skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But suppose I want...

Like with GDPR where people imagined all sorts of situations ad absurdum (the grocer on the corner not being allowed to ask for your birthday anymore to give you a yearly free product or some such), these laws generally have exceptions for things where it makes sense. They aren't cooked up overnight in isolation and aren't the oneliner that you read online. I would expect that your mentioned exceptional example probably has an exception cases defined for it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Exciton generation in tin–lead nanocrystals quantum efficiency enhancement
Wow, to think IE was almost packaged along with Macintosh. I wonder if Safari would have happened if it had.
> It seems law enforcement is both a problem when they enforce the law, and a problem when they do not enforce the law.

It’s about accountability and not treating everything as a problem for law enforcement.
Also DVDs don’t last forever. Some sources say they last 10-30 years, depending on the manufacturer and quality.

I’m more curious about why people think things ought to be preserved forever at all costs? I’m sure there are many video games from the 70’s and 80’s that have been forgotten.
The very basics of it are that I'm trying to operate portable using HF (<30MHz, long range), including for digital comms such as FT8. Typically a computer generates the audio-band signals which are transmitted as RF by the radio. Skipping the laptop (less to carry/power), I've installed a few of these ham apps on the Pi, power it from the radio's battery, and use an adapter (Digirig) to give me serial and audio to the radio. I turn on my phone's hotspot, the Pi connects via WiFi, and I use RDP to remote into the Pi, using my phone as the input and display. The Pi Zero 2W is a little under-powered (mostly needs more RAM), but it does the trick.

The simplicity of GMRS can be good, but for me I rarely use a radio to talk locally on repeaters. I like the idea of communicating as far as possible on very little power (QRP) with a small footprint, and the experimentation angle of it all.
Bacteriophage / Phage : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
People can assume any half decent branded item with a lithium ion battery in it will last like new for 500 charge cycles, and really start to show age around 1,000 charge cycles.
It’s great, it’s almost a standard. Many different manufactures and the only commonality is usually the voltage.

18650 is so popular it’s used in some teslas, while newer ones use 21700
That’s absolutely not true. Facebook does not listen to your conversation: https://twitter.com/jspujji/status/1474797770871615497?s=20&...
The disclaimer absolutely protects the company from reporting a wildly “inaccurate” subjective number, which is apparently a concept you simply do not understand.
Airlines cancel more than 1,500 US flights Friday
Identity Crisis: No, Mind-Uploading Is Not a Path to Immortality
I would have thought Forth would be a better fit for such a language.
This is also classic HN. Right above you someone is backing up their argument by proclaiming with gusto that humans are network computers.
An intermediate Java and React developer is more than the sum of the parts. Especially when considering a whole team.

You may need one or two really great React and/or Java developers.
> Personal experience with Ubuntu on a recent Thinkpad:

Well, that's your first problem. How does FreeBSD or OSX do on it? Maybe you should buy a Linux laptop to run Linux instead of slapping Linux on a Windows laptop and expecting it to work correctly.
> they've crushed multiple problems that were viewed as being decades away in just a few years.

What are these multiple problems you speak of?
"(Samba is not native, it's a reverse engineered SMB implementation, it's very difficult for the average Joe to manage and set up.)".

How is Samba not native ? SMB is a Microsoft proprietary protocol, but now fully documented. So if Microsoft doesn't release an SMB server for Linux then others must. As an aside, Microsoft now employs Samba Team member Steve French and actively participates in Linux kernel SMB client development.

The "difficult for the average Joe to manage and set up" I'll give them :-).

From the article: "No CIFS/AD level replacement/ equivalent (SAMBA doesn't count for many reasons)".

But then doesn't list any reasons. Hmmm. Agenda much ?
I thought this has been on ipad forever
Weaponization of historical memory is absolutely a thing that states can do for their own benefit. But you've got the logic backwards. This is not proof that history academics are tools of the state and are producing propaganda. In fact, historians are deliberately attacked by various political forces for being subversive or otherwise.

I am married to a history professor. I am quite aware of the relationship that historians have with funding bodies and state-run universities. I do not conclude anything close to resembling what you conclude in your post. I think you are making a completely false and ignorant claim about the field and about the author of the linked blog post in particular. This "we cannot actually trust what professionals write" and "go look at the sources yourself" approach is just folly. Professionals who've spent thousands and thousands of hours studying methodology and embedding themselves in the archive are simply able to understand the archive better than laypeople can.
Most of these live in different locations, or are portable.
The interesting thing is that the other comment alongside yours is talking about GGG, who rolled their own as a team of about 6 (in the early days), and they're by far the most productive game developer I've ever seen.

I think Unity and the like have made the average project much more productive, but they don't add power to the top end. The power of having everything perfectly customisable by a team of experts with perfect domain knowledge is just too much for anyone else to match by getting quick wins off the work of others.
> Other comments claim that this number can be 90% 80% and it wouldn't matter.

I don't see any other comments saying the number can be 90% or 80% (other than mine, where I was pointing out the difference between before removal and after removal). Can you cite Which comments specifically are you referring to and whihc part of them you're disagreeing with? I'm just not seeing that.

I mean, it's fine for you to disagree with _that_, but it seems like you're disagreeing with a straw-man.

> You'd imagine it is impossible, but it's not

I wouldn't imagine it would be impossible. I think it's unlikely, but it's always possible that Twitter is perpetrating a deliberate fraud in its SEC filings. My priors on that are pretty small (1-5%?), but sure, of course it's possible.

If Twitter is actually perpetrating a deliberate fraud, and Elon is able to get the goods in discovery, then sure he'll likely win the case. That's a really high bar, though, and does not square with your prior argument that if a third-party analysis comes to a 30% bot number, then the SEC will bring charges.

That's simply not sufficient to cause the SEC to bring charges. Rather, you would need the additional evidence you think might come out in discovery.

My point is this: "The true bot number is 30%" and "The true bot number is 30%, and Twitter knew that and deliberately lied in its SEC filings" are two different statements. One is sufficient to bring a charge, and the other is not.

> You can bet there will be at least one person pointing out in the email/doc that "hey, our approach of evaluating numbers doesn't look right, and here's why....". Then, that person has been ignored.

Is is possible? Sure, of course. Would I put a bet on that exact scenario happening? Probably not.

Seems just as likely that someone sends the email that "our approach doesn't look right, and here's why...", and someone engages and responds with "I disagree, that methodology does X, and we chose to do Y because Z, but let's talk about it". Or, I could also see absolutely nothing internal on this because it's a box-ticking exercise as part of their SEC filings and nobody internal really cares.

> Coming up with a number like this will inevitably have multiple valid approaches.

The problem is that its not enough to show that someone else has a different valid approach. The need in court (and for the SEC) would be to show that Twitter's approach is not valid. It's really not enough to show that Twitter could have made different choices and got a different outcome. You need to show that Twitter's approach and outcome was unreasonable.

Anyway, my fundamental disagreement with your statement is that a "bot rate" of 30% automatically implies fraud and an SEC charge. I don't think it's that simple.
He did indeed. Before that happened he used to be a very, let's say opinionated, member of HackerNews
I only upvote as I create a new account every week or so and hence never have the karma to do anything else.
> which made me automatically jump to conclusion that binaries are basically 1s and 0s[1] and clearly it is not that simple.

It essentially _is_ that simple, it’s just how you interpret those 1s and 0s. Say you try to interpret a PNG file as text: you get some representation of the 1s and 0s in that file, just not the right one.
how far do you really need to go, alone

You need a win, but not that big of a win in the grand scheme of things

Six figures, a couple million

Whereas big studios need multiple hundred million+ hits
>Give me an out-of-the-box Linux laptop that's as easy to use and that supports the software I need for my work, and give me a way to port over all of my cloud stuff, and I'm done with Apple forever. They're trading on the reputation they earned decades ago

Buy a Dell XPS.
hprotagonist was
I saw this talk, Stop Drawing Dead Fish by Brett Victor, a while back. While I don't think it's the tool you're looking for, he does a great job showing why we may want better tools than we have currently and what they might look like. https://vimeo.com/64895205/description
It absolutely is. Please read his book, it addresses this claim directly.

You can't fix lawlessness by reporting the violation of law to the lawbreaker.

This is also why police in the USA are out of control. You cannot fix a criminal conspiracy from within the criminal conspiracy.

PS: nations don't exist, they are fictional abstractions. You cannot "hurt a country".
I've always wondered about skyscrapers; How long will they last, and what will happen with them?
> backward compatibility, this is where linux is really horrible, there was an article about compiling binary on freebsd 2 and running it on freebsd 10. Try this on linux, binaries are not compatible even on minor versions.

Linux userspace is considered unstable. It's not a cohesive system like the BSDs but lots of independent projects all doing their own thing.

The Linux kernel is capable of running binaries compiled in the 90s. Breaking changes in the kernel-userspace binary interface makes Linus Torvalds scream at people on the mailing list.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I think quite a lot of Windows laptop works fine with Linux nowadays? Perhaps not out-of-the-box, but they works fine after installing the OS manually (which doesn't really take much time TBH). I'm not sure what software you need for work, but if they are open source they are usually fine with Linux (iirc Mac exclusive projects usually have alternatives) . For cloud stuff, I don't know what you are using so can't really comment about it.
This sounds like a very promising method of vaccination!!
I'd be pretty unhappy if an engineer built a bridge that could have lasted 100 years if they hadn't cheaped out and saved $10 by using plastic instead of metal for some component, halving its life expectancy. Or if they put components next to each other which really shouldn't be, unnecessarily increasing failure rates. Or if they built a bridge where you couldn't replace any component without blowing part of it up.
Seems to me this says more about the programmer than the language.
They're going to have to get there sooner or later, because many countries are already announcing phase-outs and bans of fossil fuel vehicles in the coming decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...

And it's actually a general rule: in many cases incumbents tend to lag behind new players, not just in this case with fossil fuels. (They have a first-mover DISadvantage, if you will)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_...
They've drifted away from calling it that, but the whole idea behind React was to bring immediate-mode rendering to the web. It has an event loop where each "frame" you render the current state from scratch, rather than explicitly updating the state of retained controls.
So a couple of months ago I bought a Yamaha Rex 50 digital effects unit from the 1980’s.

I opened it up for cleaning, to check the electrolytic capacitors (some need replacement) and to swap out lithium coin cell battery that backs up the user’s saved settings.

Since the battery was working, I assumed it had been replaced.

Nope, the working lithium coin battery has a date of November 1987 which is very early so far as I understand.

So it’s still there because if it’s still working after thirty five years, it will probably be working for the two or three years I can expect from a new battery.

It was refreshing to experience an engineering design driven by long reliability in a piece of digital electronics.
I use similar measurements to value/compare purchases and their impact.

- Value per use
- Weight (analog for materials used)
- Likely lifetime

Bonus for wireless headphones specifically is you can buy replacement cases, or single buds if any go bad.
Not sure if you’re joking or not, but IE was packaged that way.

Safari wasn’t released until 5 years later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac_OS...
Settlers to Southern Appalachia were from the English - Scottish borderlands. Lands that were historically contested.

“Albion’s Seed” is an excellent book describing the migrations from the British Isle to America
It seems to be a lottery with the earlier XPS laptops (hardware-wise), but I have a 2020 model and it's been very good. I'm definitely interested in my next laptop being an XPS. I bought one that came with Windows and installed Ubuntu on it and it's great. The only thing I haven't tried is the fingerprint reader.
That's a pretty funny statement considering detachable cords exist. A cord is basically some copper and plastic sheet. Easily recyclable.
Btw, dunno much about software defined radios and such but I'm curious. Isn't this the kind of niche FPGAs are perfect for? Or do they not justify their cost in your use case?
I suggest you start with l-system¹, it's easy to implement and understand. Have a look at my own artisanal library-less implementation, but be warned that I don't do fronted code professionally: https://m__nick.gitlab.io/l-systems/

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
I got a lot of mileage out of attending IACR in person. Lots of amazing content there every time. A lot of it is addressable even if you aren't going to do the math.
This thread links to his accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887
The total cost of ownership includes gasoline, repairs, insurance, road tax as well as depreciation. The $100 per hour includes the cost of buying the bus.
He had divine intellect and was chosen to build god's temple.

https://youtu.be/ACAQBMSioOg
In very narrow usage X11 can use it but most software doesn't work. The work for a real HDR in Wayland is just beginning.
It's easy to put out something algorithmic generated. It's more difficult to make them approaching art. It's even more difficult to make it seemingly creative.
It's rarely the engineer deciding this.
This is a great list.
Yeah I don’t get the environmental angle as well. It’s 10g, I’m sure there’s more lithium in a single AAA cell than 50 AirPods. Imagine how much more polluting a single dude in Texas rolling coal would do compared to everyone in Texas using AirPods.
You're changing the question. OP said "they've crushed multiple problems that were viewed as being decades away in just a few years."

"contributing to figuring out how" is not the same as "crushing the problem." It's helpful, of course.
Hilariously the correct play store link is the second hit for https://www.google.com/search?q=papers+please+android
Yup Wiki/internet definately has advantages over books and libraries. Just that there are processes going on outside of better quality info, better access to info etc. Maybe someday some one will find better ways to incorporate them and produce better learning environments. Nothing is static. Things are always changing. People have been talking about it eg -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VW31eOorx-I

But Today I think lot of kids (and adults) are getting lost because of the sheer amount of info. Lot more needs to be done to improve it.
And some of us repair them ourselves, but most vendors don’t offer detachable cables.

Would be nice.
Yes, exactly. The fundamental problem with computer-generated code is that it’s almost always harder to read code than to write code [0], so making programming involve less writing code and more reading code actually makes the job more difficult.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I think GP meant per $ of running cost. I have seen LEDs that are only 2/3 as efficient: "60W equivalent" using 11W at a reduced lumen level, instead of 8W at, iirc, 800 lumen.
God's language is HolyC.

You can embed a realistic elephant in HolyC.

You can also write chess software to play against god.
I remember constantly hearing in the 90's and 00's that after dna sequencing was "solved" the next frontier was protein folding. Seems like we're getting there. What is the next frontier, or are people just being overly skeptical of alphafold?
I know this! I was hoping to hand wave away the complexity of process groups.

And you probably know that the author of curses is the author of rogue!
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/357...

https://econreview.berkeley.edu/fed-accounts-and-the-right-t...
That will go away once the open module is used.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company

Later testimony in the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening the cancellation of Microsoft Office for Mac.[2][3] In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the "Look & Feel" lawsuit and the "QuickTime source code" lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer for Mac the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser.
> It's that the average user was never ready for the desktop.

Yeah. And we do little to educate in general, while MS and Google are busy selling Chromecrooks and Office licenses to kids to ensnare them in the corporate trench and profit from their data.

> the pooch and Active Directory falls apart

I suffer from this shitty 90s legacy code every day. MS has a good grip on corporate America.
Yeah, hypothetically, you can have FreeBSD userspace on top of Linux kernel, and GNU userspace on top of FreeBSD.
Ooh. Is it a portmanteau? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/portmanteau
Yes. He’s actually the reason I enabled show-dead.

For the uninitiated, Vice has an approachable article about Terry.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnj43x/gods-lonely-programme...
How could someone reverse engineer anything other than your data model from gql queries?
Yeah, wait a second. I work so I have money to live and eat and do the things I love and spend time with my family and friends. Those are what I live for. Why would I spend more time than I have to on anything else?
Such a great tool. My Dad gave me a copy of the .exe on a USB when I was much younger. Since then I have kept a copy of it on my PC. Never fails. Nice surprise seeing this on HN today!
I think a big one is: don't use GraphQL if you're only making the API for yourself or teams you're in close contact with.

My previous project involved complex data in a graph DB, and twice we considered if maybe we should use GraphQL. After looking into it, we decided to stick with REST, because it's easier, we're the only ones using our backend, and all our responses are highly customised for what we're going to use it for. GraphQL would be a lot of extra work for no real gain; maybe we would end up with somewhat less highly customised hard-coded Cypher queries, but then we'd have to figure out how to represent them in GraphQL and translate that to the queries we'd need, and that was not going to be trivial.

In my current project, other people made the opposite decision: they do use GraphQL for a fairly similar use case, and they regret it. It works, but it complicates things for fairly little gain. REST would have worked just as well.
If you checksum garbled data from memory, that checksum is useless. Garbage in, garbage out.
We're forgetting an elephant in the room. REST APIs make it easy to cache data. Do a GET /api/objects/123, and if the object hasn't changed since last time we'll hit the cache. You can't do that with GraphQL, because a URL doesn't descrive a single resource.

What I like doing is to create a REST layer that sits just on top of the database, and a GraphQL layer on top of it that allows all kind of fancy queries. Yes, HTTP is slow and multiple calls for a single request should be avoided if possible. But it's much easier to run server-to-server HTTP calls (especially if the servers live in the same DC or physical machine) than running client-to-server requests.
Work from Anywhere or Getting a Promotion: What Techies Want?
This framing, individuality or collectivism, is a false dichotomy created to reenforce the idea of the superiority of individuality. It's an malignant simplification that requires the effort of critique to realize how it functions as part of a larger assemblage of social machinery.

Nearly all of us operate in a patchwork plurality of social relations formulated on any number of identity perspectives. Sure, some people may read this and go full Amish, but the call to action doesn't seem to be that. The call to action is to take a risk, reach out to that acquaintance when the time is right, and ask, "I know we aren't that close, but I might need some support. Can I count on you?"
yeah it's nothing at all like a normal (ny times) crossword which is full of fun and amazingly clever word play and cultural references. There's no sense of "aha!" or awe at the puzzle's design, no chance to learn interesting facts, no reward for one's own experience/knowledge/problem solving. It's just a tedious guess and check procession.
Great project! Thank you for building this.

Please continue to keep building. We need more projects like this.
I simply don’t understand it. As a Tesla investor from IPO (no current holdings besides a sentimental single paper share), it was exceedingly clear during investor presentations that cells were going to be the bottleneck to mass EV production, and the gigafactory methodology was the path to success. Why did legacy automakers make no effort? My only explanation is that they thought I’d that they were overly confident in the status quo.

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/g...

The first page tells you everything you needed to know. "It always seems impossible until it's done."
Seconded. Pirates is criminally underrated and the best biopic of Jobs/Gates to date.
We need Free Software Co-operatives, but we probably won’t get any (2018)