skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No; it would be treated like parking fines by the very rich United Parcel Service corporation -- i.e., an extremely effective deterrent.

The penalty scales with the number of bot accounts, but even Bill Gates can only drive one automobile at a time.
I can’t help but be reminded by your comment of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ
> I bought some higher brightness monitors but am starting to realize all those years of using dark mode was just lending itself to me spending 8 hours a day working in a dark room and was making me depressed, especially in the winter.

One possible detriment to this idea is probably now staring at a bright monitor for 8 hours a day.

Considering that outside is also somewhat bright normally, it shouldn't be that significant of a problem, but then again, I've noticed that I blink less frequently when using a computer.
What about a slightly alternative approach, where instead of trying to block the abuser, you try to make it clear to end users what the real website is? E.g. in your logo image, include the real domain name "saashub.com". Have some introduction text on your home page "Here at saashub.com, we compare SaaS products ...." When your images are hotlinked, replace them with text like "This is a fraudulent website, find us at saashub.com". Anything that can make it obvious to end users that they're on the wrong website when they visit the abuser's URL.

By the way, I've also reported the abuser as a phishing/fraud website through https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?u...
> its intended audience is Haskell academics

It was presented at Haskell eXchange so the audience is more like Haskell users in industry and those who would like to be.
Wonder if that's correlated with warm/cold light preference. I hate cream colors, they make me dizzy and sleepy. I stick as close to pure white as I can - if I have to dim it, I dim the screen, or apply a light gray (possibly biased towards blue) background.
You still would need to get a lawyer if the counterpart doesn't share your view, and lawyers are expensive in Germany. For some reason I believe that it's easier to sue in the US than in Germany, from what I get to read online, since I've never got sued or sued anyone.
The author has other interesting bootable games, like:

- https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders (Invaders)

- https://github.com/nanochess/bricks (bricks and paddle)

- https://github.com/nanochess/bootRogue (Rogue)

If you like learning assembly language/OSDev, his repos are a must to be bookmarked.
Isn't what the article describes the concept of "defensive programming"?
> see Dwarf galaxy problem, for one example

I assume you're referring to the "missing satellites problem." This problem is already essentially solved:

1. Newer, more sensitive surveys have detected more Milky Way satellite galaxies.

2. Reionization and supernova feedback quench star formation in small dark matter halos, meaning that the smallest dark matter halos never form galaxies.

> See the review I linked.

I think we've talked about this elsewhere on HN before, and I pointed out that the paper you're linking to gets a lot of things wrong and is published in an obscure journal (presumably because it wouldn't survive peer review at any of the major journals).
A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading (2014)
ChatGPT Could Be AI’s iPhone Moment
Setup Cloudflare on the domain and turn on “bot fight mode”.

If the TLS ciphers the client proposes for negotiation doesn’t align with the client’s User-Agent they get a CAPTCHA.

I would suspect that whoever is doing this proxy-mirroring isn’t smart enough to ensure the TLS ciphers align with the User-Agent they’re passing through.
> does this actually relate the metaverse, or was that part added in so Epic Games would fund it?

Verse and the metaverse were ideas at Epic Games long before SPJ was an employee at Epic games (at least 10 years before).
https://archive.vn/7k5c0
https://web.archive.org/web/20221212104843/https://social.af...
This has nothing to do with C, and everything with its intended problem domain.

You can get into pointer and memory errors in C++, Rust and Ada. All of them low-level system languages. Sure, those errors might be harder to produce, but not impossible, and definitely easy enough to still trip you up.

I programmed in all of those languages, except Rust (just don't like it). At least in C you pretty much now WHY (not necessarily where in the code) things went south, without consulting a thousand page specification or having to remember the myriad of language feature interactions that could have triggered those problems.

Moreover, C being small, it's a good on/off language. Try doing a code review for a C++/Rust/Ada code base which uses features heavily after not having touched the language for a year. I bet it is not as easy as C.

You know, some things in life are just hard. And low-level programming is one of those things. C is only honest about this.
> Turning down the brightness on a display is not really the solution because most displays use pulse width modulation so you are just exchanging brightness for flicker and strobing effects.

Thanks for mentioning this. I've never understood why people preferred dark-mode over reducing brightness of their screen. Perhaps, they are disturbed by flickering on a subtler level that they are not consciously aware of.
> this function needs to fill in the zeroes with default values anyway

Wait - no. What's wrong with

#define BLA_INIT_DEFAULT { .a = 23, .hello = "Hello World!", }

struct bla_t blub = BLA_INIT_DEFAULT;
blub.a = 42;

That's what your proposal would do under the hood anyway, just more explicit.
Yes, the Netherlands has wealth tax, also known as "Box 3", and it includes tax on hypothetical yield on your savings accounts. The government got into issues with the European Supreme Court for this:

https://home.kpmg/us/en/home/insights/2022/05/tnf-netherland...

"The box 3 tax rate is assessed against a hypothetical yield. You are not taxed for capital gains or actual rental income. Instead, the Dutch tax office assumes that you enjoy a yield of up to 5.69% over your total asset value, irrespective if any actual gains are higher or lower(!)."

Note that actual savings interest rates were close to zero or even negative.
You're asking a language model to do math. What's impressive there is not that it fails but that it comes up with an answer at all, especially if it is in the ballpark.

Most humans would do exactly the same unless given either access to pen and paper or a calculator, and it would likely be trivial for GPT-3 input processing to detect it has been presented with a math question and to farm it out to a special calculation module. Once you start to augment its input like that progress would be very rapid but it would no longer be just a language model.
I somewhat agree but it will all depends on the capacity of the grid.

This year is the very first one when people were asked in some parts of europe to reduce their consumption and prepare for potential outages during winter. Depending on the geopolitics, things could improve or worsen. A nuclear plant do not get build in 6 months.
Its already banned, but honestly I think its pointless to chase because soon we can't differentiate it anyway.... :(
It's only a matter of time https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/10/29/l...
Particularly for cars, and especially used cars.. inflation was >10% for >1 year, before turning over ~3-4 months ago.

https://publish.manheim.com/content/dam/consulting/ManheimUs...
> an industry worth $800B

According to https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/ the market cap you're referring to was $2.4T at some point in the last year, now down to the number you're quoting. With such variability, it's hard to trust this number as being anything intrinsic to the actual value of the industry.

From this link, FTX alone seems to be correlated with a fall of almost $200B in market cap, down from $1T to a bit more than $800B. If Tether eventually collapses as many even within the cryptocurrency world expect it will, how low will this number go? What about other shady companies in this space?

It's really hard to put a floor on this market cap, as opposed to regular companies that can always be sold for parts, so as a coarse approximation, they should at least be worth their assets minus their liabilities. Given that we don't even know the liabilities of actors such as Binance and Tether, we can do no such computation here.
Slashdot didn't win for several reasons, but the voting system in general had the problem of only giving you voting rights sporadically (I think it may have been coupled to recently earned Karma or something). The effect was that inevitably when you wanted to vote you couldn't - and vice versa. Also, the UI was a dropdown box, which made it tedious to vote. But I do think being able to state the reason was a good idea. It had the added benefit of letting the voter know what the voting considerations should be in the first place.
That could only be true if you lived somewhere with an old-fashioned grid that had no renewables. Using an electric car means C02 emissions per mile will continue to drop over time, as utilities add new solar and wind capacity.
> To add to that, how is it a meeting of the minds of the contract cannot be altered by one of the parties?

I think that's a mis-interpretation of 'meeting of minds'. The point is that when you sign the contract both parties are in agreement, but if either party is not happy with the agreement then they can either alter the terms until everyone is happy or they can simply not accept the agreement.

You could try suggesting changes to the agreement (e.g. with google when you sign up for an account), but they'll almost certainly just say they're not interested in making such an agreement. Perhaps if there was a few million dollars on the table they'd be more interested in adjusting the terms, but as it is they're offering a largely free service so most people have very little bargaining power.
The more interesting point of view is why buy new hardware, with higher specs, if the old one still works ? We only have enough resources to build new computers for the next 30 years, after that it's going to be impossible. We have millions of old machines lying around, maybe billions if you count smartphones. All unused. Why not use them instead of buying new ? We desperately need to aim for lower consumption if we want to use that. It's an environmental and a social imperative at this point.
> If you run LCDM for 13 billion years you don't get galaxies till much later than what we observe via say JWST.

I would not take all the recent claims of extremely high-redshift galaxies, found in initial JWST data, at face value. Several of these claims have already been shown to be false.
SEO is people writing for software consumption (Search Engines!), it stands to reason that software can create input for that process as good as a human could. But the bar should be text written for human consumption, not for machine consumption.
I never understood the reason for separate Type B connectors when the standard A, micro or now C-type connectors would work just as well and allow people to use the millions of cables of those they already have.
I agree that ChatGPT/generated responses should be banned on HN. It undermines the integrity of the platform and goes against the spirit of genuine discussion and collaboration. Let's not turn HN into a spammy bot-infested wasteland.
> If a desktop environment is using a lot
> of memory, this means the same memory is
> not available to my other apps.

No, it doesn't mean that.

Your mental model of a how an OS allocates and manages memory is stuck in the 60s. Nowadays getting a handle on "real" memory use is increasingly illusive.

Probably the best metric is to ignore it altogether, and instead look at memory churn. I.e. how much the OS ends up having to evict some pages from memory to make space for others.

Even that is only meaningful if it's happening on an ongoing basis. I.e. if your DE allocates 1GB that it uses once (or never) having to evict those pages once generally isn't a problem.

It's only a problem once there isn't enough memory to go around for those pages that are in active use.
I’d imagine there’s lots of edge cases like this. It’s only regurgitating data it’s trained on, and if it’s missing from the training set then it won’t be able to produce results.

Sam Altman from OpenAI has been very clear that this shouldn’t be used for anything actually important. It can be useful if you have the knowledge to vet it’s output, but I’m worried that if used by someone uniformed it’s dangerous.
Given that the sitting President threatened to “strongly regulate” or “close them down” I bet Twitter picked their battles.
Haskell has been enormously influential in the study of types; modern high-level type checkers are built using knowledge from these studies.
Yeah, you're obviously not going to get as much that's as old, but I think I'd rather use something like IMDB's top 250 - https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/.

Maybe throw some much older ones in on some other basis - e.g. a couple of Christmases ago I discovered there have been a lot of adaptations of 'Oliver[!] [Twist]', and the one that I considered 'the' one (i.e. that I watched as a child, basically) was far from the first; we watched a few of the much older ones, spanning 1920-40ish iirc, quite interesting.
What do you mean no backups? The human genome alone has about 8 billion copies floating around
First thing when I buy any monitor is "flicker-free" keyword. If you got one with PWM then the best you can do is to max out the monitor LED brightness and reduce screen brightness/gamma with an app.
We're not really.

I wrote, in the story that this comment thread results from, that Xfce is the oldest Linux desktop. I stand by that, but I welcome correction if someone has evidence: citations.

Compare:

"The VW Beetle is the best selling car of all time."
"No, the Honda Cub sold twice as many!"
"Maybe so, but irrelevant. The VW Beetle is a car. The Honda Cub is a motorcycle."
"But the Cub sold 100 million! The Beetle only sold 50M!"

This may be true, but it is comparing different things. Yes, the Cub outsold the Beetle. But I am talking about cars. I'm not talking about motorcycles. I am sure you are right: the Cub sold more, but it's not a car, so it is irrelevant.

"You are being unfair! The VW came first!"

I am sure it did. But the VW Beetle is a car. I said, best selling car. Not motorcycle.

Xfce is not a window manager. These is an Xfce WM. It is part of the product. But it is not just a WM. It is a desktop.

Desktops came later than WMs. WMs are an older tech. But a desktop is not a WM, and a WM is not a desktop.

There absolutely are older desktops, but they are not Linux desktops. They originated on other OSes and were subsequently ported to Linux.

There absolutely were older desktops that were proprietary, the companies behind them are defunct, and they are gone now. That means they are not older, because they are dead.

I am older than Christopgher Marlowe. He was born long long before me, but he died at 29. I am 55. Yes I was born later but I'm alive, and he is dead.

There absolutely are older WMs, but WMs are not desktops.

I do not really understand why you and @jeroen79 want to argue about this.

I am not talking about all desktops on all OSes. I am not talking about WMs. If I were, these arguments would be valid.

Is there a currently-maintained Linux-native desktop environment older than Xfce?

Not a bare WM. Not something long dead. Not something from another OS.

If yes, I am happy to admit I was wrong.

If not, I stand by it.
The guy actually reads leftist literature and analyzes it and yes it says crazy stuff. For example, Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum, wrote a book entitled "COVID-19:The Great Reset" and then you say this guy is crazy because he thinks the World Economic Forum are advocating using COVID-19 to do some Great Reset because he read it in some book. Except it's the book that the president of the world economic forum wrote and published. I read it. It's a pretty radical book. I even did a close highlight of all the kooky stuff, but I'm not going to argue with you about it because you obviously didn't read it or have never heard of it.

If you read famous new left literature, its totally in outer space and he just says here's what it says. Then you say he's crazy for saying leftist are serious about what they wrote in their books.

That's the irony of your comment. All the stuff that you say is crazy is stuff he reads and repeats straight out of new left books. He sounds crazy because his method is to instead of just repeat traditional conservative principals in different ways like the conservatives you mention he actually engages with the lunatic left and tells people what they say and what they say is crazy so he sounds crazy just for repeating it and then critiquing it.
It works properly for me when connected through a VPN endpoint in the UK.

On a side note, if you are going to write an article regarding a company spelling the name of the company correctly in the title and text of the article is generally a plus. If you can't get that detail correct it is hard to trust the rest of the content. Costco is spelled correctly in the submission title but incorrectly in the original source where it is spelled CostCo repeatedly.
How is this kind of sidechain any better than just having your transactions recorded in a boring old private SQL database?

The Axie Infinity hack suggests that these private chains are the worst of all worlds: they're effectively controlled by a single entity, but also far more susceptible to hacks than a well-understood traditional database. The blockchain part seems to be a pure marketing decoy that's worse than useless because it's actively harmful to customers.
I found this example particularly engaging.

I would not be comfortable shipping code that has undefined behavior, outcome, or consequence. It takes a small amount of effort to build functions/methods with defined but encompassing outputs.

Although complexity probably scales parabolically in certain use cases.
I agree with you, though I think that his point is even more, well, pointed.

It isn’t that using “algorithms” is, as you say, a shortcut for bureaucracies. It is that they would do this exact thing with human decisions making if it were economical. The “algorithms” would be instantiated in people if only it were practical to do so.

The “algorithms” are simply a Python version of the bureaucracies‘ business logic.
This... there are definitely aspects of the proxy that they aren't configuring or are unaware of.

i.e. ssl_cipher, http_x_requested_with, http_accept... and the order of all headers supplied... the casing of all headers supplied... TLS client HELO.

It is relatively easy, if you have enough signals, to essentially create a fingerprint that they won't understand how it works. Yet it will be effective at blocking it regardless of the IP.

Once you add enough of these together it will be hard for them to get around it without being obvious as they do so.

Super aggressive... those same fingerprints will reveal legit browser traffic and the fingerprints for things like Google-bot... so you could go towards a whitelist rather than blocklist. But this is a place you'd have to actively manage as new variations arise constantly.
Questlove does a lot of things, and invariably does them very well. But it's not about what he thinks.
>List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...
> quietly selling Binances FTT

I don't think this was possible. This would have crashed FTT anyway, so people would have looked at it and found out that Binance was behind this. If Binance hadn't communicated about this beforehand, it would have made them look even shadier.
A reliable ferry with a purely mechanical engine repairable with common automotive/boat parts, but which doesn't meet emissions standards because it doesn't use electronic fuel injection?

Two ferries?

A ferry with four outboards on the back and more in storage, so the operator can swap them out when they break?
Do we know they always occur together?
Lovely Tensors – a humancentric tensor representation
Unix workstations might be extinct, but Linux systems are the birds to the workstation’s dinosaurs. The software environment pretty much continued as is
Sure it might produce convincing examples of human speech, but it fundamentally lacks an internal point of view that it can express, which places limits on how well it can argue something.

It is of course possible that it might (eventually) be convincing enough that no human can tell, which would be problematic because it would suggest human speech is indistinguishable from a knee jerk response that doesn't require that you communicate any useful information.

Things would be quite different if an AI could interpret new information and form opinions, but even if GPT could be extended to do so, right now it doesn't seem to have the capability to form opinions or ingest new information (beyond a limited short term memory that it can use to have a coherent conversation).
I would expect you to defend your argument, but I do not accept it.

The term has a meaning: bigger and more complex. Plan 9 does not fit the meaning. It is smaller and simpler. Therefore, Plan 9 is not an example of the SSS/SSE. It is an example of many other things and has other reasons for failure, but the SSE is not it.
Generate your pages from Javascript.
Why your first ten games will suck: a skill ladder for aspiring game developers
What makes you think it doesn't? It certainly generalises some of Tao's points, but I lack the expertise to judge all of them.

Also, Tao's list provides lots of helpful examples, not everyone might be easily able to see their problem through the lense of JadeMasterMath's comment.
Your own link starts with "Anecdotal evidence is evidence based only on personal observation." Even if you actually performed some experiment on yourself, unless you had some outside method of calculating eye strain it would still be anecdotal evidence.
> Governments do things that are not profitable but advance society, for profit entities don't.

The simplest way to understand if society wants something is if it will pay for it.

> the idea of access to space being solely the preserve of commercial entities is an uncomfortable one

It shouldn't be. Until SpaceX, the only way to the ISS was a Russian-controlled system. Would you prefer that to SpaceX today? Or is it better to have companies - that are regulated - follow money rather than the whims of whomever is currently in charge?
> We're facing a new karma-generating strategy

Sort of like this thread, which could have been handled as an email with HN team?
Are most people having a web browser open 99% of the time?

I know a lot of people who open many many tabs and I believe it can certainly take up to 40-50% of their ram or more, especiallly on 2/4GB machines that are still ubiquitous for people who do not buy a new machine every 3 years.
But it does in a small way and it adds up when a lot of people do it. Being from Ukraine I see first hand how a lot of people volunteering/donating are making very sizeable impact on the problem even though each individuals contribution might be small.
See also:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tu0ozf/what_is_c...

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/myb9p4/whats_cla...

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bvdaci/whats_cla...
It's interesting how similar this design is to a UAV propeller design that was created by MIT Lincoln Laboratory [1]. Not claiming that anything nefarious happened--it's just interesting how people often unknowingly converge on the same design.

(For the record, it looks like the MIT LL patent was filed in 2017 [2]--not sure how that compares with the patents in the article.)

[1]: https://news.mit.edu/2022/lincoln-laboratory-inventions-win-...

[2]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190135410A1/en