skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll have to test AsciiDoc (my markup of choice) when I get a chance. Now, if only GitHub mobile would start rendering my AsciiDoc files, I could use it as my mobile knowledgebase/notes viewer instead of the website version.
Was supposed to be for only personal users with under 10, but the plan still allows up to 50.
given current prices, is there enough incentive to grow food for export?
Yes, and no mention of the Transmeta Crusoe either.
You're forgetting about your fats. A 5 gal container of oil contains about 153,000 calories.

Every time you cook rice, beans, spit peas, lentils, etc. you put in a few tablespoons of oil or fat to keep it from boiling over, and to add flavor and calories. Each tablespoon is about 120 calories. When you make hummus, refried beans, tamales or spanish rice you generally add in a considerable amount more fats.
Well, that’s why I’m glad we’ve got you here, so she can better understand her own experiences.
Not being based in the US doesn't mean that you can't be criminally prosecuted in the US or, for that matter any jurisdiction that takes an interest and has a generous belief in the extra-territorial applicability of its laws.
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I feel the same. Because whenever I hear these accusations, part of me goes, "oh no, am I a narcissist? Am I one of those horrible people?" But then I take a step back and go, "wait. It feels like someone is trying to control the people around them with guilt."

So then I reject the concept entirely and instead ask another set of questions:

- Do you hurt people?

- Do you insist on dominating people's conversations?

- Do you take things from people?

- Do you steal credit?

- Are you mean?

- Do you display physical violence?

- Do you throw tantrums?

- Do you lie about other people?

No? Well, fine, that doesn't mean you're perfect -- we all sin -- but... is it really likely that you have some terrible behavioral pathology? I don't think so.

The problem is, this gets mixed with a bunch of other things that, as far as I can tell, are universal:

- Do you like to feel appreciated?

- Do you enjoy positive attention? (Well, only so much, actually.)

- Do you try to keep up appearances? Dress better when you're going out? Worry about embarrassment when public speaking?

Isn't all that just normal? I'd think it is! In fact, what happens if you reverse these? A person who gives no shit what other people think -- what motivates them? I just don't understand it. It's like considering a reptile. We're social creatures.

At some level --

Do you attack other people?

If the answer is no, you're probably ok.

And if you're throwing the word "narcissist" at people... doesn't that make you an attacker?

Something about it all just makes my skin crawl.
Very well researched, and enjoyable investigative journalism on this topic by John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2eDJnwz_s
> there wouldn't be any downsides? [..] the patent release of code that was designed and developed with such an effort because it was certain that it could be patented

I believe the downsides of software patents outweigh the upsides - simply too much monopolistic abuse is done with them, and developing anything new is a minefield where every two-bit "inventor" or troll or giant conglomerate from the last 25 years (or however long patents last in EU) will want a cut.

There is certainly software that patents would make more financially viable to develop (and assuming no state funding fills in the role of patents). But there is a much larger category of software that would have been developed anyway, that gets patented just to form a patent arsenal for extorting developers.

But that is a different question, on what the law should be. What the law in the EU is is that pure software is not patentable, yet it is being flagrantly ignored.
- "For those interested, we reached out to the principals for comment regarding this story at ~9 a.m. eastern yesterday (Wednesday May 18)."

https://twitter.com/johnjcook/status/1527421611070177307
I’ve never been in a similar position; but I’m thinking about what I’d do if I found the same.

The end goal here is to close the loop hole so those affected can be safe as soon as possible with limited risk to yourself. My first thought was to reach out to either a trusted tech journalist that would keep their sources safe (keeping you anonymous), or reach out to an organization like the EFF which has a strong history of defending peoples digital rights and interests.

I don’t know if either of these are good fits for their original purpose, but that’s where my mind went immediately. I’d think either would make good efforts to close the issue and keep you safe.
Google as a company is on the decline
Ha ha, I call them grits, and eat yellow grits every day for breakfast. Through on a couple pieces of bacon or sausage, and some hot sauce.
> moving from 200 mm to 300 mm requires a total redesign

That might be typically true, but it is not always true! The product line I work for produces the same IC simultaneously in both 200mm and 300mm fabs. Same mask set, identical device, no redesign. And we are moving more of our existing products into 300mm fab without redesign at all. Process is 65nm.
sick, thanks man.
4) Regret posting this publicly.
Not sure I follow, sorry. If you want multi-region Redis, you can deploy multi-region Redis.
For personal projects I'm far beyond caring about ancient browsers. In DayJob well hopefully soon be dropping support for IE completely. Unless someone is specifically paying me to care then I don't need help supporting truly legacy UAs.
That doesn’t make any sense. You’re implying that they’re just lending to people with the best credit scores. Which definitioally makes these not subprime loans.
Do the most ethical thing, and keep your good karma intact.
Don't do anything or they may come after you legally too.
Take some time one day to read about the absolutely batshit insane world of agricultural subsidies. The market is more twisted than you can imagine.
I was unhappy there after the first month, so any sort of goals would've been pointless. Don't get me wrong, I did decent work and would receive excellent reviews / praise for it, I just didn't like the culture / environment.

The honest truth: I didn't have any goals, and still really don't. I just wanted good, interesting work to do during these dark times (pandemic, etc), with as few interruptions as possible.
Threads from back then. Others?

Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328685 - Oct 2008 (36 comments)

A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327937 - Oct 2008 (61 comments)

Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327279 - Oct 2008 (75 comments)

Sequoia's "RIP Good Times" presentation (on SlideShare) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328708 - Oct 2008 (2 comments)

Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=331202 - Oct 2008 (37 comments)

Related:

"RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4080268 - June 2012 (118 comments)
This is probably the best option for anyone actually trying to fix the problem.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs#SubmitBreach

> If you've come across a data breach which you'd like to submit, get in touch with me. https://www.troyhunt.com/contact

Good luck on your OPSEC, should not have used your 7 year old account... might hit up dang to change the account so you don't get kidnapped.
> But you also had to understand the rest of the code in the template.

Not really. They had lots of comments that explained what the code did. You didn't need to read most of the code.

My point is that compared to real university courses, the HW in this course would be labeled as "trivial". Writing those few lines of code was no more instructive than an in class paper test. It's more comparable to answering simple questions than building anything.

I don't think I had to debug even once in that course. It was that easy.
Record Approximations of Pi
> A hospital or medical clinic might be the last place you’d expect to pick up a nasty infection

The place where all the nasty infections go to get diagnosed and the place full of immunocompromised people is the first place you’d look for nasty infections.
And because the person who wrote the headline is well aware of that fact.
Don't think Apple, think Open Sea or Bitfinex
> I have also always felt this way, trying to get into it and thinking I'll enjoy it but never really succeeding. Maybe all of the people trying to get into it need to create a channel on Libera and just start talking?

Tbh if you're on hacker news you're already halfway there. You clearly like high-density no-nonsense communication and aren't put off by the lack of a glossy consumer app.

Slack is kinda IRC just more glossy though. I have a lot of time for slack groups, especially the professional ones like MacAdmins. Don't forget slack also has actual search (at least in the groups that pay for it).

But lurking is normal. When there's 500 users in a channel you don't want to go "hey everyone how's your day" constantly because nobody has time to keep up with that if everyone does it. Though if you're into that, there's offtopic channels usually with people that do have time for it.
> Now if I was asked to write a front end today, I'd have to sit down and properly learn react + typescript (because javascript is awful without sensible type checking), and that would add to the time to ship, but is the correct thing to do.

It really is enjoyable working w/ react+typescript. :)
Is it illegal to turn a door knob? Especially if you have a good faith belief something is wrong?
I'm just giving my perspective as someone who's gone through it recently.

It was a lot more about setting up policies and practices than it was practical digital security. More about documents describing security plans than about specific implementations and checking that they work and are effective.
This doesnt tell the whole picture and it isnt that simple. The lender is looking at your total carry costs for the home (property taxes, insurance, debt service), your non-home recurring costs (e.g., student loans, medical debt on monthly payment schemes, car payments) and your total income.

They dont usually care about wealth, they care about cashflows in vs out.
Until gov takes away your money and then what
I might have missed something obvious, but I had trouble getting this installed on Ubuntu 20.04 - maybe the installation instructions need updated.

The instructions[0] say it's included in Ubuntu 17.04 and later, but I couldn't see any way of enabling it.

I tried installing with apt using the command they listed:

. /etc/os-release
sudo apt install -t ${VERSION_CODENAME}-backports cockpit

But this didn't work. Eventually I read on another website that this is the correct way to install it:

sudo apt install cockpit -y

This probably would be obvious for most people - but since this software is all about improving server UX, I thought it was worth mentioning!

[0]: https://cockpit-project.org/running.html#ubuntu
It is not about update but dependence of unknown or uncontrolled chain. It is a start to look at what you are really using and reduce the surface of risk.
Ok, Elon.
You pay taxes on the gains and what you put in when you take it out. Say you get 10% return with 9% inflation, You pay taxes on 10% gains even though your gains were truly 1%. Also gains could be from any investments. If you have a Roth that you manage or is managed, your tax payment vs gains is worse as well.
I think it depends on how hard-core you want to go.
Fennel runs in 2K of ram
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31029478

Picbit ran in 256bytes, it's descendent is slightly larger
https://github.com/stamourv/picobit

Staapl compiles scheme to Forth, to also run on the PIC18
https://www.concatenative.org/wiki/view/Staapl

Of course there is also Sectorlisp, the smallest language out there in 436bytes, 64k ram
https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/
I've never been in this situation, but this seems like a good option--reach out to someone like Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned or a tech journalist who does security related content(maybe someone at Arstechnica?). They probably know how to raise awareness in a way that reduces their personal liability.
That doesn’t answer why not invest at all if you can’t afford a house
This doesn't seem to work well. The results from SEA -> Vietnam (SGN or HAN) and the results were empty, but if I search for SFO -> SGN. I see flights from SFO->San Diego -> Japan -> SGN, but if I do San Diego -> SGN, it returns no results.
Came here to say the same thing... happening in Chrome and FF
I'm not explaining them to her, but to others. If the story had been about two assaults, one by a black man and one by a white man, and then she had singled out only one of them with "violence is pervasive in the black community", you would be perfectly capable of understanding the difference.

Yet make it about countries, and this kind of double-standard exceptionalism gets a pass.
> On the other hand labelling these people in some completely "other" group probably is not helpful either

I'm inclined to agree. Recognizing and accounting for harmful traits in others is important, but some of the rhetoric in this discussion borders dangerously close to dehumanization.
Not only that, but you don't need your OS handling and selectively allowing or dropping every random packet thrown at your IP either. You don't want to even have to worry about an OS inadvertently revealing info about your devices because of how they're accepting/dropping packets or screwing that up and letting in things it shouldn't. You can offload all that work to your gateway and free up your devices to only handle the traffic that they actually care about.

You can still have a DMZ, servers, and devices directly connected to the internet, but a gateway with a stateful firewall is a wonderful thing and your typical gateway with NAT helps makes things dead simple solving far more problems than it causes.
I have not committed any kind of crime. I'm just telling the story of another person.
There are a lot of what-ifs. The point is you can only decide on information you have access to, not on secret information you dont have access to. The best thing would be to know someone at the company who can share more details informally.
I agree, but it's also worth noting that the 2008 crisis took a couple years to go from a problem to a full blown catastrophe. At the end of 2006 it was evident there were problems with the sub-prime mortgage market. 2007 was interesting, as most people went along with their lives but you kept hearing about this growing problem that wouldn't go away. In 2008 people realized there was a lot of trouble but it was hard knowing exactly how much. The Fed bailed out Bear Stearns in March. It was in September of that year that they decided not to save the Lehman Brothers, which lead to the entire financial system melting down. At that point - two years later - it started to become clear to most people just how bad things were going to get (worth noting that this "RIP Good Times" presentation is from the end of 2008).

To compare it to COVID - 2006 was like January 2020, 2007 was like February, 2008 was like March.

So I agree with you that I don't _think_ we're anywhere close to the 2008 collapse. But catastrophes like that usually don't seem that way until you're at the point of no return.
Every time you shop at Walmart.
Ah awesome!
Be very, very careful - as ANYTHING you do might land you in hot water. Better consult a lawyer before doing anything.

Personal anecdote: some years back, I was working with a major government agency and I uncovered a huge security problem (a print queue was unprotected and any user could read the ultra-secret, world's-fate-altering documents). I promplty reported the issue and, instead of a commendation, I nearly got myself arrested.

Legal aspects and institutional rules can be complex and counter-intuitive - they can punish even the Good Samaritan!

Again: consult a lawyer before doing anything.
Hashed Ventures discloses losing $3.5B from Terra LUNA collapse
Hah. My first "web apps" were CGI scripts back in 1995. I know enough about the DOM to know that it sucks: document.getElementById is too verbose. I can either define my own function as a shortcut, or use a standard approach for the same. jQuery is that standard approach.
Yeah agree, time is far from precise, and maybe not much useful for the use-case I mentioned

Tough I still think it is a really cool project, to me is the coolest use-case of blockchains beyond money (maybe the only one?)

If you don't want to trust anybody, you can ignore all time references, and just look at the proof of work on top of the attestation.

If you estimate the world's ability to generate proof of work, you can get a lower bound of how much time must have been passed in order to produce that proof, or estimate how much it cost, and you can be as conservative as you'd like, you'll still get a meaningful lower bound of time. Your only assumption is your own estimate

And from the proof of work point of view, it scales infinitely, you can put as many attestation as you can fit in a merkel tree into a single bitcoin transaction
BT sucks. Full Stop.

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Windows 11 "system settings" constantly crashes, which is how I need to access the BT panel....

But in all, with BT headsets galore (I have a literal bag full of different BT headset types) -- they all SUCK.

And dont even get me started on "buds" <-- $150 USD+++ for a fucking earbud set.

Fuck all of this.

They are LITERALLY just microplastics++heavyMetals in the oceans in <5 years.

Completely non-recyclable.

Absolute consumer fucking garbage.
I think you're better off with the cat, they seem to be lighter on the keys, while you can see in the video that the horses, small as they are, are doing a number on they keys.
I considered that just the other day. Ended up using cpp instead.
It seems the zed lake is a data lake implementation rather than a format. It uses ZNG for both metadata and data storage internally I think.
It doesn't matter if the front door of a house is locked or not. If you go in, you're going to be charged with at least attempted burglary if no one is home, and attempted robbery if someone is home. It's still trespassing, and you'll have a very hard time convincing anyone that you were there simply to observe if you're caught.

The database being wide open has nothing to do with anything, really, except the severity of it all. If you use that information for any purpose you are probably in violation of one or more laws, depending on where you and the data are.
Thank you. That needed said.
Starch and cellulose are both glucose polymers. The only difference is the way in which the glucose units are attached to one another. Existing enzymes can only cleave one or the other. Ruminants don't actually have the necessary enzyme, but instead rely on bacteria in their stomach to do this for them.
OK then, I was very heavily involved in both the item in the Intro (the flaw in the first Pentium, I was the production control guy in the sole source factory) and #1 on the list (Itanium, I was trying to get hardware companies to work with their software suppliers to port to the new architecture using a very significant budget).

The common thread was Intel marketing pushing something that was a dog for marketing reasons

1. It is very amazing not in a good way when you think you have enough inventory but someone from HQ calls up the warehouse and has the older CPUs crushed by a bulldozer (you don't want to throw them out, they are quite usable)

2. Was amazing that sucker ran so hot tech support got a call about test boxes catching on fire
Yeah, but it had some performance issues. The 970 was such a bummer. I read the book The Race for a New Game Machine, and the crap show around Apple, the 970, and especially the Cell was just so infuriating.
> It can't use European ones because of different wheelbase.

Just a quick point of clarification for anyone trying to look this up. The correct term is "gauge" (distance between the rails) instead of "wheelbase" (distance between front and rear wheels). Most European countries use tracks with a gauge of 1,435mm but Ukraine uses 1,520mm.
sure, buy what you want, and competition certainly brings down prices, I don't disagree.

But making a low-cost product was not what AMD set out to do at the outset, so that's not really a defense of the technical flaws in Bulldozer's design. Sure, when they realized it was a trainwreck, they cut prices. Everyone does that, though, and that wasn't plan A.

Nobody is going to go through the expense of R&D and design and tapeout and then just not sell the product because it sucks/"missed expectations". You adjust the price to wherever it needs to be to sell the product.

Even in laptop the bulldozer chips were way power-hungry (actually this matters a lot more than in desktop) and just not that good a performer.

It was Intel's CEO's job to smile and sell hyper-clocked 14nm chips going against TSMC 7nm and it was AMD's CEO's job to smile and sell bulldozers going up against sandy bridge. That's what officers of the company do, even when they know it's shit. You go to war with the army you have, not the one you want, and you go to market with the product you have, not the one you want.
> I feel the same way about IRC (and Matrix). I think a part of the problem is that the technical Q&A discussion that happens in most of the dev channels would be better served taking place on a forum. Lots of those chats aren't happening in real-time anyways. And if you're not there to receive the messages, the information is lost.

This is where a good bouncer comes in. I can search all the way back to the beginning of when I joined a channel in Quassel. It's not lost at all, and a forum is much less direct.

This is one thing where Matrix shines by the way, as when you join a channel you can even go back to things that were said before you joined. Though this is a bit of a double-edged sword. Sometimes when you say something it's good to be aware of who's there to read it and who isn't.
Agreed. If there is a lack of engineering culture, it's easy to feel like you're the only one pushing the envelope, and feel like you're the most productive. I've definitely experienced that, working for large enterprise and/or financial companies.
Discussed at the time:

Notes on the M4 Macro Language (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22757645 - April 2020 (59 comments)

Related:

M4 as a templating language (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27994092 - July 2021 (112 comments)

M4 (computer language) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781062 - Aug 2018 (26 comments)

Ask HN: Do you use M4 in production? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15870100 - Dec 2017 (1 comment)

M4BASIC – A BASIC to C converter written in M4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10748131 - Dec 2015 (1 comment)