skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great point, and one that we're honestly in the process of trying to make progress on.

Ideally, I would love to have both:

- Writers and creators on Substack are in complete control of the brand and feel of their publication

And:

- All publications look & work well
- Readers get the benefit of already understanding some of what this thing is, which makes it easier to subscribe with confidence
- We can continue to ship rapid improvements across all of Substack

In practice, there are tradeoffs involved here and we're trying to figure out how to push both sides as far as possible, while maintaining a simple and powerful product.
It was a CD, but a really low quality burned CD that we eventually scratched the label side on, which stripped the data side off with it. So it was eventually hung from the ceiling with dental floss. We crossed out "98" with marker and wrote in "95", but to be honest, it didn't install anything by then.
It is unfortunately also when the wind slows down and the sun stops shining, which is where an increasing amount of our power generation comes from.
He can be imprisoned on one "sacrificial" offense for which they have probable cause but don't care much about.* Then reset the clock with a superseding indictment.

* Note per below the sacrificial offense would be a Bahaman offense while the superseding offense would be in US jurisdiction.
The total lack of regulation for "supplements" is kind of bizarre. Seems to me people shouldn't be able to sell any compound they like as a pseudo-medicine.
Not only that, but they had already tried a few times before, at least one 17 days long!

> After the first three flights, the plane had never stayed aloft longer than 17 days.

Imagine going up there a third time, spending a day, then two, then a week, then two weeks, and then a few days later being forced to land... only to get up there again aiming for two months!
An 'old' settings dialog in Windows is usually to support old drivers who still want/need to extend that dialog with driver specific options. You will probably still see it in the network settings too if you dig deep enough
Nuclear plants are also very expensive, no?
Windows 2000 was an NT release, but Windows Millenium Edition (Me) was the last generally released DOS-based desktop OS released by Microsoft. Windows Me was released after Windows 2000 by a few months.
It is being assembled right now, it is just taking a bloody long time to do so.
Sticky social networks.

I grew up watching a lot of regular sports but also playing some games. Same deal, once I became busy and decided to stop keeping up with meta changes, champ changes, etc I stopped watching. But I had younger friends who had more time who kept hyping these events so I felt pressured to watch. Then their younger friends would hype up the events and watch. I also have some actual streamers in my friend group so they socially pressure me to watch as well. I've finally gotten old enough that most of my friends have largely stopped watching eSports for fun. Funny enough I still watch regular sports because the meta really doesn't change that much at all.
HN comments are not thinking, doing anything, or building something. It is a place where you gain attention and karma not from some constructive act. People post constructive things, then commenters vie for attention. If you look at threads, the top "comment" on them is something about a completely different topic. And then they mostly go downhill.

Hacker News is a good source for interesting posts and idea. The comments are mostly worthwhile for watching how a social machine produces very weird stuff. It is not the people who are contrarians, it a function of the machine.

Zeynep Tufekci talked about how twitter affords outrage and the Arab Spring, but did not afford a way to do anything constructive with that outrage. (Twitter and Tear Gas, available as a pdf). HN commenting system affords .... what you see here.
Yesterday I got presented an ad disguised as an educational YouTube video, but the content was really good and is worth watching if you have some time on your hands.

"How does Computer Memory Work?" [0]

Uploaded 1 month ago, 35 minutes playing time.

It even goes into explaining what the timings mean while showing an animation for it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7X7aZvMXQ
> we're talking about Twitter and Mastodon, not any of those other things.

I don't view things so narrowly. If you want to limit yourself to only Twitter and Mastodon, you are free to do so, but that does not make similar cases non sequiturs.
I'll man the barricades to defend my Castlevania raven from the forces of societal stability.
Well that was the most interesting sci-fi-that-might-be-real I've read all week.
SC2 is f2p so you can.

You also typically will pay some manufacturer for basketball equipment before you play.
Movies Every Software Developer Should Watch
Sure. I don’t know the ActivityPub spec; maybe there’s some way to disambiguate further. But I think Elon would be fine with deplatforming anyone for whom he could get away with it.
Oh, man. Any place you may want to bring that zip disk was already clicking, and you were just lucky that you listened it destroy somebody's else disk before you put yours on.

The way to share data was CD-ROM. Everybody had one or two rewritable disks with random stuff on them. But you could use neither the zips nor the CDs for some stuff.
Richly deserved.
> If you ever actually look into Unstable diffusion Kickstarter, you’ll notice that they’re not actually claiming they’ll manually label a dataset the size of Laion-5B - that’s a much bigger task than what you seem to think it is.

I never claimed this either.
What does the geothermal story look like? I expect it's expensive to first set up, but after that, maybe it's cost-effective and reliable? Asking because I genuinely don't know, but haven't seen it mentioned in this subthread.
Good! The JVM is written in C++. I'm glad C++ is on the rise!
the call is coming from inside the house.
I know I've installed Win95 off of floppies. Don't recall the exact number, but believe it was around 40-50 3.5" floppies. It came in a box about the length of a shoe box.
> when playing Starcraft have already in someway paid Blizzard money. You cannot play Starcraft legally without paying them money.

Strictly speaking, you can: both StarCraft 1 and StarCraft 2 have free versions.

You do need to pay for the HD graphics for SC1 though, and for SC2 you'd have to pay for some campaigns or co-op commanders. And it's quite common for eSports to be free to play, with mostly just charging for cosmetics.

I get what you mean, though: even if there are free versions, it's still explicitly under the game developer's control.
I agree that the discussion generated from this article is not what we want on HN, but I don't think it is fair to criticize the comments as being reflexive contrarians when they are simply and correctly pointing out that the claims being made in the article are misleading at best. And these aren't nit-picky details about side-issues in the article - the are the core headline claims that aren't further clarified or nuanced in the article text, so guidelines to not "pick the most provocative thing ... to complain about" aren't applicable IMO - without posts correcting the article many reader would have a wildly false understanding of what actually occurred which isn't what we want either.

I think the best way to increase the quality of discussion for research results is to avoid posting misleading and hype driven coverage, so the discussion can then focus on the actual research results and their implications, rather than on the poor coverage.
Considering how cheap bandwidth is, and how good compression is, are we yet approaching point where it makes sense for content creators to host their own videos?

99% of what's on YT doesn't need to be in HD, anyway.
Right after the reusable fusion rockets.
Rather, very anti science and technology hype. Many visitors of this website measure experience by decades, and have seen many waves of hype resiting in not much progress in unyielding areas, from self-driving car and silver-bullet methodologies to, well, commercial fusion.

When demonstrable, measure progress is achieved, visitors of this site get very excited and positive, from things like the Rust language all the way to solar power and reusable rockets.

A breakthrough is a qualitative change, not (merely) quantitative. 95% to 96% of reaction energy output is a nice but quantitative advance. 99% to 101% is a qualitative breakthrough: suddenly, it's a surplus, actual generation.

We are still far away from the latter, alas.
But the error message is completely optuse. How can you be so sure it's because of the TPM? The message says nothing but fuck you user.

Also modern version of Ubuntu (and linux distribution in general) have no issues on decade old hardware (I have a couple machines that old).
That's not completely true, but has a lot of truth in it.

Everyone formed their opinion about eg. Blockchain a long time ago.

But they do admit that eg. Gpt-3 is pretty advanced, but has it's own flaws.
All of the "supplements" should be banned by default and have to pass some sort of regulatory check to be sold. Just insane that after the opioid epidemic that we are still allowing this.
I’ve watched 2 actual videos from the show and I’m not hearing the “loud boos”

Does anyone have a link to a video that can verify this?
That doesn't really happen anymore. China stopped accepting plastic waste because there was no economic way to recycle it, even using Chinese labor. The plastic industry talks a lot about recycling and even includes those helpful triangles on their products, but in reality the vast majority of plastics go straight to the dump, even when you wash them and separate them out into the blue bins.
Back then they were comparing to the energy actually absorbed by the fusion fuel. This is indirect drive, the laser hits a metal container first and only some of the energy gets to the fuel pellet.

This time, they're comparing to the total energy in the laser beams.

They're ignoring the inefficiency of the laser devices, but that kinda makes sense because they're using really old, inefficient lasers and much better ones are available now.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...

I guess they are following Chrome migration plan by delaying the inevitable
>The average HN reader strikes me as someone who can talk big, spout buzzwords, and play skeptic, but make them actually solve something and they crumble instantly.

I'm sure many have experienced the phenomenon where they read some HN comments that sound authoritative and give them that level of credulity. And then they get into a discussion on a topic they may literally be an expert in and it's made glaring obvious the person they are in a discussion with only has a superficial understanding, yet takes the same authoritative tone.
Applications of the UCore Forth FPGA CPU
I think you are overstating the predictive power. You can find strong correlations looking backwards, but that doesn't mean that they are good or strong predictors looking forward.

To take just one of your data points as an example, 78% of suicides were preceded by a stressor. If you flip it to make a prediction, what percentage of Life stressors lead to suicide? The number of people who experience major life stressors must be enormous. If tens or hundreds of millions people have major stressors a year, that doesn't help you very much in targeting limited services .

The same holds true for psychiatric care. Prior suicide attempt is probably the exception there, but even that int ~30% predictive power looking foward.
Sitting Bull
This could pass as satire of a Hacker News comment.
> It's inventory, orders, and volume discounts.

I see. That makes more sense.

The web3 angle seems like a red herring.

> It may not sound simpler because the tech underneath is somewhat complicated. But from a user point of view (as a retailer, and as a vendor) it's WAY easier. I think it's also SIGNIFICANTLY less work for the vendor to implement.

Easier than bespoke, sure. But a web2 platform custom-built for this purpose would surely be easier than web3. Both to implement and to sell to vendors. No?

> Does a vendor care if it's 1 large business or many small businesses in aggregate?

Well, you definitely care about your counter-party's credit risk and the cost to you of assessing that risk!

Cost of assessment: having one large counter-party vs. a ton of smaller counter-parties is a substantive difference even if they're identical credit risks.

Actual risk: In practice a good number of those small counter-parties are small shops that might keep close to zero capital in their business. Particularly in the case of eg drop-shipping. A typical drop shipper is literally more risky than the end consumer! So counterparty's credit risk is wildly different. A bunch of worthless LLCs running on razor thin margins with very little cash in the bank vs. a large well-capitalized company with significant assets.

> My goal is to make it easier for small businesses to compete with big business (as in retailers). I think this technology can solve some of the problems that previously made it not worth the time for vendors.

Aggregating demand is a useful role for an intermediary, but the real product is financial services rather than information services. Playing the role of either auditor or guarantor for aggregated larger purchasing promises made by smaller entities would certainly be a real financial service for which you could charge a reasonable fee (ie take a cut of the discount). But still the vendor doesn't care. They just treat you as the large well-capitalized client. And your customers are the smaller consumers.
Fusion Driven Rocket
To put the power-over-overhaul-run into a more comparable perspective, I think it's helpful to compare the gallons of fuel consumed [as a proxy for the amount of energy/work output]. A small aircraft engine like in a 172 might be 10 gallons per hour, or 18K gallons of flight time over an engine run.

18K gallons will take a typical road car around 500K miles, so an airplane engine getting "only 1800 hours" of flight time likely outperforms the typical auto engine.
At the point where we're litigating what peer review is across all of academia, we've stopped discussing things productively. Each time this story comes up, somebody always wants to make the whole thing about peer review being intellectually bankrupt. That's only a live debate if you have a misconception about what a journal article is meant to represent in the sciences --- all of the sciences, not just the floofy ones.

It's telling that you rattled off Cell, Nature, Science, ACM, and Usenix: top-tier journals. Yes: top-tier journals do better than low-impact journals-of-last-resort at being selective! That's why they're top journals!

I just looked: Gender, Place, and Culture is currently the 21st-ranked gender studies journal. From what I can tell, it is the only journal dedicated to feminist geography. Also: we have now officially reached the point in this discussion where I took time to go figure out what feminist geography was, and where feminist geographers publish (not in G.P.C.! there are higher-ranked cultural geography journals, just not feminist-specific ones).
Simple put people think "its a slippery slope". Every step closer to the evolution of a new technology makes people think about all the bad ways it could be used. Many past leaders in chemistry probably thought their advances would lead to the holocaust.

Its not bad to think/talk about the possible negative consequences of bringing a new technology into this world.
If you work in React and like this approach it's hard to go past Visx - https://airbnb.io/visx
big plus one to this. recommend mouth tape + humidifier
I believe these locomotives were pure diesel, no electric.
> I think many people are starting to see Elon for who he truly is, which is very apparent in videos like this.

I'm not sure if he was always this way; I think he used to be a lot less nuts. Sure, he was a bit of a jerk before, but it seems like overuse of Twitter (and maximizing eNgAgEmEnT) pushed him on a one way train to crazytown. Owning Twitter (and thereby becoming more involved with it) is probably the single worst move he could have made.
Surely this is sarcasm?
A Century of Serious Difficulty
You haven’t demonstrated that they’re similar. So far, all you’ve shown is that Twitter previously displayed sensitive content warnings on links to a video site known for hate speech. That’s the whole point of a content warning. It's not analogous to the current situation, which is that Twitter is abusing that warning to stifle a competing service.
I don’t have adhd but the way adhd people tell me is that they literally cant do even basic things that are under stimulating. Im talking basics like doing the laundry, taking out the trash, keeping a neat workspace, throwing out spoiled food, and other very mundane chores. It causes physical pain or something.
I'm a sveltekit user and the default SSR really complicated adding a chart library. Would Unovis work with SSR? Appreciate the Svelte support!
Elon says it was mostly cheers, not boos - but that the clip was taken from a moment when the cheers were quiet. I wasn't there, so I can't tell ya, but apparently journalists from every major outlet were, and can (ha).
There is plenty of blame to go around on both extremes.

I also accused the right of conspiracy theories, then pointed to specific liberal policies that killed people in the name of racial equity. I believe that these things are important to talk about. But people are so focused on slotting others into preconceived sides that they refuse to even talk about what it might mean to have a space where these conversations could be had.
By the way, Ukrainians should be grateful to the Soviet authorities for the Ukrainization of their territory in the 1930s. Just google it)
Microsoft seeks to settle EU antitrust concerns over Teams
My Surface go 3 came with W11 looking like W10 (except the start menu/task bar). That confused me a lot (old right click, old settings). It came win W11 Home so I did a fresh W11 Pro installation (which for some reason accepts the built in key and is activated) and everything looked like W11.
> The US has in the past put restrictions on who can immigrate, and continues to have restrictions (whatever moral judgement is attached to them is left for the reader). You can restrict the countries they come from. You can restrict the education levels. You can restrict the number entering. You can restrict how long they need to be here before they can vote. And so on.

That won't help, and possibly makes things worse. For example, I'm part of the high-education, high-income Asian immigrant influx to the U.S. over the last few decades. Our immigration may present a temporary financial boon in industries like medicine and tech. But, as should be obvious, there's cultural risks to importing another society's elites. We bring our elitist attitudes and affinity for top-down administration of society with us. Many Americans would, quite reasonably, say those aren't good things.

I'm not saying we shouldn't have immigration. But more than a quarter of Americans today are immigrants or first-generation children of immigrants. That's a tremendous burden on the country's ability to socialize people into the country's values and principles. And it's a tremendous source of social distress and conflict.

> Moreover, maintaining the current US culture is not entirely desirable. It has its good points and its bad points, but in general, a lack of change tends to become a regression rather than improvement.

Culture changes without foreign influence, though.
Btrfs in Linux 6.2 brings performance improvements, better RAID 5/6 reliability
There's a whole Netflix doc on it
I am already a 'very old person' by your standards, don't have a smartphone and yet I absolutely do not feel 'left behind' in any way shape or form. In fact I feel more in control of the tech around me than most of the people that I interact with who allow the technology to shape their world and the way they interact with others. Tech serves me, I don't serve tech.
Same, I even wrote a chrome extension to enable js on the current domain using a keyboard shortcut; but it has gotten to be more of a pain especially on landing pages.
If this were hosted on a science website, I would be more inclined to believe it. But because it's on FT, it smells like the Stein had their "free energy breakthrough" on the Economist - i.e yet not another science website buy a website for investors.
Yeah, instead of price it'd make more sense to talk about centralized control.
Hacker News is absolutely totally broken with cynicism. It has been getting worse for years now.
Do you think Abraham Lincoln's brother had ADHD?

Washington, December 24, 1848

Dear Johnston:
Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best, to comply with now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me ``We can get along very well now'' but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some defect in your conduct. What that defect is I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler. I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day's work in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work; and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children that you should break this habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it; easier than they can get out after they are in.

You are now in need of some ready money; and what I propose is, that you shall go to work, ``tooth and nails'' for some body who will give you money [for] it. Let father and your boys take charge of things at home---prepare for a crop, and make the crop; and you go to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you owe, that you can get. And to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you, that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of next May, get for your own labor, either in money, or in your own indebtedness, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dolla[rs] a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work. In this, I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the lead mines, or the gold mines, in Calif[ornia,] but I [mean for you to go at it for the best wages you] can get close to home [in] Coles county. Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven very cheaply for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed me the land, and, if you dont pay the money back, you will deliver possession. Nonsense! If you cant now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been [kind] to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty dollars to you.

Affectionately Your brother
A. LINCOLN
I'd still use C.