skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I would say to really appreciate most modern games, it would take at least 3 months. Fallout 1 took me a weekend to finish. Fallout 4 takes far too long. Even getting out of the vault the first time takes hours.
I agree -- it's pretty clear to me that the author has found a difference between their work, which they still find enjoyment from (perhaps because they are good at it?), and their non-work life.

I can relate somewhat -- I love tech -- robotics, in particular -- but have lately become a bit disappointed with the current state it in product world. Thankfully I'm also in a state where I can reflect upon why I feel that way, and then muster the energy to do something about it.

Perhaps this is a reflection upon the age of the author too. I suspect as I get older, I'm going to want towards more "wholesome" things -- as I define that word.

That being said, to each their own.
> Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants.

To immediately see why this is important, think what the answers would be when you tell your daughter or spouse that the locks weren't changed before you moved-in.
As you age it permeates every interest you had, because you already have taken the low hanging fruits. Not only computers, also books, movies, food and I bet even sex. Everything reminds you of something you have already lived. Every novelty is harder to find, and of course there are novelties, but they require an ever increasing amount of effort and time to find, and you have less and less time free. When you are a kid you are in a constant state of awe.

Computers... I don't care about a lot of the things I cared about. I cannot extract pleasure any longer for studying yet another random language. Now, if I want to truly get impressed learning Kotlin (to say something, fine language) doesn't cut it, I need quantum computing or dependent types or whatever. But it's much harder.
How security is handled by package maintainers
yeah I'm not a fan of that over the normal one either.

but having said that I normally only ever access HN articles via RSS anyway, So I never would see either.
Definitely not an ownership stake, but perhaps a royalty on equity. For every dollar in equity sold or transacted the government receives a royalty payment of some percentage.
You'd think a speculation & vacancy tax would solve this, but doesn't seem to as seen in BC, Canada :(

More about the tax: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/speculation-vacancy...

https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/three-years-in...
I'm now curious if this links to the childhood obesity epidemic in the country.

edit/ I just saw another comment you made that suggests that it does. I wonder then if the "free-range parenting" legislation in Utah, Texas, and Oklahoma has made a difference.
Yes Linux has a tremendous existing embedded footprint across a number of interesting minimally specced devices.

You (and everyone) should care because of the ever expanding internet of things movement connecting these devices up to the rest of the computing universe. This represents a brand new frontier for attack surfaces and if the kernel cannot provide foundational entropy there's no plausible security story for the rest of the stack.

The cynic would be quick to point out that IoT is a nitemare anyway and even if the kernel gives the tools the manufacturer needs to use them and use them in the right way.
There's plenty of strategy around games like Overwatch and PUBG too.
Can you point us to an incident where this has ever happened, namely, where a service provider didn't to respond to a demand immediately while they verified its authenticity and someone went to jail for it? Or even got a finger wagged at them by a judge? Third-party records production is almost never time-sensitive to the degree that, say, a warrant to search for drugs or contraband is, and there's little risk of spoliation of evidence.
Most of the libraries of Java 11 are not available. Basic stuff like the Java 11 HTTP client. Pseudo compatibility. And this only happened because the new Gradle needed Java 11. They just did enough to make the new Gradle work. Android Java will not pass the Java 11 test suite.
It is not considered retaliation legally. Whistleblowers, people who complain about bad treatment or sexual harassments or illegal practices in fact do have bigger problems to get hired.
I think there is something to be said (by someone willing to put more thought into it) regarding how much we as a society have churned away at computing and turned into something /refined/... Perhaps an analogy of what I'm thinking is people chewing coca leaves vs snorting cocaine? Maybe too extreme, or not extreme enough?
> But the notion that free speech necessarily promotes positive progression in an honest marketplace of ideas, or the discovery of 'truth', seems naive and really quite outdated.

Remind me - how often have censors turned out to be the good guys?

How often have censors "[promoted] an honest marketplace of ideas or the discovery of 'truth'"?

We have experience with censorship. Free speech may not be perfect but the alternatives have been worse.

Why will this time be different?
2016 discussion (263 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12878706
>HB11 Energy’s research demonstrated that its hydrogen-boron energy technology is now four orders of magnitude away from achieving net energy gain when catalyzed by a laser

the accelerator based fusion - like accelerating protons into a solid target - is probably among the easiest ways to get some fusion. Improving it is though a completely different thing - as even the solid targets are really mostly space between the atoms (and thus the overwhelming majority of the incoming protons lose the energy by heating the target instead of hitting the target's atoms), the density of the target to achieve break even should be on the scale of like 10x density of lead. The only known ways to get such matter densities is by compressing the matter by something like X-rays of the power comparable to that of the nuke explosion generated X-rays (like for example is done in Sandia Z-machine or NIF lasers).
How much are the penalties?

If they are charging some absurd (say 20%) interest and you're off by 10k, you might pay them a few hundred in interest if the process is prolonged a month, which is on par with a tax prep service.
Depends on your definition of "star." You can see the Andromeda galaxy with your naked eye (as well as the galactic center.)
It's worth mentioning that no, you don't need an online login any more, they quickly reversed that when people pointed out it was a silly idea.
Show HN: Live TV; ThreeJS and React
There's a few risks they're taking still.

a) that you have an outstanding tax bill, or other garnishment, and while you overpaid, you will not be receiving a refund, and they'll need to find you to make payment some other way.

b) the return is fraudulent and they're going to have to pick up the pieces when the IRS figures it out and reverses the deposit. Plus, they didn't get paid.

Is that $40 of risk? Eh, probably not, but it's something.
CodeContracts were a horrible hammer that people abused to not have to create proper types for things like an invoice id.

If you have a type system then you should leverage it, not bolt on something extra
> Its first demo has produced 10 times more fusion reactions than expected

I'm not a physicist or a professional scientist in any way. But is this at all normal? 10 times means a whole order of magnitude. Is that a sign that the math is wrong somewhere or that some measurement is wrong somewhere?
A lot of thinking comes from the way that technology works right now.

But as tehnnology grows cheaper and better a lot of constraints that used to be taken for given disappears.

You mentioned wireless power delivery. What if in the future displays become so power efficient that they don't need wired power at all?

Why does a display have to be connected to a single computer?

It could be connected to multiple devices; some showing windows from my computer underneath my desk together with a video call in another window that goes through my phone.

And the weather widget that I configured on desktop computer, why not that keep running on the display, even after I disconnect the desktop computer?

These ideas are not new; they have been in distributed computing for ages. What's new is that they now are being explored commercially.
I find it really hard to read. The white background for starters, but also the lack of indentation which makes it hard to pick one post from the others. Colors too look wrong to me, plus alternating between them makes things even less readable; look at how the HN page makes it so easy to look at the post title by placing it just right of the post number (with the lower line indented for more convenience) and uses black to make it immediately recognizable.
Apple will no longer repair iPhones marked as missing
Over 40% of US consumers have a FICO of 750 or higher.

Here's where American consumers stand as of the most recent (April 2017) data: [1]

FICO score range % of U.S. consumers
800-850 20.7%
750-799 19%
700-749 17.1%
650-699 13.2%
600-649 10%
550-599 8.5%
500-549 6.8%
300-499 4.7%

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/09...
> “why don’t they” is “money”.

More likely "trust". A purpose build instruction with a black box implementation on hardware that has its own hidden OS with direct access to the network is one issue. The fact that Intels CPUs are a bug riddled mess that have been a significant headache to anyone caring about kernel and application layer security is another. Who needs security if disabling all the mitigations makes you look great on benchmarks.
> cooks off or crisps up

Off-topic but as a non-native speaker, English language phrasal verbs are one of the most bewildering things in the language.
Going on a tangent, as I understand it, the first programming book was "The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer: With special reference to the EDSAC and the Use of a Library of Subroutines", by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheller and Stanley Gill (1951).

https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk
Perhaps using them, but outside of work, yeah -- good point.

Unless you get the dude who's /reaaaaaallllyyyyy/ into hammers... Yeah - Paul, he's a bit odd, but we love him.
Man arrested for attaching Apple Watch to girlfriend’s car, police say
Before then, every interviewer was expected to give feedback on such capabilities through asking questions about the candidate's history.
> Bitcoin requires custom hardware.

No, it doesn't. We're talking about validating network consensus, that's what validator node do, not the mining nodes.
Paperless-NGX
Straight out of dystopian sci-fi. I'd say Dyson's a day or two early with this.
Brian Krebs is more than a bad journalist. He harms people and companies for his own gain. I have never heard of ubiquiti, except here on hn, but I think they're completely right in suing him.

Fuck you, Krebs.
Bungie lawsuit aims to unmask YouTube copyright claim abusers
Not until chrome implements extensions.
WHATWG: 140 Characters Discourages Intelligent Discourse
That's also how it worked out in central Finland during WW2. A normally 2-D army was confined to roads, making it 1-D with exposed flanks. The Finns were able to starve them out, with very low losses. Shoot up their field kitchens (vital in the cold), keep'em awake all night with gunfire, and they crumble pretty quickly.
Yes! SpinVox. What a company.
Huh, that’s pretty much rape, no? He (not depicted in video but described in text) had sexual intercourse with the person in his care while the patient was on MDMA. Homie that is not kosher at all. That is sexual assault.

I am a huge fan of these drugs but this part of the world’s shame and puritan culture really shows this unexpected effect: it is not sufficient for something to be pleasant. It also has to be “medically necessary”.

The outcome is we get a bunch of things showing that these things are medically necessary. “There is some evidence that X helps Y”. Dude, with the current standard of science I can do that for arbitrary X and Y.

And you know what, the truth is that people heal and recover in all sorts of ways. But that’s not enough for us. We need to place everyone under the control of these gatekeepers. And then we find ourselves horrified at the outcome of the machine we have built where the power hungry abuse their power.
Your argument is that in order to bring down rent prices, prospective tenants should travel backwards in time and push for more evictions?

Even if I believed your pedestrian summary of the state of things, I fail to see any substance in this post aside from “Bad things happen because of policies that I don’t like. Fixing anything for anybody is not interesting to me because I haven’t yet attained heartfelt apologies from people who don’t share my politics.”
Or.. it is humor.
As long as it's not a US Javelin, those things are absurdly expensive:

Javelin: $250K missile + $250K launcher

T-72: $1000K-1200K (1-1.2 million)

Of course, non-US options are much cheaper:

NLAW: $40K

Stuhna-P: $20K
> But while blunt censorship more often than not backfires

Does it? It seems to me, it is in fact effective in shaping opinions of populace. Sometimes it backfires. In particular, it did in fact worked for Nazi.

Censorship does not work is expression of hope and political statement. But in fact, it does work. It does not necessary creates better overall culture/environment. But it has actual effect.
Sometimes this is the right comment to post, here or anywhere.
We are talking about the "Lack of FTC action is causing you material harm." It's not causing you specifically billions of dollars.
Yes. The more you close the gap, the less I will work.
In-Target Proton–Boron Nuclear Fusion Using a PW-Class Laser
You saw this in Bronze Age Europe as well with trade happening between the people in Europe and the Middle East.
When I joined in 2011 the core infrastructure staff was so heavily ex-Google that the build files were valid Blaze.

There are a lot of factors that went into FB’s meteoric rise in the 2006-2014 range, but I think more than anything it was Sheryl telling the wage cartel that they could get fucked.

High-end Google hackers could walk across the street and TCO 2-5x more with negligible increase in risk.
On this, I've read a critic of Nordhaus (in French) that said basically the same thing. AKA: Nordhaus willfully ignore in his research two major facts: you cannot operate machines with famished workers, and people need to be able to move around to produce value. The impact on GDP will be much higher, especially if agriculture is hit by climate change.
In the context of Linux on embedded and mobile breaking user space would lead to hardware manufacturers essentially freezing on the kernel version right before the break. (For both new projects or in the exceedingly rare case where they upgrade deployed devices).

This would be exceedingly unwise and pushes against the vast amount of effort the kernel community is expending to secure the kernel and bring OEMs on non ancient versions of the kernel.

Essentially these are not old devices, they are new and you likely have purchased some of them without even knowing.
*public colleges in the U.S. with well known names. They fight for a few hundred dollars so students can have basic stem programs while the admins profiteer and waste funds left and right.
is there any evidence of the Chinese military being particularly effective? And not sure you can say that the Chinese don't plan to get dragged into a fight that starts with them storming beaches.
Your aim should be to "keep honest people honest," not to prevent your app from being cracked.

As in, a simple license and trial mechanism that may not be bullet proof but is enough such that an uninstall and re-install of the trial is not enough to allow them to use it for free forever, and that a license key needs to be entered somewhere to remove the trial limit restrictions.

You can invest time effort and money in stopping your app being cracked, but that's time effort and money your not spending making your paying users's lives better. Most people do not visit Warez sites to find cracked versions of software, and most people who do visit Warez sites never pay for software anyway -- you won't lose money to these people.

A simple license key that validates locally is the easiest solution -- no dialing home, nothing overly complex. Any extra effort needs to be warranted -- as in, you're losing $1000s a week because of lost users who would have paid but don't because they can use your app without a valid license.
> Maybe "commercial entity whose goal is to generate positive-yield fusion" is what they mean..

That could be, they don't want to deal with neutron flux for no reason.

It's definitely not true that no commercial entity has built and operated a chair.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09698...
How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do.

There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe:
https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe

And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ):
https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...
Check out these systems. They seem the natural upgrade when looking for something more powerful than the already excellent pcengines.ch boards.

https://www.ipu-system.de/

If you are in the US, I'm pretty sure I saw very similar devices sold there as well, but didn't keep the link as buying from there would be too expensive.
Thank you for the nice words, those mean a lot to me. Have a great day
Which JDK distribution is used today? There are so many to choose from.
There is an advantage to Ukraine though: This might get them more donations from the crowd that has fully bought into all the crypto junk and will happily throw money at everything with the right buzzwords.

I suppose you can consider the transaction fees marketing budget.
I didn't really know how to fit "The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse." into a title.
CAN-SPAM does not create a private right of action. I have generally no idea what I’m talking about when it comes to legal stuff but I think this means only the government can sue them over it.
The really funny thing about those new Intel coolers is that the impressive looking fins are made of plastic.
> He (not depicted in video but described in text) had sexual intercourse with the person in his care while the patient was on MDMA.

It sounds like there was “intimate contact” during the session (maybe the spooning?) but the sex was not during the session. Still massively not OK.

> Yensen has admitted to having sex with Buisson after the experimental sessions ended but while she was still enrolled in the clinical trial. In a 2018 lawsuit that has since been settled out of court, she alleged it was sexual assault, while Yensen claimed in his response that Buisson manipulated him and initiated the encounter.
I forgot they used a weird spelling.
The TLDR is that GPUs are optimized for certain mathematical operations that cryptomining also uses. There is an intersection between the kind of math needed for graphics and the kind of math needed for cryptomining.

The AMD Ryzen or Intel I5 or w.e you have is a 'general' CPU. It is good at lot of tasks, but necessarily always the best and most efficient at most tasks.
I was referring to the complexity of the tax code, not the filing system itself.
If you're interested in MDMA sessions, and specifically MAPS (the pharma company that runs the trials), you might want to listen to the Cover story podcast, which deals with the MDMA/psylocybin culture of California as well as these trials. The first episode is at [1], the first episode dealing with maps is at [2].

These rape allegations are highly disconcerting and disheartening.

[1] https://www.thecut.com/2021/11/cover-story-podcast-goes-into...

[2] https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/cover-story-podcast-open-hear...
This may help you mentally map in brain what happens. But this is all table scanning and doesn't include indexes, which organize data in a tree. When you do SQL, you should consider whether table will contain thousands or millions of rows. If millions, you have to think how that JOIN or WHERE will take indexes into account.
Sorbet and/or RBS seems like they may be the future given how popular typescript is with JS programmers these days. There are some other projects that assist programmers without relying on formal type definitions in the source or shadow typing files:

Solargraph combines inference and insight from YARD docs (standard for many gems, plus Castwide has written more YARD for the standard library) to make some pretty good guesses. Crucially it has plugins that add the insights from popular gems with static analysis (e.g. reek, rubocop). I maintain solargraph-rails, which parses your Ruby to make guesses about (surprise) Rails.

The typeprof gem can help IDE plugins make typing guesses based on your tests. This project is interesting to me because it's going into Ruby 3.1 so I think it reflects awareness from the core ruby team that many programmers are not ready to add types to their code.

solargraph: https://github.com/castwide/solargraph
solargraph-rails: https://github.com/iftheshoefritz/solargraph-rails
typeprof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMj51j9yEg
Why did you sue your landlord instead of the towing company?
I know native English-speakers who would say that s/pub/bar/.

Profanity is just delightful in general, and non-native English speakers come up with some of the best profane idioms in English.

I wonder if it’s the same in other languages?
> The Australian Government Design System has been decommissioned and will be taken down on 30th Sep 2021. Visit our community page for more information

And the “community page” link is dead. This is sad, both because it was abandoned and also because of how much time and money must have gone to waste.
What a gem of sarcasm.
To me, that sentence sounds more like someone with a chip on their shoulder, and oddly unprofessional for an organization like WhatWG.

(edit: n.b., not calling you out)
Distinctively reminds me of playing Elite as a kid.
The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier
I was recently reading about North Africa campaigns in ww2. One thing to note was that decisive aggressive actions that tanks allowed cause a lot more POWs because their positions could be overrun so quickly and effectively that desperate last stands weren’t feasible. Mud and hedgerows in France were a problem back then too. I also remember in desert storm 2 hearing that although many Abrams tanks were taken out of action, none of them were penetrated, it was all maintenance issues.
Rommel and Patton seemed to both think of tank warfare as it’s own thing that was hard. In the Patton movie they talk of troops thinking tanks were death traps back then too.
It’s touched on in the article, Ukrainian tank kill videos I’ve seen seem to be close range ambushes in urban areas. It’s my opinion that the US would have already bombed those areas to pieces and were much less willing to take risks with potential civilian combatants. But as the article says there is a lot of fog about what’s really happening and my view of the US is flavoured by the ‘atrocity’ videos that were popular ala Manning etc.
Super heavy tanks like Abrams and tigers seem really cool
Edit because didn’t finish: but that’s not the only way to go with tank design