skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"as of late"

During the Paypal days he slept in the office, expected everyone to work long hours, and got into arguments and was an asshole at times. This has been well known for over a decade.

Why didn't the media run articles talking about how hard he was to work for during the past 10 years? Why just now? And, why is the NYT writing puff pieces about SBF? Do you ever think that maybe you are parroting what the media wants you to think?
My dad did (well, I'm pretty sure he already knew how to drive and just used them as part of the training course to get his license). One big reason they aren't great: missing accurate force feedback. Driving is rather intuitive once you gain familiarity due to being able to feel the road and the movement of the car through your hands, feet, and seat. It's way too hard to simulate.
There was a lanshop that had a T1 of their own (this was '99) that had their machines (two dozen - there were a dozen in each room that had a partition so that people could play against each other).

The "clan tag" that they used was [LPB] standing for Low Ping Bastards as this was the time when people often were in the middling three digit pings - they were regularly in the low two digits. Human Head even had a release party of Rune there and they hosted one of the servers that was consistently up - it was a fairly popular one because it was always up (this is back in the days when many game servers were at the other end of an ISDN line that the owner would power down when not playing) and it had good ping times. It was a shock to some to find that not only did they have good ping times, but also there were some people with [LPB] that had ping times in the single digits. When asked about it the response was "I can touch the server."

It was a nice place to hang out and play games. This was also in the days before voice chat across the net was practical. It was a game changer to have a group of three or four people all coordinate a tank in Tribes - or a spotter and a mortar working together where they could talk rather than needing to pause and type to communicate.

The thing that killed the lan shop was that the college dorms started getting wired with acceptable networks and a good chunk of the player base could play on their own machines. There was still some "get a dozen people together to play" but not enough to pay the bills.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010406031620/http://www.ping-t...

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Regarding LAN parties : https://www.lanreg.org

When I lived in Eau Claire, I knew people who went to https://www.lanreg.org/winlan/winlanxi (noting that it was a thing last year, but doesn't appear to have been scheduled for this year - would have been last month).
After every six months, whatever I had written feels a mess. So it is fine to publish things and improve over time. Or keep the repository private and make it public when you feel like it.

Regarding feedback on your code, receive it as a criticism of your code (and not yourself) and you should be fine.
Work: Building a cyber investigations platform that can collect and forensically analyze thousands of computers within an hour. Not due to big scale cloud systems or anything like that, but rather due to efficient and hand-tuned data structures. Today we collect and analyze more than 150.000 computers for cyber investigations pr. year. Everything ranging from fraud investigations to large-scale ransomware attacks.

Private: Spent a few years on building Farseer Physics Engine. Back in 2007 it was used by almost all 2D games for Xbox and Windows Phone. Then Unity took over in 2013.
It is only 'news' when it suits the majority of HNers, such as Trump schadenfreude that will certainly reach the front page. [0] They won't admit that, but they know it is true.

It is a complete lie when HNers are saying they are 'tired' of Elon, Trump, Truth Social, Twitter, etc. They are tired of articles and news that goes against their confirmation bias like this one.

Any articles confirming their bias on misery for the above, it is 'good news' here. HN is not tired of that hence why [0] wasn't flagged, unlike this post.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691912
I predicted something similar a long time ago (2022) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680851
I think for me it’s a privacy issue with Alexa more than anything. People I know have similar feelings about it.

I’m also not seeing a lot of need for voice assistants anymore. The ones I use at home are good for turning things off and on and setting timers for food I’m cooking. Outside of that nothing else.
1. You are from Africa, how will you use your money without banks, eh?
2. Not at all. In this logic, everyone who is a prisoner, 100% guilty?
Yes - that's what I meant by "Toe and Toe" :)

Most modern cars I do different sides of my top foot rather than heel and toe.
The concession is that the word "woman" becomes utterly meaningless and thus terms like AFAB or ciswoman are then needed to serve the function woman used to.
allright, this is the application using the raytracing instrumentation code.

Well, this raytracing instrumentation code is not cleanely compilable out from mesa code, it is still requiring some patches.
Is it a war?

Or is it the US trying to ban Chinese technology?

Why can't other countries commerce with China and acquire Chinese technology?

I'll never understand why the press wants it to be a "war", do they know what "war" is?
We have at least 8 of the things around the house and use them all the time. They're vastly superior to Google/Apple offerings for us.

It would be superduper if AMZN would work with customers to ensure Alexa solves problems that actually exist in ways that are genuinely satisfying, instead of trying to be clever or whatever it is they're doing.

The "By the way" intrusion, for example, has nearly evicted the whole concept.
It misses the <template> guy, posting about his life long obsession in every thread, no matter how unrelated. Also no dang, providing previous discussion links and stomping out flamewars caused by the usual suspects.
That's just not true. All but a handful of the smallest LAN parties I attended I the 90's and early 00's included console gaming. It was pretty much assumed there would be consoles at a LAN.

Halo, which was arguably the first professionally competitive game, had it's entire birth at LAN parties as it did not support online play at all and had to be done with a LAN.

Smash brothers had a similar Genesis story at LAN parties I attended. LAN continues to be the preferred competitive environment for every game due to latency.

I'll tell you what killed LAN parties I attend, it was the year steam became standard. To get everyone at the LAN to play the same game no longer meant passing the CD around, but in /socially pressuring your peers to make a digital purchase/ That was the death of LAN.
I didn’t know there was an HN karma leaderboard!

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
In some sense they are 'suckers' that give an incentive for the good predictors to play. It's much nicer to participate if most of the other bets are poorly made.

Whether this is worsgamblers than othe
Simulators in driving schools are a thing since a long time in France.

Here a few links from a quick search:

http://thegooddrive.fr/fr/accueil.html

https://www.ecf.asso.fr/Les-plus-ECF/The-Good-Drive

https://www.ecf.asso.fr/Site-ECF-PRO/Blog/Simulateur-de-cond...

https://acreos.eu/en/home/

You can use DeepL to translate French to English.
There's a whole lotta comments on that thread about angering The Mouse, one pointing out that 'Musk thinks he's hardcore? He hasn't yet dealt with the angry Mouse'. And, downchain, there's a tweet posting the first 2:30 of Avatar (Disney), and many mentions of a bunch of the Fast & Furious films (Universal) posted in their entirety in 2:30 long clips.

Monday 10 AM will be interesting for the Twitter legal team. Oh, right, seems they were mostly fired . . .
Acquired: FTX (With Sam Bankman-Fried and Mario Gabriele)
I worked at a fintech and it was obvious that some of our users had serious issues with gambling/game spending. Like so bad that they would run out of money regularly before their next paycheck.

This fintech didn't exploit them, but it was very obvious how this data could have been used to exploit them and other addicts.
Ticketmaster's Scalper Program Exposed
As a(As a(As a(recursive defined class of person)))) im astounded by how important perspective and caste has become for some, while we are all just the same hairless monkeys
The Tesla navigation system has supercharger routing built in.

Won’t be surprise if Google maps has this within 5 years too.
Agathe Demarais is the global forecasting director at the Economist Intelligence Unit and the author of Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests.

Something about that, can't quite put my finger on it, makes me think he's against sanctions.
Have We Discovered Only Half of Physics? The Hidden Supersymmetry
Is this accurate? There's not a single comment saying "x is my daily driver" and no mention of anything being considered harmful.
Sounds culty
I definitley think it's on the product side that LAN parties died. The relationship between the player and the game, and the LAN community and the game were way different.

Gradually the companies figured out how to inject themselves into the social structure. Your relationships became mediated by these products. Rather than a social lubricant they became the relationship itself. They monetized that social capital.

You didn't play WoW with your friends anymore; you played WoW because that product allowed you access to your friends.

Some superguilds figured out how to hop games and maintain that social structure, but only the most organized and intentional. Gradually these LAN groups eroded as people got jobs, families, etc. Perhaps that was why the MMO declined; those friendship structures became compromised by the product, and people also developed constraints on their time by things like, spouses, children, and careers.
Alarms

Alexa, stop alarm.

silences alarm

Alexa, what was that alarm for?

"I have no alarms set"

About the only thing we use it for is shopping list management for the grocery/costco/home improvement etc and reminders, timers, and alarms. We routinely run into simple usage woes.
I posted before on HN about this trend, of commenters often completely forgetting about the original article, and arguing a lot (in child comments) about some top-voted comment.

I called it the Hacker News Right-Side Effect (or Rule)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405167
Ive used Alexa to order our regular dog food a handful of times, and it ended up being easier to just get my phone out, find it, and buy it there. If there’s any background noise, Alexa struggles - TV, music, kids playing, etc. The interactions are super slow.

Voice command stuff won’t be broadly useful to people until they can damn near read your mind. I can translate my thoughts into actions far faster with buttons and a device than I can explaining it to a voice assistant. That’s the real technical challenge here.

Alexa doesn’t have to be better than Siri. It has to be better than me using my phone or a computer.
Amazing that they were able to isolate the mercury capturing genes and transfer them to another organism.
For better or worse I learned to drive on Gran Turismo
These clubs remind me of this tweet (as someone that has always been the perf guy wherever I worked):

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Also, hot take: users care way less about performance than you think. They want "fast enough", but we're over-indexing on "as fast as possible" instead of caring about other things that matter more to users.

Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidKPiano/status/15787403709971...
Go ahead and publish and put your feelings about the quality of the code in the README. Bonus points if you have some thoughts about how you would approach things differently now, if only you had the time.
Kinda relevant, because [-] doesn't work with JS disabled. :-P
My home page could get on this site if I reduce the amount of CSS, but I already have it remove unused items from the CSS. Eh, fun project for another day.
Most useful comment on the whole thread. Thanks for the tip about the [-].
Regarding 12, alignment of bitfields, how I believe it works is that when the bitfield of type long is laid out, then the structure so far is considered to be a vector of storage cells whose size and alignment are those of long:

struct foo {
char a;
long b: 16;
char c;
};

So, a has been laid into the structure, so the current offset is 1 byte.
This is considered to be occupying a portion of an existing long type bitfield cell. In other words a is essentially taken to be an 8-bit field in the first long-sized cell of the structure. That cell looks like it has 56 bits left in it (if we assume 64 bit long). Since 56 > 16, the new bitfield b is placed into that cell. When that field is placed, the placement offset becomes 3. The type of c being char, that offset is acceptable for c.

I've painstakingly reverse engineered the rules when developing the FFI for TXR Lisp:

1> (sizeof (struct foo (a char) (b (bit 16 long)) (c char)))
8
2> (alignof (struct foo (a char) (b (bit 16 long)) (c char)))
8
3> (offsetof (struct foo (a char) (b (bit 16 long)) (c char)) a)
0
4> (offsetof (struct foo (a char) (b (bit 16 long)) (c char)) b)
** ffi-offsetof: b is a bitfield in #<ffi-type (struct foo (a char) (b (bit 16 long)) (c char))>
4> (offsetof (struct foo (a char) (b (bit 16 long)) (c char)) c)
3

I've summarized my empirically-obtained understanding for the benefit of users and anyone else doing similar work in a different project.

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-027D075C
Also: publications and presentations

https://deepgeothermalheat.engineering.cornell.edu/publicati...
“$10B in anonymized, aggregated business transaction volume each year by Ramp customers”

1. That’s basically nothing compared to the big names.
2. This tweet is intentionally using _rates_ but I don’t see absolute values. If I spend $2 vs $1, I’ve doubled my spending, but I also haven’t really spent anything. Last week my coffee spend was about 700% higher than usual! Because I bought a single coffee from a coffee shop instead of making it at home.
3. This sample seems to be just of a very small number of small companies (which are this tryramp’s customers). Again, this is pretty useless on its own. Especially when we have statements that large companies are pausing spending.
4. If big names are pulling out, the ad space may be cheaper (due to less demand) at which point they are giving more to Twitter but Twitter is still taking in less.

We don’t know either way, but that tweet gives no real information on its own.
Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea.

Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads.

When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the entire thread. You can view the thread on something like hnpredicted.com/?id=33680661 . When the real thread has had no new comment added for five days, it is reintegrated into the system further training the model.

Possibly, the model could be trained on the actual content of the link. But I suspect just using the short title might be better. Larger concentration on the actual material there, websites contain lots of text which is useless.

Now that I've posted the idea, feel free to steal it ofcourse. It's documented that I came up with it anyway. :)
I certainly don't mean to nitpick[0], but this one is a total dumpster fire because it is lacking a clear 'HN is turning into Reddit!' comment[1]

[0]https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There was initially a queue to get in the queue. I personally entered the PS Direct queue around October 2021 and was able to purchase one in January 2022.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221120140741/http://bradconte....
Try doing it during the middle of the day, it ends up working out much better thaw way.
You're on some kind of a good track here -- but I don't get how this related to the need for an isolated existence.
Sectorforth and sectorlisp are interesting studies in minimalism. One of the goals of sectorforth’s author was to know whether

> if you have an interactive terminal, a dictionary, and the colon compiler, can you really build everything else based on just eight primitives?

> Turns out the answer is yes

The eight primitives come from an old usenet thread: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/NS2icrCj1jQ
I have a 10 year old project on Github. I even have it on my resume. The code is nothing like what I would write today, but I think that's implied by it being 10 years old. And I'm personally quite proud of what I produced, even though I would do it differently now.

Project is a WSYIWYG editor (https://github.com/nicoburns/ghostedit) if anyone is interested. I wouldn't recommend anyone use it these days, but it could be interesting as a relatively small codebase to learn from if anyone is interested in how contenteditable in web browsers works.
0.0001% == 0%

The only operable probabilities are "Never", "Sometimes", and "Always". Since Musk took over, the chance of imminent nonrecoverable catastrophe has gone from "No" to "Maybe".
I think the death of Twitter has been greatly exaggerated; notice that nearly all of the conversation around it is taking place on the very site that is supposed to be dying.

Departing employees are justifiably angry about the events of the past few weeks, but I think a desire to see Musk get his comeuppance has colored too many people's assessment of whether Twitter can stay running with a skeleton crew while they rebuild internal expertise. Working code can stay running on autopilot for an impressively long time.
If you use the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations to analyze the behavior of compressible materials, you can find what are called the "characteristic" speeds, which are the speeds that various types of waves propagate at.

Compressible materials tend two have two different characteristic speeds, one for sound waves and one for shock waves.

The speed of sound basically works out to speed = sqrt(stiffness / density). So as a material gets stiffer, the speed of sound goes up. An infinitely stiff (i.e. incompressible) material by implication would have an infinite speed of sound, though this can't happen in any real material.

Shock waves travel faster than sound, at a speed related to the pressure difference across the shock. The greater the pressure difference, the faster the shock travels. So if you had an infinite pressure difference, you could have an infinitely fast shock wave, but again this can't happen in the real world.

However, sound and shock speeds only apply to pressure waves in a material. Other influences like gravity and electromagnetism travel at the speed of light. So for example, if you're doing fluid dynamics for plasma, then you'll have a third characteristic speed, the speed of light, because of the charged nature of the material attracting and repelling itself.

There are also more exotic characteristics, like the speed of a propagating combustion front in a flammable material. But when you get to this level you're no longer just solving one simple set of differential equations.
Also the long, tedious argument following from a polite correction to using the wrong pronouns for the author.
They thought they’d get you to put an Alexa in your home (perhaps at a loss) but that it would bring you into the ecosystem and you’d buy more stuff. But most people just use it for the 1 or 2 things they bought it for like alarm clock and weather.
Right, they are known for changing the world.
Why not, out of curiosity?
This whole comment section makes me happy. Thanks for that HN and OP.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33676775
It's a useful analogy. You won't ask a chess program for advice on how to write well. And yet chess programs superior to all human chess players were seen as a milestone in AI. "AI" in the form of ML is more like a steam shovel versus human diggers.

AGI is different. If it is possible to make an AGI on current or near-future hardware, that will be a revolutionary event. But it still won't be a human mind. It will not have human fears, drives, and neuroses. It will be fascinating to meet a non-human intellect.
For those that don't watch videos:

It's a news channel investigation into Ticketmaster reselling scalped tickets on it's own platform and investigators go to a convention for ticket scalpers where Ticketmaster is participating and promoting ticket scalping.
Not a single person went on about vue
A modern, modular retro monitor
So I work in surgical simulation training. And yeah the OR in my observations has also not been this romanticized mission control thing that I was expecting.

My impression is that it is more like a mechanic shop: people are doing their jobs, they're looking at the clock, thinking schedule, they're listening to music or radio, they're maybe casually arguing about something. They're used to their tools and instruments, they're in some sort of routine, everybody has their individual subdomain or specialty.

This stuff is tricky because you're not just coming up with a device, you're coming up with new human behavior in connection with the device. The human (anesthetist) needs to be won over by the physiological model, and then they need to actually be effective with it.

The funny anecdotes I've heard from an anesthetist were along the lines of "They're introducing new equipment that rings alarms about things I already know, so my job becomes turning those alarms off".

How far along with this process are you?
Switch from algorithmic to chronlogical feed (via the stars icon on the startpage of the app). Then, if you have your followings curated (which you likely already have anyway), you should not get much crap in your feed.
Dinner is a bit too on the nose. Maybe just if you can hangout in general. Gauge that reaction/outing, then if it goes well try for dinner.
Didn't you know that zsh has this cool feature which reduces it to 1.5 lines? ohmyzsh!
Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes, Oh My
His book Anvil of Stars is one of the few Sci-Fi books that really gives a sense of truly alien and powerful technology and cultures.
> Possibly, the model could be trained on the actual content of the link. But I suspect just using the short title might be better. Larger concentration on the actual material there, websites contain lots of text which is useless.

Most people do not read the article before commenting, you do not have to train the AI to do that.
I have seen very little code that is written to be "as fast as possible" and a lot of code that aims to be "fast enough" and fails to meet that bar. Perhaps still worth being mindful about it?
> The "By the way" intrusion

For those of us that don’t use Alexa, what’s this?
Naively, a voice assistant with the comprehension of old Wolfram Alpha could be cool:

Wolfram used to understand questions like “what’s the mass of the Earth divided by the mass of the solar system?”

I think a voice assistant that can take such natural language questions and answer would be fun — asking Alexa is less disruptive to a conversation than taking out a phone; but somehow, Wolfram has regressed and voice assistants never reached that level.
Probably fails rule 3.