skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was around 2003-4.

I had a Libretto 50ct (pentium 75mhz, 32 meg ram) running 95 and 98 perfectly, but on upgrading it to win 2k, not only was it extremely slow, but it also was limited to 16 colors (no drivers for video). There was no retro community in those days, so the recommendation to get a usb or Wi-Fi connection to the internet was to upgrade to win98 as I don’t remember win95 having any support for Wi-Fi or usb. Since win98 was already old at that point, a user such as myself might as well use win98se. I remember it being rock solid

Linux with the 2.4 kernel ram just as slow as windows 2k in the basic bash terminal mode and x windows was very slow. The terminal was also sadly very slow given the limited bus capacity for the hard drive which ran at 5200rpm. The Linux 2.2 kernel ran much faster, but everything was too old in the debian software archive to support usb over pcmcia.

Also listening to MP3’s and doing anything else caused a slow down in the gui and skipping in the mp3 except in windows and older Linux kernels
Here’s Why That Rivian R1T Repair Cost $42,000 After Just a Minor Fender-Bender
Definitely not the latter. I am referring to the former point.
Good to see some real anecdotes. Bun makes big promises, so I've been really curious to see how the reality lines up right now (and not just in a hypothetical future)
Now we have automotive manufacturers commiserating with commercial real estate folks...time for a Three-Hour-Tour social!
There does seem to be some distinction if you log into and scrape:

"Only three claims remained for the final order - the violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, violation of the CFAA and California Penal Code.

The district court then granted summary judgment to Facebook on all three of the remaining Facebook claims. The district court awarded statutory damages of $3,031,350"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur....
Definitely weird. ;) You should let clients know when it's time to 'put up or shut up'. After all, talk is cheap?
> Circumstances changed

What circumstances changed, specifically?
This kind of scale requires eliminating the human element. It's harder to steal from or hurt a person. It's easier to steal from a faceless corporation or abuse someone in a position dehumanized by decades of "that's where you'll end up if you don't study hard."
Author here.

Clearly Request Metrics should make it on your list ;)
Looks like it might be an actual blackberry keyboard.
With all the excited responses to this post a feel like a fool because I don't understand how one would go about using this. Admittedly I'm knew this type of product, but I want to be excited too or at least be able to come up with some use cases where I can make an informed choice on whether this product is useful or not. Is there a list or site with ideas on how to make use of products like this?
Filtering particulates in interior spaces is relatively easy, and when moving between them, you can wear a mask. Of course, this is very inconvenient, but it is so no matter whether the fire is a prescribed burn or a wildfire. Having to move elsewhere during prescribed burn might be highly inconvenient to you, but doing the same during wildfire will be highly inconvenient to other people. We might decide to favor some people over others, or balance the positive and negative externalities, but it seems silly to me to choose wildfires over prescribed burns just because the former are caused by inaction, and latter by action.
In the very long term, yes a large plot of land in a densely-constructed city would be extremely valuable. In the short and medium-term though, the downward price pressure of increased supply outweighs the upward price pressure of amenity effects.[1][2][3]

Very few NIMBYs will openly admit to wanting to maintain their property values because it's a much less noble sounding cause than "preserving the character of the neighborhood" or whatever.

1. https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1334...

2. https://blocksandlots.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Do-New-...

3. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3867764
YOLO-NAS outperforms prior SOTA YOLO models on an NVIDIA T4. It's notable that the Neural Architecture Search (NAS) makes these results hardware-specific for the mAP vs speed tradeoff. The license is more permissive license than some prior YOLO models: you can use it commercially if you train from scratch.
I've gone vanilla css since variables were added
Show HN: Unified API to your R2, S3 buckets
piqued not picked*
Put Request Metrics on your list to credit the post :)
You are getting downvoted, but the core is what you say is true.

Banking, as it exists today is inherently an unstable activity due to interest rate risk and leverage.

Regulators at the Federal reserve are actively working against a much safer form of banking for depositors (narrow banking).

All you have to do to get safe banking is get the fed to approve allowing money market fund accounts to have the same access as banks.
Dogma in the tech industry is that the ceiling on individual contributions is close to the median. That the leverage is all in coordinating larger groups of engineers. Belief in, affection for, or aspiration to be the lone-wolf super-genius coder who does something transformative in his own editor is a negative signal, associated with "brilliant jerk" and "not a team player" archetypes. Tech companies are generally set up to socialize it out of younger engineers and to have an immune system to reject any more senior engineers who endorse it.
But – there are tons of prestigious, high-quality, Urtext editions on IMSLP, because

https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Copyright_Made_Simple#Urtext_Ed...

(copyright laws afford Urtext editions shorter terms of protection than original works)
Use revision control and frequently commit your work, preferably along with comments describing your thinking process. In law school I used Git as that's what I was familiar with and it made it easy to backup my work (git push), but I suppose the tracking feature in MS Word might suffice.

In law school you cite almost every sentence in a written work. In theory you don't need to cite your own, bare opinions, but even then it's common to provide citations for rhetorical effect. And legal citations are very specific and descriptive, which is why footnotes are often so long. Rigorous citation is just a good idea in any field, and they're more costly to fake, at least if they're more than just last name & year. (If you're playing a long game, make sure archive.org has a snapshot of any online sources; they provide browser extensions for that.)

It also might not be a bad idea to capture your browsing history, so you can show a timeline of how your research went. In law school this history is already captured by the legal portals as part of their billing system, but standard browsing history would be more than sufficient.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, if you do any of this, then be consistent. Don't do this for one class but not another, or have browsing history for some papers but not others. Consistency speaks to both credibility and reliability of evidence. So it's better to have no browsing history for any than only for some. A professor in a Wills & Trust class explained it this way: one day you'll be presented with a document you helped execute 30 years ago and asked, for example, if the identities of witness signatures were verified. You'll have no direct recollection of this. But you could answer in the affirmative; you could say, "Yes, because whenever executing a document I always did X, Y, and Z, without fail." (Or alternatively, "I almost always did X, Y, and Z, and the rare exceptions are memorable".) And if you indeed were consistent about this, there'll be corroborating evidence. So if someone is skeptical about whether your Git version history was authentic, you want to be able to point them to version histories for all your most recent papers as corroborating your process.
What make you use them instead of Zapier or Make.com?
They can test deflection methods on other asteroids, build large spacecraft launchers and have them ready to go, do surveys to make sure the N-body predictions are as accurate as possible, etc. Some of that's being done (NEOWISE, DART) but if you want to deflect a planet killer you need a lot more.
In Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) the name of the profession with the responsibility of applying the sponge was σφουγκοκωλάριος, sfougokolariis where sfougo is the sponge, kolos is what you imagine it to be in context. The term is still used metaphorically in modern Greek.
I have xfce and KDE plasma installed. If you turn off everything in desktop effects for KDE, I can't tell any difference between xfce and KDE in terms of performance on an old 4 core i5 with 16 gigs of ram.

The only real difference is that KDE is much prettier. I almost never boot into xfce.
Yes but most of the time in these things the hours billed are internal cost controls, not billed straight through to client. Eg, it's a fixed price contract. But sometimes you have to work more or less so you horsetrade between projects. Agree with you if billing time through, but usually this is pretty strictly tracked.

(source: was a consulting partner)
> both the audience and the objectives have changed...

This idea has been disastrous for modern software.
There are many examples of people who are obsessed by work, and at the same time depressed. While the distraction can temporarily take away the depressive thoughts, it is by no means a solution. I think the social aspects of raising a kid could be a better explanation.
I have two Staff+ level positions open on my team. The expectation for them is to be able to work in a cloud-native (AWS/K8s/Terraform/etc), distributed systems (Kafka/SNS/SQS/Kinesis) that is mission critical because it touches people's money (fintech). And new client code gets written in modern stacks (Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Compose, Typescript/React/Next.js).

If I were still an IC rather than a talking head on Zoom all-day, my role would map to somewhere between Senior Staff and Principal. I would write microservices from scratch, deploy to the cloud, operate them, and then write all of the clients (iOS/Android/Web) myself. I've been doing this for ~20 years so I have the ability to quickly pick up new languages, frameworks, platforms, technologies, etc.

The current Senior Staff/Principal engineers do projects like decomposing that old miscellaneous database from the original monolithic codebase and implement it across all domains with correct boundaries. Build libraries that all engineers on the team use. Ship V1 of that new product that is very strategically important to the company.

(Send me an email if you are a Staff+ engineer that is looking for something new!)
> "But, especially right now, it can be hard for a dev to find a comically overpaid FAANG job."

I think that's what they meant
That's a browser feature. Some browsers can be configured to show an alert when a site is requesting location access.
We Just Launched a Tom’s Hardware AI Chatbot. Here's Why
I think the argument here is that parsing of the string '1e-300' maybe should be context dependent. In this case, 1e-300 is being parsed as a double, and then forwarded to the function. Maybe it could be parsed as a bigfloat whenever it is an argument of a function expecting a bigfloat.
Thank you for being a truly decent human being and going out of your way to try to help a stranger like that. I read articles like this and I want to cry because it seems like the world is just fucked up, but if we can all just show a little humanity like this then perhaps there is still some hope.
> An entire week of nothing but oral presentations, and you really can't see how that's completely unrealistic?

That class of 100 has likely paid the university over $1 million in tuition, even if they're all in-state students. Assuming they take 12 courses, we've got $83k per course coming in.

Assuming each TA is paid a generous $20 per hour, that's $800 for a 40-hour week.

I'm no professor, but I'm pretty sure $800 is less than $83,000. I know universities have a lot of overheads, but surely 1% of the tuition money could be spent on tuition?
Radicle: Sovereign Code Infrastructure
If the total R&D cost for all items is split across every single product equally, there's no way to tell how much of the $435 hammer is R&D for the hammer. It's a really weird way to do accounting, almost like they just didn't keep track of how much R&D they did for each item. And that makes you wonder if the amount they are charging is even real in the first place. In general it lowers confidence and makes you think you're probably being ripped off (which, hey, is true).
Sometimes I feel like programming is physically and mentally designed to create bad health and mood, at least if you’re not very careful about how you’re _being_ while doing it.

Maybe it’s just me, but I have to work hard to avoid:

- Bad posture, hunching towards the monitor

- Scrunching the face

- Feeling impatient because my fingers and the computer can’t keep up with where I am in my mind

- “Damn you, computer!” frustration in small doses throughout

- Frequent interruptions via email, Slack, texts, coworkers, etc

- In some cultures, it’s very hard to have a plan for what to get done in the day and then execute on it due to getting sucked into meetings and stuff.
Request Metrics, obviously!

https://requestmetrics.com
People who suffer from chronic depression do so without regard to circumstance. It's a mental plague that follows one wherever they go, whatever they do. It has nothing do with reactions to anything. There's nothing reasonable about it.
Zoom to integrate Claude into its product, starting with customer support
I know a person who is still sticking with win7, with no plans of upgrading.

So the blog post is not so out of the ordinary.
I have a soft spot for Window Maker and I have been using it until recently , when I moved to Wayland-based environments.

I also really like its dockapps (I even wasted some time writing one to display and control screen brightness), the only weak point for me is the systray dockapps, probably because it is a concept “transplanted” from other desktop paradigmsthat does not fit great.
Exactly, i agree. But i also fight with the idea that there might be some extra wisdom if i just keep scrolling a little bit longer. Maybe if i close now I'll miss out on the most important part
I feel like all the good people disbanded as that happened. I noticed answers became increasingly anecdotes that looked like a blog post in the style: “10 years ago I was working with my father, when I noticed…”. It’s been years I simply ignore Quora when it shows up in a search cause I k ow it will be the same generic garbage as those SEO websites.
Exactly. add a devcontainer similar to the example repo in [1], install the devpod app and point it to the repository and your designer is good to go, including port forwarding to their localhost

[1] https://github.com/backendclub/example-django-devcontainers
That's a myth within a myth. The coffee was industry standard temperature, they still serve coffee that hot today (Wikipedia says as much.) The lawsuit was justified though, because the cup design was defective. It shouldn't have collapsed like it did.
I buy packs of old school stop watches from amazon. They are practically disposable.

There is something really nice about having the timer disconnected from all other usability as a separate device and at the same time not having to care if it is lost or damaged.
AFAIK for over-parameterized models, performing quantization or any other form of compression won't reduce accuracy by much (don't quote me on this though).
Leave DIE to the humanities and arts majors please.
This is a misreading of the study which was about seratonin. It does not conclude that therefore there is no material condition underlying depression and that it's environmental and somehow the result of circumstance.
You can pay for Colab.
KDE Plasma – Wayland Showstoppers
ChatGPT (through the usualy chat i terface) is not a SOTA LLM detector (it’s a SOTA chat-style LLM, which is very much not the same thing), so I don’t see what you think that proves.
You would expect a machine that can reason to improve in its responses as a conversation progresses, instead of hallucinating.
Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Climbs
Comment from `crazypython' to --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212645

I just use Bypass Paywalls[0] and Web Annoyances Ultralist (blocks cookie banners, autoplaying videos, sticky navs). https://jameslu.substack.com/p/hide-cookie-banners-paywalls-...
[0]: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma...

[1]: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
Google doesn't need to care about "your data" particularly, they show you ads.
I disagree. Mine set in after my first child.
Completely unrelated, but I refuse to run a retail SKU of Windows. It's LTSC or bust.

I don't care about all the bloat that comes with retail SKUs. In fact, I absolutely hate it. Virtually the only thing I use my windows box for is gaming, and still, it's LTSC or bust.

Currently running on Windows Enterprise LTSC 2021 (Build 21H2), and I'll upgrade only when the next LTSC version comes out.
They've laundered the victimhood to their customers.
Tailscale has backdoor?
People have entire careers that are like this. 20 years of doing jack shit but cashing pay checks
Oh please, they’re not going to present it like that but use the same spiel the Pinkertons used on this YouTuber about being part of a criminal conspiracy etc. Judges in the US issue spurious warrants all the time, not the least at the behest of corporations. The iPhone prototype was no less ridiculous.
I think that what people mean, or think they mean, when they say "de-growth" is switching from pure GDP as a metric of standard of living, to a normalized GDP-per capita. Probably GDP per capita divided by hours of labor and also negative externalities like pollution and stuff.

The idea here is that GDP should rise from a rise in productivity, rather than relying on an increase in population or working hours or increased environmental exploitation to achieve growth.

It's annoyingly used in the case of this article to point to economic stagnation and say "look here's the de-growth you wanted". When the whole point is that GDP should be increasing, just not at the expense of the citizens or the planet.
I'm pretty sure regular ballpoint pens work just fine in space. Try writing with one upsidedown in earth gravity; they work fine.
>so it makes complete sense that people want to be as close to the money tap as possible to siphon from it

This is known as the "Cantillon Effect"[0], and it also explains the concept of biflation[1]: if you're close to the money tap and there's a surge of money, you can profit from arbitrage before that money hits the larger economy and spreads out. The further away from the money tap you are, the less you're able to profit from changes in money supply. Everyone who isn't close to the money tap is on the losing end of this arbitrage opportunity.

This creates perverse incentives for large well-connected business entities, typically centered around schemes involving juggling debt.

>Who wants that hassle when you can just pretend being a business and keep on borrowing?

Yep.

Eventually every business model starts turning into some variation of a pump and dump scheme. We see this most prominently in crypto, but also in the traditional economy (stock buybacks, real estate speculation, startups running on VC fumes, etc.)

When enough of the economy turns away from production to speculation, the entire thing falls over and implodes. We don't know the exact point when this happens, and it's probably impossible to model, but history tells us it eventually does happen. People like Michael Burry believe this implosion is imminent, but things keep getting patched at the last second and the machine keeps lurching along.

Despite the fancy math and terminology, the stock market (and the larger financialized economy) is ultimately based on "vibes" and the vibes now are bad.

Even the 2008 crash didn't put a stop to these speculation games. Nobody knows how long "we" can keep this up. It's like a slot machine with a bomb inside. The rich guys pulling the lever are getting most of the coins, and the rest of us will get mostly blast damage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/biflation.asp
> part of his goal is making 'average people' take back control of social networks from giant networks that benefit from, well, network effects :)

He didn't say that he was addressing "average people". He said that he was addressing people of "average means" (i.e., not wealthy). I assumed he meant nerds like you and I, not the average Joe on the street.
Well, no. Half the US secretaries of State both invested in Theranos and helped the company. Such a thing would lead to asking the same questions about them.
A rumor I heard during my internship where I ran MIL-S-901D experiments was that the government spec'd a very specific type of hammer from a supplier to perform this test. The supplier went out of business, but the spec still required the old hammer.

So the cost for just hitting an object with a hammer jumped to $4k+ since there were so few compliant hammers on the market.
Grab a $40/night airbnb room in Providence, RI and Somerville, MA for a week or two.
WMWare labs [1] managed to compile Python/Ruby/PHP into WASM distributions. This works if you want to run the language interpreter but is limited when you want your WASM runtime to run in parallel of your own program. This leads to the creation of the "reactor" concept by the community [2].

In the python WASI reactor, we load the libpython compiled for WASM and add a Rust reactor layer. Currently, it supports dynamic registration of Python lambdas and we are working on adding support for whole functions/packages.

[1] https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes
[2] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/...
Economic growth is a euphemism for biosphere destruction. Borrowing your phrase. More truthfully 'economic growth' and biosphere destruction are literally two terms for the exact same physical process. Circular economy stories excluded for the sci-fi fantasies they are, of course.
A scam where you pay $800 to execute it, get no money and the tokens are permanently frozen is the least effective scam of all time.
Prof Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers
Uhm nope but here's a ~70min talk I held about it: https://github.com/fkarg/things-to-talk-about/blob/master/tr...

Not sure how well the slides can be understood by themselves, though I tried to be accommodating for that
> Eventually, problems do solve themselves. One way or another.

As Keynes said, in the long run, we are all dead. It would be nice to solve some of these problems within our lifetimes.
Interesting but there isn't necessarily a hard link between lack of growth and these issues.

The West has a demographic problem, that could be hitting hard and I'm not saying it explains everything, but it's a significant enough issue that it could basically be the whole thing.

China is selling us a ton of stuff very cheaply, which reducees jobs and profits in the West, but does provide surpluses that we don't measure. I mean, just look at photos from 30 years ago: we have way more selection of clothes, electronics. We love our apps and mobile phones. Those are distinctly valuable, but not very profitible on the books.

Definitely there has been a lack of growth and foundation of new industry, and that should be a concern.

For those wondering, GDP matters because wealth tends to make a lot of problems go away. Go to a poor country - they have garbage healthcare because they can't afford it it's that simple. Obviously money is not everything but it's definitely a thing.
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