skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I worked at MSFT in the past.

I think it depends on whose perspective you're talking about.
For some people it'll be overblown.

In my case, I don't really like what MSFT has been doing with their OS. It's clear for years now that they are intent on creating some form of ads platform and they'll likely do it in a way that is directly integrated with the OS. You can't even install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account (so they obviously have a way to identify you).

This seems in line with what Apple seems to be planning for their own platform [0].

All of these companies will claim they'll build something in a privacy-conscious manner, which might be true.

The question I ask myself is: Am I comfortable with that? Even if it has privacy safeguards, I am not. I'm not willing pay $130 for a Windows license AND have ads presented to me.

If Microsoft said they were going to offer a freemium model, where people that don't wanna pay for the OS will get ads I'd be fine. I'd just pay for the license to get rid of all ad tech and the respective tracking.

But regarding the future, I have no idea. I don't think there's any stopping this anymore. The only way would be for governments to get their shit together and regulate this space.

The only way to keep your privacy IMO is to choose "pain":

- Move to an OS that won't track you (Linux, *BSD, etc) – I don't care what Linux zealots say, the Desktop experience is still not even close to what Windows and macOS offer

- Avoid being online as much as possible and when you are, use tools to mask your presence

[0] https://digiday.com/media/apple-is-building-a-demand-side-pl...
Either Dan mistranscribed this or these screenshots are wrong. It's Elon who (dubiously) said he "wrote heavy-duty software for 20 years", not Parag.

https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1585804674170355712
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while. Used to download his music video rips off thepiratebay.

Much respect to media hoarders of all creeds.
No, but a logical first step given climate emissions.
No, this is exactly what they are talking about. A UPS store box is not a "principal place of business." Yes, lots of people do it. Yes, you will probably get away with it. But it is not complying with the law, and this is the practice the judge was speaking of.
This has reopened (25%) and is excluded from the economist's figures. In fact some research [1] shows that approximately 93 days of supply will be stored in the Rough gas facility at 25% (28Bcf {capacity}/313Mcf {daily}). This is inadequate (of course) and has probably not been filled yet, but should be helpful to the UK if it can be properly commissioned.

[1] https://www.costadvice.co.uk/latest-news/will-the-reopening-...
I agree that it's hard to replicate the early experience of a truly personal computer. There is Commander X16 which does create such an environment for the times[0].

I also learned on 8-bit computers with BASIC then machine/assembly language learning hardware peeks/pokes and more graphics/sound programming.

My biggest take-away was the feeling that you could learn and understand everything with some documentation, friends, and patience.

[I never did sort out the problem with my interrupt-driven multi-tasker from not understanding re-entrancy until much much later.]

At the same time, I think the best way to teach new programmers is more abstractly away from the hardware ways of doing things. In particular, don't follow the von Neumann style of mutable variables and procedural code. Instead I would suggest functional languages like F# where we have input, function, output. Then building a program is composing pipelines of transformations through functions, using error collecting types like Result/Either.

[0] https://commanderx16.com/
At the same time, this is like... data integrity 101. For future reference if you want to build a system that manipulates valuable information (such as monetary accounts), and you've never done anything like that before:

Please pick a database (relational or otherwise) with ACID transactions and replication, buy at least two different textbooks on that specific database, read both, do any exercises they suggest, and then decide whether you still want to build that system. If yes, then cool: don't hold me responsible if anything goes wrong, but you need to learn somehow.

Yes, it's possible to build systems like that on non-ACID-compliant databases, or without using the ACID functionality. It's much harder, though, and you really must understand what you're giving up in order to have a reasonable chance of success.
The money spent was more than what the voters approved. Making a new estimate that is much higher and spending less than that isn't coming in "under budget".
I didn't speak of emotions as a generic term. If I did, it was miscommunication.

Men have emotions, but they can't appeal to people for help based on being sad, specially being sad from things that are not physically harmful.

"This guy I don't know said mean things about me and it made me cry".

Only women and children can say something like this and get sympathy and support.
The main benefit of arrow function generators would be the inherited parent-scope this-binding they'd get
My apologies for reading it in an unduly adversarial manner.
True, but it’s still not trivial, unless you’ve thought of the race condition problems in advance. My guess is that instead of keeping all the withdrawal logic in a comprehensive DB transaction with good constraint checking, the code was broken up into multiple sequential PHP statements with transactions of simpler SQL (which is likely easier from a coding perspective) and with insufficient locking. This is the easier way to code it if you haven’t thought of or heard about race condition issues.
I'm kind or envisioning some young bright engineer realizing they could just store some files locally. "It's like.. we don't need a backend at all!"
Ah, somehow the HN dupe detection didn’t kick in. Maybe it’s because it was submitted with a different title.
Contango! Great word. For a fun explanation, check out Planet Money’s “Negative Oil”, https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/842095406/episode-993-negativ... .
Asking about avg isn’t a great idea, you really want the modal, which might be near the avg but may not be. This was an issue that came up when they tried to design the optimal fighter cockpit in WWII, they designed a cockpit that fit no one well.
I'm not convinced that patent examiners could make good decisions on software given infinite time. A couple of reasons:

Let's suppose you had access to all the source code in the world. Given a description of a patented invention, is there any way to find out if it is already implemented somewhere? The answer is no, there is no decidable method for doing that. The proposition that there is, violates Rice's theorem. By contrast, in other areas, for example drug discovery, a patent covers chemicals of a certain class having certain substructures. Whether another chemical is covered is algorithmically decidable. Let me emphasise that: people are complaining about the tools to find prior are are bad, but we can mathematically prove that perfect tools don't exist. I'd suggest that the burden of proof, that sufficiently good tools can exist, should fall on those advocating patentability of software.

But of course, patent examiners don't even have access to all this code. Unlike in drug discovery, where the entire business relies on patents so any discoveries have been filed with the patent office, software companies don't need patents to do business so the vast majority of software ideas aren't filed with the patent office.
Despite being banned by the supreme court, farmers are still burning the crop stubbles. And nobody wants to enforce the rule because it’s a political suicide. Another instance of failed democracy where you need to appease to a vocal minority even if it means smog and deaths for the rest.
Or Odysee
I can't tell if you're joking so I'll assume not. Windows is still by far the de facto gaming OS. Mac and Linux cannot handle games like Windows can.
The original title is: “How Goethe and Schiller ushered in the romantic age” which makes more sense than the current title “Goethe and Schiller ushered in the romantic age.”

The fact the Goethe and Schiller ushered in the Romantic Age is pretty uncontroversial.
sounds about right, though presumably you wouldn't be paying retail if you're setting up shop to terraform the earth. numerous recent ppas provide much lower (wholesale) prices than that; see https://emp.lbl.gov/pv-ppa-prices and https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/merchant-income..., which have numerous prices below £0.02/kWh.

and, as i said, you can probably use solar thermal for sorbent regeneration

note, though, that the number you're using is the theoretical minimum energy used. existing practical technologies, as i said, consume several times more energy than that. it is unlikely that we will ever closely approach this theoretical efficiency

there is indeed a real difficulty in the current human incentive structure where everybody hopes someone else will fix the problem so they don't have to bear the cost themselves. but that's not a question of engineering infeasibility due to resource limits; that's a question of politics
I could completely see an argument for tax evasion, that is a crime where the technical victim is the government (and thus, citizenry), not where the victim is an illegal operation that no longer exists.

However, he isn’t being charged with a tax crime. He’s being charged with “wire fraud” for double withdrawing from Silk Road.
> have been doing it for hundreds of years

Dubious. The cited historical examples all refer to mass nouns or nouns with an implied plural. Usage with a concrete, singular person doesn't seem to be older than a few decades.
I don’t think the federal government should step in and regulate it, but why not some kind of professional or trade organization, like UL?

And really, I think your argument bolsters my case. Federal and state governments are freaking out about cybersecurity and protecting infrastructure and voting systems, so why shouldn’t they ban the use of software written in C in their acquisition process?
I think this is a little disingenuous. It’s not that the type system makes highly abstract/generic code difficult, it’s more that the specific ways people are used to writing that type of code in dynamically typed languages doesn’t lend itself well to adding type annotations. But I think you’d be hard pressed to find many places where Haskell programmers, for example, haven’t found a different way to express whatever the Python code is achieving while also allowing for type annotations.
entgötterte Natur (Schiller)
Maybe. Both cases you mention are songs, not video games. From a modern perspective you would think the laws about intellectual property for video games would be the same as for film and music. I think the long run that will be true. But some of the early precedent has treated video games more like "toys" with less speech protection.

If you are really doing this check with a lawyer who works in the area (admittedly few).
> as it will be impossible to access the internet with a device that doesn't disclose your identity.

and prove the software that's supposed to be running is running.
After the issues with Github Copilot and copyrighted code, my mind is drawn towards similar inadvertent leaking of proprietary information via a model trained on that information.
At the moment, Zig and Rust are the most exciting places to look, IMO.
Read Richard Feynman's addendum on the Challenger disaster. It answers everything you want to know.
For whatever reason, it's only in recent years that distros have switched to using Wayland by default. So it's a bit early to completely drop the former display system. But it would be expensive to keep it alive as well !
okay, but that excess profit is consumers' money and workers' time, so of course ordinary people are pissed.
Have you actually used the thing? Again, I'm an MS FTE and not privy to the internals, but it gives you _layouts_ with your local text filled in. It's a visual template suggestion engine, it doesn't _need_ your text to work.
I read it using the archive.org link. Should people comment without having read the article and knowing what it claims?
Is it possible to use publicly available patent office data to create a parallel database and tools which the PTO folks could use? Perhaps there is room for the development of an open-source collaborative effort to create a parallel data to fight back the trolls?

Anyone else feel free to chime in!
The linked affidavit has more of the interesting details. Looks like the agent worked with the guy's ISP and a well-known crypto exchange to do some old fashioned IP tracing.
the bar to drive in Germany is significantly higher than in the united states. Requirements for getting a drivers license in America is ridiculously lenient because the American lifestyle is completely car centric. taking someone's license away is tantamount to sentencing someone to poverty.
It was quite some time ago. You didn't get the memo?
The combination of Google Scholar and sci-hub.se is pretty great:

(2021) Sources and dynamics of submicron aerosol during the autumn onset of the air pollution season in Delhi, India

> "Local sources of primary PM in Delhi include transportation, domestic biomass and trash burning, cooking, and industrial and construction activities. Delhi is also downwind of many agricultural states such as Punjab and Haryana, which can be a source of PM from agricultural burning. Delhi experiences cool winters with shallow boundary layer heights and frequent temperature inversions, which trap
pollutants within the boundary layer causing especially polluted conditions."

It's pretty seasonal, with the end-of-harvest agricultural burning seeming to be the biggest culprit.

Interestingly, California passed a law 20 years ago banning agricultural burning in the Central Valley (one of the worst air quality regions in the USA), but only started to enforce it last year. As ever, it's about cost: chipping up ag waste and composting it back into soil costs more than just burning it, cutting into profit margins for Big Ag.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/agriculture/article2...
I think it is a little bit melodramatic as an analogy. It's perfectly fine to tinker with C, to use it in personal projects, to use it where it's not possible to use something safer (some embedded system that Rust doesn't have a backend for) or if you want to contribute to an existing project like Linux, OpenBSD or CPython. Whereas it's really not a good idea to work with Asbestos under any circumstances.

But the message overall - that maybe we don’t need to instinctively reach for C for newbuild low-level programming anymore - is probably about right
> Many people suspect this was the primary reason Russia invaded.

Regional energy control was possibly a factor but securing a defensible border was the over-arching goal of Russia’s last few wars in the region and Ukraine is no exception. Ukraine has the Carpathian Mountains, and allows access to Poland and Moldova to secure the Polish and Bessarabian gaps.
Yep, see video description.
And why wouldn’t they? That’s their entire point.
that is why I won't use python and why just the mention of "Linux desktop" puts a sour taste in my mouth.

feverish advocates detract from the thing they aim to augment, and yeah, the worst thing about anything on the internet is its community, by a wide margin.
> . They can build it, but it's not likely to be an apartment I would want to live in, at least long term.

So what? Are you the only person that matters? How about the intern at tech company. How about the guy that cleans the offices.

Should the have to rent a house 2h away and then be forced to buy an old shitty polluting car, wasting 5h of their life and polluting the whole area instead? Is that a better result.

And of course if you do it correct and you don't just build dumb towers, you can pretty easly build nice high density neighborhoods where people wont need a car and you can get density not unlike huge skyscrapers.
It's effectively impossible to "sync" audio across a large area (because if it is perfect in one area it will be imperfect in another) so often the best you can do is adjust it until it "sounds right".

Some software and some hardware have built-in delays you can use to adjust as they do in a stadium, but often just getting everything "speed of light" in a house is good enough.

The main thing is that you don't hear a delay when standing in the doorway between rooms.
As long as it doesn’t have a modem you’re probably safe. Probably.
Why would you wish for more from idiots and criminals?
> y'all should remember that the best developers have long memories

is this a threat?
Low hanging fruit. We recovered X.y billion in BTC (valued at that time) hand waving, patting each others back. Instant promotion.
Basically, Mastodon still can't explain in layman's terms how users should think about its federated model, or why they should care. This 30% bump is driven entirely by short-term drama around Twitter. I bet you that in the next few months, you will see Mastodon's DAU's drop back to around what it was before this whole mess.

The biggest reason for this is that, as you yourself said, Twitter's UX is terrible but Mastodon is almost identical. So why switch?
> the name was picked for the movie because the letters are shifted by one from "IBM."

Actually, the IBM/HAL thing is just a coincidence, according to both Kubrick and Clarke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#Origin_of_name
I didn't steal anything.

The roadblock is that vintage games are not available for purchase in present time for present systems.

Nintendo doesn't loose any money if download and emulate a ROM of a game they stopped selling 30 years ago.
Show HN: A Quadtree Implementation for Clojure(script)
Oh man, that sucks. But with people randomly getting cancelled on these platforms though, I guess it's still less risky to get a domain?
> Twitter’s policy has always prohibited impersonation, but the immediate action is new.

As others have pointed out, this will become far more difficult to enforce as blue checks proliferate.
Which is a good argument for using a range of test values, not for using less representative values.
Katana: A next-generation crawling and spidering framework
FBI is federal, unlike the police, so they can do whatever, at least that’s how it’s playing out. The FBI is supposed to be effective, not ethical. It’s what’s “on the tin” and has always been. A good example is their treatment of MLK.
Ugh. That just makes it worse as more money disappears into the cracks and there is less accountability.

The issue is the folks paying for it don’t demand results, they usually prefer it get drug out. It means more fees to the folks involved, a longer time in the cushy job overseeing it, etc.

It’s usually the taxpayer or some large entity where the leaders are political and can get in on the graft, or are easily fooled.

Once the planning authorities get out of the way, just look at most private construction - anything where it’s not a giant megacorp or entity paying for it.

It’s done in 1/5th the time of equivalent public works,
and at a fraction of the cost too.

In most of these places, the politicians/leaders know how to control the captive base, and the captive base just shrugs and pays their taxes without demanding better.

So as long as the graft isn’t too obvious, ‘everyone wins’ - except the end user of course.

But they usually don’t actually need it (as in someone dies or an economy collapses or whatever), so they just putter along bitching about it without doing anything or looking closer. I guess that’s also part of the issue with having something that ‘mostly works’ already, no rush to replace it.
a free market is a mathematical model, which is a nice way of saying it's an imaginary thing.
The tests are fatally broken. It means you can't trust them to properly check new work even.

The solution is to use random ordering and print the ordering seed with each run so it can be repeated when it triggers an error. Immediately halt all new work until randomly run tests don't have problems.

This isn't as bad as it sounds, generally it's a few classes of things that cause the interference which each will fix many tests. It's unlikely that the code actually has a 2%+ density of global-variable use, for example.
I also highly recommend "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter which also talks about the economic diminishing returns of any activity in societies as they become more complex. Uses the roman empire as its main example for his hypothesis but some other societies as well, it's worth a read.
I despise this security-first attitude. It just leads to so much mental fatigue everywhere and any step is a potential minefield. It's ruining programming.
To me, in term of audience and scale, mastodon is to Twitter what hacker news is to Reddit. Smaller, less toxic, easier to moderate.
how did they link it to his home address. did he try to cash them out using real ID?
Experts say China could hold $6 billion in several cryptocurrencies after seizures and the mining ban of 2019.
I think you mean the median.
I didn't know AirPort Expresses could do that! That would definitely have been an option, if I owned one :-)
Plenty of countries and localities have fixes in place for internal air quality issues. We've largely solved this in the US. Inida also has a lot of wood burning and 2-stroke engine vehicles. They have a lot of low hanging fruit here if they prioritize it. Dealing with atmospheric Co2 is a much bigger and thornier problem.
That is a stretch lol
A woman is not just 'a smaller male'. Male dummies do not take into account female's different weight distribution, muscle mass etc.

This is one of the reasons why women are much more likely than men to die or be seriously injured in a car crash. The book 'Invisible women' by Caroline Criado Perez has a section about this, I highly recommend it.
Out of curiosity what are the modern uses for asbestos?
To position objects horizontally ideally you would have a register where you load a value between 0 and 160, but instead you have to strobe a register when the CRT beam is near the horizontal position you want, which will be +/- some pixels due to the CPU being 1/3 the clock of the TIA and 6502 instructions consuming 2 to 8 cycles. So then you have to "fine tune" using an additional register to shift it left/right -7 to 8 pixels.
Great. Now we just have to filter the entire ocean.

Not to diminish this achievement, but this problem has a spectacular magnitude and grows daily.
The beauty is that under certain circumstances you can infer the lost things lost due to the forgetfulness of the forgetful function.
Tried cs:go with hikari, game launched through xwayland and my aim was blocked looking all the way down at the floor.
I don't how they chose the dummy size and weight but they seem to do crash dummies based on median bodies, not "average" bodies, and the researchers who made the female dummy were Swedish so presumably wouldn't care about American sizes.
You edited your comment after I posted, but it doesn't matter, you haven't talked about the topic at hand: atmospheric CO2, a pollutant that makes up 0.04% of the air.

All of your calculations assume an infinite stream of pure CO2 - which is why sorbent based DAC work great for flue gas. Making that work with atmospheric CO2 requires tremendous pretreatment, which is hard and expensive and not something that can be handwaved away. It is the fundamental problem.
I have only watched S1. Never bothered with S2 even though I was mildly curious about what would happen next.