skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone reading this thread thought that poor people were being used as a scapegoat. I think people read it as the middle class being pushed down rather than pulled down.
tomboy/gnote
I remember the launch being as attractive as you described (I was always lukewarm on Sonic, though). A few years later when the parents finally agreed to buy me that gen's console, I still went for the PS2 because of the catalog and DVD player, after a long streak of only buying Nintendo consoles. I borrowed a few other the years, but never the DC.

Competition was fierce. I like the arcade-Sega style of games and enjoyed the DC titles when I got my hands on them, but that was as far as I went.
But that's not a reliable sync mechanism without a server or a better format like CRDT:(
Wise men from a prior generation said: worse is better.
What would be the strategy you think they're going for?
Year 2038 Problem Countdown
Heh, possibly. My brother won’t touch a PC game unless it runs on Steam Proton in Linux.
Do you have an open issue for it? Curious as to what the fix is. (I jankily re-wrote the sync when it broke a while back so curious what's not working.)
How long should that game take to load?

It took a good 20 - 30 seconds for me.
Salt water pools contain 10x less salt than the ocean. You can safely drink from it.
I think anybody reasonable is going to have to accept the GPL, MIT and Apache licenses as all "open source" as different as those things are.
The textbook aspect of programming languages really is the key idea here IMO. There is something in the textbook example that doesn't seem to line up well with Diataxis's 4 modes of documentation. And IMO it totally does fall under documentation. If writing something like the Rust book is the difference between your project succeeding and failing, then that's the type of doc you've got to focus on. You can't not do the work just because it doesn't line up with some theory of doc types.
> what are they so worried about?

Dying of heat exhaustion if caught out in a wet-bulb event? It's pretty hard on the elderly you know. Or how about getting killed so the climate refugees can loot your air conditioner? Starving to death in a drought-induced famine? My suspicion is that people who don't have kids is that they're not much of a fan of dying regardless. Source: I don't have kids and don't want to die in any of the above ways.
People who put maximizing income above their values aren't actually putting anything above their values. Maximizing income is one of their values.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. But, in my experience, that's not representative of most people.
The Titan Tragedy–A Deep Dive into Carbon Fiber
I’ve been running multiple Joplin servers. One for personal and one for work. Hasn’t let me down yet. Always room for improvements, but it does reliable do the job. Easy import and export. No worries of being locked into anything.
Just know that if you support Delany you're supporting the sexual abuse of children.

“I read the NAMBLA [Bulletin] fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I’ve ever found. I think before you start judging what NAMBLA is about, expose yourself to it and see what it is really about. What the issues they are really talking about, and deal with what’s really there rather than this demonized notion of guys running about trying to screw little boys. I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.” — Samuel R. Delany, June 25, 1994.

There's certainly more to be found, and it gets considerably worse. He's not the only one in that era's sci fi author peer group either. Moira Greyland's account of her childhood with Marion Zimmer Bradley, her mother, is harrowing.
How does this compare to the historical number of deaths from heat in India?
You may argue that drug users should not be incarcerated or that there's bias in finding such users, but this unfortunately happens in most of the world and in China.

You or your children can end up in the camps for praying in Xinjiang, it's not exactly the same thing.
This is about asking the cell network where the phone is. This is not about asking the phone where the phone is.
Original source linked in the article says 35 degrees, not 95.
So cool, simple and informative!
So now if you say something on Threads that gets your account suspended what happens to your IG/FB account?
I like both. I think Lego sets are in many ways my first experience of technical documentation and I still use those skills. It also helped me learn about how sets went together so I could design my own. Finally, I wanted to play with what was on the box.
That’s absolutely true. But the same problem would exist, much worse, if everyone started modifying their old A/C systems to turn them into heat pumps.

To add to the list of why this whole idea seems dubious: a conventional air conditioner operates with its evaporator coil at a balmy 50F or so. If you reverse it, the outdoor coil will become the evaporator, and it will operate below freezing if it’s cold out (even if the outdoor temperature is a bit above freezing). As a result, condensate can form and freeze on the coil.

This is entirely manageable (any modern heat pump can operate in decently chilly conditions, and heat pumps equipped for low temperature operation can operate in very cold conditions), but I expect that at least some engineering is involved.
Tears of the Kingdom is a perfect example of doing it right. It respects the player and treats them well. Jedi Survivor does too.
What about people like me, who have considered him a toxic moron the whole time?
The lengths people will go to to avoid using the metric system!
People are STILL making shitty charts.

I think the greatest offenders are 3D pie charts. The application of perspective skews the apparent size of each section, completely defeating the purpose of pie charts.
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones." Short story, bootleg scan available online; I have no qualms telling people to start with that since they'll want to buy the rest of the collection soon enough. It's my favorite of his stories in a lot of ways. The characters are fun, every word (or at least every sentence) is essential to building the world, it has a very strong sense of place that's so common in his work.
That's how I remember it. When I tried someone's console, they had on hand: FMV games (which were terrible), and shmups. I was not sold.
I don't doubt many of the performers are deriving sexual satisfaction from the performance, but as long as the performance itself is not sexual it isn't harming children. Don't get me wrong, I think "Drag Queen Story Hour" is the gender equivalent of blackface, but a man dressing up like a mockery of womanhood and reading stories doesn't violate anybody else's rights, therefore we have no right to use violence to stop it.
This article is funny. It looks like they pre-wrote and expected the JOLTS report today to be weak. But, it ended up being hot and they still published. Quits increased by 250k [1]. Quits haven't been that high since December 2022.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/job-openings-fall-by-half-a-...
What relevance does that have to the question, may I ask. Do you think, for example, that every user of Twitter is American because Twitter is an American company?!
I was listening to Ray Dalio the other day and the thing that caught my attention was when he talked about the WWII era during the Nazi reign: he said that it's the centrists (people holding center and more reasonable views) are the ones that got hanged.

When society polarizes, it seems that people will stick blindly to their side. Maybe the rational behind that, is that a non-polarized side won't get you as many protections.

HN seems to be non-immune to that. Many people here would like to think that they are smarter than the rest. It does seem from the many discussions here that it's the same homunculus everywhere.
I'm always amazed at how well the rich are able to co-opt the working class with such propaganda. If you want to see true 'free market' capitalism in action that benefits everyone, look at the nordic nations.
Question as a non-dev: many devs there seem to use only laptops and often even relatively old ones; no desktop workstations or high power servers in sight. Is that common? Or is that selection bias of that website?
The problem is that sel4 isn't turnkey enough for the average product maker to use. It's good for larger firms who can invest in building out their own platform on top which they can then use in products. There doesn't seem to be anyone building a public platform on top of sel4 which can be then used by product makers. This is similar to building a product with a custom Linux distro vs an existing one, albeit a custom Linux distro is still far easier to do because of the great ecosystem around it. I'm not an advocate for using Linux, but unless someone invests in the missing pieces, sel4 usage will never become widespread.
The restrictions on teachers you speak of are in their functions as employees of the state while performing their duties on the job on the employer's time. Employers setting limits on the conduct of employees on the job is generally not a freedom of speech, or first amendment issue.

That goes double when we are talking about public employees whose conduct is directly the function of law.
Well, I get where you're coming from but I don't think that the _market_ tells this. Not really. Maybe it's okay for businesses and the market, but it affects individual users. The market/business maybe pays the bills, but the users pay the market.

When I wrote the reason isn't super clear, I understood that as developers, you're just the sausage makers so to speak. (but let's not think of this in a bad way! Sausages are tasty and a stable of many cuisines!) The loss of agency (or lack of it from the beginning) for developers is not unknown and it's a point I'm extremely sympathetic to. Where I say it's unclear is that:

- Developers don't like bugs

- Users don't like bugs

- When it loses them money, businesses don't like bugs

Every participant in the software chain basically doesn't like bugs and wants to make it better. A bug that does a particularly bad thing at a bad time can be fatal to any business; cosmetic bugs that require constant workarounds can be costly to the users and businesses using the software, and those issues that "only take a second to workaround" add up.

Basically, as I see it all bugs are costing us a ton and chipping away at our time and expenses, but universally we still seem to be pretty okay with even fairly large blocking bugs sitting in production systems for months or longer.

That is the part that is unclear for me; it's well documented how impactful the bugs are, we can measure the costs for everyone involved, lost renewals or contracts because bugs couldn't be fixed fast enough or were deprioritized for something else; but we're still pretty okay with having these sit around.

The only simple answer I can really come up with is that the market is okay with it only because short term profit can still be derived or there is capture, or both and possibly more.

It's just a really bad situation for everyone except a select few who still profit despite everyone hating the situation.
wow that's incredible!!
Taylor Swift agreed to FTX partnership, but the crypto exchange baile
The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans always comes up in these threads. I've read through it a couple times over the years, and probably will again at some point.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
Designing Functions That Consume Two Complex Inputs
When you've seen enough threads derail, go unhinged and burst into flames at the mere mention of his name, it makes sense.
There is, the input is the description of the image so produced plus the hidden elements and parameters (randomness, etc) that users often don't see - with these there is a deterministic input to output relationship. The fitness of the model is in how closely the output matches what we expect to see from them given the inputs we give. That's the point of them. Models are compilers. The distinction is really only in the complexity and ambiguity of the language specifications they implement - not in any fundamental aspect of their function. There isn't a single person alive who understands how a non-trivial compiler works in its entirety, just as nobody really knows how LLMs work yet. That's not the point.
Cute trick but the opposite of helpful. Is the goal of your paper to brag or educate?
While I agree here, I want to add a caveat that the linked article is technically a "commentary" pieces, not a news-side piece (aka: it's published on the opinion pages). But even given that, the opinion pages of the WSJ is just as fact-filled as the news side, but just highlights that the person writing it may not be a disinterested party.

The Opinion Pages of the WSJ also tend to lean more conservative, while the news side leans liberal. Though they will happily publish people from the left, such as publishing President Biden: https://www.wsj.com/articles/never-bet-against-the-american-...
I'm surprised there's no copyright notice on these instruction booklets. Has LEGO ever stated that their booklets are freely reproducible or is this a gray area?

Note: I'm talking about the layout and graphics of the booklets themselves, not the logical instructions (i.e. recipe book versus recipes).
It's an interesting discussion: should the government be able to ask private entities to take down content?

What if that content puts a family at risk?

What if the WH thinks it does, but it isn't obvious to a third party?
On a scale from 1 to 10 where:

10 is like every second of your life is nothing but severe pain and trauma and having a rare disease

and

1 is being Elon Musk level rich/not having stress (I'm sure he has tons of high level stress none of us could relate to but... how much of that is self-induced because his definition of fun is risk/business/trying to amass more wealth?)

where does "have to work a job you don't really want to because you need to be able to afford to live" place? 5? 8? 3?
I think that's more related to the fact that most Europeans normally speak languages other than English.
{n} times faster than C
A clickbait title for an in-depth look at hand-optimizing a very simple loop.
> Speech does not censor speech

We know from the Twitter document dumps that government officials on both sides of the aisle have been demanding that speech (and speakers) critical of them, their preferred policies and/or their political party be censored.

> intimidation requires an actual threat

Threatening to yank section 230 of the Communications Decency Act if platforms don't ramp up their censorship is an actual threat.

> You may have never heard of it, but Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the legal backbone of the internet. The law was created almost 30 years ago to protect internet platforms from liability for many of the things third parties say or do on them.

Decades later, it’s never been more controversial. People from both political parties and all three branches of government have threatened to reform or even repeal it.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/28/21273241/section-230-ex...
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle.
I hate to be that guy, but this is an artifact of ZIRP. Watch what happens when interest rates go up and people start demanding more value for their SaaS subscription. It'll be a return to software development in the 1980s when most of our current development processes were developed (which most companies talk about but don't follow). Most companies aren't gonna make it out of their technical debt holes...
IIUC, declassification concerns checks&balances upon powers given to a government that is responsible to citizens.

Sega documents, on the other hand, seem more like fodder for an MBA student's case study, and anecdotes to drop in popular business books. Which seems much lower public interest, to plug into whatever cost:benefit calculation.

I don't have a good sense of what should be done about the Sega documents. (Hypothetically, were I a journalist but knowing only what I do now, and the documents had been leaked to me only, I'd probably try to authenticate them and determine the motives of the leaker, and then I'd have to get advice from others.)

Not specific to the Sega documents, I'm frequently concerned when I see some kind of information leaked/stolen, and the appearance is that everyone automatically considers it free-game for all purposes.

That appearance might only come from a vocal minority, but when no one questions or objects, it looks universal, and like a sociopathic culture.
My wife says that sound means that I'm happy and relaxed.
Never. I also lie a lot.
Given that in Article 1 Section 8 is the following:

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"

highlight: "provide for the common Defense and general Welfare"

Seems to strongly indicate that clean water, clean food, medical, etc, are part of the "general welfare".
If you are taking hundred of millions in funding, sure you need to capture the market of "all the people". If you build something that's just for a certain group of people, you can compete by just having a better product that specifically addresses those users needs.

Look at HN, I know, run by a VC and it's not without some issues, but it is still better than most forums and social media to me specifically because of what it doesn't try to do. It has a specific goal and doesn't feel the need to try and extend beyond it.

My ideal is that in the future we will more communities like this, where it's built to address a group of users needs and not try and expand beyond it. Where the content and information is shaped in a form to meet the specific needs of the group using it and not generalized into the lowest common denominator so ad sales can go up. It feels unlikely at this point, but I still have hope.
Small government is a common talking point pulling on the strings of what we all intuitively desire (less intrusion in our lives) without providing context.

I’d love to see less government interference in people’s reproductive rights, in education like the massive censorship around US history of slavery and genocide and the slightest mention of lgbtq people. Imagine Germany fighting tooth and nail against teaching about the world wars in school - would be a bit of a red flag, no?

Government protecting corporations from their responsibilities to the safety of the public and toward our ecosystems is extremely oppressive toward us, our children, and I see as interference. Defining government enforcing such protections as “interference” is an obvious sleigh of hand. Another example is extending copyright to longer than 7-15 years and enforcing this insanity for the robbing of the public domain.

People keeping their fair share of their labor is a similar one. I’d like to see a cap on exploitation of 99% of people, not constant reductions on the taxes that the 1% earn while they sleep - mostly at the cost of the rest not having livable wages.

East access to healthcare and great education makes a strong nation. Encouraging prosperity for all instead of creating moats around the wealth of the richest extractors also makes a strong nation.

I want to see the US as a strong healthy nation, very very much.

I think we’re on the same page, would you agree?
Yeah I wonder if there really is this supposed demographic of people that loved him and dislike him now. I think people who knew much about him either never liked him or have hitched their political leanings to his and gone along for the ride.
I dunno. I bought my house in 2018 for 400k and now it's being appraised at 550k and I'm planning to sell and buy a house elsewhere with my girlfriend.

Pretty lucky for sure, but even if the increase wasn't this dramatic it would have still been better than renting...
What shocked me even more is that many people didn't even broke a sweat when they destroyed that dam, which by itself is a climate disaster. They're also threatening blowing up a nuclear plant.
The existence of life is a straightforward and definitive proof for the existence of God.
All of those games were Sega exclusives (I think even first-party Sega IP) until Sega threw in the hardware towel and began making games for other platforms.

Edit: Soul Caliber isn’t Sega IP, but the rest are
Still run by the mafia and still highly functional.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about the free speech rights of the government. Why on earth would I? The government is already massively constrained in what it can say and that’s entirely appropriate because the purpose of free speech is to protect the right of the weak to speak even when the strong disagree with them.

You may disagree with the ruling but if you’re on the side of free speech, you should definitely cheer it.
I have a long list, so I'll choose a few personal favorites that may be of interest to HN readers:

https://nicole.express/feed.xml (tinkering with old games and game hardware)

https://shumplations.com/feed (translations of Japanese game developer interviews)

https://www.loc.gov/collections/global-legal-monitor/?fo=rss (summaries of legal news from around the world)

https://reason.com/people/josh-blackman/feed (legal analysis and commentary from Josh Blackman)

https://yukinu.com/feed/atom.xml (charming small web site with links to interesting sites, tech experiments, and looks at old tech)

https://feed.tedium.co (well-researched essays on a variety of topics)

https://blog.sakugabooru.com/feed (detailed essays on the anime industry and production)

htpps://perishablepress.com/feed/atom (personal website of WordPress developer Jeff Starr)

https://ai.mee.nu/feed/atom (daily tech news with strong opinions)

https://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/authors/stephen-dinan (one of the best reporters on immigration law/border issues)

https://liliputing.com/feed (news about mini PCs and mobile devices)

https://worldofmatthew.com/index.xml (essays on digital ownership and random musings)

I would also humbly recommend my own writing project, link in my profile if you're interested

I also recommend looking at Morss.it (https://morss.it/) if there is a site you want to subscribe to without a feed. It generally works very well (RSS Bridge and RSS Hub serve the same purpose if you want to self-host).
5 min after implementation the first corrupt cop is going to sell the software that handles the backdoor access to shady characters(criminal elements, foreign actors) for use or reverse engineering.
The fact that you can't even tell how emotionally invested you got here is probably the main takeaway from this conversation, for you.

You took what I said, that blindly trusting a random source on the Internet to the point of spending hours judiciously studying its contents is, to me, not a wise way to spend time, and continually interpreted a vastly more extreme and broad version with the clear intent to pick a fight.

If you can't see how you took this incredibly personally, that's going to be a major issue for you moving forward. You can't behave like this in the real world and expect positive outcomes.
How? (Serious question I don’t really understand the environmental effects blowing up the pipeline had).

Can’t Russia just turn off the tap?
#AB - 'Auditing Britain', on youtube, regularly demonstrates why #acab can be seen to be a thing...in Britain, at least.
Given the power cops have - at their discretion, perhaps the #a can be dropped, but the police sure don't make it easy for themselves as far as the rest goes.
I wish people stopped using discourse.

Sending pictures of pieces of hand written paper over email would be a more user friendly and usable interface than this javascript mess.