skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

I've been hosting on NFSN exclusively for anything that I don't need google scale DNS/infra for or GPU workloads and it's a dream....mostly cause they keep everything basically unchanged since when I started doing computers (which is why this is a big deal post).

They care about the basic internet principles of freedom (like speech!) above all else, have the best customer support by far, and at basically the best prices.

No you're not going to get GPGPU workloads here but that's ok
The public employee thing is irrelevant in this discussion. We get to see their salaries because we pay them. Whether or not salary should be public is a tough topic, imo. I can see it creating security concerns for some people who have enough to be targets of those who have very little while not having enough to pay for protection (i.e. most of the people who frequent this site, given IT workers are some of the best paid in the country).
Most every day-priced synthetic meats fall short in taste. Over time, I've adjusted, and now my brain perceives the taste of meat substitutes as the new norm for meat.

However, what I find quite interesting is that the meat substitutes often lack the nutrients, taste, texture, and the overall experience of eating real meat. Yet, they might cost more. Many people talk about substituting our meat consumption long-term with synthetic meats. I can't say we're going in that direction. To me, the substitutes are less long-term replacements and more a method to transition off meat. And I tried a lot of substitutes over the last decade - certainly low hundreds of products; I would like them to be better and I'm looking for the better ones.

I'm not dismissing the industry; I hold it in high regard. Some pricier alternatives come close in terms of taste, smell, and texture. Lab-grown meats are indeed promising, especially in nutrients, but still, they'd cost about $40 a pound, even with a slim profit margin.

Things are changing, though. The price of lab-grown meat is falling rapidly — it was unobtanium a few years ago. So I remain optimistic. Lab-grown could be our future, especially in space diets or in the looming climate crisis on Earth. Perhaps we'll even recycle the... unused... nutrients from these meats, much like how we recycle water in space. Or we could improve their nutrition, create "super-meats", that are healthier than the real thing. The shift away from animal farming might be as revolutionary as the start of farming animals itself, there is potential for this to change our lives very substantially.

We're not entirely there, but the path is clear. In many parts of the world, it's becoming feasible for people to gradually transition off meat using these substitutes, if they choose to.
> History is written by the victors

Look up the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy":

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

A notable and unfortunate exception. To give you an idea of its impact:

> First enunciated in 1866, it has continued to influence racism, gender roles, and religious attitudes in the Southern United States to the present day.

> In that regard, white supremacy is a central feature of the Lost Cause narrative.
I think it’s fair based on this “color-blind” test:

If you didn’t know anything about these two, what would you call them?

The historical answer is: the lovers, because they actually thought they were of different genders when found, and it seemed like a good fit to the people who found them.

The problem is that if I now add “turns out they’re both male”, backtracking to say “we can’t be sure they were lovers” looks pretty suspect.

Bottom line, before knowing their genders, we called them “the lovers.” Even with no gender identification whatsoever, that’s what people went with. So let’s keep it.

P.S. I presume they’re not related because I think the DNA studies would’ve uncovered that.
Half of the statements contradict the other half. It's null in the sense that he's drawing an Euler diagram where the circles don't intersect. The author might have something he meant to say, but he didn't say it -- instead he seems to have just used words he likes. The only thing standing is "unambitious".

That's why I don't attempt to rewrite it. There's hardly a coherent thought for me to express differently.
From a Newsweek article, sliced bread was invented in 1928. French fries and baguettes in the 1920s. https://www.newsweek.com/food-invented-last-100-years-164336...
People also play games to appeal to their darker aggressive more primitive mind - their "Id" as Freud would put it. It is why games like Grand Theft Auto are best sellers. Even in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 you participate in a mass shooting at a Russian airport. The sequence is a simulated act of terrorism. So I agree with OP that it is ethically inconsistent for the developers to draw the line at spoken words.
I am still incredibly angry that the train was never constructed.
Self-contradictions -- that's called "human nature." And you seem to have read something other than what it says (see above comment).

It was a complicated world, but one thing hasn't changed: the qualities that get to the top of the heap are not the ones that make you intellectually interesting. He was someone that the people in power liked to listen to, now and then, but he was too mercurial to occupy their positions.

Somewhat like his father, in that sentence you hate so much.
Sure, their offering (in terms of features) is similar to most other shared hosting services.

But what I like is that they've consistently been no-nonsense, super fairly priced, and aren't condescending to technically competent people.

Sure, I could do this myself, but sometimes you just want to get a website online and have someone else worry about hosting it.
No I think OP has a valid point. There is almost no news coverage about the absolutely massive problem of human drivers killing people constantly. It's become an actual crisis in America that's spiraling out of control.

Meanwhile the media only focuses on weird stuff like scooter accidents and self driving cars which is statistically irrelevant.
'dang changed it to the subtitle because it was trollish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37374404
For those who've done it, how did you go from solo contractor to an agency? Particularly how did you get and maintain clients, and what pricing model did you use? These and similar worries are preventing me for trying.
Now that’s how you do grandfathering.

I love NFS but unfortunately with exchange rates it becomes quite expensive when compared with local (AU) hosting.

I’d always reach for them first for any real stuff I need to do outside of WP (which is most of my go-to atm for family stuff).
Ambient Calculus
Is it possible you’re mixing up NFS with SDF? SDF has famously offered shell access for free or cheap forever. I have been an NFS user since 2003 or so, and the only shell access they offer is solely for administrating your web site and generally locked down.
Array programming doesn't really have much effect on how relevant a type system is for a particular language. At most it will let you make operations generic over the rank of the inputs (scalar, array, array of arrays, etc), which is nice, but the scalar values at the bottom of that hierarchy are subject to all the same factors that motivate the type systems present in any other modern language.
This is new thing, like last few weeks. My best guess is cost optimization to save prediction time (GPU).

Not happy about it either.
If you’ve not read it yet, I would recommend “The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis” by Jose Saramago. Of course not directly about Pessoa but he plays an important narrative role.
it was meant to be people :) i obviously have even less insight on flow of funds than i do of people movement. i'm sure Emad could draw a much better chart of the Eleuther mafia than I can (and happy to update my chart to reflect the truth Emad)
In the general case, the "write the spec and the AI does the rest" boils down to automated theorem proving, and I'm optimistic AIs will get pretty good at this in a lot of useful situations.

Even today, in limited well-defined problem spaces, there are sometimes good algorithms for this sort of thing. See Dana Angluin's algorithm for learning the DFA that recognizes a regular language given through an interactive process of having the user provide examples/counterexamples, which serve to provide an increasingly constrained spec.
The ambulance could have been blocked by normal well behaving traffic too. Seems like the optimal solution would be for most roads to have a separate bus/bike lane which normal traffic can not ever use, then in emergencies it can be used as a fast lane around traffic.
Glowstringing / Poi is a great analogy.

Spiral wraps (where the string wraps around the hands causing the glowsticks to spiral around into the hands) are a great approximation of a tether under tension shorting.

Flowers (where the arm spins in the same direction as the glowstick creating the visual of an epicycle) could be a nice approximation of two bodies tethered where one has significantly more mass than the other.
complexity doesn't go away, you distribute it

you either create a complex program, with simple language constructs, or a simple program with complex language constructs

if you use only the simplest types, your program will be very complex, if you put all the complexity in types, your type system will be very complex

you need to balance things

i think OOP is the extreme where all the complexity is in the Object system (or types system)

functional programming with complex types, i think give a nicer balance, where some logic goes into the program flow and some goes into types

anyway balance is everything, keep things balanced , dont lean too much into any direction
I was a Nearlyfreespeech customer for years. I was taking a shower the other day and wondering what happened to them -- turns out, nothing! I should switch back.

I love them for their dirt cheap pricing, sure, but also their simplicity.

If you like the simplicity of Hacker News, you'll also enjoy the simplicity of Nearlyfreespeech.
Since it assumes all connected clients will receive all edits, why not just include a hash of the expected existing state of the text data before the offset and insertion/deletion/replacement instructions? That way, edits are more or less guaranteed to only be applied to appropriate states, and further changes can be accumulated in a dictionary with the hash key being the hash of the state of the data it’s expected to be applied to

Granted, that’s a lot of hash operations being redundantly computed from the same data, but it is trivial to understand and implement
Escapist Utopia Gets Real: Burning Man Revelers Stuck in Mud
Heinz invented beans on toast in 1927 https://www.internationelle.org/beans-on-toast/
I've never heard it called the business man's trip, but I love that. Totally agree with it. It's part of why I'm so enamored with DMT as a substance. Coffee-sized psychedelic, imo.

Also, thank you for engaging with me as productively as you have been. I appreciate the good spirit of your messages; looking back at some of mine, I wish I had taken the time to write them more personably.
Could that be because the controller was in AHCI instead of classic legacy IDE mode?

Relatedly, newish Intel (wired) Ethernet cards also have DOS drivers too --- AFAIK they've added features to newer models but the basic programming interface has remained backwards-compatible to models from the 90s, which is why they can continue to provide working drivers with minimal effort.
I have a web site that’s been on nfs since 2006. It’s sparsely accessed but I want to keep it online. I loaded $25 and it lasted a REALLY long time. Like 10 years! I monitor the site and really don’t record much downtime. It just works without thinking.
> You know, I told you about how it took 20000 lines of C code to generate the original piece. I’m pretty sure Dr. Moorer had to create almost everything by hand so that is not very awkward. But you know, we’ve been sctweeting for some time, trying to fill stuff into 140 characters of code. So for the fun of it, I tried to replicate the essential elements of the composition in 140 characters of code. I think it still sounds cool, here is the code (this one uses an F/E fundamental):

> play{Mix({|k|k=k+1/2;2/kMix({|i|i=i+1;Blip.ar(iXLine.kr(rand(2e2,4e2),87+LFNoise2.kr(2)k,15),2,1/(i/a=XLine.kr(0.3,1,9))/9)}!9)}!40)!2a}

> http://earslap.com/assets/thxdeepsound/soundtweet.mp3

Absolutely crazy how people can fit all these things into these short snippets of code. The demo scene impresses me equally in this.
Exactly. These days I even prefer some of the mock meats (especially seitan); not because they imitate meat so well (they don't), but because I often find their taste and texture nicer and more consistent than that of real meat.
Wow! It was mandatory reading in high school for me (Virginia). I’ve only read it a couple times, but I remember really liking it. This thread has also motivated me to re-read it. I read one of the Puffin paperbacks when I was a kid.
> Are you going to overbuild nuclear to cover the peaks? Or are you going to build for baseload and then need storage to cover the gaps?

That obviously depends on the cost of storage relative to the cost of building more plants, but you don't even need to ask the question until after you've already built enough plants to replace all of the existing fossil fuel baseload, so let's start there.

> How are you going to get people to build nuclear power plants when they could make more money on solar?

Regulatory reform to address the maliciously, intentionally high cost of construction and operation, resulting in competitive prices.

> Who is going to pay to decommission nuclear power plants when they go bankrupt?

They don't get decommissioned because they don't result in that kind of bankruptcy. They cost a lot to build, but once they're built, they're going to exist for decades.

If something else turns out to be much cheaper the people who invested in it may get a below market rate of return, but still it doesn't get shut down, because the initial capital expenditure is a sunk cost that has already been paid. The incremental cost of continuing to generate power is much lower.

> Solar drives baseload plants bankrupt, which is why coal plants are going out of business.

Coal plants have a substantial fuel cost, which puts them at a disadvantage. They operate at a loss if the price of electricity drops below the price of coal, and then shut down, and then have to recover their capital costs by operating for fewer hours. Nuclear plants continue to operate at 100% output pretty much regardless of the price of electricity because their fuel cost is negligible. Notice that it's the existing coal plants going out of business and not the existing nuclear plants.

Nuclear also has untapped potential for things like cogeneration, thermal storage and on-site desalination, all of which would make it more cost competitive but are not currently being exploited.
It's a 19 year old without a college degree, I think it's a reasonable criticism.
Even if you block everything, they will find their way around it because having a social presence is very important for teenagers, even if you don't consider the content valuable. It's part of belonging and growing with their peers. Limiting access is probably a punishment ("tough love" if you want) but not a lesson. You can help them realize Instagram is full of crap and let them chose to avoid it. Kids are smarter than we think, and trusting them is more powerful than building walls (although it's true that it's more difficult and scary just trusting them).
(author here) i have spent years setting up my own blogstack (google swyxkit) so i know how to do it. but comments like this miss that Substack is an *email social network*, and as a newsletter author that is the one currency that loosely/poorly tracks my success and distribution (right down to ability to book quality guests). Substack is the best email network period right now (it is not a very good podcast host but I deal with its many annoyances because it does one thing all the other hosts cannot - auto email my subscribers when a new episode is out). The moment Hashnode improves I'll switch to it.
Because I understand electronics just enough to know that sending a usable signal in under a millisecond from cold is incredibly tough. That's barely enough time for voltages to stabilize in even quite high end systems.

Like I said link a microcontroller that can meet that. 'Usable work' can be as little as adding two half-precision floating point numbers together, and sending it can be any possible method.
> When I’m only focused on work and don’t dedicate enough time to personal projects, I become unwell. Creative self-expression is not “just a hobby” for me, it’s a necessity.

As someone with the creative urge, I always found the word hobby itself was quite patronizing, as though your identity were just what you get paid for. But with some thought, I would say our identity becomes what we are appreciated for. Whether that's as a parent, a musician, an artist, a writer, a hacker, a promoter, performer, or another thing we do long and well enough that it's what people come to appreiciate about us.

If you don't do the things you are appreciated for, you will absolutely become unwell, and if you want debilitating mental health problems, do a job where you aren't appreciated. It's like a recipe.
I agree. I never understood how this deal could have made business sense from the beginning. I grew up in south-east Wisconsin and I was disappointed at how gullible-seeming the local officials were. I was hoping I would be wrong and it would come to fruition some day, but unfortunately my initial gut feeling seems to have been right. I don't view Foxconn as a highly trustworthy partner, but I don't think the people in Wisconsin really understood who they were dealing with.
Cmon now. Try to get a result for "UFC stream free" on Google. Now try that on Yandex. Live sports streaming is just one subject you can easily see Google actively censoring the organic results the web would give you if your search engine was information agnostic. Now try to search for anything politically related on Google that is not center-left/coastal US/mainstream power forces aligned, and you will stop believing in any result the corporate american search engines approve you to see.
Man, you've basically laid out in a paragraph what took me 3 years to work out.

Only started properly setting boundaries in the last year or so, no regrets.
I can't remember street addresses being included in the 90s. So maybe 4 or 5 decades ago for that?

Is a phonebook with just numbers that different than a facebook search, which afaik you can't opt out of? It feels like it is, but I think only because having a phone became a basic necessity. Structurally the phone network seems very similar to signing up for a social network and the phone book very similar to being able to search for other people.
Because they expected import tariffs which were threatened but not materialized.
underground cities, i think a number of players are acting but not telling.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-hidden-world-of-un...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/underground-cities [2019]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_city
https://archive.is/7bpwn
Ask HN: What are your top five job boards?
The defining feature of 'invented tradition' as a term is that it's presented or perceived as older than it is. The 'perceived' part gets weird when the tradition escapes its founding environment.

I will admit that I thought ciabatta was older than 1982, but I do wonder what the perception and presentation of it was like when it did come out in Italy at the time.
Repair == erowid

You win again autocorrect…
As is the modern invention of ancient white marble statues: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2022/7/spotlig...
i always knew my scratch & sniff sticker collection would one day come in handy.
For a more esoteric and realistic scare, let me introduce you to Ethidium Bromide. The thing has as much toxicity as salt water with the amount they are used in a lab, but many places still treat it as high hazardous waste and demand specific procedures for handling and disposal.

Meanwhile, bleach is probably more toxic and carcinogenic than this thing but nobody say anything about special handling of pure concentrated bleach. Most scientists know EtBr is not too toxic but because of the administration and extra burdens of dealing with it to satisfy the rules made from outdated knowledge, they end up switching to something else.
Pretty good just two months after the non-Beta Lichee Pi 4A shipped, and seven months after the VisionFive 2 shipped.

StarFive, the makers of the VisionFive 2 have announced a new octa-core chip (JH8100) that is equivalent to the RK3588 found in the fastest ARM SBCs right now e.g. the Rock 5 and Orange Pi 5. We can probably expect RISC-V boards with that to hit around the middle of next year.

All the software work being done for the VisionFive 2 now will work on those too — just a lot faster!

At this point "It works!" is a lot more important than "It's a tad slow". Speed is coming. And the set of "It works!" is expanding rapidly.
Yes, that's definitely what we need this day and age, more secrecy.
Is your argument that everyone's assets should be public information? How do you square this with people interested in blackmail, or abusive families?
> Zillow ... publish all other information about the property and its history?

Among the info published are photos taken when the property was last on the market for sale. It's possible for the new owner to register as such, ask for and be notified by Zillow that the photos have been taken down.

Owner may then discover some months later that the photos are back online again.
It is freedom

It's a tragedy of the commons.
Because ultimately, the reason could be made up. ANYONE could say they want to purchase the property and make an enquiry anyway. People can always lie or come up with fantastical stories.

The problem is the baby is being thrown out with the bath water. The solution is good, the modern pillaging of the data is not.
> You can use one of the states with more privacy (e.g WY).

Less effective than you might think because you will be required to register as a foreign corporation in the state where the property is
located. That registration will expose exactly the same information as just setting up the company in that state.
Despite the costs starting to creep up as my sites start taking up more space and bandwidth, I continue to host my sites and register my domains on NFSN because of the geek/DIY/libertarian ethos and the excellent support provided by Jeff the few times I've needed it. Though unconventional in a world full of cheap "unlimited" hosting, I trust that NFSN will conduct themselves with integrity if I have any issues with my site or domains, and that's a lot more important than saving a few dollars a month.
I have fond memories of playing MW2 and Halo 3 in highschool with all of my friends. I don't think "racism" was on anyones mind in those days and it was an extremely diverse group. There wasn't a racial epitath we weren't throwing around, yet no one ever took things personally and I would never describe any of those people as racist. People these days are way too soft and incapable of dissemenating between real hate and momentary anger.
Verson 1 – Developer Excuses API
Some of these are great:

1. "That worked perfectly when I developed it"
2. "I had to do the project backwards as people demanded results out of order"

Reload the page for a new excuses.