skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have been nice if the data had gone back more than 10 years. When I read a classic I’m frequently stuck with how short they are - typically 200-300 pages. I don’t know how the authors felt when they were writing it - if they were pressured to cut what they thought was important material to fit publisher page limits. But I rarely feel like they are cramped or rushed, rather it is a breath of fresh air to read such good content in a small package rather than 400-450 pages that are merely okay.
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One thing that not many people know: you don't need to have a Google account to use GCM/FCM even with official Gapps. You can simply not sign in to Google play and push will still work.

It's still running tons of spyware yes but it's an alternative on phones where MicroG is not an option. Eg Samsung phones with Knox enabled.
“More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision.”

I heard this first on the Sopranos but probably a common phrase
If a male Mary Sue is a Marty Stu, what should one call a national mythos in which one's country is (a) universally loved (except by the villains!), because it (b) possesses all positive qualities, and (c) suffers no negative qualities?

Mauritania Sue? Mary Sudan?
IIRC it is a late addition and only added because of people wanting some kind of color space guarantee. I don't think it was ever accurately specified what they do mean---presumably both share the sRGB color gamut and only differ by transfer functions, but it's a frequent misconception [1] that transfer functions can be parametrized with a single value, gamma, so I guess that's where the "linear" came from (implying gamma = 1.0).

[1] The sRGB EOTF has a nominal gamma of 2.2 but it is actually a piecewise function with gamma varying from 1.0 to 2.4.
So like chatgpt, I am not convinced. It’s intellectually dishonest. Call it a prompt not a question then.
I wish there was wide support for public-key-addressable servers (like tor adresses). It won't solve the issue of memorable names, but it could solve this bootstrapping problem.

Perhaps le should look into encorperating tor into its domain verification process.
The Age of Taipa
Really like this:

> Richard liked the idea of a consorsium. He started devising a plan of his own. Luckily someone from the Mozilla foundation reached out to him. They did not like the way he was setting up the framework around the consorsium by giving members voting rights. They proposed keeping the direction of the project in developers hand. The friend from Mozilla being a lawyer was adamant on this point and saw through the implementation of the current setup.
No, it's not a generational thing. WPF hasn't had significant feature updates in the last 10 years, because MS abandoned it in favour of UWP.

I wrote a bit about this recently: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/windows-ui-frameworks/
Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
I was referring mostly to Ethereum and all of the smart contract chains and dapps that it spawned. I would agree what I said doesn't really apply to Bitcoin.
Firefox and Chrome froze the macOS version in their User-Agent strings, too, because jumping from “Mac OS X 10.15” to “Max OS X 11.0” broke quite a few websites’ UA parsing code that never expected a value other than 10.
> A serious problem with the OpenDoc project that Cyberdog depended on, was that it was part of a very acrimonious competition between OpenDoc consortium members and Microsoft. The members of the OpenDoc alliance were all trying to obtain traction in a market rapidly being dominated by Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. At the same time, Microsoft used the synergy between the OS and applications divisions of the company to make it effectively mandatory that developers adopt the competing Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology. OpenDoc was forced to create an interoperability layer in order to allow developers to use it, and this added a great technical burden to the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyberdog
US voids 1954 revoking of J Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance
To obtain the type of financial independence you’ve been dreaming about all your life, you must learn to develop a “millionaire mindset”. Thomas Stanley and William Danko, in The Millionaire Next Door, explain that most wealthy people and self-made millionaires drive used cars, live in average neighborhoods, wear average priced clothes and watches and are very careful with their money.

Focus On What You Want – And Take It! · 2. Become Goal-Orientated · 3. Don't Spend Your Money – Invest It · 4. Never Stop Learning · 5. Think Big · 6. Enjoy the ...
What did you do after your Tech/ Business exit?
How did you structure your life when money was no longer a problem?

A question just a few try to research I decided to obsess about and write about in new Newsletter called rich Now What on Substack.

Any stories of life post economics? How did you deal with life decision like tell your friend or family about your exit? did their behavior towards you change How about lifestyle decision etc. Want to know everything! Any tories
Elon’s ego fluffers are clearly out tonight, but don’t be dissuaded. Your perception of reality is right.
if you throw lz4 or zstd on top of it, of it, it actually can beat png
The Digital Ocean Quest Towards New Lands
Ask HN: How to quickly get to anologies/framing that makes a new concept click?
I have realized that during the course of learning new concepts, I often come across a sentence, analogy, framing, diagram etc that just makes the concepts more intuitive to understand for me.

A recent example of this happening, is when I stumbled on this explanation of machine learning https://youtu.be/KNAWp2S3w94?t=154

the diagram representing Rules and Data going into a box labeled Traditional Programming with Answers coming out vs the diagram where Answers and Data goes into a box labeled Machine Learning and Rules comes out, just made the concept click for me like it never did before.

Another example is where I recently come across a description of parallelism vs concurrency where parallelism was described as doing multiple tasks independently at the same time, while concurrency is ability to start and wait on multiple tasks at the same time. For some strange reason this way of describing it made all the other pieces of the puzzles I have amazed to fall together nicely, giving me that "haha moment" of elucidation.

My question now is, has anyone come up with a methodology to make this "clicking" or "haha moment" happen faster in the curse of learning a new concept?

In my experience I usually flail about, reading multiple resources, getting somewhat a gist of what I am trying to learn but not fully being able to grok it, until I stumble on that magical analogy or explanation that makes everything click.

Sometimes it is also my sub-consciousness (when off doing something else) that magically comes up with a connection to another concept that makes the new concept more understandable.

This has worked thus far, but I am just curious if there are more effective ways to reduce the times spent flailing about :)
https://archive.ph/yUINu
The headline is certainly ridiculous, but then you learn that it's not just "feeding stray cats," it's attempting to neuter them as well. The article isn't clear on what exactly their procedures were to neuter the cats, but you could easily imagine this crossing into horrific animal cruelty. Considering this was just two random old people, I unfortunately doubt they had access to the veterinary equipment required for a humane operation.
True. But piracy is a big issue, and it exclusively happens digitally. I wonder what the numbers would look like if you factored in pirated ebooks/etextbooks.
The MiTM allows the attacker to itself request and receive a certificate. You're right that it doesn't allow the attacker to tamper with (other than to block) the legitimate site's own attempt to receive certificates, but the legitimate site also can't block the attacker from completing the validation process.
No, but it would likely be more proportional than the current system in the UK where the last time a single party won a majority of the popular vote was 1931 and yet parties usually have a majority in parliament. Proportionality is not a binary thing. You can have more or less proportional systems of government based on the selection / election mechanic chosen.
Given the context, simplicity and control. I assume part of the inefficiency can be reclaimed by compressing the assets separately, although the lack of filtering would hurt.

Encoding and decoding speed as well, because qoi is much simpler (simplistic even) it decodes at 3x libpng (which I’d assume is more relevant than the 20x compression for OP, though then encode might be more relevant for other applications but then IO trade offs rear their ugly heads).
> I would have eventually signed up.

You could have signed up only if excessive regulatory burden wouldn't have killed or prevented the startup from existing.

I find the whole "medical startups should support their patients post bankruptcy" train of thought very disingenuous: as long as we as a society make no public concerted effort to cure these people and leave them to the mercy of the markets, then surely some relief from their problems, even if temporary, is better than none, especially if it provides valuable experience that other more successful companies can use in the future for many more patients.

In view of these future possible patients, it would be downright imoral to burden such startups, which already take enormous risks, with unreasonable costs such as ensuring their devices function into perpetuity.

Yes, they should be regulated to not make the problem worse after they inevitably fail - primum non nocere. But most of the other ideas proposed in the article have a toxic effect on the business viability of medical startups, possibly preventing them altogether.
How do you handle key rotation?
When death as a service is more affordable than gift of happy, healthy and fullfilling life, interesting times we live in.
Well, the scandal here is the FBI were rolling in, giving Twitter a list of random bystanders with the expectation that they will be silenced. US Federal government agencies are specifically not supposed to do that.

All the stuff observing that the FBI is politically active (and has been pretty much since inception I suspect) is interesting but not really news. It is context for why they are supposed to avoid chummy relationships with Twitter's team of moderators.

> Trump's own Director of FBI, Christopher Wray stated that Russia was attempting to interfere in the presidential election

Yeah, but the Muller report came out around the time he said that and basically debunked the issue as a serious problem; raising the question of what exactly Wray was trying to stir up. He looks like part of the anti-Trump crowd that has been active in the FBI for the last few years.
I didn't feel like writing a novel that accounted for every edge case and I knew if my comment got any traction, folks like you would show up passionately pointing out the details I omitted or glossed over. Here we are.

You are correct, there are exceptions. You are correct, crypto is not a single entity. defi in particular is an area where there are a lot of products catering to real user needs as they're marketing to people who already own crypto. And for them, whether they need a db or not is irrelevant. Those users demand decentralized products, so if they want to serve them, they really don't have a choice. Uniswap would be committing suicide by deciding to use a db at this point.
You could use Firefox with uBlock Origin and Video Background Play Fix extensions. Just saying.
Degrees.

The reason why abortion and suicide are considered fair game for regulation by some people is that it has potentially drastic impacts on the future of everyone around you and theoretically society as a whole.

There is a nanny state to some degree in all societies, and if we are obligated to put cancer warnings on cigarettes I think preventing incentives loops that lead to medically encouraged suicide is also fair game.
Its a tradeoff. Decoder is real fast and can be used in embedded contexts (or ported to languages simply). Encoder is also really fast which can be useful for game textures by example.
these do well on synthetic images but really poorly with noise. QOI manages pretty good performance even with noise.
This is the best kind of pedantry: agreeing in spirit with the intent but clarifying words used to express it.
I don’t think that changes how the effect works though, just reduces the thickness of the glasses.

I’m very much not expert at this, I just help a child with poor eyesight, and every upgrade that reduces weight and thickness is much appreciated.
Show HN: I made an Ethernet transceiver from logic gates
Not quite sure I follow. There is a Turing Machine that will halt for any input you give it and return true if that input is valid HTML, and false otherwise. There is no FSM that can do that.

For your second point about iteratively rebuilding an FSM, I mean sure but this goes to my point how you're using the input to decide what FSM to use, which is not a valid construction and even if for the sake of argument you want to go down that route, the choice of what FSM to use requires a Turing Machine so it's not an FSM simulating a Turing Machine but the other way around, the Turing Machine being used to simulate an FSM.

As a matter of correctness, you can't base your choice of FSM on the input. If you could, then you don't need any kind of fancy reasoning whatsoever, you can just pick between FSM A or FSM B, where FSM A is a 1 state FSM that always evaluates to true and FSM B is a 1 state FSM that always evaluates to false and you just pick the one you want to use on the basis of what a Turing machine would do.

Heck, you could just argue that an FSM is basically a lookup table or a cache of hardcoded inputs whose lengths are no greater than N, and maps those inputs to true or false. But this isn't simulating anything.
The price range across Taco Bell's taco is interesting.

I've always wondered how their business can be profitable, but I have to remind myself not everyone only shops on the dollar menu. When the mexican pizza is around ~$8, I can see how they could have quite large margins.

But, on the value menu stuff, I really wonder if they make any money at all on them after labor + ingredients + operating costs.
Why aren't people talking about the containment vessel. We have no way to keep the ignited fuel in some kind of container that will let us harness the power in a controlled manner.

I've read of a 30 to 50 yr timeline until we can have a working reactor. I hope so but we need to be realistic that it's likely to be much longer since there are so many unknowns. We should focus on the energy sources that we know work like thermo,solar and nuclear.

The real advance would be a fool proof fission reactor that's accident proof. In addition, we need its spent fuel to be fully and easy to recycle. All of which can be done in the 30-50 yrs period.

We can do both but let's make sure we don't lose focus of the innovations we know can be done to move away from fossil fuels.
Just cared enough to take time out of your day to offer your opinion on the topic that nobody asked for.
Moana minerals https://www.moanaminerals.com/ will spend the next three years doing hard science to establish whether the mining is harmful to the ecosystem - without the science impeccably performed it's impossible the impact, if any.

What we do know is that the supply of these metals is critical for making batteries to store electricity from sustainable sources like wind turbines and solar panels.
Their point was that it means something when someone who was badly hurt still praises the person who did it. (“Did it” is shorthand for the full story.)
It's at the end of the abstract: "photographs of the living plants". I found it frustrating to read because of that missing detail too, but I expect it would be obvious to the intended readers.
Yes, strong agree. This is just the next generation of the FOSS and right to repair wars, with stakes raised (as was foreseeable).
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Sciral 1 year-1 page calendar – other options?
I've been using the free year printable calendar at Sciral.com for about a decade now (one of the last few things I print) but my time ran out and now there is another domain owner for Sciral.com that doesn't share the free year calendar program.

I made an Excel spreadsheet for 54 vertical weeks, but I've always liked their format that didn't start out as intuitive, but now it is. Does anyone know how to get it from Sciral.com (I've tried archive.org - no HTTP POST works) or another suitable replacement to show a year calendar on a printable page?
You do have full access to what you buy. While it would be nice to both have full access AND the security, that’s still not denying you full access.
...if you think about it, it's the phrase "sell 8 billion dollars of product a year" that does the heavylifting, where he sets up the overall tone as "Me: Successful business tycoon. You: Angry nobody."

It would come across as less arrogant, if he had just resisted the temptation to say that at all. He probably realizes that himself as he speaks and then wraps it into a humblebrag when he says "And I've made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room".

It's also a sentiment that one needs to be very careful with: Some people think they're right about everything because their success proves them right. It's this kind of hubris that, more often than not, will set you up for failure.

The substance of the argument: "Solution looking for a problem" vs "problem getting a solution" is a bit of a tired old cliche (although I don't know whether it already was, back then).
The first seventeen years of my career were PC Basic, DEC PDP/VAX Basic, and Visual Basic. I switched to C# and object-oriented programming in 2002. I still have MS Pro Basic code in production from ‘90.

I wouldn’t wish GOTO/GOSUB on anyone, but the latter procedural versions of BASIC were very productive tools.
> You can just use the existing jailbroken phone (on an older version of iOS) to install the latest version of the Telegram app, and then verify it.

I mean different versions of the app can be shipped targeting different iOS versions, in which case it'd be a race.
Methadone/Suboxone are opioids prescribed for addiction and are often free through low income programs. If they were made more accessible would that solve the crisis? I don’t think so. It’s hard to get to the stage where you accept them as a necessary solution and are still in the dangerous area of trying to taper with unknown quality substances. High quality government heroin/pills and supervised usage would likely work but it’s clear the US would never consider that an option.
> any reason to not trust their end-to-end-encryption

Durov claiming in 2014 to assist Russian government in fighting 'extremism' (we all know what it means) is enough for me. I couldn't find any debunking, clarification or walking back those words.
That user didn’t “miss the point” and you’ve only reiterated their point that by your logic a piece of paper and pencil is “Turing complete”
Do any exist with warm colour temperatures? My kindle paperwhite is at least 6500k and basically unusable without an external light source
tl;dr several reasons, the most specific of which is "to keep linker relocs simple"
More like your landlord handing the keys to your condo to the bully upstairs because somebody else on your floor has a cockroach problem.
Well, still much better than sdcc, which often fails to optimize array accesses on certain targets.

And just recently I took acr-gcc down the - O3 -flto rabbit hole, and everything survived, and with the huge size win, I could add plenty of new functionality and checks.
You seem to frame efforts to treat patients as being competitive with further research.

But active diagnoses, treatment attempts, and tracking of patient responsiveness, are indispensable to medical research.

And it took less than a minute to Google up an overview of recent research progress along many avenues for cluster headaches, as an example:

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2020-059577.long

I think you can stop worrying that medicine has to make dire choices between best treatment efforts today vs. finding better treatments for tomorrow.
If you have a single world representation made out of voxels, you can't trivially edit instanced objects and have the changes propagate out to the whole world where all the instances were. Or if you get that feature, it comes at the cost of the voxels being a secondary representation, and now the instance updates potentially trample some custom textures/geometry that were placed on top of the instances. It changes the workflow a lot.
>… who would ever buy a neural lace from a startup — or even an established company like Google who might just lose interest — if there was no guarentee of patches and maintenance?

Of course there’d be a guarantee: 5 years of security updates for your neural implant until you need new hardware.

Golly, that almost sounds completely fucking crazy until you realize it’s already their current policy for smartphones-which arguably already serve a similar role. That’s up from thee years previously. I think it was even two at one point.

I should have been a neurosurgeon.
I'm yet to be convinced that philosophy has any worthwhile ideas that require "dedicated effort" to understand.
This is simply not true.

The Basic compiler on DEC PDP’s had Function and Sub and modules you could swap in and out of memory as needed. PDP usage was huge in the 80’s. And Microsoft BASIC 7.1 was a full native compiler with the same language syntax.

The line number versions of BASIC were used for amateur code, but professional systems had full procedural syntax.
You can get lenses around -20 even from Zenni optical. They are pretty routine.
Amazing progress.
Depends on your platform, there are some platforms where the compositor/hardware demand ARGB and some where they demand RGBA. As a result if your backbuffer/etc are not in that format you eat some overhead.

This isn't a big justification for it in a texture format, though. A channel swap isn't that expensive to do at load time and the driver can often do it for you during the upload depending on the API you're using. If you really want to load blazing fast your textures should be pre-compressed in hardware formats that you can mmap in, not stored in QOI or PNG.
trading on inside information does move the stock market price in the direction it should be moving and makes the market more rational and efficient so portfolio theory buyers and sellers of the stock make better decisions.
YouTube Copyright Trolls Strike Again
Once again, YouTube’s copyright system is harming creators, this time one of my favorite channels — EckhartsLadder. Can someone at YouTube please fix this insanity?
I think the Japanese language has a pregnant pause that's part of the language. Or I think that's the intent (I barely understand Japanese). But in many a meeting someone will say a long "anooooo" which I always understood as a pregnant pause as the speaker was collecting their next words and thoughts.

Many times I wish I could pull off a long, awkward pause and gather my thoughts and response.
going from the screenshot, it doesn't look like something looking like it wouldn't be too hard to throw together in Excel/LibreOffice if you don't need it to do everything completely automated? (which for a once-per-year thing doesn't seem necessary?)
>Solaris is actually a reference implementation platform for:

Was actually. It is no longer a reference platform for TCP/IP, NFS, etc.
Why StripE and not Stripe?

Relevant, see my "Stripe’s opportunity: Reinventing Customer Service" from a while ago. [0]

[0]: https://medium.com/@simon/stripes-opportunity-reinventing-cu...