skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conceptually similar, but one thing most people miss is that the demographics of people were quite different, meaning much more limited. They skewed white, male, hetero, reasonably well-off, and if you were on a BBS or IRC channel, there's not an unlikelihood that you would have a huge amount in common as the barrier of admission was considerably higher, and to even want to be on there or end up on there meant you probably liked x and felt y just like your peers did.

Who you were likely to interact with informed what you were likely to be exposed to in terms of ideas. I much prefer the modern web as there's a greater chance of getting new or different ideas coming down the pipe, even if that means a greater chance for conflict. There were still trolls and flame wars, but the scale was far smaller as communities were smaller, versus now with Twitter where you can become the "main character" for a considerable number of people temporarily.
Oh c'mon! Typing a two liner on HN like you're saying something is twaddle.

Most guys try to gauge the relative stupidity or goodness of things by reading history, and getting some sense of the state of play from real people and facts.

For most of us belief alone isn't good enough.
I haven't run FreeBSD on my desktop since about 2016, but I spent a lot of time playing games on FreeBSD. Many of the Linux-native games (mostly from Loki) worked quite well on FreeBSD with FreeBSD's Linux emulation, and Wine worked just as well (or just as bad, depending on the game) on FreeBSD as it does on Linux.

I don't really know what the current status is, but you can run Steam on FreeBSD, so I guess at least some things work: https://www.freshports.org/games/linux-steam-utils/
Nvidia has a rich history of doing a bit of everything when "wrapping".

Recall the Geforce 8 and 9 series (8800 GT...). Then wrapping over to GT2XX, going up to GT10XX series, then going straight to GT20XX.

I like to believe that they will wrap around the exact same way, but the prefix/suffix reversed. After the RTX9900 or whatever, we'll get the 2XXRTX.
Paraphrasing Musk's rude response. Twitter has 2 options: a) comply and block the account in question and b) not comply and get banned in Turkey, which would, of course, make the account in question not easily reachable from Turkey. Either choice will restrict free speech.

This situation reminds me of the trolley problem.
Nixon, NASA, and How the Federal Government Got Design (2017)
> Also, my understanding is BSD's philosophy even prevents the development of wifi drivers.

There's no philisophical opposition to wifi that I'm aware of in BSDs. Afaik, they all have some wifi drivers. It's just a lot of effort to support wifi, hardware is complex and not generally super well documented, and vendors aren't building drivers for any of the BSDs. That means a lot of work and there's not a lot of people working on it. It's definitely an area where you need to understand the limitations and carefully choose your hardware if you want to run a BSD with wifi. At least for FreeBSD, there's a lot of users that have no intention to run wifi, so it's a real limitation, but those users aren't affected. Laptop users understandably would like wifi support though, clearly.
/\---- This! In fact, if you were paying attention to FCC proceedings during that time, I'd be surprised if you came away with any other conclusion.
There's nothing whatsoever wrong with monetizing hobbies. What's wrong is when you change how you approach your hobbies to appeal to the people paying you money. Following a content upload schedule and unironically begging your audience to like, comment and subscribe to your content are prime examples of ways to come off as a phony.
Infrastructure building is NOT an activity that benefits from free and open markets. The only way this works is if things change such that only government can build out infra, but it can be serviced by the best provider.
Most of the time I am at a McDonalds they keep the McNuggets hot under a heat lamp instead of freshly frying them. You are lucky if they are even warm sometimes as they are cold. For $11.99 in the Drive Thru or MCD App you can buy 40 McNuggets at some McDonalds and I am lucky to get them hot and fresh.

Still I suppose the McNuggets came from the fryer and they didn't bother cooling them down. This is just like that Hot Coffee lawsuit where the lady put the cup between her legs and took the top off to add sugar and creamer and it spilt and burned her groin. McDonalds had to add a "Caution Contents May Be Hot" to their cups to avoid any more lawsuits.
It being a business, even if it makes $2/mo, can be part of the hobby. Reading about taxes and small businesses is fun for me.

It being commercially successful is not a concern for me. That would be the difference between a hobby and a job for me
It's not a Ponzi scheme if you have aircraft carriers (people think I'm joking but that difference is real and important).
> LCX and Lead ID were responsible for many of these fake comments, letters, and petition signatures. Across four advocacy campaigns in 2017 and 2018, LCX fabricated consumer responses used in approximately 900,000 public comments submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Similarly, in advocacy campaigns between 2017 and 2019, Lead ID fabricated more than half a million consumer responses. These campaigns targeted a variety of government agencies and officials at the federal and state levels.

Wow. Just wow. How can anyone at these companies be avoiding jail time?

And who hired them? Is there no money trail?
Starlink would not exist if liberals passed net neutrality. I trust the market over politicians.
It's debunked by the fact you can go to Xinjiang. No need for an "expert" on the CIA payroll to annotate a map, like they did to Osama's underground cave complex.
I don't think so because I have no idea how to think about a psychicdelic trip in mathematics.
I will never understand why everyone bends over backwards to justify lazy af journalism. This a magazine which is supposed to do scientific journalism, yet it didn't even mention the points that readers in HN comments were able to figure out on a cursory look. Peer review isn't just the 3 reviewers who accept or reject something in a journal. It's everyone in the scientific community.
I love take homes. You can make them harder, and ask candidate explain the solution. The ones I've gotten seem like they suss out skills for real problem solving. Fizz buzz? ... Please ...
One thing weird of Android tablets, it's so under underpowered (during the Nexus 7 era). Only recently after m1 ipads, I see good spec tablets coming out.

I like how the Pixel tablets has a charging dock that doubles as a speaker.

Would be cooler if the charging dock has a better graphics card that can be connected to a monitor, mouse & keyboard and turned into a desktop setup.
I attempted doing this initially. Everything is very doable except SSH. One would have to rely on third-party libraries to do this well.
I don't understand claims like this, if the net present value is zero, why is the price not zero? You have to convince yourself that everybody trading or holding the cryptocurrency is deluded and just playing a ponzi scheme with each other, but even if you believe this, those participants itself believe it has value.

Who is value set by, if not the market?
For a supposedly intellectual and thoughtful community, there sure are a lot of commenters here missing the point and instead jumping to defend the idea of making money from hobbies.
One thing I haven’t seen getting enough attention is the interest rate you pay for the loan implicit in taking out a leveraged position.

For a future with a fixed expiration date, you can easily compute the implied rate by looking at the basis and time to expiry. Back around 5 years ago, you could lock in 80% or so interest p.a. risk free [1] by buying Bitcoin and shorting the future (eg on BitMEX).
Everyone else that was yoloing long the future paid that (somewhat hidden) rate.

With a perpetual, you can’t lock in the rate (until the expiry, as you can on an ordinary future), but it depends on the funding paid (every 8 hours) over that period. It might well be the same, but would basically depend on the long or short sentiment of the crowd, integrated over that period.

At any rate, seems like most people ignore that substantial cost (which was and presumably is arb’ed and exploited by more sophisticated players fleecing the plebs).

[1] “risk free” modulo exchange/ops risk, which is substantial as FTX and others demonstrated.
Not being very familiar with US government webdesign, it took a while for me to realize that this is in fact the official website of the NY attorney general, rather than the personal website of an individual.

The AG's name is written in huge letters on top, as if it was her, rather than her office, that mattered most. The name appears three times before the first paragraph of the article, and again in large, bold letters below the article. To an outside observer, this looks like a political personality cult, and the article itself reads like a PR fluff piece.

For comparison, this[1] is the official website of the German chancellor, the head of government, infinitely more important than an AG. His name is written as a regular-sized menu item, clearly subordinate to the office he occupies, and most of the articles use the term "The Federal Chancellor" to refer to him, rather than his name.

Taken as a whole, those websites paint a picture of radically contrasting administration styles, and aptly demonstrate just how incomprehensible US politics is for Europeans, and vice versa.

[1] https://www.bundeskanzler.de/bk-en
ETA: Upon rereading, this feels pretty weasely and I don't stand by it, so I'd like to add this was my bad & I'm sorry for being overly literal. Ultimately it's as much my responsibility to understand the sarcasm as it is other people to make it clear to me. I feel this way when I'm misunderstood despite being fairly clear, so it's only fair that I apologize and accept responsibility when I am the one to misunderstand.

Looking deeper I see you're likely correct, but honestly I disclaim responsibility for misunderstandings caused by Poe's law when I'm on this end. I see this trip people up all the time, so I know it's not just me. I see the sincere version of this statement made, defended, and doubled down on regularly, so no, I can't reliably tell the difference without a sarcasm marker (/s). I admit this is a weakness on my part, but I don't really feel responsible for it.
Well, there's always that expat camp in Russia if you just can't take oppressive Western democracy anymore.
At the time home broadband wasn't so cheap outside of about a few hundred major cities, satellite internet was a joke, and phones were still on 3G networks with relatively aggressive data caps.

It wasn't obvious whether the telcos were going to keep competing and improving or just become complacent as a cartel. Snowden's leaks were just about to be released. The distrust seemed very reasonable at the time.

In a few ways the "fast lane" idea did get implemented, but in terms of cost rather than the speed of access. Lots of bundles between telcos and streaming services exist now (i.e. Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, ESPN, YouTube TV, etc.).
They're really worth nothing everyone is just being tricked :((
When one is curious they tend to find the answer out themselves.

Copper coil in phones are next to the battery, it's going to heat up the cells.

I've already sent you one link and you've not acknowledged it. Good luck in your epistemic endeavors.
> only to have someone defecate in front of the restaurant as he was walking in. ... He wasn’t aware of the incident of a business owner hosing down a homeless person and had to have the crowd explain it

Did the crowd just side with defecating on the street because you got hosed down with water? If I had to choose I'd take the hose down instead of a giant turd near my door. This seems either masochism or ignorance (which includes thinking you understand history better and have some enlightened perspective), or both.
Ambrose Bierce already hit the nail on the head in 1911:

"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."
This would never work in the USA, we need to see the fiends in the hallway sitting in the dark.
This site got linked a few days ago.

https://www.philosophybro.com/archive/descartes-meditations-...
They would probably do something like append "-inactive" or "-archive" to the users account to give someone else the name itself
Yup that's why I bought a laser. They don't dry out (though in exceptionally high humidity the opposite can happen where the toner starts clumping up). But generally for a one page a month scenario laser really kills inkjets for that reason.

Really nice for boarding passes too as the ink doesn't run when it gets wet. I know, electronic but stuff like that I prefer to have a hardcopy of.

But really if you print photo quality stuff weekly inkjet is unbeatable especially with these new tanks. I've not seen a color laser that prints acceptable photos.
Facebook claims people showing art, electronics, wheelchair mods is hate speech
Xerox had the Star and Altos computers that had Apple look at during their visit of the PARC place. It influenced the Apple Lisa and Macintosh line of computers. Without that Apple would still be an 8 bit company using commands instead of icons. There was an exchange of Apple stock to Xerox for use of their GUI by Apple.

https://youtu.be/eZUEWd5OZ2Y
Cash has no coupon, so it has negative coupon as soon as you switch your analysis to real terms.

In fact, in the context of the fundamental theorem of asset pricing (every asset discounted by a suitable numeraire is a martingale under the probability measure induced by that numeraire), cash isn’t even an asset (instead, the interest bearing bank account is one).
The kudzu bug invasion was unreal. I used to live about half an hour from the Atlanta airport where they came in. One summer there were suddenly swarms of them around my house. Anytime you went outside, you’d get a few on you.

The next year the swarms disappeared, but if you shake any given kudzu vine, several will fall off. It’s like they were buzzing around looking for the kudzu. Then once they found it they stayed put.
Just a humorless scold here to give you a blow by blow report of all the offensive things a comedian said.
I agree, your point still holds and if anything becomes stronger, because now we've identified a concept at a higher level of abstraction to replace endpoint operations!
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What a stupid comment from someone who clearly hasnt read Descartes original meditations.
“I doubt therefor i am” is th presupposition doubt in language, doubt in reality, if there is only doubt and nothing else i am.
Yes. However, that’s a feature of future generally, not only perpetuals. However, BitMEX really upped the ante with its 100x product.
More than anything this seems to highlight how naive this approach is for polling public opinion - using an easily gamed internet connected form. Really the whole thing was just a dog and pony show to begin with. The FCC leadership at the time showed absolutely zero intention of being persuaded by the public comments as their minds were already made up beforehand. It was just some kind of hand wavy bs attempt to pretend to perform their due diligence before doing what they were already going to do anyways.
What did these companies get out of pushing to repeal it then? If the regulation was banning a business model that no one was going to use anyway, I don't see the impetus to commit mass fraud. Does net neutrality prevent anything beyond fast lanes and censorship?
Perfect one-sentence summary of the article, minus the advertisement.
The popularity of something has no bearing on its validity, especially on social media where the signal-to-noise ratio sucks.

Example: an autistic man joins a social media platform to share his ideas/research/whatever, he has no friends IRL, he doesn't do well with interacting with others, but his output is useful if someone were to find it.

I find all kinds of very useful information obsessively documented by folks who have very little in the way of social skills, marketing or interest to reach vast sums of people.

By your logic, a video of someone falling in public in a funny way that gets a few million views is more meaningful than a fix for a niche piece of software, or a mod for an obscure piece of old hardware.
Thanks. Exciting times for Julia!
How is this monetary loss calculated? This is absurdly low. Something that even a small size company will easily afford.

On a humorous note, may be they started with how much a politician takes from lobbyists for their soul. We have seen them proposing absurd laws for very less.
People want to do meaningful work and improve their skills and lives.

However, incentives are not lined up to promote and reward this for quite a lot of people. Workers look around and see that working harder just means you get more work and maybe a pizza party. Raises don't beat inflation or are non-existent. They might be scheduled or classified in a way that makes them ineligible for health insurance. Pensions don't exist and "the market" ruined plenty of people's paths to retirement. Their free time is disrespected with inconsistent and last minute scheduling or with on-call duty. Their leaders can decide that inflation is caused by high salaries with layoffs as the solution and their employer obliges. They can work full time and still be in precarious positions when it comes to basic necessities like housing and healthcare.

I stopped at a McDonald's to use their WiFi and a group of high school kids were there, and I overheard a girl get very upset because her mom was laid off from the job she worked at since the girl was born, and can't retire, keep her health insurance or home. She was crying for her mom and herself. She yelled about how her mom worked crazy hours and put up with abuse. Then she said something to the tune of, "what's the point of giving yourself to your job if you will just be thrown out like that?" This was in a middle/upper middle class neighborhood.
I stopped buying HP anything. And startups and others I work with I encourage to purchase Brother laser printers. HP is dead to me. Not only this crap, but Brother makes more reliable and better priced/cost of ownership printers.
A new BlackBerry is scheduled; it's a movie about the company's rise and fall
Call it what it is: forced engagement.

It's Farmville: "Login to water your crops every x hours."
How is this news? HP has been doing this for a long time.
Invent the technology that solves the problem. In this case, modular nuclear reactors and/or fusion, and diamondoid molecular nanotechnology. The former gives us a nearly limitless source of carbon-free energy, while the later moves our technology base off of refined metals (which emit CO2 in production) and into using carbon itself as the fundamental base material, making carbon capture and even atmospheric drawdown profitable.
The US is uniquely oriented around pain elimination. For example, the opioid epidemic ravaging the US after the overprescription of painkillers is absent in most European and Asian countries, because they were not optimizing patient outcomes for pain elimination.
Just the executives
Vision BASIC
I remember debating with a guy I know about Net Neutrality leading up to this.

He was a sales director at a company that ran network backbone and fiber lines. He was insistent that the Net Neutrality debate was dumb, because it was trying to negate the peering agreements that make the industry run. The way he told it, anyone with a big backbone chooses to invest in peering arrangements with other companies who also make similar arrangements. If you are pushing an undue amount of traffic relative to the other party, you invest more. His take was that Netflix was supporting Net Neutrality so they wouldn't have to invest more in their peering arrangements.

Now - this is a guy who historically is almost always on the wrong side of history. I thought it an interesting talking point, but even now having had some exposure to the peering arrangements between (say) Microsoft and Akamai, I still don't know enough to be able to say whether this is even a valid talking point. I'm very sure this is just something he was told, and repeated ad nauseum.

This seems like the right audience (since I wasn't posting here back then), to ask if there's any legitimacy to this talking point?
Painless ZFS on root.
The biggest issue I’ve seen is when companies hire 4 junior engineers with zero or minimal Rails experience to bootstrap their product, let them loose, and… yeah everything quickly becomes a mess.

Nobody understands the conventions so they cargo cult whatever they found from a blog that was last updated in 2013. Or they find novel and extraordinary solutions to problems that the framework literally already solved. Or they have zero experience modeling things in a database—much less doing it the way ActiveRecord encourages—so every battle is always uphill.

The biggest problem with convention over configuration is when you have a team where nobody understands the conventions. But what else do you expect?
The whole concept of "invasive species" had always been a bit confusing to me.

When does a plant or animal brought here from overseas start being considered native? Kudzu has been growing in America since before my ancestors can't here, am I still considered invasive based on the history of Europeans invading this continent?
if you open the printer's IP address in your PC browser ..you get a webpage with a lot of settings for the printer.

I recently found that there is a setting in printer admin page called "Replace Toner".

By default the printer is set to STOP printing as soon as "Toner Low" status is reached.

But we can set it to "Continue" so that it continues printing with low toner instead of immediately replacing it.

Mine has been printing fine since last 1 year after this. FYI ... I print like 10 pages in a busy month.

It just gives me "Low Toner" / "Replace Toner" warning each time and still prints just fine.

And this cartridge is a cheap $15 toner refill i had bought off Amazon 2-3 years ago.

printer : Brother DCP L2540-DW bought 8 years ago for $100.

other than occassional connectivity issues like once a year that required reinstalling printer drivers on Win 10 ... I have been super happy.
The same people who wrote the comments also sent about half a million fake letters to members of congress, about 900 per representative.

The bad news is that they did this. The good news is that they thought this would help, so writing your representative perhaps isn't entirely useless?
Add unboxing. Nobody cares how nicely the user manual was rolled up into premium origami packaging.

I care about the product performance and how well it holds up after few weeks abuse.

The fight to be first with a review even if you haven’t even reviewed anything is getting ridiculous. Just wait until AI get thrown into this mix.