skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I know full well that even democratic nation-states occasionally do bad things.

But if you cannot tell the difference between how democratic countries vs autocratic regimes deploy security & espionage technology, you are deeply ignorant. I'd suggest you go live in Russia or Myanmar for a while and report back.

Of course there are instances of overreach in democracies. They typically get reported and corrected. In autocracies, they are systematically rewarded and encouraged.

Of course everyone would rather have no security & espionage technology, but that is entirely unrealistic. If you want to live a self-determined life in a democratically controlled state, you MUST always be better armed and prepared than every bully and authoritarian out there, or you will soon be ruled by them. Security & espionage is simply a part of being better armed & prepared than the authoritarians (and in a democratic state, you REALLY aren't of the slightest bit of interest to the agencies).
I (roughly) hear it on the tune of "video killed the radio stars".

Yes I'm old.
‘Vox Populi Vox Dei’ was used by Musk as a 'justification' to reinstate such a voice. The article, pointing out that the phrase originally had a different context, isn't making that argument.
It has been very interesting watching people laughing at me for investing in "An Internet guy" trying to build cars in 2014.

To now calling me a "Elon Fanboy" and saying that "the car guy doesn't understand internet companies".

Yes, I'm a fan of the guy that helped me make millions of dollars, and who is forcing other car companies to electric.

What do you expect my response to be? "I hate that all these gas cars are going away and I wish I had lost all my money"
I think anyone who spoke Japanese and was going to move already did during the series of Japanese migrations. Some of the biggest instances are from Japan.
Judging by the standard level of driving on UK roads, I think most people did the same.
To continue the homage to GB as a recommendation thread, I think programmers and systems engineers would enjoy GB's "Strength of Stones" (1981).

In the story, autonomous mobile cities designed to last a very long time begin to fail. GB shows a profound understanding of human society and the bemusement of people who believe they have design a solution well.
> But what made it so popular for the early boot process, and where else was it used?

Probably simplicity. You can get a very basic Forth system going in a few dozen assembly instructions. Then, you write some Forth "primitives", words written in assembly, to do things like basic arithmetic, branching, stack manipulation, and memory manipulation. There are endless debates about how many primitives you really need, but in general a couple of dozen primitives ought to get you started.

Then the rest of Forth is just written in Forth! You might not really have recognisable Forth source at this stage but more complex words can be written out as lists of the addresses of primitives. Think of it as like rolling your own macro assembler. The "inner interpreter" reads these lists of addresses and either jumps directly to the machine code in a primitive, or into a command that starts the inner interpreter chewing on a new word, pushing the one you've just come from onto the return stack.

It seems really really complex until at some point as you stare at it, it'll just snap into focus and you see it's actually a very simple thing that does a very clever trick.
Touch screen displays and Bluetooth cost a few hundred dollars for budget options, and a thousand for nice ones. Surely the utility of CarPlay/Android Auto is worth that for most people, even if just from navigation apps.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-6-2-apple-carplay-built-in...
I'm just replying here to piggyback on the top comment and create a pointer to this thread in my CheckRepliesToMyComments page.
Well, given how all mainstream desktop programs are getting huge buttons these days...
Finally a good Linux tablet – Fydetab Duo
Didn't find orthogonal, idempotent, or a rant about correlation vs causation.
I’m in the middle of reading it (a paperback version) this week coincidentally. Seeing this on HN just now made me do a double-take.
I'd sooner buy a Yugo than a Mercedes Benz.
Python too, and of course PostScript.
I've never done anything in Forth, but I have been captivated by it, and in particular in Jone's Forth. I would probably have been more motivated to use it were there a "Jones Forth"-like tutorial/compiler for MS-DOS or Win16. If I were to use a language whose utility isn't the best, I'd prefer it to be on a hobby system...
JS rendering is not enough. Cloudflare monitors UI interactions and browser footprints to assess whether it’s a human or a bot.
I guess the lack of context around why this link was posted is causing some confusion.

To me, the fact that the quote was taken from a time when democracy was not popular makes this whole HN posting sound like an argument against it (democracy).

Disclaimer: I am for democracy.
Elon, nodding along to your explanation of how authentication works, sees how intelligent, capable, and full of potential you are. He stops you: Wait Bob, do you have a startup idea you’re working on that I can invest in? Can I at least get your personal phone number for late night idea sessions?

Again, it’s time to leave fantasy land.
I’d be really surprised if this wasn’t the exact reason. When you go to Costco, Walmart, etc. you’ll see “Intel i7” in huge letters, but the actual generation might not even be listed somewhere you can see without opening the box.
I'm about to relaunch a 2D MMO title I made in 1999-2001 with new graphics.

It's all in Java and uses MySQL.

Should be fine! :D

Don't know if I would publish the source though, unless it's successful and people want to mod it.
In a virtualized world there's no consequences. It sounds counter-intuitive but I think that would be worse off because something in the virtualized environment might give you false confidence in the real world and that has serious implications for not just yourself but others.

When you're first learning to drive, think about how cautious you were when you put your car out of park for the first time. Chances are you barely touched the gas and inched forward while you discovered how much pressure it takes to accelerate or stop. You probably treated it like you were stepping foot on an alien world for the first time. A mode in your brain flipped that said "we're not screwing around here, this is actually happening".

I think simulators work for specialized things like flying because the stakes are high for tiny mistakes. If you flip the wrong switch or do something slightly wrong you might not only die but you'll also destroy potentially months or years of research and tens of millions of dollars.

Driving a car on the regular road has a different type of stakes. You can kill yourself and hundreds of others just by driving a few hundred feet in some places but the act of driving itself is much more forgiving for tiny mistakes.
> Things surely have changed a lot since 2015.

Not really. The only way to actually get things done is to do them, and that will never change. Planning and daydreaming is very satisfying and feels much easier than actually doing, but it's a dopamine trap. Plain old setting a schedule and applying self-discipline is the simplest way forward...
I hate to be pedantic but surely you mean “cue”?
You can see how it's used in the GitHub actions of devenv:

It calls `devenv ci` (which checks that the devenv file is good), then runs a 'script' in the devenv file...
https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/8bea91cd1073b0d51cf96e...

The 'script' in the devenv file:
https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/8bea91cd1073b0d51cf96e...
Human nature doesn’t change all that much. That thread is still relevant. The secret ingredient is “No”.

I think it was Warren Buffett who said, “Really successful people say no to almost everything.”

That seems to have been true of successful people from every time period that I’ve read about.
Implosion? 100M tweet per hour sure sounds like Twitter is already more than ready for the Qatar World Cup tweets.
The obvious answer is that the Internet killed LAN parties. Now we're all on the same network. My kids primarily game online with their friends from the real world, not randos, so the dynamic is similar. Sometimes it's on xbox with the headset, sometimes on the PC, and when necessary they'll use ipads to facetime and have that on the desk next to the gaming screen. They're very connected to their friends when playing.
A Murder Roils the Cycling World
For additional context the villan in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Ellsworth Toohey, uses the phrase 'Vox Populi, Voa Dei' at the the peak of his character arc.
> IMO, you get better at programing understanding FORTH.

Modern cars don't have a magneto or carburettor, but you'll have a far better ability to fix your Jag if you also know how to fix your lawnmower.
That's completely false, in my experience.

Maybe if they're the right questions.. but when there are thousands or millions of questions to choose from, which three are the right ones?

I'd rather err on the side of having more data to judge compatibility from than less.

Anyway, in my experience the people who answer relatively few questions tend to be the less serious and more flaky types. I'm more interested in serious relationships, so only answering a few questions would be a red flag right there.
Not quite. Inheritance needs a "tying the knot" construction, because a base-class method can call a method that may have been overridden in a derived class. So you need an indirection step for any call to an overridable method, which cannot be modeled by simple delegation. Of course this is really a misfeature (outside of pure abstract base classes that, like interfaces or traits, don't implement their defined methods), which is at the root of the well-known "fragile base class" problem. It means implementation-inheritance is inherently non-modular, even though literally everything else in OOP was specifically intended to enable and promote modularity.
Driving a car is quite easy and something most people could learn in a couple of hours.

The tricky part is not hitting other cars, pedestrians and random stationery objects - this is where real-world experience is much better than any simulation because mistakes are physically painful, expensive and, in extreme circumstances, can end with jail time or death.
Never trust a billionaire who tells you they’re not interested in making money. That’s like a crack addict telling you they’ve had enough crack.
Amazing thread!

Those of you implementing DPI, assisting CCP with logging, cryptocurrency daredevils, tracking enablers and even a slave helmet guy. Do know that you have changed the world. For worse. And you'll never git amend or git revert what you've done. Most likely you will never find rest for what you've done as the confessions are very indicative.

Funny, how Hollywood different the notion of an evil computer guy in movies (asian/western european/nerd) to an average american family guy Mikey Mike doing all this real damage.

But, I bet all those mortgages ain't gonna pay themselves, right?
Is it really a parody ? In fact it is mostly pretty accurate and that's why I love Hacker News over any other social media
You do not really need parody sites. You can accomplish the same using rsync and 3 lines of bash.
Ok that's just shitty though. Musk is an incompetent fool but the lack of a degree isn't why, or even a strong indicator of that. I don't have a degree at all and have accomplished a lot of highly technical work I'm proud of in my career. Don't be shitty about it.
The Economics of Cryptocurrencies [video]
I was never into Twitter but I quit Facebook in 2017. I felt social media brought out a worse version of not just me but many others as well. So gg on quitting for the author.

That said; "Why did I leave Twitter? My biggest fear about the Twitter acquisition had quickly become an incontrovertible reality: the new right-wing ownership group of Twitter intended to exploit the service to promote political propaganda."

I'm sorry author. Twitter has always been a political propaganda platform. I think you didn't mind that at all under the previous regime.
So is the point then of posting the article here on HN just to show the irony of Musk’s tweet?
I think they missed a main factor: lag compensation inproved greatly.

The old Quake style games often had very naive networking. Whereas now, I seldom notice the network even exists.

It's not that lag has changed much--contrary to the article, broadband is less important in games. It's latency that matters, not bandwidth. Team fortress 1 can run on 16kbps.

And latency is still the same as I had 20 uears ago, 50-150ms.

But the benefit of LAN was that it was the only way to experience latency free gameplay. And it really did make a big difference. In comparison, internet play always felt weird after experiencing LAN.
FRUiTS Magazine
The best way is to learn by doing.

Being in an actual car in a safe, open, paved area such as an empty parking lot with an experienced driver coaching is the cheapest and most effective way to learn how to control a car. The amount of feedback that a driver gets by actually driving (forces, inertia, sensations through the pedals, steering wheel, etc.) would be difficult to recreate unless an expensive simulator is used.

Learning to drive with other drivers on the road takes practice that a simulator will have a difficult time to recreate.
Definitely this changes the game (I am the cofounder of the author of the parent comment).
1) To prevent imposters. We already saw how this became a big problem with the blue checkmark fiasco.

2) I made it a practice to delete most of my tweets within a week, so there are only about 3000 tweets remaining. A lot of those are referenced by external links that I don't want to break. Some of my tweets have even appeared in news media stories. So it's about preservation of the web rather than preservation of Twitter itself.
nice try, but N-gate is still better
The Power of Quitting
https://archive.ph/FYEtG
This is so incomplete I kept looking for a "subscribe to read full article" link. Why not explain how it came to mean the exact opposite of what the (alleged) first known usage meant?
Just because we’re not seeing the effects immediately doesn’t mean it’s not in the process of happening.
This is such an excellent comment that sums up so much of the feelings that come up when I read/see/hear the kind of "nationalism" (for lack of a more accurate word) in the parent post.
That’s true! Certainly I was invited to LAN parties where I knew a few people and was getting to know 2 or 4 others, perhaps there was even the opposite effect to being a jerk, I wanted to have a better relationship with the others ?
No, it would allow them to adjust the limit to whatever brings in the most revenue without crashing the economy or engendering open revolt.

It would always be entirely unworkable at anything resembling the current fine structure, with fines in the $100s for a single infraction. These are based on the assumption that people are rarely caught.

I could see a surveillance-based system working, something on the lines of a congestion toll. Maybe $0.02/mi/mph over the limit, so going 10mph over the limit for 20 miles would be a $4.00 charge. We'd also have to eliminate the bogus insurance surcharges which falsely equate speeding with unsafe driving (barring neighborhoods & construction zones, they can signify either an unsafe driver or a highly skilled driver).
Holy crap do they really!?
Ask HN: Why aren’t there more EV route planning apps?
In 2022 there’s still no decent mobile EV route planning functionality (phone based, not in-car) — not from Apple, Google, Tesla, etc. or any of the other big players.

Best I’ve seen so far is a app called PlugShare.

My use case: I’d like to plan a Thanksgiving road trip. I’d like to play with various permutations of charging stops to evaluate the various factors: time/“fun” (stuff to eat/do at each stop), etc, especially with the proliferation of new supercharger sites in the last few years.

I’d like to do this in the warmth of my home a few days in advance, not “on the fly” in the car.

Surely my scenario is not that unusual?

Can someone ELI5 why this has been totally neglected?
> Maybe if they're the right questions

They were specifically these three questions:

Do you enjoy horror movies?

Have you traveled alone in a foreign country for fun?

Have you ever wanted to chuck it all and live on a sailboat?

Which predicted long-term compatibility at nearly 4x the rate of coincidence.
Came hear to say this.

+1 for https://zombo.com/#HACKER_NEWS_PARODY_DOT_IO
When Alcuin writes “Nec audiendi qui solent dicere” ‘And those people should not be listened to who keep saying’, he implies “sunt qui solent dicere” ‘there are those who keep saying’ and that the affirmative use of the proverb is older than his criticism. His letter, alas, seems to be the oldest still existing source of this formulation. Similar thoughts expressed earlier are quoted by Büchmann ²⁰1900 p. 353:

- Hesiod ‘Works and Days’ v. 763–764: “Φήμη δʼ οὔτις πάμπαν ἀπόλλυται, ἥντινα πολλοὶ | Λαοὶ φημίζουσι. θεός νύ τίς ἐστι καὶ αὐτή.” ‘No rumour will perish completely which is rumoured by so many people. A kind of god indeed is also this [= the rumour].’

- Seneca (the older) ‘Controversies’ I.1.10: “Crede mihi, sacra populi lingua est.” ‘Believe me, sacred is the language [≈ speech?] of the people.’
There's a simple answer to "What the hell does self-driving have to do with saving the environment?"

It's just this: if we had a ride service with level 5 self-driving, it'd be way cheaper to use that than personally own a car. You'd accelerate the transition to an all-electric fleet. You might even need fewer total cars, which would help even more.
Missing planets twice Earth's size may point to migrating worlds
Damn, I wish I’d known this existed. I ended up building a parser for the raw battle-scribe xml files
I agree that he's right wing, but extreme?
Fair enough. I will try.

Metaculus:

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2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Pychess.org is a Lichess clone dedicated to variants (both traditional chess-like variants and newly invented ones)
“As an EU poster, I need to remind everyone in every thread that I have health care and GDPR.”
Or back button hijack
Found my single-user Pleroma and my experimental GoToSocial but hasn't found my Honk.
Part of me wonders if these ideas are pushed by people because it's more convenient for them to push them. Like, if you're a 'brilliant' jerk, it's probably easier to stay employed if people think technical skills and people skills are something of a trade off. And if you're not some sort of genius, it can be comforting to think "well, at least I'm not a jerk/crazy/an awful person".

Same with the dating situation. Must be more comforting to think "I'm not the most attractive person ever, but at least I'm sane and many of the more attractive people aren't" rather than "There are probably people out there who are both more attractive and with a nicer personality".

I also suspect people tend to think everything in life must have tradeoffs, D&D character points style. Like, you have X points to go around in total and if a percentage of that goes to intelligence/skill, there must be very little left over to put into charisma.

You can see that a lot in films and TV shows, where being popular or attractive is often treated as if it's incompatible with being intelligent or a nice person. But that's not reality, and some intelligent/attractive people are also perfectly nice, sane people.
https://archive.ph/M7Krm
I dont know the rules, but I think the black line is only for computer history legends, not any notable death.
The analogies found on HN could have their own dedicated parody site.
How Caroline Ellison Found Herself at the Center of the FTX Crypto Collapse
One of the greatest gaming experiences of my life is when I and my three younger brothers hooked up two original Xboxes with a network crossover cable and played the original Halo 2v2 split screen in separate rooms.

Split screen LAN may not have been the norm but it is fantastic.
Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Doomed FTX Empire
This is simply false, for at least three reasons. There are probably more.

1. Math can describe lots of universes that differ from observation. For starters, just look at all the different kinds of space-time there could be.

2. On top of that, even the math that we have that describes our current universe is...tricky: the math at the core of our two best physical theories (General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics) is inconsistent, i.e. they both cannot be true at the same time.

Lots of our greatest minds have tried to find a mathematical formulation that makes the two compatible, but so far none have succeeded. So there may not actually be a mathematical formulation.

3. And finally, nature is under no obligation to be describable mathematically. That it is so describable is a fortuitous circumstance, and one we might be finding the limits of (see (2)).

"The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
Well actually in this instance I specifically wanted to evoke the image of the commenter waiting in line to deliver their retort.

jkjk
Raspberry Pi Pico Lectures [ECE 4760 – Cornell]
Just open source it.

No one will judge you by 15 year old code if you have recently produced good code. That's what people will look at.

Just look at the face palms at Nintendo HQ despite the amazing game they made https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE
Writing an OBS Plugin with .NET NativeAOT
Completely agree with this; it should not be experienced as a videogame, it should be experienced as a real responsibility as in, "This is what I'm 100% focused on because it's the most important thing I'm doing right now."
Exactly. People keep referring to FTX as a Ponzi. It's even worse than that.
> What do you expect my response to be? "I hate that all these gas cars are going away and I wish I had lost all my money"

Let me whip up some copy for you:

“I was a fan of his, but his childish behavior as of late has been disappointing.”
Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed
As an EU poster, the only thing that made a dent in the digital unvisere was GDPR and that’s why I need to remind everyone about it constantly.

PS: I’m an EU poster
You can use navigation apps directly on your phone or tablet.
The top comment in the gist looks like from "Hacker News Parody Thread".
Paradoxically, this could make it better. The random things that our Alexa does is concerning, and if they just simplified... then I'd be happier.
That’s the thing, I don’t know enough about the inner workings of the credit card system so I couldn’t explain anything to you.

…which is why I asked for clarification.