skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm several months into using Beat Saber as an exercise routine. Yes, add-on maps are a necessity, not just for the challenge, but also to keep things interesting.

I don't find high difficulty levels to be great exercise. I can keep up fine, but I get lulled into using little wrist flicks instead of sweeping arcs.

The best tracks for me are ones which aren't technically challenging. Instead, I get my whole body into it - dancing the whole time, stepping to the side so I can take a wide swing, shakin' my butt to the groove... That all gets my heart pounding, and works a much wider range of muscles. I've also turned the HUD off so I don't focus on my score, instead loosening up and having a good time.

The Claws mod also helps me a lot. You only get about half the range of the normal sabers so you have to move your arms farther to reach the blocks. It also makes you use a wider range of muscles, which has stopped some of the RSI I was feeling from too many wrist flicks earlier.

It's not perfect exercise. I could feel my body improve a lot early on, but then it plateaued and I don't see an easy way to push it much farther. However, I'm happy with where it's gotten me, and I intend to keep with it for the foreseeable future. It's fun, and it's convenient so I have no problem doing it for 45 minutes every day, and those are valuable attributes.
Been starting work at 5 am (which is now where I live) for a few years now. I was usually the person who would check in for work around 11 am the past 30 years. That was a bit of a mistake in hindsight; my body and mind like this early time far more; I get far more from my day now that my focused coding time ends around 11 instead of starts and the rest of the day I get to do mostly hobbies (including VR workouts). Somehow, in the past 30 years, including when I got up around 8, I missed about 3 hours of very valuable focus time which I was not possible to get for some reason until getting up when the rooster starts crowing (we have a rooster and it's doing that now).

I have to continue during the weekend (obviously as it is Sunday now) or I move out of the rhythm but that works fine too.
Had the person tried to demonstrate magnetism with some Zen Magnets, they'd have seen the availability determined by CPSC fiat. Which supports their argument.

What might've changed chemistry set suppliers' attitude towards risk? Plaintiff's attorneys are not, strictly speaking, "regulators".
OMEMO is an alternative encryption extension for XMPP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO?wprov=sfti1
Yeah, I should rewrite this differently. What I wanted to say is the dependency on mrc.bin in Haswell and later generations, and the way microcode updates have changed in regards to signatures and everything that came with them.
oh cmon u cant trick me like that! i thought jujutsu kaisen was on hn
Yeah - that's the guy I am working with. He has made the avatars of our website https://Pairing.dev

Here's his updated website: https://ekfos.com

Can recommend 100%
Maybe the makers of chemistry sets are following consumer demand. The only backlash I've heard about modern chemistry sets are from those who are reminiscing about their childhood, or using it as an allegory about a perceived social crisis. But maybe the people who actually buy chemistry sets want them to be more benign. Can we hear from some parents who understand the chemistry involved and what their own preferences are?
That's great, but my lived experience is different from yours. Maybe my setup is broken, maybe my ISPs DNS is broken, maybe my router is misconfigured, maybe something else.

The point is, I don't see a compelling reason to figure it out. Everything works just as well without IPv6, so there is no point in going through the hassle of figuring out why it doesn't work for me.
Exactly. Reading the docs makes me feel something is a bit “wrong”.

But I felt like this before when I switched from subversion to git (“why would I download all history, always???”) so, who knows.
I think it is just as much about the corporation protecting itself; they don't trust their engineers not to just copy parts of code.
If you don't wear a seatbelt, it could kill me when your body is launched out through the windshield and enters my car. On top of that, my taxes would have to bear the direct and indirect societal costs of the deaths prevented by seatbelts (roughly 15,000 per year). Mandating an extra four seconds per person per drive to fasten and unfasten seatbelts seems extremely reasonable, if not morally imperative, to me given those factors.
i wonder if the letter frequencies across the corpora could justify variable length character encoding.
That movie guy has really diversified
Why isn’t a slaughterhouse comfortable for cows?

Google serves for ad buyers, they are the clients. Users are just a cattle being sold.

And it has been like this from the moment google started being a business.
Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints (The NY Times)
I got nerd sniped and compressed it to under 28K, which was good enough for the goal of fitting it in a 32K NROM cartridge for the NES. On the NES, you don’t need to do better than that, because you get a separate 8K for graphics, and 4K is plenty of space to fit the code for your Wordle clone.

https://www.moria.us/blog/2022/01/dictionary-compression

The annoying part is that the NES only gives you four background palettes, and you are constrained to use all four of those to color your words.
strange, every time Ive contacted gsuite support I've gotten timely professional support
> If your game is good enough, it will be cloned, including the name possibly. And then customers will search for it and play the inferior copy (possibly not yours).

Name it the same as an internet domain you control. Now you hold the keys to the name.

> Don't think there's too many indie developers that have the financial security to manage that.

In other words, a fantastic niche to those who can.
About 15 years into my career here.

I stopped learning programming skills on the job about 7 years ago.

Today, Im still learning new languages, frameworks and libraries.

I'm also still growing in regards to,

Management skills, project skill, leadership skills, self time management, effective habits, not to mention work life balance things as my life now requires it.
Insufferable, patronising humble-bragging. This belongs on LinkedIn
Ahh thanks for this. Found it super confusing!
Makes sense - I’d just not encourage someone to quit or not get a PhD because the odds are against them for a tenured position. At this point a tenured position is something you luck into (after a hell of a lot of work and politics), but way too much is out of one’s control at the start of a PhD to make that a goal and reason for getting the degree. It’s like letting your probability of being an F1 driver determine whether you take an advanced driving course. Maybe that makes sense, but I’d more heavily weight how much I like driving in the decision rather than the potential for being an F1 driver.

The numbers don’t work at all - one tenured professor might produce 30-50 PhDs in her career. Only one will replace the professor’s tenured position. If just 5 actually go on to run labs somewhere else, they may produce another 50 each, leading to ~250 qualified people aiming for one of six positions, which are filled until the 6 retire.

It looks like a Ponzi scheme really quickly.
Squeezing Performance from SQLite: Indexes? Indexes
GPL 2 says "machine-readable", which I read as meaning on a tape or ftp site or something in a useful form, not handwritten on paper or similarly useless form. Also, I doubt obfuscated code would comply with the "preferred form" part.
"After graduating from the University of Washington in Tacoma with a degree in computer science, Barone could not bring himself to pursue a job at Microsoft, Google or Amazon. Instead, he took a part-time job at a Seattle theater and spent the rest of his time building a video game. He was living in his parent’s basement. Some weeks, he’d spend as much as 60 hours working on the game.

Barone eventually moved in with his girlfriend, Amber Hageman, who paid most of the bills. Barone stuck with his plan. He learned to put on a mask of confidence for friends and family. He knew that if he game wasn’t a success, he’d squander the trust and hope his loved ones placed in his dream."[1]

So he relied on first his parents, and then his girlfriend, to heavily subsidize him for 4 years. It ended up paying off in this instance, of course, but most people don't have this luxury.

And it doesn't always pay off, either. I've seen firsthand many a game that seemed like it would be a success fail once it hit the market.

[1]: https://www.knkx.org/other-news/2017-03-25/this-man-committe...
True, I agree.

In most systems I've seen, the caching layer is invalidated more often than necessary, and most of the traffic could've been avoided with a better URL scheme that's more expressive in regards to its content (mutations).
> People who breastfeed are much more likely to be higher income.

The median income of a breastfeeding mother is probably at least 1/10th of US median per capita GDP. E.g. Rwanda has some of the highest breastfeeding rates in the world.
Would be nice to post a link to the apk for those who use Android without Google services. I imagine this is higher than average on HN.
Why patents are there? https://www.judyrecords.com/record/v5j59cngw2c8e
These are chemistry sets. They are, when used inappropriately, just as likely to cause harm as a sawzall, a hammer, or a cuisinart.

I assure you, the "aristocratic heir majority owners" are also interested in letting their kids have access to experimental chemistry; and lawyers depriving any child of the opportunity to experience such (or to learn how to use a hammer, a sawzall, or a cuisinart for that matter) does no one any good, least of all working people.
A Causal Masked Multimodal Model of the Internet
Also my favorite history podcast, the video versions are also really good.
Very high production quality, and a riveting narration that provides a broader historical context while giving details about the life of the individuals at the time.
https://hg-git.github.io/

Happy user for at least 6 years.

The sanity of Mercurial's UX cannot be overstated.
I once came across a calculator-like device that had some version of a Bible stored in it. But not very well. It clearly had a dictionary with the text stored by word number, because some of the longer words were off by one word in the dictionary. This produced some strange texts.
That list is for generic top-level domains. .IO is, like all two-letter TLDs, a country code TLD. Country code TLDs are allocated according to ISO-3166 two-letter codes. IO is the ISO-3166 code for British Indian Ocean Territory.
People / Companies who buy ads pay google to get their result to show up. Essentially if a user clicks the paid link its going to make more money for google than if you click the organically produced search result, so they have a financial incentive to show you the paid link, even if it is redundant (points to the same thing).
> Now, if your court system sucks, it may not make a great decision but that's neither here nor there.

But "good decision" is not just a technical judgement. The OP claimed the U.S. courts changed their doctrine about this kind of case, at least regarding chemistry sets, around the 70s or not long before. I don't know if this is right, but it comports with other claims I've read about strict liability taking over then -- that previously, liability was a balance where adults could assume responsibility for themselves, and it was possible to sell them dangerous items if it was clear enough what they were getting, without extreme fear of lawsuits; and afterwards, not.

Maybe this claim is wrong, I don't know, but it's certainly not "neither here nor there" in this argument.
I filed https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/issues/61 about having Nix packages. I should learn about Nix packaging some day, but I'd appreciate any help I can get.
Fair. I setup it up more for the learning experience than anything else. Yes, it was a bit of trial and error before everything Just Worked. Most of my traffic is IPv6 nowadays and this is mostly with the larger entities like Google. My biggest happiness is the NAT crutch goes away, but too few networks have IPv6 deployed for this to be a boon for me.
YouTube Music was really rough in the beginning, and while I still have some UI nitpicks, I've come to find its radio algorithm to be much superior than Google Music's ever was for finding enjoyably obscure tracks. The tracks I uploaded to Google Music and transferred to YouTube Music are still playable through YouTube Music and downloadable from Google Takeout. If you migrated your library to YouTube Music, you may yet be able to download them from https://takeout.google.com (YouTube and YouTube Music).
Interesting. Did the above comment mention rocket fuel before? Edited out?
I wonder what other string could have C used 50 years ago that would have stayed usable for that long.

I love that, thanks to C, plenty of old programs can still be used today. In these days of accelerated bit-rot and language "communities", and perpetual rewrite of everything over and over again, C stability and ubiquity is a safe harbor, and has been at least until now a good investment.

I have no idea what you mean by "proper arrays". I guess bound checks?
I think that in this case, the original text is rather strange to start with.
The insane words are ones that you made up. The documentation is literally in the source code. If courts need to understand precisely what it means as it applies to a particular case, yes they can call Linus as an expert witness.
I'm sorry, but "some rando"?
On the flip side, some of the new ID games are nowhere _near_ as popular as the ones from Epic games, and WOW wound up dying by its own hand, to some extent.

The more time I spend working on startups and less at BigCos, the more I value the non-technical train of thought - unburdened by the implementation details. Sometimes those people are needed to push the envelope. Clearly, Fortnite is doing something right. At any rate, it's not a coincidence that most great companies have someone at the head that _mostly_ knows what's entailed by the dreams, but proceeds to dream nonetheless.
Seems to completely lack records from some states.

I searched a close friend's last name and I got all the stuff I expected - his civil suit, his divorce, his sister's paternity suit, a foreclosure involving his cousin. Seemed very complete.

Searched my own last name and a whole bunch of records of my uncle's various criminal activities came up. Surprisingly what was missing was records of my dad's various criminal activities.

My friend, my dad, and my uncle all live in three different states. My dad is currently incarcerated.
You can think of a patent as a legally binding decision itself, and a kind of legal case in its own right.
Can we compresses further by optimizing for only testing set membership?
Looks like that. I mean has anything fundamentally changed since 2008? No. The 'raegonomical' approach has been eating the future demand for 40 years. And what is the dollar issue volume in 2020-2021 compared to preexisting volume? And what's been happening to PPI[1] since 2020? I guess we should ask the Fed about that.

[1] https://fondmx.pro/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/image-174.png
From everything I have read, filmmakers are giving rave reviews about the editing prowess of high end Intel Mac Pros and they are looking forward to the Arm High end Macs.

But is this “anyone can be a film editor” the next “anyone can code”?

While I can code with the best of them, new more powerful computers aren’t going to make just everyone a film editor (including me) anymore than the low code solutions made it so anyone can code.
They recently announced a plan to scan local files on iPhones against a government created list of hashes.

This is incorrect. Only images uploaded to iCloud would be checked if they matched against multiple CSAM databases.

From the beginning, disabling iCloud Photos disabled this feature.

They painstakingly described the algorithms and encryption behind the plan.

I will remind you that Apple could had given in to the FBI’s request to create a back door to the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone a few years ago and Apple very publicly told them to pound sand.

Ironically Apple is now suing the company the FBI used to crack that iPhone: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-sues-nso-group-...
Ubuntu supports ZFS since 20.04.
OMG, do you know how hard it was back in the early cHTML/WML/HDML days and dozens of different browsers?

Glad that was a temporary state of things.
Some very good ones have been mentioned that I won't repeat. Here's my recommendation:

Confessions, by Jaume Cabré

I'll just quote a Goodreads review [1] I agree with:

> I've never read anything quite like this, such is its artistry and guile. Like a thief in the night it sneaks then all of a sudden it falls upon you like an avalanche. Truly it is a once in a decade novel, and why it is not world famous is a mystery to me.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4010685836?book_show_a...
Wonder if there are similar issues on AMD.
Ask your university about how to register as a part-time student. Instead of viewing it as one semester left with risk of failing all your courses, you can recast it as 4-6 semesters left where you only need to take one class per semester, and have a high chance of passing every class (but really, you should aim for straight A's; hire tutors if necessary so you really understand the material).

It's useful to get the degree even if you think you won't need it, esp. since you're so close to finishing. Ten to fifteen years later, you might decide to go to medical school, or to law school to become a human-rights lawyer, or to get a master's degree in astronomy. It'd be a much bigger hassle to have to go back and finish the B.S. at that point.
How do we know which clock is the accurate one?
https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1016/s0016-3287(70)80003-9 is a Sci Hub link.
Aren’t privacy addresses just random and temporary for like a day ? Sure it’s better to use the MAC address of the device forever.
I think that Hacker News is filled by the likes of this article.

someone who had a profound experience and now wants to give the advice that this experience gave him insight of exaggerated importance and as such writes an article overstating the experience and some more or less arbitrary wisdoms extracted from it.
That’s a blast from the past for me!

Some years ago, in 2014 or so, at a small startup I was in, we tried to make all communication encrypted. So we had as an official communication channel just Jabber and OTR. (Note, it was before Slack existed.) We did not have official client, everyone could use their own one.

It was a nightmare. No 2 clients were really compatible, and the various failure states were not properly implemented, so we routinely could not read each other messages and felt back to plaintext and “I cannot read what you said? please reply back here”

This was so bad that we then switched to just PGP mails (which had its own drawbacks, but at least worked).

I am not there anymore, I think they switched to just using Slack now. But they could Signal.
Even I can see my gist links in cases https://www.judyrecords.com/record/va3htxa9i5abd
lol yes, I played it and was so confused, the colors are literally backwards!
My own "technique that always works" (your mileage may vary) was "The hold".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2C8MkY7Co8

In my experience the baby will often resume crying as soon as you stop doing it, but we used this whenever we needed a couple minutes of relief.
> Dyson had also proposed that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) programs should “search for sources of infrared radiation” to “accompany the recently initiated search for interstellar radio communications.”

https://www.inverse.com/science/how-many-dyson-spheres-are-i...

I remember some discussion of this point in his autobiography. He wasn't talking about the Star Trek version, but certainly the intercept-all-the-sunlight constructions we're talking about.
I feel like you've actually kind of proven the reasonability of what actually happened to chemistry sets with this comparison.

Fully-functional sawzalls, hammers, and Cuisinarts don't get actively marketed to children. You can buy them and let children use them, just as you can with (non-children-marketed) chemistry supplies, and in the same way that comes with the societal understanding that, by letting a child use something not marketed for use by children, you'll be providing suitable safety instruction and oversight yourself.
In this particular case, we're talking about a license clarification that gives you more rights than you otherwise could. So, if you hadn't read Linus's interpretation of his own license, you would think that you always had to GPL your LKMs. So there's no point in which Linus could actually sue you for not reading his LKML rants - they strictly increase what you are allowed to do under the license.

If this was the opposite case - say, Linus saying that the GPL required something that the text of the license said it didn't - then a judge would probably be inclined to not listen to Linus.

There's two fallacies engineers commonly get tricked by when talking about the law:

- "Code is law"[0]: the belief that legal protections, contractual clauses, and so on can be replaced with technical protection measures and "smart contracts".

- "Law is code": the belief that judges are merely human interpreters for an English-language-shaped virtual machine that contracts and laws are written in.

These fallacies are dual to one another; the root cause is a fundamental misunderstanding of how laws work. Judges are not merely tasked with executing a computer program in their heads; they are allowed and expected to actively comprehend and rewrite the law based on the facts at hand. "Legislating from the bench" is a deliberate feature, especially in "common law" jurisdictions where prior rulings are allowed to be treated as good as actual passed-by-Congress laws.

A good example of how this works would be Oracle v. Google. Strictly speaking, as much as we hate Oracle, they had the most meritorious argument, and they were trying to enforce the GPL. If you take copyright as a given on software, then that copyright can be applied to the thinnest sliver of creativity present in that software. Yes, even lists of function names and signatures alone should be copyrightable, and the GPL copyleft should trip if you copied them. However, the entire software industry did not actually consider these to be copyrightable, and acted as if they weren't. In fact, even Oracle's own cloud division was busy doing to Amazon what they were suing Google for doing to them. When SCOTUS saw this, they actively decided to change the law in favor of Google because it was the interpretation that most actual copyright holders in the industry had been operating on.

[0] With apologies to Cory Doctorow
Forgive my ignorance, but I always see the quest mentioned. Are there any comparable devices that don’t require Facebook?

I’ve sworn off FB and while VR for cardio has me intrigued, nothing is gonna get me to sign back in there.