skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent.

> The indifference is the deadweight of history. The indifference operates with great power on history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates. It is fate, that which cannot be counted on. It twists programs and ruins the best-conceived plans. It is the raw material that ruins intelligence. That what happens, the evil that weighs upon all, happens because the human mass abdicates to their will; allows laws to be promulgated that only the revolt could nullify, and leaves men that only a mutiny will be able to overthrow to achieve the power.

- Antonio Gramsci
For higher power chips, we're running into limits of air cooling. You can only blow so much air and make heat sinks with enough surface area that are still able to fit into chassis. At some point, we'll have to change cooling mediums, use chip materials that can run at high temperatures, and or improve performance per watt.
Not OT at all, IMO. As it happens, the linked book actually touches on MAB problems explicitly, albeit briefly. And as the book points out, you can formulate a MAB problem as specific form of Markov Decision Process, and MDP's are referenced extensively in the book.

I find MAB's incredibly interesting, and for pretty much the same reason(s) I find the rest of this stuff interesting.
As an older person who's been exposed to the web and IRC for several decades, I've seen all kind of places, some of them well-moderated, and others where verbal violence was recurrent or moderation abusive.

The moderation in HN is good, but the success of the site in a increasing problem. As the audience widens, the Guidelines are less respected. Nowadays, I almost never follow a link posted in HN, and rarely glance at the comments. For the past weeks, I hid one third to one half of the frontpage posts, because I thought they are off-topic. Quoting the Guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I expect to find on HN what most non-hacker sites would not include.
Then you surely remember Kylix.

Modern Delphi does Linux just fine.
No it's not. Oracle, Windows, C etc are very much older, boring technologies.

And more modern variants are far more reliable.
New products, smart and more efficient solutions. Simply talking to other people and exchanging ideas helps! And I managed to do the same with some during full telework only because due to “in person” work I manage to establish a relationship with them (some of my best friends are among my colleagues). On the other hand I barely interacted with newcomers that joined after the full telework started. It’s only after having to be back a couple of days a week that I got to know them and started to interact with them as well. At my company they amended our contract to have permanently 3 days telework and 2 in the office (before the pandemic we already had 1 teleworking day). The days in the office are spent mostly socialising!
Precisely. When everyone is equally lower income the differences aren’t as stark.
EU sets new online rules for Google, Meta to curb illegal content
So, progressive groups support minorities, and then promote minorities with progressive opinions, and you don't like that because you're a minority with non-progressive views and feel underrepresented?

I'm not sure I see the problem here? If there is a problem isn't it because minority groups that support regressive politics (say like the 'log cabin Republicans') don't get promoted by their fellow regressives as much? Shouldn't Republicans be amplifying the voice of African-American homophobes, and Gay racists more so that everyone can see that not all minorities are progressive and some want to work together to hold back minority groups they aren't part of?
A female parent is a mother. That's what their children call them, not "parent", with allowances for foster children and older adopted kids calling them by their first name.
Mainframes are only reliable because companies stopped making changes to them.

It's just too hard to find experienced talent to add new features let along troubleshoot complex issues.

I work for a large bank and one thing is for sure that everyone wants to move away from mainframes but it's just such a perilous journey.
HN gets numerous articles submitted multiple times, as people discover them for the first time. It's frowned upon to repost too frequently but this was last posted to HN on Oct 28, 2019 so I see no problem with it.
Exactly. I remember a while back this crazy physician said stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria! What a quack. That goes against everything we know about ulcers - they are purely caused by stress and diet, bacteria can’t survive stomach acid!

His ideas just make discussions “insane” as you say.
Any plans for fully fledged transaction banking and treasury services?
Seems like you're an order of magnitude off. I can get a decent digital synth for hundreds of euros.
You should read again, I'm not justifying anything and i said "hopefully they don't", but if you don't see why a person seeing the carnage uttered by the invading barbarous Russian army might want to enact revenge including through illegal means like shooting POWs ( the guys who just went around looting, raping and murdering civilians) I don't know what to tell you.

For a precedent, the Soviet army treated German POWs and worse, civilians, atrociously. But they had just suffered through a bitter war of destruction where they themselves were treated similarly.

It's up to the commanders to keep things clean and not let the anger spillover. Of course the Soviets didn't care, and on the contrary encouraged atrocities. So far the Ukrainians seem to be taking the high road, and all the better for everyone.
But I need to shop a small neutron star .....
A worrying trend for indie developers is digital platforms increasingly demanding that apps be updated in order to remain listed. For projects written in commercial game engines, underlying systems often change between versions and thus costly game-breaking bugs occur.

If the title is known to work fully across their product line, why should it be updated?

What does HN think?
HN is one of the simplest and inherently scalable web apps you can get.

Of course it's stable.
You apply a conformal coating to the PCB.
And attempting to eliminate sugars shows you just how ridiculously difficult it is to avoid it in the US.

Like, why is there extra sugar in my bread?
Can you help me understand how one might use a SAT solver to find ways in which cryptographic primitives (or their components) deviate from ideal pseudorandomness?

I know what all of these things are, my intuition just isn't jumping to a way to formulate statistical correlations as a SAT problem.
The legally required car insurance here in Spain covers damages up to 50 million EUR against a 3rd party's property.. Same in most European countries AFAIK
This largely ignores the crucial role that the U.S. has played as global ensure-r of security, world order and enabler of global free trade. Peter Zeihan speaks at length about this.[1]

For example Germany has recently said it would sharply increase its spending on defense to more than 2% of its economic output in one of a series of policy shifts.[1]

Other European countries will be increasing their defense spending too. Formerly it was just the U.S. footing the lion share of the NATO bill. That will rapidly change. And that will also affect how much of the domestic spending it eats into. This has been largely ignored in past number crunching of living standards of various countries.

[1]
The places America cares about post Globalization | Peter Zeihan (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oeG170bv7k

[2]
Germany to increase defence spending in response to 'Putin's war' - Scholz

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germany-h...
And also the basic ideas of probability – it isn't _guaranteed_ to protect you, but if it reduces the average rate of infection by x% that's a _huge_ difference at the population level!
Same experience over a little bit more than a decade. Essentially none of the custom email addresses I use have started getting spam. The two cases where I did get a lot of unwanted email was when I was buying a car and looking for a mortgage. However, when I unsubscribed from the emails that was respected. Biggest source of spam in those ten years was for my personal email address, which clearly was leaked from some family member's address book—on multiple instances my address was spammed along with other people in the same social circle.
> That part is debatable, if we imagine different padding schemes.

It isn't debatable because SHA-256 (and all these schemes) define the padding because it's necessary to have padding defeat the problem you're about to talk about and to do that they are in fact one-to-one:

> If the padding was just 0s, I would easily accept an argument that 111000 and 1110 are the same input giving the same hash.

As you might have guessed, this is not how it works.

SHA-256 appends that "extra 1 bit" you talk about, then zeroes until it is 64-bits short of a multiple of 512 bits, and then a 64-bit count.

So, as the earlier poster explained there are 2^257 -1 distinct hash inputs in abotsis' imagined set and thus there must be collisions by the pigeon hole principle, it really is that simple.
A 25k LOC Django project - takes 15-20 minutes to run mypy... Unit tests take about 3 minutes.

That's locally on a fast (ish) laptop. GH CI takes 10 minutes to run tests, so I'm a little hesitant to see how long mypy takes to run.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Lazarus Long in "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
> And I have way less gas.

Sounds like you have a gluten intolerance.
The big thing about the ZX Spectrum was its rock bottom price. You got a TRS-80 system for $2495, or you got a ZX Spectrum for £175.
Ask HN: Favorite, timeless tech article/book
What is your most favorite, timeless tech article.

Where timeless = stood the test of time, can be read now and it is still relevant.
Yeah HN of 2012ish timeframe was very different. Even Reddit didn’t seem nearly as popular. I think this goes for everything (not just forums), but the more popular a forum becomes the worse the content seems to get. I would like to say that the mods and community here have been unreasonably good at keeping up a level of quality that would likely have been long gone any place else.
It is in the way that Object Pascal grew out of the basic set of extensions added by Apple.

From Turbo Pascal 5.5 onwards, the language slowly adopted C++ features, while giving them a Pascal flavour.

Class accessors, generics, const variables, construction/destruction, value based OOP, virtual methods are some of those influences.

When Borland rebooted the product line into Delphi and C++ Builder, they got symbiotic.

In Delphi you can easily use libraries written in C++ Builder, and vice versa, while C++ Builder provides a similar GUI RAD experience.
To the home experimenter, please do this in a well ventilated area. Nitrogen asphyxiation is no joke.
Kaluma- a Tiny JavaScript Runtime for RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico)
> To mostly kill off a species of bacteria, it can take months

Why not just take a course of antibiotics before you start you new diet?
At least you inspired the weird Pavlovian Taco Bell ad campaign. So that's nice.
What do you do with repos that have to version control (a) source code / txt files but also (b) large quantities of binary data /resources (single digit GBs)?
I’m no compiler guy but I’ve written a fair amount of shell script and I’m going to take an educated guess.

My guess is that in order to do proper text processing and transformation in shell-script you have to call many external tools (from the posix-compliant toolchest) many times, meaning that you’ll be paying a lot for fork+exec.
Because they are a public company and institutional shareholders wouldn't let them.

Before going public they wouldn't have been able to pass it by VCs already invested or raise any more capital. OnlyFans has this problem.

Even if they had offered it early they would have struggled the same way OnlyFans did recently over payments, and with no way to police it on their technology probably would have been embattled with media and public perception way worse.

Banks, investors and other companies don't want to deal with Pornography and sex workers despite the massive proliferation online.

They wouldn't have been able to have all their partnerships, generate revenue from other sources or have apps either.
The choice isn't often so clear cut. In fact I'll take a side here and say that the idea pushed by this quote is actually one of the most poisonous aspects of American culture at the moment. You are either "red" or "blue" or wasting time with your apathy. No, that's utter BS.
Yeah. I’d like to avoid a cliché “this forum has changed over time and that is bad!!!” argument - but it definitely does feel like the tone of many discussions is different. I find myself rolling my eyes in frustration and being taken in by it way too often. It’s up for debate if that’s a change in the discussion, or a change in me.

I’ve taken to trying to just immediately click “hide” on any article I see on the homepage that sounds like it might get anywhere near anything controversial - removing the temptation to engage unconstructively completely. And the same with comments to some extent - if there’s a culture-war trigger-phrase in a comment, just hide the tree and move on.

That’s getting harder though - I wouldn’t have expected an article about Netflix subscriber growth to end up with a bunch of top-level comments about “woke politics ruining tech”, for example. It’s often kind for hard to avoid even if you are trying.

And it’s not like “politics” as a subject could be dismissed either. The thing is that articles about Musk buying Twitter or Google making controversial auto-correct suggestions or whatever are inherently both tech and politics. I don’t know how you avoid that - but the atmosphere definitely makes me want to avoid participating all together.
9 of 10 times dubbing doesn't fit with natural situational space(echo, reverb, any time based post processing in general). It's almost always out of space, stands out for me annoyingly which I find breaking the immersion. I wonder french dubbing is different.
Loved my ZX Spectrums (+2A/B then +3). Used them to make games and other software, which I sold via mail order and then through a public domain library called Prism PD. I also made a monthly wrestling fanzine on it; and it was my introduction to making music on computers (courtesy of the `play` command, which allowed for three channels of polyphony, if I remember correctly).

Can’t wait to receive my Next in 2023.

Cheers to Clive and the team (and also to Alan Sugar for keeping it going into the 1990s).
Another issue with game dev for games that release on PC is that devs are usually on very high-end machines. NVMe RAIDs, 3080's, etc. Great for productivity, but there's very little dog fooding on low-spec machines.
These two go hand-in-hand. As a whole-cloth believer in government's main goal being the protection of rights, I'd propose that it's pretty tough to guarantee those rights if you have invading armies or revolting citizens. Guaranteeing stability for the nation (in economic, military, and civic spaces) is needed, even if only as a means to protect liberty.
Not wanting to discuss politics on HN does not make one indifferent, unless you know everything each of us does in our real job and spare time.
All HiFi vinyls and cassettes are/was recorded using pre-emphasis and required a de-emphasis filters to reproduce correctly the sound.
That’s why I use a fake name and email on Linked In; everyone that knows me knows my nickname.
I'm 36 and using it a few times a week, mostly with my much younger siblings in their early 20's. Another family friend who has a daughter got her first smartphone recently, and snapchat was one of the first installs on that device. I used it as well pretty heavily when it first came out to keep in touch with family and friends.

Weirdly enough I have an interview with Snap in a few weeks as well. Despite the drop that tech stocks have seen everywhere the last year or so I think it's still a strong company to try and join.
Not all mothers give birth to their children. Seems like you're not being very inclusive to parents of adopted children.
I'm really surprised at this take on this case. Depp is a terrible figurehead to choose for such a cause.

I've never felt oppressed as a male so I can't really comment on the more general aspect of your view.
Interesting. I've seen similar "convoys" of police cars with a motorcycle platoon etc with them many times. I assumed it was some VIP. I never considered it might be a organ transplant!

I do wonder if they'd do that today - save one person's life by ploughing through central London at 70mph? There are so many cyclists and pedestrians not paying attention - it would feel safer to just helicopter it over?
> - It would be nice to improve our antiquated language. I’m thankful that other people have the time and expertise to work on this.

Language constantly evolves through use, and historically this has worked very well. Why is it suddenly necessary for people to "work on" it?
I did search for the article to provide a link in the comment, but I wasn't able to find it.
New Details of Shanghai Nursing Home Covid Deaths Suggest City Is Overwhelmed
Disclosure: I own a Tesla and I love it. I wasn’t certain until I drove one, and then I knew immediately that it was the car for me (and it has been great).

That said, some of the Tesla marketing, like in the example you provided, is very far off the mark. I really wish they wouldn’t do that, since it makes people question the other things marketed about the car that are (more or less) accurate.

Fwiw, the summon feature is a nice, minor convenience. I would even say that it is well-implemented for simple use cases. That said, the existing feature does not match the dreams that Tesla is currently selling (imho).
They said the training set distribution.

It's frankly impossible that they have a training set without any biases, though I'm sure they worked to eliminate the ones they could think of (which itself would have bias).
Personally I do not spend much time on twitter, I was merely trying to provide examples of things that could ruin it for people
New Zealand (maybe Australia too?) has a solution for that in informal speech: yous!
To quote myself "Its sole purpose is to prolong engagement...", so we are on the same page here. But there is downside to this, it often hijacks your dopamine system and can be addicting. It doesn't only do that, occasionally you get content that you disagree with and interact with because of it. That also gives you pleasure to tell someone that they are stupid. This is why there is a such disproportionally high reach of e.g. flat earther content. People engage with the content to tell them that they are stupid all the time, but sometimes it sucks someone in to their rabbit hole. It is a fairly benign example... so what about anti-vaxxers or QAnon? These people are enjoying themselves to the point that they delusions take hold. And I blame the maximization of engagement.
Does Java 18 finally have a better alternative to JNI?
Packages like this can be more completely, visually inspected than luggage loaded en mass, 30 minutes before flight.
I can remember numbers for my parents and my best friend's parents - and for the BBC Saturday morning TV show (01 811 8181 anyone?) - but only one that I've learned since the days of mobile phones, which happens to be my wife's parents.
You can measure it. Find N pairs of regions where all factors except for noise pollution are similar, measure price of land differences, average them. You have the cost of noise pollution.
I'd almost forgotten the excitement I felt running to the shop to buy
a "computer magazine". Typing in new games line by line and then
hitting "run". Saturday morning well spent.

Looking back now the publishing industry around home computers was
a whole world in itself. And in general, the nerdy publishing world
was something to behold. Instead of websites we had weekly paper
digests like "Practical Electronics", "Wireless World", "Electronic
Music Maker".

We also had an electronic component shop in every town, even before
Tandy (Radio Shack) and Maplins most places a "radio repairs
store". Going to the shop to buy some BC108s, a 555 timer, and a list
of caps and resistors was where pocket money went.

I think there is something else going on for the retro-wave
generation. who cannot possibly be nostalgic, since they didn't
live through that. Instead the relative simplicity and accessibility
of old tech has an appeal. When a 12 year old can understand the
entire system (yes full schematics), program it and build
peripherals with components from the high-street, it felt like an
entirely different relationship with technology.
Not so much. Check out E3GAN from Gordon Wetzstein’s lab at Stanford: https://matthew-a-chan.github.io/EG3D/. In particular, note how they are able to apply a process called GAN Inversion to find a point in the 3D GAN’s representation space to generate a 3D model of a person’s face (one of the collaborators) from a single query image.
I’m still looking for Raspberry Pis. I have some on back order. Due for delivery in December and I get an email once a month pushing that back.
I don't think you can say that everything is maniacal without a lot of explanation afterwards and most people not getting whatever point you're trying to make, but sure, for the broader adjectives used to describe core parts of the human experience, everything that humans do or perceive will in some way relate to these.
I still have my ZX Spectrum, it’s the very first computer I ever programmed on and the first I made games for. It basically defined my entire life path.
Higher returns are usually associated with risks and imho. one of the main reasons we have limited social mobility is the inability of poor people to take risks and people born into money taking risks.
> So they don't have random people scouring through every post of theirs and pulling words out of context, like some witchhunters are doing with old emails.

You think?
My recent experiences in job hunting are that my wide range of IT skills are not valued. Appears that recruiters are looking at specific latest fad buzzwords. If you don't have them then they pass over your CV.
This reminds me of a guy in 2007 whose curiosity got him to cram around 34kg (75lbs) worth of lead bricks into the Japanese postal service's ExPack 500 flat-rate envelope, which had a supposedly 'impossible' limit of 30kg (66lbs) and were usually not checked for weight when sending. The post office clerk wrestled with it and eventually agreed to ship the thing. He didn't actually send it though.

https://sites.google.com/site/fluordoublet/%E3%83%98%E3%83%B...

A few years later, the ExPack was deprecated and replaced with the LetterPack envelope, which now has a limit of...only 4kg (8.8lbs). Hah!