skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1995 getting 128MB of RAM would have been quite expensive. In 1999 not so much. One of the easy things to do with NT or 98 in the 98-2000 era was to put 128MB of ram in when it suddenly became very affordable. It was a night and day experience. I had one game that ran absolutely rubbish in 1995 when I bought it. Years later I came across a few memory sticks and popped them in and gave the thing 16MB of ram from 8. The game started nearly instantly and ran very nicely (usually took 3-5 mins to start). With 8 it was choppy city and slow. Exact same computer only diff was the memory.

If memory serves me they did not really change much in NT from 4.0 to 2k. Other than add in more services and make it more win98 like. So it is maybe not an 'unfair' comparison. But win 3.51 came out getting that sort of computer just would not be in the cards for most people.

Windows went sideways at vista. The 'start the computer up' out of the box would use 2-3gig of ram. Up from 100-200MB from the XP era. Toss in some corp bloatware items. One place I saw it was 10gig just to open the desktop no productivity software even started yet. Then add in the zillions of indirect layers we have added to make programming easier and we are now with applications that seem to start at about the same rate as 25 years ago.

All of those old API's are still there. No one really uses them much anymore. We use the latest cool frameworks. That use the previous cool framework that eventually uses the old APIs :)
Would appreciate openAI stops monopolizing the word AI, few years later they might get like Apple suing everyone with take down notices for everyone who’s using it.. also not impressed by anything open AI, as long as it’s isn’t open source and always under their mercy for pricing, restrictions, etc., I would rather use something else that’s community based.
Submersible Expert Raised Safety Concerns After 2019 Trip on Titan
It's a mystery because the entire Internet couldn't find out where it came from.
US Supreme Court rules in favor of Coinbase in arbitration dispute
Discontinued Xbox Kinect Lives on by 3D Scanning Car Parts
But, Delphi existed mostly because of the terrible default Microsoft DX. Writing pure Win32 was indeed pretty awful (and still is).
Public domain content is available without any copyright restrictions. While making it available under restrictive rules/licenses could be enough to achieve the "no secret laws" requirement.
What is driving the high suicide rate among farmers? (2022)
> Nations such as South Korea have expressed concern that the treated water could have unexplored impacts on the ocean environment, and a delegation from the country visited the Fukushima site in May.

I totally understand the concern, but I wonder... how does it compare to intensive fishing? Pretty sure fishing is bad for the ocean health.
Why [“1”,“2”,“3”].map(parseInt) yields [1, NaN, NaN] in JavaScript (2011)
While it's true that the hybrid is rated for <50 MPG, I've driven mine over 5,000 miles and it has never averaged below 50 MPG a tank, mostly highway driving.
Everyone is piling onto you here, but another aspect is that many lawyers already don't do their own research, they use paralegals to do it for them.

With that information I think it's less mind-blowing, they were simply assuming ChatGPT could do the work of a paralegal
Be sure to pay attention to "against your fence." Most every place has very clear rules on how you can do this.

That is, i picked that example not because you can't burn in your yard, but because there are rules you have to follow. Doing it "at large" in a full state will clearly have more difficulties than doing it in your small yard.
How did I miss that?! I was sure it was July 6... Thank you very much, I'll get right on it! :-)
> It's just culinary cargo cult.

I think you’re misunderstanding the use. It’s a different goal from grinding spices. It’s functional. And I’ve never seen powdered salt selling anywhere in Canada. (Except for expensive artisan stuff). So, the best way to achieve it is with a grinder+rock salt. I’ve been using a simple Amazon grinder and it’s easy to use.

Powdered salt tastes different not because of a differing chemical composition, but because of its different physical nature + your tongue.
I guess I'm saying everybody should get a pass? I sort of don't even know what a "pass" means here. We should be judging every post here on its merits, and not holding them up to a weird, inchoate standard that both impedes us from writing straightforward useful posts, and also makes us reconsider the implications of posting deep dive technical stuff.
This is clearly geo-strategic. Also never hurts to have competition, see eg Amazon or Google what happens when the innovator becomes a monopoly.
If the viewing software was provided, the support would be included and that will cost money in the long term. That is something that the company didn't agree to provide nor the government to pay for. In this case, the adversary wasn't the contractor, it was the users in the government and the government employees holding the purse strings. No contractor will turn down the chance to extend the contract.
Thank you! I'll get to it right away. :)
Hah, this is something close to my heart.

A friend and I tried to start a company around this, basically resolving three big issues we saw with take-homes:

1) No feedback. If you spend a couple hours on something you should get meaningful feedback.

2) No clear criteria. Is the hiring company going to slam you on correct syntax? If so, you should know that upfront!

3) Time guidelines that had no enforcement and thus led to an arms race where candidates would spend ever-increasing amounts of time and skew the standard of what "good" is.

So we fixed those things:

1) We provided the feedback, not the hiring companies, so legal liability was non-existent for the hiring companies. We double-blinded the process as much as we could (evaluators didn't know who the candidate was and vice-versa).

2) We told candidates upfront what they'd be evaluated on. Not down to the level of "you must implement this problem using a max heap", but we would say something along the lines of "The company is looking for an academic algorithmic solution to this problem" or similar. We would then only allow evaluators to evaluate them on these axes and nothing else.

3) We also strictly enforced time limits by basically telling candidates "hey you'll have 2 hours to submit from the time you hit start and see the prompt, so please make sure you have two hours from when you hit start." -- not ideal, obviously, but the best we could come up with to resolve #3 above.

As you can probably imagine, the market just wasn't really there for this. I think candidates generally enjoyed it in comparison to the vague, unending slog that most take-homes are but:

1) The value prop just wasn't really there for most companies: They mostly use these types of evaluations on more junior candidates, and unfortunately the hiring market for junior candidates is highly skewed towards the employer.

2) More surprisingly, we realized the time their current engineers and managers spent evaluating these takehomes just wasn't really a consideration for them. We tried to frame it in terms of "here's how much it costs you to evaluate these take-homes wrt time spent vs. us", but it was a difficult sell regardless.

We actually had the most success evaluating candidates from more non-traditional backgrounds upfront ourselves and then charging a placement fee if they were hired, but we ultimately didn't really want to continue that.
For me the secret is ice coldness. It matters way more for artificial soft drinks than for the sugar based versions, in my opinion. I definitely know what you mean by the aftertaste, and it's minimized by having more ice in the cup than drink.

Not that you should be attempting to drink more of the stuff... but I figure it's a form of harm reduction. Sugar is certainly worse for your health if you have this vice.
Even though this is old, I'm glad it's here again. Jessica deserves so much credit for the success of YC but she's far too humble to make a big deal of it herself. It's important for the rest of us to call this out once in a while.

Thank you Jessica for everything you've done and do.
That's the hybrid, but still <$25k. I averaged 51 MPG on my last road trip (~700 miles round trip). Fully loaded car with 5 adults and cargo. Cruising speed of 73 MPH.
Understanding Firebird Transactions
Did you sign an NDA about the assessment? Share your work with the world and ask for its feedback.
According to the wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(rocket_engine) ), they're aiming for 3-5 reuses, which I believe is significantly fewer than SpaceX's Falcon 9 engine, Merlin. But maybe they'll get more in practice.

It's a methalox/methane-oxygen engine, like SpaceX's Raptor, as opposed to RP-1 kerosene, like Merlin. One nice aspect of this is that methalox doesn't deposit so much soot on the inside of the engine, so reuse should be simpler (this is one of the reasons for SpaceX's newer Raptor engines also using methalox).

It's got an open gas generator cycle, which means that it's likely less efficient than SpaceX's full-flow staged combustion Raptors, since it means it loses a few percent of its fuel to just running the turbopumps and the exhaust spitting off the side, rather than than heading down into the combustion chamber.

It sounds like it's much cheaper to build vs. their last generation of engine, but we'll see how it ends up in practice.

Getting something like this working is impressive, but who knows if it will end up being competitive, SpaceX is still iterating really quickly. Not an expert, but the design feels a little dated already, in comparison in comparison to Raptor, and Raptor is already flying.
That’s great and all, but not really practical for all meat eaters. The reason we have factory farms is because it’s significantly cheaper to generate meat with animal cruelty than low cruelty meat.

This also assumes you are sourcing all your meat. But have you ever gotten something prepackaged with meat? Or eaten out? Do you know where that meat came from?

The market incentivizes animal cruelty. The only way to really combat that is either regulations to make cruelty more expensive than cruelty free meat or a cheaper alternative to cruelty meat. Anything less, including personal choices, is peeing in the ocean to warm it up.
Flavor of greed, I like that.

This is an interesting form of market distortion of volition if you will where the confines of self interest take on somewhat strange shapes under specific directed ends and incentives offered by government programs. This is in contrast to unspecific non-directed open ended ends of a free(er) market economy letting self interest take on whatever shape it will unprovoked.

I wonder if that open ended structure encourages or at least gets out of the way of people who do the creative value producing thing. Interesting thoughts about the mental path of least resistance and where the thoughts of a subpopulation find themselves when shaped and prodded in a certain direction.
With talk about "cross-SoC bugs" on the frontpage, I had to think of this as an example of a "cross-API" bug.
> My complaint is that people jump to criticize a way of working, saying it's unusable, when there are plenty of others that have enjoyed working this way for 40 years and are extremely productive that way.

Well, I didn't do that. I said Windows misses a desirable quality that macOS has, which makes it unacceptable as a substitute for macOS, specifically, if one relies on this desirable quality.

> Perhaps question if your old habits don't apply in a new context? And just because it's a WIMP UI you shouldn't expect it to work exactly like your former? That it's a new paradigm, with different metaphors, advantages and trade-offs?

Do you see how you just proved my point? According to your argument the answer would be "Well just don't desire that quality then." and, gee, I sure wish the whole tech world could just do that, it sounds so easy.
Point given for "write my own ERP software."
I work with that stuff on a daily basis, and
am actually thinking of trying just that.
CEO said he knew he'd 'broken rules' making submersible of carbon fiber
For these two programs it's easy to check that they are not equivalent.

The magic words are "in general" and in general, program equivalence, as well as all other interesting program properties, are in general undecidable (Rice's Theorem).
The min specs would be the same, laptop or desktop. A laptop with those kind of specs back then probably just had terrible battery life and was really big & heavy, didn't throttle down or anything. Not like today when you'd expect the "same part" or "same clock speed" to not really be the same, between a mobile and desktop chip.
I’ve never seen salt powder or “dust” for sale. Grinder has been the only useful way.
Not yet, but if you like what you see and would like to see the diagrams added, please open an issue or discussion on GitHub. This will help manage things better.
Essentials of Programming Languages (1992)
The term is Intrinsically Safe. It's for equipment that is guaranteed won't be an ignition source, specifically intended for things intended to be operating in confined areas where there's a danger that combustible gases can build up.
1st edition of the book. It has a very different feel to the most recent edition and, discusses different topics.
Author, please rewrite this. My suggestions:

1) Delete the first two paragraphs.

2) Tell me what you're going to tell me, but without all the highlights and bullet points.

3) Sell me on why I want to read this article. Don't focus on the technical; focus on the human, what I as a person will get from it.

4) In later technical sections, don't give me instructions. Tell me what you are doing in general to solve some problem, then just show me the commands, and I will infer that I could also do X, do Y, do Z.

5) If you want to give a lot of technical detail and backstory, either put it in an expand, or in some kind of colored box so I have the visual context that I can probably skip this whole, continue the story, and come back to this later.

6) The recap shouldn't be larger than two paragraphs.
Gosh, and such a promising start naming their site "freethink" I assumed it was going to be wall-to-wall pulitzer stuff.
This applies until the cost of people doing "rad stuff" is too high to bear socially.
Broadly, cameras designed to be used with IR are going to look like trash if you can adjust the shutter to work in dark conditions.

Smearing is bad. If you want to identify anything, it's worthless. If the goal is to just see if anything is there, then almost any camera works... But that's not useful for much.
It has been certified that it can/shouldn't produce any sparks or arcs in the event that it's in a gas filled room.
Everyone does a few of these and gets burned by the no replies. These days I'll point to an open source project I wrote. If that is not good enough then they weren't interested in judging my coding style / sample and more interested in something unrelated
Because to do otherwise is to normalize the use of false or non-existent information, whether due to bad faith, laziness, or gross ignorance, in processes where the outcomes may affect millions of dollars, thousands of people, or individuals' lives and freedoms.
Everything engineers create today is a dumpster fire. With the possible exceptions of bridges, and self-extinguishing dumpsters. The problem is capitalism.
Coba had just started to be excavated when I was first there. I don't remember if things were at the point where you could climb a pyramid or not. Tulum was relatively undeveloped at the time as well. I think I was first at the latter before the road from Cancun was open. (As I recall, Tulum had (has?) a small airport you could fly into--not that Cancun was anything like it is today (not that I've been down there in years).
Maybe some clarification: strictly speaking, there is no passive investing. Every investment requires some form of action. Also, investing in an MSCI ACWI is active in some sense because the shares of shares change over time.
I accept passive investing in the sense that people don't analyze their investments extensively and invest in some weighted set of stocks and accept the market rate.

> But the question arises: why do hedge funds and traders exist if active investing does not make sense? What is their meaning, if it is much more profitable for any player to deposit money in SPY (S&P500)?

If everyone would be passive investing, who would give money to a newly created and promising company? For this company, there is no market value yet and so we cannot include it in those passive portfolios.

Wirecard is also a good example. It was a huge scam and at the same time in the portfolios of many. When journalists reveal the scam, someone needs to sell that stock so that it eventually is removed from so-called passive portfolios.

Those people taking the risks also get extra returns. The only question is whether they're just lucky or whether there exists some method to systematically have these profits.
> Iron oxide can also be reduced to iron using hydrogen

> Altiro gets around this problem by adding a little natural gas

This is transparently just green washing from the fossil fuel industry. There is no way that this will be an efficient energy storage mechanism and it definitely won't be carbon neutral. Developing cost-effective methods to produce steel from iron ore without the use of coke (coal) is important, but if you want to do that just do that.
It's because Microsoft and Google are the two largest identity providers around. Microsoft has M365 logins that can be configured with about 12 different authentication systems, as well as the various services like outlook.com, Hotmail etc. It has to check the login against those systems and then redirect you to that system.
Ask HN: How hard is it to offer 3rd party integrations in my product?
Hi HN!

I’m trying to learn about adding 3rd party integrations into saas applications and haven’t done it before. I was curious if anyone here has done that and what their experience was like.

Below is a list of things I'm interested in:

Is it a monumental task to incorporate these 3rd party integrations? Does it require a ton of additional coding, API management, and data handling capabilities?
How do I handle support and troubleshooting for these 3rd party services? Would my team be responsible for the services we didn't develop?
What is the ongoing maintenance like? Is the updating process complex, especially considering that third-party services might update their APIs?
Do these integrations really provide that much value to users? Is the extra effort and resources worth the increased user satisfaction?
If so, are there any particular third-party integrations that are more beneficial than others in general or specific to certain types of products or services?
Are there any tools or libraries available that could ease the process of adding these integrations?

I'd love to hear the experiences of those who have walked this path. What were your key learnings, pitfalls to avoid, or success stories? Does it make sense to build a project that provides a framework or toolset for facilitating such integrations?
All insights and feedback are greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
There are others listed in the thread. The specific quantity of 'quite a few' is orthogonal to the core point and was intentionally left vague in what now appears to be a misguided attempt to keep the comment concise and focused.
Thanks. I had forgot about that because the Windows key by itself was fast enough in Windows 7 that I stopped using Win+R.
Particle, wave, both or neither? The experiment that challenges reality
> In cases like this I do not have much choice but to respond with a generic polite rejection.

Well, you do have a choice. You could tell them that they were rejected for copy/pasting or because the requirements were not met. You don't have to do into more detail than that.
I use Amcrest cameras with external routing blocked. Integrate nicely over RTSP with my favorite apps and Home Assistant.

For Wifi ones, like my doorbell camera, I had to use their app to connect them to Wifi but subsequently block their internet access with no issues. I can still react to events and control settings using Home Assistant and the Dahua HACS plugin.
Ah, that makes sense. My bad I just read it as an irrelevant phrase lol
From one perspective I agree with you. E.g. there's nothing sad about the fact that I have followed some of the news about this incident, it is interesting afterall.

But I think most of us would agree that it is sad that humans cannot allocate public resources in a more utilitarian way to save lives or maximalize happiness.[0]

And I think the reason of that is human nature. Our empathy doesn't care about scales of a tragedies. An individual sad tale can make us feel exactly the same as a war where millions are affected.

[0] Planet Money had an insightful episode on this: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843
Most places post-covid have kept their to-go service.
Reddit is in danger of a death spiral
> But here's an example of the tradeoffs. I hate this behavior. It incurs an overhead that provides no benefit that matters to me. So, your useful feature is my useless bloat.

Turn it off then?
You can extend Sciter by native components. As purely functional (native classes and methods in JS) as visual (custom UI components).
> The memory model is a flat space provided by the OS that can be addressed by pointers

From what I understand this is not true. Pointers cease to be valid the moment you try to leave a single allocation. You get to play around within a single continuous allocation and one past the end, everything further out is playing with fire.

Even comparing the "addresses" of two separate allocations is undefined if done with "<" . The comparison function std::less is basically magic to get well defined behavior out of a language that doesn't guarantee it.

> C++ is similar to assembly code

Only if you use a compiler that does not optimize anything.
And when computers will be 30% faster in a couple years, vs. multiplying the developer time/cost it's a trade off.
Saying you're not doing something is not actually the same as not doing it.
Also, having to throw out basically everything in GPU memory is largely a thing of the past in the first place.

I still have this instinctual reluctance to change screen resolution in a game's setting screen, even though 99% of the time it's an instantaneous thing these days.
I've had similar luck with peanut oil too!
Okay? I don't care what "side" someone is on when they use this argument. I still think that's not a valid argument. Just because I agree with the conclusion he reaches (controlled burns are good) doesn't mean the logic was sound.
It is a fair comparison.

If you edit the same 1KB file on each computer side by side the 30 year old computer will be more responsive than the modern one.

That's what people are taking issue with.
I can only imagine this is related to PG‘s recent tweet about how the Wikipedia article on Jessica has “questionable notability” warning due to sexist nonsense.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36445278
Cleanshot X and Swish [2] I really like the gestures that Swish adds.

[1] https://cleanshot.com
[2] https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/
Yes, I do! Good point!