skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I comment on an old thread on HN, it's probably because I haven't noticed that it's old, because I agree there's not much point commenting on a thread where your comment is unlikely to be read by anyone.

On Reddit, where threads seem to hang around for longer, I might comment on an older thread if I think my response will be helpful to others, but not just to voice my opinions.
I've been WFH since 2009 and wouldn't trade it for anything but surprised me, I didn't expect so many people turning down non remote jobs.

I agree, companies that don't adapt will be loosing talents.
Have I Been Squatted?
why does that make it the worst possible example?
The broken relationship between engineering and cloud bill owners
This is probably the clearest explanation of exactly what users can do to (non-mentarily) support an open-source project that I have seen to date.
By assembling parts of the probes and launching from there for example. It would require a lot of time initially, that's why I specified in the long run.
the giant conveyer belt feels like the punch cards of old computers, wonderful video and great editing!
But I'm never going to get 750,000 km out of a model 3, the suspension or other moving parts are going to give out first. So I can sell ~500,000 km worth of battery range without losing any actual range.
Its a bit like saying glue and nails isn't necessary to build a house. You should be able to do everything with precision joinery! Many times we are doing a renovation where a good portion makes it impossible to do precision joinery.
Would be interesting to know if benchmarks run faster with a better cooler. It could be at the thermal limit in both cases, just at different clock speeds.
Ask HN: Recovering Facebook Account
I feel bad asking here, but I have a family friend dying of cancer. His wife is obsessed with restoring their facebook [1] account - it was recently hacked for the donations balances (we think). They have followed all the advice on the help sections. Does FB have any way to contact a customer support rep? I feel even worse reaching out to my contacts in FB, but, trying that as well.

[1] probably a way to just deal with the coming death, just avoidance.
And 1 year ago figma said they don’t want to be adobe.
Hey, gigs looks super neat--I couldn't find any information on the markets you're in. We operate in subsaharan Africa, so don't want to take time from your sales team if that's not a good fit, but I couldn't find anything on your notion that was publicly available.
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It's not the same. Many core on lower frequency is efficient than fewer core on high frequency, even if TDP is same.
Are you saying you would prefer all blog posts to be header by the same undifferentiated photo of a blue sky? I'm not quite getting what you're saying here.

I mean, if a person is only ever going to write a single blog post, then yes, absolutely, post a personal photo of something beautiful. Why not? But if a person might post more than one blog post, then presumably there's some motivation to tying each (required) photo to the post in question in some way, even if tangential, right?
Do you have some documentation for this? All I could find[1] pointed to them only supporting OAuth, similar to Microsoft.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-smtp
Yeah, it felt so wrong to see Lem up there. The fact that he was renowned in Soviet Union does not make him any Soviet. From what I've read of his works + his biography, he reminds me more of early US science-fiction writers than any of soviet ones.
Yes. I'm missing an unusual screw from the armrest of my office Ekornes Stressless chair, and the closest Amazon length didn't work. I've seen the Mcmaster website before, but thanks for the reminder! I jumped on it, found the right screw in seconds.
I'm not sure why you jumped to the conclusion that my observation was pro-Brexit. There's literally nothing in what I said that suggests that. I was only pointing out that it seems like its mostly factors outside of Brexit that have lead to this situation.
Hi Bron - love Fastmail and the innovation you leading.

Question: what do you think is the rough timing on Calendar/Sharing/Contacts/Tasks to be ratified? Within the next year, 2-years, etc?
AFAIK that's because the new tab behavior keeps web apps' state intact. When the web was more static, opening the image in current tab was fine. But nowadays you'd just lose your place on an app-site so the new tab option gets you your image in full view but prevents bungling up the app.
any reference to that? I would like to read more
SimCity 2000 - Newspapers
The sine function, defined as x-x^3/3!+... doesn't take argument scaled in radians. It takes real numbers. It has nothing to do with radians, really. Or even with angles.

The other sine function, defined using right triangles takes argument in Angles, also has nothing to do with the measuring unit.

(Also I don't know who told you that log() denotes log_e. Maybe in your narrow environment, but definitely not universal between fields and languages. Personally I prefer ln, ld and lb for natural, decimal and binary logarithms.)
I feel like "managing bug reports" is something missing from the list OP posted.

Getting information and logs from users, checking if a new bug is a duplicate, attempting to reproduce bugs, and triaging, are all things that can take a long time, but don't necessarily need to be done by a developer.
Are you part of the OSlash team? If so, how do I delete my account? Gave it a try and decided it's not the right fit for me, but I can't seem to find where I'm able to delete my account.
I didn't mention it in the article because the article is hosted on the same domain (with a link to it at very top of page) so thought it was quite obvious.

Also I wanted it to stand alone as an essay to see what people thought. If i linked to the product within the article it would turn the whole article into an advert rather than an essay
I thought active and free recall were both superior to mixed encoding and interleaved practice. Is there a study linking more encoding to enhanced active recall? From what I understand, the suggestion is to add desirable difficulty (which I guess leads to better encoding, but different encodings dont nefessarily add desirable difficulty).
> untested combination of reducing tax (for high earners) and increasing borrowing

Oh, it was tested: in 1972 the Conservative government tried this, and it didn't go well.
I recently took a Spanish rental car to Portugal for more than a month. I registered the license plate number and a credit card on the Portuguese tolls website.

I then used a bunch of toll highways that were "electronic only" and received the appropriate charges on my credit card a few days later.

I think if you're going to set up a toll system in the future, then this is the tech you're going to use. Not RFID or transponders. Just read the license plate and charge the user.

There were options, BTW, to pay in cash, with pre-paid cards, etc, that didn't directly tie your identity to the plate. But I assume the rental agency will tie me to the plate, so used my credit card anyway.
responses* to all the great discussion:

1. the problem solved by the openziti platform is making secure networking simpler and stronger for dev, ops and sec teams.

2. to solve this problem, openziti provides functions such as mtls; strong IDs with automated enrollment; outbound session initiation (initiated by client or server side and bridged by proxies...such that inbound firewall rulesets become deny-all); programmable cloud native overlay network which only accepts cryptographically authorized sessions.

3. app-embedded via OpenZiti SDKs means no separate agent required. your private overlay network goes wherever your app goes. other options include agents and gateways, as well as embedding in browsers, proxies, etc.

* i work for netfoundry - we built saas on top of openziti
Jeff Eldred Introduces Solomonoff Induction
I don't have a company but whenever I used to work on side-projects that I thought would lead to a company, I would use Laravel + MySQL + VPS. And whenever I worked on projects just for fun, I would use Nodejs + React + MongoDB.

The reason for this was because PHP developers are cheaper. So if project takes off, it will be cheaper to hire PHP devs.

JavaScript is better as an employee since JS/Node/React devs are more in demand and pays better.
And put their reputation as an abusive workplace at risk? Slim chance
We went through HubSpot trial and didn’t convert at the end.

1. We don't have a sales team.
2. Our content is all markdown based and stored in Git, so we can't use their CMS and analytics.

We end up managing CMS in a table.
Pretty sure 7900x has fewer cores/threads.
I don’t think it’s a question of whether or not society is capable. If we had to, we’d find a way to switch calendaring systems.

It’s more about pragmatism and priority. The world is filled with big problems that require global collaboration.

Collaboration on such a scale is hard. That we don’t spend time revamping a working system while other systems crumble and burn is arguably a good thing. It means we’re still at least aware of what matters.

There is nothing vestigial about time tracking. You can argue that the names of things are no longer useful, but at that point it’s time to throw out much of our language.
People will upvote this comment.
[Story Placard]

This submission was inspired by the eerily SimCity 2000-esque real-life headline:

"Amazon walking back raises after internal bug miscalculated their compensation"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982398
At this point the falling pound is a one way bet. The Bank of England has been incredibly slow in dealing with inflationary issues in the UK, raising interest rates by only .25 percent when inflation was rocketing. The pounds been falling for a few months and they've made no effort to prop it up.

The dollar is extremely strong, but the bank has been sleeping on the job a bit as well. They're going to have to raise rates sharply because it's become such a no brainer short now. But hey, at least UK interest rates are returning to trend now.
It's a GPGPU offline attack against a hash that can be recovered from a turned off system. So is only realistically useful to learn your password habits. I once cracked my forgotten password this way.
That's an obfuscation from the blog post. If you read further down in the code that is mentioned, the actual computation of sin is done by a polynomial expansion in x (radians), not y (turns). The purpose of y is mainly in case x is more than pi, and if so, what the corresponding angle in [0,pi/4) is.
Look at ChatWoot[1] too. It has a an OpenSource[2] self-host option. They claim to be a customer engagement suite, an alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. I have no relationship with them.

1. https://www.chatwoot.com/

2. https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot
This is my request for CPU review. It's good way to know core efficiency. TDP or turbo watts is now artificially set very high by manufacturer but not efficient. Maybe reviewers are too busy to take many benchmarks before embargo.
Viruses exist on a much smaller space time scale than human and they evolve and mutate much faster. In fact, we are in a constant arms race with pathogens (see development of antibiotics and the rise of antibiotic resistance).

As far as I know, bear cubs, wolf cubs, tiny lizards, etc have been cute for the entirety of recorded history, and probably much longer.

So that does not seem like a very apt comparison.

Also I think that you are conflating the survival mechanism of an organism - for example malaria latency - with a maladaptive immune response of the host - for example cytokine storm.
I recall as a kid, getting right up close to the screen and looking at the picture on the TV and noticing the lines. Further away from the TV, then yes, the lines were not visible.
You’re thinking about books, but the content that everyone was trying to claim copyright over at the time was news, in newspapers (broadsheets.)

It was pretty easy to “pirate” someone else’s single-spread daily newspaper — rote copying of someone else’s layout and typesetting for a single spread, split between 2–4 skilled hands, being only the work of an hour or so. If you got your fonts from the same foundry, the result might even be indistinguishable from the original!

I don't know this part for a fact, but it's pretty easy to imagine that the "news stands" of the day were vertically integrated affairs, owned by the particular newspapers themselves. But like a newsstand of today, they likely wanted to cross-sell one-another's papers as well — capture the other guy's foot-traffic, and sell them a pack of gum while they're here. But probably each newspaper wouldn't allow their competitor to buy their own paper for resale. Or, if they did, it'd be at an unprofitable markup. Bootlegging your competitor's paper, to sell in your newsstands alongside your own paper, works neatly around both problems. (And, if you're really underhanded, maybe you might even cut distribution deals to be the supplier of your competitor's paper through non-newsstand sales channels — commoditizing and thus cheapening their paper, while yours retains the exclusivity of being sold only in your newsstand.)

Fun actual fact: newspaper piracy is in part why newspapers were on the forefront of commissioning their own proprietary typefaces. They wanted a “signature” style, to make it harder for their competitors to sell pirate copies of their work — especially ones with alterations slipped in! Typefaces were effectively cryptographic signing for newspapers.
Awesome, thank you! Looking forward to it
Guess it depends. I haven't had a CRT TV for many years, but I have an old multisync CRT monitor and I can clearly see the individual raster lines (close up of 320x200 progressive scan: https://i.imgur.com/Osc4ZMm.jpeg). At normal viewing distances it's not noticeable though.
An ACE2-dependent Sarbecovirus in Russian bats is resistant to SARS-CoV2 vaccine
> "There must be job market value in it."

Then the answer is simple, look at the jobs you want that use FP and learn that stack. In my region that'd mean Clojure and Scala.
As far as I can tell, Searle is a bit like Noam Chomsky: deservedly famous for work on language and also for his anti-war work. He then wrote an absolutely abysmal paper on artificial intelligence, and everybody got wrapped up in it.

The Chinese room argument has no merit whatsoever, and should be forgotten. Millions of better things have been said on the subject. But Searle, being famous, gets the mindshare.
For both productivity and practical reasons (the game still has to be somewhat playable), the use of pragmas to disable optimizations for the file/function of interest is generally recommended over a full debug build.
Adding to this: Don't jump aboard wearing your dirty working jumpsuit smeared with paint, cement, oil. Also stop loudly arguing with your partner over phone. Get your shoes off the chairs.
This probably goes along with a resentment of immigrants, out-groups, intelligencia, ... We're recapitulating the 20's from last century and that didn't turn out all that well. People are people, but when you've been getting all the benefits, sharing looks like a loss.
.22 rimfire has roughly 20-35% of the energy of 9mm, even at the muzzle.

I don't even know the terminal ballistics, got to be even worse.

Rimfire is also less reliable, although not nearly as unreliable as some people act like.

I wouldn't want to bet my life on it, but I would definitely consider it a viable choice in a scenario where a person is murdering unarmed civilians.
Alien: So what is your first month?

Human: January

A: And why is it called that?

H: It's named for the god Janus.

A: Ah yes, many civilizations name their time divisions after deities, what is he the god of?

H: I don't know, we don't worship him anymore.

A: Ahh so you guys have moved past your need for religion

H: No, no, we still worship gods, just different ones.

A: Okay then, how about February, what god is that month named for?

H: Actually February is named for the festival of februalia.

A: Oh can you tell me a little more about this festival?

H: No, we don't celebrate it.

A: Are there any months that aren't named for gods you don't worship or festivals you don't celebrate?

H: There's July, named for Julius Caesar, a ruler.

A: Oh he must have been one of your best rulers to get a month named after him, what is he so notable for?

H: We stabbed him.

A: ...

H: A lot.

A: ...was he stabbed in July?

H: No, we stabbed him in March.

A: Okay are there any months not named for gods you don't worship, festivals you don't celebrate, or rulers you don't like?

H: Well October just means eight.

A: Finally, something that makes sense! Okay so your eighth month is just eight-

H: Tenth.

A: What?

H: October is our tenth month.

A: Why wouldn't you name your eighth month October?

H: We named that one after a guy.

A: What was his name?

H: Octavian, which coincidentally translates to eighth.

A: Don't tell me you have both an October and an Octover...

H: Don't be silly, no we named it August.

A: I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and guess August doesn't mean eight, does it?

H: Nah it means first.

A: Yeah, we're not letting you into our galactic federation.
> If really everyone would participate, I would give it a try

This isn't something you get to just temporality "try". Once it's a thing, it will always be a thing. No way is the government letting that one slip through their fingers.

Also, I'm envisioning a world where people are getting their retinas altered minority report style to avoid this.
Tank you for your time, it's very interesting stuff! What are the non-blockchain uses of zk proofs?
Wage slave mentality
Because I feel like I have something to add to the conversation. A data point, a related story, a rebuttal, a joke (on reddit), etc. I often find comments to be as good or better than the content they are about (If and only if it's a well moderated subreddit or HN) so when I can contribute I like to do so. Seeing people's different takes forces me to think more about an article/blog post than I otherwise would and sometimes challenges my own "beliefs"/thoughts which I think is a good thing.

As for HN replies I think a lot of people use a service like this: https://www.hnreplies.com/ to get notified, it's what I use.

Sometimes it does feel like screaming (or whispering) into the void if it's a post with a ton of comments on it already, though often if there are that many comments then my viewpoint is already represented so I just upvote that instead or expand on it if I have something to add. Rarely will I post a top-level comment if the thread (on HN or Reddit) is already large since I know it will get lost in the shuffle.

You say posts have a short life and that's kind of true but not always. It's less the case with Hacker News (though I do enjoy perusing the "previous discussions" of a link that's reposted years later) but Reddit (rightfully) comes in most search search results for things I'm looking for. The top example being video games for me. I can't tell you how many 7-10+ year old threads I've read to find answers to the questions I have. I've even commented on some of those "ancient" threads to give an update or "how it works today" for the next person that finds that post via search/google. Not all content is evergreen but a lot of it is. Home improvement, cooking, and city-specific questions are some more examples of things I've found years after the fact on Reddit that were exactly what I was looking for.
The Pi was £100 a few months ago, so a bit of deflation there.
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Mind describing (to a layman?) how checksums can help Age prevent switcharoo?

I ask because i've been writing a datastore of sorts that's immutable. Ie all content addressed. I plan to add some basic encryption for cloud storage primarily, however if Age could let someone swap file contents then i can't use Age.

I know someone's thinking "if it's content addressed how can someone tamper with the file contents?" - they can't, of course, but that only works if you know the HEAD's to point to. If you don't, say you're doing a full recovery, you slurp in all the content IDs and now have to determine which one is the HEAD. This is where tampering could take place, hypothetically, as they could not just swap the file contents but _also_ change the hashes/content IDs.

In a content addressed system signing the HEAD is really the only thing needed, since everything else can be validated via checksum. However i think it still needs signing, no?

Sidenote, i know next to nothing about crypto practices. I desperately need to find a class which teaches necessary knowledge to use crypto correctly in your own programs.
Are you sure? The 7900x has 12 cores, while the 7950x has 16.
Militaries (Western and non-Western) usually try out their "shiny new military tech" in whatever conflict they can use it. And their arms companies will try and sell their latest wares.
When will websites stop asking me to sign up for a newsletter before I've even seen the content? I closed immediately. Just honest feedback
My biggest “Screw everything” moment about math was the first lecture of my numerical methods class in college when the professor said: “All that calculus you’ve been learning your whole lives? It’s useless. Carefully curated set of a few dozen problems that are doable by hand. Here’s how it’s really done for anything remotely practical”

And then we learned a bunch of algorithms that spit out approximate answers to almost anything. And a bunch of ways to verify that the algorithm doesn’t have a bug and spat out an approximately correct answer. It was amazing.

But the most long-term useful math class (beyond arithmetic and percentages) has been the semester on probabilities and the semester on stats. I don’t remember the formulae anymore, but it gave me a great “feel” for thinking about the real world. We should be teaching that earlier.
Dan Luu wrote an article about this: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
I love McMaster-Carr. It’s one of the only places online to reliably get quality titanium fasteners for racing applications. Between all my hobbies I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars with them.
About 1.2 watts to capture+process 1 frame/second - thats how much my current phone uses, and I suspect a cheaper platform will be more power efficient. You'd use a 5 watt solar panel (costing $4) in the southern USA, and a 10 watt panel (costing $9) in the northern USA. You would aim to rarely have spare power - in winter, you just drop the frame rate and the comms interval.

With more engineering effort, you can probably dramatically reduce power usage, for example by discarding parts of the frame that cars never drive through, which should allow extending the hardwares lifespan as batteries age and solar panels get covered in dust.
oh cooool thanks!!!

do you know how to make the output in the terminal cleaner?

for example `:term ls -lah /` isn't well formatted
That's a recent example of something that you came to quickly (obviously, covid didn't exist before) and so you were relatively easily able to get back out of it.

As an approximation, it works insanely well. And as more and more things becomes "proxies for political decisions" we'll see it ramp up even more.
People will downvote this comment as it s about butterflies.
If there truly were unscheduled repairs then it seems odd that the parent, who's an active HN user since 2012, would throw away their credibility by spreading blatant falsehoods.
A free tool I created to update automated translations manually:

https://github.com/whyboris/JSON-i18n-Editor

Shows the diff as you update your JSON i18n files in a web view!
Can't wait for the 65W, 45W and 35W Ryzen 7000 CPUs/APUs. These 100+W CPUs are a step backwards.