skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a kid, I got this game as a gift and really, really wanted to play it. But after beating the second level, the game would always crash on my computer with an Illegal Operation exception. I remember sending a crash report to the developer, and even updating the computer, but I never got it working.
Too many people think that GNU manual pages are what all manual pages look like. Not everyone has the GNU tradition of telling you to switch to a different doco format for better man pages. (-:

The thing to remember is that for many systems there are both guides and handbooks, tutorial style doco, in addition to the reference doco, the manual pages. Linux-based operating systems come up a bit short in comparison to the old commercial Unices which had specific user guides, and in comparison to the BSDs, all of which have handbooks. Even Debian only has an admininstrators' guide, not a users' guide.

But The Linux Documentation Project is oft forgotten. It's stale. It's unfashionable. It's oddly chock full of how-tos for things that one wouldn't dream of wanting to do this century. But it also has longer format stuff, and it's still there.

Consider the _Introduction To Linux_ for example:

* https://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_05_01.html

Or the _Linux Command-Line Tools Summary_:

* https://tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/working-fi...

Or the _Bash Guide for Beginners_:

* https://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_04_03.ht...
Heck, that's more than what it takes to receive Swedish citizenship, for which Sweden has no language, income, employment, or skills requirement. <https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...>

In completely unrelated news, Arabic is now the second most spoken language in Sweden. <https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/article_po...>
I certainly think it's not a simple thing to solve.

One thing, and alluding to the other reply, is the "benevolent dictator", they need to be keeping the mods in shape - not doing any moderating themselves, but to keep them from running amok. This is how I ran thing until I didn't have time any more, at which point things deteriorated (not in some dramatic way, mind you.)

The other thing is that mod selection is really, really difficult. Maybe 100% of people that "apply" or show any desire to be a mod are mostly just thirsty for some of that banhammer power. Additionally, on a gaming forum, the general age and maturity of these applicants leaves much to be desired. Generally I handled this by throwing mod responsibilities as a burden of those that were generally already community contributors in other ways (devs, etc) and they seemed mature enough. I think this made a difference compared to other communities that I saw around that time.

In retrospect one other thing that should have been done would be to separate the mod identity from the community identity as a way of tempering the ego that sometimes causes issues. Lots of forums and whatnot slap a load of badges and medals on mods that gives the role an air of privilege that isn't deserved.

...and none of this really applies to the context of reddit, and especially not for the larger communities of millions of users. The structure just doesn't scale since your dictator just can't see what all the mods are doing.
Sounds like you're equating 'demand for more engineers' with 'available cash' for any given company. I think you're mistaking demand for ability to purchase.
Yeah, that was notably strange language for sure.
Here's some similar stories, including mine.

In short, a Windows Update (possibly on the latest Windows 10 build - was for me) appears to brick the touchscreen on at least some Surface Pro 4 devices, but since there's relatively few left about and/or they're all out of warranty, Microsoft seem to be able to ignore the problem their updates caused.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/all/surfac...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/oxg0pm/surface_pro...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/otygmo/surface_pro...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/all/surfac...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/all/surfac...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/q8sw6k/comment/hgr...
iOS 17 to Include Dedicated Journaling App and Mood Tracking
Well yes, but the boss probably is willing to invest more money (meaning higher salaries, more people, better tools) expecting a future return than when using reasonable formats.
But in the past we weren't 8 billion people who travel around the world.

Pretty large food base for a more temperature adapted predator, especially the tiny ones we don't see.
Yeah those crazies are far and few in between and none of them are on this thread. Throwing out religious accusations is going too far.
There's an extreme difference in severity between trying to buy a bomb and trying to pay for DDoSaaS. I'd rather people come out of this sort of thing unscathed but wiser, especially if they're simply ignorant of the law, which seems to be the objective of that tactic.

Besides, if something is illegal and there's a significant portion of offenders who are truly ignorant of its illegality, perhaps a new approach to education is needed, which this tactic also covers.

Maybe other organizations will take notes...
Yeah, it would only be meaningful for people who already have some mental images of said [porn]stars. The rest would just see random names. For that, actual random name generators exist. It's not hard to make your own, and compile a database of distinctly sounding and distinctly written first and last names. Then, of course, a company would hire someone with exact same “impossible” name.
What a weird way to think about such events.

Such subpoenas are clandestine surveillance of citizens by their state. The problem with such types of surveillance in particular is the lack of accountability.

How does the ethical use of this prolematic tool get ascertained? Where and how is the democratic oversight implemented? How is misuse treated and prevented?
They don't always use it, because I can archive a new page from my mobile phone browser, which doesn't even support extensions.

My guess is that most content providers with paywalls serve the entire content, so search engines can pick it up, and then use scripts to raise the paywall - archive.is takes their snapshot before that happens / doesn't trigger those scripts.
Do you think it would be different for a parent in their 90's to see one of their kids die at 67?
To me the "slowest speed" story is better: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...
I find it extremely interesting that the fbi buys ads for illegal stuff, rather than Google Just putting up a warning when you search for ddos services
Ford CEO Says He Wants to Move to Fixed Pricing
cuz its all so dang expensive
How did you jump off the topic? You asked a question that the exercise described above is designed to solve. There is no other known solution if you have a failing LES.
You still need to know where to look, the format, and using specialized equipment which cost wasn't driven down by mass manufacturing, so, in theory yes, in practice not.

(Completely guessing here with absolute no knowledge of the real state of things)
No, it was really only 120 MB. I was referring to the length of an audio compact disc, not the capacity of a CD-ROM. At 128 kbps, you'd get about 2 hours of play time.

Of course it didn't really make sense to use digital tapes for that use case, even back then. It was just for fun, and the article sparked some nostalgic joy, which felt worth sharing :)
> There are some information hazards out there that are really [...] funny [...] once you realize how easy they make it to e.g. [...] bring decades-old relationship problems to an end in a single conversation.

What do you mean by this?
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed, regardless of what ideology you're battling for or against, and—before the inevitable objections roll in: yes, we ban plenty of accounts battling from opposing sides (and I have the flame burn scars to prove it), and no, we don't care about your ideology or opinions. We care about protecting this forum for its intended purpose, which is curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest. Flamewar and internet drama are off topic because they destroy that.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Please, however, don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. That will eventually get your main account banned as well.

p.s. This post is not about the comment I'm replying to. I'm putting it here simply because this was your most recent comment and I want you to see it. Rather, it's about the account history as a whole, which includes way too much ideological flamewar to be in keeping with the site guidelines.
I wonder how loud a sonic boom from that high is at ground level.
This is very very true. I have archived a number of books and magazines that were scanned and converted into "simplified" PDF, and archived on a DVD disks with C source code.

There are external dependencies but one hopes that the descriptions are sufficient to figure out how to make those work.
Huh, what an interesting and specific rant toward Habitat for Humanity volunteers. Is it your experience that those volunteers pretend to be "real" construction workers?
Where is that in the parent comment?
> What's even the point

Education
You so, SO need to ask a lawyer on that. One who is deep in the relevant legal specialties, in your jurisdiction, etc.

And be prepared, at least mentally, for a complex and conditional answer.
State of GPT – Andrej Karpathy
Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with LLMs
“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish”

― Julius Caesar
This link sent me to something that was like "You're the 5 millionth downloader", and hijacked the back button, at which my adblocker detected it as malware.
Odds of having my car stolen feel a lot lower than the odds of my life being affected negatively by the government currently.

I have cars that I accept I can just lose. And the one that's so expensive I can't, I have insurance. I have little insurance against getting screwed by the government if I happen to be that unlucky. Just a general feeling, idk if rational or not.
My understanding is that afterburner flame color mostly comes down to temperature. American jets have blue afterburners, too, at lower power levels, it turns orange towards the upper limit. Maybe Russian jets typically have the maximum dialed down, or that's just the limit of the particular design. I know that it is (or was, at least, 30 years ago) pretty common in the US for Air National Guard fighters to have stops installed when they're training, and not on alert status. IIRC they were typically capped at zone 1 (out of 5 available)[0]. Barely visible at all.

[0] That's 30 year old memories right there, take with a heaping spoonful of salt. I used to know a fighter pilot in Portland flying F-15s and learned a lot about their operations. But memory fades...
Kneel; now put your head on the ground.
(I am guessing, I don't have extra knowledge.)
In 2005 the computing world was much more in flux than it is now.

PNG is 26 years old and basically unchanged since then. Same with 30 year old JPEG, or for those with more advanced needs the 36 year old TIFF (though there is a newer 21 year old revision). All three have stood the test of time against countless technologically superior formats by virtue of their ubiquity and the value of interoperability. The same could be said about 34 year old zip or 30 year old gzip. For executable code, the wine-supported subset of PE/WIN32 seems to be with us for the foreseeable future, even as Windows slowly drops comparability.

The latest Office365 Word version still supports opening Word97 files as well as the slightly older WordPerfect 5 files, not to mention 36 year old RTF files. HTML1.0 is 30 years old and is still supported by modern browsers. PDF has also got constant updates, but I suspect 29 year old PDF files would still display fine.

In 2005 you could look back 15 years and see a completely different computing landscape with different file formats. Look back 15 years today and not that much changed. Lots of exciting new competitors as always (webp, avif, zstd) but only time will tell whether they will earn a place among the others or go the way of JPEG2000 and RAR. But if you store something today in a format that's survived the last 25 years, you have good chances to still be able to open it in common software 50 years down the line.
I had acid reflux from the time I was 15 years old. By the time I was 22 it had eaten holes almost through my esophagus, so I had Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication surgery. They basically wrapped part of my stomach around the valve and it tightened it up. No more heartburn.

On the down side, I no longer can vomit, so there's that. (Confirmed after the not-so-smart decision to try every booth at a chili cook-off.)
No, you should still blame the guy for not checking the email was sane before sending it.
I've seen the video of Brian telling this story.

This is a master class in story-telling. It's the polar opposite of "keep it simple, get to the point, etc. etc."

He's got you in the palm of his hand, and he's going to keep you there as long as he wants to.
The full title of the paper is "Half&Half: Demystifying Intel’s Directional Branch Predictors for Fast, Secure Partitioned Execution," which is 20 characters too long for the HN title.
Well, almost all early tablets are destroyed or otherwise lost now. Do you think we will lose virtually all digital age information within a century? Maybe from a massive CME, I suppose.
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It's quite warm. Shockingly so. Gonna be a hell of a year.
I can access the wsj article without any account using https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... (bypass paywall clean)
Waiting for the next Wall Street analyst, Tim Cook, CEO or VC to tell me about the incredible opportunities the Chinese market offers.
Written by Expect's own Don Libes :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Libes
as a foreigner (in terms of the US), I've never understood how these gag orders are compatible with the First Amendment

often there's posts on HN about how the UK and all other Western European countries are totalitarian because they don't have unrestricted free speech

but then apparently the police (FBI) can restrict the free speech of Americans without any court involvement at all?

I really don't understand
Same thing -- it also asked me to click "allow notifications" to prove I'm not a robot. Not turning on push notifications ever for chrome
> It seems I have hit a nerve! :D

Hit what exactly? You have failed to refute any of my points.

> AI in general, and LLMs in particular, will change Society to a scale only comparable to what the Word Wide Web has done since the 90s.

I don't think you would trust a black-box 'AI' in any high risk activity such as medical, financial, legal advice and especially transportation which there is a lack of a human driver or pilot, end-to-end to hold accountable once something goes wrong. Hence it will be totally regulated and licensed.

Not only techies like you wish to accelerate everyone further into a dystopia no-one asked for, but to even recklessly risk deploying untrustworthy AI models unchecked which can easily hallucinate and confuse themselves over a single pixel or any adversarial input. Making them unsuitable for anything serious, unless they are strictly regulated for that purpose.

Regardless, my environmental argument still stands unchallenged. Crypto has alternative greener methods to proof-of-work right now, and former PoW blockchains like Ethereum have shown that it is possible to significantly reduce its emissions by 99% by moving to a greener consensus method. [0][1] AI (Deep Learning, LLMs, CNNs, etc) however still does NOT have any viable greener alternative methods of training, inference and fine-tuning available and continues to waste tons of electricity and water. [2]

> Crypto is basically penny stocks - or actually, in good truth - a glorified pyramid scheme.

How on earth is a centralized stable-coin like USDC a pyramid scheme? The prime use-case is near-instant low-fee world-wide international payments which is verified publicly on-chain to discourage fraud which once it happens it is immediately traceable, which is why companies like Moneygram [3], Stripe [4], etc have their own crypto offerings under regulattions.

> It is sad that Hacker News allows and normalizes this self-interested promotion of it, disguised as "opinion".

Speak for your self. Since both of you have ZERO sources to your comments. Thus your comment can be simply dismissed.

> Indeed: tell us that you don't stand to personally gain monetarily if crypto rizes, user "rvz" ;)

Not after you learn to spell 'rise' before you comment next time instead of embarrassing yourself.

[0] https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/ethereum-blockchain...

[1] https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption

[2] https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/ai-chatgpt-water-usage-envir...

[3] https://stellar.org/moneygram

[4] https://stripe.com/gb/use-cases/crypto
I learned to caramelize onions at age 14 from Julia Child's "Art of French Cooking". I learned to make her French Onion soup. Medium-low heat, lots of butter, onions, and a solid hour of stirring creates a jammy, sweet, milk-chocolate-brown onion paste which forms the base for extraordinary onion soup.
Anthropic’s Transformer Circuits Publication
> Because this risk is always present with enums, if an exhaustive enum switch does not have a match-all clause, then the compiler will actually synthesize a default clause that throws an exception. This guarantees that the switch cannot complete normally without selecting one of the clauses.

This is nice. I’ve gotten into the habit of writing such a test after each `switch` statement, for the reasons described (to not disable an exhaustiveness linter warning by presence of a default clause). I just hope they make the exception a RuntimeException (like an IllegalArgumentException) rather than an Error (like a NoSuchMethodError).

However, one disadvantage of the new pattern is that you won’t be able to do your own custom “unexpected enum value” handling any more without also disabling the exhaustiveness check (when implementing it in a match-all clause), because the synthesized check would otherwise preempt it. This is kind of a drawback. There should be an extra syntax for defining a “future case” clause.

Well, if they use a dedicated new exception type, I guess you could catch that, check that it was thrown from the right place (i.e. not thrown from some call within the explicit switch case code), and then do your custom handling. But that would be quite ugly.
I briefly considered getting a surface pro recently, but opted for an iPad Pro with keyboard. So far, it’s been really lovely.

I wonder what it would take to make such a nice device for an independent company with Linux. The m2 chip is obviously out of the question, but I wonder how close a startup could get in 5 years given some funding
Nope, and I notice it on my computer monitor as well so I'm sure this isn't the case.

> "There's really no reason to watch 1080p instead of 4K. Your eyes aren't somehow low resolution with 1080p closer to that realism."

This is definitely not the case and one of the big reasons is lossy compression. Precision without accuracy can be very noticeable, in terms of artifacting.
I adored this game as a kid, and I think I do have a faint memory of some stability issues, but I believe I was able to beat the game.
Your missing the point of "how does it bypass firewalls"
It's on the list of things I want to support eventually. A friend I collaborate with on Discord is working on Sound Blaster support for his Pico-based retro PCMCIA project and I plan on using his code.

I'd adapt DOSBox's SB code but it's surprisingly complex - DSP support for the whole gamut of SB cards from the Sound Blaster 1.0 to the Sound Blaster 16 are in the same source file, and extracting the parts that I'd need would be more pain than I'm willing to deal with right now.

TonyTrapp's comment below raises a good point – I've tried to focus on emulating sound cards that are harder to find and are possible to do on the Pico. Old used Sound Blaster compatible cards are still relatively available and affordable, compared to the GUS or genuine MPU-401s with intelligent mode. CMS compatible boards are also hard to find, and Tandy compatible boards that you can plug into a normal non-Tandy PC are solely available via DIY projects.
Oh, it does matter. I've made a living at times from non-fiction storytelling, and if you don't get in the habit of sticking to the facts, it's shamefully easy to slide ever closer to George Santos territory.

But there's a compromise that will keep us both happy. Nothing wrong with having this go into the "legends" category -- where it's harmless fun to keep them circulating. Just as long as we know that this isn't quite how everything works.
Same. I've had GERD for a looong time and I'm tired of taking a pill for it.
One gets the impression that this was an artfully crafted way around the specifics of the gag order, to disclose whatever wasn't specifically prohibited by it. IANAL.
It didn't stop the RIAA from suing loads of people over downloading mp3s in the past 2 decades, claiming damages of thousands of dollars per song the individual downloaded.
12ft.io also doesn't work or is disabled for many sites that archive.is still works on
Just FYI google and bing publish their user agent strings[1][2] for the crawlers. At least in my experience most of the typical ad-infested and paywalled news sites wont display the paywall if you change the user agent to a crawler they prefer.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
[2] https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bin...
> but all of it can be mitigated by Transport Layer Security (TLS) security and Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) authentication

At this point anyone sane should question why he would add TLS and SASL to Telnet (and expect to find clients which would support those too) instead of slapping SSH.

It's like asking why anyone would consider a hand-operated drill outdated, since you can slap an electric motor on it.