skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's a quite detailed response, thank you.

I need to check out DMDE disk editor, because the last disk editor in DOS that I used was an old copy of PartitionMagic with Win9x-like interface.

Also, I remembered that old boards without UEFI rarely came with a flash utility inside BIOS, so you need to boot to DOS and use AMIFLASH or some other utility to update it.
C is definitely a high level language.
The absence of cash should terrify anyone. So ridiculously easy to quash any dissidents if you can cut off their ability to buy anything with a single click of a button.

I don't use much cash at all but if my government was planning on ending all cash, I'd go out and buy a bunch of precious metals. Can't trust my basic freedom with Visa and Paypal.
Correct me if I am wrong, but weren't some of the lost episodes recovered from copies that were illegally made by people recording the show off their TV? I can't help but feel that the costs to preserve these things would be much lower if we just let fans do the backing up.
I have seen more hour+ lore videos for various games than I'd like to admit...
All I want for Christmas is the ability to set multiple timers on my iPhone.
It's a digital Tragedy of the Commons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
> I can't count the number of times my partner tells me when I come home "have you heard, there is this horribly stupid law that is coming into effect next month". Then I check, and it's not a law, but a proposal, it hasn't been even accepted to be discussed yet and the details are completely different too.

It's certainly not the only source of error, but I find that the answer to my first question ("What, where did you read about that?") is almost always "Facebook".

It's become a running joke in my household. It turns out though that some people read news as entertainment, and don't really care if it's particularly true. This is probably fine, but it breaks down when the evoked response is outrage instead of a laugh.
I5 in WA from the BC border is busy. It is primarily urban until you get past Olympia and then it becomes more sane, but it isn’t really used by many trucks compared to the volume of cars on it.
Strang has one although it kind of buried the lede on the linear algebra in my opinion. Try some of the older DE texts (Coddington) or an older Schaum’s outline
They are certainly selling substandard cars with this rethink.
It should be noted that some of the apparent zooming on rotation to landscape is just text size adjustment: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-size-a...

This can be stopped as in the article:

html {
-moz-text-size-adjust: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;
text-size-adjust: none;
}
Show HN: I made a Reddit post scheduler in 83 dev hours
Hey friends!

I’d like to introduce my latest product, Flashpost, a post scheduling tool for Reddit. The free tier includes 5 free posts per month so you can give the product a try. It is my first paid product as I try to make it as a solo indie dev!

The goal is to offer a simple tool for creators to promote their projects on Reddit without breaking the bank for a single distribution channel. Now for the behind the scenes details.

## The Backstory

When I launched my first project TechStackLeads on Reddit, the response was remarkable. My post received 700k impressions, resulting in 20k visitors on the site, and more than 80 signups. Even today I get about 300 visitors per month to the project. Reddit traffic is a hidden gem.

I owe a large part of my success to a well timed post when everyone was online. I had no issues waking up early to manually make each post until I moved to Hawaii. If I wanted to post at 8AM eastern time zone, I would need to wake up at 2AM local time. Wild!

My first choice was to pay for a social media tool to help schedule my posts. The most popular tools were affordable but did not include Reddit. When I looked at the Reddit-only marketing tools, they are $100 per month for unlimited posts. $1,200 per year is not in my budget!

At this point I figure I’ll just build the thing for myself, to solve my own problems. After 30 days of development Flashpost was created.

One fun fact is the project only took me 83 hours of dedicated dev time. I know this number because I timebox my dev sessions with Google calendar. The next product won’t take so long because I have a lot of reusable code!

If you do choose to try the product, you can reach me on LinkedIn or Twitter with your questions, comments, or concerns.

## The Tech Stack

Frontend: HTML, jQuery, AlpineJS.

Backend: Python, Flask

Database: Postgres (self-hosted)

Auth: Supertokens (self-hosted)

Ingress: Traefik (self-hosted)

Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki (All self-hosted)

Service Mesh: Linkerd (self-hosted)

Containers: Kubernetes with K3s (self-hosted)

Hosting: Linode VM

DNS: Cloudflare

I self-host most of my software stack components. I want to minimize vendor debugging issues I’ve had in the past (I’m looking at you IAM and Quotas requests). My favorite parts of the stack are K3s and my observability stack.

Kubernetes is 100% overkill. But I’m an SRE/DevOps so believe it or not I have templates to get up and running quickly. I do NOT recommend this for beginners. I love the centralized observability stack because all my projects are observable by default. I use Linkerd so I get access to their ready-made Grafana dashboards.

For authentication I use Supertokens. I’m not 100% sold on this service. I had a rather brutal time debugging the vanilla javascript integration which revealed a lot of holes in their documentation. They seem to optimize for the ReactJS path. It works fine now but I’m searching for alternatives where I can keep auth mainly server side. Overall I love my stack. I can ship products fast!

Thanks for reading until the end. Tell me what you think. Cheers!
Optimization by gradient descent is used to do the learning in deep learning. For example, diff eqs are used to create optimizers that improve upon the classic 'adam' say, such as the new 'sophia' [1].
1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14342
Tomorrow: It's 2023 and you still can't use DHCPv6 on Android
I think so, depending on how I'm reading your definition of "the implementer". If you meant "the code that implements the open() context manager", then yes. It looks something like:

def open_context_manager(filename):
try:
f = open(filename)
yield f
finally:
f.close()
Pia has port forwarding and is half the price of mullvad
Can you not? It's been a couple years, but I'd written a small 'ical calendar export' functionality on a web project that would prompt to open in ios calendar, and it subscribed to events from the website. That all seemed to work decently enough, and... truth be told, much better than the android behaviour. ios treated the url as something to query (often) which would reflect any schedule updates. Android tied it to your google account (IIRC) and... google decided when to query/check the URL; changes in schedule info on the website would be reflected in an ios calendar generally within a few minutes; android users would see multi-hour, sometimes multi-day delays in updated info.
"The only technology that you need is deadlines"

discused a few days ago..

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/deadlines-as-technology/
A story related to me from a friend…

A torpedo system was designed not to hit the submarine that fired it. It would detonate if it was aiming itself back.

So, testing came along, the torpedoes armed and… the sub turned itself around.

Bang.
Presumably bad books just don't get finished (and thus not reviewed).
Having the pavement obstructed by charging infrastructure. It's already hard enough in many places to navigate on foot (and even more so with a wheelchair or pushchair) without having additional obstacles to contend with.
Actually I think making this kind of AI easier to access is a way to reduce the negative effects of this kind of tools.
If only ML engineers can make deepfakes, people are actually going to believe deepkfakes.

If every 12yo asshole kid flood the internet with deepfakes, then people will actually realize that anybody can fake a video, and stop believing everything they see, which will greatly reduce the potential for misinformation/harassment/the spread of false rumors about people
Oh, that article again. Even the article says "In New York City, buildings that exert the most downward pressure are skyscrapers, but most of these are anchored to bedrock (e.g., Barr et al., 2011). Hard rock elastic compression occurs instantaneously after a load is applied, meaning we do not expect to see ongoing subsidence under some of the largest loads unless the bedrock is heavily fractured." Parts of the outer boroughs are on fill, and they seem to be taking data that includes those areas and extrapolating it to the whole city.

There are cities and buildings in far worse shape. Venice, discussed yesterday, is about 400 meters above bedrock. SF's Millennium Tower was built on pilings that didn't go down to bedrock, and it is settling. It's places with shallow-slope river deltas that have the worst problems, because the ground is often sand and silt carried by the river and bedrock is a long way down. In the US, that's only New Orleans.

Hong Kong, though...[1] China has several major river delta cities.

Also, their map label for "Manhattan" is in New Jersey.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/11/1738/htm
Agreed, the tone of the quotes is scarily relaxed. This should not be how good software dev is done. Maybe they are being more rigorous than I give them credit but it doesn't sound good.
Wait a minute.... Because the role of radiologists is not as simple as trained classification, we can conclude that "No, AGI isn't going to take over every social system when GPT5 comes out"?

Author starts off by saying that you can't generalize conclusions based on observations in a limited domain:

> Geoff made a classic error that technologists often make, which is to observe a particular behavior (identifying some subset of radiology scans correctly) against some task (identifying hemorrhage on CT head scans correctly), and then to extrapolate based on that task alone.

Author then goes on to suggest that there are a number of issues with radiology which AI will not solve.

Then, based on this lack of ML's complete coverage of the aspects of radiology that he finds interesting, he then extrapolates:

> Should you be worried GPT5 is going to interact with social systems and destroy our society single-handedly? No absolutely not.

I don't see how the conclusion remotely follows from the argument. And more to the point, the refuting argument is embodied in the article itself.
> I can't think of any langage which does that

D does. And it's a very popular feature. In fact, D goes even further - only the path taken through a function needs to conform when running it at compile time, not 100% of the function.

> it feels like the wrong default for the reasons above.

In about 16 years of very extensive use, it has never been brought up as a problem.
I encounter more businesses that only take cash than I do those that refuse it. A couple of local restaurants, and my barber. Though one of the restaurants recently also started accepting Zelle. I can't think of anyplace local that refuses cash but there are several others that offer a discount for cash.
My concerns about a cashless society are the power it hands to a few oligopolistic credit card processors. Look at what happened to Pornhub. Regardless of whether you think Pornhub was in the wrong, it is striking that a business was cut off from global financial system by a small number of credit card companies. This was done without due process and under no countries laws. That should scare us at least a little.
>The Post Office resisted the SPMs' reports of faults in the system, insisted that the SPMs make up any shortfall of money and, when asked by an SPM, denied that other SPMs had reported problems.

Seems more like a very toxic culture of shifting blame led to those suicides, with the bugs just being a catalyst.
I recommend watching the original presentation by Tesla's lead designer from Investor Day, it's about 12 mins and has great visuals: https://www.youtube.com/live/Hl1zEzVUV7w?feature=share&t=242...

One change that people don't appreciate much is that Tesla has gotten much better at making their cars. While other automakers now have models which spec-wise are competitive with the 3 and and Y, only Tesla and maybe BYD can make EVs profitably at scale. This is why they've been able to cut prices and still be decently profitable - a Model 3 RWD costs $40,240, which is about $33,500 in 2018 dollars (when the Model 3 started selling).

I expect legacy car makers will follow Tesla's lead on this process (and switching to 48V) much as they are now following and introducing large castings in their cars.
“Zero chance” is bullshit, they could easily join a private tracker and look for IPs, they just don’t currently because private trackers are not widely known.
It isn't that hard to set up naive rate limiting per ip address. It's a few lines in haproxy, and there is documentation on how to do it. There are a couple of problems that make it more complicated though. The first is that with NATs, you can have a lot of users behind a single IP address, which can result in legitimate requests getting blocked. The second is that, while it can help against a DoS, it doesn't help that much against a DDoS, because the requests are coming from a large number of distinct IP addreesses.
It definitely a near top concern. If they're doing a flimsy home spun thing then it's much more likely to be compromised. While the company being able to do this is enough to prevent me from buying a car from them, an insecure system that could be compromised means I believe the company should offer a recall on all cars. Being more secure doesn't mitigate the concerns, but it not being secure hightens them.

To be clear, neither is acceptable but it being secure is still a big issue.
Added a quick install section
> While it is certainly reasonable for the Vatican to have preferences on the detailed representation of this flag, both as-drawn versions are faithful representations of the blazon

It obviously has an actual color (which might be red or white, but: (1) the tiara is not a unique physical object, there are multiple of them, and they may differ on this point, (2) weirdly, while there are lots of photographs, including of them in displays where that angle would be visible in person, I can’t find any actually photographed of any iterations showing the actual color, and (3) while stock art of coat of arms design (without the field) also has the red just as debated flag design does, the actual coat of arms does not specify red as a feature of the tiara and the red shown in the actual coat of arms there is the red of the field (which would not be visible if the field were a physical background and the tiara a physical object, but armorial designs aren’t constrained by physical representation.)

So I suspect both the flag image in question and common stock art of the Vatican Coat of Arms design without the field are importing part of the field of the coat of arms (which is, explicitly, red [gules]) as if it were part of the tiara.
Higgs Boson Unveils New Secrets: Rare Decay Detected at Large Hadron Collider
> Is it mostly crime related shenanigans?

Not having to carry a wallet anymore. Never going to the ATM. No need to pocket loose change. Quicker checkout times.
Drugs/gambling/prostitution may be considered contraband now (in some jurisdictions) but the decision over which goods/services fit that distinction is a political question so the answer will change with the political winds. Eliminating cash is inherently centralized: You can't pay someone directly for something. The transaction has to go through a walled-garden intermediary. This is a chokepoint where political policy can be enforced. It is a very useful and obvious tool for those with an authoritarian mindset-- or a utopian mindset but who knows if their idea of utopia will match yours.
How does the rich kids website work?
how does the rich kids website work? I have big doubts about how it works. does sera have interesting features to attract the rich public and even generate money for them to stay on the air for a long time?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/10/war-on-cash-nyc-enfo...

> In 1978, Massachusetts became the first to enact such a law, requiring retailers to accept cash and credit. In passing its ban in January 2020, NYC joined New Jersey, Philadelphia and San Francisco, which all approved such bans in 2019.. Two rationales motivated NYC’s ban. First was the large number of NYC residents – more than 10% – who lack bank accounts, and thus access to credit cards.. Second is general skepticism over the security of cashless transactions, with the NYT noting they raise “the specter of hackers stealing personal data tied to digital transactions.”

.. NYC went after the upscale Van Leeuwen ice cream shop for repeated violations of the cashless ban.. In October, the city charged the ice cream shop with 17 violations of the cashless ban and penalized the company with $12,750 in fines.
Ehn, I'm not concerned about downvotes, but this is the first comment I've ever made that I have watched consistently fluctuate between 4 and 9 points each time I come back which is kind of funny.
https://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/24-...

My personal paragon favorite: He who tasted his fathers feces and worried.
I can go one better. I got chatGPT to spit out an entire marketing blurb for a bar that doesn't exist, serving cocktails that don't exist, as part of a trend that doesn't exist: https://cratermoon.substack.com/p/introducing-the-literary-s...

The concoctions even claim non-existent health benefits
How could a website function with cash payments at all?
In D you don't have to troubleshoot it. The compiler will tell you where the problem is if it can't be evaluated at compile time.

> for some foot guns

There just aren't any with this feature.
This site got flagged by noscript for a possible XSS attack, seems like it might just be sloppily embedded tumblr content though
Yiddish Typography Resurrected
Could you be a victim of a gift card scam?
I always thought that math was super well curated…right up until differential equations. Beautiful calculus and linear algebra, followed by a bag of tricks to solve DEs.
Opposite in my part of the world. Lots of businesses aren’t taking a cash anymore. The only ones I know that deal with cash only are marijuana dispensaries, which are popular targets for thugs as a result.
I’m not American, thank you. Also, there were almost a quarter of a million marriages in France in 2022.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/464239/total-number-marr...
A balance is what's best for most people buying laptops — not the fastest, but fast, quiet, cool, and efficient.

Laptop manufacturers have a tendency to lean into the performance aspect at the steep cost of the other three aspects because it's easy to dump more power into the CPU and push the fans harder to make up the difference. Achieving balance takes engineering chops that many of these manufacturers lack or don't care to procure.
The bugs were causing very real financial distress it sounds like, if the software was partially responsible for determining their continued employment
I don't even know what this means. How is it impacting users? Are they crying out about it on support forums for the past several years?
I would be inclined to think this as well. The problem is, large numbers of people will still accept the fakes when it suits their beliefs, and they will claim fake on real footage that doesn't mesh with their beliefs.

This will definitely accelerate the decline of humanity, but we were headed downhill already anyway.
GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)
Talos – The Kubernetes Operating System
I’m old enough to think of the metaverse as like the one in Wild Palms[1], and so I don’t think we’ve seen it yet. I also really dont see Facebook/Meta being the company to crack it, I think it’s much more likely to be some kind of games company. Not a firm that sells ads.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Palms
This seems like an ad. I assumed the course would be free, but it is $100.
MenubarX – Productivity App for macOS
The Moller Skycar [1] will finally have it's day!

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar
You bring up really good points.

I do think that there are always going to be people that fall in line with that they are told while a select few "decision makers" call most of the shots. The takeaway from your comment is that we need decision makers that are going to lead things to be more healthy instead just benefitting one side.
Great story. It's interesting that regulatory barriers create these large companies that have no user interest at heart. Bundled software and hardware from a hardware company: guaranteed disaster. Perhaps only Apple has succeeded at this.
This is also the classic argument against reverse polish notation. Operator-first makes it harder to say the name of an operator in a sentence.
The Therac-25 story is pretty wild, especially as it was a reuse (with modification) of an existing codebase, but for cost savings the -25 was designed without hardware interlocks, under the assumption that the software would run fine, as it had run fine on the -20.

Turns out the software had run fine on the -6 -20 because of the mechanical interlocks which prevented it from critically fucking up, but there was no reporting built into the software interlocks, so no way to know when they'd triggered. And that was before additional modifications were added for the -25.
This is not a great take IMO
- The journals choose to use publishers not the authors
- Publishers do not provide enough value to justify their price gouging
People who want to go 100% cashless at the current state of tech progress / society are the enemies of humanity. They are advocates of totalitarian regimes and whatever comes with them, no matter what they glaze their poison with - convenience, crypto, futurism etc.
No one is arguing for a cash-only society.

Digital has use cases.

Cash has use cases.

We can have both.
The YouTube channel (PatricianTV) who did a 5 hour video on Morrowind and a 12 hour video on Oblivion has recently released a 20 hour video on Skyrim.
I don't need to clean up my desktop and downloads folders in macOS (2021)
simply not true. i've tried several times to get ChatGPT to write working emacs lisp. it rarely can write anything long, even after i correct it five or six times. anything to push the price down and the profits up, i guess.
It hasn't been updated in 5 years. I'd be surprised if it even worked today.
OK, here's an example: A couple of months ago they were tossing around the idea of "retaking Crimea". I believe that any effort to do that should be based on a best effort assessment of the will of the people living there, because those are the people who will be getting artillery shells in their livingroom in exchange for it. Based on my own experience with expats from there and Donbas, who still have family in the area, those people are happy being Russian again. Show me on CNN or NPR where their voices and perspectives are being shared.

Again, this is just an example, not my personal agenda. What I want to point out is that we've normalized that there are a handful of forbidden topics that you will get punched for if you approach them with anything but a pre-formed opinion that matches the status quo.

Edit: And just as a turn of the screw, I'm going to say that the COVID vaccines are pretty shit compared to ones like smallpox, polio, and rabies vaccines, which actually (and sometimes retroactively) prevent you from getting the disease you were vaccinated against. Oh heck, I'm not allowed to say that thing that we all know. I mean if you take a high level view of it, they take the edge off the problem, but they still kind of suck.