skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTG: What did you do “right” in the early years of Atari that people could learn from today?

Bushnell: We did really good branding.

Yep, they were great at this, and that’s why Atari is still famous, rather than just the individual games.
As a counterpoint, I flat out refuse to buy anything from any company that gives out plastic destined-to-spend-1000-years-in-landfill crap. Spend your marketing budget funding open source project maintainers on the other hand, and I will listen.
You mean Web Workers that were available in Safari since version 4?

Or Shared Web Workers that were originally implemented in Safari version 5? No idea why they got removed to re-appear later, and I honestly can't care: I prefer browsers to be careful with standards than just rush forward.

Why is it that these "examples" are never actual examples?
I'm holing out for Electron Windows 3.1 so I can bust out Chip's Challenge and Ski Free.
They have built a dictionary mapping the hostnames your phone talks to when certain apps are used (i.e. uber app talks to xxxx.uber.com). Altho there are millions of apps, they only need to have this dictionary for the "top" apps used by most people.

Note they're not using DNS records, but rather the SNI portion of the HTTPS requests made by the phone.
I usually don't like conference swag because most of the stuff is honestly useless anyways. We all have probably thousands of pens, pencils and blocks of paper by now. Not to mention all the stickers that get thrown away immediately.

The only time I was jealous of other conference attendees was when they ran out of a multi-USB adapter set that was given out as branded swag.

Weeks of looking online later I finally found the manufacturer: van maehlen and its allroundo sets. [1]

I instantly bought it and it's since been always in my backpack. The only other swag I still have and actively use is a rubberducky and a teensy ;)

[1] https://www.vonmaehlen.com/allroundo-c
That's easily solved: Just don't announce who was selected until after the vote.
(nitpick: Pole Position was created by Namco. Atari was the distributor in the USA)
The older arcade cabinets had instructions printed on the cabinet itself and the game would generally show a sort of demo screen giving you an idea of what you were doing with a little bit of tutorial on them.
That wasn’t the reason.

Edge could just not compete with chrome, despite throwing hundreds of engineers at the problem. They tried, and tried, and tried.

In the end “edge doesn’t work” was just code for “edge is not chromium”

Electron was and is still a separate beast, Microsoft doesn’t even need to deal with that: third party developers do, they have to ship the binary.
> what do you think of the documentary cowspiracy?

I haven't watched it but from what I've read about it, it seems like ideologically driven propaganda rather than a documentary.

> in any case if most of the grain production isnt going for feeding humans, it is quite ridiculous.

Why? The title of the article is misleading. If you look at the second graph, it's obvious that the amount of grain that is eaten directly by humans (1337 tonnes) is greater than the amount that goes to any another single use (the next highest is animal feed at 987).

In fact if you sum all the other uses up from that graph they come to 1570 tonnes, where 245 of that is "processing & losses", and another 73 is "seeds". Those are categories that overlap with grains used to feed humans directly (and other uses also) so it's not clear they should be counted separately . In short, only 1252 tonnes are definitely used to do other things than to directly feed us (namely, they become feed and fuel). So despite what the article says, most of the grain we produce seems to go to feed humans directly.

And as the article points out, it's not "grain" in general that's not fed to humans, but corn ("maize"). Most wheat and rice does go to feed humans directly and only a tiny amount of wheat or rice goes to other uses.

So, misleading title.
First of all, it's gross to use depictions of violence in a conversation in order to cow your counterpart.

Second, a woman with a PhD would have more opportunities to avoid marrying you.
The problem you are describing is probably rooted in the specific SQL dialect you had to use. Selecting from inside JSON strings and matching regular expressions should be a no brainer. And it is straight forward in PostgreSQL, e.g.
I wouldn't think anything nefarious happened. A few possibilities:

* You posted it during a time of day when the site receives less traffic, and it scrolled too far down or off the New page for people to see it and vote it up. (Looks like you posted during lunch time on the US west coast, so maybe this isn't likely.)

* When you posted, there was other big news or something going on that people were absorbed in, and didn't notice your post.

* Some don't visit HN multiple times a day, and perhaps you just got unlucky that many of the people who would have found this interesting didn't see it 2 days ago, but did happen to be around today.

* Your account was created three days ago, and I wouldn't be surprised if HN doesn't weight upvotes on new-account submissions as highly as for older accounts. Also consider that your first submission (the day before) was flagged and killed; that might put you in a time-limited penalty box. (I don't know any of this for a fact, as I have no idea how HN's software works, but it seems plausible.)

* Just dumb luck. I've made a bunch of submissions that I thought were interesting (and though would appeal to a wide variety of HN readers/commenters), but it just turned out that it wasn't the case. Maybe it was just timing or something else.

I believe the mods have stated that HN allows duplicate links within a shorter-than-normal time period if the previous posting didn't get much attention, so it's perhaps not surprising that the software allowed the repost.
Link to the ACL 10 Year "Test Of Time" award paper mentioned above:

Word Representations: A Simple and General Method for Semi-Supervised Learning

https://aclanthology.org/P10-1040/

(PDF link)

https://aclanthology.org/P10-1040.pdf
This might be highly dependent on where you're at. I know many in Dublin who still live with their parents because there's nowhere available (everything's gone to short-term lets) at anything reasonably resembling a decent price.
Sorry for asking. But why even add new features in a language every year. Why not make it like once in 5 years? And focus on fixing and improving the language and the compiler.

Rust is already a huge language. The editions are also 3 years apart. And between them are tons of new features.

Strange. EcmaScript/JavaScript kind of adds like 5-6 features every year. Python.

C on the other hand is great. What you wrote in 1990 still is understandable today? (not that C is the best language out there)
As a general desktop. No coding, no scientific tasks. Nothing fancy, just to handle all of my day-to-day personal tasks. I use it in parallel with a Linux laptop and, to be honest, I like and use both equally.
Probably not surprising at all, but my brother once ran the numbers on how much energy it would take to "fire a pound of bacon into the asteroid belt", and I don't remember the exact number but it was roughly comparable to the capacity of modern EV batteries -- a few tens of kwh.

Of course Stephenson figured out how much battery a useful EV would need, before concocting a throwaway line about it. In 1992.
It went this way in the US because the unique racial politics here. I've been listening to a podcast which touches on this: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095625161/coming-soon-code-s...
I think some of it might not be about reading activating part of my brain as much as it is about most video games and modern movies and tv shows creating some kind of dopamine feedback loop and dependence that makes other tasks less interesting and even reduces my ability to perform them as well.
But people with credit card are probably living available limit to available limit. Their credit limit is their cash.
I think there will be some interesting conversations, namely around women’s civil rights.

Incentivizing a woman to have a baby is extremely expensive, and I do not think any country has come up with an offer so attractive such that it causes birth rates to go up.

Which brings up 2 questions: how much does a society have to offer women, and would that society continue to be competitive on a global playing field relative to other countries that might go a different way, such as restricting women’s rights and getting birth rates up by removing women’s agency.
What process node are the lucirferian microchips?
> And be ready to kick trashy people of course.

Not going to happen in US cities. Literally every person actually living in a city knows this, which is why many people protest having public housing built anywhere near them.

Many Americans claim to like European welfare state, but they they don’t seem to be aware as to what it takes to get there. One most obvious thing would be to tremendously raise taxes on middle class (who bear the brunt of the tax burden, unlike in US, where tax is mostly paid by the wealthy), but another thing is more ruthlessness in enforcing social norms. Nowhere in Europe you can just sit on the sidewalk and shoot up heroin: you’ll be arrested, put in rehab, and if you persist, jailed. Psychotic mentally ill who scream obscenities at passer-byes are involuntarily committed. Tent campers are arrested and forced into shelters. None of this is happening in many UD cities, which claim that their policies of looking the other way, or subsidizing the underclass lifestyle, is “harm reduction”, and continue to repeat that as number of people living this lifestyle is not reduced, to the contrary it keeps growing.
I would be curious if false information is actually more common now. It seems like people regularly believed all sorts of false things not too long ago.
I think option #3 is the most likely one - they didn't actually believe what they were saying.
Grade inflation has been around a long time under the current system. It's also why the teachers union tries so hard to get rid of all testing.
At the time you didn't need to ship ftp with IE. You could load up an FTP site by opening up an FTP address in explorer. You didn't get the familiar html-netscape-like interface but you could navigate an FTP site like it was just a network folder.
Yep. As Gordon said about the Brabham, the McMurty is, “more of a blunt instrument.”

When I watched it do the hill climb I was thinking of all the drivers they might’ve approached, and thought that if Mark Webber hadn’t hung it up a few years ago he would’ve, “noped out” of that conversation immediately given his history of flying for Mercedes in the beginning of his career.
Okay, and it's bad that china will depopulate? Won't every nation, eventually? Are you making like a "suffering / loss of life is bad" argument? It's hard to disagree with that, if you are. (I certainly don't.)

I think you're deriding my use of "Carrying capacity" as an archaic concept, but your retort is that we're "creating ecosystems."

But, every organism within an ecosystem "creates" it just by existing as part of it, so I'm assuming you mean "heavily modifying it to suit our species' need for insatiable growth."

Taking this from that perspective, the 20th century agricultural explosion (that you link to ) is a prime example of how we've hijacked systems far beyond their natural limits, to largely deleterious effect.

That wikipedia article even enumerates some of these: biodiversity loss, GHG emissions, etc. There are many examples elsewhere [0].

Sure, there's a lot more food, and that's good for population health and well-being. But that "good" assumes that we've decided that large, consistent growth rates are "good."

[0]:https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=imp...
There is an economic incentive to detect machine generated output and curate trusted sites since the feedback loop of training models on an unfiltered internet of mostly generated junk output will eventually lead the models into converging on a useless degenerate state.
Ah, get real. None of that infrastructure is life-saving, most building is happening in rapidly growing areas, and most rapidly-growing areas are filled with moneyed transplants who are coming for local industry jobs. That's who new development is for: people who will make rent that will cover the loans that were taken out to finance the property.

No one seems to understand this: developers develop when they predict an increase in housing prices. Their builds will accompany a massive increase in demand. The number of people who need their "lives saved" will only grow as a city grows in popularity and density, and the rent only goes up.

If you want to look at what continuous "life-saving" no-taste development looks like, go to Houston, or Chicago, or SF, or really anywhere that's very populous. The people still need their lives saved, but everything is disgusting and falling down after ten years anyway.

If you want to get serious about housing people in America, you need to think about supporting policies that would slow down the 200K-1M people we add to the US every year, each of who needs housing.
Yes, I am happy with the Apple ecosystem in this regard. If I wanted to run a different browser engine, I could do so by buying an Android phone. I purchased an iOS phone specifically because I think the overall phone experience is better when certain aspects do not have a choice.

If android did not exist and Apple controlled the market it would be a different story, but that is far from the case.
The Commodore Vicmodem (Model 1600)
> HTG: So let’s go the opposite way now. What did you do “wrong” at Atari that people could learn from today?

> Bushnell: I think that I—how do I put this without sounding like an asshole? I put up with incompetence more than I should have. I should have been quicker to fire.

I feel two ways about this. You need to give people time to grow into a role and time to get really good at it. But you also need to watch closely and make sure that growth and expertise are occurring, and if not, get better people in. This is delicate. I think most orgs err on the side of grace. And the ones that err on the side of "asshole" and just do a lot of firing are also doing it wrong.
Some libraries offer movies through Hoopla (https://www.hoopladigital.com/browse/movie).
My Body, My Data Act Tackles Online Privacy in Wake of Roe vs. Wade Decision
It's a React site? There's nothing particularly special about it.

If there's a specific part that impresses you drill into it with devtools, just pull out the bits you like and practice till you can do it yourself.

There's plenty of 'landing pages as a service' out there too. https://zapier.com/blog/best-landing-page-builders/
Thank you for posting this. I doubt people can make it to adulthood--or even manage speaking in complete sentences--without having some rudimentary appreciation for "correlation != causation", yet it is so frequently posted--both here & the r-place.

And its vileness is far beyond midwittery. It is a lazy & incredibly weasely way to stifle unwelcome lines of inquiry: by pre-emptively accusing anyone who would continue along those lines as a mental defective.

That being said, modern research is mostly a profit/status driven false-positive factory.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
That's one flavor of NIMBY anyways.

There's also the topically focused ones, like with a focus on crime or property values. (I have had a lot more experience with the latter)

Case in point, Naperville, IL (quite wealthy suburb of Chicago) had a cell coverage problem in the late 90's. The NIMBY's shot down any proposal of putting up "ugly" cell towers because it could mar the view and impact property values. (I would love to know the overlap between the people complaining about cell coverage and property values)

The compromise the city came up with was designing a commemorative bell tower which sneakily could house cellular equipment. This old article describes, conveniently, that the tower was designed to hold cellular networking equipment, and by total coincidence they found a cell company interested in paying to put equipment there:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-12-23-991223...

The project, initially termed "The Millenium Bell Tower" (later "The Carillon"), become known locally as "The Millenium Cell Tower".
I agree with you, but I only have one lifetime, and by the time it plays out in its entirety, I’ll be long retired. Point is, government needs to first clean things up, and then the civil society will move back in, not the other way around.
Gentoo's portage (which is based on freebsd ports to some extent!) also allows patches like this! You just put the patches in /etc/portage/patches/$cat/$pkg(-$ver|:$slot) and it applies them automatically for you! It's also really easy to take an ebuild from the gentoo repo and modify it however you want!

I would definitely recommend giving Gentoo a spin!
Thanks a lot — issue added: https://github.com/prql/prql/issues/708
What do they hate?
Anyone know how to contact a local chapter of the Satanic Temple? There's a "quiet and personal" ritual I want to conduct on my school's field right after a game involving a pentagram and salt.
Celebrating another person's failure is for small minds.
Click on the time stamp to any comment, then click flag.

If it breaks the rules it will be taken down.

No need to publicly shame anyone (I understand the irony, but this at least feels somewhat couched in information).
Some people don't feel safe using their primary accounts due to the vitriolic responses. The community collectively creates this culture, but it's particularly spread with strong toned comments and perspectives that leave little room for discussion.
More than you can trust encryption in pretty much every other part of the world.
Even by cyclists standard, 6% is pretty mild.
> a lot of harmful stuff happens to your team when everyone is drunk

As you've proven, having alcohol based events doesn't require anyone (and def not everyone) to get drunk.

> It's hard to work with someone who threw up in your Uber the night before

You clearly have some issues with people who drink to excess. That's your prerogative, so maybe you should work with different people.
Or most people need to die before they get old.
There are two problems with the "affordable housing" strategy, IMO.

One is that many (most?) advocates for this are actually being dishonest. It's a cudgel that can be used to stop just about any development project, because nothing is ever affordable enough. Any proposal that involves a mix of market-rate and subsidized housing should have more subsidized housing. Any proposal that's 100% affordable housing should be bigger and better. (I kid you not, I've seen people say that apartments that are being provided to the homeless for free should have granite countertops or GTFO). Non-market rents are too high, unless they're in existing apartments, in which they can never ever be raised. And so on. The result is that people who're only casually involved in city politics basically sign up for a total ban on construction, because "affordable housing" sounds reasonable.

The other is that economically, it's basically price controls, and that never has good results. The fact is, the housing crisis is a simple lack of housing. We need a lot more housing in most cities. The population has grown and industrialization/post-industrialization has shifted economic opportunity away from small towns and cities toward the largest cities. Housing is expensive because demand has gone up, but we've artificially restricted supply by not allowing construction. The affordable housing "solution" is to keep restricting housing supply, but shield a select group from the consequences of that. Who qualifies is subject to debate, but it's always a small number of people, and everybody else is SOL. So either you bought a long time ago, you're rich enough to buy now, or you're part of the protected class. Everyone else is SOL, and that includes a lot of people that spend a good chunk of their lives commuting because they can't afford to live where they work. Heck, it also includes a lot people in the protected class that would like to move but can't afford to lose their subsidy.
I had the opportunity to get a very high quality leather bomber jacket for my division at my company. The thing probably cost the company over $1k. I decided not to take it since I probably would’ve never worn it and didn’t want to waste such a beautiful thing.
The claim is laughable because this policy makes it impossible for external developers to step in and address fundamental, inexcusable problems with WebKit, such as the fact it's written in C++ and therefore produces a consistent supply of memory corruption bugs year after year.

Also, I'm skeptical of the notion that every type of app except web browsers can be meaningfully screened for security. How can one not interpret this as a tacit admission that the screening process is close to worthless?
> Take a look at China...

Let me stop you there. This is not China. So are you finished with
wailing whataboutism?
Yes, through redemptions. So we know $10s of billions is real — at least!

It’s a stablecoin, so market cap is simply the amount printed.
I don't really find SQL that difficult, other than NULL !=NULL, I wish <=> could be switched to the default!
> There's nothing really inherently racist about it, or bullshit.

It's the same argument wielded to discriminate against immigrants. It was used against the Irish, Italians, and Polish in NY City to name a few. Each group was "ruining America". It takes 3 generations to assimilate, but everyone anti-immigration wants them to "speak American" in one generation.
I suppose one difference is that the pieces from Perserverance were _supposed_ to land on Mars. Whereas this object ended up floating around uselessly, like so much other "space junk". And because they suspect it's origin as being China, it makes sense to write it that way. Chinese junk, American junk, Canadian junk, although even these could be softened by "Chinese space junk, American space junk"... I wonder though if it is also being used in a retro sci-fi manner, in that there are crafts called "junks", particularly in English, "Chinese junks". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_(ship) and https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Junk_(ship)#:~:te.... Thus it is a chance to use the term for a sailing craft in a new context - a Chinese junk, but in space!
Untrue for bottled beer in the uk!
> Thinking about it, there's no way you could rely on the MMU to be the ONLY memory check obviously. Like, the JIT can't translate a reference to `x = memory[ptr]` into just a `mov x, [BASE + ptr]`, because it could reference non-WASM memory, which is obviously a security no-no (unless it could statically guarantee `ptr < LIMIT`). You need some kind of runtime check in addition for security and stability, you can't get around it.

On 64-bit systems, you actually can, since WASM is for now 32-bit only; just reserve a 4GB (plus 1 page) block of virtual memory starting at BASE, and there's no way for BASE+ptr (assuming ptr is 32-bit unsigned) to reach outside it (the extra 1 page after the end is to catch unaligned accesses at the very end of that 4GB).

That is, you can statically guarantee "ptr < LIMIT" if "ptr" is 32 bits and LIMIT is 2^32 or more.
It's true that the tech debt of utilities was addressed as part of the VN BRT project, however it's also true that the tech debt didn't need to be included in the scope of BRT and it was an intentional (and I would say foolish) decision to do so.
i'll be enjoying my city life, thanks :)
Oldest known turtle you mean? [1]

I wouldn't call 190 years old "trivially older".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_%28tortoise%29