skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was lucky enough to stop working in 2019 at age 49. I decided I would rather volunteer for charities that work on poverty, using my second set of technical skills (bicycle repair). I wish I had more opportunities, but it's been a lot more fun than "working". To start, I set a target of delivering more value than the amount of money I was donating to poverty-related charities while I was getting paychecks. Secondary goal is to train others to replace my volunteer labor after I am gone.
I simply stopped taking the elevator when I worked on the ninth floor.
He didn't invent pixel wars any more than he invented Mastermind.
I don't think that's a very kind thing to say about the medications for people for who ADHD medications like amphetamines and methylphenidates have meant a huge improvement in quality of life.
Not as bad as the guix crowd IMO. They're like the nix/Rust "just use XYZ" crowd but also combined with the GNU zealots so you get the perfect overlap of annoying software purists.

Really, I like the idea and I actually like the fact that they use Guile (scheme) instead of a home-built DSL, but guix is a horrible, poorly documented, doesn't work even on the happy path mess.
SGIs were the first Unix systems I used. We had a lab of them in school. They worked wonderfully for me and I never lost any files on them. There was also a really good Unix Sysadmin that maintained them and was available if you had any questions.
I have a pedometer app on my mobile. When I go for a walk I try to walk further than the weekly and monthly averages. I turn it into a silly sort of a game. So instead of trying to beat some externally imposed limit I just try to be a little better than myself. So far it's working and I generally do more than 6 ksteps per day.
The blog articulates a real pain point that I am also trying to solve: "Anonymity, security, verifiable communication, consent, and portability. These are the pillars of a truly open internet. A full end-to-end technology stack requires identity, authentication, messaging, and personal data storage"

Drop a line if you know any other players in the space, so far I am tracking https://fission.codes/ https://inrupt.com/ https://0data.app/ https://ceramic.network/ https://www.usevana.com/

All having to do with creating a user-centric instead of product centric internet storage and authentication model.
Correction: That date is when the Netlib email service for the existing collection started.
Aren’t those just for the Asian market?
The exynos vs snapdragon issue is a long standing issue with Samsung. There's also very significant differences between the flagship phones like the S22 ultra sold in EU (exynos) and the ones sold in the US or Asia (snapdragon)

Getting an Exynos galaxy means more thermal throttling, lower performances and is just not competitive with other brands for the budget.
One interesting use case to me would be cataloguing features of an item you own. When you are dealing with insurance, they will reimburse you for a product of like kind and quality. For example, if you have an older consumer stand mixer that uses metal gearing instead of plastic gears (like lots of modern consumer stand mixers), then they might be forced to give you a check to buy a commercial stand mixer that does have metal gears. Adding more features typically means you will get a better payout to replace it - you get Venn diagrams of functionality that only an expensive replacement will fully cover.

I'd love to put in a product code and import functionalities of that product. The data integrity and seeding might be tricky to pull off, but it'd become extremely valuable for anyone going through insurance.
This is my default one, _much_ faster and disk space reduced dramatically when I have lots of node_modules in use. Can't recommend enough.
Alphabet Launches Drone Delivery in Dallas-Fort Worth Area
Exactly! You said it much more intelligently than I. Bodily go where no thinking machine has gone before.

I remember thinking that entropy was bad when I first heard of the concept, but now I see life as tumbling down that slope, and making use of it. There is a synergy, as you say. We must land with a thud, but we're throwing off new forms of order.

And that's not just a metaphor. Our intellect sharpens from birth as neurons get trimmed. Early in life we have fluid intelligence, later in life it's crystalized.
Melancholy but I appreciate the angle, there are certainly portions of life that for me would have benefitted from this mentality.
Actually, SGI released he first affordable, decent flatscreen monitors in 2001 or so (the 1700sw TN monitors that Apple rebranded with translucent cases at the time).
TikTok doesn't even exist in China.

The parent Bytedance does, and their Chinese equivalent is Taiotao. Even the TikTok data servers exist in South Korea.

This is an important distinction because there has been zero proof that TikTok is spying or is a tool for China, despite clickbait articles, memes, and accusations existing. This is the first time TikTok is being used observed to be used for government political censorship... And in Russia of all places.
Surely you didn't have to pay the rent and insurances back then.
> The Linux sandbox has been strengthened: processes exposed to web content no longer have access to the X Window system (X11).

That is a very significant step. I wonder if this applies to Wayland users as well or if this was already a non-issue.
Having IP addresses whose most significant bits can roughly map to a location (because IP "blocks" are allocated to distinct ISPs that are in known locations) was a big mistake. It would be much harder, but not impossible, to graft geopolitical borders to the internet if every public address that a computer got was random.
Most of what I remember about 90s RISC workstations is how unbelievably slow they were. On an SGI Octane in 1998 was giving integer performance about the same as 1996-released Pentium Pros. And that's why RISC died: not because it was cheaper but because it was both cheaper and faster. Sometimes dramatically faster. The idea that RISC was somehow elegant turned out to be a myth. The complexity of x86 mattered less as cores grew in size and sophistication, but the code compression properties of CISC continued to benefit x86.
> But as a practical matter, using Unreal turns every decision you make from "what behavior do I want" into "what behavior do I want and is it worth fighting Unreal on this",

I don't agree with this at all - Unreal gives you defaults that can be easily replaced. The decision is "do I use what unreal gives me or do I write my own" for most systems, compared to "do I write my own or do without" if you're starting from scratch.

> so theoretically if you use Unreal your game could be any legal C++ program.

That's a bit reductionist, and not really fair. All of the "behavioural" parts of the engine are exposed in very customisable ways. As an example if you're not happy with the collision detection behaviour/triggers, they are designed to be modified and changed around. If you're not happy with character movement, you provide your own character movement definitions.

> (This is especially true on PC, where things like "how are the game assets organized on disk" are visible to end-users

If your definition of end user experience of a game is file layout on disk, then so be it. Knowing that something is made with unreal engine doesn't immediately turn it into another copycat unreal engine project. Besides looking at the disk layout, you could also just see the splash screen that you're legally required to use when licensing the engine. Also, you have source code to the engine, to the automation process, and the pak tools. If you want a different layout on disk, go ahead and change it.

> Particularly on the 2D hobbyist stuff that I do

If you want to do hobbyist engine development work, _that's_ a great reason to write game engines. Not "liking" an engine and wanting things done differently isn't the same as wanting something that's incompatible with a game engine's design and architecture. If you want a lock step multiplayer game with rollback then sure, you're probably not going to find it. But if you want "less floaty" character physics, or a different camera perspective, a different startup flow/implemention, you can _definitely make that within the bounds of Unity and Unreal

> writing my own engine is less work than becoming an expert in an engine I don't really like so I can change most of it.

You definitely don't _need_ to be an expert in an engine to use it, any more than you need to be an expert in python to start writing some scripts. Also, how can you know how much of the engine you need to throw out before you actually know how to use it?
what kind of low bar is that "never losing any files" - what files did you lose in other systems?
The Pentagon cannot confirm the atrocities, yet you already know both what happened and who did it.
There is more than one tier of sub, but ad free does exist, and is explicitly called the "Hulu (No Ads)" plan.

In the US its $12.99 right now, and has been around a while:
https://help.hulu.com/s/article/hulu-no-ads#hulu

They also have a $6.99 sub that does have ads, which may be what you are thinking is the only option?
https://help.hulu.com/s/article/how-much-does-hulu-cost

To my knowledge no one can watch Hulu with ads and no sub like YouTube - all plans have a subscription, you just pay more to remove the ads.
perhaps parent commenter meant this? https://martinfowler.com/tags/evolutionary%20design.html

It's become pretty boring to see so many HN threads devolve into people nitpicking a single word in their post.
Asian market mostly get Snapdragon except for South east asia where both are sold. In Europe, it's exclusively exynos and that means that there's pretty much no point in buying Samsung compared to other brands in Europe.
Were you coming from yarn or npm?

I guess their benchmarks cover both [0]. But I'm also curious about independent figures.

[0] https://pnpm.io/benchmarks
Alan Kay attributes a big part of the advances of PARC to the custom workstations they built for themselves. They cost $20k(?) but ran much faster than off the shelf high-end machines at a time when Moore’s Law was accelerating CPU speed dramatically. He says it let them work on machines from the future so they had plenty of time to make currently-impossible software targeting where them common machines would be when they finished it.
Haha well, in defence of the site, it’s literally just me who got it wrong. Other people downvoted my initial comment because it must have been obvious to them.

I have to say I was a little afraid at the end that I might have inadvertently offended someone.

This is a better outcome in comparison.
How does it compare with https://grid.glideapps.com/ ?
The ultimate value is creating possibility in the world.

Possible futures branch out from us like trees. It is the purpose of our lives to nurture the forest that includes our selves and other living systems
The meme of “anything but more pay” really does ring true all the time. Capx vs opx really is the dumbest accounting thing. Getting a 10k raise is “impossible” but a 10k “one time” bonus I get every year is a no brainer.

Would people come back to the office for 100% more salary? For sure yes. What about 1%? For sure no. So just find the price and call it a day. I bet you get critical mass at about 30%.
Ads were identified as a way to pay for free broadcast of TV or the reduce the cost of subscriptions for users. If I'm paying a subscription fee for streaming, I expect that part of the service I'm buy is the ability to enjoy my content free of distraction from ads.

There are two main reasons for this:

1. They waste my time
2. It encourages the further invasionsions of technology tracking

The first one should be relatively self evident. The second is more isideous, and one that I'm more concerned about in the long term. Streaming services selling adds will mean the creation of technology to further push tracking of whomever is view the content into the devices that they stream from: computers, tablets, phones, and TVs.

When I'm watching a show after a long day at work, I don't want to have to worry about whether my TV is tracking what I watch, etc. This technology is already being developed by smart tv manufacturers, for example, and already exists for the computer devices. And while ad brokers and clearinghouses definitely want tracking technology in every aspect of our lives, I'm getting fatigued by it all and want some portions of my life safe from the collection and sale of that information.

If I'm the product that these companies are selling, and the shows I'm watching are the "bait" to get me to agree with that (this is what print media became), then don't charge me, and tell me that.
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are blocked in Russia because they only allow pro-Ukraine narrative.
The social platforms became weapons in this war.
Anyone noticed they blocked accounts of most Russian media companies and news sources? Or users with "wrong" opinions are being shadow banned?
Or Google deprioritised or excluded some Russian gov services (even non news)?

Sorry, but unbiased sources do not exist. Free speech does not exist. It's not two worlds, but two bubbles.
I’m not a FAANG dev either, but no need to disparage them. That seems inappropriate and mean spirited.
This is nonsense. Decapitation is not a legal mechanism, it's WW3.

The individual regions lack the capacity to function without Moscow. The state borders were designed by USSR planners to make it extremely expensive (high likelihood of war) to break apart. The borders intentionally cross ethnic boundaries to make a future breakup worse than just tolerating the borders.
"Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over? An analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist."
Just a few cars driving themselves into concrete barricades. Probably some kind of metaphor there.
If I'm trying to keep my self anonymous-ish, Why do YOU think email is the best way to do that?

This should be in-app as a request or an action I can self-execute. "Email us" is the New York Times model of "buy online, but deal with hours of phone-hell"
I'd love to read more about this simulation, have any links?
he didn't create Tesla. Maybe you were thinking of the Boring Company?
Please tell. I'm also interested, in the grand-scheme intellectual side, but also in the practical side, particularly where it's applicable to smallholders in 'developing' nations.
Galaxy S10e was the last Android smartphone, if it only wouldn't crack within first weeks I possessed it. Now only Android phablets exist.
But that is entirely the point - the environmentalists as a whole are not the problem, the problem is the groups that usurp the mantle and push for policy contrary to the wider group's agenda. I'm not criticizing people who fight against pollution, animal cruelty, and fossil fuel abuse; I'm criticizing people pretending to be environmentalists yet lobbying for fossil fuel increase and dismantling cleaner alternatives.
Its only a wrong if it is not understood how contingent the affirmative is. If its common knowledge that fulfillment of an agreement to meet at a certain place and time for a social occasion is highly contingent on the circumstances on the time, no violation of trust occurs. Let's not be too rigid in our thinking about human social relationships.
Not to mention the reddit admin who was constantly overwriting squares with no cooldown.

They were doing it so much that it was clear they weren't just abusing their admin power but using a bot as well.
Yes, a very important distinction. Which is why I said _honest_ exit interview :P

Your attitude is right - avoid hostility at all costs. We're business people who code at the end of the day, what would a business man do?
> The west will still do nothing.

Haven't you read Russian propaganda? The west (which is the devil, basically) is waging war against Russia. The west is the reason Russia is a shithole rural petro-state. Also, the west is trying to turn Russian men into gays. After this incident, the west will ramp up the 'war' by not sending troops or firing anything in Russia's general direction even HARDER. But will still try to turn Russians gay and make fun of Putin, because in the limited universe of the Russian propagandist, 'the west' is the end-all enemy of Russian greatness.

Did I mention that the west is to blame for Ukraine getting invaded by the Russians? In the spirit of "Look What You Made Me Do", Russia was basically forced to bomb hospitals and schools. It will all be Biden's fault when Russia becomes a larger North Korea.

Did I also mention Russia has 0 agency? Everything it does is driven by the west.
> I am sorry to hear that you have a need to see stories where the helper is also a beneficiary as being romanticised and not “real”.

You misunderstood my point. My point isn't about selfish altruism - which I noted was a "nice thing to do". Something I've done personally myself - strollers, luggages and even shopping bags. My point was about the way he wrote the story "...Not a word exchanged, not even a thanks, they just went their separate ways. It was so smooth, almost choreographed, I don't believe the woman even broke stride.".

Something an ordinary person did that didn't take much effort or time, that happens every day in nyc, he "hollywoodized". That's my point.

> I sincerely hope this does not come off as condescending, and if it does, I am sorry. I hope you are having a good day. Cheers.

No worries. I don't get offended or triggered by silly social media comments like many people do. And even if you were condescending, that's your right. No need to apologize for it. My advice is to reread a comment and try to understand it rather than getting emotionally caught up by it. Nothing sadder than a man ruled by emotions.
I went through the MOOC material and tried it out for a few small things. It inherited a lot of the unique Smalltalk features which make it sort of alienating to a modern programmer. For instance, all your code resides in an image file, and if you want a copy of your code the environment does some extra epicycles to copy it outside. The choice to make everything a message, including basic flow control takes some getting used to. As you just sort of hack your image to do what you want, it just sort of turns into a ball of mud. The paradigm they're going for is TDD for everything. Personally, I feel this is a big step backwards from most mainstream scripting languages adding on type annotations. It's not easy to use a simple text editor. You pretty much have to use their integrated environment.

Then, there were a few problems that were specific to Pharo. Pharo went through a couple different package systems and the different package systems don't necessarily have the same packages. Pharo has had major breaking changes in their GUI toolkit, so if you found a package that did exactly what you wanted and were able to install it, it just wouldn't work.
The incompetent and the corrupt and more often than not the same person.
There better be BIG shoulders or I'm not doing it. Too many great cyclists have lost their lives on the narrow shoulder of a highway.
> One thing that really stuck out for me was that _everyone_ had memory foam mattresses. The slums, the really slick holiday homes, everyone.

Interesting; I guess it could be explained in-universe by economies of scale, that is, (memory) foam mattresses being faster and cheaper to produce than other types of mattresses. I'm thinking of spring mattresses, which actually have parts and different materials, whereas foam can be just a single block I think? And when you think about logistics, memory foam can be compacted and vacuum sealed for transport.
That's a beast of a machine!

In my home office I have a little mini museum that consists of display of esoteric 90's workstations:

* Apple Quadra 610 running A/UX (Apple's first UNIX)

* NeXT NeXTstation Turbo

* SGI Indigo2 IMPACT10000

* Sun Ultra 2 Elite3D

* UMAX J700 (dual 604e) running BeOS

* HP Visualize C240

All working and all fun to fire up and play around with from time to time. Tracking down software to play with is a challenge at times. Since most of what I want to fiddle around with is proprietary and long since abandoned (Maya, CATIA, NX, etc.). If by some chance we were to end up on a conference call, you'd see them displayed in the background. :-)
I don't feel being misleaden. Yes, Elon is sometimes over hyping things. I don't mind. He makes extremely cool stuff which sells by its merit. I like the visionary talks because a company that never talks about the possibilities of future is super-boring and IMHO can't be as successful as Tesla is - even if it doesn't materialize in the specified time span or in its entirety - because there'd be nothing truly new, just linear change otherwise.
There was a reddit admin using both their admin power (no cooldown) and a bot.

The whole thing jumped the shark, big time.
As another commenter stated, bleh to DisplayLink.
Also, what monster designed it so 1! of the 4 USB-A ports is upside down? This is why we cannot have nice things.
iirc “tweet” originated among users and was later adopted officially, so by analogy perhaps Mastodon’s mistake is to have unilaterally chosen a term from the outset.
Speed up inference of deep learning models with open-source nebullvm
Yep, the closest I ever got to a SGI was drooling over their product brochures as a kid. The cost of a modest Indy was about the same as a mid-range car. It's hard to grasp as a modern PC user that these workstations could handle classes of problems that contemporary PCs could not, no matter what upgrades you did. Today, it would be like comparing a PC to a TPU-based (or similar ASIC) platform for computing.

From what I've read, Oxide is making racks of servers and has no interest in workstations that an individual would use.
Day to day, anything past an iPhone 6s or 7 and phones pretty much feel the same speed.

If you game or edit pics or anything else that needs a faster proc, sure, you'll notice not having the fastest phone. But if you email, reddit, HN, twitter, etc, you're really not going to notice much.

Rumors are the iPhone 14 will have the same A15 and only the Pro will get the A16. I think you'll see a bunch of people freak out about this, but honestly, phones really don't need to be faster at this point.
Capitalism's greatest superpower is absorbing all critique and selling it back to consumers as a luxury good.
I seem to have this debate every three days on HN. I'm shocked that a tech-savvy, self-motivated group of "hackers" don't find this a complete and utter no-go. How is your hair not on fire trying to get out of the hellhole where even bloody walking is not possible?! Why is it that you're not spending every minute trying to move to Zurich, or Vancouver, or Amsterdam, or whatever? How are people OK with spending a lifie not being able to walk? I can only think that people are so attached to their job or their family, that the phrase "quality of life" never crosses their mind.
Wall Street’s Rigid Culture Bends to Demands for Flexibility at Work
Biden to announce US, UK and Australia co-operation on hypersonic weapons
I refer everyone to this interesting take on the subject:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32109569-we-are-legion-w...
Sure the GUI is okay you are right. But when you are repairing and when you are tinkering you need to shim in drivers and make stuff work. Google-fu is not enough to find solutions in my experience. That aspect of it.