skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I'm also beginning to suspect that there are people who enjoy hammering others. Giving upvotes is no fun to them, but giving down votes makes their day.

It’s entirely possible, but also pure conjecture unless you’ve got confessions from them.

> If I posted this on meta stack overflow, it would immediately get downvoted. And my post would probably get closed.

Yes, because you’re supposed to search for duplicate questions first and not ask them again. Meta is littered with thousands of prior questions exactly like this one. People have been naysaying for 15 years, but the site has been quite successful. At some point you just have to give up arguing with success.

> Even constructive criticism seems to be illegal there.

Stack Overflow choose a particular set of rules, and not everybody likes them. Few will say that they are perfect, but most will say that they are better than no rules at all.

In particular, one problem with the rules is that new users are usually new to the technology that they are asking about as well. They frequently lack the ability reliably _recognize_ duplicate questions. Some minor details will be different, or the wording will be unexpected, so they fail to get any help from the existing answers. You should see the Emacs Stack Exchange: hardly a week goes by without someone asking how they can add a key binding to do X while in mode Y. Since the answer rarely depends on either X or Y, the answer is invariably the same, but nothing seems to slow them down.

Learning to generalize is not the easiest thing to do. Neither is admitting that our first questions weren’t brilliant. It is difficult to have the grace to recognize that a question was already answered elsewhere, or that we phrased it badly, or that we didn’t do enough research before asking the question. That is a problem that predates Stack Overflow! See http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#stackover... for a resource that goes back even further, and has its roots in Usenet decades earlier still.

Luckily nothing requires you to care about Stack Overflow’s curious rules. If you want a community with different ones, there are plenty tools you could use to create your own. Open–source forum software such as phpBB or Discourse is readily available and already in wide use. There are thousands of existing communities out there that are not part of Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange. Just be courteous and search their archives before you ask the same questions all over again.
Consider that “Don’t ask don’t tell” was a progressive policy in 1994, and reassess whether even in the US things were better for most people then than they are now.

The quickest way to contextualize this article is that it’s like asking crypto true believers to write about crypto a few years ago, just as it was becoming mainstream. Of course someone said there were no real problems on the internet.
What is the difference between asking and demanding, in this case?

> You really think these whiners have leverage?

What makes this whining, and not asking? And strength in numbers. Powerful individuals aren't exactly the same as dozens, if not hundreds, if not more. And Ive wasn't fired. He left at a natural time.
Without needing to build new infrastructure.
Just to be clear, the "capital" here is not really money, but instead, machines and equipment. Think a car company (e.g., Tesla) buying a used car factory (i.e. the NUMMI plant [1]) or a biotech company buying equipment cast off from Genentech or Pfizer.

> To document the interaction between firm and machine age, we lean on 1.56 million transactions covering 70,000 models of machines. Across a wide range of industries and equipment types, young firms acquire older capital, whereas older firms are more likely to buy new capital

This seems to line up with what I've heard from friends in biotech and mechanical companies. One friend lamented that "at Apple, we had the best of everything: suppliers, equipment, machinery. Here, we make do with what we've got and find creative ways to work with them." Similarly, on the YC forums, we often see used lab equipment listed for sale, and there are whole industries around this.

Pretty neat! Definitely a part of the startup or industry network effect I haven't thought of before. I wonder what other examples of startups working with super-janky second-hand machinery are out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI
You know you're right
I miss /~username/ urls.

Also that HTML!

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<TITLE>v6n1 January 1995 Best and Worst</TITLE>

<H1>The Best and Worst of 1994 and

Predictions for '95</H1>

<I>by Eric Berlin</I><P><I>

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No </P>'s to be found :-)
> Sandman.... fans of the show have also gotten frustrated by the show’s aspect ratio, which makes the frames look like they’ve been stretched upward.

This is an intentional choice, the elongation.
Secondly, this has nothing to do with "the Netflix Look" and the author doesn't even try to make a connection...
The far bigger threat is not the code going away but it being censored at the network level. Already, a single miner has censored tornado transactions, that being EtherMine, which has 28% of hashpower. If the next two biggest miners censor it too, assuming hashrates do not change, then all tornado funds will be frozen. Very bad situation for tornado users. POS may change this but no guarantee. People should be mad at EtherMine, not at the US govt.
Are you looking for the ideals I think they're going to have or the likely outcome that I think it's going to result in?
Is that a trick question? The answer is "The newer one", because having the latest iPhone has become a social signifier. I bet you if Apple brings back the 3.5mm jack,airpods will be seen as tacky in record time.
That almost makes sense, except that the money is paid out to the artist, so if you're using a stolen bank account, it remains 'dirty' after the round-trip.

What you'd want to do is use the dirty money for the bots that drive up the revenue, and the clean account for the artist to collect the royalties. This way the artist has plausible deniability, and if the bank account paying for the bots gets busted, it doesn't matter, you can get a new one.
The new constitution they drafted and tried to enact was explicitly religious, so how about freedom of religion for starters?
How is the EUC on slightly rougher roads? The roads around me aren't as well maintained as some places. It's not horrible, but bad enough that my one friend with a OneWheel doesnt like riding around my neighborhood.

I have been considering the EUC as an alternative.
I tend to work with companies in Scotland due to being based in Edinburgh. I make 550-600 a day.

I do iOS development so swift primarily inside some combo swift/c# codebases.
Most cases aren’t that high profile.
Please call the suicide prevention hotline and talk to someone for a few more minutes before you make any final decisions. Please call: 1-800-273-8255 right now.
Anyone have the companion papers?

Soviet Computers in the 1980s: A Review of the Hardware

Is one. I can’t find a copy not behind a pay wall.
This sounds straight out of a Cory Doctorow or Charles Stross story (especially the multi-named takeout restaurant/kitchen).

Edit: or perhaps Bruce Sterling, as I'm sure they'd tell me.
There's a reason my personal PC's name is 'theseus'
From the article: “According to Section 43.23 of the Texas penal code, although it doesn’t clearly state dildos, the law still regulates the possession of ‘obscene devices’”

liberal propaganda derived from an SNL skit.
A reminder that private companies are not exempt from criticism merely because their actions are within the letter of the law.
Retired servers with Xeon can readily be bought used. Be aware the RAM will be ECC, which can also be bought used. Some motherboards are set up for two CPU sockets.

I have three older server-class machines like this. With SSD they are workhorses.
Sorry, but if I’m standing in line to order food at a counter I’m not tipping
I thought "statically linked" just meant that all of the dependency binaries were rolled into the main executable at build time - how could macOS even stop you doing that?

I assume my understanding of static linking is too simplistic though.
> multiple different options whose food would never belong on the same menu together at a dine in restaurant.

Any halfway decent hotel in a major Asian city will happily serve up (approximations of) Chinese stir-fries, Japanese sushi, Indian curries, Italian pizza and American burgers from its restaurant.
Every time someone points out that freedom of speech/press/expression doesn't apply to expression in a private forum they are correct. The owner of the forum has rights... but, there is a very important piece of the story this misses:

Is government the reason GitHub is removing the repo?

If so, then this is exactly an abridgment of rights, and GitHub would be an accomplice to the government is that violation. Government asking for someone's rights to be violiated, no matter how politely they do so, is still a violation of rights.
(I worked for Yelp for over eight years, knew large parts of the codebase, and never once saw any evidence that it was possible to pay to remove bad reviews.)
Apple doesn't pay ARM for licensing.
Unfortunately you're in the minority in my experience. Maybe your colleagues and yourself all act in good faith during negotiations, but they are no longer the majority in a large part of the industry. Many recruiters don't act in good faith with candidates these days, especially as KPI's are getting stretched and firms are starting to close out their recruiting efforts.

For candidates who have this as a dealbreaker with a hard-sell like this, I have one suggestion: Don't tell them it's a deal-breaker, just say you're looking at another offer with this perk and see what they can do. That way it doesn't look like you're gaming their hiring process, nor that you were interviewing in bad faith.
Similar things happened elsewhere. We usually call it colonization or genocide if we acknowledge it at all.

More modern examples are 'the liberalization of the economy' where we make people who were living on and working the commons for survival and a small surplus to trade farm that same land for a massive surplus for someone else to trade who gives them a small wage which they spend on rent.

We then also bring in pennecillin and if they're really lucky get them to build a sewer and attribute all those benefits to having stolen their land and averaging the income of them and their new absentee overlords.

Bonus points if sale of any grain reserves is also forced and it leads to massive famines.
> Should they listen to the pain of their body and not push themselves?

Yes? It's well published science that a half marathon distance reaches the point of negative gains in running. Marathon runners therefore don't continually train at at marathon distances, typical training is in the 10-15k.

More casually, inactive and active recovery are very important to athletes
Never send assets from your wallet to a wallet with KYC data attached to it. That is all.
Also wondering to what extend co-pilot has this particular code embedded.
the skin on chiles is pretty thick and unpleasant (waxy, hard, flavorless). ideally you want to blacken the hell out of the chile exterior. depending on recipe you either peel the chiles at that point or just use them as-is.
Well, there are anti-terrorist task forces in various countries. FBI alone has stopped many threats and continue to do that quite effectively. Federal law enforcement can lawfully work with corporations.

> This is simply a reaction to an extreme that obviously doesn't care about the law, combined with a judicial system that is way behind the times technologically.

Seems naive and glib, there should be a higher bar for throwing the baby + bathwater, the entire justice system, that has served for over 245 years just fine.
This looks so clean.
Society needs to pay for the creation of content. Patreon is a pretty good model.
Sorry for the ambiguity, I meant I shared the feeling with OP that it felt like people around me were selling while I was building, but it can't be so wrong since there's success stories of companies like Notion that similarly focused on building.
> Tech doesn't need Proctor and Gamble equivalents. It needs 2008 Googles.

Then tech is going to have to come up with something as revolutionary as broadband internet and broadband mobile internet. You need a new “space” for new players to out compete new ones in where everyone is starting at or near zero.

Microsoft had computers that had become vastly cheaper, Google/Facebook had ubiquitous broadband internet, and Apple had ubiquitous mobile broadband internet plus battery/mobile processor innovations.
No, I absolutely don't underestimate it. Why would you assume that the far more interesting stories would get more press? No one says "the far more interesting wheel gets the oil". There are loads of contributing factors.
You are still presenting me with abstractly encoded data. \u and u+ are in a higher level of abstraction. The only raw bytes I am seeing here are in the UTF-8 string, which you decided to serialize as hexadecimals (did you had a choice? why?).

If you had all of these expressed as pure hexadecimals (or octals, or any single-byte unit), how would they be serialized?

Then, once all of them are just hexadecimals, how would you go about parsing one of these sequences of hexadecimals into _characters_? (each hexa representing a raw byte, just like in the awk codebase we are talking about)

Another question: do you need first to parse the raw bytes into characters before recognizing graphemes, or can you do it all at once for both variable-length and fixed-length encodings?
Huh? Rigid coax and overtightened or damaged shielding is so much more annoying and more common.
I'm in a similar position and I'm thinking of doing something similar in the coming years. But the one that is really killing my plans is health care. If you don't mind me asking, what did you do about health insurance? Or do you just have enough saved up that its not an issue?
Ironically it was ethermine that did the only censoring
Because I have 0 faith that the people buying blank space are going to be around for long.
Crystalis was my first brush with the aRPG genre as a kid; in fact, when I first played Diablo II, I thought "Wow, this game is like Crystalis, but with better graphics and more choices! In college, when I would tell people about the "hidden gem" that was Crystalis, I always thought it was one of those "peak platform" games where people had finally really gotten comfortable with a platform and managed to crank out games that took advantage of everything possible.

The art looked great AND the movement/animations were smooth, too. A lot of the third-tier sword effects blew me away.

Incidentally, I knew the author in college. He's a tremendous fan of NES/SNES-era games (especially platformers) and was most recently a judge on the Make a Good Mega Man Level 3 (http://magmmlcontest.com/wiki/index.php/Make_a_Good_Mega_Man...). I've always admired his self-taught game design/user experience sense because I've seen it grow over the years and was a part of playtesting some of his level designs! He's a tremendously kind and thoughtful guy.

I believe a level he designed actually made it into an official Mega Man collection from Capcom, but I can't remember which one...
why not use an adblocker?
I believe digs.fm is partly powered by MusicBrainz already, hurray :D
Tauri bundle size is 2.5 mb or 25 mb ?
This seems dumb, to keep relying on the Microsoft company when we got a whole internet and distributed filesystems etc. exactly for this sort of thing.

Specifically, it seems dumb to continue the idea of "github is where all the code is."
How is supply side economics, with tax reductions the main focus, not also driving demand?
I agree, it’s seems unlikely they will have another transition as they now control their own destiny.

The fact that Arm64 doesn’t have compressed instructions is obviously a very deliberate choice, thus I can’t agree with the notion that RISC-V compressed instructions could be a potential “advantage” over Arm64. Their absence is a massive advantage in many ways that I have explained over and over on HN and it’s the single biggest stupidity in RISC-V for high-end perf (not microcontrollers).
> NeXT never made their own hardware so they designed it that way from the start

When I think NeXT, I think the NeXTcube (1990-1993) [0], which apparently also had a predecessor in the NeXT Computer (1988-1991) [1]. NeXT made their own hardware for a solid chunk (nearly half) of their lifespan, and NeXTSTEP was originally released with the NeXT Computer [2]. It didn't even support CPU architectures other than the Motorola 68k series until 1993, around the demise of the NeXTcube! I think its ultimate portability probably has more to do with being a UNIX at its core (so a battle-tested design written in somewhat portable C) plus a user environment written in a higher-level, easier to port language (Objective-C).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTcube
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP
Capital is often a product of labor plus input capital.

Most startups understand this well.

It's basically impossible to bootstrap something with labor alone
My thinking is, if the food is good, I couldn't care less if they are selling sushi, lawn furniture, plumbing supplies, and car insurance out of the same building.

If the food is not good, see above.

And if Uber Eats is dumb enough to fall for 10 Indian restaurants with the same physical street address and controlling interest, well... party on.
> hey, I like your site and will pay $1,000,000 a year to see it without ads that might be a deal you would take?

Depends on who the second place bidder is and what their bid is. Depends on what my site is. Depends on what my longterm goals are.

Remember that I have 0 confidence that the magic buying ad space and leaving it blank company will be around for long.

> conceptually isn't a site/service provider selling the ad space to the highest bidder already? Isn't the goal to max out that revenue?

Kind of and no. There are plenty of ways to maximize revenue today that fuck you tomorrow. My Bible sales website might get a ton of ad money from PornHub today as a gag but it’s not good for business.
Apple would still have a lot of people who relived the same situation during the IBM days.

If you're getting hints that your chip vendor is not aligned then you better have a backup plan.
I'm not too sure about the accuracy of the sensor IDs. I've supposedly seen several abarth spiders pass by my house but I've never actually seen one in person around me, they're not common near me.
The top left one is clearly an ape in a hoodie, right on point.
AFAIK it has always been relatively weak economically - consider that heavy industry used to be a big deal economically, and heavy industry was in the West. But the region did have some high tech industries such as aircraft, optical, electronics. Semiconductors are in that line of tradition.
> for an early NES game

My minor quibble is that I don't consider Crystalis to be an early NES game. We're talking about an early 1990 Japanese release for Crystalis; the Super Famicom came out in Japan in late 1990.

That's 4 years after Legend of Zelda was released in Japan (1986). A lot can change in 4 years -- especially back then! Though to be fair, I don't really think of Legend of Zelda as an early NES release either. I usually reserve that definition for things like Donkey Kong or the original (pre-Super) Mario Bros.

But I agree otherwise: I thought Crystalis was fantastic -- especially for its time!
Super good question. I owned and used NeXT slabs, 1992 - 1999.

The Mach-as-microkernel thing couldn't have helped portability. The Mach task, port, thread and pager abstractions seem like they'd be difficult to port, but I could be wrong.

I read at the time that NeXTStep the GUI ran faster on Solaris than on Mach, because pipes and sockets were faster than Mach ports. So I'll believe the very little assembly.

I suspect that Mach-O file format had something to do with the portability, you can put arbitrary sections in it. Some NeXT games kept image and sound "files" in a single huge Mach-O executable.
The hardware was garbage too. I ripped that crap out of a place that went all in with some IBM/Lucent ATM solution.

I remember they would have a failure a couple of times a week where some switches would freeze up. Someone would send an alert and a data center operator would plug a null modem cable into the switch and remove it. That would un-fubar the switch.
Well, they're more likely to not vote Republican, for starters. That's a good thing, almost always.
Labor scarcity is the only real driver of labor value.

Someone with a laptop might be able to route a million times more packages than someone with a notebook and pen.

Take away the laptop representing capital can you get a sense of the labor contribution
"Money laundering requires all three aspects"

What are the aspects?
> just dreamed up

Please.
And on the file level, it is! But then do you as a music player / streaming service display that all the time, when most people are not listening to classical music and do not care about the composer? Do you make the user manage which columns are visible? (Almost every HN user misses when more software did this. Almost every normal user found it confusing/annoying.) What about publishers who do not give a damn that Johann Sebastian Bach did not perform this digital recording because they know it'll SEO way better to have him in the artist field? Now are you displaying all that inconsistency?
I mean if they don't want to because of someone's race then that is against the law. Same with religion. So start a religion that incorporates these ideals.
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If that's the direction you want to go, retired Xeon-based workstations (HP Z, Dell Precision, etc.) also sell for less than new high-end desktop CPUs, have well-engineered, if proprietary, case designs, and still allow you to bring your own storage and PCIe cards. Power consumption may or may not tip the scales against their favor, though, depending on your location and applications.
I've never thought that "naming things" meant keeping track of the name or anything, but that's hard too. I've always thought it meant the descriptive aspect of naming.
"Falsehoods programmers believe about X" articles inevitably become a discussion about niche anthropology facts.

No programmer has ever cared about Lady Day when writing a program. And if they did, by definition, they would understand it's significance.
I think some of that may depend on external factors.

If AWS Graviton or Microsoft ARM significantly grows then it might force Apple to be aligned with ARM64 but just with their own extensions. Because one of the big blockers for developers during the transition to M1 was having all of the CLI tools being available. And they were only available on day one because of demand from AWS users etc.
Technically: A database of common tech terms, explained quickly and simply
But thats the thing.... there is no documentation..
From my understanding, it is way more costly to miss the gold than to get some cruft.