skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they even want that? They paid 15% of their market cap (30 considering the drop) for a new shiny toy, and now they would just… cash it?
Doesn't make any sense, their incentive is to keep it great and working.
Whether they can is a completely different matter.
Industry interests typically win out over solicitude for the health and well-being of individual or collective humans.

There will always be a new fad "superfood" like pomegranate or acai berry, because there is some farmer's collective that needs to pump their crop into the headlines.

There will always be mass injection of bad stuff into the food chain, such as HFCS, because heavily subsidized crops produce an oversupply to be dumped. (Have you ever noticed that "corn" is never on lists of FDA allergens?)

There will always be hucksters and snake-oil salesmen (the bad kind; real snake oil is known to indigenous tribes to have healing properties). Dr. Oz and infomercials will need to push supplements and "the latest research" because they have a bill of goods to sell you.

My family was caught up in every fad diet throughout the 70s and 80s, and we suffered as a result. There was never any reason for us to eschew eggs and their yolks, or butter or full-fat milk. There were plenty of reasons for us to avoid drinking water with massive doses of fluoride. My father is a scientist who knows the environmental dangers of radiation, asbestos and other lab chemicals, yet he tacitly approved of the onslaught of crap which we routinely purchased from the corner grocery store.
The article is not about being awake. It is about something else which I am struggling to understand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32705037
One of the issues with that second bracket is there are not many cases that supports it. Mac Pro, HP workstations and desktop servers, and old, cheap looking, bent metal “DOS/V” cases has it, but modern “EATX” cases often don’t. It also cannot support too much weight.

Indeed, PCI standards were for adding interfaces to personal desktop computers after all. It does seem ill suited to host 450W cooperative sub-computers.

A more common approach to heavy expansion card is VME style chassis design. Off top of my head, NeXTcube, NEC C Bus, Eurocard uses this arrangement in consumer space, and many blade servers enclosures, carrier grade routers, and military digital equipments employ similar designs as well.
I think some separation time from his project will help him understand that the market did not agree with him.
Well we could start here and now by reporting load sizes/site footprint in bytes which wouldn't look out of place on hn, along with badges for cookie consent dialogs, ga usage, non-responsive design, high energy consumption flags for sites that suck the last power out of your mobile, and other non-desiderata. Or just mark a site as requiring JavaScript so we can avoid it. DDG should be doing the same.
Not sure about this particular solution, but I really think antitrust is where it's at. Big companies should do big things, not collect many little things under their umbrella. If you're going to do big things (or even big collections of little things) then be regulated because your outcomes affect so many others.

I don't think antitrust does much to Twitter. So that reduces its popularity as a solution among politicians. I feel like politicians ceded their power to Twitter. So I write it off as 'you made your bed, now lie in it'.
Really very good samples
If this were to happen today, it would become a diplomatic incident with each side pointing fingers and blaming the other.

I wonder why that didn't happen then?
From what I understand from past discussions on HN, it is legitimately hard and convoluted to pay remote workers in Africa for example.
Your bank might just not want to do it, or make it complicated.

I recall Nigerians and Ethiopians mentioning how cryptocurrencies have allowed them to more easily work with western clients or employers.

Kainda sad how all else is either hard to use or skimms too much off the top.
Do you think we’ll actually see 500mil+ die in India directly from heat & heat related issues in the next 100 years?

I’m very much starting to think we may, but I’m at least hoping they may be able to save themselves from catastrophe via nuclear energy & engineering.
I find The Atlantic unreadable unless I disable JavaScript.
Thanks for the casual misogyny.
Yes, the FBI was doing their job and investigating the Clinton server. The media was doing its job and reporting on it. People were posting about it openly on social media without any FBI interference. Nobody was lying and calling it Russian disinformation. It's not the FBI's job to worry about whether or not its investigations impact the election. In fact, it's specifically the FBI's job not to worry about this.

What does this have to do with the FBI trying to suppress the Hunter Biden story on social media?
I wonder if perhaps faulty dosimetry was suspected?

Or perhaps the US team brought their own nuclear powered equipment which might have been causing it?
Sheesh, the ability to alias char to anything has some serious consequences on optimization, huh.

It's unfortunate, because what is likely an obscure case (where the user of the function call intends to alias things in the very container they are using) is a minority use case but it ruins the situation for most other code.
Super Earths are easy to find and super common but I am almost betting the most life will be found in gas giant moons. Even though we don’t have any gas giants in our own system that have Earth-sized rocky moons, each one of ours has half a dozen “almost-there” moons. A civilisation developing around a gas giant with multiple habitable and easily accessible moons would be very interesting.
Wait, my bad, I always forget that Skype was also available for consumers, and that part definitely had a Linux client.

What I meant was Skype for Business. I had to use a Windows VM, which only use was running Skype for Business so that I could join meetings and call colleagues etc.
This is pretty amazing. I particularly like that it can live in a git repo as a sort of bolted-on project tracker.

Anyone know of a similar thing for issue tracking?
Personally feel that a better solution long term is Ethereum L2 payouts.
For some inspiration, https://coffeetablemags.de/collections/magazines

(No affiliation whatsoever)
What always annoys me is that with air cooled gpu the hot air goes down.
The people in my dreams are also often not proportional to the amount I see them in real life. I've found that I at least remember mainly dreams which had a strong emotional footprint, and teenage years definitely have the largest one.
Right but in this case, Braintrust's governance is based on token holders, the talent who actually put their work up on the platform. Braintrust is paid for via a 10% fee on client success. This is a relationship where labor ownership is baked into the platform.
1 degree isn't really going to do very much is it?

That's the current best estimate for warming in the time period you are suggesting.

India has a bigger problem with feeding it's population which is likely to be the biggest in the world by that point.

To suggest to the most populated place in the world in 2050 will have no people is hyperbolic.

The gates foundation has the best estimates on this topic and their estimates also suggest growth in the region.
Oh, hi Tim Sweeney.
I do think so. Nuclear energy is great but it doesn't take carbon already in the air, so technologies would need to be developed for that. I am a techno-optimist but we are on the precipice in terms of how much time we have left.
As someone who usually avoids docker as well: I like to know what I am running. Docker adds an extra layer of obscurity and it is typically easy to get lazy and "just run" a container.

Just like you should have the habbit of checking random bash scripts you download before executing them, I think there is value in knowing the moving parts of the stuff you run.
Very interesting, and love the way Colin Hegarty took it, it's probably never worth to drag kids to court etc.
Desktop bandwidth is improving over time, but as I understand HTTP Archive is still using a 5 Mbps cable connection.

From their FAQ/changelog [1]:

> 19 Mar 2013: The default connection speed was increased from DSL (1.5 mbps) to Cable (5.0 mbps). This only affects IE (not iPhone).

There was another popular article on HN a while ago [2], claiming mobile websites had gotten slower since 2011. But actually HTTP Archive just started using a slower mobile connection in 2013. I wrote more about that issue with the HTTP Archive data at the time [3].

[1] https://httparchive.org/faq
[2] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/
[3] https://www.debugbear.com/blog/is-the-web-getting-slower
Did Synopsys design the DDR5 controller by any chance?
I think this is right. To me the Google pixel photos look unnatural. But everything (dark areas to bright areas) is very clearly visible and it has a certain professional look to it. I can see why people like it. But to me, it looks unnatural.

Maybe it’s a matter of getting used to.
Privacy watchdog steps up fight against Europol's hoarding of personal data
Some adults happen to have a life outside of their computer, and thus have little time to video game. Having a life outside of a computer is correlated with things like families and serious & involved hobbies - things people develop well later in life...
The Silicon Valley elite’s latest status symbol: Chickens (2018)
I stopped reading the article when the author has started to write about protein. It is impossible to eat enough calories to function normally and not to get enough protein from any unprocessed food source.

In fact modern focus on protein is another myth based on superstition.
Nihilism solves nothing. Not caring is not a win.
I thought the market did agree with him. Adobe's stock went down because the market, like the author, thought they paid too much, right?
All the big ones do already.
As a Brit now living in California I agree with your sentiment but a 10 hour drive for a week long trip was pretty routine in my childhood, usually once or twice a year.

Either visiting family in Cornwall (400 mile, 12 hour trip when we were young kids before the roads were improved, 8 hours when we were older) or camping holidays in France (usually two weeks.)
Well… Suitable for life is not synonymous with convenient for humans. For one, a super Earth makes space exploration much harder - Earth itself is very hard to leave with chemical rockets alone.
Because eurodollars have fewer regulations (for good and for bad, such as FDIC reserve requirements) around them, eurodollar deposits can generate higher interest rates than equivalent USD-denominated deposits. Saying a eurodollar is identical to a USD is a stretch as regulatory regimes, and as such risk, are different between them.
nowadays, you can just ask about astrology. It's both obviously wrong and socially acceptable to believe in. It filters a solid 30% of the population, at least in my country.
Yes, why? My thought exactly.
Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind – Official Nvidia RTX Remix Overview
Regarding the justifications for Figma's price:

> most startups cut their valuation by a lot in 2022

Most startups are not used by every single other startup, whereas I would be very surprised if any startup doesn't use Figma for UI design. I've never used Canva and never heard a company using it. The only time I heard of Canva is to create a nice looking CV. Comparing outliers to the average/most isn't very helpful.

> Another way to peek at a startup’s valuation is by revenue and growth multiplier.

That is clearly not the only factor in valuation. It also depends on Figma's cash, founders desperation (very low, especially to sell out to Adobe), acquirers desperation (very high), how unique is Figma (Sketch, Adobe XD and Canva are way worse), and loads more factors.

I would guess the real reason the Adobe price tanked was because it was a huge admission of defeat. Previously, you can't see how bad Adobe XD has performed, and now you know it's so low it doesn't matter. They can't build something people want. Nobody wants to use Adobe XD, even when IIRC, it was free at one point.
>> The future of work

Heck, if the future of work is limited freelance gigs, without any workers rights and protection, and being paid in potentially worthless crypto tokens, it is a very ugly future.
How do the Gracchi fit in here? They were certainly populist, but decidedly not socially conservative.
Maybe not a good practice but I've recently discovered that caches respect the Cache-Control header even for 301s. This can make 301s not really permanent and give more control on the caching behavior
There is always a cyberpunk feel of weird hardware and weird OSes clobbered together with wires and sticky notes.
A man running alongside your car window, jumping over obstacles. Technically this game already exists, but it would be interesting to combine with this demo.
It would also strongly motivate the inhabitants of the planet to permanently leave it.
> so they look back at that time as peak-anxiety

ok, that tracks because I don't look back on that as peak-anxiety, and I don't have dreams about being back in school. But I do have dreams about peak anxiety events that I will not be sharing here.
wat? who's using the results without reading it and writing tests? not many bugs should be slipping by
American law forces all US-controlled companies to relay user data to various govern agencies without any real oversight. EU is protecting their citizens too.

Even US is doing the same, see TikTok.
It doesn't seem to be the same situation with tor exit nodes, where your node is automatically on the system. Here, it looks like people have to actively use your proxy; it tells people who run a proxy to share a URL with their friends.

Probably helpful context: [Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community] https://signal.org/blog/run-a-proxy/
It is. The person you're replying to was naïve, and still is.

It's true: Adding stuff to Wikipedia or OSM can help bad guys get information, and this can have negative effects for you. But the person you're replying to assumes naïvely that this is perceiptibly worse than the negative effects of bad luck. You're going to have bad luck in your life, that's in the nature of luck.

I added the location of a specialist shop that sells mostly grappa. Someone might find that shop with the information I added, buy and drink too much grappa, drive a car and drive over me. It could happen. But thinking that this is perceptibly worse for me than if I hadn't added that location is naïve.

Similarly, your country could introduce a retroactive law prohibiting proxies or introducing some form of liability, and when the Iranians send a list of IP addresses your country gaols you. It could happen, but is it probable enough to be compared to the effects of bad luck on your future life?
Your father's books are real treasures. Were it my library, they would have a place of honor.

I want to put your post in the context of yesterday's HN front-page post lambasting the EU for trying to build a better search engine. The bulk of the comments suggested that a government effort could never be as good as a commercial effort.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32915263#32916945

Your post is a strong counter-argument. All of the points you mention on the massive decline in quality of web content are due to the web being driven by commercial efforts.

Likewise, comments on this current HN front-page post "Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32945858
also seem to explain the poor state of the web as being due to commercialization of everything (even the comments about the need for cookie banners-- the logic behind the cookie consent is to regulate the commercial collection of user data).

Google started as a DARPA project, and was a great engine while it stayed true to that ethos. It was the need to commercialize it, thus setting perverse business incentives, which has destroyed it.

Your post praises libraries. Which are seldom commercial ventures.

The economics are simple. I don't know why this even continues to be a debate on HN.

- A socially created entity (corporation, government, "charitable" organization, ...) needs money to function.

- Money comes from capturing a portion of the value created by the organization.

- The most efficient organizational structure depends on the relationship between value creation and value capture.

Thus: if the product/service generates immediate and focused value, the value capture can be directly linked to the product and a business is optimal. Think: a hamburger.

If the product/service generates long-term and diffuse value, the value capture also needs to be diffused, i.e. taxes. Thus a government. Think: the road network which allows the raw materials and the customers to get to the hamburger store.

I leave the case for charitable orgs as an exercise for the reader :)

disclaimer: strongly pro-business, have founded 2 personally, assisted several others.
486 ALU stuff is mostly 1 cycles as well (other than shifts, MUL and DIV, and all the weird stuff like AAD), as well as stores and loads. Taken conditional jumps are 3 cycles, non-taken 1 cycle, so loop unrolling helps a lot on 486.

You can approach 0.8 IPC on 486, assuming you know about AGI stalls and other quirks.

General 486-era C-compiler produced code, though, would be lucky to hit 0.4 IPC.
AFAIK, that was the situation at least in 2016, per media articles back at the time [1]:

> And E Ink, the company, has such a patent moat that it has acted as a monopoly, which Behzadi says has kept prices perhaps too high. But E Ink lost a big patent fight in 2015, and the market could expand soon.

The fact that almost everyone wants e-Ink technology, but e-Ink prices still are still really high [2][3] leads me to believe that either there are still patents at play that prevent competition from rising up, or that the competition hasn't managed to catch up for some other reason. It might also be the case that all of this is simply due to the aftershock of COVID supply chain disruptions, in any case I haven't found a better explanation yet.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/05/get-ready-world-covered-electr...

[2] https://www.digikey.de/de/products/detail/e-ink-corporation/...

[3] https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/e-ink-has-gallery-plus-...
It has never been easier to share knowledge, and thus there has never been a greater time to be curious.

Encyclopaedia Britannica is still there, and it's great. But there's also an army of content creators are there to teach you just about anything. If one source doesn't do it, you have more to choose from.

Yesterday, I read an article about North Africa that mentioned in passing Qaddafi's underground river. A few minutes later I was watching a documentary about it, then a variety of videos about that man. My information binge extended to other African dictators, and will probably last a few days longer.

If I'm curious about something, I can go really deep. I'm not constrained to a few paragraphs in whatever book my local library carries.

You could argue that the web is in a sorry state, but if that's the cost of giving everyone, everywhere access to all this knowledge, then it's a deal worth making. This might be more obvious to someone who did not have access to a well-stocked library.

The problem is not availability, but curation. The sum of all knowledge back then was a well-curated book. Now it's literally all of it, unfiltered.
Are there open source projects where you need to pay royalties to use them?
8-bit Guy has a great video on the history of the demo scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdh5I7F1oMs
https://archive.ph/GqBmF
Briefly, EMI.
I do not like how your city planners put pedestrian crossings on blind curves. That's really bad design that could lead to accidents.

P.S. It's a joke. This is a really well executed demo.
The biggest “belief-system” group to blame here are just doctors. I know this is a highly controversial opinion, but we should stop listening to doctors because they’re “doctors” and start fact-checking them.

Most Drs I know have NO idea of the basics principles of statistics. They just repeat things, eg “fat is bad, a healthy diet has a base of >=50% grain”.

When you ask them where they get that from, they tell you they read it while in school (in the 90s), from a book that was edited in the 70s, that took it from a study conducted in the 60s, that is just an appeal to P-hacking.
Cool Work! Look into Digital Weaving for the 'Flow'

Example: https://bit.ly/3BGRmyc

https://www.deviantart.com/megather109/art/Dragon-Bites-the-...
Don't forget that new release of Java is coming out every 6 months and that (almost) every one of them brings some core language improvement aimed at reducing verbosity. New long-term release is out every 2 years. How many C releases were there in the last 10 years?
Sexual education is not 'talking dirty' and 3rd graders are usually around 9 years old.
Yes. It's always a cat and mouse game. Whether they are actually smart enough to think of it is a different question.
https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue
Is Marshal still tied to Ruby version? Boy was this fun about ten years ago for a system I inherited that Marshaled huge complex objects into TokyoTyrant and back. You try migrating or upgrading a system where the runtime version is tied to EVERY object in a database.
I think a start would be providing an extra screw hole in a standardized place, so that case manifacturers can design for this, instead of putting the card between 2 plastic clamps. A problem here would be length differences in cards though. But I think that it being in the middle of most long cards, and at the end of the smallest card isn't the craziest idea.
How is is not illegal? The details are basically "PII EU resident data cannot be given to companies falling under legislation of governments not following due process regarding access of PII belonging to those residents" + "The US government regards itself above anything else and does not follow due process when accessing PII of EU citicens stored on premise of companies falling under its legislation" => "EU law does not allow transfer of EU residents PII to US companies". There's no "proper procedures" when it comes to protecting data stored by US companies from the US government.
>"females" has suddenly become an offensive word.

This is a trend lately. Black, master, slave tend to become forbidden words.
The planet is revolving and evolving.
The estimate is for climate and is a world average. The actual weather is expected to get more extreme on both ends, so that means India is looking at higher temperature swings up in the summer. No citations because I'm on a phone but they're not hard to find.
Oh yeah I totally get you, I just added the disclaimer about it taking me 20 min because I didn't want people to think I was trying to brag/flex about doing it in 5 min, which I didn't do and don't want to try to claim any credit for.
AP5 from a programmer's point of view (1990)
L2s are still pretty young. Polygon is popular but is ultimately a sidechain. Optimism hasn't rolled out fully. I understand why some would not want to trust L2s yet.
Mexico earthquake creates 'desert tsunami' 1500 miles away in Death Valley
We don't _need_ new motherboards. Just stop standing the things up on their side. Horizontal case, no problems.
You need Steve for that kind of testing, LTT would be busy putting rgb on it and then (badly) water cooling it so they could sell you a backpack with no warranty.