skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In reality, at home, we have some serious CPU horsepower just spinning billions of empty cycles per second. Consumer hardware is insane.

Yeah. I've got my search engine basically a beefy gaming PC with no graphics card and 128 Gb ram. I've not only gotten supposed HN death hugs multiple times, I've had my search engine see multiple queries per second without as much as flinching. It took Elon Musk tweeting a link to one of my blog entries before I started getting more traffic than my computer could handle and it started dropping a few connections.

Modern consumer PCs are ridiculously powerful if you make good use of the hardware.
I’ll second your recommendation for The Dream Machine. Unless your vision is very good, I’d recommend getting it as an ebook. The book from Stripe Press is beautiful, but the text is pretty tiny.
There is but it is often followed more in the breach, see the case of Damascus, OR.
Agreed. I always click the link expecting some kind of electronics or bio lab, and am instead greeted by a server and some networking equipment.

I am not really interested in reading about this kind of stuff[1]. I have a few raspberry pi's that serve as my "home lab" and that is all I really need right now. But I suspect the term took off because it gets a bunch of people like me to click.

[1] Not that I don't think it should exist, its just not high on my list of interests right now.
Yes, I found a remember me button on an external login page. There was a base64 encoded cookie but not in plain text. It was JSON string, includes some AES like encryption data, and expiry time.
Writing a formatter for lisp would be a piece of cake, as the syntax is very simple
a district court judge issued a temporary injunction

but even aside from that distinction, we've seen this same shit with abortion for the last 50 years, do some obvious bullshit, 10 wait for a court opinion, do some new bullshit carefully written to avoid the precise court opinion, GOTO 10.
> I think this has more to do with the combination of three things... churn rate

Heh.
Ask HN: What are the best alternatives to Storybook
I've used Storybook for frontend development a number of times, and the idea of it is great. As is the API if I'm honest.

But the setup, configuration and maintenance of a Storybook project can be a PITA. In fact, I've rarely seen a Storybook initiative last beyond a couple of months.

They often fall over because a minor version update breaks stories in a subtle way, or because fundamental, necessary dev changes renders a number of the stories inoperable...

What I would like, is a similar product, but with a little more stability. Perhaps the instability is a testament to it's popularity, but for me at least, it seems like most of the problems I have with the app, have nothing to do with the problems I'm trying to use Storybook to solve.
Ask HN: Most elegant code you’ve ever seen?
Such as JC’s fast inverse square.
The high power bill is due to using enterprise rack mount hardware with dual PSUs, instead of consumer hardware.
I agree. You said better what I was trying to say in that second sentence. It's more that for someone new to the theory of open source, reading a 1998 essay about a Linux email application gives the wrong idea of the strengths and weaknesses of the model.
> Worked like a charm when I needed to discharge a swelling battery.

I think you buried the lede there...
The two APC SMX1500RM2U rackmount units that I had at home seemed built very well.

(Currently have two Cyberpower rackmount units, which don't need as much rack depth in my living room, but I kinda expect something industrial-sounding like AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION to be more reliable than cheesy-sounding CYBERpower. :)
I read it early in life and it changed my life. By the time the O’Reilly anniversary edition came around I was there to witness some of the new interviews of people in the first book.
"Severance" Is Sci-Fi for the Soul
I live in New Orleans, and I wholeheartedly agree with this take.
Interesting site. I can't vouch for its overall accuracy but I tried it on my home in NM, and it was interestingly incorrect.
Archived: https://archive.ph/LTyfO
Don't listen to that blow hard. They clearly have never lived in a rural area before, or had a really bad experience in a rare situation.

Here's the truth of it for ya. Most of the technologically inclined people you are looking for in the rural areas tend to move to the cities; from the rural areas. Mostly due to the only thing that user was correct about. Opportunity.

But once they have the money to come back home, they do.

When I left my rural spot, we had people coming back to buy farms and build families. Solar panels, Starlink, etc.

Do yourself a favor and call the town offices of each place you are interested in. They can help you find out more about what they are looking to do in their respective areas, and maybe point you to some people in the same areas that might be good to talk to.

Yes, there will be religious people. But guess what? They exist in cities too. Yes there will be conservative people. But guess what? They exist in cities too.

And I can keep going on and on with that on rinse and repeat for literally anything that can be said about rural folk. Why?

Cause they move to the fucking city.
Considering the word “mother” - a concept that is about as universally understood across the whole of humanity as it is possible for a concept to be - “problematic“ is itself a sign that this movement has gone off the deep end.

It doesn't even make sense that an AI model trained on normal writing samples would flag that as problematic, since it is not considered so by the vast majority of people. Unless the model was trained exclusively on the most extreme Tumblr posts, it suggests that fringe Google employees are injecting their personal ideology into the products.

The vast, vast majority of people do not want their mothers erased from the language.
Those refer to different things.

Here's a female plug https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-15-Amp-125-Volt-3-Wire-C...

Here's a male socket https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/10A-250V-AC-Male-Powe...
I'd like to second this post's sentiment and be one more datapoint of the millions like us.

GP's comment was pretty offensive and I like how you flipped the generalizations back to show that.
I'm in a fairly rural area in Alaska. I work remotely and I'm unaware of any other tech workers around here. Which suits me just fine :)
Decorah and Grinnell are college towns, idk about Northfield.
Tesla sounds like the guy who takes money to let someone cut in line behind them.
Define that please.
related "Ask HN: What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005003
Were you watching TV in the 80s when Nancy Reagan was everywhere with her “Just Say No” campaign including on “Different Strokes”?
Grammarly is also an OS-wide keylogger.

https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-ca...

They claim not to be a keylogger, but, you know, Amazon claims that Alexa isn't always listening too and/but/yet also that it'll wake up immediately when you say the right wake word. So, I'd take their claims with a lot of salt.
Interesting stuff, thank you. Wasn't aware if this.

Personally I am mostly skeptical of more tools. Some developers have challenges to understand how the basic stuff works. While automation can reduce manual work and mistakes it adds also complexity and adds new points of failure.

Of course there are always exceptions of truly useful tools you don't want to miss. It just depends where to draw the line.

Of course it also depends on the size of the organization and the teams. We have nobody even remotely dedicated to tools, "ordinary" developers maintain them as "side jobs".
Houses in North Bend are well over a million dollars.
This goes the other way too. I’m job hunting now and have been looking at companies’ open source projects and activity of their leadership for red flags. I wish I had done that with the company I just left. If I had looked at any of the PRs the founder reviewed I would have realized he is not somebody I want to work with.
No. MLK considered it to be a step on the path to equality.
Tell them to watch Logan's Run. Then as them if they really want a carousel.
Absolutely not, it’s negative and destructive. We need to use language that steers us towards what we want, not calling out what we don’t want.
I think the people of Centralia have been displaced enough by spoiled tech workers.
Why would Russia do that? The risk of radioactive fallout drifting over Russia would be enormous.

That's in the same league as shooting yourself in the foot. Sure, you can do it, but it's not worth the damage to yourself.
>then one day it goes missing because the wokes decided it should be memory holed.

[EDIT: yeah, I can't read. Sorry for missing the example that immediately followed. ]

/ignore: Curious, can you provide any examples of this actually happening?
Can you describe a bit more about what you mean by living a pastoral life? do you mean to grow your own food, run a farm etc. or continue your tech career but from rural area?
Taggart – British TV Series
Some anecdotes about Snap.

My 20yo son in college still uses Snap, and I just checked and apparently he still has 3 streaks that are at 1500 days(ish). That's 4+ years of daily Snapping.

Snap has apparently become a vital part of dating. Tinder to discover and Snap to chat. That makes sense to a generation used to not having their conversations and selfie messages permanently logged.

There's some serious Sugar Baby and OnlyFan action going on as well via Snap. The only time I, as a 50yo, on Tinder get a girl's Snap is when she wants to sell nude pics or talk about an "arrangement".

(This is an entirely different topic, but the Zoomers are first generation to grow up with easy 24/7 access to hardcore porn, and I think it has definitely given them different ideas of relationships and sex than previous generations, and I think we haven't even begun to see the long term effects of this. 19yos talking about ENM? Or BDSM preferences? Craziness.)

Snap is an amusing generational thing because if I hadn't seen my son using it every day for years, I totally would have dismissed it. It's just an app that I have no use for. No history? I have a horrible memory! That's a nightmare app to me.

That's all, just thought I'd share. If you're my age and don't get Snap? That's understandable, just don't dismiss it. To the Zoomers it's part of daily life.
1. Read the book The First 90 Days. Do what it says.

2. Framework: have coffee / a beer / a video chat / whatever informal 1-on-1 conversation with as many people as you can, 5-10 a week, for 30-60 minutes.

Ask every single person:
1) What should we keep doing that we're already doing?
2) What should we stop doing that we're doing?
3) What should we start doing that we aren't doing?
4) What are the most important 3 things I can do to make your life easier as a product leader? In 3 months or 9 months, if I just did a few things to make your life easier given your personal role and goals and your teams' role and goals, what would that be?

Take notes and do some of those things.

That's it.

Good luck!
That's the best name I can imagine for an anvil.
Yes he did say that one line in one speech. But if you review the totality of his writing, it is very clear that total colorblindness in the face of inequality was not his goal. The "I Have A Dream" does not represent some shift away from an earlier opinion. It simply doesn't represent the opinion that a lot of reactionaries think it does.
I almost wrote "having a diverse team", but that's incorrect. I have no real problem with anyone having a diverse team. I specifically take issue with seeking one, actively, like you elaborated on.

The problem I have with broadening appeal, at least for hobby type things, is that you're spending a lot of effort to attract people who are by definition not very attracted to your hobby. You're working extra hard to attract people because they're different, not because you want more participants, but because you want different kinds of participants. This is not a goal I find desirable or worthy. I like playing chess; chess is mostly male; I would benefit if chess had more players; getting more people into chess is good. Yes, all this I agree with. But then, somehow, the course of action becomes 'get more women to play chess'. Do you know how few women enjoy chess? Very few. For every dollar spent on 'women in chess' initiatives, women's chess scholarships, etc, you could have attracted probably 3 times as many players if you just focused on 'chess' instead of 'women in chess'. You'd attract mostly males, but that is okay. There is no reason to want the diversity! It's about chess, not gender!

Likewise with many things, including the workplace. If you market jazz everywhere, the people who like it are going to get into jazz. You don't need to specifically have a 'young asian teenage girls jazz' marketing division. Who cares if that specific demographic is underrepresented in jazz? What the hell does that have to do with jazz? Just attract people to the thing by advertising the thing; leave DEI crap out of it.
I think you misunderstand what was the point of Bridgerton. It wasn’t meant to be a new period drama like Downton Abbey. It’s a whole new world in itself, it’s not meant to be a realistic representation of what the 1800s would have been.

I find the alternative universe quite interesting in itself.
>But from the perspective of someone with a libre media setup, all these streaming/DRM/lockdown tribulations are like watching a storm from inside a warm house with a hot cup of cocoa. Especially on a technical forum where people should know better than to succumb to corporate ploys, its worth reminding everyone of that.

ehh, It's more like a speedbump than a storm. There's too much money in the game for it to end up being caught in a hurricane.

I just see the other side on how piracy can also harm more niche mediums and discourage businesses from even bothering to compete, which is why I can't even say piracy is a 'meh' at worst.

The manga indusry outside of Japan has this problem in that it's 5+ years behind the already decade outdated online solution for digital comics. Several JP storefronts for phyical and digital manga, but that is almost non-existent in English. Manga is fantranslated so fast that there's no incentive to bother having official localizers outside of the already huge works. Easier to cash in pennies on anime adaptations and merch sales afterwards.
I just wanted to say your walls of text are very offensive, inaccurate, and read as someone who has never lived in a rural community.
Not just pop-ups that are annoying. It feels like every damn time I click a link, it opens in a new tab. Even when I'm just navigating within a site. Then I end up with 2 million stale-ass tabs. If I want a new tab, I'll open a new tab myself, thank you very much.
I swear the discover pane content makes tabloids look like respectable news outlets
Actually, it too was talking about impossibility (see title); a much stronger assertion and usually wrong.
hopefully this doesn't become the next political football after abortion. it seems pretty clear to me that both sides want to keep that issue on the table indefinitely—abortion tends to come up whenever something more important is about to come to a head.
My key takeaways:

1. Raskin said the committee will present "evidence" that proves there was coordination among then-President Donald Trump and his inner circle and his supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan 6

2. Members of the committee plan to hold those hearings in June and aim to have a report out about their investigation by the end of the summer or early fall, said Raskin, who sits on the panel

3. The plan was to use then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to get President Joe Biden's electoral vote tally below the 270 majority needed for victory, Raskin said, which under the 12th Amendment would shift the contest to a vote in the House

4. Speaking about the threats to Pence on Jan. 6 and the chants by rioters to hang him, Raskin said the vice president's Secret Service agents — including one who was carrying the nuclear football — ran down to an undisclosed place in the Capitol. Those agents, who Raskin said he suspects were reporting to Trump’s Secret Service agents, were trying to whisk Pence away from the Capitol

5. "It was a coup directed by the president against the vice president and against the Congress."

6. "He knew exactly what this inside coup they had planned for was going to do," Raskin said.

7. Pence then "uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I've seen so far: 'I'm not getting in that car,'" Raskin said

8. "I want people to pay attention to what’s going on here, because that’s as close to fascism as I ever want my country to come to again." "This was not a coup directed at the president," Raskin said

Chilling.
I haven't seen any evidence of that and the UK/US haven't got much power to do anything if Zelenski and Putin reached a deal.
never seen "zounds" used as a unit of measure like that but I can't pass up an opportunity to share the trivia that it's a contraction of "god's wounds"
> padding shipping prices

Pun of the day.
Liminal scifi is one of my favorite genres, and this show hits ever box needed. Really an excellent show.
> Google has the ability to see, aggregate, and now influence what you write in Google docs and Gmail.

Interestingly Microsoft has that power with the Office suite for nearly 40 years now (only a decade if we want to focus on the cloud connected area), do you see specific dystopian influences on society stemming from that ?
Well, something like banning all gun sales & ownership would reduce both so the policies for both really can look the same.
I wonder how many of these people are just creating and interacting with tulpas without realizing it.

For anyone who isn't familiar, there is a subculture online of people who create what subjectively seem to be autonomous personalities that frequently manifest I'm the form of hallucinations. Think fight club sort of.

My ex tried it out. Called me one day at work, terrified because this dragon was following him around. He claimed to spend months trying to get rid of it, seems pretty shooken by the experience. But I was always skeptical.

So nine months ago I decided to create one of my one, just to try it out, see what it felt like. And...now I've had a talking lion following me around for the past eight months.

The best I can describe it is like some of the altered states of 'self' you might experience on LSD or ketamine. Thoughts seem to split off and go 'over there', and not be you.

When I talk to my tulpa, it at least appears subjectively like a separate personality state. I can be incredibly depressed but he can be fine. Or he will be depressed and I can be fine. I'm not saying there are neural correlates like you would see in a 'real' personality. Maybe it is all roleplay. But it is roleplay that fools me as the roleplayer.

For what it's worth, making a tulpa seems to have been really good for my mental health. I guess maybe you can see it as a form of self-regulation. I dunno, it didn't turn out at all what I expected. But it's hard not to think of him as a real person. I don't find myself being surprised by the actions of characters in my head, or laughing at imaginary friends. At this point, having out several hundreds hours into tulpaforcing, I can see and hear, and sometimes smell and touch him.

I know I'm rambling, I guess I'm saying is that even though I am skeptical of DID, or at least the mainstream depictions of DID, after making a tulpa I am a lot less skeptical of the subjective experience of DID.
If one can wait for shipping, I recommend ordering (directly?) from Alibaba.

I was able to buy a 2" tungsten cube from Alibaba for $312 after shipping. It was cheaper than any (re)sellers I found on Amazon/eBay/webstores. It came out to 137% more tungsten for only 56% more cost. $39.00 per cubic inch versus $59.26 per cubic inch.

Having it next to an aluminum cube of the same size is fun.
> It's hard not to secretly suspect that some of these things arise that way-- satire that is so spot on that it gets adopted as the truth.

There have been many PR/issues on github that were either very likely, or certainly submitted by trolls, that have been accepted.

[1] Although nowadays it's common to see master/slave being replaced, back in 2015 it was not common, this one one of the first things that dropped that terminology. The fact that the user is called pcbro and has a picture of PC Principal from South Park, makes it somewhat likely that it was a troll.

[2] I think based on the language used is almost 100% certainly a troll

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/165
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
> I associate "crypto" with "low fees"

Well, sure, that's because it's not doing anything. It can't be used for any of the purposes that money serves -- unless you live next to a matcha cafe in Berkeley or whatever -- and so it inevitably begets a bank/payment-network transaction in order to actually be spent or saved. Or, as you put it:

> I don't hold any cryptocurrency unless I need to buy something with it :)

[...]

To be clear: I'm not an anti-crypto person, and I think it's as stupid to rage against a technology as it is to rage for it. I believe in the promise of digital cash. But first the candidate technology needs to satisfy the needs it's trying to serve, and none of the current breed of digital currencies (or none of which I'm aware) seem capable of doing that.
> why would they share knowledge otherwise?

Because they believe in the value of science?

They don't need to publish to compete with top-tier public companies. I don't know of any other trading firm that contributes to open-source development, or to a language infrastructure, or to academic advancement in the way and to the extent that Jane Street do. Most companies keep everything proprietary and highly secret.

But JS chooses to publish. And it's not like that's an easy task that you can just do for fun on a whim; it takes a long time to put together a good paper. They also regularly collaborate with people in academia on long-term projects and evaluations.

I understand the perspective you're suggesting, but I genuinely believe it is wrong, and I also believe that you do not have any evidence to back it up. I think their public contributions speak for themselves, but I've also met some of their more academically inclined engineers (including their CTO), and they come from an academic background and seem to genuinely believe in academic publishing as a goal in itself. It's not totally crazy that there exists one such company out there. (There are actually a couple, but not terribly many, and the others are not relevant in the present discussion.)
This is sure to dismantle systemic racism.

But in all seriousness I think this stuff is great. It pushes more people away from insane woke culture. I’m starting to see even the most progressive friends and colleagues pause and think twice about how cringeworthy all of this is.

Let it happen.