skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you have read posts, or find they are not topical to your interest in a thread, hide them and it will help avoid confusion, or posting misfires.

it also speeds up ocular search results.
That’s very trusting that there isn’t some race condition on the POS that ends up charging them all.
Yes, it needs an intact bootblock to do this. I'm actually slightly surprised that BIOSes now have USB support, or at least just mass storage and FAT, in the bootblock. The floppy controller is much easier to program directly to do this.
>Every 3-5 years the administration has to be ready for me to walk, and they need to make competitive offers to keep me.

That is easy to say when you don't have family. Children don't do well being pulled out of school and moved to different school, they can suffer academically, emotionally and socially from having their lives disrupted. Then you have to consider your spouses career.
I worked in a building once where the close door button started a 3ish second timer then would close. As a side effect if the door was close to closing already it would sometimes actually lengthen the time the door was open. Drove me nuts when people would come in late and hit the button.
That’s how market segmentation works.

I can’t afford a Ferrari because Ferrari’s are not for me. The Ferrari salesperson isn’t going to feel bad about that and shouldn’t.

And the best thing you can take away is focus on selling products to people with money to spend and a willingness to spend it…if you are running a business of course.
Reputable being the key word here, where their reputation is based in how well their science adheres to the popular discourse among the intelligentsia.
Thanks a lot for your recommendation. I will definitely check it out. On MacOS I've recently switched from Alfred to Raycast and they are both amazing. So far on Windows I've only tried the PowerToys Run utility and I think it's lacking quite a lot of functions.
The Complete Maus: art spiegelman: Free
"free" games aren't even free when they're on epic. The cost of installing epic is too high.
Wow you're probably right, I wasn't aware of that paper/talk. I wish discovered this earlier in my career, but I suppose it's not too late for me to work on important problems.
The Marriott Marquis in New York has this, that’s also some of the fastest elevators I’ve ever been in.
Windows Store individual links don't seem to work for me. I have to search them up in the home page.
Any idea how it compares to aspera?
I may give benchmarking a shot later when I get to my computer, but if anyone has any intuition that could be helpful.
This is exactly right. Hypercard and HTML started the problem from opposite ends. Hypercard being a GUI app development tool and HTML being a way of joining together text documents.

That said, a network enabled Hypercard would have been a security nightmare. It was way too complex to secure given coding practices of the time. Heck, even "simple" web browsers had a reputation as a security weak point in the early days. There were no end to people who thought integrating the web browser with the OS was pure lunacy that was going to result in an endless string of compromised machines. Luckily "live desktop" and the like ended up being such weak features that they didn't have quite that much impact.
I bet you could also do 70 billion on planting trees and do nothing or worse, spend a lot of money and carbon and have a negative impact.

The devil is in the details
Oops, I meant to specify that it is called BEEP!
That looks terrible on a mobile device.
Peer bonuses are not about receiving them! They are about the ability to give them, and seriously show appreciation that way. This is empowering and enjoyable.
When I was 13 or so I bricked my A7A-266. This had me beyond tears and in that petrified “my world is ending” state.

After hours of a sunken stomach and reading online, I cobbled together a floppy disk with a bunch of special files that I didn’t understand. I think I even had to type one out in notepad. I put it in the disk drive. It tells you to wait five minutes and then reboot but I waited ten. There were no beeps or signals. I rebooted and the thing came right back to life and lived for years until an A7V8X promised me a good time with faster RAM.

Godspeed my first private computer motherboard. You recovered from a teenager-induced coma and got me through most of high school.
I got access to LaMDA using Google's AI test kitchen. It's pretty underwhelming compared to chatgpt. I imagine google feels what they felt when jobs released the iPhone.
At that point why bother with epic at all. You can get it though alternative channels just as easily.
Agreed. I use this all the time.
> why would an elevator ever make the long journey for the 10th floor to pick up passengers if it always has passengers waiting to move between doors 2 and 3?

It's not that hard. One creates a cost function for each floor. The cost for a floor is the time spent since the button for that floor was pushed. The elevator goes for the floor with the highest cost.

It's the same idea with traffic lights. Have a cost function which is the wait time for each car. Minimize it. Of course, traffic lights never do this, resulting in grossly inefficient light changes.
I have a 2012 iMac that is no longer supported, so I installed the latest Ubuntu on it and it works very well. So if you run into that situation again, Linux is a very viable option.
Smartphone addiction, ambition and our fear of silence (2021)
Excalibur BBS
Who writes and maintains linux?
No: the irrevocability of the mainstream FOSS licenses has already been tested.

People are doing a lot of axiomatic reasoning on this thread: "FOSS works this way, so the WOTC license should work similarly". Nope! Your best bet is probably just to go read actual legal analyses (that's all I'm doing, reading and relaying things).
It feels like you're trying to strawman this. I will reiterate just in case your questioning is sincere - I was talking about the typical TikTok trend videos where a person in the street is ambushed for content. Not all "TikTok format" videos.
My favourite, most reliable method is to use a TL866 family rom-burner, they are also dirt cheap.

There's conveniently an open source "minipro" programming tool for TL866 family. (linked by another poster)

That + a clip for SOIC, WSON or whatever applies to the motherboard, if you're not lucky enough to have a socketed DIP EEPROM.

Else, something supported by "flashrom", which has a load of supported programmers, including a range of microcontrollers and even bitbanging with dirt cheap FTDI uart usb dongles.
Can’t all of that be done with simple form submissions?
Nothing published, they're typically not very complex.

Things of interest for CLI stuff:

#!/usr/bin/env elixir

Use Mix.install like so

Mix.install([
{:jason, "~> 1.4"},
])

Execute shell commands

{output, status_code} = System.cmd("ls", ["-la"])

For handling files and paths:

Path.join/2
__ENV__.file
Path.dirname/1
Path.expand/1
File.lstat/1
File.read/1

Parsing arguments

argv = System.argv()
OptionParser.parse(argv, [strict: [switch: :boolean], aliases: [s: :switch]])
exit({:shutdown, status_code}) # for shutting down with an error

For printing colors (from docs)

iex> IO.ANSI.format(["Hello, ", :red, :bright, "world!"], true)
AFIACT Tether doesn't even aspire to any fixed time frame for redemptions, so it's even easier than a typical money market scenario. If all their assets were 30 day treasuries or shorter you don't even need to sell them - just wait the 30 days and then pay people then. Though I expect that even at tether's scale, markets for short term treasuries are liquid enough.
Ask HN: Can adding an ongoing side business (SaaS) on my resume hurt me?
As a college student, I'm looking to apply to some summer internships for this summer. I considered adding a SaaS I've run on the side for a year or so now. It's gained me a _ton_ of skills about Linux management, containerization, web servers, etc - I've rounded my sysadmin knowledge considerably.

However, as I've marked the work experience as "ongoing" on my resume and various forms, I'm afraid some reviewers may look negatively upon a "current job" like that, which may require constant work - perhaps they see it as a possible interruption of the internship. I've got a research lab as well on my resume, but those don't imply working over the summer. I hope they'd be reasonable about knowing that it doesn't interfere with work (it requires nearly no maintenance), but perhaps something like this is considered poorly especially for a student summer internship. They might want a majority of my time and for me to avoid distractions like managing a business. Any thoughts on the matter?
The opt out is so sneaky, it’s often a small grey “I don’t want to be happy” text link somewhere on the page
Ask HN: What software was used to make 90s cutscenes?
Ex.
Diablo 2 https://youtu.be/qt0jCgxIhrI?t=1078
RE3 https://youtu.be/pOvU2m4vat4
What camera do you use that looks like a gun?
I found this taxonomy chart and funding allocation very informative.

https://assets-global.website-files.com/620ed79721f9271deec0...

Had no idea there were so many segmentations in the space.
In honor of Weizenbaum's Centenary, I asked ChatGPT to program ELIZA
When I was 13 (many decades ago), I wrote the BASIC ELIZA that many of you have probably experienced (if you are of a certain age) or (if you are not ...) you've almost certainly experienced a knock-off of mine.

Today, Jan 8th, is the 100th centenary of Joseph Weizenbaum's birth, so I asked ChatGPT to write ELIZA in js.

Long dialog (~10 rounds) short, here's where it ended up:

'''
// A list of ELIZA's responses
const responses = {
"I feel": [
"Why do you feel {0}?",
"What do you think is causing you to feel {0}?",
"Do you often feel {0}?",
"How do you normally deal with feeling {0}?"
],
"I want": [
"Why do you want {0}?",
"What led you to want this?",
"Do you often find yourself wanting {0}?",
"How do you think getting what you want will make you feel?"
],
"I need": [
"Why do you feel like you need {0}?",
"What led you to feel like you need this?",
"Do you often find yourself feeling like you need {0}?",
"How do you think getting what you need will make you feel?"
]
};

// A list of keywords
const keywords = Object.keys(responses);

// A function that generates a response
function generateResponse(input) {
// Check if the input contains any of the keywords
for (let i = 0; i < keywords.length; i++) {
if (input.includes(keywords[i])) {
// If the input contains a keyword, return a random response
// that includes the remainder of the input, with personal
// pronouns conjugated correctly
const response = responses[keywords[i]][Math.floor(Math.random() * responses[keywords[i]].length)];
return response.replace("{0}", input.substring(keywords[i].length + 1));
}
}
}

// Test the function
console.log(generateResponse("I feel sad"));
console.log(generateResponse("I want a new car"));
console.log(generateResponse("I need some help"));

'''

My conclusion: It's not yet up to being a 1970s 13 year old programmer....yet. :-)

----
(Apparently ''' ... ''' doesn't do code in HN. Sorry for the wrap-around formatting.)
> Hopefully, they also managed not to acquire the odor of self-righteousness in the process.

I'm not sure the author of the article has managed that.
> Also, Dancey didn't issue the license, WotC did. Intent matters, so the WotC FAQ is relevant IMO, but Dancey's personal intent is irrelevant.

Dancey-as-individual may not matter, but Dancey-as-officer-of-company may. At the time he was presumably acting on behalf of WotC and stating what WotC's intent was.

So when he says that the intent at the time of issuance was that it could never be revoked, wouldn't there have to be evidence put forward to contradict it? Either internal documents or from someone else involved in the OGL giving a contrasting opinion?
> I think you'd be better off building something like that above the ocean with the whole thing supported by piers anchored very deep.

That's the idea, but instead of piers you have a grid of floats or buoys. The octet truss structure is light enough and strong enough to float on just the tops of the waves.

> Otherwise sooner or later your structure will meet that one wave that it can't deal with and then it's game over.

The largest wave so far recorded (not counting tsunami) was an 84-foot (25.6m) rogue wave off Norway.

I figure you would need some sort of dissipative structure rather than a flat wall. Something akin to Tesla's valvular conduit with flexible baffles and fins to turn the water's kinetic energy back onto itself. Probably 300m thick or more so you have plenty of room/time in which to work.

> What you are talking about is many, many orders of magnitude more complex, both from a materials science perspective as well as the engineering itself.

Oh, I hope not! The structure is conceptually simple, at least, and the materials should be mostly off-the-shelf. I have no real idea, of course.

> The sea is a formidable enemy for anything that you intended to float on top of it

Oh, yes. I've lived next to the ocean for the vast bulk of my life so far. Although I'm not nautical, I can't imagine living far from it for long. Our Pacific ocean here is much sweeter and kinder than your stern North Sea, of course ("pacific" eh?) But it is still a god. I don not worship the ocean but my respect for it falls not far short.

When I watch video footage of big storms out on the deep water I think I'm crazy, but then I think about just how big of a structure I could make, and I'm enthused again.

> Then there is the problem of anchoring your structure. All of the air on the Western side of a floating structure would impinge on the height that the whole thing extends above the sea, turning it into a gigantic sail.

That is easy, in theory: windmills instead of sails, driving propellers to keep on station.

- - - -

I'm more or less going to actually try this. The initial prototype will be very small, probably around 200m in diameter, and it will look more like a spider or water-strider bug than a platform.
It’s always amazing to me how little emphasis people give to INTENT on their repo.
Yes, I think that is one idea. But without true symbolism, where is the ground of understanding that would allow for synthetic generation going to come from? Right now, it has to be added by human coaches and means nothing to the model. Personally, I'm not confident we're anywhere near solving for artificial self-consciousness. Heck, we don't even understand human consciousness. But forever is a long time. I'm both impressed and unimpressed by the current LLM models. They will get better at what they do, I'm confident of that. But it does seem there's built-in limitation that can't be solved with this approach. It will be interesting, for instance, if logic gates can be encoded in a neural net architecture. That could allow them to reason the way a computer using a formal language today might. In that future, the language models are massively effective parsers plus some layers enabling it to be "Turing complete".
That's just wrong. It doesn't cost $1 billion to copy instagram, at most it'd cost a few million. By buying them, you not only get the app/feature set - more importantly you also remove them from the market as a competitor. This is exactly what we're seeing play out with tiktok. If FB could have bought tiktok, they would have - they couldn't, so they cloned it for far less than $1bil (fb reels) - but now we have a situation of two competing services that users can compare and contrast and prefer. The market it segmented. Which is bad for facebook's shareholders, but good for users, workers, and advertisers. This is exactly why we need good anti-trust
I suspect similar results would come from manage grazing with most/any ruminant. We (ranchers in general) do not properly manage grazing. I think this is partially nearsighted capitalism, quick returns come from not allowing cattle to range and essentially shipping cattle around to upwards of three farms in their short lifespans (twoish years).

Longsighted capitalism recognizes that there is greater returns by growing beef slowly, recognizing that we (ranchers, shepherds, ruminant farmers) are primarily grass farmers, rotating cattle to simulate migration patterns, allowing native grasses to grow back, and giving up some (10% to 15%) of our pastures to trees to return the American south and midwest to the state it desires to be at (savannah).

(edit, I can't speak for ranching on the big western ranches, just how it's done from the east coast to about Tulsa)

I am a small time dairy farmer and homesteader (I also write software for a fintech 9-5). We practice regenerative agriculture and permaculture methods, and have pretty great results.
JTest – an interactive educational lab to build a testing framework
I developed an educational project to build a JUnit-like framework. It features 9 sub-tasks with instant automatic feedback that checks if your implementation is correct. Comments are welcome.
You can also use Brave to play videos in the background on your phone without a premium account. At least, you can on iOS.
It sounds like those engineers did good work.
Yeah, destroy those ecosystems. Most tree planting projects are either scams or leave the local area worse off than when it started, unless it's replanting efforts on burned areas. And even then when done at a large scale to accommodate the feel-good goals of some startup, tree diversity is also not valued, and so again the ecosystem gets worse than when it started.
How much money did you lose in the last year?
I would add "simple excellence" [1] to the already recommend "personal MBA".

Trying to map your companies products first on a "value proposition canvas" and then whole business on a "business model canvas" is a great way to better understand on a high level whats going on in your organization.

===

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Excellence-Organizing-Manageme...
It's generous of you to assume we're living in a democracy right now. We're actually under a judiciary dictatorship. As far as I'm concerned, democracy ended in Brazil when openly and proudly biased judges started disproportionally censoring Bolsonaro and his supporters before, during and after the election over "fake news". This continues to this day, it's happening right now. Surely a person from a nation founded on the principles of freedom of speech would understand how tyrannical you have to be to assume the role of ministry of truth so you can silence others based on what you believe is false. I witnessed them ban a documentary before it was even released without even watching it. Do you call this a democracy?

I don't blame them for attacking Brasília. They are tired of this corruption and literally don't know what else to do. I watched them get on their knees and beg the armed forces to do something, anything for over two months straight. If they must live under a dictatorship, they want a military one which they could at least respect, not this corrupt communist faux-democracy.
In the same vein, any other site that focuses more explicitly on CS only? HN is irreplaceable on that count, you really get sometimes the very creator of the thing chine in, but there are sometimes almost a week going by without any “proper” CS-content (I follow basically every “front page” submission through RSS). https://lobste.rs/ comes to mind, but it has very few comments unfortunately. Maybe a tag system could be great, at least this crude.

Oh, and while we are at it, could we list some tech forums for other languages? I spend way too much time lurking around tech forums, and being forced to use another language might make me actually learn it (German in my case).
China Reopens to the World as International Travel Restrictions End
It's about speed of changing direction.

Duh.

The entire supposed premise of agile is defining goals and constructing a product iteratively, so misunderstandings and changes in design can happen more quickly.

The "quick" part being a change in direction.

Given a perfect definition of a program and skilled ciders and unified vision from the beginning, agile would be meaningless.
Wow, his entire channel is incredible! For a video on the planet puzzle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQx33KFMO0

To emphasize how amazing the puzzle is, it's also a holonomy, which rotates 1/6 each time it moves, thus making the puzzle even more copmlex.
> If the web was being made form scratch today, it would probably start with a repurposed game engine.

Doubtfully, for the same reason that VR is still looking for a general purpose problem.

Visual metaphors are great when demonstrated visually (e.g. in futuristic movies), but their information bandwidth sucks compared to text et al.

Or to put it another way, how many emojis would it take to convey the content of this post reliably?
I've used many different node editors. I've even built some! I just double-checked and Unreal Engine's node editors do NOT support inserting a node into an existing link. Take from that what you will.
A lot of times the machine would say "Use one card only", won't it? I have a Secrid wallet and I was expecting the aluminium to block the RFID reader except for the 1 card I put in the outer leather pocket, but I still need to open the wallet up and present the dangling card in its sleeve to stop multiple signals...
Can a Furby run doom?
it was one Senator, one time, and we shall never forget it here in California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a_60PMR8
let's talk about real stuff, a live running model right now. chatGPT is currently storing chats with it, if somehow openAI got to re-feed - even taking offline and redeploying the model after that - those previous chats into the tokens, wualá, you've got an AI fred from immediacy.

Practical stuff like "store memories", "replace human senses", "AIs can't walk the world as humans", etc. are feasible to be solved with current commodity technology, even without hypothetical future highly capable robots.

I'll divert a little from the exact answer to the comment..

I've said it in another comment, it looks like Tiktok could be exactly this kind of "eyes and ears", it could be the - one of the - perfect continuously information collection systems "looking into the world" for an strong AI (yeah, right now), but most certainly is just an incredible business model turned into an almost free giant datasets generator.

I cannot get to think that someone could have created tiktok to "see into the world" for AIs / create datasets, from the scratch, but it is possible too.
That's not the point being made here, grumpy one.

Today many people still speak of "Mac and PC", for example. Macs are personal computers so that dichotomy makes no sense.
SDL does pretty much only the parts you still need after choosing Vulkan or WebGPU (or OpenGL, or anything else); audio, windowing, input handling, etc.
>You said "changing the project from the inside", which a fork isn't.

Yeah, it is. The inside of the project being the code. You just fork it and change whatever you want. What else do you think that means in the context of software?

>Gnome is a business, same as Wikipedia

No, GNOME and Wikipedia are both non-profits. They're not businesses. "Business" usually means a for-profit company. In both GNOME and Wikipedia, the money is mostly all going to administration costs and costs to run the servers. Currently no GNOME developers are paid by the non-profit, and Wikipedia editors aren't paid either. Ask any of them and they'll verify this. I think you're confused as to how most non-profits actually operate.

I haven't said anyone gets a pass on criticism, I'm not sure why you're pushing that point. I don't think you should throw bad, low-effort angry criticism at businesses either. But open source projects aren't businesses, so I can't answer your question because it doesn't make any sense. Please ask a different question or rephrase it.
Certainly. Students who care about their GPA will put more effort into maintaining a high one. I am not claiming it is the only GPA determining factor.