skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, the 68000 transistors number is just marketing. I don't remember the exact number, but a full netlist has been produced from tracing the 68000 die and IIRC the actual transistor count is at least 20K less than that. Still a lot more than the ARM1 of course. I would guess that 68000 machine code is a fair bit denser than 32-bit ARM though which was important in the 80s when memory was still very expensive.
It's there mostly for the checkboxes on copliance, but it's not that bad, compared to others.
Remember that they impeached Clinton, over sex, after an investigation into his financial affairs went nowhere. The goal was impeachment; the reason would come later.

For Obama, they had his race, and that was sufficient. Not every Republican is a frothing racist, but they're certainly happy to appeal to the frothing racists. But at core, it was simply that he was a Democrat. Democrats are inherently polarizing because they are not Republicans, and the reasons come later.
You're wrong. New flavors of crypto, blockchain apps, etc are almost entirely scams. But Bitcoin itself is an incredible technology, and I don't think its beautiful design gets appreciated enough in the midst of all the speculative investments, derivative currencies, and marketing.
From the description:

“Screw you; it can be built." Meet British architect Sir Peter Cook who talks about the possible benefits of drawing by hand and explains why he disagrees with critics calling his architectural ideas utopian.

“By the critics and the regular people saying it’s utopian, you put it into a pigeonhole that says: ‘Oh, those sorts of architects are utopian, but we are normal architects.’ So, the delight I get out of doing buildings is to say: Screw you, it can be built.”
They won't be recycled if its cheaper to manufacture new.
USD banknotes and coins are also perishable in the sense that they do not last forever. The only difference in that sense between banknotes and blueberries is the magnitude of their lifetime (coins and banknotes last decades, blueberries last weeks). I doubt perishability is the legality of making something legal tender.
Perhaps the Web Archive can help in some cases.
Careful using the term ‘ponzi’ - they’ll show up and argue with you on semantics of what to call the scam while ignoring your other (valid) arguments.
> People are really fed up with both parties and always getting roped into voting for the lesser evil.

This sounds a lot like a ploy to get the other side to try and vote their conscience in the next election, which will keep their tribe from winning the election. I do hear a lot of frustration with the status quo out there, but the very next sentence clarifies that everyone puts 100% of the blame with the other side.
> For example, Apple's iMessage app does this with their mandatory client-side scanning misfeature.

There's a lot of incorrect information here. First of all, it is not mandatory, it's opt-in - parents have the ability to turn it on for children under 18 whose devices have parental controls enabled. (Technically you could argue that it is then mandatory for those children, but that's no different from other parental control features.) Also, it uses on-device machine learning to detect and blur NSFW photos. They even removed the feature that notifies the parents if the child chooses to view a photo that was detected as NSFW anyway, so the contents of messages are not sent to Apple or anyone else.

I think you're conflating it with the iCloud Photos CSAM detection, which would have been mandatory and sent results of on-device scans to Apple if you have iCloud Photos enabled, but they seem to have scrapped that (for now at least) as they quietly removed all mentions of it from their website.
Taking your logic to its conclusion, any stock or other kind of trading should be banned because it will enable some people to lose money at some point. To clarify, is that your position, and if not, why not?
Capsizing when left alone in the water is not the usual measure of ship (in)stability, rather we typically use the magnitude of the righting moment when the ship gets out of vertical. Shallow flat-bottomed ships are quite unstable from a ship stability perspective, because of their relatively high center of gravity and their resulting short KG distance (see also https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/ship-stabil...).

When a flat-bottomed ship gets out of balance, the righting moment is fairly small compared to either a deeper boat with ballast or a boat with a keel. Both of those ships are much more stable than négo chin boats or indeed standup paddle boards. Whether someone is standing on top of them to manually keep them upright is not relevant to whether the boat itself is stable or not.
> Who says that?

The dictionary?

The gold would be legal tender. Doesn't matter what's written on it; I can doodle artwork on a $10 bill and claim it's worth $1,000 because my art is awesome, but people aren't required to accept it as anything more than $10 towards a debt.

> another comment just told me that there is no gold standard since 1970

What part of that do you object to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

"On 15 August 1971, the United States terminated convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar a fiat currency."
When it comes up, I explain my position and move on. Sometimes, you need to learn for yourself. But with a good lesson comes a fresh perspective. Perhaps the general public will become more skeptical of 'technology' and make a greater effort to understand it themselves.
> Here's what the bare metal server didn't come with:

[bunch of stuff I don't need]

Exactly. Imagine paying for all that when all you need is bare metal.

Now imagine paying for all that just because you've read on the Internet that it's best practice and that's what the big guys do.

Way back the best practice was what Microsoft, Oracle or Cisco wanted you to buy. Now it's what Amazon wants you to buy.

Buy what you need.
I wholeheartedly agree: some are against modifying these retro systems, but this opens up a whole world of possibilities.

I also got mine (AES and CD) directly from the author but he no longer provides upgrades via postal mail. Instead, he can send you your customised one by mail and flash it yourself.
Right; I covered that explicitly further down in the post.

I wish I had made it more clear in my original post that Impossible Traveler checks are not a magic bullet, as most are assuming that this would be used all on its own for whether to bar access.
If you have the cash - a personal license for ArcGIS pro is 100$/year.

If you want to work in government with GIS/data - ArcGIS is the standard.

ESRI has a lot of content on youtube. The channel GIScience has also a lot of good tutorials.

If you don’t have the cash there’s open source GIS tools like QGIS or Grass GIS. Or use Kepler.gl with Jupiter notebooks.

Happy mapping!
Show HN: Session manager and task runner for tmux written in Go
Except that's not what is happening at all.

VCs are holding onto companies much longer as, (a) the average time to reach IPO stage has gone from 4 to 11 years over the last two decades and (b) the amount of unspent money floating around is so high. There is definitely more to this story than just the VCs trying to exit.
That must be reverse psychology. /s
Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken
Taking the premise of this at face value then these people are just going to get scammed on something else. There is a fairly sizable segment of the population that is unable to be anything but poor as they invest in get rich quick garbage.

And they always will. Maybe it is crypto, or maybe it is LuLaRoe or Beanie Babies. There is no saving them.
Server is AGPL: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/blob/develop/LICENSE
and clients are GPL it seems.
You should see how much a chartered trip costs. A large percentage of recreational fishing is chartered trips.
> Motivation: Docker for Mac was proving to be a workflow pain rather than a workflow gain. It was slowing down my 16" Macbook Pro (32GB RAM, 6 CPUs), draining the battery, and causing the fans to constantly spin at full speed.

A performance comparison between this solution and Docker for Mac would have been great.
You have too much faith in corporate IT.

They can fuck up macs and Linux just as well.
Ask HN: Detailed, realtime satellite imagery, to verify convoy length?
There's a convoy of trucks heading for Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. News sources say it's on the order of a thousand trucks; social media says there's over 50 000 trucks, and that it stretches on for 400km.

I was wondering if there is a way to verify either of the claims. Is there a way I can see detailed satellite imagery with images from today?
> How was Obama more polarizing than, say, Bill Clinton?

When it comes to drone strikes on American citizens: he was the judge, jury and executioner, all that without charges or prosecution, just by saying "they're not really citizens because they are now 'enemy combatants' which BTW does not grant protection under the Geneva Convention and does not require a formal declaration of war either because... reasons?"

We have separation of powers, laws and due process for good reasons. All this rubbed me the wrong way.
Anyone know what unholy magic generated this page's HTML? Microsoft Word -> "Export to HTML" or something?
I think that there is still time to inform general consumers so the vast majority are aware of the dangers before cryptocurrencies are made friendly enough to use for the average non-tech or finance folk. We are definitely hitting a point where these scams have to reach out beyond crypto-bros, finance gamblers, and the tech-savvy so that they can sustain the pyramid - and if people are aware before that happens, hopefully the bubble will burst and the fad will end.
> knowing systemd, journalctl, nginx, apt, ssh and docker and how to run them through bash.

Or, the way things are going, systemd, systemd[1], systemd[2], systemd[3], systemd[4] and systemd[5].

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journalctl.... [2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-jou... [3] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-mac... [4] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-log... [5] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nsp...
I'm quite fine with ashtrays disappearing.
As turns out a lead developer can't unilaterally change the CTO. Not sure how it works for you. I can control tech, direction, etc. or move on to another job.

I chose to work with the CTO/Team to figure out a solution everyone could live with. I even chose a more annoying solution (Packer) initially just to make sure people felt comfortable and avoid changing things anymore than I had to.
Observing NextJS in Production
I have the same issue with podcasts. Spotify bakes in ads that are in my native language, not english like the podcast I am listening to.
Let me try to clarify (one of the authors here). The focus of the title is on the news source. It is the news source that tries to avoid conflict in this model. Specifically, at each time step, they see they are getting flagged (attacked, receiving backlash, etc) and they try to minimize it for the next step.

Differently from what the sibling comment says, this is not bred out from a pre-existing polarization. The starting point for users and news sources is to have a normally distributed opinion, where most of the people (and news sources) are actual neutral. Yet, for a certain combination of parameters, this is not enough and will end up with polarization. And unfortunately that combination of parameters is the one compatible with observed data.

The reason why this happens links to a previous study [1]. Even absent polarization, it is the most central news organizations that receive most of the backlash because of some characteristics of the system (e.g. homophily: people naturally tend to be friend with people with similar opinion as them). This causes central neutral sources to spread more, and thus reach parts of the network that heavily disagrees with them.

I will concede that the initial framing of my post is indeed confusing, because it seems that I'm talking about users avoiding conflict, while the paper is about news sources avoiding conflicts. I'll try to do better in the future.

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsif.2020...
I bought my last batch of Dell machines in 2017 (so, 5 years? wow), and they had randomised passwords.

But yes, some providers put the BMC on the internet because it's easier, a provider I used once did this and I was quite displeased as iDRAC's are quite weak and suffer under the weight of bot-spam. -- even if there were no security issues.
This doesn't seem a fair comparison. Prometheus is statically linked like all Go applications, and those packages are not. You can debate the merits of that, but if you compare a "only rsyslog" server vs a "only prometheus" server the 2 will be much closer in size.
Yes, use them on frontend, backend, and mobile. They feed into an AB experimentation system which is the gate for shipping features and catching regressions.
> they don’t have as much power as many think.

Maybe not regulatory power, but certainly they have the power to stand in front of 330 million citizens and proclaim the election a lie, refuse the kind of peaceful transition we've grown accustomed to, and really degrade the stability of our democracy in the process.

However, it is good that we've now learned how much our country relies on everyone acting in good faith. At some point we might be able to translate that into a stronger democracy.
Thanks! That is super cool of you.
I want to like notion but I'm on a Mac and the experience is so crappy and alien that it's simply too hard to use. It's clear that Mac is just a checkoff box item for them so they just phone it in.
DomTerm (https://domterm.org) does a pretty good job IMNSO. See screenshot here: https://domterm.org/Features.html . DomTerm mostly delegates to the browser and the font how to compose extended Grapheme Clusters.

Unfortunately, as far as I know there is no "complete" monospace font set that handles emoji. Ideally, you want a font with two character widths, with double-width for emoji, hanji (CJK characters), and similar. Instead the browser will substitute these characters from some variable-width font, and then the spacing will be off.

DomTerm handles this by putting double-width characters as well as Extended Grapheme Clusters in a separate span that is forced to have the correct width. I created a JavaScript library https://github.com/PerBothner/unicode-properties based on other people's code but optimized for DomTerm's needs: It provides both East Asian Width (for recognizing double-width characters) and character classes (for grapheme clusters) in a single efficient trie structure.

The DomTerm equivalent of tmux's "select mode" is grapheme-cluster-aware, so left/right-arrow will correctly move over an entire grapheme cluster.
Interesting, google had the 68,000 count on several sites. Were they trying to ramp up the transistor count?

ARM Thumb and Super-H were supposed to address the code density problem. I see the smallest ARM binary at busybox.net is for Thumb.
I mean I graduated top 5% of my class and make early 6 figures. My friend who graduated bottom 5% is now a crypto millionaire living in Dubai. Meanwhile I can write complex Scala code but I have no idea what blockchain , NFT , crypto is all about apart from the fact that it made my friend rich and made early adopters rich . How , why , when I don’t know . What’s the gain, purpose of it - I don’t know . Then again I don’t know what’s the purpose of data processing for ad-tech ML models and how it helps humanity either . The world is a Ponzi scheme . Can I go back to 1995?
> Quite surprised why Richard Stallman is absent given that he is the one that (kind of) started it all in the first place.

Really? Even ignoring the debacle last year, rms said that open source (what this collection is about) misses the point of free software (what he advocates for).

Not only that, even assuming that somehow he got in, I can only imagine his reaction after knowing that his photo became an NFT.
The blockchain is fine though. That's like trying to tell people to stop using linked lists or object-orientation; you're trying to disseminate a technical detail for an audience that doesn't understand nor care.

The modern crypto market is a disaster because cryptocurrency is a fiat, not a security or trading asset. People insist on it being the new gold though, so it's weaknesses are exploited and people get scammed left right and center. It's not surprising that when you abuse technology, bad things happen; it's put us in a situation where we're desperately trying to make these platforms safe for purposes they were never intended to fill. Of course there are going to be problems.

Even though I think NFTs are gaudy wastes of time, and Bitcoin is an inside joke for long-running IRC chats, I don't really care that much if the concept of a blockchain lives or dies. If anything, I'm glad that the recent publicity has gotten people to care about actually interesting and meaningful technology like IPFS and hashing algos.

Regardless of what any of us say, do or express, the blockchain is explicitly designed to keep on trucking. There's nothing you can do now, the only "ethical" way out is to ignore it and hope that your silence on the topic encourages other people to stop using it too. In the meantime, new technology is going to continue to be new, and gulliable individuals will continue to be scammed anywhere they choose to put their wallet on the line. There really is nothing new under the sun; not Bitcoin, not the blockchain, and certainly not scamming people online.
Afraid of a specific thing or no fear in general?
When I was 11 or 12 we had a bunch of old Windows (2000?) boxes with a shared network folder — all the students' files were in the same folder. I had just learned about basic batch file "programming" so I made one called Change Your Grades Click Here!!.bat which asked for your username and password (we had individual accounts on the Mac computers) and saved them to a hidden text file in the same folder. Most people didn't fall for it, but I got one girl's login that actually worked, which scared the shit out of me, and I deleted the program. (I really wanted to tell her that "emma" is not a good password, but I thought it wouldn't turn out well for me.)

A few years later, I cracked the admin password (with a Ophcrack live USB) for a silly reason: they had the machines mostly locked down, and I wanted to change the desktop background hahah. I remember being quite disappointed in the sysadmins that the admin password for all the machines in school was a common dictionary word, cracked in 30 seconds.

Oh, once I met a guy who identified as a "hacker" (in the sense of breaking into systems illegally) and he told me (then a young teen) to "have my fun" before I turned 18 and then to stop, which in retrospect was very good advice.
feels like goog has been relatively intentional through the last decade about what types of pages show up in what categories of search, and this has siloed SEO expertise. Now, for any 'type of search', SEO or ad spammers know more about the problem than google

sites like newspapers, SO, wikipedia, and even twitter, which have active moderation of all content, can stay ahead of this in a way that platforms can't

we all assume that 'only ads above the fold' is intentional by goog to bolster failing margins, but what if it's a problem they can't fix because their tools have outgrown their quality control?

in 2012 google thought the indexing algorithm was its immune system, but today it's the site of infection. (maybe it always was)
I find it strange that people keep promoting that YouTube documentary. Ignoring tone issues, there is a lot of cherry picking and other logical fallacies. For example, he talks about how terrible Tether is and then completely ignores USDC. He also claims that none of the popular blockchains can scale, but Solana is frequently in the top 5 most popular cryptocurrencies.

It seems to me that people that do an hour of research are polarized hard. Either love it or hate it. The more time you spend understanding the space the more nuanced it becomes. Many are using the technology to facilitate scams and overpromising, but that doesn't make the technology fundamentally useless or bad.
Windows is definitely part of the problem, but I agree it's not the problem. Linux or MacOS are not better enough either.
why? i think it's the coolest thing ever.

anyone can write a contract to automate taking out a loan, investing it, and pulling out the money, develop exotic securities, and bespoke arbitration. anyone can do it regardless of credentials or connections; just a month of learning.

pretty darn cool to have unbridled access to a distributed computer.
It's understood that nothing lasts forever, but bank notes are not perrishable in the sense that blueberries are unless taken out of circulation.

The slippery sloap that you want to go down is trivially infelicit
Yeah. I mention it when they call to change the option in their system to not call me, ask their name and ask for a person where i can verify it tomorrow.

I don't need to call the day after too and never got called back. I think the amount of irrelevant calls i received is 1 per 2 months.

Normally from an older supplier if i changed something years ago.
Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
Costco still has issues of resolving discounts on a return. I won't state the bug explicitly but I had a conversation with them about how they refunded me a significant amount I never paid on a large purchase and showed them the delta via receipts. Local management was appreciative but didn't seem to have an idea of how to proceed to make things right. Ultimately they said my account would be flagged as owing the difference so the next time I shopped I would be charged for the incorrect refund. The problem is that that didn't work either and I don't shop there often. I tried to do the right thing but ultimately it ends up being their responsibility to handle it when the customer is standing right in front of them showing their loss of revenue.
This. I think Maslow is often over-stated, but fear of unstable housing and exposure to random costs is HUGE in personal wellbeing.

The people who can fix it have voter skin in the game and a lot of fear around the outcome: A cohort of investors have been lied to about the perpetual money making machine of house ownership, at the cost of home ownership for ordinary (young) people.
Yeah, but you have to be basically gobbling these pills to get anywhere near the dangerous levels. People dumb enough to do that are probably making all sorts of other poor decisions about their health and life.
Podcasts are generally accessed as a syndication service. Except for ones actually contracted by Spotify, like Joe Rogan, they are just importing them from RSS like everyone else.
> Perhaps I'm too young, but I've literally never know any such a salesperson.

This was about 30-40 years ago, so it's far more in the time frame where you'd have technically competent sales folk, as you'd be pitching this gear to other engineers at this trade show.

When you're at a trade show for the very field that equipment is designed for and someone is trying to pitch you a piece of equipment that's nearly double the annual salary of an entry level engineer, I think you'd be far more likely to see a salesperson knowledgeable about their gear.
I really don't follow. Can anyone enlighten me? I used to go with the casual notion 'tech isn't evil' / 'even a chair can be used as a weapon'. What have I missed here for blockchain?
NTNU's computer museum has quite a number of Norsk Data machines, but they are unfortunately not accessible to the public.