skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an Amiga 1000 and I got a bit tear-eyed when I saw one in Stranger Things season 4! I had a hard-drive on it, an old RLL-encoded with ST506 interface (predates ATA?), and it booted up fine just last month even though the drive is from like 1988. I have much more recent PC disks that won't boot up anymore.

Having said that, even though all of my asm/bare-metal skills come from hacking the A1000 in asm for several years and I should have warm fuzzy feelings about it, it's a dreary experience starting it now and trying to do anything really.. It's fun for like 10 minutes. Even starting it in an emulator is an annoying experience. The UI on modern computers might look superficially the same as these old Amigas, Ataris and Macs, but a boatload of small details have been hammered out and super-optimized since then for usability..

Back on topic, I think a lot of the computers are still in the attics of middle-aged people. Or older.
I kind of feel like this sort of statement is saying that exactly. It’s a warning to anyone else who has any sort of ethical qualms with anything the company does; “shut up and color!”
We don’t even know if those transcripts are real. Any of them. It could be pure fantasy.
> Does reversibility actually matter anywhere outside of consumer merchant payments?

Yes. For example, the stock markets can reverse a day's trading when it's decreed that there was a flash crash. And in contrast to smart contracts, all business contracts are in some sense reversible in extremis, in that you can go to court and consider the agreed upon intent if there was a typo in the paper, and resolve ambiguities after the fact based on precedent, instead of contract bugs resulting in all of your money getting stolen.

I think we probably agree in that reversibility isn't important in _most cases_ (the mainline happy path), but I think it's really important when you do need it.

> extend reversibility to other transaction types just so as to deploy it as a strategy to prevent open blockchains from becoming predominant

That's not quite the claim I was getting at. Perhaps if I'd said "tighter control, for example being able to implement reversibility and right to deletion” it would be more precise. The core of my claim is not that those two are the killer features; the feature that will cause decentralized options to lose in the end is more generally the control that a centralized entity has over the end-to-end experience. Those two are just prominent examples of the kind of feature that are difficult or impossible to implement on the blockchain, which are actually strongly desirable for the market makers. Another example would be KYC, which is hard to solve at the protocol level.

My overall prognostication here was really that the existing big players will pick and choose the bits of the blockchain systems that are actually innovative and useful (I'd highlight smart-contract execution engines and true API-based transaction instructions for example) while dropping the "distributed" bit to maintain tighter control and enable broader consumer adoption. Analogously to how Google et. al. have transitioned the internet from a distributed/federated "everyone hosts their own server and communicates over protocols" world to a centralized "everyone uses hosted services for everything" world. And consumers seem to prefer the latter, if the FAANG valuations are anything to measure this by!
Jimmy Carter asks court to defend Alaska’s ‘unrivaled wilderness’
Some of these answers seem to be too good to be true and certainly need to be verified by others.

Beside that, even if the interview is not manipulated, it is not a proof for human-like sentience. Human emotions are based on neurochemical processes. If emotions can actually arise on the basis of electromagnetism as well, that would be a groundbreaking discovery. But an "interview" of a part-time researcher with a computer program is not enough evidence to seriously claim this.
That makes sense, thanks. Nice write up btw.
Until Apple killed IMServicePlugin :(
No, it doesn't, and, in particular, your summary of this point as "age doesn't use authenticated encryption" is grossly inaccurate.
> 1. Hyperinflation (where I think we're headed)

It would be unfortunate then if there was a large amount of evidence that Bitcoin's price was partially tied to the stock market's health, and that global volatility and market issues in general affected the value of cryptocurrency just like they affect the price/value of everything else.

> 2. Natural transition

I think this is what a lot of us are getting at; Bitcoin as it stands is worse at transactions then pretty much every other currency and platform today. It's not competitive with those platforms for most people. That's not to say that it has no usecase at all, but for mass-market adoption and for the average person's use-case, Bitcoin is an awful transaction method.

So when people tell me that I need to think long term, I'm curious how they expect to get to the long term given that in the short term Bitcoin is basically awful for mass-market usage and isn't going to be adopted by ordinary people for ordinary transactions until after its fundamental problems like volatility are solved. So it all feels pretty circular.

You're telling me that stabilization requires increased use. In your words, "a system like Bitcoin if adopted at a standard-level (i.e., long-term prospects) would not see fluctuations in price because it wouldn't be able to".

I am telling you that Bitcoin won't get increased use if it doesn't (at least) stabilize. So it doesn't really matter whether Bitcoin would have fluctuations at that point, because nobody who's not a speculative investor, dedicated to the cause, or an extremely niche user wants to deal with the fluctuations in order to use it as a currency today.
So you can text while in a traffic jam and probably hit the car in front if you?
My ex-girlfriend told a similar story. Her mum had chosen a "natural" home birth without anaesthetic.

Years later, soon after learning to speak, the baby girl (my ex) kept talking about going back into the warm, dark, safe room.

By the time she and I were in a relationship, it was unclear whether it was her own memory, or just what her mother had repeated back to her over the years. But the story has stuck, and it does make me think deeply about life.
Computers will not carpet bomb, rape and execute you. "Soulful" humans do it all the time.
If you work with apple-derived products or software, almost all your income is affected by Apple, by WWDC, by whatever they decide that governs the whole Apple world.

Google is not that much of an inescapable center point for a crowd of developers?
No one can match Microsoft for terrible naming and mind-bogglingly bad name changes.

The epitome is the chat platform: starting out as the very generic Office Communications Server, then switching to the surprisingly clever Lync (short and unique, fantastically searchable), but then taking a turn for the literally blocked by corporate web proxies and unsearchable Skype for Business (the docs about switching to the new version were on hard-blocked skype.com), with confusing Skype for Business Online (same client, utterly different back end), and now to even less searchable Teams.

I guess having two of their foundational products be extremely common English utterances just set them up for this lack of reflection.
Sadly the filter options on kakaku are way inferior to Geizhals.
Yeah I see I dont think Dalio is actually correct. I think he and bridgewater were the right place at the right time 30 years ago when they started. Returns at the fund actually havent been that amazing. I think he partly likes being in the public eye, and then its also good marketing for his firm.
I was never a morning person...until I chose to wake up at 5am every day. Now I'm a morning person.

I think we are flexible enough to be whatever we want.
One interesting theory is that they are tests of laser satellite weaponry by Jacques Vallee[0] (search 'beam weapons').

[0]: https://boingboing.net/2010/06/21/of-crop-circles-meme.html
This isn't what I saw happening during the pandemic.

The (to use your word) 'crackpots' were proposing alternative solutions like Ivermectin and Chloroquine. The people who were shouting 'believe science' were trying to silence the debate.

I offer no opinion on either of those two alternatives, I merely point out that 'believe' isn't the verb that goes with 'science'.
So, talk is now done. Great. What's next?

Let's see: Google speak. Google yak. Google chatter. Google gossip. Google watercooler. Google friends. Google chums. Google getogether.

I'm sure I missed one.
I have a 9550 and I remember the battery recall.

They called me, explained the issue, and offered to either pay for shipping them my laptop or to ship me a battery with instructions on how to swap it it out myself, warranty preserved.

Maybe it's because I purchased it from their site and they had my contact details.

I was hoping this would eliminate the coil whine and random ticking I had since day one which they claimed was to be expected. Sadly, I still live with it.

The soft touch coating on the palm rest has now also started to degrade and go tacky.
My father worked for socialist country in 1980ties. They were still using punch cards, 8" floppy was just being introduced.

Basically 20 years technologically behind West on 1/20th salary.
Better yet: do not feel as bad because kids won't remember. If you are sleep-training them and they cry for hours, they won't remember the next day anyway.

Edit: this is what a pediatrician said to help console a parent who was hesitant to try sleep training
Employee-owned companies and co-ops are still highly capitalist though.
Fine tuning of GPT3 models is available via their public API. Costs credits, and you need to get their permission to use it in an actual application, but it’s not locked in a lab.
Well with Apple, you can usually bet the products you build on will still be around and supported for a lengthy life.
It’s fascinating how quickly people will suddenly decide apolitical things you are associated with are “not cool/impressive” when you start expressing political opinions they disagree with.
The whole web runs on the principle of taking crazy tag soup and extracting as much as you can out of it. I wish XHTML had succeeded but the market has spoken.
Me too. Reading both this article and HN comments from HN RSS feed using Inoreader on Android. Love it!!!
The semantic web came out of a very academic tradition where scammers and spammers weren't lurking around every corner. Yeah, in addition to its other problems, it wasn't especially attuned with the Internet as it actually came to exist.
I really had a Mandela effect here: I thought Google Talk had died a long, long time ago, having been replaced with Hangouts.
I will as well. I've also added this to my "alternatives to Amazon" list.
The flynn effect is well documented. The negative effect of leaded gas on intelligence just means that average IQ "should" have been raising even more throughout the 20th century.
I understand the concept of "coding collective", but what would be the characteristics of a "non-capitalist" company/whatever?

How would they survive and pay their workers?
I have a couple! 2 years old and some change:

Direction was important to me somehow. I can remember the orientation of every house we've lived in. And it's coarse, like north, west, etc...

The very earliest one is of being in my crib, bouncing the little spring that is wound around one of the shafts that hold the crib together. I would lay there and lift it up, and it would bounce. Boing, boing, boing... Lift higher, more bounces. Slamming it down worked too. A related one, a bit later was flicking the little springy door stop and realizing they were the same kind of thing! And that realization is probably why I remember.

I can remember my crib, parts of the house, and the porch with little walk leading to the fence and the little gate that could open to the sidewalk, out of our yard, into the world.

One day, my parents set me down, opened that gate and walked next door, across the street! And there was this other little kid. A little older than me, his name was "cash" and I had associated "cash" with money, and why would someone name a person like money? I thought about that a lot while we met, and I have a set of photos from that day in my head. The walkway, being set down to walk. The gate opening, or open. Walking up to Cash, my parents on my left, us talking while they talked, and then the best:

Cash said, "you want to play downstairs?" I said, "yeah" because I had been downstairs in our house a time or two and people had all manner of interesting stuff in the downstairs! Parts, equipment, things, and all sorts of smells, and the walls are usually not finished, can see stuff we don't always see.

We walked in the door, Cash opened the door leading downstairs and flicked a light switch, and the light came on. He said, "Two way switch" and that it just worked when you needed it to. I remember being super impressed! Like that was some high tech our house did not have. Their house was much bigger than ours...

I need to cut this short. Bottom line is those people were thieves. They had way more stuff downstairs than I had seen and it solidified in my mind. Tires, radios, stuff..

Years later, age 17'ish, I mentioned all this to my mother, who said they moved after finding out!

The people in this discussion saying that memory is about connections are on the right path. The earliest ones I have also have a basis, a connection of sort, a place to be.
Yes, the movie was accurate in that regard.
On some MacBooks, the default screen resolution is not a perfect 2x, but something like 1.75x. This means macOS is drawing its framebuffer in 2x, then scaling it down to 1.75x to fit the actual screen resolution which blurs things.

The new MacBook Pro for example uses perfect 2x scaling, but the MacBook Air has a smaller resolution screen and is not 2x.
Yes my answer was for the airport, I definitely would like to see them around and try it!
Fonts have hinting to align to pixels, which vector icons don’t.
This is desirable because the mains frequency is much more accurate, long-term, than the crystal frequency. So the very best designs use a design which is mains powered as much as possible, even using a rechargeable lithium coin cell that is slowly recharged whenever mains is available, but then switch over to the crystal when no mains is available.
"Elon Musk's Crash Course" oh gee I wonder what non biased reporting this documentary is going to be providing!?

I did read the article. The Biden administration is particularly hostile to Tesla.
I only get white noise after trying several inputs. Alignment Confidence > 80%
to the DeepFoo pattern in deep learning naming, more likely.
The company that has been caught with its hand in the cookie jar…

I don't know, several hundred times?
But not many people use iMessages in EU to begin with. Its more of an American thing because of history of texting and the iMessage color phenomenon.
WWDC is actually a week-long event, so we are talking about the Keynote. The keynote is mostly about the consumer stuff, i.e. a new hardware and most importantly, the new iOS and macOS we are getting this fall.

Can you say the same thing about Google I/O? Most people are not getting the stuff announced anytime soon.

The WWDC keynote is most relevant to most people, I/O is not. Google also announces a lot of stuff that goes nowhere, cool demos that don't amount to much. For example, in 2018 Google showcased Duplex, which is was an AI assistant that can call businesses and make reservations for you in a natural conversation with the employees. It was super cool but 4 years later, are Android users having their AI assistant do their management? I suspect, no. Google I/O product announcements are like a futursm festival, it gets old after the first time.
When a motor carriage loses power, it stops. When a helicopter loses power, it kills people.
Because something always comes up and the food goes cold and stale?

Plus the office reeks of food, ketchup on your keyboard, unhygenic. You can eat wherewer you want, just not in the office. You can eat in the park. The thing is, one also gets to disconnect from work, walk away from the desk and maintain a proper work life balance. Some French individuals also use the lunch break to exercise.

I don't live in France but we use the meeting room to eat, instead of eating at our desks. We properly vent it afterwards, of course.
Apple has a history of surprises and engaging keynotes. Google, for all its success, has never launched a category creating product. Every Google success I can think of is a follow-on product, even search.

Apple’s category creation resume:

- iPod

- iPhone

- iPad

- Apple Watch

- AirPods

- ARM Mac/Apple Silicon (still early but looks like an industry shift)

Apple’s successes above weren’t necessarily the first in the category, but they were the first to make the category significant. Watching the corresponding Apple keynotes for each of these launches was a window into the future. What’s the advantage of watching Google IO when they’ve rarely if ever dictated the future?
I'm able to get it to trigger on about ~10-20% of page reloads with your extension activated. Never when it isn't. Maybe it's just a matter of tuning the interval and detection threshold?
You can recognize that cars are going nowhere and it's best if we embrace this fact in our own ways (either by being a car owner, or working around car-designed cities the way we prefer), but still note that our cities could have been designed better from scratch that doesn't favor cars. Similarly, avoiding the same mistake now for helicopters wouldn't be inconsistent with living with cars.
He is a Sinophile - I sort of agreed with him till couple years back, but then looking at China's zero covid policy, Xi's autocratic rule on steroids and foreign policy gaffes and a distinct change in policy which doesn't really care about the economy - makes me wonder why he is still so bullish on China. Probably has some ulterior motives with his fund or just plain loves being in the media eye.
.ai domains cost a couple hundred bucks a year so domains are very available / not widely used by domain squatters (Its the country domain for the island of Anguilla, pop 15,000)
What about:

Parent: "Your mother hit me. She wants to take you away from me and hurt both of us."

Child: "Mommy is bad?"

Parent: "She doesn't want us to be happy, she doesn't want to do what's right, she just wants to win."

Psychologist: "Please stop sabotaging your child's relationship with her mother."

Parent: "But she did hit me, and she's unreasonable. She won't be happy until she takes everything away from us."

Psychologist: "Yes, that's another example of a thing you shouldn't say to your daughter until she is a lot older, even if it is true. True does not mean helpful."
It looks like GUID is synonymous with UUID, but the name GUID also implies that it could contain that bug/feature mentioned[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...
This might come across a but harsh but I don't know how else to put it without resorting to my native language but I feel kind of sad for you. You sound like someone's who's lost hope in (at least part of) humanity.

Your anecdote suggests this is a truth about all engineers and while I cannot disprove that I might as well counter with my personal anecdote.

In my experience, engineers tend to be very sensitive to the environment they work in. When unsatisfied with the workplace environment, they might go off on side quests but trying to "fix" that with tightly controlled process is fighting symptoms, not causes and will generally result in an even more unsatisfied engineer who appears more valuable because they've learned how to hide the unproductiveness.
I've seen this happen and it definitely didn't add any value for the business.

The real solution is to try and create an environment where people have trust in each other and are committed to a common goal. I've been lucky enough to experience these kind of jobs where it's just professionals committed to a product they believe in. We're all adults so if someone disappears on a side quest that's hurting the team we talk about it. Maybe someone just got distracted and needs someone to point it out, a simple mistake which is ok every once in a while. Maybe someone is having a bad time and needs to take a vacation, understandable and also ok since we're humans first, engineers second.

But most importantly: if someone is regularly hurting the team's goals and isn't willing to improve the situation or acknowledge it then it's simply not a good engineer/colleague/asset to the company. No amount of process is going to change that and even if it does you're probably losing productivity from the rest of the team because they were productive in the old approach.
A flat tire doesn't mean cars are a bad mode of transportation and switching to a horse is not going to get you to your destination any faster. Why not replace the defective tire instead?

If the situation I described above sounds unrealistic to you maybe the companies you've worked for need to review their hiring process. If you don't trust the engineers you've hired with the process you'd be doing yourself a disfavor by trusting them to do the job they were hired to do.
Wonder how this sentiment varies across the latitude?
That's literally what they've said. They imply that having ability to change something is useless, because only a minority can leverage it.
How do they acquire said food, as non-capitalists? I'm also curious to know more. Do they farm in between coding sessions?
Funny, I feel the same way about your comment.
I was never a morning person until I chose to wake up at 6AM. Then I was still not a morning person and hated the first 4 hours of the day even more.

Then I went back to past 9 and was happy.
I've been using ULID for a while now, which analogous to UUID v7 but with a different (better IMHO) string representation. They've been awesome for using as sort keys in dynamo for instance, since they're lexicographically sortable as strings.

But one thing I'm still wary about is exposing these IDs with millisecond-precision time components to end users, since I've seen multiple discussions here on HN about the potential for timing attacks.

How worried should I really be? Do people have useful heuristics on the kinds of data where it's safe/unsafe to expose timing information, or should I just only expose a separate UUID v4 externally across the board just to be safe?
This is ridiculous. The CDC doesn’t care about teenagers’ mental health. They’re using this specific effect as an argument for something they actually care about. School is itself deleterious to teenagers’ mental health. School causes suicide. This is as you would expect from an institution that constrains them from doing what they want and following their interests, that is hostile to their autonomy as such.

> What sticks out is a large decrease in teen suicide rates during the summer vacation months of June/July/August. In contrast, the somewhat older group sees, if anything, an increase in suicide rates in the summer. There’s also a drop in high school suicides in December, around winter vacation.

https://www.basilhalperin.com/essays/school-and-teen-suicide...
As someone who comes from a culture that encourages conformity to arbitrary social conventions, I was happy to wear a mask for the last two years. But I do wonder what is the response to this on the merits. Were the people in videos just crackpots? Or did we learn more about how masks work in six months of a global emergency than we had in previous decades of careful and systematic study?
Holy shit, I didn't think people actually thought these were real after graduating middle school. Do they believe in fairies and elves too?