skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ten years ago (exactly, remarkably) Notch wrote about his father on his old blog.

I think it's a beautiful, sad, human piece of writing. It's hard to find online, now that his blog ("The Word of Notch") went away. Someone made a 500+ page PDF backup of his blog, here:

https://habrador.itch.io/the-word-of-notch

The post, titled "I love you, dad", is the second to last post.

Making beautiful things doesn't make up for saying horrible things. Still, every time I used to hear about the awful stuff Notch posted, I remembered how I felt about him when I read about him and his dad.

I just wish things didn't have to be so awful, for everyone.
As someone who spends a lot of time working with DPDK, the idea that anyone would consider userspace "slow" and kernel of all things "fast" is amusing to me.

Most everyone nowadays seems to try to avoid kernel as much as possible, since it's vastly slower than a userspace forwarding plane (although eBPF/XDP will likely change this).
I mean... df literally wasn't for sale until recently. They only monetized because American healthcare is bananas (its mentioned in this article and discussed more fully earlier https://www.pcgamer.com/if-dwarf-fortress-sells-millions-on-...). Otherwise it sounds like they would've been content with the ongoing patreon funding they had. It was quite popular before the graphics version.
Makes sense to me. One type of defense is focused on acquittal. The other is focused on getting the shortest sentence and/or smallest fines.
Had a guy who worked for me who was diagnosed as ADHD. When he was taking adderall or ritalin, he was fine, but if he went off the meds, he would make mistakes. Eventually, after making a 3rd big screw-up, I had to let him go. Really too bad.
That’s amazing.

Whenever someone says, I want to write X program from scratch. I’m going to send them this link.
Archive links:

https://archive.today/8ZuIK

https://web.archive.org/web/20221214013327/https://www.theat...
Indeed, every couple of years I try julia again, and every time it's still slow as molasses, all the while being told it's massively improved. One of the most annoying aspects of slow TTFX is when X is your language server. It takes like 10 minutes or something ridiculous for completions to start working after opening a moderately complex file. I had the same experience in vscode and emacs.

For others who feel they've been gaslit by the julia community, this blog post [1] resonated with me, especially the 2022 update.

[1] http://danluu.com/julialang/
Hehe, nice one.

I came to realize this when the head of the school our son went to called me at home to say that my son had used an inappropriate word in school. He wouldn't say what the word was, even when prompted several times, as though he was unable to utter it. Then finally he resorted to spelling out 'f u c k', so I said 'Oh, you mean 'fuck'' and he nearly lost it. I explained to him that my son learned pretty much all of his slang from his schoolmates since he'd only been in the country less than a year so probably the problem was on his end and left it at that. He never did call again...
I still don't understand how you can't manifest that choice by simply purchasing a device from a different manufacturer. It's pretty disingenuous to suggest that Apple is some kind of authoritarian power that you have no choice but to purchase from.
To quote your linked comment, I wouldn't expect you nor any other sane consumer to purchase goods that are "made with toxic substances, not honor their warranties, lie on their marketing, and steal and sell your personal medical information". Apple does not do any of that, and I think that you're intentionally derailing the discussion by comparing their guidelines + practices to any of the above.
> Why would you want to do business with such foolish people?

On the other hand, I kind of want to pitch something to them now.
Best tips I discovered: use emojis. They have colors and they are easy to spot.

For instance if an API call is made use the phone emoji, when there is a timeout use a clock, when an order is dispatched used a package...

When you have to go through huge log file it is a life saver.
THC remains in the bloodstream up to 28 days compared to alcohol which can be gone in 12 hours or less unless you need a drink when you get out of bed.

THC presence could be as much as 56 times likely to show as alcohol.

You really need to know the THC (and any other drug) level before you can determine impairment.
https://xkcd.com/386/

> Well, I can keep going. One possible definition of culture is "stories that we have in common". Ukraine has its own literature (in the Ukrainian language, but not only), its own music, its own religious cult (Kyivan Patriarchate, rather than Moscovian), a very different political model, different personalities, different role-models.

I recall you saying there were "big" cultural differences and this is what I disagree on from personal experience.

> So glad you asked. I'll provide two sources (well, one and a half) that can't be suspected to have any bias against Russia, and after that I'll let you do your own research.

Both sources you sent are Ukranian sites... I was hoping for some serious book or wikipedia where we could have a neutral look at it. I'm sorry but your claims are silly and I no longer regard you as proficient in this topic.

> Haha. You're oversimplifying to make it look like a rosy battle for independence, when in fact Moscow simply enhanced its power by opportunistically backstabbing its neighbours and being the main collaborators of the Mongols. As an example, Moscow was an ALLY of the mongols when putting down the Tver rebellion. That is how Moscow managed to increase its power and become the dominant force in the area; in modern terms - by being a collaborator with the occupant. Sorry, I guess they forgot to mention this in school.

I got it from here: https://thecrashcourse.com/courses/russia-the-kievan-rus-and... yes Moscow was an ally of the Mongols but they later kicked them out, it doesn't change what I initially wrote.

Something general to mention.. People from the 14th century and from Peter the Great are long dead. It's the people that live today that make up a nation. It's more about to which culture you want to belong to, not so much about where you have been born or which language you speak.

EDIT: Having rewatched the crashcourse video I can now mention that because of the Mongols many Rus (this is how the people called themselves living in the Kievian Rus) moved to Moscow. So while we could agree that Ukraine influenced Russia back then, it would be wrong, because neither did Ukraine or Russia exist at that time, only the slavic Rus, one people.
This message was signed with Hal’s key.. we know someone has control over his key after his death and has used it.

(1) who has Hal’s key

(2) where did Martin “find” this message to be able to decrypt it

There’s obviously some sort of agenda here involving multiple people, it’s just not clear at the moment what this particular agenda is.
> but giving out money for no work (assuming one is able to work), leads to hedonic pleasures

It sounds like you think this is bad. Why?
This will absolutely occur on iOS there's too much money on the line for it to not happen. On Android it doesn't matter because Facebook can largely do what they want.
Google's Quest to Digitize Troops' Tissue Samples
US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine
There was. They marked their entire investments to zero. A total loss.
It matters less when the impact is clearly stated, but often you'll find an update claiming that it "improved stability" and you have to guess whether it's something you don't need if you haven't encountered stability problems, or a critical security update.
Wouldn't FTX-US be required to KYC all of their customers? I assumed that was the (part of) the reason why these exchanges had us and non us versions.

(edit links)
https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027668192-Individu...

https://help.ftx.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048666713-Account-T...
Make sure you set the evil bit to true too.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514
Wow. This is like playing simulation games but in the real. It takes a lot of patience, but this guy seems to know what he's doing so it's worth it!
Elon Musk Is Ruining Trump’s Presidential Campaign
New Zealand's unique cigarette ban may be a model for other countries
> If you happen to visit the website and see the Nintendo Power-esque PDF, tell me, shouldn't that grab the attention of the right person?

Maybe 30 years ago, but we're all (mostly) grown up now. Even for those old school gamers, I don't think it's enough to just give them something retro -- there's still got to be something new brought to the table, and I'm just not seeing it here. I'm sure it's clever and all, but when it comes down to it, most people need (not want -- need) novelty.
That's difficult to evaluate since "good" is subjective. So is "selling well", to be honest. I assume you mean a game that is reasonably finished and polished and not simply shovelware, but still not getting the sales to be profitable. There are tons. 30 games drop on Steam everyday. Just sort by new and see all the games that any little indie studio would be proud to release but have few sales.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33977504
I said it wasnt going to happen but the hype beasts needed it to be true so bad. I dont think he is totally to blame.
Are people going to trust them with their money to let them raise future funds?

If so: why?
Would you rather live in a world where we don't have things like Dwarf Fortress? Their passion has been the game, as they understood it, they weren't able to make it and have health insurance (as I recall from the documentary, there were some issues getting remote jobs, and health insurance out of pocket is apparently prohibitively expensive in the USA).

Why are you blaming them and not the system?
If bullying were not rewarding and/or enjoyable, fewer people would do it.
Can anyone rate Porkbun vs Gandi?
> Maybe this is just what he wants us to think...

Looks like it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978481
Air Force conducts first ARRW operational prototype missile test
Scanner probably, to capture the signatures and the clerk's stamp on the front page.
I remember the fail whale. I suspect we’ll see it again soon. Twitter stability used to be a joke, then it evolved into something fundamentally impressive. There was a major infrastructure change brought about by some key hires iirc. I’ve also heard that Twitter would get your tweet to all your followers in 5 seconds. That will be hard to measure externally, but I’ll bet it’s one of the first things to slip.
China releases images captured by solar probe Kuafu-1
Which is the reason for the corrugated sections—the space between tanks that needed extra structure.

https://apollo11space.com/why-are-the-interstage-rings-of-th...
You do know that due diligence involves going over financial records correct? I imagine they didn't look at anything given the sheet SBF was shopping during the collapse.
Hardenecks EKS cluster best practices scanner
Possibly, the origins of the practice predates computers entirely, and goes back to their predecessors in business data processing, unit record equipment. As such, it may be like many other traditions - made complete sense when it was invented, yet people still clung to it long after it ceased to do so.

Unit record equipment generally didn’t use binary integers, instead using BCD; and most early business-oriented computers followed their example. Binary integers were mainly found on scientific machines (along with floating point), until the mid-1960s, when the hard division between business computing and scientific computing faded away, and general purpose architectures, equally capable of commerce and science, began to flourish.
You mean like how Goldman sold junk bonds to customers while knowing it was junk?
YouTube didn't produce the content(except sometimes when they do actually pay content creators), but they pay massive amounts(billions of dollars per year), not peanuts, to build the hosting and discovery infra that lets people get these views, which is why very few huge creators host their content on, say, Vimeo, or by themselves, or on peertube. On top of that, creators have ways of monetizing their videos which completely leave YouTube from getting any kind of a cut, such as Patreon, sponsorships, in-video ads, etc.
As a software engineer, I simply can’t trust software to drive my car 65mph in highway traffic. I have a Model Y, but never bought the autopilot. Actually even if Tesla pays me $15k per year to ask me to use autopilot, I’d say no. It is not worth the risk of crashes. But it always surprised me when I see many software engineers here in Silicon Valley driving on freeways using autopilot while watching videos or napping on the driver’s seat. My coworker even let autopilot to fully drive along the cliff roads in Yosemite. What a big heart…
Rarely do I look at a website in amazement and ask "How?". This is awesome.
It's hilarious how they describe the problem at FTX as a "liquidity crunch”. Liquidity was the least of their issues. What a bunch of clowns.
Along with several other supporting insurance plans that backstop your health insurance and potential healthcare costs in extreme scenarios, and so on.
> developers already pay $100 a year

I have bad news for you about how much software licensing costs. If your company was to license software comparable to Apple's SDKs on the open market you would be paying minimum hundreds a month for the lowest tier plans and if you get big all of them become contact us pricing.
Look, at this point you're not keeping up with your own comments.
fuck the poors, right?
yet we all want to be
Curious why you believe sbf has earned the benefit of the doubt?
The problem is that your proposed "bad at" list could be infinite. Pony is probably a bad choice for embedded, scientific, mobile, graphics, browser, etc.

What they've done instead is they've explained why you might want to use pony and then explained why you may not even if the "why" sounded like a perfect fit. You came up with a list of bad fits just fine based on what they told you it was good at, without them having to spell out every no-go. Their list of reasons why not is intended to disuade people who would otherwise be their target audience.
>> You don't need integrity while "the line goes up".

Integrity is how you behave when no-one is watching.
Microsoft went to court and lost to the FTC for less. Microsoft leveraged their dominance in the PC OS market to dominate the browser market, as well. The FTC successfully upheld antitrust legislation against Microsoft in that instance.

Apple and Google are doing the same with their dominance in the mobile OS market to dominate the mobile app distribution and mobile app payments markets.

If you don't see the significance of literal illegal anticompetitive business practices, I don't know what to tell you.
Junk bonds are bonds with high credit risk, what’s wrong with selling them to customers who are after high yields?
Yes the real dollars went somewhere. I would guess the majority of them were lost from poor trades by Alameda. Combine that with the fact that a lot of those real dollars were converted in to Crypto schemes which are now down 90%. And their insane spend on houses and politics and who knows what else. I’m waiting anxiously to see what the truth is once we get some real data
I agree that fraud trumps due diligence. You can do your diligence all you want but a fraudster can thing of a million ways to hide the truth, offer up forged/faked documents, etc. But due diligence is just that - you check out at least what is properly due - do they keep books, are they properly audited, do they have a proper board of directors, etc. It's evident Sequoia did none of that. SBF's balance sheet at the time this all thing went down was a spreadsheet that looked like it was made by a kid with no financial training which it was. Their corporate and financial controls were so lacking its insane that anyone gave them money. But Sequoia did and did so with what appears to be no substantive due diligence, other than being swept up by SBF saying exactly what they wanted to hear.
I have used Prolog for projects in the financial services industry.
For non-office workers it's not always convenient to make coffee while you work, so perhaps that's the difference. And to be clear, I don't think it's harmless (but I think the degree to which it is more harmful than caffeine, if you exclude the non-nicotine-related harms of smoking cigarettes, is probably exaggerated)
This tool (LosslessCut) actually has an experimental feature that you can turn on to do just that.
Already started: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/beto-orourke-sam-ban... . Though I somehow doubt everyone will follow suit.
Once the horizontal space runs out the tab list is converted to a vertical drop down list.

Some people like the tree tabs. Vanilla for me.
Yeah, you have to be a real genius to make money buying the sp500.
What's wrong with Athletic Greens?
Three.

Increase productivity (per capita output), increase taxes, specifically pursue high income society development paths (including on who you allow to immigrate, such that high income immigrants promptly become high tax contributors).

Canada is more or less already doing this. They'll likely just have to boost taxation further.
I use Firefox on iOS because it has a dark mode toggle. A browser without it would be unusable.
Yes, actually. Then every website wouldn't have to litter the console with warnings to users about pasting in code. I would much rather just have Chrome Developer Edition.
> I have been struggling with this myself. Not just about programming but other creative pursuits as well. Recently it has been photography. I take pictures while knowing whatever I'm looking at has a far better picture on its wikipedia page.

> I suppose we're supposed to take some sort of fulfillment in the process of creation itself? But that just goes back to the old koan of the tree falling in the woods. If I create something, but nobody ever sees it, did I create it at all? Doesn't feel like it.

I think these questions come back to "what is the meaning of life?", no?

Among many things, I enjoy hiking. I also know for a fact that thousands of people have been to every place I go and none of my trips will ever be publicly notable. That's OK. When I hike, I enjoy the journey... exercise, clean air, calm views, quiet space, one with nature, and the ego-scratch of reaching a summit... my experience feels good, deep in the bones and belly. What more could one want? If no one knows about the trip, does that invalidate or lessen my experience?

I carry the same perspective to creative pursuits. The mental exercise, honing skill, going from nothing to something - some moments are frustrating, but in aggregate it feels good. At work, I do find capitalist realities corrupt the creative joy, but I accept that as part of where we are as a society.
"poorly worded" is one way of putting it. Throw out a ridiculous figure to get attention, and then back off when it's challenged and say "well, it's still a problem!" is a shady tactic.

"of recent college grads, 55%" would be more accurate, I guess.

Lastly, mean vs. median is a worthwhile topic. The mean debt can be inflated by a cohort of highly-indebted people. The median debt would be more interesting.
"For testing purposes, these 10 account numbers should be allowed to remove cash from any of our ATMs. The testers will put the money back." It doesn't sound that nefarious. If you told me this is how ATMs are currently being tested in the industry, I wouldn't be able to contradict you.
How would it help build better weapons? I thought the existing thermonuclear bombs do the job perfectly fine. Sure, the military might want to make them a bit smaller or a bit cheaper, but is it really such a big deal as to warrant a major announcement?
Not sure if he cites this one specifically, but you can look at this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6443446/
Federer didn't get there alone, btw. He originally wanted to play some other sport (football?) but when he got to the national training centre, somebody there said "you know, you'd make a decent $(SPORT)er, but you'll make an excellent tennis player".
Rupert Murdoch to be deposed in $1.6B Dominion defamation case
This seems somewhat standard. The company is trying to protect its IP (and probably overvalues it). You could try to negotiate a lower term or change the language to carve out generative AI that wouldn’t compete with them.
fortunately I knew vi back in the day so it should come back with a little practice. I also checked out vimium on youtube (got sidetracked by the qutebrowser)

Right now I have a gui for my ahk scripts and use the ampersand to make acceleration keys. Works ok but always looking for improvements.

Maybe you could demo it on one of joe's live streams?
That would indeed be interesting. As would some working Minitels.
It's 2022 we still are using int32 for anything.
AFAK, Traditionally it was:

Producer pays for content and profit is derived from distributers that charge for access to the content. If people don't view money is lost.

YouTube is different:

Creators pay to create their own content and are imbursed as they gain views.

YouTube, the distributer in this case, has no skin in the game. They have no overhead, it's all profit.

Perhaps that has something to do with it. It feels somehow like you're paying the middle man for nothing?
How much do Microsoft and Google charge for their OS platform SDKs?
The pellets produce a net energy release larger than the energy used by the laser. This energy gain is called "ignition" in fusion parlance. A fuel pellet does not ignite itself — otherwise, they would be destroyed as soon as they are produced, like the critical ball in a nuclear warhead. That's what I was saying from the beginning: the laser does not function like the spark plug on a car engine; it is required for every ignition. It's pretty clear if you go back and read the analogy I initially responded to.
alternate source : https://archive.vn/Iha8S
Did anyone respect SoftBank even before this? Their claim to fame was the botched WeWork money hole and a few other insanely overpriced rounds on unscalable/unprofitable(even in theory) businesses.
There are separate breeds of chickens raised for eggs and meat. Male layers can't compete with meat chickens, growing >2x slower, and are mostly worthless apart from the few roosters needed to breed the next generation of layers.
Just remembered, I did a video about making the pond. Includes clips of the fish under the ice.

https://youtu.be/8ExfrhjpMp4
> Most of Emacs is written in Lisp.

Sure, Emacs uses Lisp with absolutely no packages/libraries at all. That is believable.

> So calling Lisp a "dependency" just reveals that you dont have much of an idea what you are talking about.

OK, bye, this is not any way to have a discussion.
EU agrees ‘carbon mechanism’ for industrial imports, making ‘the polluter pay’
Chromium Ends JPEG XL Before It Even Lived
Interestingly, many number systems (like Piano numbers and Surreal numbers) start with zero & build up from there.