was a new series dropping or a comedy special or something interesting and then it just fell off a complete cliff. Understandably covid impacted productions but somehow other streaming networks seemed to do much better.

Netflix's position on cancelling shows on a whim is also extremely frustrating. It's also completely bizarre to me that they (or really any streaming service) don't seem to be willing to even try to create any quality sitcoms despite paying fortunes to license all the good ones from the past 20 years and these clearly having massive value from a re-watchability perspective on a platform compared to a watch it once drama series.

Also I don't understand why the user interface particularly on AppleTV particularly around new shows is basically straight up hostile to the user. Just show me a damn feed for new content (this is one of the most insane trends in tech lately of refusal to have a time series feed of content (Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, etc). Netflix will show under "New" stuff that came out months and months ago and at the same time a new season will come out of a show they know i've watched previous seasons of and it won't even be the first thing on my feed.

Now in December for the first time in ages they actually had some good content to buy back some goodwill after being so bad for nearly all of the pandemic and what do they do... immediately jack up prices. Insanity.
> What is the point of government agencies if all they do is bow to those with the most money?

To legitimize the transfer of wealth upward, and protect the system. "Sure didn't we all vote for Trump/Biden". "If you're not voting you can't complain". Etc.

From housing to banking to the environment to food and drugs; from healthcare to the military, there is no shortage of examples of revolving doors, veneers, and gaslighting to choose from.

The fact that Obama promoted GS people to positions all over his cabinet after the '08 bailouts should have clued in anyone with more than 8 brain cells. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/henhouse-meet-f...
Wired had an article about this a year or so back [0] that said shows get more expensive after the first two seasons, so Netflix is inclined to kill them in favor of new shows. It also said viewership during that initial window also heavily influences the renewal process. Netflix has a lot more data than network television ever has and I think it leads them to be a bit overzealous with their decision making. Most shows I've really enjoyed have a weak first season as they find their footing.

[0] -- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/netflix-originals-cancelled-...
"Outside USA", might be a niche case for you but it's the main reality for most people. It's the best thing about Netflix that I can have an account in any country and go to any other country and still access most content.

I've got some other services too, so I'll see how they cope with me being in a totally different country to the one I subscribed in initially.
Hulu (ad free) and HBO Max are easily the best services I have, these days. It's not even close. D+ is a bargain if you have kids and intend to let them watch any streaming at all. Apple TV only stays around because it's cheap and was free for quite a while initially. I've watched like two shows and a couple movies on it in the ~15 months I've had it. Probably ought to cancel, really. Netflix and Amazon (better catalog than Netflix but UI—on every platform—so bad that I rarely use it) are on my personal chopping block. I doubt I'll have either by next year.
Those are all valid points. At the moment I believe Zig has decided to leave full unicode support out of std because they don't want language releases dependent on unicode updates.
> That was a Gu’uld hyperdrive. Also retrofitted.

> The latter was Human tech with Gu’uld hardware added. But that doesn’t mean they understood how tho build a hyperdrive.

No, this is not correct, read the link. It literally says Prometheus was built on reverse engineered systems. The first hyperdrive was the naquadria design Carter came up with. Then it was replaced with an Al'kesh drive that was more reliable.

The whole point of the human-built ships is that they couldn't rely on captured tech because the Goa'uld had been booby trapping them.
He says nothing about self-identification, but about external judgement. Which I guess you're doing here.
I would pay 1 cent per email/recipient if it meant receiving no spam, and that my emails would never get filed into a spam folder. (I'm just a small time regular user, but with a personal domain name.)

Unfortunately, there are probably businesses where even with that cost, it would still be profitable to spam - just look at physical mail or any other type of physical advertisement, or heck... even online advertisements still have to pay money for impressions.
You are misunderstanding me

> don't blindly take the word

What makes you think I am? Elon's opinion is a data point

> he does not want to admit to being out of his league

You don't know this

> Don't get trapped in cults of personality

I've made many criticisms of Musk, especially his pronouncements about self-driving cars

I think you're mistaking me for a fanboi. I'm just gathering information. I do follow Vitalik Buterin, but there are plenty of criticisms of his tech too.

"The Ethereum virtual machine has the equivalent computational power of an Atari 2600 from the 1970s except it runs on casino chips that cost $500"

Steven Diehl - Web3 is Bullshit

Thanks for the links. I'll add them to my list. I just really got serious about this subject so I started compiling a list of skeptics and enthusiasts who write about it often so I can follow along. Here they are in case you can use them.

Skeptics

SwiftOnSecurity https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity

Nicholas Weaver https://twitter.com/ncweaver

Molly White https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF

Dare Obasanjo https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life

Stephen Diehl https://twitter.com/smdiehl

Enthusiasts

Ser Jeff Garzik https://twitter.com/jgarzik

Marc Andreessen https://twitter.com/pmarca

Bram Cohen https://twitter.com/bramcohen

jack(@jack) https://twitter.com/jack

suzuha https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker

cdixon.eth https://twitter.com/cdixon