skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So Google Docs' word processor has fewer text editing features than Word or Office. But it has one huge enormous feature that has become, for many people, a can't-go-back-to-something-without-this dealbreaker.

Except Google Docs probably has ten times the resources compared to the Word Perfect team back in the day. Why can't they do both?

> Does the fact that it never added the full encyclopedia of other features from 90s word processors mean that it's lacking and a huge regression, or that those features were not all that useful or appealing to many people but part of bloat resulting from how something had to go on the back of the box for Word 6, Word 95, Word 97, Word 2000, etc?

I suspect it's more that consumers are cheap and building ad-supported crapware is more profitable than building real software. It's the same as how inkjet printers are total garbage today, but you can get one for $59.

> And I'd suggest kids are less "computer literate" in the sense of "understanding how the machine works" because the machines work better and they don't have to be.

I'm not talking about "less computer literate" in the sense of "not knowing what an IRQ is or does." I mean it in the sense of "not knowing what computers are capable of doing."

To use a car analogy--people know less about cars than 30 years ago, because cars are more automated, need less maintenance, etc. But in another sense, people know just as much about what cars can do for them because cars today can do all the same things and more. Modern software, by contrast, is like replacing cars with golf carts. They're simpler, sure, but because they can't do as much, and they narrow younger people's horizons of what's possible with computers.
This is exactly the answer. I've worked on one very old codebase in my career. I was paid well for doing so.

The graph of investment in software starts high with greenfield projects, drops over time to an all-time low as optimizations take hold, and as the software continues existing will rise to the greenfield (or more) levels of cost. The interesting thing to me is what substantiates the rises; for instance, in greenfield experimentation and iteration is what costs the most. In old software it's usually the employees.

I'd love to actually document this sometime.
> Because the shares aren't in your name, broker-dealers can lend them out to hedge funds shorting the company you're investing in.

This is part of how they absorb the fees inherent in trading. Or you can use a brokerage which pays you part of what is made for the loaning-out, and doesn't absorb the trading fees.

Or just don't worry about it, your chump-change investments being lent out doesn't matter.

> The shares can also vanish if the brokerage goes under.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sipc.asp

Your brokerage firm made you agree to a bunch of documents explaining their SIPC insurance, where the assets will be transferred if they go under, etc, etc. It's not their fault if you just clicked through and ignored them.

Stick with the various major brokers and expend your effort worrying about lightning strikes and sharknados.
The idea that processing determines the healthfulness of a foodstuff is fallacious.
I believe for this style of instrument, for powered off state, or severance of connection with the sensor, that middle was the unbiased home position, because rarely would you place the settings right in the middle for an extended period of time. There are several RPM indicators out there like this as well. I've got two very old 1950's era indicators for RPM that work just like that.

There are of course other instruments that do different things to indicate failure of gauge, failure of sensor, failure of connection, and so forth.

I have several of these older aircraft gauges, and other mechanical and analogue gauges from various devices in my workshop in a drawer, and taking them apart over the years, I can honestly say I have not found one from a particular manufacturer that is quite the same as another in mechanical operation from another manufacturer, and also mechanical differences between different instruments for different functionality. I've also found that when used in regular operation, i.e. wired up precisely how they are supposed to work, some instrument gauges would make a sort of wobble motion until they settled, like the amperage when applied would drop, come back up, go over, and then return to nominal. Old analogue circuits and capacitors hold charge, and take a while to settle, so it is always fascinating to watch these devices "do their thing" in their natural habitat.

My knowledge of aircraft systems, beyond tinkering with old gauges, is limited and I readily admit ignorance in most of this stuff.
Yeah to clarify I'm definitely in agreement with you that it's O(1), the size is fixed so it's constant time. It's not like the 'n' has to be "sufficiently small" or something for it to be O(1), it just has to be constant :)

People are being very loose about what O(n) means so I attempted to clarify that a bit. Considering what assignments can already do in C it's somewhat irrelevant whether they think it's O(n) anyway, it doesn't actually make their point correct XD
No, you have flawed logic ;) you're expecting logic from people.. ?

If you into a relationship expecting perfection, you will always be sadly mistaken as people are imperfect. Entering the relationship contract this way is "bad faith" but not unheard of.

I'm glad that you've never had to deal with it, but in reality it happens.
We also eat plenty of other bugs and insects which just get into the way of processing plants ;=)

(crustaceans are a good example as traces of them tend to get included into algal based food, but less pleasant sounding examples are e.g. from time to time small worms being in fruited pressed for juice, sound terrible but isn't really that terrible and impossible to avoid without using pesticides which are worse then that by far)
Ask HN: Is there a website for bounties to create custom hardware designed?
I have been thinking for a long time that I really want a custom built smart powerboard. The exact kind of device that I want doesn't really seem to exist.

Is there a site that I can say "somebody make this", kind of like a reverse Kickstarter?

I would happily put forward a few hundred dollars to get a design made for me.
and as awesome it is, it cannot get a copyright.
For those who might be interested, I would really love to have a power strip that has:

* Ethernet port or RS232 for communication

* USB charging cables for two devices

* 6 female Australian power plugs (AS/NZS 3112)

* 4 female jug plugs (IEC C13)

* Current monitoring on all the sockets/usb ports

* Relays to stop power to individual plugs

Something that works with Tasmota would be ideal.
Mostly, I agree with your post. Related: I find browsing the web on an older phone is awful. A great example: Google Maps is one of the most intensive web apps that I use. After each phone upgrade (~3years), it a huge leap forward in performance. I assume this can be explained by improved WiFi, CPU clock/cores/cache, and main memory. What is your guess about which part of the upgrade is most impactful? (Let's assume the version of Chrome is roughly equivalent between new and old phone.) My guess: It is mostly due to improved CPU (clock/cores/cache).
FYI I wasn't posting about how good bugs are, I was posting about the negative impression that vat-raised meat can have, which is a bit like the negative impression about bugs.

Your own post is a bit of an example of reactionary posts about foods that somehow "disgust" others with opinion sometimes disguised as research showing all kinds of "problems".
How do you verify the entity you think is Konami is actually Konami? If you're only going to going to allow their cards then what's the actual benefit of being on whatever chain instead of using Konami's own database where they can implement all the features desired without the complication of byzantine consensus?
> Also Grover search does not work that way.

I'm curious, what do you mean by this?

Do you mean that Grover's algorithm can't speed up algorithms that use disk storage, or do you mean something else?
No, it's a fundamental agreement about what property rights are really for.
Growth will come when the price comes down. They should be producing this stuff far below the cost of beef.

There’s economies of scale, sure, but the ingredients they use are far cheaper than the inputs required to make beef.

There is effectively no market for this product at costs that exceed beef
> IIRC C has an informal guarantee that no primitive syntax will ever cause the CPU to do more than O(1) work at runtime.

How about CPUs that have no, say, division instruction, so it has to be emulated with a loop?
I’m shocked the local instance is so tight with the interpreter. I assumed jupyter injected itself all over the place to allow halting loops and what have you.

I do not care about the performance of jupyer lite - that it runs at all is a miracle. That it is acceptable performance for doing demos/teaching from a browser is simply magic.
> Around 2001 Caldera bought old SCO. Caldera was already struggling to compete with RedHat.

The rest of Old SCO (the Santa Cruz Operation) renamed itself to Tarantella and got bought out by Sun in 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella,_Inc%2e

> Buying old SCO didn't help, they could not convert customers to Caldera Linux. After a reorganisation new management came in (2003) and that was the end of the software business.

And 2003 was also when a company called the SCO Group began making wild accusations about Linux.
https://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/JamesHamilton2022101... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522499) is a good write-up by the person behind a lot of Amazon's ASIC stuff.
Yes. Last commit was 5 months ago [1]. Seems like a great idea though.

What I don't like it is that they invented yet another markdown syntax for code cells - it is the opening bracket # %[python] with no closing bracket.

There already is a popular markdown code cell syntax of [2]

```python

```

[1] https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-notebook

[2] https://github.github.com/gfm/#fenced-code-blocks
I sure would love it if they came up with a way to block those "intent to leave" popups too.
> Non-meat-eaters have already weaned themselves off meat taste-wise and are not-so-interested.

This was my experience. A month or two after dropping animal products, my body just stopped asking for them. I couldn’t care much less if I ever had meat or cheese again. I’ve got a massive repertoire of other stuff I crave instead now.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA this is priceless
same here, i would have been totally lost without them as well... read them end-to-end when i started out and never regretted it
I'm not offended, but I'm also not gonna use something that says JSON sucks.
I remember reading a few years ago a really interesting trip report of a couple doing a proper road trip through Africa in a Landcruiser.

Was impressed just how much the car went through and how it was still operational.
Super interesting read if you have some time to spare.

https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/democratic-republ...
My partner is a vegetarian and she doesn't eat the fake-meat patties, however, she does get these: https://www.morningstarfarms.com/en_US/products/chikn/mornin...

They're really good with no awful side effects or tastes. I like some vegetarian options, but honestly, most of it either tastes nasty or has poor texture.
PostgreSQL 14.5 On OpenBSD 7.2 Install
true, I think there's a basis for that. When you jump stores like enter a Sprouts freezer aisle you can get disarrayed from the unfamiliar brands and logos and all that and have to orient yourself first in those scenarios too at times.
More on JSON5 is here:

https://json5.org/

I like the comments and trailing commas too. It has a few other small improvements as well.
Underlying a lot of psychotic behavior is a lack of empathy often caused by varying forms of a narcissitic personality disorder. Itself the root of many other disorders.

The culprit has got to be all of the tech and more specifically, social media. It causes more damage than most realize. It's basically a narcissism breeding machine and the advent of social media lines up perfectly with so many serious problems in society.
Spot on.

Safety also matters, US meat industry is really strictly controlled and paradoxically it's safer to eat meat than veggies, especially fresh like a salad. It'd be tough to solve, this. No one would vote to remove meat controls but comparable controls over pesticide/soil/cleanness would be unpopular too as they'd increase prices and make veg tougher to sell.
the extension apparently can be configured to use a locally running instance of the server. But yes, by default it uses the remote version, and thus you post publicly the json, which may or may not be ideal depending on what you're doing.
I think it’s fair to say that an industry that’s lasted ten thousand years[1] is sustainable.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
I agree the reference is weak and there is most likely a large amount of conjecture behind that number, but the numbers don't a priori not make sense.

Subsidies can have both > 1 multiplier impacts and non-linear impacts. For example, subsidies allow for artificial economies of scale to kick in that can then bring the price down significantly. However, were those subsidies to dry up, then certain thresholds may no longer be met and you may see again a non-unitary and non-linear rise in price.

Indeed this is the main theoretical reason why a society would be interested in subsidies: they can get back more benefit than what they pay for in the form of the subsidy.
Closed captioning can provide translations.

If it was specific to transcription historically, it no longer is today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning
The AirDrop spam has been a headache in China for sometime: https://www.pingwest.com/a/256995
By struggling… they mean >$1B in debt, a few hundred million in cash and a net cash flow of negative a few hundred million

They’re beyond “well done”

I’ll see myself out.
Food is not a startup company, people's tastes are shaped by their culture/religion, childhood favorites and decades in between. Expecting exponential growth is unrealistic how good the product is, and financial considerations quickly come into play once you run out of early adopters. Whoever is up to the challenge must prepare for a lot of patience, optimizing production on thin margins, tweaking product for different recipes and demographics and lots of advertisement and community outreach. Having the product on average grocery shelves is already amazing success for this category, now the hard work begins.
In the past all my comments got downvoted and my karma got destroyed on this forum because of talking on crypto. Regarding crypto as a scammers tool I will just leave it here because it doesnt make sense to talk in this HN crowd about it as you get downvotes by default from sceptics:

"I was initially a crypto skeptic, but after studying some of the more interesting crypto projects, I have come to believe that crypto can enable the formation of useful businesses and technologies that heretofore could not be created."
The telephone, the internet, and crypto share one thing in common. Each technology improves on the next in terms of its ability to facilitate fraud.
As such, I was initially a crypto skeptic, but after studying some of the more interesting crypto projects, I have come to - Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) November 20,
Feels a bit blogspammy. Drepper's article is linked to for good reason
Just look at their portfolio on their front page for a list of "future scam revelations" and implosions.

E.g.: Chia coin is down -98% since its inception, -76% just this year and heading downwards. What does it do other than soak up excessive hard drive inventory? I dunno! I doubt anyone has a use for it.
Until github removes that version, which they will:

> When a new REST API version is released, we’re committed to supporting the previous version for at least two years (24 months).
Overland Trip Report – DRC: Lubumbashi to Kinshasa
Fascinating trip report of an overland trip through the DRC in a Landcruiser.
One thing to watch out for with Beyond and Impossible is that they still contain pretty crazy amounts of saturated fats. I know they’re better overall, but for a lot of people those fats are evidently one of the most substantial risks to their health.

I know it’s considered contentious, but the balance of research around this strongly indicates that reducing saturated fats has profoundly positive impact on health outcomes.

I’m not saying don’t eat them or they’re terrible. They do seem better than real meat as far as health goes. I’ve just been blown away by the amount of fat these things contain and I wonder if people realize how much it is.
This source says differently [0], at least for meat. Do you have any evidence or reasoning?

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18444144/
Yeah fair point. I don't know what point I was trying to make.
> I’m just being realistic here: that is not possible. The human population dispersing from cities and suburbs doesn’t make physical sense. You wouldn’t live in a rural area anymore if Manhattan decided to move out and go out to towns like yours. Your town would turn into a city in its own right.

Good that you can read between the lines. That is the goal. Bring prosperity to these areas rather than extracting from them so regularly.

> The fact that most people concentrate themselves into denser areas makes your rural lifestyle possible in the first place.

Again, another HN fallacy. Rural is not a "lifestyle". Most people don't just move to a place where there's no ambulance services out of a "lifestyle choice". That line of thinking on HN as a default needs a swift and sharp death. Usually it's economic situations. If you start to drift away from the federal definition of rural, which is incredibly specific and not accurate to the average Americans definition, it includes a lot of small towns and cities. There's a lot of overlap as to why people live in those places and, again, it's generally not lifestyle.

> I am not sure what I’m supposed to have empathy for here. I never said that rural people are dumb or bad or that nobody should live in rural areas. I have plenty of empathy for humans in general. I personally don’t prefer rural life but I also don’t have any negative feelings toward anyone who wants to live that way.

Empathy isn't just a trait you have or don't have. Not only are there different kinds of empathy, but humans practice empathy selectively based on experience (largely). I'm saying it sounds like you lack perspective based on the things you've said, which often equates to a lack of empathy. Now, if you were raised in a city or suburb and have never left then that explains it. That doesn't make you awful or anything bad, at least in my view, if that's what you need to hear.

> I’m just being realistic: concentrated areas where humans live in communities has been our reality since nomadic hunter-gathering was replaced by agriculture.

Those tribes were how big? Nowhere near the density of tech cities or any city with the appropriate concentration of jobs I referenced. My idea is to spread the population out more and make better use of land and resources.
>I could be fooled until I really give a good look

Looking at the woman on the boat [0] closely, I would still 100 % believe that’s simply a still from a movie, probably from the 90s.

[0]: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/pic/orig/media%2FFihVvliXwAEdw0y....
Lbry.com: Apple uses its Appstore policies to censor discussion about vaccines
Someone like...you?
Are you a climate change denier? Are you unaware of the changes that have happened in the last ten thousand years?
Rebel Without a Cause.

Or from 1935, High School Girl: "Heedless youth speeding through life with the throttle wide open".

<https://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/15994228179>
Anyone know more about the “Tiejen brothers”?
Unsarcastically yes, though I'd prefer that they not ban Twitter rather than that they ban all of that. You've nicely illustrated my point for me of how absurd it is to ban things that let you access unmoderated content.
I didn't realize the world had so many masochists. For all that he has done, there are still a lot of people still there.
if you're using unsafe then what's the argument to use rust? the comparison should be what you can't do in rust without unsafe.
Vandalizing art doesn't help protect the environment, though.
I can understand wanting to move from TypeScript to a non-JS language (is that a thing yet? with WebASM?), but it looks like they were moving back to plain JavaScript.

Surely the cost of slightly longer build times are worth paying for the benefit of having a type system (and as I understand other benefits such as OOP lang features like classes and interfaces, in favor of Javascript's prototyping weirdness)?

I will never understand web developers.
> hardware. If you can verify that the switch disables the radio, you don't have to worry about software do you?

Until the next time you turn radio on, when it could just send out anything, anywhere if the software stack is untrusted, so we are back at square one.
Only if it has positive cashflow, a low vacancy rate, and no major damage from the renters.

That is far from guaranteed, and the first one hasn’t been true in a lot of areas for almost a decade.
And hopefully the other ends of those two were top-most, so it could end there. If not, there could be even further collateral rework.
Strange that HN's dupe detector does not pick up these identical links from the past few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33752223

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33745375

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33742553

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739272

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762105
I wonder if it's because it's disgusting????????
> Simplicity is a pretty strong argument in my mind.

But the URL version inly wins that argument if you ignore all the issues.

Github clearly wants to iterate their REST API faster and feels constrained, the URL method would mean either the entire API versions over quickly with almost but not quite copy pastes, or endpoints get versioned individually and you’re simultaneously hitting /3/foo and /42/bar with little rhyme or reason.

Things get confusing when you retrieve an entity via /6/ then update it via /4/.
Artemis I – Flight Day 13: Orion Goes the (Max) Distance
so they used sms based 2fa. I had 2fa based on google authenticator (not sms), because of that attack vector. I only had a few thou dollars. But they decided google auth is not accepted anymore and I failed to login and reset it and so the result was locking my account for a year - until recently when I spent multiple days getting it reset. Thus my skepticism.

No one should allow/use text message based 2fa of course.
I have used DDNS before, but totally unfamiliar with what you refer to in your comment. Care to elaborate a bit?
You are aware that Electron is just a stripped down browser, right?
A Modchip to Root Starlink User Terminals Through Voltage Glitching
Education, law enforcement, and public office are a small subset of fields. I suspect that this will benefit many people still.
This is informational and reminds me of that funny github repo porsager/postgres. Thanks for sharing this!
It’s called sprint review for a reason